Summer internships 2015
Organisational seminar: Wednesday May 27, 11-12:30pm, Seminar Room, House 20 Westland Row.
Second seminar (two intro talks): Wednesday June 3, 11am-12:30pm, New seminar room of School of Mathematics, 20 Westland row
Agenda:
- "The Large-N limit of matrix models" (Kyle Beggs)
- "Tensor invariants of finite group representations" (Sean Bray)
Third seminar (two intro talks): Wednesday June 10, 11am-12:30pm, New seminar room of School of
Mathematics, 20 Westland row
Agenda:
- "Investigating the polyomino problem: finding a formula for the number of unique n-polyominos" (Ogden Deacon, Conn McCarthy)
- "Solving the Schrodinger equation for an arbitrary polynomial potential" (Danny Bennett)
Fourth seminar (three progress talks): Wednesday June 17, 11am-12:30pm, New seminar room of School of
Mathematics, 20 Westland row
Agenda:
- "R Programming for interlocking bipartite networks using latent space methods" (James O'Donnell)
- "Scattering phase shifts from finite volume energy spectra" (Shaun Lahert)
- "Using a genetic algorithm to obtain numerical solutions to the Moving Sofa problem and its variants" (Brian Tyrrell)
Fifth seminar (three progress talks): Wednesday June 24, 11am-12:30pm, New seminar room of School of Mathematics, 20 Westland row
Agenda:
- "Divisibility of Fibonacci numbers" (Caroline Lawless)
- "Homology of shuffle algebras and combinatorics" (Padraig Condon)
- "Self-avoiding walk" (Alex Panagiotopoulos)
Sixth seminar (two progress talks): Wednesday July 1, 11am-12:30pm, New seminar room of School of Mathematics, 20 Westland row
Agenda:
- "Investigating the polyomino problem: finding a formula for the number of unique n-polyominos" (Conor Feeney)
- "Solving the Schrodinger equation for an arbitrary polynomial potential" (Philip Clarke)
Seventh seminar (two progress talks): Wednesday July 8, 11am-12:30pm, New seminar room of School of Mathematics, 20 Westland row
Agenda:
- "Scattering phase shifts from finite volume energy spectra" (Shaun Lahert)
- "The Large-N limit of matrix models" (Michael Cribbin)
Summer internships 2014
Organisational seminar: Wednesday May 28, 2-3:30pm, Seminar Room, House 20 Westland Row.
Second seminar (three intro talks): Wednesday June 4, 2pm-3:30pm, New seminar room of School of
Mathematics, 20 Westland row
Agenda:
- "Realisations of lambda-rings and plethystic operations in Sage" (Sean Diffley)
- "One-loop matching for non-exceptional schemes" (Robert Howard)
- "Continued fractions with bounded partial quotients" (Michael Reynolds)
Third seminar (three intro talks): Wednesday June 11, 2pm-3:30pm, New seminar room of School of
Mathematics, 20 Westland row
Agenda:
- "Two-dimensional laminar steady fluid flow and the interaction of fluid with obstacles, and resulting cavity and shock formation" (Sean Bray and John Doyle)
- "An investigation into the n-body problem" (Robert Flood and Brian Tyrrell)
- "Quantum integrable models" (Keith Glennon and Darragh Monnin)
Fourth seminar (three progress talks): Wednesday June 18, 2pm-3:30pm, New seminar room of School of
Mathematics, 20 Westland row
Agenda:
- "Simulating the strong coupling expansion for the 2D Ising model" (Ruairi Brett)
- "Radiation in Modified Theories of Gravity" (Jan Gerken)
- "Computing and rendering the convex hull of points in 3D" (Sean Smith)
Fifth seminar (two progress talks): Wednesday June 25, 2pm-3:30pm, New seminar room of School of Mathematics, 20 Westland row
Agenda:
- "An Investigation into the Concept of Metamathematical Consistency Via the Method of Arithmetization" (Corey Switzer)
- "Operator Algebras and the connection with K-Theory" (James O'Donnell)
Sixth seminar (three summary talks): Wednesday July 2, 2pm-3:30pm, New seminar room of School of
Mathematics, 20 Westland row
Agenda:
- "Statistical analysis of Markov chains Monte Carlo simulations" (Olena Yavorska)
- "An investigation into the n-body problem" (Robert Flood and Brian Tyrrell)
- "Two-dimensional laminar steady fluid flow and the interaction of fluid with obstacles, and resulting cavity and shock formation" (Sean Bray and John Doyle)
Seventh seminar (three summary talks): Wednesday July 9, 2pm-3:30pm, New seminar room of School of
Mathematics, 20 Westland row
Agenda:
- "Quantum integrable models" (Keith Glennon and Darragh Monnin)
- "Realisations of lambda-rings and plethystic operations in Sage" (Sean Diffley)
- "Computing and rendering the convex hull of points in 3D" (Sean Smith)
Summer internships 2013
First seminar (organisational): Monday May 27, 2-3:30pm, Seminar Room, House 20 Westland Row.
Agenda:
- Timetabling
- "Symmetries and Quantum Mechanics" (Tristan)
- "Polynomial equations with commutative and noncommutative unknowns, and how to deal with them" (Vlad)
- "Extremal Laurent polynomials: progress of one internship's results over the year" (Masha)
Second seminar (three intro talks): Wednesday June 5, 2-3:30pm, Seminar Room, House 20 Westland Row.
Agenda:
- "A study of sequences involving factorials" (Jack Geary, Adam Keilthy, Owen Ward)
"Effect of item format on student performance in assessments" (Anastasia Ignatieva)- "Self force on a scalar charge in a wormhole spacetime" (Jamie Donnelly)
Third seminar (three intro talks): Monday June 10, 2-3:30pm, Seminar Room, House 20 Westland Row.
Agenda:
- "Semiclassical strings in β-deformed AdS5×S5" (Colin O'Callagnan, Katie O'Flynn, Andrew Thornbury)
- "Banach-Tarski paradox" (Benen Harrington)
- "Reduction theory for binary quadratic forms" (Padraig Condon)
Fourth seminar (two progress talks): Monday June 17, 2-3:30pm, Seminar Room, House 20 Westland Row.
Agenda:
- "An investigation into Diophantine approximations and their bounds, the most efficient methods of their computation, and hence, a study into continued fractions" (Conor McMeel)
- "Patterns in labelled trees" (Shane Sheedy)
Fifth seminar (two progress talks): Monday June 24, 2-3:30pm, Seminar Room, House 20 Westland Row.
Agenda:
- "Effect of item format on student performance in assessments" (Anastasia Ignatieva)
- "Testing symplectic integrators for N-body celestial mechanics" (Harriet Walsh)
Sixth seminar (two project summary talks): Monday July 1, 2-3:30pm, Seminar Room, House 20 Westland Row.
Agenda:
- "Conformal symmetries and point particle actions" (Darragh Monnin)
- "Studying interacting classical gaseous systems using molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo integration" (Daniel Purdy)
Seventh seminar (three project summary talks): Monday July 8, 2-3:30pm, Seminar Room, House 20 Westland Row.
Agenda:
- "An investigation of counterexamples to Matsaev's conjecture" (Conor Larkin)
- "Mathematical analysis and statistical models of the unknown species problem" (Evan O'Dwyer and Sean Diffley)
- "Fourier analysis and number fields; with a view towards Tate's thesis" (Stiofáin Fordham)