Department of Mathematics

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Kamilla Rekvenyi

13:00 - 14:00 30 May 2023
Speaker: Kamilla Rekvenyi - Imperial Title: TBC Tea and biscuits 12:45 in the foyer

Logic seminar: Soinbhe Nic Dhonncha (University of Manchester)

15:15 - 16:15 31 May 2023
Title: Chains of R-modules Abstract: The model theory of modules extends naturally to certain functor categories. One such category is that in which the objects can be thought of as…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - David Cushing

13:00 - 14:00 6 June 2023
Speaker: David Cushing - Manchester Title: TBC Tea and biscuits 12:45 in the foyer

Manchester Algebra Seminar - David Cushing

13:00 - 14:00 6 June 2023
Speaker: David Cushing - Manchester Title: Prolog whispering: Searching for new simple Lie Algebras Abstract: We provide an exploration of the utilisation of Prolog programming and…

Phononics 2023: 6th International Conference on Phononic Crystals/Metamaterials/Metasurfaces, Phonon Transport, Topological Phononics

12 - 16 June 2023
Phononics 2023 is the sixth conference dedicated to analysis and manipulation of phonons (vibrations in solids), connecting researchers interested in phononic crystals, acoustic, elastic,…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Miriam Norris

15:00 - 16:00 13 June 2023
Speaker: Miriam Norris (Manchester) Title: Lattice graphs for representations of GL3(F_p) Abstract: In recent work Le, Le Hung, Levin and Morra have proved a generalisation of Breuil’s…

Hwee Kuan Lee - APOLLO: AI driven national platform for CT coronary angiography for clinical and industrial applications

14:00 - 15:00 14 July 2023
Join us for this seminar by Hwee Kuan Lee (A*STAR Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Science. Details of…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Steven Robertson

15:00 - 16:00 26 September 2023
Speaker: Steven Robertson (Manchester) Title: Combinatorics on Number Walls and the p(t)-adic Littlewood Abstract: The p-adic Littlewood Conjecture is one of the most well-studied…

Jennfier Tweedy -- Mathematical model of the unconventional drainage from the eye [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 2 October 2023
Join us for this seminar by Jennifer Tweedy (University of Bath) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be…

Algebra seminar - A classification of subalgebras of the one-sided Witt algebra

14:00 - 15:00 3 October 2023
Speaker: Lucas Buzaglo - University of Edinburgh Title: A classification of subalgebras of the one-sided Witt algebra Abstract: We give a classification of Lie subalgebras of the…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Harry Schmidt

15:00 - 16:00 3 October 2023
Speaker: Harry Schmidt (Warwick) Title: Lower bounds for Galois orbits for certain uni-critical polynomials Abstract: In recent joint work with Habegger, we established a Schinzel-Zassenhaus…

Ivan Tomašic (QMUL)

15:15 - 16:15 4 October 2023
Title: A categorical view of difference and differential Galois theories Abstract: Janelidze’s Categorical Galois theory provides a powerful template that encompasses almost all known…

Part-A: A brief and selective review of applications of RMT; Part B: Estimation of rectangular random matrices: Applications to high-dimensional biological data (- in person)

14:30 4 October 2023
Madhuchhanda Bhattacharjee, Reader in Statistics in the Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester. Title: Part-A: A brief and selective review of applications of RMT; Part…

SQUIDS Seminar

14:30 - 16:00 4 October 2023
We are happy to invite you to the first SQUIDS seminar for this term; it will take place on Wednesday, October 4th ’23 in room G.114 in the Alan Turing Building. Speaker is our new…

William Fitzgerald - Random interface growth and interacting particle systems

15:00 - 16:00 4 October 2023
William Fitzgerald (University of Manchester) will speak in the Probability seminar. (in-person) Over the past two decades, there have been significant advances in our understanding…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Andreas Swerdlow

13:30 - 14:30 9 October 2023
Title: Graphical calculus: from numerical methods to Feynman diagrams to higher Lie theory and microformal morphisms, part 2 Abstract: The goal of these talks is to explore a number…

Algebra seminar - Coherence, non-positive immersions and L^2-Betti numbers

14:00 - 15:00 10 October 2023
Abstract: A group is said to be coherent if all of its finitely generated subgroups are finitely presented. Proving a group or a class of groups is coherent can often be a delicate…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Julia Stadlmann

15:00 - 16:00 10 October 2023
Speaker: Julia Stadlmann (Oxford) Title: Primes in arithmetic progressions to smooth moduli Abstract: The twin prime conjecture asserts that there are infinitely many primes p for…

Logic seminar:Adrian Miranda (Manchester)

15:15 - 16:15 11 October 2023
Title: Categorical Models of Linear Logic Abstract: One of the main ways in which Linear Logic differs from more familiar logical systems is that assumptions must be used in proofs…

Purba Das - Roughness along Schauder type basis

15:00 - 16:00 11 October 2023
Purba Das (King's College London) will speak in the Probability seminar. (in-person) We present several constructions of paths and processes with finite quadratic/ p-th variation along…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Andreas Swerdlow

13:30 - 14:30 16 October 2023
Title: Graphical calculus: from numerical methods to Feynman diagrams to higher Lie theory and microformal morphisms, part 3 Abstract: The goal of these talks is to explore a number…

Mo Lotfollahi -- Generative modelling of cellular niches and morphlogy [ONLINE]

14:00 - 15:00 16 October 2023
Join us for this seminar by Mo Lotfollahi (Wellcome Sanger Institute) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series…

Algebra seminar - From toric degenerations of the Grassmannian to its algebraic matroid

14:00 - 15:00 17 October 2023
Abstract: The coordinate ring of the Grassmannian under the Pluecker embedding is generated by maximal minors. These generators are natural as they satisfy 'straightening relations'…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Netan Dogra

15:00 - 16:00 17 October 2023
Speaker: Netan Dogra (KCL) Title: The Chabauty-Coleman method in higher dimensions and in families Abstract: The Chabauty-Coleman method is a method for proving an explicit bound…

SQUIDS Seminar - Trace-class Gaussian priors for Bayesian reinforcement learning

14:30 - 16:00 18 October 2023
Schedule: - 2:30pm: pretalk - 3:05pm: research talk 'Trace-class Gaussian priors for Bayesian reinforcement learning' I will motivate the talk by looking at some challenges in reinforcement…

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