Pure Maths Seminar Archive Pure Maths Seminar 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"

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"

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"

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

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"

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"

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

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"

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"

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

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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

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 P_κ(λ)" Abstract

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

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

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 SL_n(R)" Abstract

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"

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

Spring 2006

January 23rd, Richard Miles (UEA) "Calculating Dynamical Zeta Functions" Abstract
January 30th, Gareth Jones (Southampton) "Three-dimensional analogues of Hurwitz groups and surfaces" Abstract
February 6th, Sergey Shpectorov (Birmingham) "Phan Theory" Abstract
February 13th, Maud Devisscher (London) "Blocks of the Brauer algebra in characteristic zero." Abstract
February 27th, Peter Fleischmann (Kent) "Recent results on modular invariant rings of finite groups" Abstract
March 13th, Taras Banakh (Lviv, Ukraine) "Symmetry and coloring" Abstract
March 20th, Catherine Osborne (UEA) "In defence of Pythagoras and Pythagorean number speculation" Abstract
March 27th, Double Header, Nina Snaith (Bristol) "Every moment brings a treasure: Applying random matrix theory in number theory" Abstract
Francesco Mezzadri (Bristol) "Random polynomials, random matrices and L-functions" Abstract
April 3rd, Jouko Väänänen (Helsinki) "On maximality principles" Abstract
May 15th, Vincent Sécherre (Marseille) "A proof of Tadic's Conjecture U0 on the unitary dual of GL(m,D)" Abstract
June 12th, Double Header, Samir Siksek (Warwick) "Exponential Diophantine Equations" Abstract
Susan Williams (South Alabama) "Knots, dynamics and Lehmer's question" Abstract

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 SL_n" 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"

Spring 2007

January 22nd, David Penman (Essex) "Random, pseudo-random and Ramsey Graphs" Abstract
January 29th, Jane Hawkins (North Carolina) "One-Dimensional stochastic cellular automata" Abstract
February 5th, Sinéad Lyle (UEA) "Rank polynomials" Abstract
February 12th, Firoz Shaikh (UEA) "Classes with universal structures" Abstract
February 19th, Ben Smith (Royal Holloway) "Families of explicit isogenies of hyperelliptic Jacobians" Abstract
February 21st, Achim Jung (Birmingham) "On the bitopological nature of Stone duality" Abstract
February 26th, Ian Melbourne (Surrey) "Brownian motion in the planar periodic Lorentz gas" Abstract
March 5th, Karin Baur (Leicester) "A geometric construction for m-cluster categories" Abstract
March 12th, Lloyd Kilford (Oxford) "Modular forms and η-quotients" Abstract
March 19th, Vincent Sécherre (Marseille) "An analogue of the Cartan decomposition for p-adic reductive spaces"
April 23th, Dan Smith (UEA) "Homology modules in projective space" Abstract
April 30th, Jacqui Ramagge (Wollongong) "A totally disconnected perspective on Kac-Moody groups" Abstract
May 14th, Richard Miles (UEA) "Dirichlet series for finite combinatorial rank dynamics" Abstract
May 16th, Herwig Nübling (Greifswald) "Computability and complexity over different algebraic structures" Abstract
May 21st, Graham Everest (UEA) "Elliptic curves and prime generation"
June 4th, Patrick Ingram (Toronto)
June 11th, Joint Pure/Applied Seminar, John Jaworski "The mathematics of the Alhambra" Abstract

Autumn 2007

October 1st, Graham Everest (UEA) "Elliptic curves and Hilbert's tenth problem" Abstract
October 8th, Mark Wildon (Swansea) "Commuting elements in conjugacy classes: an application of Hall's Marriage Theorem" Abstract
October 15th, Yuki Yayama (UEA) "Dimensions of compact invariant sets of some expanding maps" Abstract
October 22nd, Alison Parker (Leeds) "Tilting modules and some 3 part decomposition numbers" Abstract
October 29th, Alberto Minguez (UEA) "On the Howe correspondence" Abstract
November 5th, Matt Grime (Bristol) "Relative cohomology theories for group algebras" Abstract
November 12th, Johannes Siemons (UEA) "On a Conjecture of Foulkes" Abstract
November 19th, Mirna Džamonja (UEA) "Almost counterexamples" Abstract
November 23rd, Patrick Delorme (Marseille) "Some results on harmonic analysis on p-adic symmetric spaces." Abstract
November 26th, Nicole Snashall (Leicester) "Hochschild cohomology and support varieties" Abstract
December 3rd, Peter Campbell (Bristol) "Principal series types for p-adic general linear groups" Abstract
December 10th, Joint Pure/Applied Seminar, Nigel Hiscock (Oxford Brookes) "The plan geometry of Norwich cathedral" Abstract

