Department of Mathematics

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…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Tony Samuel

14:00 - 15:00 11 March 2024
Speaker: Tony Samuel (University of Birmingham) Title: On the complexity and geometry of Sturmians and Random Substitutions Abstract: Aperiodic sequences and sequence spaces form…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Simon Willerton

15:00 - 16:00 11 March 2024
Speaker: Dr Simon Willerton (Sheffield) Title: The Magnitude of Metric Spaces Abstract: Magnitude is an invariant of metric spaces that is intended as a measure of size of the metric…

Algebra seminar - Yago Antolin

14:00 - 15:00 12 March 2024
Titles: Even Artin groups of FC-type. Abstract: I will discuss a family of Artin groups that extends the family of RAAGs and share many similarities with them. I will present some of…

Andrew Allan - Rough Stochastic Analysis with Jumps

15:00 - 16:00 13 March 2024
Andrew Allan (Durham University) will speak at the Probability seminar. Rough path theory provides a framework for the study of nonlinear systems driven by highly oscillatory (deterministic)…

Emma Davies -- Applications of branching processes to low-prevalence disease dynamics [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 13 March 2024
Join us for this seminar by Emma Davies (Warwick) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences The talk will be hosted by the University of Liverpool…

Logic seminar: Martin Bays (University of Oxford)

15:15 - 16:30 13 March 2024
TBA

Mathematics Education that Better Develops Problem-Solving Skills

18 March 2024
For many years now, employers of STEM graduates have been shifting from desiring academic knowledge to desiring skills (e.g. see here https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/HESWBL-10-2019-0148/full/html…

Philip Greulich -- Universal laws in stem cell biology from graph theory and population dynamics [ONLINE]

13:30 - 14:30 20 March 2024
Join us for this seminar by Philip Greulich (Southampton) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences The talk will be hosted by the University…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Andreas Mountakis

14:00 - 15:00 8 April 2024
Speaker: Andreas Mountakis (University of Warwick) Title: Finding product sets in some classes of amenable groups Abstract: In 2022, using methods from ergodic theory, Kra, Moreira,…

Algebra seminar - James Timmins

14:00 - 15:00 9 April 2024
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Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Andre Heycock

15:00 - 16:00 9 April 2024
Speaker: Andre Heycock (University of Manchester) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

Jonas Arista - On the Pitman's 2M-X theorem and its variations

15:00 - 16:00 10 April 2024
Jonas Arista (Lancaster University) will speak at the Probability seminar. Pitman's classical 2M-X theorem asserts that twice the maxima M of one-dimensional Brownian motion X, minus…

Logic seminar: Sandra Kiefer

15:15 - 16:30 10 April 2024
Title: Treelike decompositions for transductions of sparse graphs Abstract: Research on structural sparsity studies classes of graphs interpretable in sparse graphs using logics.…

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