We present regular seminars on a range of pure mathematics interests. Students, staff and visitors to UQ are welcome to attend, and to suggest speakers and topics.

Seminars are usually held on Tuesdays from 2 to 3pm.

Talks comprise 45 minutes of speaking time plus five minutes for questions and discussion.

Information for speakers

Researchers in all pure mathematics fields attend our seminars, so please aim your presentation at a general mathematical audience.

Contact us

To volunteer to talk or to suggest a speaker, email Ole Warnaar or Ramiro Lafuente.

Contacts

Templerley-Lieb algebra at roots of unity

26 March 2024 2:00pm3:00pm
Speaker: Jieru Zhu
Affiliation: University of Queensland

Toral symmetries of collapsed ancient solutions to the homogeneous Ricci flow

21 March 2024 3:00pm4:00pm
Speaker: Francesco Pediconi
Affiliation: Università di Firenze

The probability of non-existence of small substructures via clusters and cumulants

8 March 2024 11:00am12:00pm
Speaker: Dr. Rui Zhang
Affiliation: Universitat Pompeu Fabra

What is a robust cycle between hyperbolic ergodic measures? How? For what?

20 February 2024 2:00pm3:00pm
Speaker: Lorenzo Diaz
Affiliation: PUC-Rio

Multivariable knot polynomials from braided Hopf algebras with automorphisms

16 January 2024 2:00pm3:00pm
Speaker: Professor Stavros Garoufalidis
Affiliation: Southern University of Science and Technology Shenzhen, China

The equivariant Euler characteristic of the Milnor fibre

11 December 2023 2:00pm3:00pm
Speaker: Gus Lehrer
Affiliation: University of Sydney

A Deligne-Simpson problem for irregular G-connections over P^1

10 October 2023 2:00pm3:00pm
Speaker: Dr Konstantin Jakob
Affiliation: Technische Universitat Darmstadt

Mahler measures at work

22 August 2023 2:00pm3:00pm
Speaker: Wadim Zudilin
Affiliation: Nijmegen

Introduction to the Theory of Newton{Okounkov Bodies

21 August 2023 2:00pm3:00pm
Speaker: Professor Askold Khovanskii
Affiliation: University of Toronto

Deligne-Simpson problem and roots systems

15 August 2023 3:00pm4:00pm
Professor Emmanuel Lettellier
Universite Denis-Diderot (Paris 7)

Polynomially many genus g surfaces in a hyperbolic 3-manifold

8 August 2023 3:00pm4:00pm
Speaker: Anastasiia Tsvietkova, Assistant Professor
Affiliation: Rutgers University

Isoperimetric type inequalities in geometry and algebra

1 August 2023 3:00pm4:00pm
Speaker: Professor Askold Khovanskii
Affiliation: University of Toronto

Non-extendable partial Latin Hypercubes and Maximal orthogonal partial Latin Squares

25 July 2023 3:00pm4:00pm
Speaker: Professor E. Sule Yazıcı
Affiliation: Koc¸ University

Invariant SKT structures on nilmanifolds

11 July 2023 3:00pm4:00pm
Speaker: Romina M. Arroyo
Affiliation: UN Córdoba

Latin trades derived from Latin square automorphisms, autotpisms and autoparatopisms

