Past colloquia

2024-25

24 March 2025	Modelling with Lanchester’s Equations: From fractals to ‘the troubles’	Mark McCartney	Ulster University
19 March 2025	Its about time we talked about. . . time! Interval censoring and truncation for survival models	Zachary Waller	MSRC (QUB)
10 March 2025	Last mile delivery optimisation with consolidation and collaboration	Carlos Lamas-Fernandez	University of Southampton
03 March 2025	Physics informed Data Analysis	Michelle Carey	University College Dublin
28 February 2025	Message-Passing Monte Carlo: A graphical neural network model for improved, representative sampling	Nathan Kirk	Illinois Institute of Technology
24 February 2025	Microsimulation Modelling for Evaluating Population-Specific Colorectal Cancer Screening in Northern Ireland	Olivia Adair	MSRC (QUB)
10 February 2025	Screen4Lead-Lead screening to improve maternal and child health	Priyanka Chaurasia	Ulster University
05 February 2025	Solving Markov decision processes via state space decomposition and time aggregation	Edilson Arruda	University of Southampton
03 February 2025	Physics informed Data Analysis	Michelle Carey	University College Dublin
27 January 2025	Automating variable selection in distributional regression	Kevin Burke	University of Limerick
13 January 2025	Of Identity and Difference	Walter Kolch	Systems Biology Ireland, University College Dublin
08 January 2025	Spatial statistics and spatial modelling - current and future perspectives and challenges	Janine Illian	University of Glasgow
02 December 2024	Simulating stochastic systems subject to shocks	Cónall Kelly	University College Cork
25 November 2024	Stochastic Models and Statistical Analysis Applied to Business and Healthcare	Sally McLean	Ulster University
18 November 2024	A walk from the commutative to the non-commutative park	Runlian Xia	University of Glasgow
11 November 2024	Link Prediction in Issue Tracking System	Miao Hu	MSRC (QUB)
11 November 2024	Using Data Analytics to Design Innovative Trials in Respiratory Disease	Megan O'Sullivan	MSRC (QUB)
04 November 2024	Before It’s Out of Sight: Enhanced Detection of Subtle Disease Progression through Advanced Point Pattern Analysis	Jonathan Henderson	MSRC (QUB)
21 October 2024	Capturing Fleeting Moments: Compound Moves in Reversible Jump MCMC for Changepoint Detection in Single Molecule Imaging	Emily Gribbin	MSRC (QUB)
21 October 2024	Mathematical Influences of Cell Substrate on Migration & Deformation	Ana Bensabat	Coimbra University
07 October 2024	Paradoxical decompositions and the Chamaeleon group of Richard Thompson	Brita Nucinkis	Royal Holloway University of London

2023-24

17 June 2024	Matt Ryan	Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
24 April 2024	Padraig Ó Cathain	Dublin City University
22 April 2024	Nathan Kirk	University of Waterloo
15 April 2024	Theresa Smith	University of Bath
04 April 2024	Clark Barwick	University of Ediburgh
25 March 2024	Francois Schulz	University of Johannesburg
11 March 2024	Martin Matthieu	MSRC, QUB
04 March 2024	Guy Nason	Imperial College London
26 February 2024	Claire Gormley	UC Dublin
19 February 2024	Spyridon Dendrinos	University of Cork
12 February 2024	Emel Yavuz	MSRC, QUB
26 January 2024	Arran Hodgkinson	MSRC, QUB
27 November 2023	Sean Eberhard	MSRC, QUB
20 November 2023	Alan Harbinson	HSC Honest Broker Service
13 November 2023	Florian Pausinger	MSRC, QUB
06 November 2023	Dumitru Trucu	University of Dundee
23 October 2023	Scott Balchin	MSRC, QUB
09 October 2023	David Barnes	MSRC, QUB

