Visiting Mathematicians

Further information on visiting mathematicians is posted each month in the Newsletter.

VISIT OF PROFESSOR N. BALAKRISHNAN
Professor N. Balakrishnan (McMaster University, Canada) will be visiting Durham University from 9 to 16 April 2010. Professor Balakrishnan has been actively involved in research in many areas of  Statistics, and has made significant contributions to, among other topics, Models and Analysis of Medical and Lifetime Data, Life-Testing and Reliability, Order Statistics, Robust Inference, (Multivariate) Distribution Theory, Characterization Theory, Inferential Methods, Industrial Statistics, Nonparametric Inference, Outliers, Multivariate Analysis, Bayesian and Empirical Bayesian Inference, Combinatorial Applications to Probability and Statistics, Record Values and Processes, Theory of Runs and Scans, Waiting Time Problems, Ranked Set Sampling, and Statistics in Finance.
 
Professor Balakrishnan will give the following two research seminars:

• Monday 12 April, Edinburgh University:  Over- and under-dispersed Poisson distributions and processes
  for details contact Natalia Bochkina (n.bochkina@ed.ac.uk)

• Thursday 15 April, Newcastle University: On some stochastic orderings and related characterizations for some discrete and continuous distributions
  for details contact Jordan Stoyanov (jordan.stoyanov@newcastle.ac.uk)
   
  On Wednesday 14 April, Professor Balakrishnan will give a two-hour lecture, as part of a Lecture Day at Durham University as follows: 

• Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan (McMaster University) Permanents, order statistics, outliers and robustness
• Chris Jones (Open University) The Cauchy-Schlömilch transformation, its extensions, and a useful analogue
• Jordan Stoyanov (Newcastle University) Non-linear transformations of random data: moment determinacy of their distributions
• Jochen Einbeck (Durham University) Data compression and regression based on local principal curves and manifolds
• Tahani Maturi (Durham University) Nonparametric predictive inference for comparison of lifetime data

Further details about the Lecture Day are available at www.maths.dur.ac.uk/~dma0je/bala.
Everybody is welcome to attend this Lecture Day - if you wish to do so read the details on the webpage and contact the organisers with the information requested.

For further details contact Frank Coolen (frank.coolen@durham.ac.uk). This visit is supported by an LMS Scheme 2 grant.

VISIT OF PROFESSOR W. HANSEN
Professor W. Hansen (University of Bielefeld, Germany) will visit the UK from 8 to 12 March 2010. Professor Hansen’s research area is harmonic analysis and related fields. He will give seminars at:

• Bristol, 8 March, 4 pm, Room SM4; contact M.vandenBerg@bris.ac.uk
• Swansea, 10 March, 3 pm, Room 224; contact V.A.Liskevich@swansea.ac.uk
• Imperial College, London, 11 March, 3 pm, Room 139; contact Yuri.Safarov@kcl.ac.uk

For further details consult seminar web pages. This visit is supported by an LMS Scheme 2 grant.

VISIT OF PROFESSOR B. KRUGLIKOV
Professor Boris Kruglikov (University of Tromso, Norway) will be visiting the UK from 29 April to 11 May 2010. His interests lie in geometric theory of PDEs. He will give talks at:

• Loughborough University, 29 April Algebra of differential invariants for Monge underdetermined ODEs, overdetermined PDE systems, geometric structures and Monge-Ampère equations
• University of  Kent , 7 May Spencer cohomology, restrictions, characteristics and involutive symbolic PDEs
• Imperial College London, 10 May Multi-brackets of differential operators and compatibility of PDE systems with applications

For further information contact Jenya Ferapontov (E.V.Ferapontov@lboro.ac.uk).  This visit is supported by an LMS scheme 2 grant.

VISIT OF RENAUD LEPLAIDEUR   
In the last week of April and first week of May 2010, Renaud Leplaideur (Département de  Mathématiques, Université de Brest, France) will visit several universities in Britain.  Renaud´s areas of interest include thermodynamic formalism and non-uniformly hyperbolic dynamical systems. The schedule of his lectures is:

• Tuesday April 27, 4 pm, Department of Mathematics, Queen Mary University of London Some results on maximizing measures
• Thursday April 29, 2 pm, Department of Mathematics, University of Warwick Some results on maximizing measures
• Friday May 7, Department of Mathematics, University of Surrey The central limit theorem for dimension of Gibbs measures

This last talk will be within a one-day Ergodic Theory Meeting, which is part of a series of collaborative meetings between Liverpool University, Manchester University, Queen Mary, Surrey University and Warwick University, supported by a Scheme 3 grant of the London Mathematical Society.

Renaud’s visit is supported by a Scheme 2 LMS grant, and hosted by Henk Bruin (University of Surrey).

VISIT OF PROFESSOR A. MARCUS
Professor Andrei Marcus (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) will be visiting the UK from 25 April to 8 May 2010. His principal research area is modular representation theory, especially in respect to derived categories and to Clifford theory.  Professor Marcus will give talks at:

• Oxford Algebra Seminar, Tuesday 27 April; visiting 25 to 27 April, contact Raphael Rouquier (rouquier@maths.ox.ac.uk)
• London Algebra Colloquium, Thursday 29 April; visiting City University 27 to 30 April, contact Joe Chuang (j.chuang@city.ac.uk)
• Manchester Algebra Seminar, Tuesday 4 May; visiting 30 April to 5 May, contact Charles Eaton (charles.eaton@manchester.ac.uk)
• Aberdeen Algebra Seminar, Thursday 6 May; visiting 5 to 8 May, contact Radha Kessar (r.kessar@abdn.ac.uk)

For further information contact Charles Eaton (charles.eaton@manchester.ac.uk). This visit is supported by an LMS Scheme 2 grant.

VISIT OF PROFESSOR V. RUNDE
Professor Volker Runde (University of Alberta, Canada) will be visiting Newcastle University from 6 to 16 May, Lancaster University from 17 to 22 May and the University of Leeds from 23 May to 4 June.  Professor Runde's research area is functional analysis, especially Banach algebras, and its interplay with abstract harmonic analysis. A central role in his research is played by the phenomenon of amenability and its various manifestations. In recent years he has used operator space methods to study the Fourier algebra A(G) and related algebras. He will give talks at:

• Newcastle, Thursday 6 May, 4 pm, Amenable Banach algebras: Barry Johnson's  memoir of 1972 and the aftermath; website link www.ncl.ac.uk/math/research/seminars/pure.htm?theme=Analysis
• Lancaster, Friday 21 May, 4 pm, Banach algebras of operators on Banach spaces and their amenability; website link www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/department/events/mathsSeminars
• Leeds, Saturday 29 May, 11 am, Dual Banach algebras: an overview; website link www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/pure/analysis/yfag.html

Further details can be obtained from Dr Zinaida Lykova (Z.A.Lykova@ncl.ac.uk). This visit is supported by an LMS Scheme 2 grant.

 

VISIT OF PROFESSOR G.G. YIN

Professor G.G. Yin (Wayne State University) will visit the UK during May.  Professor Yin's research area is stochastic systems, applied stochastic processes and applications, stochastic recursive algorithms, identification, signal processing, and control and optimization. He will give talks at

• University of Strathclyde, 4 May at 3:30, Hybrid switching diffusions
• Swansea University, 7 May at 3:00, Stability of switching diffusions
• Oxford University, 14 May at 2:15, Hybrid switching diffusions and applications to stochastic controls

For further information contact Dr Chenggui Yuan (C.Yuan@swansea.ac.uk). This visit is supported by an LMS Scheme 2 grant.

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