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Pure Mathematics Seminars Archive

 
 

Autumn 1992

 
  • October 5th, Alan Beardon (Cambridge) "Circle packings and discrete complex analysis"
  • October 12th, David Pask (Newcastle, Australia) "Cuntz-Krieger algebras and Doplicher-Roberts duality"
  • October 26th, H. Goldstein (London) "How not to do school comparisons"
  • November 2nd, Pam Bishop (Birmingham) "Computers in teaching mathematics: present and future"
  • November 9th, J. Cremona (Exeter) "Computation of the analytic order of (sha) for modular elliptic curves"
  • November 16th, D. Brannan (Open University) "Asymptotic paths and growth rates of harmonic functions in the plane"
  • November 23rd, C. Series (Warwick) "Simple curves on surfaces and generalised continued fractions"
  • November 30th, R.E. Woodrow (Calgary) "The chromatic number of the hypergraph of maximal antichains in an ordered set"

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Spring 1993

 
  • January 25th, A. Miller (UEA) "Non-Cayley vertex-transitive graphs"
  • February 1st, J. Reeve (UEA) "The cubic curve in classical geometry"
  • February 8th, R. Sharp (Manchester) "Lattice point asymptotics in hyperbolic space"
  • February 22nd, T. Ward (UEA) "Topological dynamics and the colouristic theorems of van der Waerden and Hindman"
  • March 8th, A. Frohlich (London) "What is Galois module theory about?"
  • March 15th, Bruce Worton "Bootstraps and likelihood"
  • May 10th, Dr. Borovik (UMIST) "Maximal solvable subgroups of finite groups"
  • June 7th, P. Higgins (Essex) "Semigroups"

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Autumn 1994

 
  • October 3rd, J. Minty (QMW) "The Schur index of a division ring of a crossed product"
  • October 17th, J. Dubbey (former V.C., University of Malawi) "Charles Babbage: the mathematical construction of Victorian computers"
  • November 1st, A. Knopfmacher (Witwatersrand) "Analytic and other properties of power product expansions"
  • November 7th, C. Smyth (Edinburgh) "Lehmer's problem for special families of polynomials"
  • November 10th, P. Neumann (Oxford) "Origins of the theory of groups: Grand Prix 1860"
  • November 21st, A. Forrest (Edinburgh) "Dynamical exponential sums"
  • December 5th, K. Nair (Liverpool) "The continued fraction map and some of its applications"
  • December 12th, J. Knopfmacher (Witwatersrand) "Arithmetically related topologies for PID's"

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Spring 1995

 
  • February 13th, J. Ramage (Newcastle, Australia) "Geometric construction of operators algebras"
  • February 27th, C. Brookes (Cambridge) "Some arithmetic aspects of metabelian groups"
  • March 6th, A. MacIntyre (Oxford) To be announced
  • March 13th, G. James (Imperial) "The vibrating football"
  • March 20th, B. Wehfritz (QMW) "Groups of automorphisms of vector spaces"
  • April 24th, E.V. Flynn (Liverpool) "The arithmetic of hyperelliptic curves"
  • May 1st, Z. Coelho (Sao Paulo and Warwick) "Isomorphism problems for compact group extensions of some symbolic systems"
  • May 15th, P. Pleasants (MacQuarie) "Quasi-crystals from algebraic number fields"
  • May 22nd, J.R.J. Groves (UMIST) To be announced
  • June 5th, T. Stuart (Imperial) John Watson Retirement Seminar

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Spring 1996

 
  • January 22nd, D.G. Rogers "An area Polya missed"
  • January 29th, Graham Everest (UEA) "Elliptic curves and heights of polynomials"
  • February 12th, Thomas Bier (Sheffield) "Totient numbers"
  • February 19th, John Wilson (Birmingham) "Finite and pseudofinite simple groups"
  • February 26th, Aner Shalev (Hebrew University) "Finite simple groups and probabilistic methods"
  • March 4th, Dr. Jan Saxl (Cambridge) To be announced
  • March 11th, Joint Pure/Applied Seminar, Nigel Hitchin (Cambridge) "The Geometry of Frobenius Manifolds"
  • April 29th, Geoffrey Robinson (Leicester) "The k(GV) problem"
  • April 29th, Rob Gow (Dublin) To be announced
  • May 13th, Sanju Velani (Imperial College) "Metric Diophantine approximation and shrinking targets"
  • May 20th, Joint Pure/Applied Seminar, Sir James Lightill (UCL) "Hurricane Dynamics"
  • June 3rd, Joint Pure/Applied Seminar, Susanne Mischke (JP Morgan) "Convexity and dalay adjustments in pricing and hedging of interest rate products"

