Department of Mathematics

Algebra seminar - Justin Lynd

14:00 - 15:00 4 March 2025
Title: Partial groups and higher Segal conditions Abstract: A partial group is a set together with a multivariable product that is only defined on certain "multipliable" words of the…

Logic seminar: Cas Burton

15:00 - 16:00 5 March 2025
Title: A Basis Theorem for Rings with Commuting Generalised Hasse-Schmidt Operators. Abstract: In 1961, Kolchin proved the differential basis theorem for a differential ring with multiple…

Probability Seminar: Goran Peskir - The Optimal Mean-Variance Selling Problem with Finite Horizon

15:00 - 16:00 5 March 2025
Goran Peskir (The University of Manchester) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: The Optimal Mean-Variance Selling Problem with Finite Horizon Abstract: Imagine an investor…

SQUIDS Seminar - Nested expectations with kernel quadrature

15:00 - 16:00 5 March 2025
This paper considers the challenging computational task of estimating nested expectations. Existing algorithms, such as nested Monte Carlo or multilevel Monte Carlo, are known to be…

Statistics Seminar - Bayesian Functional Regression for Extremes

14:00 - 15:00 5 March 2025
Dr. Nicolas Hernandez (QMUL) Title: "Bayesian Functional Regression for Extremes". Abstract: Recent record-breaking extreme events-such as catastrophic wildfires, unprecedented flooding,…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Andrew Mitchell

14:00 10 March 2025
Speaker: Andrew Mitchell (The Open University) Title: Classifying intrinsic ergodicity for random substitution systems Abstract: Classifying the measures of maximal entropy for a…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Alexander Veselov

15:00 - 16:00 10 March 2025
Speaker: Dr Alexander Veselov (Loughborough) Title: Differential algebra of polytopes and inversion formulas Abstract: For any formal power series, the coefficients of its compositional…

Algebra seminar - Patricia Medina-Capilla

14:00 - 15:00 11 March 2025
Title: The second maximal subgroups of the almost simple groups Abstract: In 2018, Lucchini, Marion, and Tracey showed that every maximal subgroup of an almost simple group is 5-generated,…

Number Theory Seminar - Alexandros Konstantinou

15:00 - 16:00 11 March 2025
Speaker: Alexandros Konstantinou Title: The order of the Tate--Shafarevich group modulo squares Abstract: We present a method for decomposing abelian varieties up to isogeny using…

Logic seminar: Alex Kavvos

15:00 - 16:00 12 March 2025
Title: Two-dimensional Kripke Semantics Abstract: The study of modal logic has witnessed tremendous development following the introduction of Kripke semantics. However, recent developments…

Probability Seminar: Vladislav Vysotskiy - Stationary random walks with a switch

15:00 - 16:00 12 March 2025
Vladislav Vysotskiy (University of Sussex) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Stationary random walks with a switch Abstract: A switching random walk, commonly known under…

Charlotte Taylor Barca and Muhammad Ahtazaz Ahsan -- Maths in the Life Sciences Seminar [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 17 March 2025
Join us for this special seminar to showcase PhD student research at the interface of maths and biology as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences.…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Xiong Jin

14:00 17 March 2025
Speaker: Xiong Jin (University of Manchester) Title: On the size of slices of planar self-similar sets with dense rotations Abstract: In this talk I will talk about the dimension…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Timothy Logvinenko

15:00 - 16:00 17 March 2025
Speaker: Dr Timothy Logvinenko (Cardiff) Title: Skein-triangulated representations of generalised braids Abstract: There are many examples where the braid group Br_n acts on the…

Algebra seminar - Tuan Pham

14:00 - 15:00 18 March 2025
Title: The orbit method for the Virasoro algebra Abstract: Let W = C[t, t^{-1}]\del_t be the Witt algebra of algebraic vector fields on C* and let Vir be the Virasoro algebra, the unique…

Number Theory Seminar - Christopher Keyes

15:00 - 16:00 18 March 2025
Speaker: Christopher Keyes (KCL) Title: Towards Artin's conjecture on p-adic quintic forms Abstract: Let K be a p-adic field whose residue field has q elements and suppose f is a…

Logic seminar: Neer Bhardwaj

15:00 - 16:00 19 March 2025
Title: Effective and approximate Pila-Wilkie type counting with complex-analytic sets Abstract: The Pila-Wilkie point counting theorem has had striking applications to arithmetic…

Probability Seminar: Emma Horton - Genealogies of branching Markov processes

15:00 - 16:00 19 March 2025
Emma Horton (University of Warwick) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Genealogies of branching Markov processes Abstract: Branching processes are pertinent to understanding…

SQUIDS Seminar - Classification of small-ball modes and maximum a posteriori estimators on metric spaces

15:00 - 16:00 19 March 2025
A mode, or `most likely point', for a probability measure $\mu$ can be defined in various ways using the asymptotic behaviour of the $\mu$-mass of balls of radius $r \to 0$. Such points…

Statistics Seminar - Prof. Victor Elvira (Univ. of Edinburgh)

14:00 - 15:00 19 March 2025
State-space Models as Graphs Prof. Victor Elvira School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh Abstract: Modelling and inference in multivariate time series is central in statistics,…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Daniel Meyer

14:00 24 March 2025
Speaker: Daniel Meyer (University of Liverpool) Title: Weaving of Folding Maps Abstract: A folding map is obtained by a piece of paper (i.e., a $k$-gon) that is folded and mapped…

Algebra seminar - Marina Anagnostopoulou-Merkouri

14:00 - 15:00 25 March 2025
Title: The regularity number of a finite group Abstract: Let $G$ be a transitive permutation group on a finite set $\Omega$ with point stabiliser $H$. Recall that a base for $G$ is…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Martin Orr

15:00 - 16:00 25 March 2025
Speaker: Martin Orr (University of Manchester) Title: Effectivity and very unlikely intersections in abelian varieties using G-functions Abstract: A special case of the Zilber-Pink…

Logic seminar: Mike Prest

15:00 - 16:00 26 March 2025
Title: Elimination of quantifiers and elimination of imaginaries in triangulated categories Abstract: There is a natural language for objects in compactly generated triangulated categories.…

Probability Seminar: Abel Guada Azze - Optimally Stopping a Gauss-Markov process with random terminal value

15:00 - 16:00 26 March 2025
Abel Guada Azze (CUNEF Universidad) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Optimally Stopping a Gauss-Markov process with random terminal value Abstract: Optimal stopping…

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