Department of Mathematics

Logic seminar: Michal Szachniewicz

15:15 - 16:30 23 October 2024
Title: Foundations of globally valued fields. Abstract: I will present results from a joint work with Itaï Ben Yaacov, Pablo Destic and Ehud Hrushovski, where we lay foundations of…

Probability Seminar: Giulia Livieri - Low-dimensional approximations of the conditional law of Volterra processes: a non-positive curvature approach.

15:00 - 16:00 23 October 2024
Giulia Livieri (London School of Economics) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Low-dimensional approximations of the conditional law of Volterra processes: a non-positive…

Statistics Seminar - Predicting under intervention: the intersection of causal inference and prediction

14:00 23 October 2024
Abstract: Prediction and causal inference are usually seen as separate tasks (although sometimes people are somewhat confused about which they are doing). In prediction, we typically…

Jonathan Swinton -- New results and current questions in Fibonacci phyllotaxis [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 28 October 2024
Join us for this seminar by Jonathan Swinton as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. More details about the joint series can be found here…

Algebra seminar - JC Tang

14:00 - 15:00 29 October 2024
Title: Why Condensed Abelian Groups are Better Than Topological Abelian Groups Abstract: The category PAb of profinite abelian groups is an abelian category with many nice properties…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Ian Morris

14:00 4 November 2024
Speaker: Ian Morris (Queen Mary University) Title: Projections and sum sets of self-affine fractals Abstract: I will describe some recent joint work with Ça?r? Sert in which we establish…

Algebra seminar - Ben Briggs

14:00 - 15:00 5 November 2024
Title: Koszul duality for (seemingly) non-Koszul rings Abstract: This is a talk about a relative version of Koszul duality, and how it can tell us about the homological algebra of (seemingly)…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Maryam Nowroozi

15:00 - 16:00 5 November 2024
Speaker: Maryam Nowroozi (University of Warwick) Title: Perfect powers in elliptic divisibility sequences Abstract: Let E be an elliptic curve over the rationals given by an integral…

Logic seminar: Abhiram Natarajan

15:15 - 16:30 6 November 2024
Title: Polynomial and Pfaffian Partitioning of Semi-Pfaffian Sets with Applications Abstract: The polynomial partitioning theorem of Guth and Katz, in addition to helping nearly resolve…

Probability Seminar: Alejandro Santoyo - Stable processes via fractional calculus.

15:00 - 16:00 6 November 2024
Alejandro Santoyo will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Stable processes via fractional calculus. Abstract: In this talk, we will explore the connection between stable processes…

SQUIDS Seminar - Uncertainty Quantification in Turbulent Flow Simulations: Challenges and Advances

15:00 - 16:00 6 November 2024
Abstract: Scale-resolving simulations of turbulent flows are challenging. While efforts have primarily focused on addressing computational demands, uncertainty quantification (UQ) has…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Yongsheng Jia

14:00 11 November 2024
Speaker: Yongsheng Jia (University of Manchester) Title: Quasimorphisms on the group of area-preserving homeomorphisms on S^2 Abstract: In topological dynamics, the group of orientation-preserving…

Guillaume Charras -- Rupture strength of living cell monolayers [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 11 November 2024
Join us for this seminar by Guillaume Charras (UCL) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. More details about the joint series can be found…

Algebra seminar - Pavel Turek

14:00 - 15:00 12 November 2024
Title: Multiplicity-free induced characters of symmetric groups Abstract: Let n be a sufficiently large positive integer. A character is multiplicity-free if its irreducible constituents…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Guy Fowler

15:00 - 16:00 12 November 2024
Speaker: Guy Fowler (University of Manchester) Title: Some uniform effective André-Oort results Abstract: Pila's proof of André-Oort implies that the special points lying on a hypersurface…

DKO 2024 Lecture: Professor Reidun Twarock

17:00 - 20:00 13 November 2024
This year’s speaker is Professor Reidun Twarock form the University of York. Reidun Twarock is Professor of Mathematical & Computational Virology at the University of York. Her research…

Kylie Ainslie -- On the epidemiological characteristics of scabies [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 13 November 2024
Join us for this seminar by Dr Kylie Ainslie (RIVM, Netherlands) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Science. More details about the joint series…

Probability Seminar: Ben Hambly (University of Oxford)- Particle systems and systemic risk.

15:00 13 November 2024
Ben Hambly will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Particle systems and systemic risk Abstract: Motivated by modelling systemic risk we consider some simple particle systems…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Michael Dymond

14:00 18 November 2024
Speaker: Michael Dymond (University of Birmingham) Title: Comparing separated nets in Euclidean spaces Abstract: Separated nets of Euclidean spaces, sometimes called Delone sets in…

Algebra seminar - Gareth Tracey

14:00 - 15:00 19 November 2024
Title: Primitive amalgams and the Goldschmidt-Sims conjecture Abstract: A triple of finite groups (H,M,K), usually written H> M<K, is called a primitive amalgam if M is a subgroup…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Ross Paterson

15:00 - 16:00 19 November 2024
Speaker: Ross Paterson (University of Bristol) Title: Quadratic Twists as Random Variables Abstract: This talk will be concerned with the statistical behaviour of Selmer groups.…

Logic seminar: Sebastian Eterovic

15:15 - 16:30 20 November 2024
Title: Algebraic varieties and automorphic functions Abstract: The existential closedness problem studies the intersections of algebraic varieties with the graph of a specified function.…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Amlan Banaji

14:00 25 November 2024
Speaker: Amlan Banaji (Loughborough University) Title: Coincidence and disparity of fractal dimensions for dynamically defined sets Abstract: There are many different ways that one…

Hananeh Aliee -- Causal inference and prediction in single-cell genomics [ONLINE]

14:00 - 15:00 25 November 2024
Join us for this seminar by Hananeh Ailee (Sanger) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. More details about the joint series can be found…

Algebra seminar - Scott Harper

14:00 - 15:00 26 November 2024
Title: Coverings of finite groups and derangements Abstract: A finite group is never the union of conjugates of a proper subgroup. Equivalently, a nontrivial finite transitive permutation…

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