What's On at UWA

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 30 October in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Irene Pivotto (University of Western Australia)

Title: Decomposition theorems for graphs and matroids

Abstract: Wagner proved that every graph that does not contain a clique on 5 vertices as a minor (...)

Time and Place: 15:00 Wednesday 4 November in Blakers Speaker: James Parkinson (University of Sydney)

Title: On automorphisms and opposition in spherical buildings.

Abstract: The opposition relation is fundamental in Tits' theory of spherical and twin buildings. When studying (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 6 November in MLR1.

Speaker: Yian Xu (University of Western Australia)

Title: Generalized Thrackle and Graph Surface Embeddings

Abstract: A thrackle on a surface X is a graph of size e and order n drawn on X such that every two distinct (...)

The GeneMappers conference has traditionally focused on novel concepts for the genetic dissection of common complex human diseases. This year the emphasis of the conference will be on exploring these themes in detail, with a particular focus on the contemporary methods and techniques that will take (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 13 November in MLR1.

Speaker: David Raithel (University of Western Australia)

Title: Innately transitive groups

Abstract: An innately transitive permutation group is a permutation group with a transitive minimal normal subgroup. Innately (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Monday 16 November in Monadelphous DS

Speaker: Reza Naserasr (Université Paris-Sud)

Title: Bounding K_4-minor-free graphs in the homomorphism order

Abstract: Given a graph B of odd-girth 2k+1 we are interested in the following question: Does (...)

Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium

Time and date: 4pm, Thursday 19th November

Venue: Blakers Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Professor Andrew Bassom (The University of Western Australia)

Title: Grrrrr...... linear stability should be simple -- the saga of (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 20 November in MLR1.

Speaker: Stephen Glasby (University of Western Australia)

Title: How big is the Sylow p-subgroup of an irreducible solvable subgroup of GL(d,p^f)?

Abstract: Let G be a subgroup of GL(d,q) with q = p^f, where p is a (...)

This course focuses on model selection techniques for linear and generalised linear regression in two scenarios: when an extensive search of the model space is possible as well as when the dimension is large and either stepwise algorithms or regularization techniques have to be employed to identify (...)

Social research skills are highly sought after in a wide variety of sectors to identify social, organisational and government needs. This course can open up avenues for improving society, developing the wellbeing of communities and working towards solving the world's problems.

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Time and place: 15:00 Friday 27 November in MLR1.

Speaker: Michael Giudici (University of Western Australia)

Title: Classical groups, derangements and primes

Abstract: An elementary result of Jordan shows that every finite transitive group of degree at least two (...)

#GivingTuesday is a movement to celebrate and provide incentives to give. It will culminate with a global day of giving on the first Tuesday of December every year. The idea is to transform how people think about, talk about and participate in the giving season.

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Topics will include Principal Component Analysis, Factor Analysis, Canonical Variate (or Canonical Correlation) Analysis, Discriminant Analysis, Cluster Analysis (...)

Social research skills are highly sought after in a wide variety of sectors to identify social, organisational and government needs. This course can open up avenues for improving society, developing the wellbeing of communities and working towards solving the world's problems.

Find out (...)

Time and place: 11:00 Friday 4 December in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Luke Morgan (University of Western Australia)

Title: Semiprimitive Groups: Are they wild or just misunderstood?

Abstract: The class of semiprimitive groups contains the classes of primitive (...)

Is it unethical to conduct studies that are too large or too small? If so, how do we find the right balance based on the available resources? This seminar provides an overview of sample size calculations and demonstrates how to use the free "PS" software to perform simple sample size (...)

In the absence of large, randomised, well-controlled clinical trials (with independent replication) to address every research question we all need to increase our statistical literacy. We are often faced with the need to critically assess grant applications, manuscripts or reports without a (...)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 29 January in Blakers LT

Speaker: Marcel Fernandez (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya)

Title: Codes with traceability properties

Abstract: The talk will present codes with traceability properties. These codes are used in digital (...)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 29 January in Weatherburn LT

Speaker: Sara Zemljic (University of Iceland)

Title: Wiener dimension and Sierpinski graphs

Abstract: Wiener dimension is a relatively new graph invariant closely connected to the Wiener index of graphs. It (...)

Time and place: 11:00 Tuesday 9 February in Weatherburn LT

Speaker: Dillon Mayhew (Victoria University of Wellington)

Title: Finite vs. infinite fields in matroid representation

Abstract: We can think of a matroid as an abstraction of a discrete configuration of (...)