Department of Mathematics

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…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Thomas Jordan

14:00 - 15:00 12 February 2024
Speaker: Thomas Jordan (University of Bristol) Title: Multifractal analysis for self-affine measures and phase transitions Abstract: One form of multifractal analysis looks at local…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - James Montaldi

15:00 - 16:00 12 February 2024
Speaker: Dr James Montaldi (Manchester) Title: Bifurcations of equilibria in contact dynamics Abstract: I will describe the structure of the set of eigenvalues of an equilibrium point…

Algebra seminar - Bethany Marsh

14:00 - 15:00 13 February 2024
Title: An introduction to tau-exceptional sequences. Abstract: Exceptional sequences in module categories over hereditary algebras (e.g. path algebras of quivers) were introduced and…

Leandro Sanchez-Betancourt - Automated Market Makers Designs Beyond Constant Functions

15:00 - 16:00 14 February 2024
Leandro Sanchez-Betancourt (University of Oxford) will speak at the Probability seminar. Popular automated market makers (AMMs) use constant function markets (CFMs) to clear the demand…

Logic seminar: Lorna Gregory (University of East Anglia)

15:15 - 16:15 14 February 2024
Title: Pseudofinite-dimensional Modules over Finite-dimensional Algebras Abstract: The representation type of a finite-dimensional k-algebra is an algebraic measure of how hard it…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Julia Slipantschuk

14:00 - 15:00 19 February 2024
Speaker: Julia Slipantschuk (University of Warwick) Title: Distribution of resonances for Anosov maps on the torus Abstract: Eigenvalues of transfer operators, known as Pollicott-Ruelle…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Theodore Voronov

15:00 - 16:00 19 February 2024
Speaker: Dr Theodore Voronov (Manchester) Title: The weighted projective superspace with weights $+1, -1$ and an analog of the Fubini--Study form Abstract: I will speak about a construction…

Algebra seminar - Eileen Pan

14:00 - 15:00 20 February 2024
Talk: Some coset actions in G_2(q) Abstract: The coset actions of almost simple groups have sparked much interest, and a lot has been done by various authors, but there remains much…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Gareth Jones

15:00 - 16:00 20 February 2024
Speaker: Gareth Jones (University of Manchester) Title: An effective version of a theorem of Habegger Abstract: Habegger showed that a subvariety of a fibre power of the Legendre…

Logic seminar: Pablo Andujar Guerrero (University of Leeds)

15:15 - 16:30 21 February 2024
Title: Defining definable compactness Abstract: The first notion of definable topological compactness was introduced within o-minimality in 1999 by K. Peterzil and C. Steinhorn for…

Piotr Slowinski -- Modelling UV avoidance circuit in a marine annelid, Platynereis dumerili. [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 21 February 2024
Join us for this seminar by Piotr Slowinski (Exeter) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences The talk will be hosted by the University of…

Victor Manuel Rivero Mercado - Representations of the Wiener-Hopf factorization for Markov additive processes

16:00 - 17:00 21 February 2024
Victor Manuel Rivero Mercado (Center of Research in Mathematics in Guanajuato, Mexico) will speak at the Probability seminar. A keystone in the fluctuation theory of Levy processes…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Reem Yassawi

14:00 - 15:00 26 February 2024
Speaker: Reem Yassawi (Queen Mary University) Title: Mahler equations for Zeckendorf numeration Abstract: Fixed points of Pisot substitutions can be visualised as projections, via…

Guy Blanchard -- 2D and 3D kinematics and mechanics of cell behaviours that drive epithelial morphogenesis [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 26 February 2024
Join us for this seminar by Guy Blanchard (Cambridge) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences The talk will be hosted in person in room 4.63…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Richard Webb

15:00 - 16:00 26 February 2024
Speaker: Dr Richard Webb (Manchester) Title: An equator theorem for the 2-sphere Abstract: In this talk, we will focus on the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms (and area-preserving…

Algebra seminar - Gemma Crowe

14:00 - 15:00 27 February 2024
Title: Twisted conjugacy in dihedral Artin groups Abstract: Dehn’s famous decision problems have been studied for a wide range of groups, including both decidable and undecidable results…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Bijay Bhatta

15:00 - 16:00 27 February 2024
Speaker: Bijay Bhatta (University of Manchester) Title: Skew Hermitian Forms over Type IV division algebra and Zilber-Pink conjecture Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss about…

Logic seminar: Ian Pratt-Hartmann

15:15 - 16:30 28 February 2024
Title: The adjacent fragment of first-order logic---and an excursion into word combinatorics Abstract: The adjacent fragment is a fragment of first-order logic in which the sequences…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Petra Staynova

14:00 - 15:00 4 March 2024
Speaker: Petra Staynova (University of Derby) Title: A cornucopia of bounds Abstract: In this talk we consider right-infinite words over a finite alphabet, which are generated via…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Nikita Nikolaev

15:00 - 16:00 4 March 2024
Dr Nikita Nikolaev (Birmingham, https://sites.google.com/view/nikita-nikolaev) Title: Geometry of the Exact WKB Method Abstract: I will present recent progress in the amazing newly…

Algebra seminar - Marianne Johnson

14:00 - 15:00 5 March 2024
Title: Tropical representations and semigroup identities of plactic-like monoids Abstract: This talk concerns several well-studied families of monoids whose elements are combinatorial…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Lilybelle Cowland Kellock

15:00 - 16:00 5 March 2024
Speaker: Lilybelle Cowland Kellock (UCL) Title: A generalisation of Tate’s algorithm for hyperelliptic curves Abstract: Tate's algorithm tells us that, for an elliptic curve E over…

Logic seminar: Gabriel Ng

15:15 - 16:30 6 March 2024
Title: On Taylor Morphisms and Differentially Large Fields Abstract: Differentially large fields are a class of differential fields introduced by León Sánchez and Tressl which generalise…

Samuel Cohen - Optimal adaptive control with separable drift uncertainty

15:00 - 16:00 6 March 2024
Samuel Cohen (University of Oxford) will speak at the Probability seminar. We consider a problem of stochastic optimal control with drift uncertainty, in a strong formulation on a…

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