Maths Events - Events in mathematics department of KCL

Autumn 2023

19 Dec 2023	TP Topological 5d N=2 Gauge Theory: Novel Floer Homologies, their Dualities, and an A-infinity Category of Three-Manifolds Exceptional Seminar Meng-Chwan Tan (Singapore Natl. U.)
15 Dec 2023	NT London Heilbronn Colloquium: Explicit class field theory colloquium Henri Darmon (McGill)
13 Dec 2023	TP Bootstrapping Smooth Line Operators in Chern-Simons-Matter CFTs Regular Seminar De-liang Zhong (Imperial College, London)
12 Dec 2023	TP Physics/Maths event regular seminar ()
11 Dec 2023	PR KCL Probability Seminar: Christmas lecture on the history of computational statistics and diffusion processes regular seminar Nik Nüsken (King's College London)
11 Dec 2023	TP An Excursion into the String Spectrum regular seminar Chrysoula Markou ()
08 Dec 2023	TP Monopoles, Scattering, and Generalized Symmetries journal club Joseph Smith (KCL)
07 Dec 2023	AN Exponential inequalities in probability spaces revisited regular seminar Esther Bou Dagher (Imperial College London)
06 Dec 2023	TP Wilson Loop Duality and OPE for Form Factors of Half-BPS Operators Regular Seminar Benjamin Basso (LPENS, Paris)
06 Dec 2023	DS Generative AI and Diffusion Models: a Statistical Physics Analysis (Part II) regular seminar Biroli Giulio (École Normale Supérieure de Paris)
05 Dec 2023	GE Quiver mutations, Coxeter groups and hyperbolic manifolds regular seminar Pavel Tumarkin (Durham University)
04 Dec 2023	PR KCL Probability Seminar: Fastest-Mixing Markov Chain on a Graph regular seminar Sam Olesker-Taylor (University of Warwick)
04 Dec 2023	TP Krylov perspective on Modular Hamiltonians and QCD. Exceptional Seminar Pawel Caputa (U. Warsaw)
04 Dec 2023	DS Generative AI and Diffusion Models: a Statistical Physics Analysis (Part I) regular seminar Biroli Giulio (École Normale Supérieure de Paris)
01 Dec 2023	TP TBA journal club William Pannell (KCL)
30 Nov 2023	NT Internal number theory seminar: Explicit local solubility in families of varieties regular seminar Chris Keyes (KCL)
30 Nov 2023	ST Annealed Sequential Monte Carlo Samplers regular seminar Saifuddin Syed (University of Oxford)
30 Nov 2023	AN Fokas Diagonalization regular seminar Dave Smith ( Yale-NUS College)
29 Nov 2023	TP Harmonic analysis and the conformal bootstrap reloaded Regular Seminar Dalimil Mazac (IPhT, Saclay)
29 Nov 2023	ME Maths education seminar: Effective practice in mathematical outreach regular seminar Peter Rowlett (Sheffield Hallam University)
28 Nov 2023	GE Knots, minimal surfaces and J-holomorphic curves regular seminar Joel Fine (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
27 Nov 2023	PR KCL Probability Seminar: Convergence in law in metric and submetric spaces regular seminar Adam Jakubowski (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun)
24 Nov 2023	TP Log corrections to Kerr journal club Andrew Svesko (KCL)
23 Nov 2023	TP Lonti: The initial (boundary) value problem in numerical general relativity Regular Seminar Pau Figueras (QMUL)
23 Nov 2023	AN New methods and results in two old problems regular seminar Michael Levitin (University of Reading)
22 Nov 2023	TP Conformal boundary conditions, Cardy's variational ansatz and phase structure of 2D QFTs Regular Seminar Anatoly Konechny (Heriot-Watt)
