Events in the Department of Mathematics
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the Department of Mathematics.
Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Eoghan McDowell
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 persists to this day in open problems such as Moretó–Rizo's proposed generalisation of the McKay conjecture. Zeros of characters of the symmetric group are connected...
AI-Fun & ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Joey Bose
On 11 February, we will have Joey Bose from Imperial College London. If you cannot attend in person, please register via the Ticketsource link provided and you will receive the link to join the Teams session. Title: Flow Maps and Normalizing Flows for Accelerated Generative Modelling of Molecules Abstract: This talk will be broken into 2 distinct...
Interdisciplinarity &: 2026 Series - Leadership & Team Building: Challenge-Led Hackathon
In a vast university setting, bringing together interdisciplinary researchers to tackle complex challenges is essential. These teams combine expertise from various fields, focusing on problems that cannot be solved through a single research lens. But how do you find colleagues with similar interests? How do you identify those willing to collaborate? Join...
Logic Seminar - Martin Bays
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 large finite sets A and B of complex numbers with |B| >= |A|, we have |f(A,B)| > |A|^{1+e}. A result of Elekes and Rónyai shows that the only non-expanding polynomials...
SQUIDS-Statistics Joint Seminar: Automatic Tuning for Gradient-based Bayesian Inference
Speaker: Professor Christopher Nemeth (Lancaster University) Abstract: In Bayesian inference, the central computational task is to approximate a posterior distribution—often by designing dynamics whose stationary law is the posterior, or by directly minimising a variational objective such as a KL divergence. A unifying way to view many of these...
Manchester Geometry Seminar - Anton Izosimov
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, it has also emerged in connection with gauge theory and integrable systems. We propose a geometric counterpart of the dimer model on bipartite graphs. A state of our...
Maths education seminar: Mark MacDonald
Speaker: Mark MacDonald (Lancaster University) Title: TBC Abstract: TBC
SQUIDS Seminar: Kernel Quantile Embeddings and Associated Probability Metrics
Speaker: Dr Masha Naslidnyk (University College London) Abstract: Embedding probability distributions into reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS) has enabled powerful non-parametric methods such as the maximum mean discrepancy (MMD), a statistical distance with strong theoretical and computational properties. At its core, the MMD relies on...
Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Coen de Valle
TBA
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...
