Department of Mathematics

Algebra seminar - Jan Grabowski

14:00 - 15:00 6 May 2025
Title: Categorifying and quantizing cluster ensembles Abstract: Cluster ensembles were introduced by Fock and Goncharov to encode seed data for cluster algebras in terms of certain…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Yichen You

15:00 - 16:00 6 May 2025
Speaker: Yichen You (Durham) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

Prof Alejandro Frangi -- Maths in the Life Sciences Seminar [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 6 May 2025
Join us for this seminar by Prof Alejandro Frangi (Manchester) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. More details about the joint series…

Logic seminar: David Meretzky

15:00 - 16:00 7 May 2025
Title: Differential Galois theory with new algebraic constants. Abstract: A well-known counterexample due to Seidenberg shows that Picard-Vessiot extensions need not exist for arbitrary…

Probability Seminar: Liqian Zhang - Berry-Esseen bounds for U-statistics: Studentized and incomplete variants with applications to random forests

15:00 - 16:00 7 May 2025
Liqian Zhang (University of Manchester) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Berry-Esseen bounds for U-statistics: Studentized and incomplete variants with applications to…

Dr Pablo Rodríguez Mier -- CORNETO: A unified framework for joint network inference from prior knowledge and omics data [ONLINE]

14:00 - 15:00 12 May 2025
Join us for this seminar by Dr Pablo Rodríguez Mier (Heidelberg, Germany) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. More details about the…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Phil Rippon & Gwyneth Stallard

14:00 - 16:00 12 May 2025
Talk I. Speaker: Gwyneth Stallard (The Open University) Title: Wandering domains and non-autonomous dynamics Abstract: Complex dynamics concerns the iteration of analytic functions…

HIMR-sponsored Algebra seminar - Colva Roney-Dougal

14:00 - 15:00 13 May 2025
Title: Asymptotic enumeration of permutation groups Abstract: One of the most elementary, but difficult, questions we can ask about a finite group G is how many subgroups it has. An…

Logic seminar: Nicolai Kraus

15:00 - 16:00 14 May 2025
Title: Constructive Ordinal Arithmetic Abstract: Cantor's ordinal numbers can be described as an extension of the natural numbers: 0, 1, 2, ..., omega, omega+1, and so on. Although…

Statistics Seminar - Prof. Haavard Rue (KAUST)

15:00 - 16:00 19 May 2025
Why we should care about Variational Bayes Håvard Rue KAUST, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia In this talk I will discuss Variational Bayes (VB), what it is, why we should care, and why…

HIMR-sponsored Algebra seminar - Mark Wildon

14:00 - 15:00 20 May 2025
Title: Plethyms of symmetric functions: modular isomorphisms and stability. Abstract: The plethysm product of Schur functions corresponds to composition of polynomial representations…

Logic seminar: Abhiram Natarajan

15:00 - 16:00 21 May 2025
Title: Partitioning Theorems for Sets of Semi-Pfaffian Sets, with Applications Abstract: We generalize the seminal polynomial partitioning theorems of Guth and Katz [1, 2] to a set…

HIMR-sponsored Algebra seminar - Henry Bradford

14:00 - 15:00 27 May 2025
Title: Non-singular identities for finite groups Abstract: A law (respectively an identity with constants) for a group G is an equation in one or more variables (respectively variables…

Logic seminar: David Evans

15:00 - 16:00 28 May 2025
Title: Permutation modules for omega-categorical structures. Abstract: Suppose F is a field and W is a countable, omega-categorical structure with automorphism group G. Consider the…

Logic seminar: Boris Zilber

11:00 - 12:30 29 May 2025
Title: Continuous model theory and axioms of quantum mechanics

Sarah Marzi -- Decoding the Cell Type-Specific Epigenome in Alzheimer’s Disease [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 2 June 2025
Join us for this seminar by Sarah Marzi (King's) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. More details about the joint series can be found…

Hwee Kuan Lee -- Enhancing Physics Simulations Using Artificial Intelligence[IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 7 July 2025
Join us for this seminar by Hwee Kuan Lee (A*STAR Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. More details…

SQUIDS Seminar: Bayesian Experimental Design and Entropy Computation

11:00 - 12:00 17 September 2025
Speaker: Jinglai Li (Birmingham) Abstract: Bayesian experimental design provides a principled approach for selecting experiments that maximize expected information gain. A central challenge…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Harvey Sykes

14:00 - 15:00 30 September 2025
Title: Complete reducibility in Kac-Moody groups Abstract: A Kac-Moody group G generalises a split reductive group. I will give a brief overview of these groups and discuss how to…

Probability Seminar: Ofelia Bonesini - Continuous-time persuasion by filtering.

15:00 - 16:00 1 October 2025
Ofelia Bonesini (London School of Economics) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Continuous-time persuasion by filtering Abstract: We frame dynamic persuasion in a partial…

Ava Khamseh -- Pinpointing cell (sub)types, states and transcription factor mechanisms via quantification of (high order) molecular dependencies [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 6 October 2025
Join us for this seminar by Ava Khamseh (Edinburgh) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series here in Manchester (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical…

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