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Autumn 1996

 
  • September 23rd, D. Gatzouras (Cambridge) "On the Hausdorff Dimension of Self-Affine sets"
  • September 30th, G. Everest (UEA) "Counting Solutions of Diophantine Equations and Units in Abelian Group Rings"
  • October 7th, S. Bullett (QMW) "Rational maps, Kleinian groups and correspondences"
  • October 14th, A. Quas (Cambridge) "The d-bar metric on ergodic processes"
  • October 21st, B. Herwig (Leeds) "Extending partial isomorphisms and applications to free groups"
  • October 28th, A.E. Zalesskii (UEA) "Minimal polynomial problem in finite group representations"
  • November 4th, R. Bryant (UMIST) "Finite groups acting on free Lie algebras"
  • November 7th, Vernon Armitage "Diffusions on Elliptic Curves"
  • November 11th, M. Nicol (UMIST) "Induced maps in Bernoulli dynamical systems"
  • November 18th, D. Evans (UEA) "Finite covers"
  • November 25th, T. Ward (UEA) "Typical compact group automorphisms"
  • December 2nd, R. Camina (Aachen) "The Nottingham p-group"
  • December 9th, Joint Pure/Applied Seminar, Dr. John Dubbey "The cultural dimension of mathematics"

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Spring 1997

 
  • January 20th, J. I. Hall (Michigan State) "Classifying locally finite simple groups"
  • January 27th, P. R. Hewitt (Toledo, Ohio) "Attacking groups with cohomology" Abstract
  • February 3rd, N. Vavilov (Newton Institute, Cambridge) "The ubiquity of microweights" Abstract
  • February 10th, J. Siemons (UEA) "The homologies of partially ordered sets"
  • February 17th, E. Kolev (Salford) "An improvement of the lower bound for K2(9,1)" Abstract
  • February 20th, E. Zelmanov (Yale) "What makes a group finite?"
  • February 24th, I. Fesenko (Nottingham) "Higher class field theory"
  • March 3rd, K. Gyory (Debrecen) "Solutions of decomposable form equations"
  • March 10th, R. Carter (Warwick) "Canonical bases in quantum groups"
  • April 14th, A. Glass (Bowling Green State University, Ohio) "Arithmetic permutations"
  • April 21st, K. Magaard (Wayne State) "Fixed point ratios of permutation groups and applications"
  • May 12th, Hans Henrik Rugh (Warwick) "Parabolic fixed-points and dynamical zeta functions"
  • May 19th, P. Voutier "Quantitative results on norm form equations" Abstract

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Autumn 1997

 
  • September 22nd, Klaus Schmidt (Vienna) "Fundamental cocycles and holes in subshifts"
  • October 13th, Suzie Dent (UEA) "Incidence structures of partitions"
  • October 20th, Juergen Ritter (Augsburg) "A local approach to Chinburg's root number conjecture"
  • October 27th, Bradd Hart (McMaster) "Omega-categorical structures and the small index property"
  • November 3rd, Valeriy Mnukhin (Taganrog and UEA) "On π-modular homology representations of finite linear groups"
  • November 10th, Christopher Deninger (Muenster) "Mahler's measure and algebraic K-theory"
  • November 17th, Christian Roettger "Counting normal integral generators - a non-Abelian result"
  • November 24th, Mark Pollicott (Manchester) "Entropy for commuting maps"
  • December 1st, Darren Gray (UEA) "Permutation modules for infinite general linear groups over finite fields"
  • December 8th, Gary Seitz (Oregon) "Double cosets in algebraic groups"

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Spring 1998

 
  • February 2nd, P. Jones (UEA) "The modular homology of partially ordered sets"
  • February 16th, Joint Pure/Applied Seminar, Tom Körner (Cambridge) "From Dancing Pollen to the Stock Exchange"
  • February 23rd, W. Parry (Warwick) "The Livsic periodic point theorem for two non-abelian cocycles"
  • March 2nd, Franco Vivaldi (QMW) "Algebraic Dynamics"
  • March 9th, Sebastien van Strein (Warwick) "One-dimensional dynamics, real and complex"
  • March 16th, Professor Kondratiev "Vertex stabilizers of graphs and a strong version of the Sims conjecture"
  • April 20th, Dugald Macpherson (Leeds) "Model theory of expansions of the p-adics"
  • April 27th, Victor Snaith (McMaster and Southampton) "Algebraic K-groups as Galois modules"
  • May 11th, David Solomon (King's College London) "Zeta functions and units in number fields"
  • May 18th, Joint Pure/Applied Seminar, Clive Bolton (Norwich Union) "Making the transition from University to Industry"

