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DTSTART:20111212T044000Z
DTEND:20111212T053000Z
LOCATION:Benham Lecture Theatre
SUMMARY:Fluids Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Dr Richard Clarke :: Collision and instability in a rotating fluid-filled torus :: The simple experiment discussed in this talk, first conceived by Madden and  Mullin (JFM, 1994) as part of their investigations into the non-uniqueness  of decaying turbulent flow, consists of a fluid-filled torus which is  rotated in an horizontal plane.  Turbulence within the contained flow is  triggered through a rapid change in its rotation rate. The flow  instabilities which transition the flow to this turbulent state, however,  are truly fascinating in their own right, and form the subject of this  presentation. Flow features observed in both UK- and Auckland-based  experiments will be highlighted, and explained through both boundary-layer  analysis and full DNS. In concluding we argue that this flow regime, with  its compact geometry and lack of cumbersome flow entry effects, presents an  ideal regime in which to study many prototype flow behaviours, very much in  the same spirit as Taylor-Couette flow.
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DTSTART:20120309T044000Z
DTEND:20120309T053000Z
LOCATION:Ligertwood 333 Law Lecture Theatre 2
SUMMARY:School Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Prof Rajesh Gopakumar :: String Theory and the Quest for Quantum Spacetime :: Space and time together constitute one of the most basic  elements of physical reality.  Since Einstein spacetime has become an  active participant in the dynamics of the gravitational force.  However, our notion of a quantum spacetime is still rudimentary.  String theory, building upon hints provided from the physics of black  holes, seems to be suggesting a very novel, "holographic" picture of  what quantum spacetime might be. This relies on some very surprising  connections of gravity with quantum field theories (which provide the  framework for the description of the other fundamental interactions of  nature). In this talk, I will try and convey some of the flavour of  these connections as well as its significance.
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DTSTART:20120316T044000Z
DTEND:20120316T053000Z
LOCATION:B.21 Ingkarni Wardli
SUMMARY:School Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Prof Rob Hyndman :: Forecasting electricity demand distributions using a semiparametric additive model :: Electricity demand forecasting plays an important role in short-term load allocation and long-term planning for future generation facilities and transmission augmentation. Planners must adopt a probabilistic view of potential peak demand levels, therefore density forecasts (providing estimates of the full probability distributions of the possible future values of the demand) are more helpful than point forecasts, and are necessary for utilities to evaluate and hedge the financial risk accrued by demand variability and forecasting uncertainty.    Electricity demand in a given season is subject to a range of uncertainties, including underlying population growth, changing technology, economic conditions, prevailing weather conditions (and the timing of those conditions), as well as the general randomness inherent in individual usage. It is also subject to some known calendar effects due to the time of day, day of week, time of year, and public holidays.    I will describe a comprehensive forecasting solution designed to take all the available information into account, and to provide forecast distributions from a few hours ahead to a few decades ahead. We use semi-parametric additive models to estimate the relationships between demand and the covariates, including temperatures, calendar effects and some demographic and economic variables. Then we forecast the demand distributions using a mixture of temperature simulation, assumed future economic scenarios, and residual bootstrapping. The temperature simulation is implemented through a new seasonal bootstrapping method with variable blocks.    The model is being used by the state energy market operators and some electricity supply companies to forecast the probability distribution of electricity demand in various regions of Australia. It also underpinned the Victorian Vision 2030 energy strategy.
