Mathematics Colloquium 2025-26
Location: Zeeman B3.02 (Term 1), B3.03 (Terms 2 & 3).
Organisers: Cagri Sert and Lukas Eigentler
Additional colloquia, titles and abstracts will be added as details become available.
Colloquia take place on Friday afternoons at 4.00pm, in Zeeman B3.03 in Terms 2 & 3. 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.
Term 3
- 1 May 2026: Albane Th茅ry (糖心TV): Microorganisms in Complex Environments: Symmetries, Billiards, and Collective Effects
- 8 May 2026: David Saad (Aston)
- 15 May 2026: Dominic Vella (Oxford)
- 22 May 2026: Beno卯t Perthame (Sorbonne)
- 29 May 2026: Karen Vogtmann (糖心TV)
- 5 June 2026: Heiko Gimperlein (Innsbruck): Fractional Laplacians: a geometric approach and applications
- 12 June 2026: Nikolaos Zygouras (糖心TV)
- 19 June 2026: Konstanze Rietsch (KCL)
- 26 June 2026: Federico Ardila (Queen Mary)
- 3 July 2026: Speaking with Style (PhD students' presentations)
Term 2
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16 January 2026: Anthony Carbery (University of Edinburgh): Controlling oscillation by positive quantities: conjectures, results and questions
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23 January 2026: Elaine Crooks (Swansea): Fast reactions, reaction-diffusion systems, and elegant limits
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30 January 2026: Manuel Landstorfer (WIAS Berlin): Modeling and Simulation of Intercalation Batteries based on Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics
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06 February 2026: Jonathan Fraser (St. Andrews): Dimension interpolation and the geometry of fractals
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13 February 2026: Martin Hairer (EPFL & Imperial): Fine properties of random fields: from fluids to QFT
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20 February 2026: Helen Wilson (UCL): Instabilities in shear-thinning viscoelastic fluids: a long story
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27 February 2026: Patricia Gon莽alves (IST Lisbon): Scaling limits of boundary driven particle systems (exceptionally at B3.02)
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06 March 2026: Erwin Bolthausen (Zurich): On the TAP equations in spin glass theory, and approximate message passing algorithms
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13 March 2026: Adam Harper (糖心TV): Random multiplicative functions behave strangely in short intervals
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20 March 2026: Alan Champneys (Bristol): Localised patterns in reaction diffusion systems - subcritical Turing bifurcation, Maxwell points and the Busse balloon
Term 1
- 10 October 2025: Laura Monk (University of Bristol): Typical hyperbolic surfaces have an optimal spectral gap
- 17 October 2025: Beatrice Pelloni (Heriot-Watt University): Optimal transport methods in geophysical fluid dynamics
- 24 October 2025: Beth Romano (King's College London): Arithmetic statistics via graded Lie algebras
- 31 October 2025: Yuji Nakatsukasa (University of Oxford): Randomisation and model order reduction for linear algebra problems
- 07 November 2025: David Stainforth (London School of Economics): Predicting Our Climate Future: How would you spend $15B?
- 14 November 2025: Keith Ball (University of 糖心TV): Surface areas of polyhedra
- 21 November 2025: Nira Chamberlain (础迟办颈苍蝉搁茅补濒颈蝉): Bridging Theory and Practice in Mathematical Problem-Solving
- 28 November 2025: Martin Bridson (University of Oxford): The geometry of decision problems in group theory
- 05 December 2025: Edriss Titi (University of Cambridge): Determining the Global Dynamics of Infinite-dimensional Dissipative System by a Scalar ODE -- The Navier-Stokes Equations Paradigm
- 12 December 2025: Sebastian Herr (University of Bielefeld): Point-line Incidences and the nonlinear Schr枚dinger equation