Department of Mathematics

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Diego Martinez

14:00 - 15:00 29 April 2024
Speaker: Diego Martinez (University of Munster) Title: Generalized semigroup dynamics and their C*-algebras Abstract: Dynamical systems, that is, actions of (discrete) groups on locally…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Filippo Baroni

15:00 - 16:00 29 April 2024
Speaker: Filippo Baroni (Oxford) Title: Algorithmic classification of surface homeomorphisms Abstract: Up to homotopy, homeomorphisms of closed surfaces come in three guises: periodic,…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Josh Males

15:00 - 16:00 30 April 2024
Speaker: Josh Males (University of Bristol) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

Giorgos Minas -- Efficient simulation, analysis and inference for large oscillatory stochastic systems [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 1 May 2024
Join us for this seminar by Giorgos Minas (St Andrews) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences The talk will be hosted by the University…

Logic seminar: Sylvy Anscombe

15:15 - 16:30 1 May 2024
Title: Uniformities for Hilbert's Tenth Problem in henselian valued fields Abstract Hilbert's Tenth Problem in its original form asks for an algorithm to determine correctly whether…

Algebra seminar - Gregory Kendall

14:00 - 15:00 7 May 2024
Title: The stable module category for infinite groups and some classification theorems Abstract: The stable module category is classically defined for finite groups over a field of…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Cassani

15:00 - 16:00 7 May 2024
Speaker: Cassani Title: The Pila-Zannier strategy and the Zilber-Pink conjecture Abstract: I will explain how the Pila-Zannier strategy plays out in the context of the Zilber-Pink…

Logic seminar: Dugald Macpherson

15:15 - 16:30 8 May 2024
Title: Ultrahomogeneous tensor spaces – after Harman and Snowden Abstract: I will discuss aspects of `Ultrahomogeneous tensor spaces’ (Advances, 2024) by Nate Harman and Andrew Snowden…

Nikhil Desai -- Self-propulsion of Marangoni-stress-driven active drops along a wall [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 8 May 2024
Join us for this seminar by Nikhil Desai (Cambridge) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences The talk will be hosted by the University of…

Vicky Henderson - Regret in Trading Decisions: An Empirical Study

15:00 - 16:00 8 May 2024
Vicky Henderson (University of Warwick) will speak at the Probability seminar. In this talk, we will present a simple model of asset sales under dynamic regret. We will use this to…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Nicolas Manrique

15:00 - 16:00 9 May 2024
Speaker: Nicolas Manrique (Imperial College) Title: A non-linear spectrum for the Plateau problem Abstract: The production of minimal surfaces by min-max methods has seen immense…

Algebra seminar - Jonathan Gruber

14:00 - 15:00 14 May 2024
Title: Minimal tilting complexes and generic direct summands of tensor products for reductive algebraic groups Abstract: Let G be a reductive algebraic group over an algebraically…

Logic seminar: Ricardo Palomino

15:15 - 16:30 15 May 2024
Title: Local real closed SV-rings of finite rank and their model theory Abstract: A commutative and unital ring A is a survaluation ring, or SV-ring for short, if A/ is a valuation…

Algebra seminar - Stacey Law

14:00 - 15:00 21 May 2024
Title: A recursive formula for plethysm coefficients and some applications Abstract: Plethysms lie at the intersection of representation theory and algebraic combinatorics. We give…

Logic seminar: Francesco Gallinaro

15:15 - 16:30 22 May 2024
Title: Abelian exponential-algebraic closedness: the split case Abstract: The abelian exponential-algebraic closedness conjecture, stated by Bays and Kirby, predicts sufficient conditions…

Algebra seminar - Chris Bowman

14:00 - 15:00 28 May 2024
Title: The Hecke category in Lie theory. Abstract: The Hecke category provides the canonical setting for the study of (modular) Lie theoretic objects via Kazhdan—Lusztig theory. In…

Algebra seminar - Vlad Vankov

14:00 - 15:00 4 June 2024
Title: Almost finitely presented hyperbolic subgroups over arbitrary rings Abstract: In 1996, Gersten proved that if a group G is hyperbolic and of integral cohomological dimension…

Logic seminar: Pietro Freni

15:15 - 16:30 5 June 2024
Title: T-convexity and T-lambda-spherical completions of o-minimal structures. Abstract: After introducing the basic notions relevant to the talk (valued field, o-minimal theory, T-convexity),…

Logic seminar: Michael Wibmer

15:15 - 16:30 12 June 2024
Title: Model theory of proalgebraic groups Abstract: The model theory of profinite groups plays an important role in the model theory of fields, especially in the model theory of pseudo…

Logic seminar: Ronnie Nagloo

12:00 - 13:00 12 June 2024
Title: Model theory and Covering maps Abstract: In this talk, we will look at the problem of describing the classification theoretic structure of the sets defined (in DCF) by the differential…

Matt Ryan -- Monkey see, monkey do...monkey sick! Incorporating the Health Belief Model into a simple transmission model [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 13 June 2024
Join us for this seminar by Matt Ryan (CSIRO, Australia) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Science The talk will be hosted by the University…

Lloyd Bridge -- Modern receptor theory and low-dimensional models for binding and signal transduction in mathematical pharmacology [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 19 June 2024
Join us for this seminar by Lloyd Bridge (Bristol) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Science The talk will be hosted by the University of Liverpool…

Group Actions, Geometry and Cohomology Workshop - 10th-12th July

10 - 12 July 2024
The Department of Mathematics of the University of Manchester will host the workshop “Group actions, geometry and cohomology” which will take place at the Alan Turing Building from…

Magdalena Strauss -- Statistical modelling of heterogeneous response to perturbations in single cells [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 11 September 2024
Join us for this seminar by Magdalena Strauss (Exeter) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Science. More details about the joint series can be…

Lloyd Bridge -- Modern receptor theory and low-dimensional models for binding and signal transduction in mathematical pharmacology [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 18 September 2024
Join us for this seminar by Lloyd Bridge (Bristol) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Science. More details about the joint series can be found…

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