Spring 2008

January 21st, Tom McKay (UEA) "On a Plethysm Conjecture of Foulkes" Abstract
February 4th, Shaun Stevens (UEA) "(Non)-generic supercuspidal representations of p-adic Sp(4)" Abstract
February 11th, Katie Thompson (Vienna) "How to achieve global domination in an inner model" Abstract
February 18th, Konstantin Ardakov (Nottingham) "Two-sided ideals in certain completed group algebras" Abstract
March 3rd, Joint Pure/Applied Seminar PhD students' seminars (UEA)
- Sawian Jaidee, "Mertens' theorem for toral automorphisms" Abstract
- Simon Kirby, "Two-dimensional, high Reynolds number flow over multiple aerofoils aligned at a global angle of attack" Abstract
- Tony Flatters, "Prime appearance in Lehmer-Pierce sequences" Abstract
- Hugh Woolfenden, "Rigid particle motion in two-dimensional Stokes flow in a branching channel" Abstract
March 10th, Hans Adler (Leeds) "Thorn-forking and generalised semimodularity" Abstract
March 17th, Michitaka Miyauchi (UEA) "On the irreducible smooth representations of unramified U(2,2) over a p-adic field" Abstract
April 10th, Thomas Weigel (Milano) "Finite groups with minimal 1-PIM (joint work with Gunter Malle)" Abstract
April 21st, Jens Funke (Durham) "Special cohomology classes arising from the Weil representation" Abstract
April 28th, Jonathan Reynolds (UEA) "Power-integral points on elliptic curves" Abstract
May 12th, Joint Pure/Applied Seminar John Toland (Bath) "Hydroelastic waves"
May 19th, Joint Pure/Applied Seminar Vincent Moulton and Andreas Spillner (UEA) "Some recent progress on phylogenetic diversity" Abstract
June 2nd, Matthias Strauch (Cambridge) "Galois actions on torsion points of p-divisible groups" Abstract
June 30th, Joint Pure/Applied Seminar PhD students' seminars (UEA)
- Ouamporn Phuksuwan, "Divisibility sequences on certain elliptic curves" Abstract
- Rachel Tooke, "Oblique stagnation-point flow" Abstract
- Stuart Alder, "An introduction to q-complexes and q-posets" Abstract
- Andrew Dawson, "The impact of high resolution ocean-atmosphere coupling" Abstract
July 2nd, Andrés Villaveces (Bogotá) "Continuous Model Theory, Metric AECs: Simplicity issues" Abstract
July 14th, Francesca Dalla Volta (Milano) "Goppa codes, Automorphism Groups and Equivalence" Abstract

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"

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"

Autumn 2009

September 28th, Jeanne Scott (Leeds) "Surfaces, bipartite graphs, and Laurent expansions" Abstract
October 5th, Nadir Matringe (UEA) "Distinction and Asai L-functions for generic representations" Abstract
October 12th, Thomas Jordan (Bristol) "Multifractal analysis for self-affine carpets" Abstract
October 19th, Richard Sharp (Manchester) "Statistics, matrix groups and hyperbolic geometry" Abstract
October 26th, Jérémie Guilhot (UEA) "Kazhdan-Lusztig cells in affine Weyl groups with unequal parameters" Abstract
November 2nd, Sarah Zerbes (Exeter) "The theory of p-adic representations" Abstract
November 9th, Vanessa Miemietz (UEA) "Polynomial representations of GL₂" Abstract
November 16th, Charles Semple (Canterbury, NZ) "Negative Correlation in Graphs and Matroids" Abstract
November 18th, Barnaby Dawson (Bristol) "How definitions, equivalent for Turing machines, cease to be equivalent, when generalized to Ordinal Time Turing Machines"
November 23rd, Martin Bays (Oxford) "Model theory of some exponential maps"
November 30th, Daniela Amato (UEA) "Descendants in highly arc-transitive digraphs" Abstract
December 7th, Piotr Borodulin-Nadzieja (Wroclaw) "Set theory of the reals" Abstract

