Tuesday 27 September

Plenary Lecture, etc.

8:30--10:00 Registration (foyer of Maths building)
10:00--11:00 Opening and Medal Presentation (Weatherburn Lecture Theatre)

11:00--11:30 Morning Tea/Coffee

11:30--12:25 Plenary Lecture

11:30--12:25



Plenary Lecture (Weatherburn Lecture Theatre)
Jonathan Borwein
Plausible Reasoning in the 21st Century; or
``What is High Performance Mathematics?''

12:30--14:00 Lunch

14:00--14:55 Plenary Lecture

14:00--14:55


Plenary Lecture (Weatherburn Lecture Theatre)
Angus MacIntyre (The Association for Symbolic Logic Lecture)
Model Theory, Nonstandard Primes and Associated Frobenius Maps

15:00--15:30 Afternoon Tea

Parallel Special Sessions, 15:30 on

Control, Optimization, Dynamic Games and Applications (Mathematics Lecture Room 3)

15:30 -- 16:15
Control
Vladimir Gaitsgory -- Keynote Lecturer
Averaging of singularly perturbed control systems: occupational measures approach
16:30 -- 16:55
Control
Phil Howlett, Vladimir Ejov and Konstantin Avrachenkov
Inversion of perturbed linear operators that are singular at the origin
17:00 -- 17:25
Control
Alex Rubinov
?? Abstract Convexity and Hermite-Hadamard-type Inequalities

Financial Mathematics (Mathematics Lecture Room 2)

15:30 -- 16:15
Finance
Eckhard Platen -- Keynote Lecturer
A Unified Framework for Porfolio Optimization and Asset Pricing
16:30 -- 16:55
Finance
Marcelo C. Medeiros
Modeling Multiple Regimes in Financial Volatility with a Flexible Coefficient GARCH(1,1) Model
17:00 -- 17:25
Finance
Ranjodh Singh
A Randomized Income Pyramid Model

General Special Session (Blakers Lecture Theatre)

15:30 -- 15:55
General
David McLaren
Bootstrapping the order of discrete gradient integral--preserving integrators
16:00 -- 16:25
General
Pui-Sze Priscilla Tse
B-series methods and volume preservation
16:30 -- 16:55
General
Kie Van Ivanky Saputra and Sinatra Canggih
An application of Richtmyer Scheme on the model for Line-Packing gas-flow in a pipe
17:00 -- 17:25
General
Hanjun Zhang
Existence of Quasi-stationary Distributions
17:30 -- 17:55
General
Scott Sciffer
A Model of Dynamic Contact Angle

Incidence Geometry (Mathematics Lecture Room 1)

15:30 -- 16:15
Incidence
Matthew Brown -- Keynote Lecturer
Laguerre geometries and generalized quadrangles
16:30 -- 16:55
Incidence
Tim Penttila
Generalised polygons, flocks and ovals
17:00 -- 17:25
Incidence
Kathy Horadam
Bundles of presemifields

Logic (Physics Lecture Room 2.15)

15:30 -- 16:15
Logic
Andreas Weiermann -- Keynote Lecturer
Phase transitions in logic and combinatorics
16:30 -- 16:55
Logic
Martin Bunder
Mathematical Foundations equivalent to proof assistant systems
17:00 -- 17:25
Logic
Jonathan Cohen
Thou Shalt Commute!
17:30 -- 17:55
Logic
Brian Davey
The axiomatizability of topological quasi-varieties

Mathematical Physics (Engineering Lecture Theatre 2)

15:30 -- 16:15
Physics
Peter Bouwknegt -- Keynote Lecturer
Generalized Geometry, Mirror Symmetry and T-duality
16:30 -- 16:55
Physics
Jan deGier
Exact spectral gap of the one-dimensional exclusion process with open boundaries
17:00 -- 17:25
Physics
Alexander Molev
Verma modules for Yangians

Optimal Control (Engineering Lecture Room G11)

15:30 -- 16:15
OptControl
K. L. Teo -- Keynote Lecturer
A Computational Approach to Optimal Switching Control Problems
16:30 -- 16:55
OptControl
Song Wang
A Radial Basis Collocation Method for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations
17:00 -- 17:25
OptControl
Steven Richardson
A Multivariate Adaptive Regression B-spline Algorithm (BMARS) for Solving a Class of Nonlinear Optimal Feedback Control Problems

Topological Groups and Lie Groups (Engineering Lecture Theatre 1)

15:30 -- 16:15
TopGroups
Sidney Morris -- Keynote Lecturer
Lie Theory and the Structure of Pro-Lie Groups and Locally Compact Groups
16:30 -- 16:55
TopGroups
Nandita Rath
Initial and terminal structures on a G-category
17:00 -- 17:25
TopGroups
Mohammad Azram
Multipliers on Frechet Algebra
17:30 -- 17:55
TopGroups
R. Safakish
On some topological properties of dense subsets of spac(R)

18:30 -- 19:30 Public Lecture

18:30--19:30


Public Lecture (Weatherburn Lecture Theatre)
Bruce Berndt (Mahler Lecturer)
Ramanujan's Lost Notebook

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