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
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 t..
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 g..
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 interest..
Statistics Seminar - Emma Gardner & Claudia Acerini (UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology)
Title: Co-creating mechanistic models to increase understanding of species’ ecologies and support biodiversity-inclusive decision-making Abstract: In the UK, efforts are being made to promote ecosystem restoration and nature recovery across all policy scales – from national and local government through to grassroots community action. New..
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..
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) TBA
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..