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 - Dan Rust
Speaker: Dan Rust (Open University) Title: Substitution dynamical systems on compact alphabets Abstract: Substitution subshifts over finite alphabets are some of the simplest and best-known dynamical systems with a huge amount of literature devoted to them. In contrast, substitutions on infinite alphabets have been far less well-studied. In this...
Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Bim Gustavsson: Sylow branching coefficients
Title: Sylow branching coefficients Abstract: In this talk we give a survey about the so-called Sylow branching coefficients; why they are interesting, what is known and what is not known.
AI Fun with ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Aurelien Bibaut
Our invited speaker on 11 November will be Aurelien Bibaut from Netflix. Title: Safe Adaptive Policy Learning Abstract: Offline policy learning can require less information than accurate estimation of the full environment. We provide a two-step offline policy learning procedure that constructs policy proposals on one data split and selects a...
Logic Seminar - Andrew Brooke-Taylor
Speaker: Andrew Brooke-Taylor (University of Leeds) Title: Multiply-generated free shelves of embeddings Abstract: Large cardinal axioms are axioms that go beyond the usual ZFC axioms for set theory. One of the strongest known ones, referred to as I3, posits the existence of a non-trivial (i.e. not the identity) elementary embedding from an...
Probability Seminar: Anastasiia Kovtun
Anastasiia Kovtun (University of Manchester) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: The Dickman Distribution: Historical Perspectives and New Multidimensional Generalisations Abstract: Since its introduction in the 1930s, the Dickman function has found applications in various fields, giving rise to several related objects, including the...
Pure maths colloquium - Richard Webb
Speaker: Richard Webb (University of Manchester) Title: Finding surface subgroups in mapping class groups Abstract: Many infinite groups can be studied by associating geometric spaces to them. Free groups, for example, act naturally on trees. The class of hyperbolic groups generalises this picture, in that they are modelled on spaces where geodesic...
SQUIDS Seminar: Bill Lionheart
Speaker: Bill Lionheart (University of Manchester) Title: At last an SVD for EIT Abstract: 40 years ago when I started working on Electrical Impedance Tomography I thought I should look for an analytical form of the singular value decomposition of some simplified linearized case. I would like to report some modest progress..... An interesting...
Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Lewis Topley
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Logic Seminar - Paul Levy
Speaker: Paul Levy (University of Birmingham) TBA
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...