2022-23

20 March 2023	How the registry works and facilities research	Linda Hunt	National Transplant Registry, Bristol
13 March 2023	Approximating Maximum Independent Set on intersection graphs	Shizhou Yang	QUB
06 March 2023	Spectral arbitrariness for trees fails spectacularly	Rupert Levene	UCD
27 February 2023	On the development of a monitoring compatible computerised vectorcardiographic parameter	Daniel Güldenring	HTW Berlin
20 February 2023	How long can a human being expect to live?	Anthony Davidson	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
06 February 2023	TBC (Topology and Geometry)	Francois Clement	Sorbonne University
30 January 2023	Mathematical Models for Epidemiology with Demography	Emily Smith	QUB
23 January 2023	Nuisance parameter elimination	Heather Batty	Imperial College London
16 January 2023	Communicable maths	Gabor Kiss	QUB
05 December 2022	Commutativity via spectra of exponentials	Francois Schulz	University of Johannesburg
28 November 2022	Advances in joint mean-covariance modelling	Georgious Papageoriou	Birbeck College London
21 November 2022	Multi-state survival models for disease progression	Ardo van Den Hout	University College London
14 November 2022	A case for irreversible symbolic dynamical systems	Kevin Aguyar Brix	University of Glasgow
07 November 2022	Quandles: another algebra of symmetries	Markus Syzmik	University of Sheffield
31 October 2022	Several Problems in Discrepancy Theory	Nathan Kirk	QUB
24 October 2022	Use of information criteria for model selection in FNNs	Andrew McEirney	University of Limerick
17 October 2022	Non-parametric survival models with interval censored data	Zachary Waller	QUB
10 October 2022	Time-fractional subdiffusion equations: gentle introduction, regularity, maximum principles, and numerical analysis	Natalia Kopteva	University of Limerick
03 October 2022	To prove or not prove	Gabor Kiss	QUB
26 September 2022	Two sided zero products preserves on zero product determined Banach algebras	María Luisa Castillo Godoy	Universidad de Granada

2021

21 May 2021	Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo probability density estimation for simulation models	Florian Puchhammer	Basque Center for Applied Mathematics
14 May 2021	Solvability of some integro-differential equations with anomalous diffusion and transport	Vitali Vougalter	Toronto
07 May 2021	Exact structures for operator modules	Michael Rosbotham	QUB
12 March 2021	Numerical semigroups and music	Maria Bras-Amoros	Universitat Rovira i Virgili
05 March 2021	Positive-definite functions, exponential sums and the greedy algorithm: a curious phenomenon	Louis Brown	Yale University
26 February 2021	Topological K-theories as inspirations for calculus	Niall Taggard	MPI Bonn
19 February 2021	K-theory: from linear equations to the fundamental theorem	Thomas Hüttemann	QUB
12 February 2021	Trigonometric products and Diophantine approximation	Bence Borda	TU Graz
05 February 2021	Cell migration in fibrous environments: a multiscale approach	Anna Zhigun	QUB
29 January 2021	On Proinov’s Lower Bound for the Diaphony	Nathan Kirk	QUB

2020

04 December 2020	ALGORITHMS ON SIMILARITY OF SEQUENCES	Zhiwei Lin	Queen's University Belfast
27 November 2020	TBA	Borbola Gerhat	Universität Bern
20 November 2020	TWISTED STEINBERG ALGEBRAS	Ying-Fen Lin	Queen's University Belfast
03 November 2020	TBA	Antonio Arnal Perez	Queen's University Belfast
30 October 2020	SHEAVES: LOCAL DATA VERSUS GLOBAL DATA	David Barnes	Queen's University Belfast
23 March 2020	GREEDY ENERGY MINIMIZATION AND THE VAN DER CORPUT SEQUENCE	Florian Pausinger	Queen's University Belfast
20 March 2020	TBA	Lisa McFertridge	Queen's University Belfast
06 March 2020	INJECTIVITY	Michael Rosbotham	Queen's University Belfast
28 February 2020	DISCRETE COAGULATION-FRAGMENTATION EQUATIONS	Mattias Langer	Strathclyde University
21 February 2020	SCHUR COMPLEMENT DOMINANT OPERATOR MATRICES	Borbola Gerhat	Queen's Univesity Belfast and Universität Bern
14 February 2020	DEGENERATE NONLINEAR PARABOLIC EQUATIONS WITH DISCONTINUOUS DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS	Alpar Richard Meszaros	Durham University
07 February 2020	PARAMETRIZED PERSISTENT HOMOLOGY	Jeffrey Giansiracusa	Swansea University
31 January 2020	TT-GEOMETRY FOR REPRESENTATIONS OF FINITE GENERAL LINEAR GROUPS	Luca Pol	Sheffield University
24 January 2020	WHAT’S SO SPECIAL ABOUT CUBES? (A BLAKERS-MASSEY THEOREM FOR NON-CUBICAL DIAGRAMS)	Niall Taggart	Queen's Univesity Belfast

