Visitors

As a way to build academic and research collaborations, we warmly welcome Visitors to the School. Some of our prominent visitors from all over the world are listed below.

Please contact the HOS or the Division Coordinators if you are interested in visiting us.

1. Prof. Valentin Poenaru, Université de Paris-Sud, France, August 23 - Sept 1, 2010. Prof. Poenaru held several workshops on low-dimensional topology, and gave a public seminar titled $1,000,000 Prize Money for a Mathematical Problem
2. Prof.Emer. Ted Burton, Southern Illinois University, USA, August 25 - August 30, 2008, on the invitation by Jito Vanualailai. Professor Burton gave two seminars titled Introduction to Lyapunov Theory for Integral Equations and Introduction to Stability by Fixed Points
3. Assoc. Prof Jun-Hong Ha, Korea University of Technology and Education, Korea, August 22 – August 29, 2008, on the invitation by Jito Vanualailai. Professor Ha gave two seminars titled Identification Problems of Sine-Gordon Equations, and Identifiability for Piecewise Constant
4. Professor Shin-ichi Nakagiri, Kobe University, Japan, August 18 – August 25, 2008, on the invitation by Jito Vanualailai. Professor Nakagiri gave a seminar titled Reachability and Observability of a Plug-Flow Reactor Diffusion Equation
5. Professor John Oommen, Carleton University, Canada, on July 4, 2008, on the invitation by Sharlene Dai. Professor Oommen gave a seminar titled A Learning Algorithm Capable of Learning from Stochastic Teachers and Stochastic Compulsive Liars
6. Dr. Vladimir Tosic, NICTA, Australia, May 23, 2008, on the invitation by Sharlene Dai. Dr. Tosic gave a seminar titled Business Value Driven Engineering and Management of Web Services and their Compositions
7. Professor Alexander Ivanov, Imperial College, London, March 29 – April 10, 2004, on the invitation by Valeriy Mnukhin. Professor Ivanov gave a seminar titled Modern Aspects of Group Geometries: Amalgams, Representations and Tri-Extraspecial Groups
8. Professor Michel Deza, Ecole Normale Superieure and CNRS, Paris, April 4 – April 10, 2004, on the invitation by Valeriy Mnukhin. Professor Deza gave a seminar titled Fullerness and Generalization: Interplay between Geometry and Chemistry
9. Professor Elena Deza, Moscow Pedagogical University, Russia, April 4 – April 10, 2004, on the invitation by Valeriy Mnukhin. Professor Deza gave a seminar titled Some notes about Dirichlet Divisor Problem and its Generalizations
10. Dr. Dharmendra Sharma, University of Canberra, Australia, April 19,2004,  on the invitation by Muni Reddy. Dr. Sharma gave a seminar titled Voice Analysis and Verification using Fuzzy Methods
11. Professor Sette Diop, Superlec, University of Paris-sud, France, July 18 – July 31, 2004, on the invitation by Jito Vanualailai. Professor Diop gave two seminars titled An Overview of Observer Design, and A Differential Algebraic Theory of Observability
12. Professor Henri Bonnel, University of New Caledonia, New Calendonia, July 19 – July 23, 2004, on the invitation by Jito Vanualailai. Professor Bonnel gave a seminar on Optimzation
13. Professor Shin-ichi Nakagiri, Kobe University, Japan, August 31 – September 9, 2004, on the invitation by Jito Vanualailai. Professor Nakagiri gave a seminar titled Optimal Control Problems for Semilinear Second-Order Volterra Integrodifferential Equations in Hilbert Space
14. Dr. Jean Chaumine, University of French Polynesia, Tahiti, November 1 – November 4, 2004, on the invitation by Jito Vanualailai. Dr. Chaumine gave a seminar titled Improvement  of the Bounds of the Multiplication Bilinear Complexity in Some Finite Fields
15. Dr Florian Breuer, post-doc at the National Centre for Theoretical Sciences at National Tsing-Hua University Taiwan, in August 2003.  He gave a sequence of seminars on the Applications of elliptic curves to cryptography
16. Assoc Prof Hajime Ishihara's (School of Information Science,  Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan), December 2003.  He presented a seminar "A constructive theory of integration – a metric approach".
17. Prof. Shelomo Ben-Abraham from Ben Gurion Univ., Israel,  gave two seminars, "Covering clusters for octagonal and dodecagonal tilings'' and "Cluster covering of quasicrystals'' in February and March, 2001
