Department of Mathematics

Bindi Brook -- Airway remodelling in asthma and tissue destruction in emphysema - two sides of the same coin? [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 1 December 2025
Join us for this seminar by Bindi Brook (Nottingham) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Dan Nicks

14:00 - 15:00 1 December 2025
Speaker: Dan NIcks (University of Nottingham) Title: Hollow wandering domains in quasiregular dynamics Abstract: Quasiregular mappings of n-dimensional Euclidean space generalise…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Peter Rowley/James Bryden

14:00 - 15:00 2 December 2025
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Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Sam Mansfield

15:00 - 16:00 2 December 2025
Speaker: Sam Mansfield (Manchester) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

Logic Seminar - Eric Finster

15:00 - 16:00 3 December 2025
Speaker: Eric Finster (University of Birmingham) Type Theoretic Presentations of Higher Categorical Structures Since the introduction of Homotopy Type Theory, it has been realized…

Probability Seminar: Peter Gracar - Lipschitz cutset for fractal graphs and applications to the spread of infections

15:00 - 16:00 3 December 2025
Peter Gracar (University of Leeds) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Lipschitz cutset for fractal graphs and applications to the spread of infections Abstract: For Bernoulli…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Gabriel Fuhrmann

14:00 - 15:00 8 December 2025
Speaker: Gabriel Fuhrmann (Durham University) Title: Prime periods on the interval Abstract: Given two continuous self-maps f and g on the interval which have all periodic orbits…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Dmitry Roytenberg

15:00 - 16:00 8 December 2025
Speaker: Dmitry Roytenberg (Amsterdam) Title: On dg-manifolds with vanishing Atiyah class Abstract: Differential graded (dg) manifolds are a generalization of manifolds comprising…

Maths education seminar: Gemma Crowe and Christiana Charalambous on the history of maths for EDI in teaching

14:00 - 15:00 8 December 2025
Speaker: Gemma Crowe and Christiana Charalambous (University of Manchester) Title: History of Maths for EDI in teaching Abstract: The History for Inclusion & Diversity in Mathematics…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Neil Saunders

14:00 - 15:00 9 December 2025
Title: Springer Fibres, Parabolic Induction & Stacking Maps Abstract: The fibres coming from the Springer resolution on the nilpotent cone are incredibly rich algebraic varieties that…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Margherita Pagano

15:00 - 16:00 9 December 2025
Speaker: Margherita Pagano (Imperial) Title: Wild Brauer classes via prismatic cohomology Abstract: Let K be a number field and X be a smooth and proper variety over K, I will explain…

Logic Seminar - Pantelis Eleftheriou

15:00 - 16:00 10 December 2025
Speaker: Pantelis Eleftheriou (University of Leeds) On the global linear Zarankiewicz problem The global Zarankiewicz's problem for hypergraphs asks for an upper bound on the number…

Freya Bull -- Blood and urine: mathematical modelling for health [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 15 December 2025
Join us for this seminar by Freya Bull (UCL) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Jakab Schrettner

15:00 - 16:00 16 December 2025
Speaker: Jakab Schrettner (UCL) Title: Local constancy of reduction type and related invariants in p-adic families of curves Abstract: Invariants of curves and their Jacobians over…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Adrian Dawid

15:00 - 16:00 12 January 2026
Speaker: Adrian Dawid (Cambridge) Title: Random walks on the Hamiltonian diffeomorphism group Abstract: On a symplectic manifold M, the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms Ham(M)…

SQUIDS Seminar: Sampling as Bandits: Evaluation-Efficient Design for Black-Box Densities

14:00 - 15:00 21 January 2026
Speaker: Takuo Matsubara (University of Edinburgh) Abstract: We introduce Bandit Importance Sampling (BIS), a novel class of importance sampling methods designed for scenarios where…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Julia Münch

14:00 - 15:00 2 February 2026
Speaker: Julia Münch (University of Liverpool) Title: Extensions and applications to Sullivan's dictionary Abstract: For generalising complex dynamics to higher real dimensions it…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Robert Tang

15:00 - 16:00 2 February 2026
Speaker: Robert Tang (XJTLU, Suzhou, China) Title: Straightening structures on surfaces Abstract: Triangulations are ubiquitous throughout low-dimensional topology and geometry.…

Maths education seminar: Rosa Archer on Lesson Study in Higher Education

14:00 - 15:00 2 February 2026
Speaker: Rosa Archer (University of Manchester) Title: Adapting Lesson Study for Higher Education: Collaborative Pedagogic Inquiry and Professional Learning Abstract: Lesson Study is…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Marie Roth

14:00 - 15:00 3 February 2026
Title: Character sheaves and their restriction to mixed conjugacy classes. Abstract: Introduced by Lusztig in the eighties, character sheaves are the geometrical counterpart of irreducible…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Eng-Jon Ong

14:00 - 15:00 9 February 2026
Speaker: Eng-Jon Ong (Queen Mary University of London) Title: Discrete spectrum in S-adic substitution dynamical systems via the balanced pair algorithm Abstract: Substitutions and…

Eder Zavala -- Mathematical analysis of endocrine rhythms and wearable time series data [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 9 February 2026
Join us for this seminar by Eder Zavala (Manchester) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Anna Pratoussevitch

15:00 - 16:00 9 February 2026
Speaker: Anna Pratoussevitch (Liverpool) Title: Discreteness of Ultra-Parallel Complex Hyperbolic Triangle Groups Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss discreteness criteria for…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Eoghan McDowell

14:00 - 15:00 10 February 2026
Title: Zeros of characters of symmetric groups Abstract: Interest in zeros of characters stretches back to Burnside's classical result that every non-linear character has a zero, and…

SQUIDS-Statistics Joint Seminar: Automatic Tuning for Gradient-based Bayesian Inference

13:00 - 14:00 11 February 2026
Speaker: Professor Christopher Nemeth (Lancaster University) Abstract: In Bayesian inference, the central computational task is to approximate a posterior distribution—often by designing…

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