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Autumn 1998

 
  • September 16th, Ilijas Farah (York University, Canada) "Ulam stability and pathological submeasures" Abstract
  • October 12th, Mirna Dzamonja (UEA) "Universal models" Abstract
  • October 19th, Charles Morgan (University College London) "Classifying equivalence relations-a cohomological example"
  • November 2nd, Peter Collins (Oxford) "The metrisation of topological spaces" Abstract
  • November 6th, Stephen Power (Lancaster) "Cycle graphs and locally finite algebras" Abstract
  • November 9th, Joint Pure/Applied Seminar, Adam Ostaszewski (LSE) "The N-Fold Replenishment Problem - A Contribution to Real Option Theory"
  • November 30th, Frank Wagner (Oxford) "Groups in Simple Theories"
  • December 7th, Dan Segal (Oxford) "Closed subgroups in profinite groups" Abstract
  • December 14th, Vladimir Bavula (Edinburgh) "Description of simple holonomic modules over the ring of differential operators on a surface" Abstract

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Spring 1999

 
  • January 6th, Martin Otto (Aachen, Germany) "Undecidability Results for Logics with Only Two Variables" Abstract
  • January 11th, Arthur Apter (Baruch College, CUNY, New York) "Determinacy, Measure Theory, and Set Theory" Abstract
  • February 1st, Joint Pure/Applied Seminar, Alexander Veselov (Loughborough) "Integrable Mappings"
  • February 15th, Jan Krajicek (Czech Academy of Sciences and Oxford) "The P versus NP problem"
  • March 1st, Alan Camina (UEA) "Can we classify line-transitive linear spaces?"
  • March 8th, Caroline Series (Warwick) "Punctured tori and Kleinian groups"
  • March 15th, Chris Chalk "A method for determining asphericity of group presentations" Abstract
  • April 26th, Kevin Buzzard (Imperial College) "A conjecture of Artin on L-functions"
  • May 3rd, Double header, Dan Velleman (Amherst College, MA) "Plus Topology", Abstract
    William Zwicker (Union College, NY) "Comparing the Influence of Groups of Voters" Abstract
  • May 10th, Mark Shereshevsky (visiting UEA) "Expansiveness and entropy for actions of groups with polynomial growth"
  • May 17th Joint Pure/Applied Seminar, Sir Michael Berry (Bristol) "Quantum mechanics and Riemann zeros"
  • May 24th, Arturas Dubickas, (Vilnius University, Lithuania) "On algebraic numbers of small Mahler measure"
  • June 7th, Nikolai Gordeev (Russian State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg) "The Ore's Commutator Problem and related topics" Abstract
  • June 14th, Yi Zhang "Maximal Cofinitary Groups"

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Autumn 1999

 
  • September 13th, Matthew Foreman (UC Irvine) "Progress on a Question of Erdos and Hajnal"
  • October 11th, Alan Prince (Heriott-Watt) "A permutation problem for finite fields"
  • October 18th, John Reeve (UEA) "Conway's theory of games"
  • November 1st, Joint Pure/Applied Seminar, Elena Nardi (EDU, UEA) "First year undergraduates and the mystery of the limiting process"
  • November 8th, Wilfrid Hodges (QMW) "The mathematics of language and a question of Dedekind"
  • November 11th, Joint Pure/Applied Seminar, Fred Piper (Royal Holloway) To be announced
  • November 15th, David Evans (UEA) "Suborbits in infinite permutation groups"
  • November 22nd, Peter Fleischmann (Kent) "On modular invariant theory of finite groups"
  • November 29th, Rachel Shipsey "Elliptic Divisibility Sequences"
  • December 6th, Alex Zaleskii(UEA) "Reduction of p-adic representations of group of p-Lie type modulo p"
  • December 20th, David Fremlin (Essex) "Covering R by sequences of sets with few arithmetic progressions"

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Spring 2000

 
  • January 10th, Adrian Mathias (Universite de la Reunion) "Long Delays"
  • January 24th, Valeriy Mnukhin (Taganrog and Fiji) "On modular homology of Coxeter complexes and Tits buildings"
  • January 31st, Martin Crossley (UEA) "Higher Conjugation in commutative Hopf algebras"
  • February 7th, Rachel Camina (Cambridge) "Implications of Conjugacy Class Size"
  • February 14th, Graham Everest (UEA) "Prime Generation and elliptic dynamical systems"
  • February 21st, Double header, Manfred Einsiedler (UEA) "Amoeba sets and Noetherian directions",
    Klaus Schmidt (Vienna) "Rigidity of Commuting Group Automorphisms"
  • February 28th, Rognvaldur Moller (University of Iceland) "Structure theory of totally disconnected groups via graphs and permutations"
  • March 6th, Odile Sauzet (Cambridge) "Ramification in infinite extensions of local fields"
  • March 13th, Alex Wilkie (Oxford) "Geometric Categories"
  • March 20th, Meenaxi Bhattacharjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati) "On Cofinitary, ZTF and Frobenius Groups"
  • March 24th, Fernando Szechtman (Uruguay) "Weil representations of symplectic and unitary groups over rings"
  • April 10th, Joe Auslander (College Park, Maryland) To be announced
  • May 8th, Simon Blackburn (Royal Holloway) "Enumerating p-groups with many commuting elements"
  • May 15th, Sanju Velani (QMW) "Problems in diophantine approximation"
  • June 12th, Richard Miles (UEA) "Valuations and Expansiveness"

