Past events
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Algebra seminar - Patricia Medina-Capilla
14:00 - 15:00 11 March 2025
Title: The second maximal subgroups of the almost simple groups Abstract: In 2018, Lucchini, Marion, and Tracey showed that every maximal subgroup of an almost simple group is 5-generated, lowering the previously known bound of 6. Naturally, one can ask the same about second maximal subgroups of almost...
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Number Theory Seminar - Alexandros Konstantinou
15:00 - 16:00 11 March 2025
Speaker: Alexandros Konstantinou Title: The order of the Tate--Shafarevich group modulo squares Abstract: We present a method for decomposing abelian varieties up to isogeny using group actions. As an application, we show that given a square-free natural number n, there exists an abelian variety with...
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Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Andrew Mitchell
10 - 12 March 2025
Speaker: Andrew Mitchell (The Open University) Title: Classifying intrinsic ergodicity for random substitution systems Abstract: Classifying the measures of maximal entropy for a given dynamical system is an important problem in ergodic theory. In particular, one is often interested in whether the...
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Manchester Geometry Seminar - Alexander Veselov
15:00 - 16:00 10 March 2025
Speaker: Dr Alexander Veselov (Loughborough) Title: Differential algebra of polytopes and inversion formulas Abstract: For any formal power series, the coefficients of its compositional inverse are certain polynomials in the coefficients of the original power series. Remarkably these polynomials can...
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International Women's Day Workshop - Intentional Careers™: How to figure out 'what's next?' and the strategy to make it happen (Translation Manchester)
12:00 - 13:30 5 March 2025
Struggling under the weight of managing it all? Are you feeling lost when it comes to ‘what’s next?’ in your career? Regain control of your future by immersing yourself in a transformational workshop led by Dr Hannah Roberts (career coach and professional skills trainer), Amazon's #1 bestselling...
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