Department of Mathematics

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…

David Hughes - Dynamic longitudinal discriminant analysis using multiple longitudinal markers of different types

14:00 - 15:00 18 May 2022
David Hughes, Lecturer in Health Data Science at the Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title: Dynamic longitudinal…

Logic Seminar - Alex Wilkie (Manchester and Oxford)

14:00 - 15:00 18 May 2022
Note the unusual time, and the unusual location. Title: Tame extensions revisited in the complex context Abstract: I shall review the theorems of Marker-Steinhorn and van den Dries…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - John Murray

13:00 - 14:00 24 May 2022
Speaker: John Murray Title: From the Alperin-McKay conjecture to Berstein-Zelevinsky Triangles Abstract: The McKay conjecture asserts that a finite group has the same number of odd…

Logic Seminar - Paul Shafer (Leeds)

15:00 - 16:00 25 May 2022
Title: Cohesive powers of linear orders Abstract: A cohesive power of a computable structure is an effective analog of an ultrapower, where a cohesive set acts as an ultrafilter. We…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Carl-Fredrik Nyberg brodda

13:00 - 14:00 31 May 2022
Speaker: Roy Oste - University of Ghent Title: Supercentralisers for realisations of osp(1|2) and Howe duality Abstract: In this talk, we consider the orthosymplectic Lie superalgebra…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Roy Oste

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Ben Smith

13:00 - 14:00 7 June 2022
Speaker: Ben Smith - Manchester TBC *subject to equipment and connection Tea and biscuits 12:45 in the foyer

Oleksiy Klurman (University of Bristol) - On the random Chowla conjecture

15:00 - 16:00 14 June 2022
Abstract : A celebrated conjecture of Chowla in analytic number theory asserts that for the Liouville function $\lambda(n)$ and any non-square polynomial $P(n)$ one expects cancellations…

David Schaeffer - Physical Applied Mathematics Seminar

14:00 - 15:00 20 June 2022
David Schaeffer (Duke University) joins us for this in-person seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series Abstract: In this talk I will relate the history of my involvement…

Celine Maistret (University of Bristol) - Parity of ranks of abelian surfaces

14:00 - 15:00 28 June 2022
Abstract : Let K be a number field and A/K an abelian surface. By the Mordell-Weil theorem, the group of K-rational points on A is finitely generated and as for elliptic curves, its…

MCND summer seminars

13:00 13 - 16:00 14 July 2022
This summer there will be an extended two-day Manchester Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics 'mini-conference', with several invited speakers from outside and inside Manchester. Programme and details to follow shortly.

Bamdad Hosseini - Transport maps for conditional simulation in high dimensions

15:00 - 16:00 20 July 2022
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: MCMC algorithms are the…

Bernhard Schmitzer - Entropic Transfer Operators for Data-Driven Analysis of Dynamical Systems

15:00 - 16:00 21 September 2022
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: The transfer operator…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Peter Sin

13:00 - 14:00 27 September 2022
Speaker: Peter Sin - University of Florida Title: Quantum walks on Cayley graphs Abstract: A quantum walk on a graph is a model originating from Physics that has been studied extensively…

Yuki Tokushige - Scaling limits of a SRW on the Long-Range percolation cluster (online)

15:00 - 16:00 28 September 2022
Yuki Tokushige (Kyushu University) will speak in the Probability seminar. In this talk, we will discuss a Long-Range Percolation (LRP) on $\mathbb{Z}^d$, which is a variant of the…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Nadia Mazza

13:00 - 14:00 4 October 2022
Speaker: Nadia Mazza - University of Lancaster Title: On the (crossed) Burnside ring of profinite groups. Abstract: Given a finite group G, the Burnside ring B(G) of G is a commutative…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Efthymios Sofos

15:00 - 16:00 4 October 2022
Speaker: Efthymios Sofos (University of Glasgow) Title: Schinzel Hypothesis on average Abstract: Schinzel's Hypothesis regards prime values taken by a polynomial with integer coefficients.…

Gechun Liang - Robust limit theorem for nonlinear Levy processes under sublinear expectation (online)

15:00 - 16:00 5 October 2022
Gechun Liang (University of Warwick) will speak in the Probability seminar. We introduce a universal robust limit theorem under a sublinear expectation framework. It covers both Peng's…

Jonas Latz - Gradient flows and randomised thresholding: sparse inversion and classification

15:00 - 16:00 5 October 2022
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: Sparse inversion and…

Logic Seminar - Nicola Gambino (Manchester)

15:15 - 16:15 5 October 2022
Title: Differential lambda-calculus and analytic functors Abstract: In a seminal 2003 paper, Ehrhard and Regnier introduced the differential lambda-calculus, an extension of the lambda-calculus…

Suhasini Subba Rao - Graphical models for nonstationary time series (in person stat seminar)

14:00 - 15:00 5 October 2022
Suhasini Subba Rao, Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University, USA is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title: Graphical models for…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Simon May

13:00 - 14:00 11 October 2022
Speaker: Simon May - Leeds Title: A non-commutative resolution for discriminants of complex reflection groups. Abstract: In this talk I will introduce the complex reflection groups…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Martin Orr

15:00 - 16:00 11 October 2022
Speaker: Martin Orr (University of Manchester) Title: Galois bounds for unlikely intersections in a product of modular curves Abstract: The Zilber-Pink conjecture predicts that there…

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