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Autumn 2000

 
  • September 11th, Michael Benedikt (Bell Research Labs, Chicago, USA) "Complexity over a Model"
  • September 25th, Reinhold Konnerth (UEA) "The Automorphism Group of a Differentially Closed Field"
  • September 29th, 3pm, Tom Jech (Czech Academy of Sciences) "Left-distributive algebras"
  • October 9th, A. Baranov (Mathematics Institute, Belorussian Academy of Sciences and Hamburg) "Irreducible Lie algebras containing transformations of finite rank"
  • October 16th, A. Camina (UEA) "Classifying Finite Linear Spaces"
  • October 23rd, O.Chalykh (Moscow State University and Loughborough) "Macdonald polynomials and integrable systems"
  • November 6th, Felix Leinen (Newcastle) "Confined subgroups of finitary groups"
  • November 13th, Christian Rudloff (UEA) "Eigenvalue 1 for matrices in representations of certain finite simple groups"
  • November 20th, Joint Pure/Applied Seminar, J. Jedwab (Cryptography and Security Group, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol) "Mathematics: A View from Industry"
  • November 27th, Oliver M Jenkinson (QMW) "Hausdorff dimension and its computation"
  • December 4th, John Baldwin (Chicago) "Ln-stability, Amalgamation and finite models"
  • December 11th, Tom Ward (UEA) "Asymptotic geometry, tight polyhedra, and the mixing problem"

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Spring 2001

 
  • January 29th, Zaqueu Coelho (Nottingham Trent) "Time distributions for rotations"
  • February 5th, Special joint meeting of Pure and Applied Mathematics Group
  • February 12th, G. Heide (UEA) "Permutation modules for classical groups"
  • February 19th, G. Everest (UEA) "Primes in Integer Sequences and Dynamical Systems"
  • February 26th, Justin Moore (UEA) "Open colourings and the continuum problem"
  • March 5th, A. Borovik (UMIST) "Probabilistic recognition of finite simple groups"
  • March 12th, C. Kurtz (UEA) "On products and sums of matrix conjugacy classes"
  • March 19th, R. Dipper (Stuttgart) "Tits deformation argument and Schur-Weyl duality"
  • April 23th, R. Gow (Dublin) "Asymptotic properties of the Steinberg lattice of Chevalley groups"
  • April 30th, Ch. Good (Oxford) "ZFCdiamondsuits"
  • May 14th, Grzegorz Plebanek (Wroclaw) "Properties of measures on first-countable spaces"
  • May 21st, Gareth Jones (Southampton) "Geometric Galois Theory"
  • June 11th, Michal Hrusak (Amsterdam) "Embeddings of Boolean algebras"
  • June 18th, Dugald Macpherson (Leeds) "Model theory of algebraically closed valued fields"
  • July 9th, Hao Shen (Jiao Tong University, Shanghai) "Constructions of block designs and related designs"

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Autumn 2001

 
  • October 8th, Tom Ward (UEA) "Distribution of orbits for commuting maps"
  • November 5th, Steffen Koenig (Leicester) "Schur-Weyl duality and tilting theory"
  • November 12th, Mario Jorge Edmundo (Oxford) "Cohomology of o-minimal structure"
  • November 26th, Nelson Stephens (Royal Holloway) "Somos, Elliptic Divisibility and Realisable sequences"
  • December 3rd, Bill Crawley-Boevey (Leeds) "The Deligne-Simpson problem"

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Spring 2002

 
  • January 28th Alan Camina (UEA) "Pro p-groups of finite width"
  • February 11th, A. Henke (Leicester) "Representations of Symmetric Groups and Fractal Structures"
  • February 18th, Mirna Dzamonja (UEA) "Square Principles"
  • February 25th E. Khukhro (Novosibirsk and Cardiff) "Linear methods for nilpotent p-groups"
  • March 4th A. Deitmar (Exeter) "Lefschetz formulae for dynamical systems"
  • March 11th Moty Katzman (Sheffield) "How many squares in an infinite chess board can a knight reach in d moves?"
  • April 15th, Francesca dalla Volta (Milan) "On the probability of generating a finite group"
  • April 22nd, D. Rumynin (Warwick) "Lie Algebras and Differential Operators"
  • April 29nd, G. Michler (Essen) "How to compute the character table of a finite permutation group"
  • May 3th, E. Vinberg (Moscow State University) "On largeness of some hyperbolic groups"
  • June 3rd, Alf van der Poorten (Macquarie, Sydney, Australia) "Paperfolding, automata, and rational functions"
  • June 17th, K. Kudaiberganov (Alma-Aty University) "Homogeneous models"

