# Past events

Find information about past ANU MSI events.

15
Mar
2016

## Linear recurrence relations in Q-systems »

Dr Chul-hee Lee (Queensland)
4pm 15 March 2016

There exists a system of difference equations called the Q-system for each simple Lie algebra.

15
Mar
2016

## Symmetries in social choice theory »

Mr Victor Wang (Honours, MSI/ANU)
3pm 15 March 2016

Elementary group theory has all sorts of surprising applications. I will show how an action of $S_n$ on the space of judgement profiles of n people, leads to an impossibility result concerning certain types of social welfare (judgement aggregation) functions.

15
Mar
2016

## Partial Differential Equations and Analysis Seminar »

Dr Genggeng Huang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
1.30pm 15 March 2016

In this seminar, we will discuss the topological and Non-topological solutions of Chern-Simons equations which is developed to explain the second type of superconductivity phenomenon.

11
Mar
2016

## Automorphisms of Blowups and the Dynamical Mordell-Lang Conjecture »

Dr Daniel Litt (Columbia University)
3pm 11 March 2016

We use $p$-adic analytic methods to analyze automorphisms of smooth projective varieties.

10
Mar
2016

## ANU Mathematics Society LaTeX Workshop I: Introduction to LaTeX »

Maxim Jeffs (MSI/ANU)
4pm 10 March 2016

Bring a laptop (optional) and learn how to install and use the most sophisticated and powerful software for typesetting mathematical documents (not Microsoft Word!).

10
Mar
2016

## Moduli spaces and stacks »

Dr David Rydh (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)
4pm 10 March 2016

In this talk, I will give a gentle introduction to moduli spaces and algebraic stacks directed towards a general audience.

09
Mar
2016

## The characteristic polynomial for a sequence of matrices »

Professor Angelo Vistoli (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy)
4pm 9 March 2016

This is joint work with Zinovy Reichstein.

09
Mar
2016

## Fusion Rules in Logarithmic Superconformal Minimal Models »

Michael Canagasabey
2pm 9 March 2016

Logarithmic conformal field theory is a relatively recent branch of mathematical physics which gives rise to interesting representations of symmetry algebras through the process of fusion.

07
Mar
2016

## Lecturer/Senior Lecturer Seminars - Yunjin Choi »

Yunjin Choi
9am 7 March 2016

Selecting the number of principal components: Estimation of the true rank of a noisy matrix

04
Mar
2016

## Modular tensor categories »

3pm 4 March 2016

Depending on who comes, we may continue talking for a little while about the "group of fractions" approach to the Thompson group.