2010 AIMS Journal Club Talks

Date Speaker
22/12 to 05/01 Xmas and New Year Break
12 January 2010 No talk this week
7th Mathematics in Industry Study Group in South Africa
19 January 2010 Ms. Lydienne Matchie (AIMS)
Cubature Methods and Applications to Option Pricing.
26 January 2010 Mr. Trust Chibawara (AIMS)
Pricing and Hedging Asian Option Using Monte Carlo and Integral transform Techniques.
02 February 2010 Dr. Prasenjit Saha (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Zürich, Switzerland)
Gravitational Lenses, Dark Matter, and the Age of the Universe.
9 February 2010 Dr. Madeleine Cule (AIMS)
Nonparametric density estimation under shape constraints.
16 February 2010 Dr. Lafras Uys (AIMS)
Coupling kinetic models of compartmentalised biochemical reaction networks to advection-diffusion processes.
23 February 2010 Prof. A.F. Beardon (Cambridge and AIMS)
Symmetry groups and crystallography.
02 March 2010 Dr. Olubunmi Abidemi Fadipe-Joseph (University of Ilorin, Nigeria)
Harmonic univalent functions using Salagean differential operator.
09 March 2010 Prof. Dr. Philibert Nang (University of Franceville, Gabon)
Algebraic description of holonomic D-modules on symmetric matrices.
16 March 2010 Prof. Okey Oseloka Onyejekwe (Florida Institute of Technology, USA)
Numerical solution of magnetohydrodynamic flow and heat transfer involving viscosity and electrical conductivity.
23 March 2010 Mrs. Amsalework Ejigu (AIMS)
Age Since Infection Structured Models for HIV/AIDS Dynamics.
30 March 2010 Dr. Shaban Mbare (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
Epidemics on networks and early stage vaccination.
06 April 2010 Dr. Hermane Mambili-Mamboundou (AIMS)
Mathematical Modeling of Avascular Stage in Solid Tumour Growth: Stability Analysis.
13 April 2010 Ms. Nicole Flaure Kouemo Tchamga (AIMS)
Portfolio Optimization Problems: A Martingale and Convex Duality Approach.
20 April 2010 Dr. Cédrick Aurélien Kitio Kwuimy (AIMS)
Active control of a mechanical structure using time delay feedback coupling.
27 April 2010 No talk this week
ZA: Freedom Day
04 May 2010 Prof. Ronnie Becker (UCT and AIMS)
The Sunfish and the Octopus: A Study in the Gerrymandering of Political Election Districts.
11 May 2010 Dr. Senelani Dorothy Hove-Musekwa (National University of Science & Technology, Zimbabwe)
Stress-related immunosuppression in disease outbreak dynamics.
18 May 2010 Mr. Elzain Ahmed Elzain Gumma (Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Khartoum, Sudan)
Linear constrained derivative free algorithm by quadratic approximation.
25 May 2010 Dr. Suares Clovis Oukouomi Noutchie (Stellenbosch University and AIMS)
Dynamics of Sex-Structured Population Models.
01 June 2010 No talk this week
Essay Defence at AIMS
08 June 2010 Dr Farai Nyabadza (Stellenbosch University)
The dynamics of HIV/AIDS in South Africa in the presence of screening: predictions using a mathematical model.
15 June 2010 Dr. Raouf Ghomrasni (AIMS)
Time-dependent portfolio generating functions.
22 June 2010 Dr. Semu Mitiku Kassa (Department of Mathematics, Addis Ababa University (AAU), Ethiopia)
Optimal Self-Protective Measures in Controlling Infectious Diseases of Human Population.
Wednesday 30 June 2010
at 11 am
Ms. A.Mihaja Ramanantoanina (AIMS)
The effect of animal behaviour on the spatial patterns and spread of predator-prey systems.
   July 2010 Summer Break

If you would like to give a Journal Club talk, please contact Raouf Ghomrasni.

Last updated 16 March 2010.