2019

13 December 2019	A GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF A MODEL FOR MICRO-ELECTRO MECHANICAL SYSTEMS (MEMS)	Nikola Popovic	University of Edinburgh
29 November 2019	ON A MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF GENE EXPRESSION	Gabor Kiss	Queen's University Belfast
22 November 2019	FROM CLUSTERING TO QUIVER REPRESENTATIONS	Magnus Bakke Botnan	VU Amsterdam
15 November 2019	MATHEMATICS OF QUANTUM ENTROPY	Mario Berta	Imperial College London
08 November 2019	SPECTRAL APPROXIMATION AND GENERALIZED CONVERGENCE OF UNBOUNDED OPERATORS	Iveta Semorádová	Technical University Prague and Queen’s University Belfast
01 November 2019	AMALGAMATED PRODUCTS OF RFD C*-ALGEBRAS ARISING FROM TOPOLOGICAL GROUPS	Kristin Courtney	Universität Münster
25 October 2019	ASYMPTOTIC SEQUENCE ALGEBRAS, AND ULTRAPOWERS, OF BANACH ALGEBRAS	Matthew Daws	University of Central Lancashire
18 October 2019	PROPER EQUIVARIANT STABLE HOMOTOPY THEORY AND GEOMETRIC GROUP THEORY	Patchkoria Irakli	Aberdeen University
11 October 2019	ALGORITHMIC GRAPH THEORY	Andrea Munaro	Queen’s University Belfast
04 October 2019	SIMILARITY PROBLEM AND FIXED POINT THEOREMS	Lyudmila Turowska	Chalmers University Gothenburg
17 September 2019	SPATIALLY UNDERSTANDING GLAUCOMA	Hannah Mitchell	Queen's University Belfast
03 June 2019	SPECTRA FOR NON-SELF-ADJOINT OPERATORS AND INTEGRABLE DYNAMICS	Michael Hitrik	UCLA
24 May 2019	STRICTLY SINGULAR MULTIPLICATION OPERATORS ON L(X)	Pedro Tradacete	ICMAT Madrid
24 May 2019	TENSOR-TRIANGULATED CATEGORIES AS GENERALISED COMMUTATIVE RINGS	Scott Balchin	Warwick
03 May 2019	NONCOMMUTATIVELY COMPACTLY SUPPORTED FUNCTIONS	Dan Kucerovsky	University of New Brunswick
05 April 2019	OPERATOR MODULES OVER C*-ALGEBRAS	Michael Rosbotham	Queen's University Belfast
29 March 2019	SURVEY OF THE THEORY OF MULTIPLE COMMUTATORS IN CLASSICAL AND CLASSICAL-LIKE GROUPS	Zhang Zuhong	Beijing Institue of Technology
22 March 2019	CHALLENGES IN NON-SELFADJOINT SPECTRAL PROBLEMS	Christiane Tretter	Universität Bern
08 March 2019	WHAT IF ALL TOPOLOGICAL SPACES WERE METRISABLE?	Ittay Weiss	Portsmouth
07 March 2019	THE THEORY OF QUANTALES FROM A GEOMETRIC PERSPECTIVE	Ittay Weiss	Portsmouth
22 February 2019	ON THE STABILITY OF LAMINAR FLOWS BETWEEN PLATES	Yaniv Almog	Louisiana State
13 February 2019	Cancelled	Sabine Bögli	Imperial College
08 February 2019	CHARACTERISATIONS OF GROUP C*-ALGEBRAS	Ying-Fen Lin	Queen's University Belfast
01 February 2019	AN INTRODUCTION TO ORTHOGONAL AND UNITARY HOMOTOPY CALCULI	Niall Taggart	Queen's University Belfast
25 January 2019	VINBERG LEFT-SYMMETRIC ALGEBRAS	Pierre Cartier	IHES Paris
18 January 2019	FROM STEADY TO IRREGULAR. THE ROLE OF TIME DELAY IN PATHOLOGICAL DYNAMICS OF DISEASE.	Gabor Kiss	Queen's University Belfast
11 January 2019	STATISTICS TO CONSIDER WHEN APPRAISING COST-EFFECTIVENESS MODELS	Felicity Lamrock	Trinity College Dublin