Spring 2010

January 8th, Will Turner (Aberdeen) "Dynkin donuts"
January 18th, Mark Pollicott (Warwick) "Integrals, Lyapunov exponents and entropy rates" Abstract
January 25th, Jonathan Kirby (UEA) "Finitely Presented Exponential Fields" Abstract
February 1st, Nikolay Nikolov (Imperial College London) "Bounded generation and wreath products"
February 8th, Grzegorz Plebanek (Mathematical Institute, Wroclaw) "On measure-theoretic properties of Rosenthal compacta"
February 9th, Marco Ferreira (UEA) "The geometries of the Hrushovski constructions" Abstract
February 15th, Alan Camina (UEA) "Some thoughts and questions about automorphisms of symmetric designs" Abstract
February 22nd, David H. Fremlin (Essex) "Families of overlapping events in a probability space" More information
March 1st, Colva M Roney-Dougal (St Andrews) "Maximal subgroups of finite groups"
March 8th, Pirita Paajanen (Helsinki) "Conjugacy classes in algebraic groups" Abstract
March 12th, Joint Pure/CMP Seminar, Taoyang Wu (UEA) "Species, Clusters and the Tree of Life" Abstract
March 15th, Maria Chlouveraki (Edinburgh) "Canonical basic sets for cyclotomic Hecke algebras"
March 22nd, Graham Everest (UEA) "Generalizing Siegel's Theorem and Hall's Conjecture" Abstract
April 26th, Andras Juhasz (Cambridge) "Knots and surfaces" Abstract
May 10th, Ali Enayat (American University, Washington) "Set theoretical challenges posed by the model theory of arithmetic" Abstract
May 17th, Nikolai Manev (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia) "High performance computing in research and education" Abstract
May 24th, Lajos Soukup (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest) "Splitting infinite-fold covers" Abstract
June 1st, Cédric Lecouvey (Tours) "Factorization of canonical bases in highest level Fock spaces" Abstract
June 7th, Andrew Brooke-Taylor (Bristol) "Vopenka's Principle: a useful strong axiom" Abstract

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,Q_p) 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

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

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"

Spring 2012

January 30th, David Evans (UEA) "Primitive and highly arc transitive digraphs of finite out-valency" Abstract
February 6th, Fred Diamond (King's College London) "Mod p Langlands correspondences" Abstract
February 13th, Lynne Walling (Bristol) "Representations by quadratic forms and Siegel modular forms" Abstract
February 20th, Matt Fayers (QMUL) "Decomposable Specht modules" Abstract
February 27th, Benedikt Löwe (Amsterdam) "Modal logic of forcing" Abstract
March 5th, Rod Gow (University College Dublin) "Common zeros for subspaces of hermitian forms over finite fields" Abstract
March 12th, Vincenzo Mantova (Oxford) "Zilber's perfect exponential fields and involutions" Abstract
March 19th, Peter Jørgensen (Newcastle) "Triangulated categories generated by a spherical object: elementary properties, torsion pairs" Abstract
March 26th, Vincent Sécherre (Versailles) "Modular representations of GL(n,F) distinguished by GL(n-1,F)" Abstract
April 23rd, Stephan Baier (UEA) "Primes in rapidly increasing sequences" Abstract
April 30th, Andrew Lobb (Durham) "2-strand twisting and knot homologies" Abstract
May 14th, Robert Marsh (Leeds) "Reflection group presentations arising from cluster algebras" Abstract
May 21st, Shaun Stevens (UEA) "L-packets for classical groups" Abstract
May 23rd, Alexandre Zalesski (Università Milano-Bicocca) "Minimal projective modules and Steinberg-like characters for Chevalley groups" Abstract
May 28th, Toby Gee (Imperial College London) "Galois representations and automorphic representations" Abstract
June 11th, John Cossey (Australia National University) "Products of finite nilpotent groups" Abstract

