Department of Mathematics

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Paul Glendinning

14:00 - 15:00 20 October 2025
Speaker: Paul Glendinning (University of Manchester) Title: The boundary of chaos and the boundary of positive Hausdorff dimension of survivor sets for two-branch maps of the interval…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Fraser Sanders

20:00 - 21:00 20 October 2025
Speaker: Fraser Sanders (Manchester) Title: Contact Geometry in Infinite Dimensions Abstract: Symplectic geometry has for centuries been used to model physical systems with conserved…

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…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Francesca Fedele

14:00 - 15:00 21 October 2025
TBA

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Raymond McCulloch

15:00 - 16:00 21 October 2025
Speaker: Raymond McCulloch Title: Sharp o-minimality and lattice point counting Abstract: Since the introduction of the celebrated Pila-Wilkie theorem there have been several applications…

DKO 2025 Lecture: Seeing Shapes in Data: How Topology Helps Us Understand Biology and Medicine by Professor Heather Harrington

17:00 - 20:00 22 October 2025
Please see the link below to register for this year’s Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw lecture on Wednesday 22nd October 2025, 5-8pm - https://forms.office.com/e/9HAmVa619g The event will…

Logic Seminar - Thorsten Altenkirch

15:00 - 16:00 22 October 2025
Speaker: Thorsten Altenkirch (University of Nottingham) How to Define Type Theories? Traditionally, type theories have been defined extrinsically—by sorting untyped terms. In this…

Probability Seminar: Xiong Jin - A Chung-Fuchs Type Theorem for Skew Product Dynamical Systems

15:00 - 16:00 22 October 2025
Xiong Jin (University of Manchester) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: A Chung-Fuchs Type Theorem for Skew Product Dynamical Systems Abstract: I will present a Chung-Fuchs…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Jonathan Fraser

14:00 - 15:00 27 October 2025
Speaker: Jonathan Fraser (University of St Andrews) Title: Dimensions of orbital sets in complex dynamics Abstract: Let E be a non-empty compact subset of the Riemann sphere and T…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Tim Burness

14:00 - 15:00 28 October 2025
Title: Simple groups, nilpotent subgroups and their intersections Abstract: Let G be a finite group, let p be a prime and let H be a Sylow p-subgroup. Problems concerning the intersections…

Logic Seminar - Anna Dmitrieva

15:00 - 16:00 29 October 2025
Speaker: Anna Dmitrieva (University of Manchester) Quasiminimality and generic functions One of the well-known accomplishments of model theory is the study of the field of complex…

SQUIDS Seminar (ProbAI-sponsored): Adaptive friction and nonlinear damping for model training

13:00 - 14:00 29 October 2025
Speaker: Katerina Karoni (Bristol) Abstract: We discuss novel damping procedures for training large scale Bayesian data models, such as deep neural networks. Drawing inspiration from…

Yasser Roudi -- Long-term behaviour of learning machines under closed-loop learning [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 3 November 2025
Join us for this seminar by Yasser Roudi (King's) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Sudip Pandit

15:00 - 16:00 4 November 2025
Speaker: Sudip Pandit (Kings College London) Title: Explicit Mordell–Lang bound for curves in low rank Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss the Buium–Coleman method to study the…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Nikolai Prochorov

14:00 - 15:00 10 November 2025
Speaker: Nikolai Prochorov (Aix-Marseille University) Title: Thurston theory for critically fixed branched covering maps Abstract: In the 1980’s, William Thurston obtained his celebrated…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Matt Chaffe

14:00 - 15:00 11 November 2025
TBA

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Cedric Pilatte

15:00 - 16:00 11 November 2025
Speaker: Cedric Pilatte (Oxford) Title: Fastest quantum algorithms for factoring Abstract: Quantum computers offer dramatic speedups for certain algorithmic tasks that are particularly…

Maths education seminar: Graham Murphy on subject-specific language support for international mathematics students

12:00 - 13:00 11 November 2025
Speaker: Graham Murphy (University of Leeds) Title: Subject-specific language support for international undergraduate mathematics students Abstract: Subject-specific language difficulties…

Logic Seminar - Xiaoduo Wang

15:00 - 16:00 12 November 2025
Speaker: Xiaoduo Wang (University of Manchester) Tame Extensions of Generic Derivations on o-minimal Structures Let $T$ be a complete, model-complete o-minimal extension of the theory…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Andrey Lazarev

12:00 - 13:00 12 November 2025
Speaker: Andrey Lazarev (Lancaster) Title: Duality for graded Lie algebras (joint work in progress with R. Tang) Abstract: Given a finite-dimensional Lie algebra g, its Chevalley-Eilenberg…

Probability Seminar: Goran Peskir - The Dubins constants for Walsh's spider process

15:00 - 16:00 12 November 2025
Goran Peskir (University of Manchester) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: The Dubins constants for Walsh's spider process Abstract: A long-standing open problem of L.…

SQUIDS Seminar: Numerical Computation of Mean Field Games Using Cole-Hopf Transformation and Fictitious Play

13:00 - 14:00 12 November 2025
Speaker: Daisuke Inoue (Imperial College London) Abstract: Controlling large-scale multi-agent systems (MAS) is a critical challenge in today’s highly interconnected society. In this…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Runlian Xia

14:00 - 15:00 17 November 2025
Speaker: Runlian Xia (University of Glasgow) Title: Ergodic theorems for unimodular amenable groups via random walk approach Abstract: The pointwise ergodic theorem for amenable groups…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Lucas Ruhstorfer

14:00 - 15:00 18 November 2025
TBA

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Edwina Aylward

15:00 - 16:00 18 November 2025
Speaker: Edwina Aylward (UCL) Title: p-parity conjecture for twists of hyperelliptic curves by Artin representations Abstract: The p-parity conjecture for twists of abelian varieties…

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