## Part III Seminars Series (Michaelmas 2010)

The Part III Seminar Series in Michaelmas 2010 will take place from Wednesday 1st December until Friday 3rd December, and is organised by Tom Hammant and David Twigg (DAMTP) and Peter Herbrich (DPMMS).

The schedule is below. Morning sessions will run between 9:15 and 13:00, with a coffee break at 11:15. Afternoon sessions will run between 13:20 and 17:40, with a coffee break at 15:20.

There will be a party in the Part III Room at 5:40 on Friday evening to celebrate.

Representation Theory / Group theory - Peter Herbrich
These talks will take place Wednesday afternoon in
MR9.

 13:20 – 14:00 Maria Monks mm830 Automatic groups and the word problem 14:00 – 14:40 Yi Sun ys361 The McKay Correspondence 14:40 – 15:20 Joseph Karmazyn jhk37 Representations of the symmetric group 15:40 – 16:20 Chris Blake cb529 Galois Groups and Fundamental Groups

Combinatorics - Ben Barber
These talks will take place Wednesday afternoon in
MR5.

 14:00 – 14:40 João Guerreiro jlg51 Large and accessible sets of integers 14:40 – 15:20 John Lapinskus jal73 Probabilistic combinatorics, Percolation and Related Topics 15:40 – 16:20 Amit S. Kuber ask47 Eigenvalues of Cayley Graph g(\mathbb{Z}_n,\pm 1) and Solution of Heat Equation on Discrete Circle 16:20 – 17:00 Diaaeldin Taha dmmt2 Roth's Theorem on a toy model (e.g. Z/3Z) 17:00 – 17:40 Jann Spiess jls72 Primality of large and countably infinite trees

General Relativity - Jeremy Sakstein
These talks will take place Thursday morning in
MR14 before the tea break and MR9 afterwards.

 09:15 – 09:55 Daniel Mayerson drm56 Towards a Holographic Quark-Gluon Plasma with Finite Baryon Density 09:55 – 10:35 Chris Blair cdab3 Singular Monopoles 10:35 – 11:15 Natalia Kudryashova nk375 Spin and Rotation in General Relativity 11:30 – 12:15 Henry Maxfield hdm21 Matter fields and energy-momentum tensors 12:15 – 13:00 Robert Lasenby rnl22 Direct Action Theories

Quantum Field Theory- Tae-Joon Cho
These talks will take place Thursday afternoon in
MR3.

 14:00 – 14:40 Andrej Stepanchuck as2081 Gravitational Anomalies 14:40 – 15:20 Adam Solomon as2089 f(R) Gravity and Cosmological Implications 15:40 – 16:20 Daniele Galloni dsg32 Decay of the False Vacuum 16:20 – 17:00 Joe Kier jk434 2-Component Spinors and their Applications in G.R. 17:00 – 17:40 Anna Lieb al589 Introduction to Simulations in Lattice QCD

Analysis - Anastasia Kisil

These talks will take place Thursday afternoon in MR9.

 14:00 – 14:40 Gavin Armstrong ga295 Hausdorff Dimension 14:40 – 15:20 Joshua Tattersall jmt61 Spectral Theory and Semigroups of Operators 15:40 – 16:20 Alex Jones adj27 Differentiating Distributions and Measures - The Radon-Nikodym Theorem 16:20 – 17:00 Harrison Pugh hp320 Topological Vector Spaces 17:00 – 17:40 Malcolm Findlay mjhf3 The Kakeya Problem - A proof in finite fields

Probability - Elena Yudovina
These talks will take place Friday morning in
MR13.

 09:55 - 10:35 Nathan Carruth ntc24 Preliminaries for a theory of quantum time in $R^1 \times S^1$ 10:35 – 11:15 Patrick Lahr pl348 Markov Chains and their boundary behavior 11:30 – 12:10 Helge Felix Gruetjen hfg22 Clustering instability in granular streams

Number Theory -Jack Lamplugh
These talks will take place Friday afternoon in
MR11.

 13:20 – 14:00 Ahmad Qureshi aq209 Rational points on plane curves 14:00 – 14:40 Jeremy Bocher jb744 The Transcendence of e 14:40 – 15:20 Cosmin Davidescu cdd31 Complex multiplication of elliptic curves 15:40 – 16:20 Jack Shotton jgs36 Higher Reciprocity 16:20 – 17:00 Markus Schepke ms946 Prime Generating Sequences 17:00 – 17:40 Netan Dogra nd297 Tate's Thesis

Quantum Information Theory- Sergii Strelchuk

These talks will take place Friday afternoon in MR9.

 14:00 – 14:40 Michael Blake mab90 Path Integrals, Statistical and Quantum field theories 14:40 – 15:20 Guo Chan Thiang gct26 Quantum separability problem 15:40 – 16:20 James Edwards jpe26 CPI interpretation of the Hamiltonian Constraint 16:20 – 17:00 Daniel Toth ldt26 Complex Chaos in Dynamics of Qubits 17:00 – 17:40 Robert Jonsson rhj26 Fermionic Projectors

Geometry and Topology - Marcus Zibrowius

These talks will take place Friday afternoon in MR13.

 13:20 – 14:00 Eran Calderon ec444 The Jones Polynomial 14:00 – 14:40 Truls Bakkejord Raeder tbr26 Topological K-Theory and Bott Periodicity 14:40 – 15:20 Mohammad E. Akhtar mea33 Computing the Cohomology of U(n) using the Serre Spectral Sequence 15:40 – 16:20 Yoshi Hashimoto yh292 Topology and Curvature 16:20 – 17:00 George Boxer gb403 Belyi's Theorem 17:00 – 17:40 Harpreet Bedi hb325 Schemes