Irish Mathematical Society > Bull72

BULLETIN Number 72 Winter 2013

ISSN 0791-5578

Contents

Notices from the Society

The 26th Annual IMS Scientific Meeting, 26-7 August 2013

report by Stephen Buckley 11

Reports of Sponsored Meetings

24th Automorphic Forms Workshop, UCD
March 11-14. Report by Robert Osburn 19-20
Representations and Finite Fields, UCD
28 May. Report by Rachel Quinlan 20-21
11th Irish Geometry Conference, NUIM
June 21-22 Report by David Wraith. 21-23
Complex Analysis and Approximation, NUIM
Report by Stephen Buckley. 24-25

Abstracts of PhD Theses

Ciara Lane:
An investigation into the image of Mathematics held by 5th-year post-primary students, 27-28
Anthony Brown:
Spaces of polynomials of degree at most n and their geometry, 29-30
Philipp Hoffmann:
On (m, p)-isometric operators and operator tuples on normed spaces, 31-32
Myrto Manolaki:
Universality and potential theory, 33-34
Cathy A. McFadden:
Contributions to algebraic coding theory over rings: from code equivalence to efficient decoding, 35-36
Alison Sneyd:
Codes over rings and applications to combinatorics, 37

Articles (General)

Stephen M. Buckley:
Why do Research in Pure Mathematics?, 39-44
Bernd Kreussler:
Ireland's Participation in the 54th International Mathematical Olympiad, 45-56

Survey Article

Martin Mathieu:
Interplay between Spectrally Bounded Operators and Complex Analysis, 57-70

Research Note

Padraig Ó Catháin:
Nesting Symmetric Designs, 71-74

Classroom Notes

M.R.F. Smyth:
MacCool's Second Proof of Morley's Miracle, 75-77
Finbarr Holland:
Over-constrained Triangles, 79-83

Book Reviews

Bruno Harris:
Theodore Frankel: The Geometry of Physics, 3rd Ed., 85-86
Peter Lynch:
Ian Roulstone and John Norbury: Invisible in the Storm, 87-92
George L. Huxley:
Bernard Beauzamy: Archimedes' Modern Works, 93-97
Richard Aron:
Bernard Beauzamy: Archimedes' Modern Works, 98-100

Problem Page, 101
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