Past events
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Maths education seminar: Louise Walker on peer and self feedback
2 - 7 March 2026
Speaker: Louise Walker (University of Manchester) Title: Using peer and self-feedback to develop mathematical study skills. Abstract: This talk will describe how we developed the How to Study Maths sessions for our first year undergraduate maths students. I will give some background on active self-feedback...
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Manchester Geometry Seminar - Lasse Rempe
15:00 - 16:00 2 March 2026
Speaker: Lasse Rempe (Manchester) Abstract. In 1965, cartographer L. P. Lee proposed using a conformal map of a tetrahedron to the sphere as the basis for a map projection with less dramatic area distortion than the classical projections. While this has not caught on, it suggests the following mathematical...
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FBMH Academic Development Programme - RE8: Commercialisation: What’s in it for me?
13:00 - 16:00 25 February 2026
Overview Do you ever wonder whether your ideas have commercial potential — or how commercialisation could shape your career? Many researchers struggle to spot the commercial value hidden within their own work or feel uncertain about how to navigate the commercialisation process. Others simply aren’t...
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Logic Seminar - Calum Hughes
15:00 - 16:00 25 February 2026
Speaker: Calum Hughes (The University of Manchester) Title: Elementary axiomatisations of the (2,1)-category of groupoids Abstract: Axiomatising the notion of a set is not an entirely trivial matter, as shown by Russell’s paradox, for example. There are at least four approaches to this problem: Zermelo-Fraenkel...
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Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Coen de Valle
14:00 - 15:00 24 February 2026
TBA
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