Past events
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Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Yongsheng Jia
11 November 2024 - 3 April 2025
Speaker: Yongsheng Jia (University of Manchester) Title: Quasimorphisms on the group of area-preserving homeomorphisms on S^2 Abstract: In topological dynamics, the group of orientation-preserving homeomorphisms on the circle has been widely studied. Started by Poincare, people tried to look at the...
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‘The Art of Research’: Co-produced Street Art
12:00 - 15:15 6 November 2024
Join us for a research café exploring a co-produced street art project, “The Art of Research”, as part of the Festival of Social Sciences. The event is presented by The University of Manchester’s Research Platforms: Creative Manchester, Digital Futures, Healthier Futures and Sustainable Futures,...
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Logic seminar: Abhiram Natarajan
15:15 - 16:30 6 November 2024
Title: Polynomial and Pfaffian Partitioning of Semi-Pfaffian Sets with Applications Abstract: The polynomial partitioning theorem of Guth and Katz, in addition to helping nearly resolve Erdos' distinct distances problem, has resulted in a wide swath of improvements not just in incidence geometry, but...
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Algebra seminar - Ben Briggs
14:00 - 15:00 5 November 2024
Title: Koszul duality for (seemingly) non-Koszul rings Abstract: This is a talk about a relative version of Koszul duality, and how it can tell us about the homological algebra of (seemingly) non-Koszul local rings. It’s all joint work with James Cameron, Janina Letz, and Josh Pollitz. I'll start...
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Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Maryam Nowroozi
15:00 - 16:00 5 November 2024
Speaker: Maryam Nowroozi (University of Warwick) Title: Perfect powers in elliptic divisibility sequences Abstract: Let E be an elliptic curve over the rationals given by an integral Weierstrass model and let P be a rational point of infinite order. The multiple nP has the form ( A_n/B_n^2, C_n/B_n^3...
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