Past events
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Logic seminar: Neer Bhardwaj
15:00 - 16:00 19 March 2025
Title: Effective and approximate Pila-Wilkie type counting with complex-analytic sets Abstract: The Pila-Wilkie point counting theorem has had striking applications to arithmetic geometry, functional transcendence, and Hodge theory. This statement cannot be made effective in general, but various...
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Algebra seminar - Tuan Pham
14:00 - 15:00 18 March 2025
Title: The orbit method for the Virasoro algebra Abstract: Let W = C[t, t^{-1}]\del_t be the Witt algebra of algebraic vector fields on C* and let Vir be the Virasoro algebra, the unique nontrivial central extension of W. In [Petukhov, Sierra 2022], it was shown that Poisson primitive ideals of S(W)...
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Number Theory Seminar - Christopher Keyes
15:00 - 16:00 18 March 2025
Speaker: Christopher Keyes (KCL) Title: Towards Artin's conjecture on p-adic quintic forms Abstract: Let K be a p-adic field whose residue field has q elements and suppose f is a homogeneous polynomial of degree d in n+1 variables over K. A conjecture, originally due to Artin, states that when d is...
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Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Xiong Jin
17 March - 7 December 2025
Speaker: Xiong Jin (University of Manchester) Title: On the size of slices of planar self-similar sets with dense rotations Abstract: In this talk I will talk about the dimension of slices of planar self-similar sets whose rotation components contain irrational rotations. I will give a review of the...
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Charlotte Taylor Barca and Muhammad Ahtazaz Ahsan -- Maths in the Life Sciences Seminar [IN PERSON]
14:00 - 15:00 17 March 2025
Join us for this special seminar to showcase PhD student research at the interface of maths and biology as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Our speakers are Charlotte Taylor Barca and Muhammad Ahtazaz Ahsan (PhD candidates in Department of Mathematics and...
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