# Past events

Find information about past ANU MSI events.

17
Feb
2017

## Statistical mechanics of Levin-Wen models »

Corey Jones (ANU)
3pm 17 February 2017

We'll begin the year of quantum mathematics meetings with a talk by Corey Jones on the Levin-Wen model.

07
Feb
2017

## Stationary q-TASEP and elliptic determinant »

Professor Tomohiro Sasamoto (Tokyo Institute of Technology )
11am 7 February 2017

In this presentation, we present a Fredholm determinant formula for the random initial condition of $q-TASEP$.

19
Jan
2017

## Unlikely Intersections in Algebraic Dynamics »

Dr Alina Ostafe (University of New South Wales)
4pm 19 January 2017

The goal of the talk is to give an overview of some results about algebraic and geometric structures in orbits of polynomial dynamical systems.

18
Jan
2017

## Joint MSI/RSPE Colloquium: Building a Majorana quantum computer »

Michael Freedman
11am 18 January 2017

Michael Freedman is Director of Station Q, Microsoft’s global effort to build a scalable, fault-tolerant, universal quantum computer.

21
Dec
2016

## Littlewood-Paley-Rubio de Francia properties for Banach function spaces with UMD concavifications, and multiplier consequences »

Dr Alex Amenta (TU Delft, the Netherlands)
11am 21 December 2016

The workshop in harmonic analysis and geometry is a regular meeting of ANU researchers and visitors interested in the harmonic analysis of differential operators and its relationship with the geometry of an underlying metric measure space.

13
Dec
2016

## Grothendieck Duality for Flat Morphisms »

Hafiz Khusyairi (ANU)
3.30pm 13 December 2016

Traditionally, the twisted inverse image functor of Grothendieck duality is defined by means of compactification on a class of morphisms between noetherian schemes.

12
Dec
2016

## AMSI ACE Event - Prime Decompositions of Topological Objects »

Professor Sergei Matveev (Chelyabink State University and Russian Academy of Sciences)
12pm 12 December 2016

We describe a general method for proving or disproving several prime decomposition theorems for 3-manifolds, classical and global knots, spatial graphs and 3-orbifolds.

12-16
Dec
2016

## Conference on “String Geometries and Dualities”  »

9am 12 December 2016

The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to bring together experts to discuss recent developments and investigate new problems and applications in mathematical areas connected to string theory.

09
Dec
2016

## The many faces of the Alexander polynomial »

Roland van der Veen (Leiden)
3pm 9 December 2016

The Alexander polynomial is perhaps the knot invariant that has the greatest number of distinct definitions.

09-14
Dec
2016

## Maths Fest 2016: Nonlinear and Geometric Partial Differential Equations »

9am 9 December 2016

This workshop gathers Australian and international researchers in the areas of geometric analysis and geometric and nonlinear partial differential equations.