NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND GALWAY

SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS, STATISTICS AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS

Research Day, 2014


welcome

The annual Research Day of the School in 2014 will be held on 1 May, beginning at 9.30am in the McMunn Lecture Theatre. Everyone is welcome to attend.

program


9:30 - 9:45
Ray Ryan
Opening Remarks
9:45 - 10:00
Pól Ó Dochartaigh (Registrar)
Research at NUI Galway
10:00 - 10:30 Martin Meere
Some Mathematical Models for Drug Delivery
10:30 - 11:00
 Tea and Coffee
11:00 - 11:30 Emma Holian
Clustering longitudinal profiles using P-splines and mixed effects
models applied to time-course gene expression data

11:30 - 12:00 Tim Downing
DNA variation in a pathogen outbreak: past, present and predictions
12:00 - 12:30 Aisling McCluskey
Categorising properties of road systems
12:30 - 14:00
                                                  Lunch and Poster Session in Concourse
14:00 - 14:40 Rosemary A. Bailey

Circular designs balanced for neighbours at distances one and two
14:40 - 15:30
                    Blitz Session
  • Isaac Burke: Algebraic properties of log-linear independence models
  • Michel Destrade: Mechanics of brain matter
  • Jim Cruickshank: A brief history of rigidity
  • Artur Gower: Using an on board camera to track a train's motion
  • Anh Thai Nhan: Uniform convergence via conditioning
  • James McTigue: Partial matrices of constant rank
  • Kevin Jennings: Spaces of Matrices with lots of different ranks
15:30 - 17:00
Poster Session in Concourse
17:00
Reception and Presentation of Poster Prizes in Staff Club, Quadrangle

CONTACT INFORMATION

For queries contact Prof. Cathal Seoighe: Cathal.Seoighe@nuigalway.ie