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Autumn 2002

 
  • September 30th, Siddhartha Bhattacharya (Tata Institute) "Ergodic theory and Lie groups" Abstract
  • October 7th, Shaun Stevens (UEA) "Representations of p-adic groups" Abstract
  • October 14th, David Evans (UEA) "Continuous cohomology groups of infinite permutation groups on profinite modules" Abstract
  • October 21st, Geoff Robinson (Birmingham) "Generalized blocks for symmetric groups" Abstract
  • October 28th (cancelled), Olivier Lessmann (Oxford) "Dimension theory in model theory" Abstract
  • November 4th, Graham Everest (UEA) "The arithmetic of recurrence sequences" Abstract
  • November 11th, Nikolai Gordeev (St Petersburg Pedagogical University) "On the branch locus of quotients by finite groups and the complexity of algebras of invariants" Abstract
  • November 18th, Christakis Pallikaros (Cyprus) "Kazhdan-Lusztig cells and representations of Hecke algebras of finite Coxeter groups" Abstract
  • November 25th, John Wilson (Birmingham) "Growth of finitely generated groups"
  • December 9th, Ralph Kopperman (City College of New York and Oxford) "The 'best' topological space" Abstract

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Spring 2003

 
  • February 3rd, James McKee (Royal Holloway) "Salem numbers of large negative trace" Abstract
  • February 17th, Double header, Joint Pure/Applied Seminar, Tony Barrett "Fourier Transforms: Past, Present and Future", Abstract
    Robin Chapman (Exeter) "Hermitian structures on lattices" Abstract
  • February 24th, David Burns (King's College London) "Nearly perfect complexes and Weil etale cohomology" Abstract
  • March 10th, Omri Sarig (Warwick) "Thermodynamic Formalism for non-compact topological Markov shifts" Abstract
  • March 13th, Reinhard Winkler (Technische Universität Wien) "Maximal abelian subgroups of Aut(R,<)" Abstract
  • March 17th, Alexander Elashvili (Mathematical Institute, Georgean Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi) "Commutative polarization on Lie Algebras" Abstract
  • March 24th, Johannes Siemons (UEA) "Simplicial complexes mod p" Abstract
  • March 31st, Valeriy Mnukhin (Fiji) "Saturated simplicial complexes" Abstract
  • May 28th, Bridget Webb (Open University) "Infinite Designs" Abstract
  • June 2nd, Massoud Pourmahdian (Edinburgh/Oxford) "Some new examples in simple theory" Abstract
  • June 9th, Double header, Irina Suprunenko (Minsk) "On Jordan block structure of unipotent elements and recognizing representations" Abstract
    Pham Huu Tiep (University of Florida) "The 8th Moment and Larsen's conjecture"
  • June 16th, Retirement Meeting for Prof. Alan Camina
  • June 23rd, Greg Piper (UEA) "On the combinatorics of Pκ(λ)" Abstract

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Autumn 2003

 
  • August 15th, Francisco Ruiz del Portal (Madrid, Spain) "Fixed point index and local dynamics of planar homeomorphisms"
  • September 2nd, Christine Swart (Royal Holloway) "Elliptic divisibility sequences and Somos sequences" Abstract
  • September 8th, Amnon Besser (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) "Finite and p-adic polylogarithms" Abstract
  • October 6th, Xavier Vidaux (Oxford) "An analogue of Hilbert's tenth problem for fields of p-adic meromorphic functions" Abstract
  • October 13th, Igor Shparlinski (Macquarie University, Australia) "Prime Divisors of Shifted Factorials" Abstract
  • October 20th, Joint Pure/Applied Seminar, Andy Hone (Kent) "Quadratic recurrence sequences and integrable systems" Abstract
  • October 21st, Chris Sinclair (Texas) "Multiplicative distance functions on C[x]" Abstract
  • October 27th, Alex Zalesskii (UEA) "Few new Hurwitz groups" Abstract
  • November 12th, Joint Pure/Applied Seminar, Tom Körner (Cambridge) "Does Order Matter?" Abstract
  • November 17th, Alan Camina (UEA) "Some curves and their automorphisms"
  • November 24th, Alistair Windsor (Manchester) "Exactly Realizable Sequences are Smoothly Realizable" Abstract
  • November 28th, Geoffrey Robinson (Birmingham) "Characters, quadratic forms and p-local bounds"
  • December 3rd, Joint Pure/CMP Seminar, Natasha Alechina (Nottingham) "Guarded fragments" Abstract
  • December 19th, Wayne Lawton (Singapore) "Hermite Interpolation in Loop Groups and Conjugate Quadrature Filter Aproximation" Abstract

