Postgraduate Seminar
Welcome to the Postgraduate Seminar! This is a weekly seminar for PhD students to give talks, whether on the topics that our PhDs are focused on or just on something mathematical we find interesting. As well as helping students to gain experience giving talks, these seminars are designed to build a sense of community amongst the PhD students, and so we favour talks that are not too specialised and those which are pitched at a broad mathematical audience.
Time: Wednesdays in term time, 12pm-1pm
Location: B3.02, Zeeman Building
The organisers for the postgraduate seminar in 2025-26 are Michael Cavaliere and Dan Roebuck. Please get in touch with us if you are interested in giving a talk!
Term 1
Week 1 (8th October)
Laura Bradby - The maximum principle (my favourite theorem)
The maximum principle is my favourite theorem, because for something so intuitively obvious, it turns out to be surprisingly useful! In this talk, we’ll take a look at the maximum principle in its simplest formulation, and showcase both its obviousness and its utility. Then we’ll discuss why the maximum principle is relevant to current research, and see one of its applications to the study of Ricci flow.