Programs and
 Activities

Past Activities (2009)

 - Mathematical Theory and Numerical Methods for Computational Materials
   Simulation and Design (1 Jul - 31 Aug 2009)
   and Summer School (17 Jul - 14 Aug 2009)
   ... Jointly organized with Department of Mathematics in celebration of 80th Anniversary     of Faculty of Science

    Co-chairs of Organizing Committee:

- Weizhu Bao (National University of Singapore)
- Qiang Du (Penn State University)
- Yuanping Feng (National University of Singapore)
- Fanghua Lin (Courant Institute, New York University)

 - Statistical Genomics (1 - 28 Jun 2009) and Summer School (1 - 19 Jun 2009)
   ... Jointly organized with Department of Statistics and Applied Probability in celebration of
   80th Anniversary of Faculty of Science
    Co-chairs of Organizing Committee:

- Zehua Chen (National University of Singapore)
- Heping Zhang (Yale University)

 - Progress in Stein’s Method (5 Jan - 6 Feb 2009)
   ... Jointly organized with Department of Mathematics and Department of Statistics and
   Applied Probability in celebration of 80th Anniversary of Faculty of Science
    Chair of Organizing Committee:

- Andrew Barbour (University of Zurich)

 - Eleventh Asian Logic Conference (22 - 27 Jun 2009)
   ... Jointly organized with Faculty of Science in celebration of 80th Anniversary of Faculty
   of Science

    Chair of Program Committee:

- Qi Feng (National University of Singapore and Chinese Academy of Sciences)

    Chair of Local Organizing Committee:

- Yue Yang (National University of Singapore)

 - First Singapore Conference on Quantitative Finance (23 Feb 2009)
   ... Jointly organized with Saw Centre for Financial Studies
    Organizing Committee:

- Louis Chen (National University of Singapore)
- Takeshi Yamada (National University of Singapore)

 - Summer School in Logic  (29 Jun - 24 Jul 2009)
   ... Jointly organized with Department of Mathematics
    Organizing Committee:

- Chi Tat Chong (National University of Singapore)
- Qi Feng (Chinese Academy of Sciences and National University of Singapore)
- Yue Yang (National University of Singapore)

 - Spring School on Fluid Mechanics and Geophysics of Environmental Hazards
   (19 Apr – 2 May 2009)

    Chair of Organizing Committee:

- Keith Moffatt (University of Cambridge)

    Co-chairs of Organizing Committee:

- Boo Cheong Khoo (National University of Singapore)
- Pavel Tkalich (National University of Singapore)

 

Public Lectures

... Jointly organized with Risk Management Institute, NUS
Date:	Monday, 16 Nov 2009
Venue:	LT33, Block S17, Level 2, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore Singapore 117543
6:30pm - 7:30pm	Mathematics and the Financial Crisis Paul Embrechts, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
Date:	Tuesday, 22 Sep 2009
Venue:	LT31, Block S16, Level 3, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore Singapore 117543
6:30pm - 7:30pm	Keeping Afloat in a Deluge of DNA Data Terry Speed, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia

... Jointly organized with Department of Mathematics in celebration of 80th Anniversary of Faculty of Science
Date:	Tuesday, 11 Aug 2009
Venue:	LT31, Block S16, Level 3, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore Singapore 117543
6:30pm - 7:30pm	Roles of Differential Equations in Mathematics and Sciences Fanghua Lin, Courant Institute, New York University, USA
... Jointly organized with Department of Mathematics in celebration of 80th Anniversary of Faculty of Science
Date:	Wednesday, 22 July 2009
Venue:	LT31, Block S16, Level 3, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore Singapore 117543
6:30pm - 7:30pm	Mathematics in the Public Eye - The Story of Perelman and the Poincaré Conjecture Sir John Ball, University of Oxford, UK
Date:	Thursday, 28 Apr 2009
Venue:	LT33, Block S17, Level 2, Faculty of Science National University of Singapore Singapore 119260
6:30pm - 7:30pm	Rattleback Reversals: a Prototype of Chiral Dynamics Keith Moffatt, University of Cambridge, UK
Date:	Thursday, 23 Apr 2009
Venue:	LT33, Block S17, Level 2, Faculty of Science National University of Singapore Singapore 119260
6:30pm - 7:30pm	The Scientific Basis of Climate Change Emily Shuckburgh, British Antarctic Survey, UK

Colloquium Lectures

...  Jointly organized with Department of Mathematics
Date:	Wednesday, 4 Nov 2009
Venue:	Colloquium Room A S14, #03-10 Department of Mathematics Faculty of Science National University of Singapore
3:30pm - 4:30pm	A Topological Problem in Magnetohydrodynamics Boon Chye Low, High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Ad-hoc Seminars

...  Jointly organized with Department of Mathematics and Department of Statistics and Applied Probability
Date:	Friday, 8 May 2009
Venue:	Seminar Room, Block S16-06-118 Department of Statistics and Applied Probability Faculty of Science National University of Singapore
3:00pm - 4:00pm	The Asymptotic Distribution and Berry-Esseen Bound of a New Test for Independence in High Dimension Qi-Man Shao, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
...  Jointly organized with Department of Mathematics and Department of Statistics and Applied Probability
Date:	Friday, 3 Apr 2009
Venue:	Seminar Room, Block S16-05-102 Department of Statistics and Applied Probability Faculty of Science National University of Singapore
11:00am - 12:00pm	Maxima of Multivariate Data: Theory, Applications and Algorithms Hsien-Kuei Hwang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan