Talks

Below is a list of our recent talks. Math talks are typically held fortnightly in building 67-442. For select talks, slides will be made available below.

2024

13/09/2024 - Maths Talks Week Eight (Sem Two)

• Isometries of the Hyperbolic Plane with Joseph Kwong
• Benders Decomposition with Ben Varley

30/08/2024 - Maths Talks Week Six (Sem Two)

• Guaranteed Performance Under Uncertainty: An Overview of Robust Control with Adriel Efendy
• The Mercator Projection with Henry Wood

16/08/2024 - Maths Talks Week Four (Sem Two)

• Simple Simplicial Sets with Joel Richardson
• Extreme Value Theory in Dynamical Systems with Leanna Salve

02/08/2024 - Maths Talks Week Two (Sem Two)

• The Universal Presence of Category Theory with Gabriel Field
• Hensel's Analogy and the p-adic Numbers with Declan Fletcher

26/04/2024 - Maths Talks Week Nine (Sem One)

• Finding Factors in Berlekamp's Algebra with Joel Richardson
• Homotopy Type Theory 2: Electric Boogalo with Will Barnett

22/03/2024 - Maths Talks Week Five (Sem One)

• How to use Desmos as a Programming Language with Tobey Blomfield
• Everyone is wrong about Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems with Mitchell Ryan

08/03/2024 - Maths Talks Week Three (Sem One)

• Skill-Based Matchmaking with Bayesian Inference with Nazeef Hamid
• Symbolic Integration in Computer Algebra with Mitchel Holt

2023

27/10/2023 - Maths Talks Week Thirteen (Sem Two)

• Yes, It Can (Theoretically) Run Doom — Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete with Max Orchard
• Shadows and Shadows with Bailey Whitbread

20/10/2023 - Maths Talks Week Twelve (Sem Two)

• Spiking Neurons and Stable Nodes: The Reliability of ODEs with Applications to Neuron Firing with Tappy Alister
• Dynamic Programming in the NFL with Matthew Bungate

18/08/2023 - Maths Talks Week Four (Sem Two)

• Groups and Shadows with Bailey Whitbread
• How to Integrate over a Fractal with Gabriel Field

12/05/2023 - Maths Talks Week Twelve (Sem One)

• Exploring the Rubik's Cube with Group Theory with Adriel Efendy & Benjamin Paul
• How to Lose the Lotto (& Other Useful Applications of Design Theory) with Mikayla Staples

12/05/2023 - Maths Talks Week Eleven (Sem One)

• The Ghost Algebra with Madeline Nurcombe
• Catalan Numbers — Counting in Heart-Turtle Language with Ella Wang

28/04/2023 - Maths Talks Week Nine (Sem One)

• Self-Similarity via Attractors with Gabriel Field
• An Introduction to the Probabilistic Method with Isaac Beh

24/03/2023 - Maths Talks Week Five (Sem One)

• An Introduction to Supergeometry with Ben Kruger
• Chaotic Systems: Why Being Late Isn’t My Fault with Ben Varley

03/03/2023 - Maths Talks Week Two (Sem One)

• Hyperplane Arrangements: A Link Between Combinatorics and Topology with Declan Fletcher
• How Big Do Numbers Get? with Will Barnett

2022

21/10/2022 - Math Talks Week Twelve (Sem Two)

• ODEs and Integrable Models with Non Teerarat
• Prevalence of Lyapunov Spectrum Stability for Finite Blaschke Product Cocycles with Joshua Peters

14/10/2022 - Math Talks Week Eleven (Sem Two)

• Surreal Games and The Fuzzy Consequences with Isaac Beh
• An Introduction to Symmetric Functions with Lachlan McBeath

16/09/2022 - Math Talks Week Eight (Sem Two)

• Spring into Cellular Invasion with Joe Wilson
• Homotopy Type Theory and the Future of Mathematics with Will Barnett

02/09/2022 - Math Talks (with AIML) Week Six (Sem Two)

• Why Play Nice? Evolutionary Game Theory for Modelling Human Interactions with Daniel Gray
• Statistical Inference on Random Networks with Joydip Choudhury

26/08/2022 - Math Talks Week Five (Sem Two)

• Extensions of Pick's Theorem with Tara Kemp
• An Unexpected Equivalence from a Silly Cross Product Puzzle with Max Orchard

05/08/2022 - Math Talks Week Two (Sem Two)

• Hopf Algebras, Braidings and Quantum Field Theory with Arwen Nugteren
• The Bizarrity of Constructive Mathematics with Mitchell Ryan

20/05/2022 - Math and CS Talks Week Eleven (Sem One)

• Writing Code Without Writing Code with Thomas Malcolm
• Paving Paradise More Efficiently - Designing Parking Lots with IP with Mitch Harris

06/05/2022 - Math Talks Week Nine (Sem One)

• Quaternion Algebras and Quantum Cryptography with Nick Rohland
• Gray Codes, the Towers of Hanoi, and Coxeter Groups with Zoe Dann

01/04/2022 - Math Talks (with AIML) Week Five (Sem One)

• An Introduction to Gaussian Processes - A Machine Learning Approach to Time Series Prediction with Michael CC
• Supervised Learning without Supervision for Cyber-Attack Detection with Jonathan Wilton

18/03/2022 - Math Talks Week Three (Sem One)

• Modular Melodies, Ridiculous Rhythms, and Chaotic Compositions with Rhauidi Burke
• Feeling risky? A risk analysis of Risk with Montana Wickens

04/03/2022 - Math Talks Week Two (Sem One)

• Wendel's Theorem: When Does a Shape Contain the Origin with Adam Thompson
• How to Schedule Things, or Just how to Schedule with Liam Timms

2021

22/10/2021 - Math and CS Talks Week Twelve (Sem Two)

• Please Not First Past The Post: An Introduction To Voting Theory with Matthew Low
• Weyl's law: When analysis informs geometry with James Stanfield

17/09/2021 - Math and CS Talks Week Eight (Sem Two)

• Hierarchical Bradley–Terry Models with Coen Jones
• Fun with Diagram Algebras with Madeline Nurcombe

03/09/2021 - Math and CS Talks Week Six (Sem Two)

• Design of Experiments with Zoe Dann
• Surface Evolver, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Approximate Minimal Surfaces with Finn Thompson

14/05/2021 - Math and CS Talks Week Eleven (Sem One)

• Maths by Machine - Formal Proof and Technology and Combinatorial Challenges with Chelsea Edmonds
• 0x5f3759df // evil floating point bit level hacking with Bradley Stone

30/04/2021 - Math Talks Week Nine (Sem One)

• Why? Just Cause — Causal Reasoning and Its Applications to Machine Learning with Kyle Young
• Normal Surface Theory with David Hilder

26/03/2021 - Math Talks Week Five (Sem One)

• Convex Hulls of Graphs of Multi-linear Functions with Mitchell Harris
• All Tied Up: From Strings to Knots with Rhuaidi Burke

05/03/2021 - Maths Talks Week Two (Sem One)

• Kinky Sets with Bailey Whitbread
• Quantum Theory on a Shoestring with Lawrence Lo