Past events
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Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Marie Roth
14:00 - 15:00 3 February 2026
Title: Character sheaves and their restriction to mixed conjugacy classes. Abstract: Introduced by Lusztig in the eighties, character sheaves are the geometrical counterpart of irreducible representations of finite groups of Lie type. Defined over algebraic groups, they allow us to use geometrical tools...
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Maths education seminar: Rosa Archer on Lesson Study in Higher Education
14:00 - 15:00 2 February 2026
Speaker: Rosa Archer (University of Manchester) Title: Adapting Lesson Study for Higher Education: Collaborative Pedagogic Inquiry and Professional Learning Abstract: Lesson Study is a long?established, research?informed approach to collaborative professional development that originated in Japan and...
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Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Julia Münch
14:00 - 15:00 2 February 2026
Speaker: Julia Münch (University of Liverpool) Title: Extensions and applications to Sullivan's dictionary Abstract: For generalising complex dynamics to higher real dimensions it is natural to consider quasi-regular mappings. The subfamily of uniformly quasi-regular mappings is particularly well...
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Manchester Geometry Seminar - Robert Tang
15:00 - 16:00 2 February 2026
Speaker: Robert Tang (XJTLU, Suzhou, China) Title: Straightening structures on surfaces Abstract: Triangulations are ubiquitous throughout low-dimensional topology and geometry. It is a well-known result that any two triangulations of a topological surface are related by a finite sequence of flips....
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Accelerating Innovation: Access support to solve real world challenges
12:00 - 13:00 22 January 2026
Dharma Nurse, Senior Innovation Development Manager at the Growth Company, and Ranvir Singh, Senior Investment Manager at GC Angels, will be speaking on the topic below. How do you access the right support to turn ideas into impactful solutions? Where can businesses find funding and partnerships to accelerate...
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