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
- 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 - Sophie Wright
Speaker: Sophie Wright (University of Bristol) Title: Random covers of hyperbolic surfaces Abstract: Given a closed hyperbolic surface, we study random infinite-sheeted covers whose fundamental group is isomorphic to the free group F_k. I will show that, asymptotically, these covers distribute according to a probability measure on the moduli..
Manchester Geometry Seminar - Andrey Jivkov
Speaker: Andrey Jivkov (Manchester) Title: What becomes of Geometry when the Manifold is gone? Abstract: Classical differential geometry describes physical systems as smooth fields evolving on manifolds. However, many systems of interest evolve through discrete structural changes, for which smooth geometry provides at best an effective appr..
Maths education seminar: Richard Crossman on Mathematical Decolonisation
Speaker: Richard Crossman (University of Durham) Title: Bring Down The Barricades! Clearing A Path For Mathematical Decolonisation Abstract: The process of decolonising higher education is international, cross-institutional, and multidisciplinary. This makes a one-size-fits-all approach inappropriate; careful consideration must be given to wha..
Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Lilybelle Cowland Kellock
Speaker: Lilybelle Cowland Kellock (Manchester) Title: Reduction types of genus 2 curves Abstract: Reduction types are used to recover lots of important arithmetic information attached to curves over local fields, for example Tamagawa numbers which show up in the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for Jacobians of curves. I will discuss a..
Logic Seminar - Jesse Sigal
Speaker: Jesse Sigal (University of Edinburgh) Title: How not to choose in the semantics of dependent types Abstract: Many constructions in the semantics of logics and programming languages involve universal properties. These universal constructions allow us not to care about the choice of "implementation", the universal property alone is su..
Manchester Geometry Seminar - Adam Maskalaniec
Speaker: Adam Maskalaniec (Warsaw) Title: k-contact geometry in relativistic hydrodynamics Abstract: We develop a rigorous geometric framework for the study of relativistic spin hydrodynamics, described by generalized thermodynamic relations. Our approach extends the classical contact geometric description of equilibrium thermodynamics by..
Oliver Meacock -- Growth accelerations bridge the mechanistic and ecosystem scales in microbiomes [IN PERSON]
Join us for this seminar by Oliver Meacock (Sheffield) 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: Growth accelerations bridge the mechanistic and ecosystem scales in microbiomes Abstract: Mi..
Logic Seminar - Charlotte Bartnick
Speaker: Charlotte Bartnick (Universität Freiburg) TBC
Manchester Geometry Seminar - Rubén Izquierdo López
Speaker: Rubén Izquierdo López (ICMAT, Madrid) Title: The geometry of variational problems: An introduction to multisymplectic geometry Abstract: It is well known that autonomous classical mechanics can be described using symplectic geometry. By introducing a symplectic structure on an even-dimensional manifold (usually the cotangent bu..
Shilpa Garg -- Maths in the Life Sciences Seminar [IN PERSON]
Join us for this seminar by Shilpa Garg (Manchester) 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.whitfi..