# Seminar Archive

Event Code Date Speaker Seminar Title
FMS 8th August 2002 A Cebers Labyrinthine patterns
CMPW01 8th August 2002 A Sokal Chromatic polynomials, Potts models, and all that
FMS 8th August 2002 KY Szeto Shell analysis of soap froth
CMPW01 8th August 2002 E Vigoda Mixing in time and space for lattice spin system: a combinatorial view
FMS 8th August 2002 DA Reinelt Deformation of ordered foams
CMPW01 8th August 2002 P Tetali Approximating Min-sum set cover
FMS 7th August 2002 RLB Delannay & G Schliecker Challenges in 2D
FMS 7th August 2002 JA Glazier Experiments on 2D flowing foams
CMPW01 7th August 2002 M Safra Noise - insensitive Boolean - functions are juntas
FMS 7th August 2002 F Graner Strain in foams and disordered patterns
CMPW01 7th August 2002 A Holroyd Two-dimensional bootstrap percolation
CMPW01 6th August 2002 C Cooper The cover time of sparse random graphs $G_{n,p}$, $p=c \log n$, $c>1$, and related problems
CMPW01 6th August 2002 A Barvinok The distribution of values in the quadratic assignment problem
FMS 6th August 2002 A Kraynik The cross-over in 3D coarsening
CMPW01 6th August 2002 C Greenhill The differential equations method
FMS 6th August 2002 S Hilgenfeldt 3D coarsening
CMPW01 6th August 2002 R Kannan Blocking Conductance --- an improved measure of convergence
CMPW01 5th August 2002 M Jerrum Mixing time and its relation to other Markov chain parameters
FMS 5th August 2002 T Hales Connections between sphere packings and honeycombs
FMS 5th August 2002 C Oguey Deformations of minimal surfaces
FMS 5th August 2002 S Hilgenfeldt Minkowski
CMPW01 5th August 2002 C Smyth Reimer's inequality and a conjecture of Tardos
CMPW01 5th August 2002 S Janson Estimates for large deviations of sums of dependent variables
FMS 2nd August 2002 RB Kusner Forces in foams
FMS 2nd August 2002 T Hales Honeycombs
FMS 1st August 2002 A Cebers Experiments with ferrofluids
FMS 1st August 2002 S Hyde 2D tilings and 3D Euclidean patterns
FMS 31st July 2002 J Taylor Practical techniques for demonstrating soap film phenomena
FMS 31st July 2002 J Taylor Rotating crystals in foam
FMS 31st July 2002 JM Sullivan Open problems in soap bubble geometry
FMSW01 30th July 2002 K Brakke Kelvin partitions and stability
FMSW01 30th July 2002 F Graner & S Cox Minimal perimeter problems
FMSW01 30th July 2002 A Kraynik Brakke meets Matzke: Random 3D foams
FMSW01 30th July 2002 A Mackay Periodic minimal surfaces
FMSW01 30th July 2002 G Bradley Instabilities of drops
FMSW01 30th July 2002 J Sullivan Computing optimal geometry with the Evolver
HDG 12th July 2002 D Ryder Elliptic and K3 fibrations birational to Fano 3-fold hypersurfaces II
MTH 11th July 2002 J Maldacena Introduction to pp-waves
HDG 11th July 2002 D Ryder Elliptic and K3 fibrations birational to Fano 3-fold hypersurfaces I
MTH 10th July 2002 J Maldacena Introduction to pp-waves
HDG 9th July 2002 C van Enckevort D-brane categories on higher dimensional tori
MTH 9th July 2002 S Giddings Black hole formation at high energies
6th July 2002 J Barrow Our universe and others (Ticket Only) For further information, please ring Sara Wilkinson on 01223 335983
HDG 5th July 2002 A Degeratu The topology of crepant resolutions of Calabi-Yau orbifolds
HDG 4th July 2002 B Totaro When is every coherent sheaf a quotient of some vector bundle? (a positive result for orbifolds)
MTH 4th July 2002 G Horowitz Colliding Kaluza-Klein bubbles
MTH 3rd July 2002 NA Nekrasov Seiberg-Witten prepotential from instanton counting
HDG 1st July 2002 T Yasuda Twisted jet and orbifold cohomology
29th June 2002 K Poskitt Newton's Apple and other interesting maths! (Ticket Only) For further information, please ring Sara Wilkinson on 01223 335983
HDGW02 28th June 2002 S Mukai Invariant ring and birational geometry related with the Verlinde formula