NZMASP 2014 Aotearoa Lodge and Conference Centre, Whitianga 17-20 November 2014 Sponsors We thankfully acknowledge our generous sponsors: We would like to extend special thanks to the following people for their support and assistance in making this year’s conference possible: Vivien Kirk; Marston Conder; Claire Postlethwaite; Mike Plank; Charles Semple; Stephen Joe; Geoff Whittle; Alex James; Gaven Martin and Winston Sweatman. New Zealand Mathematics and Statistics Postgraduate Conference The annual New Zealand Mathematics and Statistics Postgraduate conference is organised by students for students. It provides an opportunity for postgraduates throughout New Zealand to network, practise presentations and gain experience of conference etiquette in a relaxed and supportive environment. This year the conference is in Whitianga on the Coromandel Peninsula. Starting in 2006, the South Island Mathematics and Statistics Postgraduate Conference (SIMaSP) was held at Queenstown for two days. Twenty six postgraduate students and staff from the Universities of Canterbury and Otago attended. It was such a success that the first New Zealand Mathematics and Statistics Postgraduate Conference (NZMASP) was held in November 2007, also in Queenstown. Since then the NZMASP conference has been held in the following places: 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Whitianga; Foxton Beach; Westport; Lower Hutt; Shakespear Park; Cass Field Station. Shakespear Park 2012 Whitianga 2008, 2014 Foxton Beach 2009 Lower Hutt 2011 Westport 2010 Cass Field Station 2013 Queenstown 2006, 2007 NZMASP 2014 Welcome Reception There will be a welcome reception at On the Beach Backpackers at 6pm on Monday. The Venue All talks will take place at the Aotearoa Lodge and Conference Centre, 70 Racecourse Rd. Accommodation Accommodation for students is at On the Beach Backpackers Lodge, 46 Buffalo Beach Rd. See the room allocation plan on the next page. Conference Dinner Wednesday 7pm at the Indian buffet at Sangam Indian Cuisine, 13/1 Blacksmith Ln. Prizes sponsored by There will be prizes for the top four talks as chosen by participants of the conference. A voting slip is on the last page of this booklet. Fill it out and post it in the boxes provided by 11:30 on Thursday 20th November. Excursion Wednesday afternoon is a free afternoon for you to spend how you wish. Here are some suggestions, use the internet or talk to the organisers for more information: Whitianga Rock Walk This is a short walking track in the Whitianga Rock Scenic and Historic Reserve just across the Whitianga harbour. Hot Water Beach and Cathedral Cove These are some famous and equally as beautiful beaches on the east coast of the Coromandel peninsula just east of Whitianga. There are tour buses departing from Whitianga that can take you there. Water Sports Kayaks and boats are available for hire, there are also good diving spots and glass bottom boat tours to experience Mercury Bay without getting wet. Room Allocations Unit 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 B1 B1 B1 B1 B1 B1 B1 B2 B2 B2 B2 B2 B2 B2 B2 Room Single F1 F2 F3 F4 R1 R2 R3 R4 D1 D2 D3 D4 Double Twin 1 Twin 2 Dorm 1 Dorm 2 Dorm 3 Dorm 4 F1 F2 F3 F4 R1 R2 R3 R4 Name Susan Jowett Andrea Babylon Heather Davidson Louise McMillan Paula Bran Jeremie Morenhout Tuan Chien Jurij Vol˘ci˘c Barak Shani Timm Treskatis Paul Cordue Saeed Farjami Ben Lawrence Lynette OBrien/Graeme OBrien Rodelyn Avila Lisa Hall Leon Escobar Diaz Jerome Cao Rory Ellis Jack Simpson Cris Hasan Peter Langfield Sebastian Boie Jose Mujica Jennifer Creaser Sylvia Han Maree Hawkins Rebecca Turner Unit B6 B6 B6 B6 B6 B6 Female dorm Female dorm Female dorm Female dorm Female dorm Female dorm Female dorm Female dorm Female dorm Male dorm Male dorm Male dorm Male dorm Male dorm Male dorm Male dorm Male dorm Male dorm Male dorm Male dorm Male dorm Room Twin 1 Twin 2 Dorm 1 Dorm 2 Dorm 3 Dorm 4 Dorm 1 Dorm 2 Dorm 3 Dorm 4 Dorm 5 Dorm 6 Dorm 7 Dorm 8 Dorm 9 Dorm 1 Dorm 2 Dorm 3 Dorm 4 Dorm 5 Dorm 6 Dorm 7 Dorm 8 Dorm 9 Dorm 10 Dorm 11 Dorm 12 Name Duy Ho Tan Do Andrew Probert Mathew Grice Abu Zar Md Shafiullah Will Critchlow Howida Alfran Rachelle Binny Tina Li Allanah Kenny Carolyn Irons Weijuan Zhang Emma Greenbank Giovanna Le Gros Jasmine Hall Ali Zaidi Amjad Ali Carlo Danieli Liam McMahon Chris King Paul Brown