School of Mathematics, Statistics, and Applied Mathematics

Research Day, 22 April 2010

Outline of programme

All talks take place in the Kirwan Lecture Theatre (Arts/Science Concourse). Posters will be exhibited in C219, Aras de Brun.

9.30-10.00 Tea and Coffee (Smokie Joe's)
10.00-10.15 Opening remarks from the
Vice-President for Research
10.15-10.45 Prof. Donal O'Regan Set-valued maps and fixed point theory
10.45-11.15 Dr Maura Clancy Explicit Small Classifying Spaces for a Range of Finitely Presented Infinite Groups
11.15-11.45 Tea and Coffee (Smokie Joe's)
11.45-12.15 Prof. Stephen O'Brien,
University of Limerick
Experiences in Industrial Mathematics
12.15-12.45 Prof. John Hinde Statistical Modelling
12.45-2.30 Lunch and Poster Session (Aras de Brun)
2.30-3.00 Dr Alla Detinko, de Brun Centre for Computational Algebra Groups, Computing, Designs
3.00-3.30 Dr Martin Meere Some mathematical models for drug delivery
3.30-4.00 Dr Ann Ryan
Research Office
An Overview of the Research Office, NUI Galway
4.00-5.00 Poster Session and reception (Aras de Brun)
5.00 Presentation of poster prizes

Posters

Alberto Alvarez An Application of survival trees to the study of cardiovascular disease (** Honourable Mention **)
Marcus Bishop A Quiver Presentation of the Descent Algebra of the Symmetric Group
Jorge Bruno Lattice of Topologies
Hoang Van Dinh Vertex Operator Algebras
Kevin Doherty Some Mathematical Models of Anaerobic Digestion (** Honourable Mention **)
Cara Dooley Matching: An Example Analysis of a Colorectal Cancer Observational Study
Orla Doolin Tree-Based Classification and a Logistic Regression Model for HER2 Diagnosis Using Gene Expression Data
Paul Geeleher Heritability and Genome-Wide Association (GWAS) Assay of MicroRNA Regulatory Efficacy
Fintan Hegarty Computational Homology and Permutahedral Complexes
Neil Humphries Analysis of Grazing Bifurcations within a Discontinuity-geometry Frameworkpdf
Barry Hurley Classification Problems for Finite Linear Groups
Daniel Hurley Virasoro Correlation Functions for Vertex Operator Algebras
Liam Naughton Computing in Symmetric Groups
Trung Thong Nguyen Design and Function of Transcription Factors in the Chromatin Environment
Anh Thai Nhan A note on the numerical solution of the ICU-Minimal Model (ICU-MM)
Liam O'Callaghan Models for Glycemic Regulation
Pádraig O'Catháin Hadamard matrices from difference sets
Jessica O'Shaughnessy Convolutional Codes from Group Rings
Kirsten Pfeiffer A Method to Analyse Students' Proof Evaluation
Tobias Roßmann Algorithms for nilpotent linear groups
Andrew Simpkin An Additive Penalty Approach to Derivative Estimation of Noisy Data
Tuoi Vo Thi Ngoc Modelling of drug delivery (*** Best poster 2010 ***) pdf
Nur Fatihah Mat Yusoff A Study Of Item Selection Using Principal Component Analysis And Correspondence Analysis

School of Maths Graduate Students, April 2010