22 Nov 2023	ME Maths education seminar: What can universities learn from the learning and teaching of mathematics at King's Maths School? regular seminar Dan Abramson (King's College London)
21 Nov 2023	GE Rational homology spheres and SL(2,C) representations regular seminar Steven Sivek (Imperial College London )
20 Nov 2023	PR KCL Probability Seminar: Directed Spatial Permutations on Asymmetric Tori regular seminar Tyler Hellmuth (Durham University)
20 Nov 2023	TP Lonti: The initial (boundary) value problem in numerical general relativity Regular Seminar Pau Figueras (QMUL)
17 Nov 2023	TP TBA journal club Maneerat Chawakorn (KCL)
16 Nov 2023	ST Variational Inference for Cutting Feedback in Misspecified Models regular seminar Michael Smith (University of Melbourne)
16 Nov 2023	AN Spectral properties of random matrices with heavy-tailed entries regular seminar Svetlana Malysheva (Queen Mary University of London)
15 Nov 2023	ME Maths education seminar: Investigating and Improving Proof Comprehension regular seminar Lara Alcock (Loughborough University)
14 Nov 2023	GE Non-archimedean periods for log Calabi-Yau surfaces regular seminar Soham Karwa (Imperial College London)
13 Nov 2023	PR KCL Probability Seminar: Random walks in dynamic environments. regular seminar Guillaume Conchon-Kerjan (King's College London)
13 Nov 2023	TP BPS Ensembles of Strings and Fivebranes regular seminar Zigdon Yoav ()
13 Nov 2023	TP Lonti: The initial (boundary) value problem in numerical general relativity Regular Seminar Pau Figueras (QMUL)
10 Nov 2023	TP Towards black hole states journal club Simon Ekhammar (KCL)
09 Nov 2023	ST Unsupervised attack pattern detection in honeypot data using Bayesian topic modelling regular seminar Francesco Sanna Passino (Imperial College London)
09 Nov 2023	AN Existence results for the Landau equation regular seminar Amélie Loher (University of Cambridge)
08 Nov 2023	TP Initial Boundary Value Problem For Vacuum Einstein Equations Regular Seminar Zhongshan An (U. Michigan)
08 Nov 2023	ME Maths education seminar: Alternative assessments of Mathematical Proof regular seminar Robbie Bickerton (University of Edinburgh)
07 Nov 2023	GE MMP for toric foliations regular seminar Yen-An Chen (Imperial College London)
06 Nov 2023	PR KCL Probability Seminar: When is a critical Random intersection graph different from a Erdos-Renyi one? regular seminar Minmin Wang (University of Sussex)
06 Nov 2023	TP Lonti: The initial (boundary) value problem in numerical general relativity Regular Seminar Pau Figueras (QMUL)
02 Nov 2023	ST A journey through model-based clustering with intractable distributions regular seminar Riccardo Corradin (University of Nottingham)
01 Nov 2023	TP t Hooft loops and integrability Regular Seminar Kostantin Zarembo (Nordita)
26 Oct 2023	ST Domain Selection for Gaussian Process Data: An application to Electrocardiogram Signals regular seminar Nicolás Hernández (UCL)
26 Oct 2023	AN Sharp estimates for conditionally centred moments and for compact operators on Lp spaces regular seminar Eugene Shargorodsky (KCL)
24 Oct 2023	GE Monodromy and mapping class groups of 3-dimensional hypersurfaces regular seminar Oscar Randal-Williams (Cambridge University )