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DTSTART:20120328T063000Z
DTEND:20120328T072000Z
LOCATION:7.15 Ingkarni Wardli
SUMMARY:School Outreach
DESCRIPTION: :: Level III Outreach :: 
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DTSTART:20120912T073000Z
DTEND:20120912T082000Z
LOCATION:7.15 Ingkarni Wardli
SUMMARY:School Outreach
DESCRIPTION: :: Level III Outreach :: 
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20120302T044000Z
DTEND:20120302T053000Z
LOCATION:B.21, Ingkarni Wardli 
SUMMARY:School Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:A/Prof Gary Foyland :: TBA :: 
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20120323T044000Z
DTEND:20120323T053000Z
LOCATION:Napier G03
SUMMARY:School Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Prof Michael Barnsley :: The entropy of an overlapping dynamical system :: The term "overlapping" refers to a certain fairly simple type of piecewise continuous function from the unit interval to itself and also to a fairly simple type of iterated function system (IFS) on the unit interval. A correspondence between these two classes of objects is used to:    1.	find a necessary and sufficient condition for a fractal transformation from the attractor of one overlapping IFS to the attractor of another overlapping IFS to be a homeomorphism and   2.	find a formula for the topological entropy of the dynamical system associated with an overlapping function.      These results suggest a new method for analysing clocks, weather systems and prime numbers.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20111214T004000Z
DTEND:20111214T013000Z
LOCATION:B.17 Ingkarni Wardli
SUMMARY:Fluids Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Dr Robert Moore  :: Spinal Research at the University of Adelaide :: 
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DTSTART:20120116T044000Z
DTEND:20120116T053000Z
LOCATION:TBA
SUMMARY:Fluids Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Professsor Mike Foster :: TBA :: 
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DTSTART:20120203T024000Z
DTEND:20120203T033000Z
LOCATION:B.20 Ingkarni Wardli
SUMMARY:Geometry Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Prof Franc Forstneric :: Noncritical holomorphic functions of finite growth on algebraic Riemann surfaces :: Given a compact Riemann surface X and a point p in X,  we construct a holomorphic function without critical points  on the punctured (algebraic) Riemann surface R=X-p  which is of finite order at the point p.  In the case at hand this improves the 1967 theorem of  Gunning and Rossi to the effect that every open  Riemann surface admits a noncritical holomorphic function,  but without any particular growth condition. (Joint work with Takeo Ohsawa.)
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DTSTART:20120420T054000Z
DTEND:20120420T063000Z
LOCATION:B.21, Ingkarni Wardli
SUMMARY:School Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Dr Ed Green :: TBA :: 
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20120304T230000Z
DTEND:20120309T043000Z
LOCATION:7.15 Ingkarni Wardli
SUMMARY:Geometry Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Prof Rajesh Gopakumar :: IGA Workshop: The mathematical implications of gauge-string dualities :: Lecture series by Rajesh Gopakumar (Harish-Chandra Research Institute). The lectures will be supplemented by talks by other invited speakers.
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DTSTART:20120318T230000Z
DTEND:20120323T043000Z
LOCATION:7.15 Ingkarni Wardli
SUMMARY:Geometry Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Prof Jonathan Rosenberg :: IGA Workshop: Dualities in field theories and the role of K-theory :: Lecture series by Jonathan Rosenberg (University of Maryland). There will be additional talks by other invited speakers.
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DTSTART:20120210T024000Z
DTEND:20120210T033000Z
LOCATION:B.20 Ingkarni Wardli
SUMMARY:Geometry Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Prof Franc Forstneric :: Embedding circle domains into the affine plane C^2 :: We prove that every circle domain in the Riemann sphere admits  a proper holomorphic embedding into the affine plane C^2.  By a circle domain we mean a domain obtained by removing  from the Riemann sphere a finite or countable family  of pairwise disjoint closed round discs.  Our proof also applies to some circle domains with punctures.  The uniformization theorem of He and Schramm (1996)  says that every domain in the Riemann sphere  with at most countably many boundary components is  conformally equivalent to a circle domain, so  our theorem embeds all such domains properly  holomorphically in C^2.  (Joint work with Erlend F. Wold.)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20120504T054000Z
DTEND:20120504T063000Z
LOCATION:B.21, Ingkarni Wardli
SUMMARY:School Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Dr Matthew Simpson :: TBA :: 
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20120511T054000Z
DTEND:20120511T063000Z
LOCATION:B.21, Ingkarni Wardli
SUMMARY:School Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Dr Peter Kim :: TBA :: 
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20120210T044000Z
DTEND:20120210T053000Z
LOCATION:B.20 Ingkarni Wardli
SUMMARY:Fluids Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Dr Robert Moore  :: Spinal Research at the University of Adelaide :: 
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DTSTART:20120518T054000Z
DTEND:20120518T063000Z
LOCATION:B.21, Ingkarni Wardli
SUMMARY:School Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Dr Benjamin Burton :: TBA :: 
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20120601T054000Z
DTEND:20120601T063000Z
LOCATION:B.21, Ingkarni Wardli
SUMMARY:School Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:A/Prof Anthony Henderson :: TBA :: 
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20120608T054000Z
DTEND:20120608T063000Z
LOCATION:B.21, Ingkarni Wardli
SUMMARY:School Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Dr Peter Jarvis :: TBA :: 
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