Past events
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Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Benjamin Bedert
9 December 2024 - 2 July 2025
Speaker: Benjamin Bedert (University of Oxford) Title: Zeros of polynomials with restricted coefficients: a problem of Littlewood Abstract: The study of polynomials whose coefficients lie in a given set $S$ (the most notable examples being $S=\{0,1\}$ or $\{-1,1\}$) has a long history leading to many...
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Logic seminar: Michael Benedikt
15:15 - 16:30 4 December 2024
Title: Finite Structures Embedded in Infinite Ones, Then and Now This talk is about a hybrid of finite and infinite model theory, where formulas can reference two kinds of non-logical symbols: there are ``built-in'' or ``interpreted'' symbols, which are interpreted over an infinite structure for a...
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Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Andrei Yafaev
15:00 - 16:00 3 December 2024
Speaker: Andrei Yafaev (UCL) Title: Bi-\Qbar structures and relations between CM periods Abstract: This is a joint work with Z.Gao and E.Ullmo. We introduce the abstract notion of bi-\Qbar structure and then specialise it to the case of a Shimura variety. We formulate a 'hyperbolic Wustholtz analytic...
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Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Mike Whittaker
2 December 2024 - 2 July 2025
Speaker: Mike Whittaker (University of Glasgow) Title: Self-similar groups and their limit spaces Abstract: A self-similar group (G,X) consists of a group G acting faithfully on a homogeneous rooted tree such that the action satisfies a self-similarity condition. In this talk I will introduce a beautiful...
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Manchester Geometry Seminar - Alexander Shapiro
15:00 - 16:00 2 December 2024
Speaker: Dr Alexander Shapiro (Edinburgh) Title: Towards modular functor in higher Teichmüller theory Abstract: A modular functor is a collection of representations of mapping class groups of surfaces, which respects cutting and gluing. I will attempt to describe a modular functor like construction...
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