2018

07 December 2018	THE PROJECTIVE LINE ASSOCIATED WITH A STRONGLY Z-GRADED RING	Tasha Montgomery	Queen's University Belfast
05 December 2018	NON-GAUSSIAN STATISTICAL MODELS FOR INDIVIDUALISED PREDICTIONS	Özgür Asar	Istanbul
30 November 2018	A DEGENERATE HAPTOTAXIS SYSTEM ARISING IN THE MODELLING OF CANCER INVASION	Anna Zhigun	Queen's University Belfast
23 November 2018	GAUSS FACTORIALS, AND GAUSS PRIMES	John Cosgrave	Dublin
19 November 2018	Cancelled	Cancelled	Cancelled
02 November 2018	PSEUDOSPECTRA OF SCHRÖDINGER OPERATORS WITH COMPLEX POTENTIALS	Petr Siegl	Queen's University Belfast
26 October 2018	MARKOVIAN FUN WITH F	Claus Köstler	Cork
19 October 2018	ENTROPY ASSESSMENT OF A SELF TIMED RING BASED TRUE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR	Ana Gomez	Santander
12 October 2018	THE CHARACTERISATION OF SCHUR NULL AND SCHUR MULTIPLICATIVE MAPS ON MATRICES	Donal Ó Cófaigh	Queen's University Belfast
05 October 2018	TWO EXAMPLES OF BANACH ALGEBRAS	Stanslav Shkarin	Queen's University Belfast
28 September 2018	ON THE ASYMPTOTIC EIGENVALUE DISTRIBUTION OF GENERALIZED TOEPLITZ MATRICES	Frantisek Stampach	Prague
21 September 2018	TBA	David Stanford	Ontario
23 March 2018	STEREOLOGY MINISYMPOSIUM	Domingo Gomez and Markus Kinderlen	Universidad de Cantabria and Aarhus University
20 March 2018	THE PRIMITIVE IDEAL SPACE OF A C*-ALGEBRA	Michael Rosbotham	Queen's University Belfast
15 March 2018	BIG DATA ON CRITICAL CARE – POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS	Murali Shyamsundar	Queen's University Belfast
09 March 2018	STABLE HOMOTOPY GROUPS OF SPHERES	Constanze Roitzheim	Kent University
02 March 2018	IMITATION GAMES AND C*-ALGEBRAS	Ivan Todorov	Queen's University Belfast
23 February 2018	VALUATIONS: FROM CONVEX GEOMETRY TO FUNCTION SPACES	Pedro Tradacete	Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
16 February 2018	ALGEBRAIC KOHNO-PAJITNOV JUMP LOCI	Thomas Huttemann	Queen's University Belfast
15 February 2018	THE NEWTON INSTITUTE AND THE ICMS	Prof. Abrahams and Prof. Glendinning
15 February 2018	MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS AND STATISTICAL APPROACHES FOR MODELLING LARGE-SCALE MANUFACTURING DOMAINS	Caoimhe Carbery	Queen's University Belfast
09 February 2018	APPLICATIONS OF GROEBNER BASES TECHNIQUES	Natalja Iyudu	University of Edinburgh
01 February 2018	A STUDY OF HOW CATTLE MOVEMENTS IN NORTHERN IRELAND ARE STRUCTURED AND IF THEY ARE SUITABLE FOR DISEASE CONTROL	Emma Watson	Queen's University Belfast
01 February 2018	ENTROPY AND GRAPH ENTROPY FOR A SOURCE WITH MEMORY	Gareth Boreland	Queen's University Belfast
26 January 2018	AN EXPLICIT SOLUTION FOR A PORTFOLIO SELECTION PROBLEM WITH STOCHASTIC VOLATILITY	Salissou Moutari	Queen's University Belfast