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Spring 2004

 
  • January 19th, Pavel Zalesskii (Brasilia) "Profinite surface groups"
  • February 2nd, David Evans (UEA) "Trivialising the Hrushovski constructions" Abstract
  • February 9th, Herwig Nübling (UEA) "Reducts in Stable Theories" Abstract
  • February 16th, Peter Kropholler (Glasgow) "A conjecture about groups of homological dimension one"
  • February 23rd, Yiftach Barnea (Imperial) "Lie algebras with few centralizer dimensions" Abstract
  • March 1st, Alexandra Shlapentokh (East Carolina) "Hilbert's Tenth Problem and Mazur's conjectures." Abstract
  • March 8th, Joint Pure/Applied/CMP Seminar, Alice Miller (Glasgow) "The use of mathematical techniques in model checking" Abstract
  • March 15th, Nicholas Peatfield (Oxford) "Analytic Zariski Structures" Abstract
  • March 29th, Silvia Barbina (Leeds) "Reconstruction of classical geometries from their automorphism group." Abstract
  • April 5th, Leonid Bokut (Novosibirsk) "Lyndon-Shirshov words and Gröbner-Shirshov bases" Abstract
  • May 17th, Gunther Cornelissen (Utrecht) "Deformations of group actions on curves" Abstract
  • June 21st, Vojkan Vuksanovic (Helsinki) "Recent results in Ramsey theory" Abstract

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Autumn 2004

 
  • September 13th, Vincent Sécherre (Marseille) "Representations and types for p-adic central simple algebras"
  • September 16th, Alexander Stasinski (Bonn) "Representations of reductive groups over finite rings and extended Deligne-Lusztig varieties"
  • September 27th, Samir Hasan (Manchester) "Chamber Homology for the p-adic group GL(3)"
  • October 4th, Tim Browning (Oxford) "Counting rational points on algebraic varieties" Abstract
  • October 11th, Tom Ward (UEA) "An example in abelian rigidity" Abstract
  • October 18th, Shaun Stevens (UEA) "Buildings and lattices" Abstract
  • November 1st, Richard Sharp (Manchester) "Pair correlations and length spectra on negatively curved surfaces" Abstract
  • November 8th, Double header, Andrew Glass (Cambridge) "Towards Higman's Theorem for lattice-ordered groups" Abstract
    Alex Usvyatsov (Hebrew University) "Continuous model theory - model theory of metric spaces" Abstract
  • November 15th, Vincent Moulton (UEA) "Some recent results on phylogenetic trees" Abstract
  • November 22nd, Shaun Bullett (QMC) "Matings between polynomial maps and Kleinian groups" Abstract
  • November 29th, Benjamin Klopsch (Düsseldorf) "Strongly hyperbolic elements in arithmetic subgroups of SLn(R)" Abstract

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Spring 2005

 
  • January 10th, Vytautas Paskunas (Bielefeld/Paris) "Explicit Whittaker functions for p-adic GL(N)"
  • February 7th, Ben Green (Bristol) "Primes in Arithmetic Progression"
  • February 25th, Andy Hone (Kent) "The Arithmetic and Dynamics of Bilinear Recurrence Sequences"
  • February 28th, Roman Wencel (Leeds) "Groups and fields definable in weakly o-minimal structures" Abstract
  • March 14th, Franco Vivaldi (QMW) "Integrability and Time-Reversibility of maps over finite fields"
  • May 25th, Salma Kuhlmann (Saskatchewan) "Lexicographic Exponentiation of Chains"
  • June 6th, Tom Ward (UEA) "The Prime Orbit Theorem and Mertens in new Dynamical Settings"
  • June 13th, Chiara Tamburini (Brescia) "New Rigid Hurwitz Groups"
  • July 6th, Joint Pure/Applied/CIMR Seminar, Vladimir I. Levenshtein (Keldysh Institute, Moscow) "Subsequences, supersequences, and codes in the deletion/insertion metric" Abstract
  • July 7th, Elena Konstantinova (Novosibirsk/Moscow) "Permutation Reconstruction from erroneous patterns"
  • July 15th, David Goldberg (Purdue) "Reducibility of induced representation and R-groups"
  • July 19th, Phil Kutzko (Iowa) "Representations of GL2 over a discrete valuation ring"
  • July 26th, Teruyoshi Yoshida (Harvard) "Compatibility of local and global Langlands correspondences"