Giulio Dalla Riva Hafiz Mohd Andrus Giraldo Abhishek Bhardwaj Jesse Hart James Hannam Top tips for student talks By last year’s plenary speakers: Alex James; Jeanette McLeod and Elena Moltchenova. Slides: Beamer, powerpoint, ...? Nobody cares. As long as your slides look nice and are informative that’s all that matters! Check them in a large room beforehand, can you read everything from the back row? Do all the lines on your graphs show up on a low resolution projector? Don’t get carried away with fancy slide effects, revealing things one at a time should aid understanding and not just jazz up a too long list of bullet points. As a rule of thumb no more than two effects per talk. Spell-check! Equations: Research (Fawcett, PNAS, 2012) has shown that citations decrease as equations per page increase. The same applies to talks. Try to use English words not mathematical symbols. Style: Chatty talks are nice but don’t sacrifice mathematical formality to achieve this. Experienced speakers who do this took years to perfect it and started off by giving formal talks. Facilities: Videos and movies are great but check they work on the conference system and have a back up plan if they don’t. Drawing on a whiteboard usually comes across as poor preparation, as though you couldn’t be bothered to prepare a decent slide. We strongly recommend you avoid doing it unless there is a true pedagogical need. Less is more: Don’t include your entire thesis. The aim of a talk is to enthuse, educate and entertain your audience. Many good speakers choose one (often small) concept from their research and explain this to the audience. If your research topic is particularly obscure this may need to be a fairly basic concept! Audience: Remember to adapt your talk to your audience. A graph theory conference participant has a different background to a more general conference participant. Be sure to define your terms! For more general audiences you should spend some time motivating your work. This is especially important for pure maths topics. Preparation: Good talks take time to prepare. It’s very obvious to your audience when you’ve just thrown together a talk at the last minute. They’ve taken time from their busy schedule to listen to you. It’s quite insulting when you haven’t taken a similar amount of time to prepare. Body language: Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing :-) If you don’t look interested why will your audience be interested. Look at the audience, make eye-contact with people. Try not to spend your whole talk talking to the whiteboard, screen or floor. Laser pointers: These are a curse to the nervous, they make it obvious if your hand is shaking! For smaller rooms consider just using your hand to point instead. If you do use one, use it sparingly, don’t wave it around the screen constantly, it can make people feel seasick. Questions: Answering questions after your talk is important. But if you do not know the answer, it is fine to say so and to follow up later. Do not forget to thank the commenter. Acknowledgements: Research is rarely the product of a single person. Who is your supervisor? Who funded you? Include references and make it clear what your contribution is. Tuesday 18th November Room 1 Chair Peter Langfield Room 2 Chair Timm Treskatis 9:00 – 9:20 Graeme O’Brien Discrete Groups of Ali Zaidi Solutions to an advanced M¨obius Transformations functional partial differential equation of the pantograph-type 9:20 – 9:40 Tan Do From strongly elliptic operators to Carolyn Irons Lineage tracing in collective degenerate elliptic operators: Core properties cell migration 9:40 – 10:00 Barak Shani The Hidden Number Problem Rachelle Binny Defining Moments: and Applications to Bit Security in Finite Spatial Structure in a Model of Collective Fields Cell Movement 10:00 – 10:20 Sylvia Han A Mathematical Model of Duy Ho Toroidal Circle Planes Calcium Dynamics and Saliva Secretion 10:20 – 10:40 Sebastian Boie Excitation-contraction Jasmine Hall Generalizing the Geometry of coupling in airway smooth muscle cells Throws 10:40 – 11:00 Allanah Kenny Calcium Oscillations in Chris King On 5-adic and 7-adic λSmooth Muscle Cells invariants attached to cyclic cubic number fields Program 11:00 – 11:30 Morning Tea 11:30 – 12:30 Igor Klep Linear Matrix Inequalities 12:30 – 1:30 Lunch Room 1 Chair Andrus