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Final Year Project Presentations, 2 February 2012

All talks will be in Áras de Brún between 11.15am and 3.30pm. Everybody is welcome, and ecouraged, to attend as many talks as they like. Speaking to no audience is no fun.

The schedule is pretty tight and lecturers will have to move between rooms, so it is imortant to be punctual.

Students should be present, at least, at the talks before and after their own. Speakers should talk for 10min in order to allow for questions and transition between speakers.

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Overview

Time	C219		C218		C315B
11.15	P. Ryan	CS/MD	I. Jennings	DOR/NM	S. Cummins	DF/ES
11.30	F. Connolly	DOR/MD	B. Burns	JW/NM	D. Flanagan	DF/JS
11.45	M. Gormally	MD/MH	B. Keyes	CS/JH	D. McDonnell	JW/MMcG
12.00	F. Gormally	JC/JS	S. Johnston	JH/MK	W. Carry	JW/KJ
12.15	C. Cunniffe	LN/MD	S. Kelly	MH/MK	N. Leonard	KJ/RQ
12.30	B. Kavanagh	JS/MK	A. McDonnell	MH/RR	C. Diskin	CR/RQ
12.45
13.00	M. Buckley	JS/MK	H. McCaul	AK/CT	P. Conroy	RQ/RR
13.15	A. Croarkin	CT/SS	M. Naughton	AK/NMcI	O. O'Mahony	DF/RQ
13.30	J. O'Regan	CT/NMcI	C. Morley	AK/SS	D. Franklin	DF/JB
13.45	T. Mitchell	AK/CT	John Kenny	NMcI/SS	Jean Kenny	JA/JB
14.00
14.15	S. Campbell	LN/MT	N. Connolly	JW/MH	C. Garvey	CR/JA
14.30	S. Concannon	MM/MT	P. Kelly	JC/LN	C. Taylor	JA/MMcG
14.45	S. Doherty	LN/MM	S. Creamer	ES/JC	N. Roddy	JA/MMcG
15.00	D. Moran	ES/MMcG	R. Lynch	JC/KJ	I. Burke	CR/GP
15.15	D. Owens	ES/GP	S. Burke	CR/KJ

To round of the day there will be a wine reception at 4.15pm in the Staff Club (south-east corner of the Quadrangle) for all project students and supervisors, as well as all staff in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics.

Schedule for C219

Time	Speaker	Title
11.15	Patrick Ryan	Visualization of Elastic Wave Motion
11.30	Fionnuala Connolly	Visualization of Elastic Instabilities
11.45	Maria Gormally	Derivative Valuation Methods
12.00	Francis Gormally	The Kelly Criterion
12.15	Cathal Cunniffe	The Friedmann Equation
12.30	Brian Kavanagh	Forecasting of Paddy Power PLC Share Prices
12.45
13.00	Matthew Buckley	Survival Analysis
13.15	Aine Croarkin	Analysis of the Global Coffee Market
13.30	James O'Regan	An Analysis of Gold as a Financial Asset
13.45	Tommy Mitchell	An Analysis of Ireland's Finances and the Economic Climate in the Early 19th Century
14.00
14.15	Sonny Campbell	The Schwarzschild Solution to Einstein's Field Equations
14.30	Sarah Concannon	Queuing Theory with a Simulation of a Traffic Queue at Traffic Lights
14.45	Sinead Doherty	The Study of Lyapunov Exponents for Discrete Maps
15.00	David Moran	The Enigma Machine
15.15	David Owens	Using CUDA to Compute the Hermite Normal Form of an Arbitrary Matrix

Schedule for C218

Time	Speaker	Title
11.15	Ian Jennings	A Course in Stability and Equilibrium Properties of Differential Equations with Applications
11.30	Brian Burns	Random Graphs
11.45	Barry Keyes	Identifying Epitopes in HIV-1 Viruses that are Targeted by Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies
12.00	Samuel Johnston	The Expectation-Maximization Algorithm
12.15	Sean Kelly	Beyond the Black Scholes Merton Model
12.30	Ailis McDonnell	Mathematical Models for Pricing Financial Derivatives
12.45
13.00	Hannah McCaul	Can Ireland Harness its Natural Resources to Bring About a Positive Change in its Economic and Environmental Future?
13.15	Mark Naughton	Foreign Direct Investment in Ireland
13.30	Colin Morley	The Change in the Determinants of Government Bond Spreads
13.45	John Kenny	An Analysis of the Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds
14.00
14.15	Nicola Connolly	Game Theory
14.30	Patrick Kelly	The Effectiveness of Video Tutorials with Secondary School Students
14.45	Siobhan Creamer	Should Game Based Learning be Implemented in Second Level Mathematics Education?
15.00	Rachel Lynch	A Game Theory Syllabus for Leaving Certificate Applied Mathematics
15.15	Stacey Burke	An Investigation of Coordinate Geometry Syllabi and Pedagogies Throughout the Schools of Ireland

Schedule for C315B

Time	Speaker	Title
11.15	Sinead Cummins	The Current Status of Attacks on the RSA Cryptosystem
11.30	David Flanagan	Facial Recognition Using Principal Component Analysis with Eigenfaces
11.45	David McDonnell	Mathematics Education - The Irish and the Finnish
12.00	William Carry	Considerations Regarding the Teaching of Probability in Schools
12.15	Nichola Leonard	A Module for Applied Maths on Probability and Genetics
12.30	Conor Diskin	A Transition Year Mathematics Module
12.45
13.00	Patrick Conroy	Singular Value Decomposition
13.15	Olga O'Mahony	The Relationship between Graphs and Matrices with an Application
13.30	Deborah Franklin	Quasicrystals and Viral Tiling Theory
13.45	Jean Kenny	Spherical Geometry and Earth Mapping
14.00
14.15	Caoife Garvey	Knot Groups
14.30	Ciara Taylor	Plane Tilings and the 17 wallpaper Groups
14.45	Nicola Roddy	Properties and Colorings of Penrose Tilings
15.00	Isaac Burke	Finding a Non-broken Circuit Basis for the Orlik-Solomon Algebra of an Arrangement of Hyperplanes

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