18. Prof. Alexandre Borovik from the University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology, UK,  gave a seminar on ``Applied group theory'' in August, 2001, and discussed possible collaboration in postgraduate student education.
19. Dr. David Clark from the Univ.of Canberra, Australia,  gave two seminars, "Using consensus ensembles to identify suspect data'' and "Using contracts to derive object oriented unit tests'', in June, 2001
20. Prof. Emer. Ludwig Danzer from the Institut f"ur Mathematik, Univ. Dortmund, Germany,  gave two seminars on ``Strictly ordered but aperiodic tilings'' in July, 2001
21. Dr. Jonathan Frank from Suffolk University, Boston, USA, gave a seminar ``Power web tools'' in February.
22. Prof. Vyacheslav Futorny, Univ.of San Paulo, Brazil, gave a seminar on ``Kac-Moody algebras and their representations'' in August, 2001
23. Dr.Ulrich Mathias Guenther from the Univ.of Auckland, NZ, gave a short course of ten lectures, plus hands-on labs, on web design in April.  This was part of a series of research exchange visits between USP and the Univ. of Auckland.
24. Prof.Igor Shparlinsky from Macquarie Univ., Australia, gave a seminar
    on "Exponential sums and lattice reduction: applications to cryptography'' in August, 2001
25. Prof. Anatol Slissenko from University Paris 12, Paris, Head of Laboratory for Algorithmics, Complexity and Logic gave a seminar on "Computer Security and Verification''  in November, 2001
26. Dr. Michael Baake, Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Universitat Tubingen, Germany, visited for 3 days, 2 to 5 December 1999. He presented a seminar on “Which Distributions of Matter Diffract?”
27. Dr Alan Camina, from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, gave a seminar on 11 May, 1998, “Can we classify line-transitive finite linear spaces?”.
28. Prof Biswa Nath Datta, Department of Mathematical Science, Northern Illinois Univ., USA, spoke on “ Fun with matrix computations” on 25 August, 1998
29. Prof Nikoli Dolbilin visited us in August, September, and October, 1998, from the Steklov Institute in Moscow. He gave several seminars for staff and students: 18 August, “Sources of Symmetry in Crystals”; 16 September, “The chaos game and self-similarity”; 23 September, “Fractals and Hitchinson’s Theorem”; 30 September, “Jewels from the geometry of polyhedra, Part I”; and 6 October, “Jewels from the geometry of polyhedra, Part II”.
30. Prof Paul Horwich, University College, Univ. of London, visited us in March, and gave a talk “The Nature of Truth” on 16 March, 1998.
31. Dr Vojtech Kopsky, from the Czech Academy of Science, gave a lecture “International Tables for Crystallography. Vol. E: Subperiodic Groups” on 21 June, 1998.
32. Walter Cooke, a computer security expert, visited in February 1997, and presented a seminar "New Problems and New Solutions in Information Security''.
33. John Hall, of DEC Unix Development, USA, spoke on Linux at a well-attended seminar on 22 September, 1997.
34. Prof. Karl Kurbel, Professor at Europe University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), visited the Department for a month at the beginning of Semester 2, 1997.  He assisted with CS222, helped other students, and presented a seminar "The Trade-off between Solution Quality and
    Computing Times of Intelligent Algorithms - A Computational Study on the Role of Parameters and Time Budgets''.
35. Prof. Michael Moses from George Washington University, USA, visited in May and presented a seminar "Robertson and Seymour, Kuratowski and Hercules, Hilbert and Godel, Harvey Friedman .. and more''.
36. Dr. Kevin Paulson from Oxford Brookes University, UK, visited in April and presented a seminar "Inverse Problems Related to Electrical Impedance Tomography''.
37. Visiting Professor T. Soma from the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Saitama, Japan, continued with the Department in 1997.  He assisted University staff with consultation, shared computer equipment for research, and supervised the MSc thesis "The Stability Analysis of a Hopfield-type Neural Network'' by Ravi Venkatesan. 
38. Prof. Ian Witten from the Univ. of Waikato, NZ,  visited in June, 1997, and presented a seminar "Technical Aspects of Digital Libraries''.