Events in the Department of Mathematics
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the Department of Mathematics.
AI-Fun & ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Nikolay Malkin
For May's AI-Fun and ELLIS invited speaker series, we will have Nikolay Malkin from the University of Edinburgh. Title: Inferring stochastic dynamics without data: from diffusion samplers to discrete Schrödinger bridges Abstract: Probabilistic models that approximate a distribution by transporting particles from a source distribution to the...
Interdisciplinarity &: 2026 Series - Research Ethos: Speed-Networking
Postponed. Please register your interest to be the first to hear when a new date is confirmed. Each research discipline has its own ethos—distinct ways of asking questions, applying methods, and communicating ideas. This diversity can sometimes feel like a barrier to collaboration, even within schools, let alone across the wider university. As...
Logic Seminar - Leo Gitin
Speaker: Leo Gitin (University of Oxford) Infinitary methods in valuative algebra Infinitary logic is a well-established extension of "ordinary" first-order logic, which flourished in the 60s and 70s. Its usefulness for algebraic applications has been recognised by many, though now it is less commonly used for such purposes. We explain that basic...
SQUIDS Seminar (HIMR-funded): Dissecting Deep Neural Networks
Speaker: Dr Tiffany Vlaar (University of Glasgow) Abstract: First, I will discuss the role played by individual layers and substructures of deep neural networks. Layer-wise sensitivity to the choice of initialisation and optimiser hyperparameter settings varies. I will show that training neural network layers differently can lead to enhanced...
Training course on advanced scripting and batching of tomographic datasets
Although X-ray tomography is an attractive characterisation technique in materials science, it generates a huge amount of data at a fast rate and it can be extremely time consuming to process the data manually. A great benefit to creating scripts and plugins in Avizo is the ability to reuse a workflow on more than one image or to develop a bespoke...
Pure maths colloquium - Bethany Marsh
Speaker: Bethany Marsh (University of Leeds) Title: Additive friezes Abstract: Joint work with Asilat Bapat, Véronique Bazier-Matte, Eleonore Faber, Kunda Kambaso and Yadir Valdivieso. Shephard pointed out in 1976 that the addition table for the natural numbers, when drawn in the right way, has the property that each 2 by 2 submatrix has determinant...
Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Ethan Ackelsberg
Speaker: Ethan Ackelsberg (EPFL) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1 Further information: https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/yotam.smilansky/dynamics_analysis
Logic Seminar - Philip Saville
Speaker: Philip Saville (University of Sussex) TBC
Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Matthew Nicol
Speaker: Matthew Nicol (University of Houston) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1 Further information: https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/yotam.smilansky/dynamics_analysis
Evangelina Petsalaki -- Maths in the Life Sciences Seminar [IN PERSON]
Join us for this seminar by Evangelina Petsalaki (EMBL-EBI) 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...
