Department of Mathematics

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
TBC

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.…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Chris Lutsko

14:00 - 15:00 15 April 2024
Speaker: Chris Lutsko (University of Zurich) Title: Hyperbolic lattice point counting in unbounded rank Abstract: Counting lattice points in balls is a classical problem which goes…

Haiping Lu -- Exploring Multimodal AI for Health and Biological Sciences: From Heart to Mind [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 15 April 2024
Join us for this seminar by Haiping Lu (Sheffield) 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/…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Sam Hughes

15:00 - 16:00 15 April 2024
Speaker: Sam Hughes (Oxford) Title: Complements of smooth surfaces in simply connected 4-manifolds Abstract: In this talk based on joint work with Daniel Ruberman I will discuss…

Algebra seminar - Peter Rowley

14:00 - 15:00 16 April 2024
Title: Euler characteristics and groups Abstract: Starting from a poset, meaning a partially ordered set, we may view it as a simplicial complex. This opens the door to such concepts…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Chris Lutsko

15:00 - 16:00 16 April 2024
Speaker: Chris Lutsko (University of Zurich) Title: Average variance bounds for points on the sphere. Abstract: Consider the integer points lying on the sphere of fixed radius projected…

Aleksey Kolokolov - Cryptocrashes

15:00 - 16:00 17 April 2024
Aleksey Kolokolov (Lecturer in Finance - Alliance Manchester Business School) will speak at the Probability seminar. We examine a new nonparametric test for detecting short-lived locally…

Logic seminar: Giacomo Tendas

15:15 - 16:30 17 April 2024
Title: Theories, sketches, and accessible categories. Abstract: In this talk I will give an overview on the relationship between Logic, the theory of Sketches (whose notion sits between…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Faustin Adiceam

14:00 - 15:00 22 April 2024
Speaker: Faustin Adiceam (Université Paris-Est Créteil) Title: Badly approximable vectors and putative counterexamples to the Littlewood conjecture Abstract: Answering a question…

Gabriele Schweikert -- Computational Strategies to Analyse, Impute and Interpret Epigenetic Control Mechanisms of Gene Regulation [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 22 April 2024
Join us for this seminar by Gabriele Schweikert (Dundee) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. The talk will be hosted in person in room…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Kasia Rejzner

15:00 - 16:00 22 April 2024
Speaker: Kasia Rejzner (York) Title: Perturbative algebraic quantum field theory meets the boundary Abstract: I will begin with outlining the formalism of perturbative algebraic…

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