Giraldo Room 2 Chair Tuan Chien 1:30 – 1:50 Paul Brown Bayesian Inference using Low Cris Hasan Mixed-mode Oscillations Discrepancy Sequences and Canard Orbits in Systems of Chemical Reactions 1:50 – 2:10 Rodelyn Avila The Use of Peak Height Maree Hawkins Freezing Multiple Velocity and Peak Weight Velocity for Obesity Timescale Models Status Prediction 2:10 – 2:30 Xin Li Incorporating competition in a trait- Lynette O’Brien A Study of bursting in based community assembly model a Three Dimensional System 2:30 – 2:50 Leon Escobar Diaz Numerical solution Jack Simpson Red Numbers: The Study of the Cauchy problem for spacetimes with of Mathematics Under Soviet Socialism spatial topologies S3 or S1 × S2 Tuesday 18th November 5:00 – 5:20 4:40 – 5:00 4:20 – 4:40 3:20 – 4:20 2:50 – 3:20 Afternoon Tea Caroline Yoon What kind of mathematics educator are you? Room 1 Chair Jeremie Moerenhout Room 2 Chair Rachelle Binny Howida Alfran The edge slide graph of Peter Langfield Interactions of forwardthe n-dimensional cube and backward-time isochrons Paul Cordue Characterising Phylogenetic Jose Mujica A Lin’s method approach for Networks that Display a Tree Twice detecting canard orbits Tuan Chien When are two sequences of Jen Creaser The Lorenz system near the vectors projectively unitarily equivalent? loss of the foliation condition Tuesday 18th November 11:00 – 11:30 11:30 – 12:30 10:40 – 11:00 10:20 – 10:40 10:00 – 10:20 9:40 – 10:00 9:20 – 9:40 9:00 – 9:20 Room 2 Chair Sebastian Boie Louise McMillan Saddlepoint Method: An Introduction Abu Zar Md Shafiullah A comparative study on the error rates and power of selection criteria for factor screening Timm Treskatis Viscoplastic Fluids: Weijuan Zhang Some infinite families of Laborious but Fun chiral polytopes Amjad Ali A Simplified Model for Matthew Grice Graphs with no odd cycles Transport in Aquifers are bipartite - the proof from ‘The Book’ Saeed Farjami Spike adding in Transient Jeremie Moerenhout Chiral Polytopes dynamics arising from almost simple groups with socle P SL(2, q) Andrea Babylon Modelling Leptospirosis Jerome Cao Uniqueness of Meromorphic in Livestock and Wildlife Function and Its k-th Derivative with Two Weighted Sharing Values Morning Tea Maryam Alavi Applied Mathematics in Industry: a “real-world” example Room 1 Chair Barak Shani Ben Lawrence Linear matrix inequalities, spectrahedra, and optimisation Jurij Vol˘ ci˘ c Noncommutative rational functions Wednesday 19th November 2:30pm 7:00pm 2:10 – 2:30 1:50 – 2:10 1:30 – 1:50 12:30 – 1:30 Lunch Room 1 Chair Paul Cordue Room 2 Chair Jen Creaser Will Critchlow Almost every matroid? Hafiz Mohd Modelling the Distributions of Competing Species along Environmental Gradients Andrew Probert Path Width in Graphs Heather Davidson Geothermal spring temperature analysis Susan Jowett Graphic Connectivity Carlo Danieli Flat Band Models with Functions correlated onsite perturbation Excursion Conference Dinner Wednesday 19th November 11:00 – 11:30 11:30 – 12:30 12:30 – 2:00 10:40 – 11:00 10:20 – 10:40 10:00 – 10:20 9:40 – 10:00 9:20 – 9:40 9:00 – 9:20 Room 2 Chair Tan Do Paula Bran Estimating abundance using DNA samples Rory Ellis Comparing SARIMA and PARMA models in forecasting retail trade data Giulio Dalla Riva The Web and the Tree Lisa Hall To be or not to be – that is not and the Web the question. To see or not to see – now that is the question! Abhishek Bhardwaj Positive James Hannam Will my new tower stand Polynomials and Sums of Hermitian Squares tall through an earthquake? Jesse Hart Robin Constants on Algebraic Emma Greenbank Modelling Surtseyan Curves in C2 Ejecta Giovanna Le Gros Khovanov Homology Liam McMahon Current Sheet Formation of Knots at a Magnetic Neutral Line in a Weakly Collisional Plasma Morning Tea Rachel Fewster How to fake data if you must Lunch, prizes and farewell Room 1 Chair Andrea Babylon Andrus Giraldo Global Invariant Manifolds near a Homoclinic Flip Bifurcation Rebecca Turner Testing a Model of Bird Navigation Thursday 20th November Notes Title of Talk Name Nomination for Best Talk Note your favourite talk by a student on the voting slip below, tear it off and post it in the boxes provided by 11:30am on Thursday 20th November. Plenary talks cannot win the prize. The top four talks will receive a prize. Prize Voting Slip
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