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Autumn 2005

 
  • August 29th, Donald Passman (Wisconsin) "Filtrations in simple Lie algebras"
  • September 12th, David Boyd (British Columbia) "Explicit formulas for Mahler's measure" Abstract
  • October 3rd, Double Header, Sibylle Schroll (Oxford) "Modular Alvis-Curtis duality" Abstract
    Alex Clark (North Texas) "Topological Rigidity in Dynamical Systems" Abstract
  • October 17th, Alexander Stasinski (UEA) "Representations of reductive groups over finite rings" Abstract
  • October 24th, Alexander Ivanov (London) "Monster Amalgam" Abstract
  • November 14th, Mirna Dzamonja (UEA) "Measures on Boolean Algebras" Abstract
  • November 21th, Johannes Siemons (UEA) "Some Reconstruction Problems" Abstract
  • November 28th, Imre Leader (Cambridge) "The Angel and the Devil in Three Dimensions" Abstract

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Spring 2006

 

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Autumn 2006

 
  • August 24th, Matilde Lalin (UBC) "Mahler measure of multivariable polynomials" Abstract
  • October 9th, Moshe Kamensky (UEA) "Differential Galois theory" Abstract 
  • October 16th, Thomas Jordan (Warwick) "Randomly perturbed self-affine sets" Abstract
  • October 23rd, Nick Gill "Nilpotent projective planes" Abstract
  • October 30th, Daniela Amato (Oxford) "Descendants in infinite primitive highly arc transitive digraphs" Abstract
  • November 6th, Richard Hill (UCL) "The Kubota Symbol on SLn" Abstract
  • November 13th, Valéry Mahé (UEA) "Hilbert's seventeenth problem and hyperelliptic curves" Abstract  Slides
  • November 20th, Andy Pollington (Heilbronn Institute, Bristol) "The application of some singular measures to questions in Diophantine approximation and the distribution of sequences."
  • November 27th, Glyn Harman (Royal Holloway) "Primes with pre-assigned digits" Abstract
  • December 4th, Assaf Hasson (Oxford) "Strongly minimal expansions of (C,+) by a function definable in an o-minimal structure" Abstract 
  • December 6th, Elisabetta Pastori (Florence) "Second cohomology groups and finite covers" Abstract  Slides
  • December 11th, Paul Flavell (Birmingham) "A Hall-Higman-Shult type theorem for arbitrary finite groups and some applications"

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Spring 2007

 

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Autumn 2007

 

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Spring 2008

 

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Autumn 2008

 
  • September 29th, MSc students' seminars (UEA)
    • Kelvin Corlett, "A Conjecture of Erdos" Abstract
    • Eleni Maistrelli, "The Marriage Theorem" Abstract
  • October 13th, Ivan Tomasic (Queen Mary) "Etale cohomology of difference schemes" Abstract
  • October 20th, Andrew Thomason (Cambridge) "Extremal graph theory with colours" Abstract
  • October 27th, Rowena Paget (Kent) "Brauer algebras and Schur-Weyl dualities" Abstract
  • October 29th, Istvan Juhasz (Hungarian Academy of Science) "Discrete subspaces of compacta" Abstract
  • November 3rd, Anish Ghosh (UEA) "Some applications of homogeneous dynamics to number theory"
  • November 10th, Alexander Stasinski (Cambridge) "Commutators and Iwahori decomposition in group schemes over local rings" Abstract
  • November 12th, Alexander Gorodnik (Bristol) "Rigidity of actions on algebraic spaces" Abstract
  • November 17th, Alexander Gorodnik (Bristol) "Diophantine geometry and dynamics" Abstract
  • November 18th, Amritanshu Prasad (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai) "Locally compact abelian groups with symplectic self-duality" Abstract
  • November 24th, Dan Segal (Oxford) "Words" Abstract
  • November 26th, Peter Erdos (Hungarian academy of sciences) "Splitting property and duality pairs"
  • December 1st, Gavin Brown (Kent) "Complex geometry, Fano 3-folds and Gorenstein rings" Abstract
  • December 8th, Sanju Velani (York) "A Mass Transference Principle in Metric Number Theory"

