Department of Mathematics

Andrew Scoones (University of York) - On the abc Conjecture in Algebraic Number Fields

15:00 - 16:00 29 March 2022
Abstract : While the abc conjecture remains open, much work has been done on weaker versions, and ongeneralising the conjecture to number fields. Stewart and Yu were able to give an…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Adam Brown

13:00 - 14:00 29 March 2022
Speaker: Adam Brown - UST Title: The local Langlands correspondence and unitary representations of GL(n) Abstract: Harish-Chandra's Lefschetz principle suggests that representations…

Christa Cuchiero - Optimal bailout strategies resulting from the drift controlled supercooled Stefan problem

13:30 - 14:30 30 March 2022
Christa Cuchiero (University of Vienna) will speak in the Probability seminar. We consider the problem faced by a central bank which bails out distressed financial institutions that…

Chay Paterson -- Network models of carcinogenesis in colorectal adenocarcinoma and vestibular schwannoma

14:00 - 15:00 4 April 2022
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Chay Paterson (Manchester) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can…

Marina Evangelou - Multi-SNE, an approach for the visualisation, clustering and classification of multiple datasets

14:00 - 15:00 6 April 2022
Marina Evangelou, Senior Lecturer in Statistics in the School of Mathematics at Imperial College London is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title: Multi-SNE, an approach…

David Wedge -- The genomic evolution of cancer

14:00 - 15:00 25 April 2022
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by David Wedge (Manchester) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be…

Demi Allen (University of Exeter) - An inhomogeneous Khintchine–Groshev Theorem without monotonicity

15:00 - 16:00 26 April 2022
Abstract : The classical (inhomogeneous) Khintchine–Groshev Theorem tells us that for a monotonic approximating function ?:N?[0,?) the Lebesgue measure of the set of (inhomogeneously)…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Billy Woods

13:00 - 14:00 26 April 2022
Speaker: Billy Woods - University of Essex Title: Filtered skew power series rings Abstract: Skew polynomial rings show up naturally as group algebras, universal enveloping algebras…

Jennifer Wadsworth - A tour through multivariate extreme value methodology

14:00 - 15:00 27 April 2022
Jennifer Wadsworth, Senior Lecturer in Statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University. is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title: A…

Kirsty Wan -- Distinct gaits of self-propulsion in microswimmers

13:00 - 14:00 27 April 2022
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Kirsty Wan (Exeter) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found…

Logic Seminar - Victor Lisinski (Oxford)

15:00 - 16:00 27 April 2022
Title: Decidability of equal characteristic tame Hahn fields in the language L_t Abstract: The model theory of tame fields in the language of valued fields has been extensively studied…

Mikolaj Kasprzak - Stein's method and Gaussian process approximations

15:00 - 16:00 27 April 2022
Mikolaj Kasprzak (University of Luxembourg) will speak in the Probability seminar. Functional limit theorems have found multiple applications in fields ranging from statistical changepoint…

Suzie Protiere - Physical Applied Mathematics Seminar

14:00 - 15:00 27 April 2022
Suzie Protiere (Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Université Pierre et Marie Curie) joins us for this in-person seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series Abstract: TBC

Jared Lichtman (Oxford) - Twin primes & a modified linear sieve

15:00 - 16:00 3 May 2022
Abstract : The linear sieve is a powerful tool to tackle problems related to the primes, when combined with equidistribution estimates for the remainder. In 1977 Iwaniec introduced…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Pavel Zalesski

13:00 - 14:00 3 May 2022
Speaker: Pavel Zalesskii - University of Brasilia Title. Splitting of pro-p groups (as an amalgam or HNN) Abstract. I shall talk about Stallings type results of splittings of pro-p…

Logic Seminar - Rosario Mennuni (Pisa)

15:00 - 16:00 4 May 2022
Title: Automorphisms of ordered abelian groups and positive logic Abstract: A common construction in model theory consists in starting with a theory T, adding to the language a symbol…

Pierre Patie - Discrete self-similarity and some ergodic Markov chains

15:00 - 16:00 4 May 2022
Pierre Patie (Cornell University) will speak in the Probability seminar. In this talk, resorting to the theory of group representation, we start by introducing an operator that defines…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Konstantinos Karagiannis

13:00 - 14:00 10 May 2022
Speaker: Konstantinos Karagiannis - Manchester Title: Finite group actions on algebraic curves Abstract: In this talk I will discuss how questions arising in classic (ordinary, modular…

Valeriya Kovaleva (Oxford) - Correlations of the Riemann Zeta on the critical line

15:00 - 16:00 10 May 2022
Abstract : in this talk we will discuss the correlations of the Riemann Zeta in various ranges, and prove a new result for correlations of squares. We will also explain how it is related…

Emmanuel Ogundimu - Recent advances in sample selection models

14:00 - 15:00 11 May 2022
Emmanuel Ogundimu, Assistant Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title: Recent advances…

Logic Seminar - Dugald Macpherson (Leeds)

15:00 - 16:00 11 May 2022
Title: Uniform families of definable sets in finite structures Abstract: A theorem of Chatzidakis, van den Dries and Macintyre, stemming ultimately from the Lang-Weil estimates, asserts,…

Maury Bramson - Instability of LIFO Queueing Networks and “Classical Queueing Networks"

15:00 - 16:00 11 May 2022
Maury Bramson (University of Minnesota) will speak in the Probability seminar. Under the last-in, first-out (LIFO) discipline, jobs arriving later at a class always receive priority…

Tom Montenegro-Johnson - Physical Applied Mathematics Seminar

14:00 - 15:00 11 May 2022
Tom Montenegro-Johnson (University of Birmingham) joins us for this in-person seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series Abstract: TBC

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Carl-Fredrik Nyberg Brodda

13:00 - 14:00 17 May 2022
Speaker: Carl-Fredrik Nyberg Brodda - Manchester Title: The word problem for special semigroups Abstract: The word problem for groups, first posed by M. Dehn in 1911, is one of the…

Yury Korolev - Two-layer neural networks with values in a Banach space

14:00 - 15:00 17 May 2022
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: Approximation properties…

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