2017

19 December 2017	TEMPORAL PROFILES OF AVALANCHES ON NETWORKS	James Gleeson	Queen's University Belfast
13 December 2017	A STUDY OF HOW CATTLE MOVEMENTS IN NORTHERN IRELAND ARE STRUCTURED AND IF THEY ARE SUITABLE FOR DISEASE CONTROL	Emma Brown	Queen's University Belfast
08 December 2017	Sheaves of operator modules – part 2	Martin Mathieu	Queen’s University Belfast
01 December 2017	Sheaves of operator modules	Martin Mathieu	Queen’s University Belfast
24 November 2017	The Computational Trade-Off Between Matrix Exponentials for Small Dense Matrices Vs Large Sparse Matrices	Meabh McCurdy	Queen’s University Belfast
24 November 2017	Persistent Homology and its use in digital image analysis	Florian Pausinger	Queen’s University Belfast
17 November 2017	On stable convex sets	Stephen Weis	Centre for Quantum Information and Communication, Ecole Polytechnique, Bruxelles
10 November 2017	Rational approximation of functions with singularities	Alexander Pushnitski	King’s College London
03 November 2017	Equivariant cohomology theories and their multiplication	David Barnes	Queen’s University Belfast
27 October 2017	Complexity and capacity bounds for quantum channels	Rupert Levene	University College Dublin
20 October 2017	Rational Mackey functors of profinite groups	Danny Sugrue	Queen’s University Belfast
13 October 2017	Finite Group Algebras, Unit Groups and Coding Theory	Leo Creedon	Institute of Technology Sligo
12 May 2017	Leavitt path algebras	Roozbeh Hazrat	University of Western Sydney
05 May 2017	Choquet order and hyperrigidity for function systems	Ken Davidson	University of Waterloo
07 April 2017	Higher Schur-Weyl duality for the periplectic Lie superalgebra p(n)	Iva Halacheva	University of Lancaster
31 March 2017	Holomorphic functions which preserve holomorphic semigroups	Charles Batty	University of Oxford
24 March 2017	Higher structures in homotopy theory and category theory	Simona Paoli	University of Leicester
10 March 2017	Monoidal algebraic models for rational S1 equivariant ring spectra	David Barnes	Queen’s University Belfast
03 March 2017	Weighted shift directed graph operator algebras	Rupert Levene	University College Dublin
24 February 2017	Infinite Riesz decompositions	Anthony Wickstead	Queen’s University Belfast
17 February 2017	Rewriting in Artin groups	Sarah Rees	University of Newcastle
10 February 2017	Noncommutative simplices	Martino Lupini	Caltech

2016

02 December 2016	Sklyanin algebras via Groebner bases	Natalia Iyudu	University of Edinburgh
25 November 2016	Configuration spaces and the octonions; living without associativity	Nigel Ray	University of Manchester
18 November 2016	Rational approximation of functions with singularities -CANCELLED	Alexander Pushnitski	King’s College London
11 November 2016	Quasi-free Quantum Stochastic Calculus and Quantum Random Walks	Ping Zhong	University of Lancaster
04 November 2016	On ergodic properties of random walks on motion groups	Mihalis Anoussis	University of the Aegean
28 October 2016	Soluble Groups and Random Walks	Peter Kropholler	University of Southampton
21 October 2016	New directions in self-similar group theory	Michael Whittaker	University of Glasgow
14 October 2016	Topological Manifold Calculus	Dan Pryor	Queen’s University Belfast
07 October 2016	Oddities of Quantum colorings	Laura Mancinska	University of Bristol
15 June 2016	Semigroups and higher rank graphs	Jean Renault	University of Orleans, France
13 May 2016	A Stone-Cech Theorem for C*-bundles	David McConnell	University of Glasgow
06 May 2016	Multiplier theorems on groups	Michael Ruzhansky	Imperial College London
29 April 2016	Multiplication operators and topological radicals	Mihalis Anoussis	University of the Aegean
22 April 2016	Operations in K-theory, completions, and discrete modules	Martin Crossley	University of Swansea
15 April 2016	Contextuality and nonlocality: a unifying framework	Ana Belen Sainz	University of Bristol
11 March 2016	Control of Fourier multipliers by maximal operators	Jonathan Bennett	University of Birmingham
04 March 2016	Fixed points of completely contractive maps and convolution operators on classical/quantum groups	Adam Skalski	Polish Academy of Science
26 February 2016	Derived localisation	Christopher Braun	University of Lancaster
19 February 2016	Finite domination, Novikov homology and Z-graded rings	Luke Steers	Queen’s University Belfast
05 February 2016	Undecidability of the spectral gap	David Perez-Garcia	Universidad Complutense de Madrid

