Events in the Department of Mathematics
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the Department of Mathematics.
Logic Seminar - Valentina Disarlo
Speaker: Valentina Disarlo (The University of Manchester) Title: The model theory of the curve graph Abstract: The curve graph of a finite-type surface is a countable graph whose vertices are isotopy classes of essential simple closed curves, with adjacency determined by disjointness. Although it arises naturally in low-dimensional topology and...
Pure maths colloquium - Martin Orr
Speaker: Martin Orr (University of Manchester) Title: Rational points on algebraic curves Abstract: Understanding rational solutions of polynomials in two variables is a classical theme in number theory. For example, Fermat's last theorem can be described in this way. In this talk, I will explain how this may be interpreted geometrically as...
NASC Seminar: Maxwell in a cylinder via orthogonal polynomials for the de Rham complex
Speaker: Sheehan Olver (Imperial College London) Abstract: We construct vector-valued multivariate orthogonal polynomials that capture the structure of the de Rham complex (i.e., the gradient, curl and divergence) with boundary conditions in disks and cylinders (both periodic and finite) in a way that respects rotational symmetry. This construction...
Martin Falcke -- Constitutive relations of cell motility and Ca2+ signalling and the role of noise [IN PERSON]
Join us for this seminar by Martin Falcke (Berlin) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences in collaboration with Liverpool Universities). Title: Constitutive relations of cell motility and Ca2+ signalling and the role of noise Abstract: Cell variability...
Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Malcolm Chen
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Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Giovanna De Lauri (Lancaster)
Speaker: Giovanna De Lauri (Lancaster) Title: On some even Ternary Lattices of half-discriminant N^2 and 4N^2 Abstract: During my PhD, I have been considering Hecke modules of Orthogonal modular forms attached to positive-definite ternary lattices of half-discriminant of the form N^2 and 4N^2, with N odd and square-free. This has given explicit...
AI Fun with ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Jin Zhu
Our invited speaker on 14 October will be Jin Zhu from the University of Birmingham. Title: Statistics-Powered Detection of LLM-Generated Text Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude enable the rapid and large-scale generation of human-like text. Their impact is everywhere, from education and academia to professional...
Logic Seminar - Jennifer Pi
Speaker: Jennifer Pi (University of Oxford) Title: An invitation to model theory for operator algebras Abstract: Operator algebras are structures with an algebraic flavour that are concretely represented as *-subalgebras of bounded operators on a Hilbert space. The model-theoretic study of operator algebras thus has parallels with classical/discrete...
Susanna Röblitz --Mathematics in the Life Sciences Seminar [IN PERSON]
Join us for this seminar by Susanna Röblitz (Bergen) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences in collaboration with Liverpool Universities). Title and abstract to follow. The talk will be also be streamed via Teams, please contact carl.whitfield@manchester.ac.uk...
Training course on in situ experiments and digital volume correlation
Digital Volume Correlation (DVC) is a powerful experimental technique that computes 3D full-field displacement and strain maps from volumes images acquired during a deformation process of a material. DVC is the 3D extension of Digital Image Correlation (DIC) which was first described four decades ago. The emergence of DVC started early 2000s with...
