About the forum

The forum was started in 1997 and is meant to give postgraduate students:

· practice in speaking to a non-specialist audience

· a chance to rehearse material for talks at conferences or written submissions

· exposure to mathematical topics outside their own area of work.

Speakers can talk about their own research, or instead on any topic in mathematics or statistics which they find interesting. How formal the talk is should be entirely up to the speaker it might be discussion of a Journal article or a practice for conference – anything goes! If you would like you may also request feedback on your talk.

PowerPoint and an OHP will be available, although if you wish to use PowerPoint please let me know before the talk so that I can book the laptop.

The talks are intended for postgraduate students only.

Lecturers may occasionally attend, if invited by the speaker.

If you have questions or would like to give a talk, please contact Kate (e-mail: Kate.Davison@ncl.ac.uk) or if you can’t get me try Samuel James (Samuel.James@ncl.ac.uk).

2006-07

Provisional schedule of talks, semester 2
Date	Speaker	Title	Cake
8^th Feb	James Pickering	The Axiom Of Choice And Its Consequences.	Chris
15^th Feb	Chris Graham	As time goes by; the consequences of non-absolute time.	Andrew
22^nd Feb	Andrew Baggaley	Particle dispersion in a model turbulent flow.	Tim
1^st Mar	Gang Yi	Cancelled.	Stuart
8^th Mar	Stuart Cockburn	TBA	Sarah
15^th Mar	Sarah Germain	Modelling Extreme Drought Using Random Sums Presentation.	Pete
22^nd Mar	Peter Milner	Approximating Stochastic Processes.	Kate
5^th Apr	Anthony Youd	Vortex decay in Bose-Einstein condensation.	James

Schedule of talks, semester 1
Date	Speaker	Title	Cake
5^th Oct	Kate Davison	The Ukrainian Neolithic - Central Place Theory.	Sam
12^th Oct	Samuel James	Fun with Physics??	Nessie
19^th Oct	Xiaohui Zhao	Flexible Bayesian modelling of a large survival data set for computation of a prognostic index.	Jill
26^th Oct	Jill Johnson	Anticipating Catastrophes.	David
2^nd Nov	David Ryan	A coupled low order dynamo/turbulent shell model to explain geomagnetic field variations and reversals.	Lauren
9^th Nov	Lauren Rodgers	Developing a Model for Non-Random Dropouts in a Crossover Trial.	Jonathan
16^th Nov		This seminar is cancelled due to the Durham Newcastle joint PGF on 15th November.
23^rd Nov	Jonathan Longrigg	Zero Knowledge.	Kate

2005-06

Schedule of talks, semester 2
Date	Speaker	Title	Cake
2^nd Feb	Anthony Youd	An introduction to Couette flow.	Yemon
9^th Feb	Yemon Choi	Differentiating x^n: from the product rule to normed cohomology problems.	Kate
16^th Feb	Keith Goda	Graph products of groups.	Eniko
23^rd Feb	Eniko Madarassy	The angular momentum Lz and the rotation history of Bose-Einstein condensates.	Andrew
2^nd Mar	Andrew Golightly	Biochemical Networks - An idiots guide to simulation and inference.	Jill
9^th Mar	Jill Johnson	An Introduction to Extreme Value Theory - A Rainfall Application	Hathaikan
15^th Mar*	Hathaikan Chootrakool	Meta-analysis of Multi-arm trials and Publication bias.	David
23^rd Mar	David Ryan	Low order Geodynamo models.	Keith

* This talk will take place as part of the Newcastle Durham Joint PG Research Afternoon

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Schedule of talks, semester 1
Date	Speaker	Title	Cake
6^th Oct	Sam James	Einstein’s Special Relativity: The real E=mc².	Kate
13^th Oct	Kate Davison	Two source model for the Neolithization of Europe.	Lauren
20^th Oct	Lauren Rodgers	Missing data and the AB/BA Crossover Trial.	Jonathan
27^th Oct	Jonathan Longrigg	Public Key Cryptography and Braid Groups.	Joachim
3^rd Nov	Joachim Mouanda	Factorization of trigonometric polynomials with sufficiently large constant coefficients.	Nasr
10^th Nov	Nasr Ahmed	Cantorian space-time, a nice connection between high energy physics and art.	Andrew?
17^th Nov	Andrew Snoddin	Some Maths.	Bander
24^th Nov	Bander Al Zahrani	Equilibrium distributions and some classes of lifetime distributions.	Sam

You can find details of past talks by following these links:

The old site

The older site

The even older site