Department of Mathematics

Chris Hadjichrysanthou -- North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 29 November 2023
Join us for this seminar by Chris Hadjichrysanthou (University of Sussex) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series…

Logic seminar: Christian d'Elbee (University of Leeds)

15:15 - 16:15 29 November 2023
Title: Amalgamation in the class of finite nilpotent Lie algebras Abstract: In this talk, I will present recent work on the model theory of Lie algebras. The class of finite Lie algebras…

SQUIDS Seminar - A State-Space Perspective on Modelling and Inference for Online Skill Rating

14:30 - 16:00 29 November 2023
Schedule: - 2:30pm: pretalk - 3:05pm: research talk 'How mathematics can inspire novel deep learning architectures: two case studies' Abstract: In the quantitative analysis of competitive…

Stefano Bruno - Optimal Regularity in Time and Space for Stochastic Porous Medium Equations

15:00 - 16:00 29 November 2023
Stefano Bruno (University of Edinburgh) will speak at the Probability seminar. (in-person) Stochastic porous medium equations are well-studied models describing non-linear diffusion…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Andrey Lazarev

13:30 - 14:30 4 December 2023
Speaker: Professor Andrey Lazarev (Lancaster) Title: Homotopy gauge equivalence of Maurer-Cartan elements Abstract: A Maurer-Cartan (MC) element in a differential graded algebra (dga)…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Stevan Gajovic

15:00 - 16:00 5 December 2023
Speaker: Stevan Gajovic (Charles University) Title: Chabauty and p-adic heights Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss the method of Chabauty and Coleman, which is a powerful method…

Logic seminar: Adrian Miranda

15:15 - 16:15 6 December 2023
Title: The elementary theory of the 2-category of small categories Abstract: The standard mathematical foundation system, ZFC, axiomatises sets and the membership relation. It can…

Rea Antoniou-Kourounioti -- Analog and Digital modes of gene expression regulation and memory [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 6 December 2023
Join us for this seminar by Rea Antoniou-Kourounioti (University of Glasgow) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full…

Vsevolod Shneer - First passage percolation on Erdos-Renyi graphs with general weights

15:00 - 16:00 6 December 2023
Seva Shneer (Heriot-Watt University) will speak at the Probability seminar. (in-person) We consider an Erdos-Renyi random graph on n nodes where the probability of an edge being present…

Andrea Cairoli -- Physical principles of Drosophila abdomen morphogenesis during metamorphosis [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 11 December 2023
Join us for this seminar by Andrea Cairoli (Crick Institute) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Andreas Swerdlow

13:30 - 14:30 11 December 2023
Title: Graphical calculus: from numerical methods to Feynman diagrams to higher Lie theory and microformal morphisms, part 6 Abstract: The goal of these talks is to explore a number…

Algebra seminar - Radha Kessar

14:00 - 15:00 12 December 2023
Title: Jordan correspondence and block distribution of characters. Abstract: Given a finite group G and a prime p, the set of complex valued irreducible characters of G is naturally…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Madhuparna Das

15:00 - 16:00 12 December 2023
Speaker: Madhuparna Das (Exeter) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

Chaman Kumar - An explicit first-order approximation of interacting particle system with common noise and non-differentiable drift coefficient

15:00 - 16:00 13 December 2023
Chaman Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee) will speak at the Probability seminar. We introduce an explicit first-order (Milstein-type) scheme for the interacting particle…

Logic seminar: Aris Papadopoulos (University of Leeds)

15:15 - 16:15 13 December 2023
Title: Zarankiewicz’s Problem and Model Theory Abstract: A shower thought that anyone interested in graph theory must have had at some point in their lives is the following: `How “sparse"…

Lucian-Mihai Itu -- Artificial Intelligence in Personalized Cardiovascular Medicine [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 13 December 2023
Join us for this seminar by Lucian Itu (Siemens) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found here https://www.cms.livjm.ac.uk/APMSeminar/…

SQUIDS Seminar - A State-Space Perspective on Modelling and Inference for Online Skill Rating

15:00 - 16:00 13 December 2023
Schedule: - 3:05pm: research talk 'Computational Methods for Bayesian Imaging with Deep Gaussian Process Priors' Abstract: In image reconstruction, an accurate quantification of uncertainty…

Algebra seminar - Damiano Rossi

14:00 - 15:00 30 January 2024
Title: Above the Alperin Weight Conjecture Abstract: Modular representation theory is the study of representations of finite groups defined over a field of positive characteristic…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Kevin Kwan

15:00 - 16:00 30 January 2024
Speaker: Kevin Kwan (University College London) Title: Moments and Periods for GL(3) Abstract: Moments of L-functions have been important in number theory and are well-motivated…

Vadim Shcherbakov - On interacting birth-and-death processes

15:00 - 16:00 31 January 2024
Vadim Shcherbakov (Royal Holloway, University of London) will speak at the Probability seminar. This talk concerns a probabilistic model that can be interpreted as a system of interacting…

Alexandru Hening -- Modern Coexistence Theory and beyond [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 5 February 2024
Join us for this seminar by Alexandru Hening (Texas, US) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. The talk will be hosted in person in room…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Dan Rust

14:00 - 15:00 5 February 2024
Speaker: Dan Rust (The Open University) Title: Random Pisot substitutions and their Rauzy fractals Abstract: The Pisot conjecture is a long-standing open question concerning the…

Algebra seminar - Alison Parker

14:00 - 15:00 6 February 2024
Title: Some representation theory of Kadar-Martin-Yu algebras Abstract: Kadar-Martin-Yu introduced a new chain of subalgebras of the Brauer algebra. These algebras start with Temperley-Lieb…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Robin Visser

15:00 - 16:00 6 February 2024
Speaker: Robin Visser (University of Warwick) Title: The Effective Shafarevich Conjecture Abstract: Let K be a number field, d a positive integer, and S a finite set of primes of…

Philip A. Ernst - Yule's ``nonsense correlation'' solved: Part II

16:00 - 17:00 7 February 2024
Philip A. Ernst (Imperial College London) will speak at the Probability seminar. In 1926, G. Udny Yule considered the following problem: given a sequence of pairs of random variables…

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