Past events
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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
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Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Elvira Lupoian
15:00 - 16:00 24 February 2026
Speaker: Elvira Lupoian (UCL) Title: Torsion subgroups of modular Jacobians Abstract: In 1977 Mazur proved that the rational torsion subgroup of the Jacobian of the modular curve X_0( N), N > 5 prime, is generated by the linear equivalence class of the difference of the two cusps. More generally, it...
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Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Vicente Saavedra Araya
23 February - 4 March 2026
Speaker: Vicente Saavedra Araya (University of Warwick) Title: Pointwise ergodic theorems along random sequences Abstract: A central problem in ergodic theory is to understand which sequences of integers are suitable for the pointwise convergence of ergodic averages. In seminal work, Bourgain showed...
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