27 June 2023 3:00pm4:00pm
Speaker: Nick Cavenagh
Affiliation: University of Waikato, NZ

Orthogonal and Symplectic Dirac operators

28 March 2023 3:00pm4:00pm
Speaker: Stepan Hudecek
Affiliation: University of Queensland

Compact homogenous Einstein manifolds

2 March 2023 2:00pm3:00pm
Christoph Bohm
Muenster University, Germany

How to define the Fourier transform on Heisenberg groups

24 January 2023 3:00pm4:00pm
Sundaram Thangavelu
Indian Institute of Science

Curvature and Moduli -- Some Intimations and Propaganda

1 November 2022 3:00pm4:00pm
Speaker: Kyle Broder
Affiliation: University of Queensland

Recent progress on the curvatures of Gauduchon connections

18 October 2022 3:00pm4:00pm
Speaker: James Stanfield
Affiliation: University of Queensland

Milnor fibres, noncrossing partitions and noncrossing algebras

6 September 2022 3:00pm4:00pm
Speaker: Yang Zhang
Affiliation: University of Queensland

The Double Elliptic Integrable System

19 August 2022 2:00pm3:00pm
Peter Koroteev
University of California, Berkeley

Row-column factorial designs of strength at least 2

2 August 2022 2:00pm3:00pm
Nicholas Cavenagh
University of Waikato, New Zealand

Schubert calculus, TASEP, and free fermions

20 May 2022 2:00pm3:00pm
Travis Scrimshaw
Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan

Demazure weight polytopes, inequalities, and lattice points

11 April 2022 2:00pm3:00pm
Sam Jeralds
University of Queensland

Singularities in mean curvature flow

1 April 2022 2:00pm3:00pm
Stephen Lynch
Tübingen

Triangulation complexity of 3-manifolds

8 September 2021 2:00pm3:00pm
Adele Jackson
Oxford University, U.K.

Highest weight structures on Whittaker categories

22 June 2021 12:00pm1:00pm
Anna Romanov
University of Sydney

Spectra in representation theory

22 June 2021 10:00am11:00am
Geordie Williamson
University of Sydney

Recent advances for integrable long-range spin chains

17 February 2021 3:00pm4:00pm
Dr Jules Lamers
University of Melbourne

Schubert calculus and quantum integrability

16 February 2021 3:00pm4:00pm
Professor Paul Zinn-Justin
University of Melbourne

K-pop and 2-avoidance

4 November 2020 3:00pm4:00pm
Professor Murray Elder
University of Technology Sydney

Carmichael and Lehmer numbers and the analogous polynomials

10 March 2020 3:00pm4:00pm
Max Lewis
University of Queensland (PhD exit seminar)

Quasisymmetric Hopf algebras for K-theory

3 March 2020 3:00pm4:00pm
Eric Marberg (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Edge-following topological states

25 February 2020 3:00pm4:00pm
Matthias Ludewig, University of Adelaide, SA

An overiew of loop varieties

4 February 2020 3:00pm4:00pm
Professor Ales Drapal (Charles University)

A fully nonlinear flow of three-convex hypersurfaces

28 November 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Mr Stephen Lynch (University of Tübingen, Germany)

The Oberwolfach Problem and its variants

26 November 2019 3:00pm4:00pm
Dr Andrea Burgess (University of New Brunswick, Canada)

AFLT-type Selberg integrals

12 November 2019 3:00pm4:00pm
Seamus Albion

Relating p-adic groups and quantum groups

22 October 2019 3:00pm4:00pm
Dr Valentin Buciumas (The University of Queensland)

From topology to combinatorics and back: Width-type parameters of 3-manifolds

8 October 2019 3:00pm4:00pm
Dr Jonathan Spreer (The University of Sydney)

On Signed Magic Rectangles

24 September 2019 3:00pm4:00pm
Professor Abdollah Khodkar (University of West Georgia)

Facial weak order in hyperplane arrangements

16 August 2019 3:00pm4:00pm
Aram Dermenjian, from the Université du Québec à Montréal

The long-time behaviour of the pluriclosed flow on almost abelian Lie groups.

28 May 2019 3:00pm4:00pm
Romina Arroyo (The University of Queensland)

Oscillations of the Prime Number Theorem Error Term

14 May 2019 3:00pm4:00pm
A commonly known version of the prime number theorem is that the prime number counting function pi(x) grows like x/log(x). An equivalent statement is that the Chebyshev Psi function Psi(x) grows like x. It goes back to Littlewood that the error term Psi(x) - x changes sign infinitely many times. We refine a method of Kaczorowski to give a lower bound on the number of sign changes in Psi(x) - x.

Non-negative curvature on exotic spheres

26 February 2019 3:00pm4:00pm
Martin Kerin, University of Münster in Germany

Finite-time blowup of n-harmonic map flow

14 February 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Leslie Cheung, School of Mathematics and Physics

Geometry of Hurwitz spaces

1 February 2019 11:00am11:45am
Anand Deopurkar

Counting matrices over finite fields and the topology of the moduli space

2 October 2018 3:00pm4:00pm
Dr Masoud Kamgarpour, School of Mathematics and Physics, UQ

Hyperplane arrangements associated to symplectic quotient singularities

28 August 2018 3:00pm4:00pm
Ulrich Thiel, University of Sydney

The Combinatorics of Alternating Sign Matrices

14 August 2018 3:00pm4:00pm
Roger Behrend, Cardiff University

The topology and geometry of spaces of Yang-Mills-Higgs flow lines.

31 July 2018 3:00pm4:00pm
Graeme Wilkin, National University of Singapore

Approximate curvatures of generalized surfaces

24 July 2018 3:00pm4:00pm
Gian Paolo Leonardi (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)

A group-theoretic viewpoint on Falconer type theorems

19 June 2018 3:00pm4:00pm
Eyvindur Ari Palsson (Virgina tech)

Relaxed highest-weight modules

3 April 2018 3:00pm4:00pm
David Ridout

Reduced expressions and similarities between categories.

20 February 2018 4:00pm5:00pm
Se-Jin Oh, Ewha Womans University, Seoul