Department of Mathematics

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…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Laurent Bartholdi

14:00 - 15:00 6 October 2025
Speaker: Laurent Bartholdi (CNRS Lyon) Title: Hyperbolic correspondences Abstract: In joint work with Dima Dudko and Kevin Pilgrim, we consider certain correspondences on a Riemann…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Ben Smith

14:00 - 15:00 7 October 2025
Title: Coxeter matroids, minuscule varieties and Plücker equations Abstract: A matroid is a combinatorial object that can be seen as an abstraction of a linear space. For example,…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Ilaria Cruciani

15:00 - 16:00 7 October 2025
Speaker: Ilaria Cruciani (Roma Tre/Manchester) Title: Finiteness in powers of elliptic schemes over cyclotomic extensions Abstract: A central theme in number theory is understanding…

Manchester Logic Seminar - Mathieu Anel - cancelled

14:00 - 15:00 8 October 2025
Cancelled!

Probability Seminar: Gabriel Berzunza Ojeda - Fringe trees for random trees with given vertex degrees.

15:00 - 16:00 8 October 2025
Gabriel Berzunza Ojeda (University of Liverpool) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Fringe trees for random trees with given vertex degrees Abstract: In this talk, we…

SQUIDS Seminar: From X-ray to Nonabelian Ray Transforms

13:00 - 14:00 8 October 2025
Speaker: Shubham Jathar (LUT University, Finland) Abstract: This talk surveys ray transforms in tomography, starting from the classical X-ray (Radon) transform and its geodesic generalization…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Peej Ingarfield

14:00 13 October 2025
Speaker: Peej Ingarfield (University of Manchester) Title: Dimension drop and estimating the gap Abstract: Iterated function systems (IFS) have played a key role in the study of fractals.…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Alexei Bolsinov

15:00 - 16:00 13 October 2025
Speaker: Alexei Bolsinov (Loughborough) Title: Nijenhuis Geometry Abstract: A Nijenhuis structure on a smooth manifold is given by a field $L$ of endomorphisms with zero Nijenhuis…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Jialin Wang

14:00 - 15:00 14 October 2025
Title: Some endotrivial modules for the symmetric group Abstract: Let G be a finite group and F a field of characteristic p > 0. An FG-module M is endotrivial if HomF(M, M) \cong F…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Kenji Terao

15:00 - 16:00 14 October 2025
Speaker: Kenji Terao (Warwick) Title: An introduction to modular curves Abstract: Modular curves are objects of central importance in arithmetic geometry, parametrizing elliptic curves…

Logic Seminar - Mathieu Anel

14:00 - 15:00 15 October 2025
Speaker: Mathieu Anel (Carnegie Mellon University) Non-univalent Universes Homotopy type theory is famous for its univalence axiom on the family of all types. To give a perspective…

Probability Seminar: Aleksandar Mijatovic - Reflected diffusions in generalised parabolic domains

15:00 - 16:00 15 October 2025
Aleksandar Mijatovic (University of Warwick) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Reflected diffusions in generalised parabolic domains Abstract: This talk will describe…

Mark Fricker -- Adaptive Biological Networks: from slime to society [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 20 October 2025
Join us for this seminar by Mark Fricker (Oxford) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data…

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