Past events
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Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Amit Shah
14:00 - 15:00 3 March 2026
Title: Infinite discrete cluster categories and the index Abstract: The “cluster category” is a categorification of the cluster algebra, which has opened the door to a vast and growing branch of the theory of cluster algebras. To de-categorify, one uses so-called “cluster characters” and the...
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Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Happy Uppal
15:00 - 16:00 3 March 2026
Speaker: Happy Uppal (Bristol) Title: Lines on del Pezzo surfaces Abstract: One of the crowning achievements of classical algebraic geometry is the Cayley–Salmon theorem, which states that any smooth cubic surface over an algebraically closed field contains exactly 27 lines. Over more general fields,...
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Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Terry Soo
13:00 - 14:00 2 March 2026
Speaker: Terry Soo (UCL) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1 Further information: https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/yotam.smilansky/dynamics_analysis
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Maths education seminar: Louise Walker on peer and self feedback
2 - 4 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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