2015

11 December 2015	Smooth embeddings and the little discs operad	Pedrov Boavida	UC Louvain / University of Lisbon
27 November 2015	Weight of groups and knot surgery	Jim Howie	Heriot Watt University
20 November 2015	Homological manifestations of amenability	Jason Crann	Carleton University, Canada
13 November 2015	Geometric rigidity in normed spaces	Derek Kitson	University of Lancaster
06 November 2015	Taming wild groups with invariance principles	Claus Koestler	University College Cork
30 October 2015	Construction of quantum Stochastic cocycles	Stephen Wills	University College Cork
23 October 2015	Spectral synthesis properties of points in the dual of a nilpotent Lie group	Jean Ludwig	Universite de Lorraine
16 October 2015	Belief Invariance: Nonsignalling Equilibria in Games with Conflicting Interest	Giannicola Scarpa	Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
14 October 2015	Quantum learning of classical stochastic processes	Alex Monras	Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
14 October 2015	Contextuality and Noncommutative Geometry in Quantum Mechanics	Nadish de Silva	University of Oxford
09 October 2015	Tensor products of f-algebras	Anthony Wickstead	Queen’s University of Belfast
01 May 2015	The ZL-amenability constant of a finite group	Yemon Choi	University of Lancaster
24 April 2015	Quantum chromatic numbers of graphs	Ivan Todorov	Queen’s University Belfast
20 March 2015	Periodicity Conjecture of Kontsevich	Stanislav Shkarin	Queen’s University Belfast
13 March 2015	Unique geodesics and embeddings of cones	Mark Roelands	University of Kent
06 March 2015	C*-algebras, classification, and regularity	Aaron Tikusis	University of Aberdeen
27 February 2015	Cartan subalgebras in C*-algebras and continuous orbit equivalence	Xin Li	Queen Mary University of London
20 February 2015	Iteration of holomorphic maps in infinite dimension	Mike Rigby	Queen Mary University London
13 February 2015	Semigroup actions on operator algebras	Evgenios Kakariadis	University of Newcastle
06 February 2015	An audience led guided tour through the world of 3-manifolds	Fionntan Roukema	University of Sheffield

2014

05 December 2014	Hyperreflexivity and idempotent Schur multipliers	Rupert Levene	University College Dublin
04 December 2014	Contractions of Lie Groups and Representation Theory	Nigel Higson	Penn State University
21 November 2014	The regular C*-algebra of a finite product of free groups	Simon Wasserman	University of Glasgow
14 November 2014	Binomial rings in topology	Sarah Whitehouse	University of Sheffield
07 November 2014	Norms of basic elementary operators on algebras of regular operators	Anthony Wickstead	Queen’s University Belfast
31 October 2014	Translation invariant Banach function spaces	Ben de Pagter	Delft University of Technology
17 October 2014	The Dold-Kan correspondence and its implications	David Barnes	Queen’s University Belfast
10 October 2014	Varieties and cycles in tropical geometry	Alex Fink	Queen Mary University of London
03 October 2014	Knot theory: Euler characteristic to homology to homotopy	Andrew Lobb	University of Durham
09 May 2014	Model categories – the joy of abstract nonsense	Constanze Roitzheim	University of Kent
02 May 2014	Isometries Vs. Spectral Isometries	Matthew Young	Queen’s University Belfast
28 March 2014	Postnikov Towers and Functor Calculus	David Barnes	Queen’s University Belfast
21 March 2014	The rigidity of infinite graphs and crystals	Stephen Power	Lancaster University
14 March 2014	From hyperbolic geometry to nonlinear Perron-Frobenius theory	Bas Lemmens	University of Kent
07 March 2014	C*-algebras of real rank zero are exchange rings	Linda Mawhinney	Queen’s University Belfast
28 February 2014	Always-cartesian cubes and wrong-way maps	Rosona Eldred	Universitat Hamburg
21 February 2014	Polynomial Hopf algebras in Algebra and Topology	Andy Baker	University of Glasgow
14 February 2014	Remarks on topological and algebraic finiteness conditions	Thomas Huettemann	Queen’s University Belfast
07 February 2014	The nonvanishing preservers on function spaces	Lei Li	Nankai University