Autumn 2012

October 8th, Chufeng Nien (Tainan) "Models and their applications in representation theory" Abstract
October 15th, Adam Harris (Oxford) "Categoricity of the j-function" Abstract
October 22nd, Daniel Loughran (Bristol) "Rational points of bounded height and the Weil restriction" Abstract
November 5th, Grzegorz Plebanek (Wrocław) "On isomorphisms of Banach spaces of continuous functions" Abstract
November 12th, Double header, Robert Jenkins (UEA) "History of Complex Numbers"
Chris Smyth (Edinburgh) "Sequences and congruences related to Ramanujan's Tau Function"
November 26th, Stefan Kolb (Newcastle) "Quantum homogeneous spaces for quantized enveloping algebras" Abstract
December 3rd, Tim Browning (Bristol) "How frequently does the Hasse principle fail?" Abstract
December 10th, Colin Bushnell (King's College London) "Questions of effectiveness in the local Langlands correspondence"

Spring 2013

January 14th, Alexander Gorodnik (Bristol) "Diophantine approximaton with almost-prime rationals" Abstract
January 21st, Vladimir Dotsenko (Dublin) "Pattern avoidance in permutations" Abstract
January 28th, Joseph Grant (Leeds) "Derived autoequivalences and braid relations" Abstract
February 4th, Ramla Abdellatif (Lyon) "p-modular representations of p-adic reductive groups of rank 1" Abstract
February 11th, Charles Eaton (Manchester) "Donovan's conjecture" Abstract
February 18th, David Loeffler (Warwick) "Euler systems for Rankin-Selberg convolutions of modular forms" Abstract
February 25th, Julia Brandes (Bristol) "Forms in many variables and p-adic solubility" Abstract
March 4th, Robert Gray (UEA) "On maximal subgroups of free idempotent generated semigroups" Abstract
March 11th, Roger Plymen (Manchester) "2-by-2 matrices as stepping-stones" Abstract
March 18th, Tobias Berger (Sheffield) "Higher Eisenstein congruences" Abstract
April 29th, Rainer Dietmann (Royal Holloway) "Probabilistic Galois Theory" Abstract
May 7th, David Aspero (UEA) "Long reals" Abstract
May 13th, Misha Klin (Beersheva) "Constructive enumeration of Schur rings over the group A₅: computer results, theoretical explanations, striking examples" Abstract
May 20th, Bill Barton (Auckland) "LUMOS–Shedding Light on Undergraduate Mathematics" Abstract

Autumn 2013

October 7th, Joel Nagloo (Leeds) "On transcendence and generic Painlevé equations" Abstract
October 14th, Lewis Topley (UEA) "Nilpotent orbits and representation theory" Abstract
October 28th, Vanessa Miemietz (UEA) "Introduction to 2-representation theory" Abstract
November 4th, Nik Ruskuc (St. Andrews) "Permutations and words" Abstract
November 11th, Joseph Chuang (City) "Algebra with surfaces" Abstract
November 18th, Agelos Georgakopoulos (Warwick) "Discrete Riemann mapping and the Poisson boundary" Abstract
November 25th, Chris Bowman (City) "The partition algebra and the Kronecker problem" Abstract
December 2nd, Paul Martin (Leeds) "Fun with partition categories" Abstract
December 9th, Brent Everitt (York) "Partial mirror symmetry" Abstract
December 16th, Marianne Johnson (Manchester) "The automorphism group of a (nice) tropical polytope" Abstract

Spring 2014

January 27th, Brita Nucinkis (Royal Holloway) "Centralisers of finite subgroups in generalisations of Thompson's groups" Abstract
February 3rd, Mark Kambites (Manchester) "The geometry of tropical matrices" Abstract
February 24th, Andrew Brooke-Taylor (Bristol) "The Specker phenomenon, evasion, and large cardinals" Abstract
March 3rd, Volodymyr Mazorchuk (Uppsala) "Representations of Lie algebras vs Lie superalgebras" Abstract
March 24th, PhD Student Talks (UEA)
March 31st, Shaun Stevens (UEA) "Blocks for modular representations of inner forms of p-adic GL(n)" Abstract
April 28th, Peter Holy (Bristol) "The outer model programme" Abstract
May 16th, Vincent Sécherre (Versailles) "Counting congruent cuspidal representations" Abstract
May 19th, Martin Dunwoody (Southampton) "Structure trees and networks" Abstract
June 9th, Maarten Solleveld (Nijmegen) "The local Langlands correspondence for inner forms of SL(n,F)" Abstract
June 16th, David Helm (Imperial) "The integral Bernstein centre for GL(n)" Abstract