Events in the Department of Mathematics
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the Department of Mathematics.
Logic Seminar - Calum Hughes
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 trivial matter, as shown by Russell’s paradox, for example. There are at least four approaches to this problem: Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory; the approach of Lawvere...
Digital Worlds Fireside Chat: Meet Our Theme Lead
Find out more about our Digital Worlds theme and learn more about the support we can provide. Meet the Digital Worlds Theme Lead, Dave Topping, at Digital Worlds Fireside Chat: Meet Our Theme Lead! "When we frame digital tools as an ecology, we draw on natural-system concepts to reveal how software, hardware, data, people, and the wider environment...
Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Terry Soo
Speaker: Terry Soo (UCL) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1 Further information: https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/yotam.smilansky/dynamics_analysis
Manchester Geometry Seminar - Lasse Rempe
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 dramatic area distortion than the classical projections. While this has not caught on, it suggests the following mathematical question: Which orientable surfaces can...
Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Amit Shah
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Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Happy Uppal
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 that any smooth cubic surface over an algebraically closed field contains exactly 27 lines. Over more general fields, however, the situation becomes more subtle:...
Logic Seminar - Asaf Karagila
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 the same sets of ordinals are equal. This fact has a generalisation using the Kinna–Wagner Principles, which suggest that the iterated power set of the ordinals...
FunLab Trafford Centre Takeover
Join us for a family friendly event at the Trafford Centre, as we take it over for the start of British Science Week! We'll be hosting a range of activities to help you explore, play and discover hands-on science and engineering. Full details of the day will be available soon. Register for updates on the FunLab website.
Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Joaquin Carrasco Gomez
Speaker: Joaquin Carrasco Gomez (University of Manchester) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1 Further information: https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/yotam.smilansky/dynamics_analysis
Manchester Geometry Seminar - Konstantinos Kourliouros
Speaker: Konstantinos Kourliouros (Imperial) Title: Dynamical Propagation of Uncertainty: Contact Geometry, Statistics and Legendrian Singularities. Abstract: In this talk I will present a newly established contact geometric theory underlying the dynamical propagation of uncertainty in random dynamical systems with bounded noise. Using this...