2013

06 December 2013	Hilbert’s metric and its isometries	Marten Wortel	University of Kent
29 November 2013	A metric approach to topology	Jorge Bruno	NUI Galway
22 November 2013	The Markov Chain Tree Theorem, Analytic Hierarchy Process and the Max Algebra	Oliver Mason	Hamilton Institute of NUIM
15 November 2013	Noncommutative Grothendieck inequalities and application to quantum two-player games	Thomas Vidick	Issac Newton Institute
08 November 2013	NBFA Seminar
01 November 2013	A generalization of a theorem of Stone and Kadison for ordered algebras with an order unit	Jukka Kauppi	University of Oulu
25 October 2013	Group C*-algebras and examples on exponential Lie groups	Ying-Fen Lin	Queen’s University Belfast
18 October 2013	Decompositions in homotopy theory	Stephen Theriault	University of Southampton
11 October 2013	Interplay between spectrally bounded operators and complex analysis	Martin Mathieu	Queen’s University Belfast
04 October 2013	Regularity properties for nuclear C*-algebras	Stuart White	University of Glasgow
17 May 2013	cancelled	Dimitri Gurevich	Universit� de Valenciennes
14 May 2013	Quantum Information via Subsystems	David Kribs	University of Guelph, Ontario
10 May 2013	cancelled	Leonid Parnovski	University College London
10 May 2013	Invariant ideals of positive operators on Banach lattices	Vladimir Troitsky	University of Alberta
03 May 2013	Around the Cheng-Kac superalgebra	Consuelo Martinez	Universidad de Oviedo
26 April 2013	Universal Taylor series	Myrto Manolaki	University College Dublin
19 April 2013	Scattering lengths in cold atom collisions	Gleb Gribakin	Queen’s University Belfast
22 March 2013	Conformal Lie and Gelfand-Dorfman operads	Natalia Iyudu	Queen’s University Belfast
15 March 2013	On numerical orbits	Stanislav Shkarin	Queen’s University Belfast
08 March 2013	Amenability of Banach and C*-algebras	Zinaida Lykova	Newcastle University
01 March 2013	Pauli states	Stanislav Shkarin	Queen’s University Belfast
22 February 2013	Higher dimensional operads	Dennis Borisov	Oxford University
15 February 2013	Cactus products	James Griffin	Glasgow University
08 February 2013	Operations and Configurations	Richard Hepworth	Aberdeen University
01 February 2013	Rational G-equivariant Cohomology Theories	David Barnes	Queen’s University Belfast

2012

14 December 2012	Idempotent Schur multipliers: mind the gaps	Rupert Levene	University College Dublin
07 December 2012	Cobordism of manifolds with boundary	Andrew Ranicki	Edinburgh University
07 December 2012	Towards understanding the Kummer phenomenon	Samuel James Patterson	Goettingen University
30 November 2012	A strictly combinatorial approach to the algebraic K-theory of projective spaces	Thomas Huettemann	Queen’s University Belfast
23 November 2012	Non-crossing partitions and Milnor fibres of braid arrangements	Tom Brady	Dublin City University
16 November 2012	Moduli of representations of associative algebras. Applications to Young-Mills theory and Gauge theory	Arnfinn Laudal	University of Oslo
09 November 2012	Homological algebra and monoidal categories	Uli Kraehmer	Glasgow University
02 November 2012	Orbits of coanalytic Toeplitz operators	Stanislav Shkarin	Queen’s University Belfast
26 October 2012	A gentle introduction to shuffle operads	Vladimir Dotsenko	Trinity College Dublin
19 October 2012	Compact quantum groups from semigroups	Matt Daws	Leeds University
12 October 2012	The Kadison-Singer Problem	Vern Paulsen	Houston University
05 October 2012	Duality for bicovariant differentials on quantum groups	Shahn Majid	Queen Mary University of London
11 May 2012	Completely bounded disjointness preserving operators on the Fourier algebra	Ying-Fen Lin	National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
04 May 2012	On the K-theory of graph C*-algebras	Natalia Iyudu	Queen’s University Belfast
23 March 2012	K-motives of algebraic varieties	Grigori Garkusha	University of Swansea
16 March 2012	Coideal subalgebras of quantum groups	Stefan Kolb	Newcastle University
09 March 2012	Isometries of weighted spaces of holomorphic functions	Chris Boyd	University College Dublin
08 March 2012	Celebration of Mind: The Mathematics, Magic and Mystery of Martin Gardner	Colm Mulcahy	Spelman College, Atlanta
02 March 2012	An analogue of Palmer’s theorem on Banach lattices	Stuart McKenzie	Queen’s University Belfast
24 February 2012	The Taste of Mathematics	Mercedes Siles	University of Malaga
17 February 2012	Finite G-sets and finite W-algebras	Dimitry Rumynin	University of Warwick
10 February 2012	Co-compact actions on buildings and applications	Alina Vdovina	Newcastle University
03 February 2012	Chaotic Banach algebras	Stanislav Shkarin	Queen’s University Belfast