23 Oct 2023	PR KCL Probability Seminar: Phase transition for the late points of random walk regular seminar Perla Sousi (University of Cambridge)
23 Oct 2023	TP Lonti: Supergravity a la Fin de Siecle Regular Seminar Neil Lambert (KCL)
20 Oct 2023	TP TBA journal club Mann Jeremy (KCL)
19 Oct 2023	NT Internal number theory seminar: How common is formal complex multiplication? regular seminar Alex Torzewski (KCL)
19 Oct 2023	AN Plateau's problem via the theory of phase transitions regular seminar Stephen Lynch (Imperial College London)
18 Oct 2023	ME Maths education seminar: A variant on two-stage examination regular seminar Jean Lagacé (King's College London)
17 Oct 2023	GE Steklov eigenvalues of negatively curved manifolds regular seminar Asma Hassannezhad (University of Bristol)
16 Oct 2023	PR KCL Probability Seminar: Solving spin systems — the Babylonian way. regular seminar Nicola Kistler (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
16 Oct 2023	DS Quantum Entanglement in Disordered Systems regular seminar Prof. Leonid Pastur (KCL)
16 Oct 2023	TP Lonti: Supergravity a la Fin de Siecle Regular Seminar Neil Lambert (KCL)
13 Oct 2023	TP TBA journal club Schaub Vladimir (KCL)
12 Oct 2023	ST Asynchronous development: novel experimental designs and applications of functional data analysis regular seminar Daphne Ezer (University of York)
12 Oct 2023	AN Symmetrization inequalities on graphs regular seminar Shubham Gupta (Imperial College London)
11 Oct 2023	TP QFT in AdS instead of LSZ Regular Seminar Balt van Rees (Ecole Polytechnique)
11 Oct 2023	ME Maths education seminar: The King's Factor regular seminar Dr Asuka Kumon (King's College London)
10 Oct 2023	TP Cohomogeneity-one Lagrangian Mean Curvature Flow regular seminar Albert Wood (King's College London)
09 Oct 2023	PR KCL Probability Seminar: Heterogeneous diffusion: uniqueness, non-uniqueness, and selection regular seminar Ilya Pavlyukevich (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
09 Oct 2023	PR KCL Probability Seminar: On the convergence of the random walk Metropolis algorithm regular seminar Sam Power (University of Bristol)
09 Oct 2023	DS Quantum Entanglement in Disordered Systems: Lecture 2 regular seminar ()
06 Oct 2023	TP Non-minimal coupling, negative null energy, and effective field theory journal club Pardo Santos Diego (KCL)
04 Oct 2023	TP Renormalization group flows in AdS and the bootstrap program Regular Seminar Marco Meineri (U. Turin)
04 Oct 2023	TP Theoretical Physics Group Seminar regular seminar Marco Meineri (U. Turin)
03 Oct 2023	GE Geometry Seminar: On the deformation theory of L-foliations regular seminar Sebastián Velazquez (King's College London)
02 Oct 2023	PR KCL Probability Seminar: Cylindrical Lévy processes regular seminar Markus Riedle (King's College London)
02 Oct 2023	TP TBA journal club Pethybridge Ben ()
28 Sep 2023	ST Scalable variational Bayes inference for multivariate Hawkes processes regular seminar Judith Rousseau (University of Oxford)
12 Sep 2023	DS Disordered Systems Days at King's College London external event ()
08 Sep 2023	DS Low energy excitations of vector spin glasses regular seminar Flavio Nicoletti (Sapienza University of Rome)
31 Aug 2023	PR Directional gradient estimates on the Lévy-Itô space regular seminar Stefan Geiss (University of Jyväskylä (Finland) )