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Spring 2009

 
  • January 19th, Jonathan Kirby (Oxford) "Exponential algebraicity" Abstract
  • January 26th, Jochen Koenigsmann (Oxford) "Defining Z in Q" Abstract
  • January 28th, Joint Pure/CMP Seminar, Jack Koolen (POSTECH, South Korea) "The Bannai-Ito Conjecture" Abstract
  • February 9th, Meinolf Geck (Aberdeen) "A general theory of Specht modules for Hecke algebras"
  • February 16th, Marcus Tressl (Manchester) "Super real closed rings" Abstract
  • March 2nd, Daniel Skodlerack (Humboldt Universität, Berlin) "Affine Maps between buildings and classical groups"
  • March 9th, Ken Brown (Glasgow) "Small infinite noncomutative groups" Abstract
  • March 11th, Joint Pure/EDU Seminar, Matthew Inglis (Loughborough) "What affects the persuasiveness of mathematical arguments?" Abstract
  • March 16th, Nicolas Jacon (Besancon) "The theory of basic sets for Hecke algebras"
  • March 23rd, Erika Damian (UEA) "The generation of the augmentation ideal in profinite groups" Abstract
  • March 30th, Manuela Heuer (Open University) "Coincidence site lattices of the root lattice A4" Abstract
  • April 20th, Ben Klopsch (Royal Holloway) "Deformations and Rigidity of Lattices in Soluble Lie Groups" Abstract
  • April 27th, Alena Vencovska (Manchester) "Inductive logic for non-unary predicates" Abstract
  • May 11th, Double header, Clifford Cocks (GCHQ) "Modern Cryptography and Mathematics" Abstract
    Michael Baake (Bielefeld) "The silver mean chain"
  • May 19th, Victor Beresnevich (York) "Rational points near manifolds and metric Diophantine approximation"
  • Monday June 8th, Jayadev Athreya (Yale) "Logarithm laws, Diophantine approximation, and the geometry of numbers"

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Autumn 2009

 

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Spring 2010

 

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Autumn 2010

 
  • September 28th, Alan Haynes (York) "Metric results for the mixed Littlewood and Littlewood conjectures" Abstract
  • October 4th, Paul Broussous (Poitiers) "Models for representations of PGL(2,Qp) in the space of harmonic cochains of certain graphs lying above the Bruhat-Tits tree"
  • October 11th, Gautam Chinta (CUNY) "Zeta functions, heat kernels, and spectral asymptotics on degenerating families of discrete tori" Abstract
  • October 18th, Brooke Feigon (UEA) "Exact averages, subconvexity and non-vanishing of central L-values" Abstract
  • November 1st, Pantelis Eleftheriou (CMAF Lisbon) "Genericity and definable groups in semi-bounded o-minimal structures"
  • November 8th, Sven Herrmann (UEA) "Splits and Tight-Spans of Convex Polytopes" Abstract
  • November 15th, John Murray (NUI Maynooth) "Characters and Centraliser Algebras" Abstract
  • November 22nd, Neil Dummigan (Sheffield) "Critical L-values and congruences of modular forms" Abstract
  • November 29th, Johannes Siemons (UEA) "Some homological representations of GL(n,q)" Abstract
  • December 6th, Dag Madsen (Ostfold University College) "T-Koszul algebras" Abstract

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Spring 2011

 
  • January 24th, Sinead Lyle (UEA) "Homomorphisms between Specht modules"
  • January 31st, Michael Björklund (ETH Zürich) "Ergodic theory in additive combinatorics"
  • February 7th, Anitha Thillaisundaram (Cambridge) "The concept of p-deficiency and its applications" Abstract
  • February 14th, Heike Mildenberger (Freiburg) "The cofinality of the symmetric group and other cardinals" Abstract
  • February 28th, Norbert Peyerimhoff (Durham) "Random Walks, Archimedean Solids and finite Coxeter Groups" Abstract
  • March 2nd, Angus MacIntyre (QMUL) "Model theory of the adeles" Abstract
  • March 7th, Sanju Velani (York) "The Bad Approximations: a problem in simultaneous diophantine approximation"
  • March 21st, Gareth Jones (Manchester) "Counting rational points on certain analytic surfaces"
  • April 4th, Will Conley (UEA) "Automorphic forms with prescribed local behaviour"
  • May 9th, Joint Pure/Applied Seminar, Adrian Simpson (Durham) "Pathway to Proof: A Problem Solving Course" Abstract
  • May 16th, Istvan Juhasz (Hungarian Academy of Science) "Resolvability of topological spaces" Abstract

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Autumn 2011

 
  • October 10th, Shona Yu (UEA) "Diagram algebras and affine tangles"
  • October 24th, Alex Wilkie (Manchester) "An application of logic to number theory: a motivated account"
  • October 28th, Volodymyr Mazorchuk (Uppsala) "Ad-nilpotent ideals for affine Lie algebras"
  • November 7th, Mike Prest (Manchester) "Interpretations between additive categories"
  • November 14th, Robin Knight (Oxford) "Duality and categories of topological spaces"
  • November 28th, Olivia Caramello (Cambridge) "The unification of mathematics via topos theory"
  • December 8th, Andy Hone (Kent) "Algebraic entropy and tropicalization of cluster maps"
  • December 12th, James Newton (Cambridge) "Galois representations and automorphic forms"

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