# Past events

Find information about past ANU MSI events.

18
Apr
2018

## Unitary fusion categories generated by an object of small dimension »

Cain Edie-Michell
2pm 18 April 2018

Unitary fusion categories are a class of rich algebraic objects, with deep connections to many areas of mathematics and physics.

17
Apr
2018

## The étale site of the stable module category of a finite group »

Bregje Pauwels
3.30pm 17 April 2018

In this talk, I will explain what separable monoids are and show how they pop up in various settings.

17
Apr
2018

## Asymptotic properties of linear mixed models »

Lyu Ziyang (MSI)
12pm 17 April 2018

The PhD seminar is a weekly seminar held on Tuesday mornings, at 11am, for PhD students to talk about their thesis work or other projects.

10
Apr
2018

## Computations with Black Box Models »

Abhishek Bhardwaj (MSI)
12pm 10 April 2018

The PhD seminar is a weekly seminar held on Tuesday mornings, at 11am, for PhD students to talk about their thesis work or other projects.

06
Apr
2018

## Weyl Pseudodifferential Operators in Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Settings »

Sean Harris (ANU)
11am 6 April 2018

This seminar will give an introduction to OU operators, the H^\infty functional calculus, and the Weyl calculus.

05
Apr
2018

## Computing high-quality Lagrangian bounds of the stochastic mixed-integer programming problem »

Andrew Eberhard (RMIT University)
4pm 5 April 2018

The solution of stochastic optimisation problem in their deterministic equivalent form is intractable, for moderate sized problems, due to the exponential increase in size of the problem with scenarios and with stage number.

03
Apr
2018

## From ADE to Fermat curves and beyond: modular invariants for the quantum groups »

Terry Gannon (University of Alberta)
3.30pm 3 April 2018

In 1987, Cappelli-Itzykson-Zuber classified the conformal field theories (more precisely their modular invariant partition functions) associated to the sl(2) quantum groups.

03
Apr
2018

## The Kato Square Root Problem for Divergence Form Operators with Potential »

Julian Bailey (MSI)
1.30pm 3 April 2018

The Kato square root problem for divergence form elliptic operators is the equivalence statement $\norm{\sqrt{- \mathrm{div} \br{A \nabla}}u} \simeq \norm{\nabla u}$, where  $A$ is a complex matrix-valued function.

27
Mar
2018

## Exotic Springer fibres and two-boundary Temperley-Lieb algebras »

Arik Wilbert (The University of Sydney)
3.30pm 27 March 2018

The Springer correspondence in type A provides a bijection between nilpotent orbits for the general linear group and complex, finite-dimensional, irreducible representations (up to isomorphism) of the symmetric group.

27
Mar
2018

## Boundary regularity of potential function in optimal transportation with quadratic cost »

Elina Andriyanova (MSI)
11am 27 March 2018

The PhD seminar is a weekly seminar held on Tuesday mornings, at 11am, for PhD students to talk about their thesis work or other projects.