Research seminars
We maintain a varied and collaborative series of seminars across our research areas.
Seminar series
- Algebra
- Applied maths (informal)
- Dynamical Systems and Analysis
- Education
- Geometry, topology and mathematical physics
- Logic
- Mathematics in the life sciences
- Mathematics of waves and materials
- Number theory
- Numerical analysis and scientific computing
- Physical applied mathematics
- Probability and statistics
- Pure postgraduate seminar
- Statistics, inverse problems, uncertainty quantification and data science
Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Valentina Disarlo
Speaker: Valentina Disarlo (University of Manchester) Title: The geometry of the saddle connection graph Abstract: For a half-translation surface, its saddle connection graph has saddle connections as vertices, and edges connecting pairs of non-crossing saddle connections. It can be seen as a subgraph of the arc graph of the underlying topol..
Mathematics of Waves and Materials Seminar - D. Prikazchikov
Title: Propagating and evanescent modes in high-contrast laminates Abstract: The talk will focus on the effects of strong inhomogeneity on the mechanical response of thin elastic layered structures. We will discuss the behaviour of the lowest cut-off frequencies, as well as end effects in semi-infinite laminates, highlighting the delicate int..
Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Lewis Topley: Quantizations of coadjoint orbit closures in positive characteristics
Title: Quantizations of coadjoint orbit closures in positive characteristics Abstract: If g = Lie(G) is the Lie algebra of an algebraic group over a field of characteristic zero then the closures of coadjoint orbits are Poisson varieties and it is natural and interesting to study their quantizations. Losev showed that when G is simple the qua..
Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Maiken Gravgaard (York)
Speaker: Maiken Gravgaard (York) Title: Quantitative Khintchine on the parabola with non-monotonic approximation functions Abstract: We prove a quantitative version of the convergence part of Khintchine’s celebrated theorem in metric Diophantine approximation, but where the approximated points are restricted to lying on the parabola. This..
Maths education seminar: Holly Barker and Simon Fairfax on Peer learning in UG maths
Speaker: Holly Barker (University of Manchester) and Simon Fairfax (University of Liverpool) Title: Peer learning in UG maths; our experience building a community of practice and insights into current work. Abstract: How can we support students to learn from each other, and support staff to do the same? In this talk we’ll share our experie..
Logic Seminar - Paul Levy
Speaker: Paul Levy (University of Birmingham) Title: What is a monoid? Abstract: In many situations one encounters an entity that resembles a monoid. It consists of a carrier and two operations that resemble a unit and a multiplication, subject to three equations that resemble associativity and left and right unital laws. The question then a..
Probability Seminar: Yifan Jiang
Yifan Jiang (Imperial) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Adapted Wasserstein distance between scalar fractional SDEs Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss two approaches to compute the adapted Wasserstein distance between fractional SDEs. The first approach uses the canonical representation of Gaussian processes and reformulates..
Statistics Seminar - Mu Niu (University of Glasgow)
Title: Learning Geometry from Data: An Intrinsic Diffusion Approach to Generative Modelling Abstract: Many modern datasets, including images, remote sensing measurements, and biomedical data, are high-dimensional but often concentrate near lower-dimensional manifolds with complex non-Euclidean geometry. Ignoring this geometric structure can l..
Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Rhiannon Dougall
Speaker: Rhiannon Dougall (Durham University) Title: Relative tau, Expanders, and decay of correlations for certain expanding maps Abstract: Expander graphs are characterized as being "highly connected". Another way think about this is: a sequence of k-regular expander graphs have fast mixing for the simple random walk. We see this phenomena..
Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Chris Bowman
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