Past events
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Logic Seminar - Floris Vermeulen
14:00 - 15:00 6 May 2026
Speaker: Floris Vermeulen (University of Münster) Title: Kontsevich-Zagier in valued fields Abstract: A period is a real number which is the measure of a semialgebraic set defined over the rationals. The ring of periods was formally introduced by Kontsevich and Zagier in 2001, and remains a rather...
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Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Anja Meyer
13:00 - 14:00 5 May 2026
Title: tbc Abstract: tbc
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Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Joseph Harrison (Warwick)
14:00 - 15:00 5 May 2026
Speaker: Joseph Harrison (Warwick) Title: Sum-product phenomena in algebraic groups Abstract: The cardinality of sumsets and product sets can be regarded as quantitative indicators of additive or multiplicative structure. Erd{\H o}s and Szemer{\' e}di proved that a set of integers cannot have both...
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Pure maths colloquium - Radha Kessar
13:00 - 14:00 1 May 2026
Speaker: Radha Kessar (University of Manchester) Title: Rationality and quaternion blocks Abstract: To each indecomposable factor (block) of a finite group algebra over a field of positive characteristic p is associated a conjugacy class of finite p-subgroups of the group called the defect groups...
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SALIENT Lunch & Learn Webinar Series 2026
30 April - 26 November 2026
SALIENT Lunch and Learn Webinars are your chance to:? Discover the latest developments in the world of National security and resilience? Hear short TED-style talks by experts on related topics.? Get your questions answered with 10 mins of Q&A.? Join us on the last Thursday of the month at 12:00 pm...
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