# Past events

Find information about past ANU MSI events.

13
Oct
2016

## Low Rank Approximations - Numerical Approximations from Algebraic Geometry »

Professor Markus Hegland (MSI, ANU)
4pm 13 October 2016

We consider the problem of approximating functions defined on very large numerical grids or meshes.

12
Oct
2016

## Embedded Constant Mean Curvature Surfaces »

Mr Yitao Lei (MSI, ANU)
2.30pm 12 October 2016

The PhD seminar is a weekly seminar held on Wednesday afternoons, from 2:30-3:30pm.

11
Oct
2016

## The modular data machine »

Associate Professor Scott Morrison (MSI, ANU)
3.30pm 11 October 2016

I'll describe work with Terry Gannon and Corey Jones on "the modular data machine".

11
Oct
2016

## Existence and uniqueness of planar vortex patch in incompressible steady flow »

Professor Shuangjie Peng (Huazhong Normal University)
1.30pm 11 October 2016

In this talk, we consider the planar vortex patch problem in an incompressible steady flow in a bounded domain $\mathbb R^2$.

06
Oct
2016

## Modelling and analysis of smart membranes »

Dr Pierluigi Cesana (La Trobe University, Melbourne)
4pm 6 October 2016

For liquid crystal elastomers in the thin film limit, an interplay of material and structural non-linearities is observed.

04
Oct
2016

## Positive solitary wave solutions to quasilinear Schrodinger equations »

Professor Yinbin Deng (Huazhong Normal University)
1.30pm 4 October 2016

In this talk, I will speak some results about positive solitary wave solutions to quaslinear Schrodinger equations.

04
Oct
2016

## Regularity of Solutions for Some Degenerate Equations »

Professor Hua Chen (Wuhan University)
10.30am 4 October 2016

In this talk, I would report recent results on the Gevrey (or analytic) regularities of solutions for some degenerate paritial differential equations.

30
Sep
2016

## Cyclic sieving »

Tony Licata (ANU)
3pm 30 September 2016

Tony will intrroduce the idea of cyclic sieving, and then we'll all try to work out what connection there is, if any, to tensor categories.

27
Sep
2016

## Eigenvalues of rotations and braids in spherical fusion categories »

Dr Corey Jones (MSI, ANU)
3.30pm 27 September 2016

In this talk, we will discuss generalized rotation operators in (spherical) fusion categories, and present formulas for the multiplicities of their eigenvalues in terms of generalized Frobenius-Schur indicators.

23
Sep
2016

## Categories enriched in braided tensor categories »

Scott Morrison (ANU)
3pm 23 September 2016

I'll recap last week (I know there will be several participants who missed it), perhaps sketch the classification theorem, or more likely talk about examples.