Mathematics Colloquium

Organisers: Claude Baesens and Brian Bowditch

Additional colloquia, titles and abstracts will be added as details become available.

Colloquia take place on Friday afternoons at 4.00pm, Lecture Room B3.02 in the Mathematics Institute, Zeeman Building (and are nearly always followed by wine and cheese in the Mathematics Common Room). They are directed towards a general mathematical audience. In particular, one of the functions of these Colloquia is to inform non-specialists and graduate students about recent trends, ideas and results in some area of mathematics, or a closely related field.

Autumn Term 2018/19

05 October 2018: Agelos Georgakopoulos (Warwick)
From mafia expansion to analytic functions in percolation theory
12 October 2018: Robert Gilman (Stevens Institute)
Generating the symmetric group
19 October 2018: Joel Hamkins (Oxford)
The rearrangement number: how many rearrangements of a series suffice to validate absolute convergence?
26 October 2018: Andrzej Zuk (Paris 7 and Imperial)
From PDEs to groups
02 November 2018: Dorothy Buck (Bath) Topological Effects -- and Treatments -- of Confined Biopolymers
09 November 2018: Ed Brambley (Warwick) Mathematical modelling of aeroacoustics and metal forming
16 November 2018: Nathalie Wahl (Copenhagen and Newton Institute) Homological stability: what is that for?
23 November 2018: Impact colloquium - coordinated by Colm Connaughton
30 November 2018: Francesco Mezzadri (Bristol) Random Matrices, spectral moments and hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials
07 December 2018: Alejandro Adem (British Columbia and Newton Institute) The Topology of Commuting Matrices

Spring Term 2018/19

11 January 2019:
18 January 2019:
25 January 2019:
01 February 2019:
08 February 2019:
15 February 2019:
22 February 2019:
01 March 2019:
08 March 2019:
15 March 2019:

Summer Term 2018/19

26 April 2019:
03 May 2019:
10 May 2019:
17 May 2019:
24 May 2019:
31 May 2019:
07 June 2019:
14 June 2019:
21 June 2019:
28 June 2019: