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 - Amlan Banaji
Speaker: Amlan Banaji (Loughborough University) Title: Coincidence and disparity of fractal dimensions for dynamically defined sets Abstract: There are many different ways that one can define fractal dimension. The three of interest in this talk will be Hausdorff dimension, lower box dimension, and upper box dimension. It is well known that these...
Hananeh Aliee -- Causal inference and prediction in single-cell genomics [ONLINE]
Join us for this seminar by Hananeh Ailee (Sanger) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. More details about the joint series can be found here https://northwestseminars.great-site.net/ . The talk will be hosted **online only** via zoom, please contact carl.whitfield@manchester.ac.uk or igor.chernyavsky@manchester.ac.uk...
Algebra seminar - Scott Harper
Title: Coverings of finite groups and derangements Abstract: A finite group is never the union of conjugates of a proper subgroup. Equivalently, a nontrivial finite transitive permutation group always contains a derangement (a fixed-point-free permutation). This is a theorem of Jordan (1872) and it follows from a simple counting argument. I will...
Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Jackie Voros
Speaker: Jackie Voros (University of Bristol) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1
AI-Fun with ELLIS Seminar | Fabio Cuzzolin: Epistemic artificial intelligence
The Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals and Manchester's ELLIS Unit are co-hosting a series of seminars featuring expert researchers working in the fundamentals of AI. Abstract Although artificial intelligence (AI) has improved remarkably over the last years, its inability to deal with uncertainty severely limits its future applications. In...
Logic seminar: Alex Wilkie
ON ZILBER'S QUASIMINIMALITY CONJECTURE: AN ANALYTIC APPROACH This conjecture concerns the expansion \mathbb{C}_{exp} of the complex exponential field by the usual complex exponential function and asserts that every definable subset of the complex numbers in this structure (even by a formula of the infinitary language allowing countable conjunctions...
Teamwork and Collaboration Principles for Successful Research
Collaborative, interdisciplinary team-based ways of working and skills are becoming increasingly important in the fundability and impact assessment of research outputs. The University of Manchester’s “Teams Build Dreams” Team Research Programme is dedicated to providing you with the necessary skills and insights to thrive in this increasingly...
Teamwork and Collaboration Principles for Successful Research
Collaborative, interdisciplinary team-based ways of working and skills are becoming increasingly important in the fundability and impact assessment of research outputs. The University of Manchester’s “Teams Build Dreams” Team Research Programme is dedicated to providing you with the necessary skills and insights to thrive in this increasingly...
Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Mike Whittaker
Speaker: Mike Whittaker (University of Glasgow) Title: Self-similar groups and their limit spaces Abstract: A self-similar group (G,X) consists of a group G acting faithfully on a homogeneous rooted tree such that the action satisfies a self-similarity condition. In this talk I will introduce a beautiful theorem of Nekrashevych: there is a self-similar...
Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Andrei Yafaev
Speaker: Andrei Yafaev (UCL) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1