Autumn 2023

TP Topological 5d N=2 Gauge Theory: Novel Floer Homologies, their Dualities, and an A-infinity Category of Three-Manifolds

NT London Heilbronn Colloquium: Explicit class field theory

TP Bootstrapping Smooth Line Operators in Chern-Simons-Matter CFTs

TP Physics/Maths event

PR KCL Probability Seminar: Christmas lecture on the history of computational statistics and diffusion processes

TP An Excursion into the String Spectrum

TP Monopoles, Scattering, and Generalized Symmetries

AN Exponential inequalities in probability spaces revisited

TP Wilson Loop Duality and OPE for Form Factors of Half-BPS Operators

DS Generative AI and Diffusion Models: a Statistical Physics Analysis (Part II)

GE Quiver mutations, Coxeter groups and hyperbolic manifolds

PR KCL Probability Seminar: Fastest-Mixing Markov Chain on a Graph

TP Krylov perspective on Modular Hamiltonians and QCD.

DS Generative AI and Diffusion Models: a Statistical Physics Analysis (Part I)

TP TBA

NT Internal number theory seminar: Explicit local solubility in families of varieties

ST Annealed Sequential Monte Carlo Samplers

AN Fokas Diagonalization

TP Harmonic analysis and the conformal bootstrap reloaded

ME Maths education seminar: Effective practice in mathematical outreach

GE Knots, minimal surfaces and J-holomorphic curves

PR KCL Probability Seminar: Convergence in law in metric and submetric spaces

TP Log corrections to Kerr

TP Lonti: The initial (boundary) value problem in numerical general relativity

AN New methods and results in two old problems

TP Conformal boundary conditions, Cardy's variational ansatz and phase structure of 2D QFTs

ME Maths education seminar: What can universities learn from the learning and teaching of mathematics at King's Maths School?

GE Rational homology spheres and SL(2,C) representations

PR KCL Probability Seminar: Directed Spatial Permutations on Asymmetric Tori

TP Lonti: The initial (boundary) value problem in numerical general relativity

TP TBA

ST Variational Inference for Cutting Feedback in Misspecified Models

AN Spectral properties of random matrices with heavy-tailed entries

ME Maths education seminar: Investigating and Improving Proof Comprehension

GE Non-archimedean periods for log Calabi-Yau surfaces

PR KCL Probability Seminar: Random walks in dynamic environments.

TP BPS Ensembles of Strings and Fivebranes

TP Lonti: The initial (boundary) value problem in numerical general relativity

TP Towards black hole states

ST Unsupervised attack pattern detection in honeypot data using Bayesian topic modelling

AN Existence results for the Landau equation

TP Initial Boundary Value Problem For Vacuum Einstein Equations

ME Maths education seminar: Alternative assessments of Mathematical Proof

GE MMP for toric foliations

PR KCL Probability Seminar: When is a critical Random intersection graph different from a Erdos-Renyi one?

TP Lonti: The initial (boundary) value problem in numerical general relativity

ST A journey through model-based clustering with intractable distributions

TP t Hooft loops and integrability

ST Domain Selection for Gaussian Process Data: An application to Electrocardiogram Signals

AN Sharp estimates for conditionally centred moments and for compact operators on Lp spaces

GE Monodromy and mapping class groups of 3-dimensional hypersurfaces

PR KCL Probability Seminar: Phase transition for the late points of random walk

TP Lonti: Supergravity a la Fin de Siecle

TP TBA

NT Internal number theory seminar: How common is formal complex multiplication?

AN Plateau's problem via the theory of phase transitions

ME Maths education seminar: A variant on two-stage examination

GE Steklov eigenvalues of negatively curved manifolds

PR KCL Probability Seminar: Solving spin systems — the Babylonian way.

DS Quantum Entanglement in Disordered Systems

TP Lonti: Supergravity a la Fin de Siecle

TP TBA

ST Asynchronous development: novel experimental designs and applications of functional data analysis

AN Symmetrization inequalities on graphs

TP QFT in AdS instead of LSZ

ME Maths education seminar: The King's Factor

TP Cohomogeneity-one Lagrangian Mean Curvature Flow

PR KCL Probability Seminar: Heterogeneous diffusion: uniqueness, non-uniqueness, and selection

PR KCL Probability Seminar: On the convergence of the random walk Metropolis algorithm

DS Quantum Entanglement in Disordered Systems: Lecture 2

TP Non-minimal coupling, negative null energy, and effective field theory

TP Renormalization group flows in AdS and the bootstrap program

TP Theoretical Physics Group Seminar

GE Geometry Seminar: On the deformation theory of L-foliations

PR KCL Probability Seminar: Cylindrical Lévy processes

TP TBA

ST Scalable variational Bayes inference for multivariate Hawkes processes

DS Disordered Systems Days at King's College London

DS Low energy excitations of vector spin glasses