2011

16 December 2011	K3 surfaces and matrix algebras	Madeeha Khalid	DCU
09 December 2011	Spectral analysis for a class of integral-difference operators	Yuri Melnikov	Brussels
09 December 2011	EU funding for advanced research and international cooperation	Yuri Melnikov	Brussels
02 December 2011	Zero-error communication via quantum channels, non-commutative graphs and a quantum Lovasz number	Andreas Winter	University of Bristol
25 November 2011	Finite domination of chain complexes	Thomas Huettemann	Queen’s University of Belfast
18 November 2011	Embeddings in B(H) of ideals and tensor products of JC*-triples	Richard Timoney	Trinity College Dublin
11 November 2011	Configuration spaces of closed linkages	Dirk Schuetz	University of Durham
04 November 2011	Reflexivity of subspace lattices, property (p) and the ultraweak rank one density property	Savvas Papapanayides	Queen’s University of Belfast
28 October 2011	Maurer-Cartan equation and rational homotopy theory	Andrey Lazarev	University of Leicester
21 October 2011	On the Gelfand-Kirillov conjecture for simple Lie algebras	Alexander Premet	University of Manchester
14 October 2011	The Anick conjecture on the minimal Hilbert series of quadratic algebras	Natalia Iyudu	QUB
07 October 2011	Quantum channels for classical information and the strong converse	Tony Dorlas	DIAS, Dublin
13 May 2011	Finiteness questions in modular representation theory of finite groups	Radha Kessar	University of Aberdeen
15 April 2011	Commuting conjugacy classes in finite groups	Mark Wildon	Royal Holloway, University of London
08 April 2011	Angles in C*-Algebras	Mihalis Anoussis	University of the Aegean
01 April 2011	SK_1 of finite-dimensional division algebras	Adrian Wadsworth	University of California, San Diego
25 March 2011	Complexity for modules of finite-dimensional algebras	Karin Erdmann	University of Oxford
18 March 2011	On groups with the invariant translation approximation property	Joachim Zacharias	University of Nottingham
11 March 2011	On norm closed Lie ideals of nest algebras	Lina Oliveira	Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon
04 March 2011	A new formula for the local multiplier algebra	Martin Mathieu	Queen’s University of Belfast
25 February 2011	What is an attractive shape?	John Hunton	University of Leicester
18 February 2011	Separable Banach lattices on which every bounded linear operator is regular	Anthony Wickstead	Queen’s University of Belfast
11 February 2011	Lion and Man	Imre Leader	University of Cambridge

2010

17 December 2010	Koszul incidence algebras of acyclic categories	David Quinn	QUB
10 December 2010	Rank one modules (line modules) in noncommutative geometry	Edwin Beggs	University of Swansea
03 December 2010	On dense subalgebras of commutative C*-algebras	Jukka Kauppi	University of Oulu
26 November 2010	Rings and varieties	Miles Reid	University of Warwick
19 November 2010	Algebraic and topological regularity properties of nuclear C*-algebras	Wilhelm Winter	University of Nottingham
12 November 2010	Links between representations of quivers and Fuchsian differential equations	Bill Crawley-Boevey	University of Leeds
05 November 2010	Combinatorics of bosonic strings on Riemann surfaces	Michael Tuite	University of Galway
29 October 2010	Weil conjectures for the moduli stack of vector bundles on algebraic curves	Frank Neumann	University of Leicester
22 October 2010	Means, Braids and Triangle Equations	Bernd Kreussler	Mary Immaculate College
15 October 2010	Automorphisms and involutions of incidence algebras	David Lewis	University College Dublin
08 October 2010	How to count lattice points with line bundles	Thomas Huettemann	QUB
07 May 2010	The homotopy theory of moment-angle complexes	Jelena Grbic	University of Manchester
30 April 2010	Quantum groups via Operator algebras	Matthew Daws	University of Leeds
23 April 2010	Universal Operators	Jonathan Partington	University of Leeds
26 March 2010	Some new insight into the algebraic representation of Best’s (10,40,4) code	Marcus Greferath	University College Dublin
19 March 2010	C-algebras, C-categories, and functors	Paul Mitchener	University of Sheffield
12 March 2010	Transversal homotopy theory	Jonathan Woolf	University of Liverpool
05 March 2010	On operators commuting with the Volterra operator	Stanislav Shkarin	QUB
26 February 2010	Presentations of certain subalgebras of group algebras	Götz Pfeiffer	National University of Ireland, Galway
19 February 2010	Multi-norms and amenability	Hung Le Pham	Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
12 February 2010	Quiver representations in algebraic geometry	Alastair Craw	University of Glasgow
05 February 2010	Hypercyclic finite rank perturbations of unitary operators	Stanislav Shkarin	QUB

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