Department of Mathematics

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Sophie Wright

14:00 16 March 2026
Speaker: Sophie Wright (University of Bristol) Title: Random covers of hyperbolic surfaces Abstract: Given a closed hyperbolic surface, we study random infinite-sheeted covers whose…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Andrey Jivkov

15:00 - 16:00 16 March 2026
Speaker: Andrey Jivkov (Manchester) Title: What becomes of Geometry when the Manifold is gone? Abstract: Classical differential geometry describes physical systems as smooth fields…

Maths education seminar: Katie Steckles and Jon Shiach on group examinations

14:00 - 15:00 16 March 2026
Speakers: Dr Jon Shiach and Dr Katie Steckles (Manchester Metropolitan University) Title: Two-Stage Exams - implementing group assessment in an exam setting Abstract: At Manchester…

Maths education seminar: Richard Crossman on Mathematical Decolonisation

14:00 - 15:00 16 March 2026
Speaker: Richard Crossman (University of Durham) Title: Bring Down The Barricades! Clearing A Path For Mathematical Decolonisation Abstract: The process of decolonising higher education…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Colton Sandvik

14:00 - 15:00 17 March 2026
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Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Lilybelle Cowland Kellock

15:00 - 16:00 17 March 2026
Speaker: Lilybelle Cowland Kellock (Manchester) Title: Reduction types of genus 2 curves Abstract: Reduction types are used to recover lots of important arithmetic information attached…

Logic Seminar - Jesse Sigal

15:00 - 16:00 18 March 2026
Speaker: Jesse Sigal (University of Edinburgh) Title: How not to choose in the semantics of dependent types Abstract: Many constructions in the semantics of logics and programming…

Probability Seminar: Luca Galimberti - WELL-POSEDNESS OF STOCHASTIC CONTINUITY EQUATIONS ON RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS

15:00 - 16:00 18 March 2026
Luca Galimberti (King's College London) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: WELL-POSEDNESS OF STOCHASTIC CONTINUITY EQUATIONS ON RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS Abstract: We analyze…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Nikolai Prokhorov

14:00 23 March 2026
Speaker: Nikolai Prokhorov (University of Manchester) Title: Graphs and meromorphic functions Abstract: Let f be a polynomial (in one variable) with complex coefficients. It can be…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Adam Maskalaniec

15:00 - 16:00 23 March 2026
Speaker: Adam Maskalaniec (Warsaw) Title: k-contact geometry in relativistic hydrodynamics Abstract: We develop a rigorous geometric framework for the study of relativistic spin…

Oliver Meacock -- Growth accelerations bridge the mechanistic and ecosystem scales in microbiomes [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 23 March 2026
Join us for this seminar by Oliver Meacock (Sheffield) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Anja Meyer

14:00 - 15:00 24 March 2026
Title: Pure mathematics in medicine Abstract: Traditionally, pure mathematics is described as the kind of maths we do without any regard to applications. However, this divide is rather…

Logic Seminar - Charlotte Bartnick

15:00 - 16:00 25 March 2026
Speaker: Charlotte Bartnick (Universität Freiburg) Title: Definable groups in differentially closed fields of positive characteristic Abstract: Definable groups in theories of fields…

SQUIDS-NASC Joint Seminar: Generalized Friendship Paradoxes in Network Science

13:00 - 14:00 25 March 2026
Speaker: Professor Desmond J. Higham (University of Edinburgh) Abstract: Generalized friendship paradoxes occur when, on average, our friends have more of some attribute than us.…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Rubén Izquierdo López

15:00 - 16:00 30 March 2026
Speaker: Rubén Izquierdo López (ICMAT, Madrid) Title: The geometry of variational problems: An introduction to multisymplectic geometry Abstract: It is well known that autonomous…

One-Day Ergodic Theory Meeting

14:00 - 18:00 30 March 2026
A one-day meeting of the Grimm network on Aperiodic Order. Schedule: 14:00 - 15:00 Claire Burrin (Zurich) 15:00 - 15:45 Refreshments and Celebrations 15:45 - 16:45 Joel Moreira (Warwick)…

Grimm Aperiodic Order Meeting

13:00 - 17:30 31 March 2026
A one-day meeting of the Grimm network on Aperiodic Order. Schedule: 13:00 - 14:00 Andrew Mitchell (Loughborough) 14:00 - 15:00 Sigrid Grepstad (Norwegian University of Science and…

SQUIDS Seminar: Treating sample covariance matrices in weather forecasting applications

14:00 - 15:00 13 April 2026
Speaker: Dr Jemima M. Tabeart (TU Eindhoven, NL) Abstract: In applications, real-world data can often result in matrices which don't respect known theoretical properties (e.g. loss…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Rachid El Harti

14:00 20 April 2026
Speaker: Rachid El Harti (Hassan University) Title: Embedding theorems in Groupoid C*-algebras Abstract: Since groupoids generalize groups, we explore whether the theory of group…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Adam Thomas

14:00 - 15:00 21 April 2026
Title: When is complete reducibility inherited? Abstract: A subgroup X of G = GL(V) is said to be G-cr if X acts completely reducibly on V. In the 1990s, Serre generalized this to subgroups…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Tomasz Kosciuszko

15:00 - 16:00 21 April 2026
Speaker: Tomasz Kosciuszko Title: Schur-like numbers and a lemma of Shearer Abstract: Suppose that we colour all integers from 1 to N with n colours. The question of Schur asks about…

Logic Seminar - Jonathan Kirby

15:00 - 16:00 22 April 2026
Speaker: Jonathan Kirby (The University of East Anglia) Title: Integration in finite terms and exponentially algebraic functions Abstract: The problem of integration in finite terms…

Probability Seminar: Pavel Gapeev - Perpetual American Standard and Lookback Options in Models with Progressively Enlarged Filtrations

16:00 - 17:00 22 April 2026
Pavel Gapeev (London School of Economics) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Perpetual American Standard and Lookback Options in Models with Progressively Enlarged Filtrations…

Manchester Geometry Seminar Special Session - Anisa Chorwadwala

05:00 - 06:00 24 April 2026
Speaker: Anisa Chorwadwala (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune) Title: Optimisation of a mixed Steklov Dirichlet Eigenvalue Abstract: In this talk, I am going…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Konstantin Bogdanov

13:00 - 14:00 27 April 2026
Speaker: Konstantin Bogdanov (University of Manchester) Title: Infinite-dimensional Thurston theory in holomorphic dynamics Abstract: Thurston's Topological Characterization of Rational…

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