Events in the Department of Mathematics
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the Department of Mathematics.
Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Ashwin Bhat
Speaker: Ashwin Bhat (University of Birmingham) Title: Constructing Non-Rectifiable Delone Sets Abstract: Delone sets, also known as separated nets, are point sets in Euclidean space that are both relatively dense and uniformly discrete. They model aperiodic structures, which have been of great interest since Dan Shechtman first observed quasicrystals,...
Frankie Patten-Elliott -- Modelling drug binding to biological ion channels [IN PERSON]
Join us for this seminar by Frankie Patten-Elliott (Manchester) 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: Modelling drug binding to biological ion channels Abstract: In a healthy heart, ion...
Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Henrique Mendes da Silva e Souza
Title: Cohomological asymptotics for linear groups Abstract: For a finitely generated subgroup H of a complex semisimple Lie group G, we investigate how the cohomology groups H^i(H,V) grow as V ranges over thefinite-dimensional complex representations of G. Assuming a mild finiteness condition on H, we formulate a conjecture relating the dimensions...
Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Sam Streeter (Bristol)
Speaker: Sam Streeter (Bristol) Title: Hilbert property for del Pezzo surfaces of degree one Abstract: Various conjectures in arithmetic geometry predict the abundance of rational points on Fano varieties. In dimension two, these are the well-studied family of del Pezzo surfaces, whose arithmetic and geometric complexity is controlled by their...
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...
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 to follow. The...
Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Malcolm Chen
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Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Giovanna De Lauri (Lancaster)
Speaker: Giovanna De Lauri (Lancaster) Title: TBC Abstract: TBC Room: Frank Adams 1, Alan Turing Building
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...
