Department of Mathematics

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…

Linglong Yuan - Kingman's House of Cards model with random mutation probabilities

15:00 - 16:00 18 October 2023
Linglong Yuan (University of Liverpool) will speak at the Probability seminar. (in-person) Kingman introduced, in 1978, a simple population model with discrete generations and infinite…

Logic seminar: Vahagn Aslanyan (Manchester)

15:15 - 16:15 18 October 2023
Title: Equations involving the j-invariant and its derivatives. Abstract: I'll discuss the problem of solvability of equations in a single complex variable involving the j-function…

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…

Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Lecture by Professor Colva Roney-Dougal

17:00 - 20:30 19 October 2023
Professor Colva Roney-Dougal is a mathematician specializing in group theory and computational algebra. She is a Professor of Pure Mathematics and the Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Pavel Tumarkin

13:30 - 14:30 23 October 2023
Speaker: Professor Pavel Tumarkin (Durham) Title: The Farey graph and ideal tetrahedra Abstract: We explore a 3-dimensional counterpart of the Farey tessellation and show that it…

Algebra seminar - Simple modules for algebraic groups

14:00 - 15:00 24 October 2023
Abstract: I will speak about joint work with David Stewart, giving a classification by highest weight of simple modules for smooth connected algebraic groups over a field, and also…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Ethan Lee

15:00 - 16:00 24 October 2023
Speaker: Ethan Lee (Bristol) Title: Explicit bounds on the residue of the Dedekind zeta-function Abstract: In analytic number theory, we can study the distribution of prime ideals…

Jose Pedraza Ramirez - Optimal Stopping for Exponential Lévy Models with Weighted Discounting

15:00 - 16:00 25 October 2023
Jose Pedraza Ramirez (University of Manchester) will speak at the Probability seminar. (in-person) In this talk, we consider an optimal stopping problem with weighted discounting,…

Logic seminar: Anna Dmitrieva (University of East Anglia)

15:15 - 16:15 25 October 2023
Title: Quasiminimality of a correspondence between two elliptic curves Abstract: One of the well-known accomplishments of model theory is the study of the field of complex numbers.…

Algebra seminar - Kieran Calvert

14:00 31 October 2023
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Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Maleeha Khawaja

15:00 - 16:00 31 October 2023
Speaker: Maleeha Khawaja (Sheffield) Title: Primitive algebraic points on curves Abstract: We say a number field K is primitive if K and Q are the only sub extensions of K. For example,…

Black Heroes of Statistical Research

1 - 3 November 2023
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP The workshop, which is the first of its kind, will bring together young African Statisticians from all over Africa and abroad, including Professional Statisticians…

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