Department of Mathematics

Logic Seminar - Martin Bays

15:00 - 16:00 11 February 2026
Speaker: Martin Bays (University of Oxford) Groups from non-expansion in higher dimension Call a complex polynomial f(x,y) _expanding_ if there is e>0 such that for all sufficiently…

Probability Seminar: Jose Pedraza Ramirez - Optimal Prediction of the Last r-Excursion Time of Brownian Motion Models

15:00 - 16:00 11 February 2026
Jose Pedraza Ramirez (University of Manchester) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Optimal Prediction of the Last r-Excursion Time of Brownian Motion Models Abstract:…

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…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Anton Izosimov

15:00 - 16:00 16 February 2026
Speaker: Anton Izosimov (Glasgow) Title: The dimer model and dynamical incidence geometry Abstract: The dimer model is an archetypal model of statistical physics. In recent years,…

Maths education seminar: Mark MacDonald on embedding groupwork throughout the maths curriculum

14:00 - 15:00 16 February 2026
Speaker: Mark MacDonald (Lancaster University) Title: Embedding groupwork throughout the maths curriculum Abstract: Traditional mathematical coursework is now usually susceptible to…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Matt Westaway

14:00 - 15:00 17 February 2026
Title: Quantizations of nilpotent orbits in positive characteristic Abstract: Nilpotent coadjoint orbits in a reductive Lie algebra play an important role in the representation theory…

Logic Seminar - Mervyn Tong

15:00 - 16:00 18 February 2026
Speaker: Mervyn Tong (University of Cambridge) Higher-arity distality and hypergraph regularity In recent years, the intersection of model theory and combinatorics has been a fertile…

Probability Seminar: Jorge Yslas Altamirano - Heavy-tailed phase-type distributions

15:00 - 16:00 18 February 2026
Jorge Yslas Altamirano (University of Liverpool) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Heavy-tailed phase-type distributions Abstract: Heavy-tailed phase-type random variables…

SQUIDS Seminar: Kernel Quantile Embeddings and Associated Probability Metrics

13:00 - 14:00 18 February 2026
Speaker: Dr Masha Naslidnyk (University College London) Abstract: Embedding probability distributions into reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS) has enabled powerful non-parametric…

Alex Browning -- Identifiability of Stochastic and Spatial Models in Mathematical Biology [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 23 February 2026
Join us for this seminar by Alex Browning (Melbourne 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 - Vicente Saavedra Araya

14:00 23 February 2026
Speaker: Vicente Saavedra Araya (University of Warwick) Title: Pointwise ergodic theorems along random sequences Abstract: A central problem in ergodic theory is to understand which…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Coen de Valle

14:00 - 15:00 24 February 2026
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Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Elvira Lupoian

15:00 - 16:00 24 February 2026
Speaker: Elvira Lupoian (UCL) Title: Torsion subgroups of modular Jacobians Abstract: In 1977 Mazur proved that the rational torsion subgroup of the Jacobian of the modular curve…

Logic Seminar - Calum Hughes

15:00 - 16:00 25 February 2026
Speaker: Calum Hughes (The University of Manchester) Title: Elementary axiomatisations of the (2,1)-category of groupoids Abstract: Axiomatising the notion of a set is not an entirely…

Probability Seminar: Indrajit Jana - CLT for LES of correlated Non-Hermitian Random Matrices

16:00 - 17:00 25 February 2026
Indrajit Jana (IIT Bhubaneswar) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: CLT for LES of correlated Non-Hermitian Random Matrices Abstract: In this talk, We consider two (or…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Terry Soo

13:00 - 14:00 2 March 2026
Speaker: Terry Soo (UCL) Title: Entropy when the system is non-stationary Abstract: In joint work with Zemer Kosloff, we will discuss the dynamical properties of a seemingly innocuous…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Lasse Rempe

15:00 - 16:00 2 March 2026
Speaker: Lasse Rempe (Manchester) Abstract. In 1965, cartographer L. P. Lee proposed using a conformal map of a tetrahedron to the sphere as the basis for a map projection with less…

Maths education seminar: Louise Walker on peer and self feedback

14:00 2 March 2026
Speaker: Louise Walker (University of Manchester) Title: Using peer and self-feedback to develop mathematical study skills. Abstract: This talk will describe how we developed the How…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Amit Shah

14:00 - 15:00 3 March 2026
Title: Infinite discrete cluster categories and the index Abstract: The “cluster category” is a categorification of the cluster algebra, which has opened the door to a vast and growing…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Happy Uppal

15:00 - 16:00 3 March 2026
Speaker: Happy Uppal (Bristol) Title: Lines on del Pezzo surfaces Abstract: One of the crowning achievements of classical algebraic geometry is the Cayley–Salmon theorem, which states…

Logic Seminar - Asaf Karagila

15:00 - 16:00 4 March 2026
Speaker: Asaf Karagila (University of Leeds) Title: Intermediate models of ZF and weak versions of the Axiom of Choice. Abstract: It is a well-known fact that two models of ZFC with…

Probability Seminar: John Moriarty - Harmonic envelope representations for multidimensional optimal stopping

15:00 - 16:00 4 March 2026
John Moriarty (Queen Mary University of London) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Harmonic envelope representations for multidimensional optimal stopping Abstract: We…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Joaquin Carrasco Gomez

14:00 9 March 2026
Speaker: Joaquin Carrasco Gomez (University of Manchester) Title: A Modern Conjecture on Absolute Stability Abstract: The class of O’Shea–Zames–Falb multipliers currently yields the…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Konstantinos Kourliouros

15:00 - 16:00 9 March 2026
Speaker: Konstantinos Kourliouros (Imperial) Title: Dynamical Propagation of Uncertainty: Contact Geometry, Statistics and Legendrian Singularities. Abstract: In this talk I will…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Lleonard Rubio y Degrassi

14:00 - 15:00 10 March 2026
Title: Outer derivations on blocks of group algebras Abstract : Let G be a finite group and let k be a field whose characteristic divides the order of G. The derivation problem for…

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