Alison Etheridge, has been awarded the Ulf Grenander Prize in Stochastic Theory and Modeling by the American Mathematical Society for pioneering contributions to measure-valued branching processes, population genetics, and the interplay between these fields, including innovative population genetics models for structured populations.
Thu, 12 Nov 2026
11:00
11:00
C6
Existence over an arid predicate
Martin Bays
(Oxford University)
Abstract
I will talk more on the topic introduced in my Week 2 talk, though this talk will be self-contained. As mentioned then, with Itay Kaplan and Pierre Simon we prove the existence property for stably embedded predicates in simple (or just rosy) countable theories, going via the notion of an "arid" predicate. I will present this result and its proof. Time allowing, I may explain how this recovers the result (proven independently by Chatzidakis and Afshordel) that any difference field with pseudofinite fixed field extends to an existentially closed difference field without extending the fixed field, and/or discuss other examples and non-examples.
Members of the University of Oxford are invited to a 'fireside chat' with Jack Clark, Co-Founder and Head of Public Benefit at Anthropic on the topic of AI pacing, co-hosted by the Oxford Strategic Studies Group and Oxford Internet Institute.
Monday 16th November, 2-3pm in the Sohmen Concert Hall, Schwarzman Centre.
Embedding stochastic dynamics in latent manifolds of recurrent neural networks
Nartallo-Kaluarachchi, R
Lambiotte, R
Goriely, A
Physical Review Research
(05 Nov 2026)
doi:10.1103/r397-cxtl
We invite applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Applied Mathematics to work with Professor Maria Bruna at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. This is a full-time, fixed-term position for 24 months, funded by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. The starting date of the position is flexible, between January 2027 and October 2027.
Modern AI is a remarkable achievement of the mathematical sciences and is now, in turn, having an extraordinary impact on mathematics. Through filmed discussions and short interviews, we will explain and explore mathematical results, personal experiences and the choices that will shape our subject’s future.
Wed, 11 Nov 2026
13:00 -
14:00
C4
Functorial topological field theories and their extensions
Devon Stockall
(University of Southern Denmark)
Abstract
Topological quantum field theories are one of the few cases of QFT that can be treated mathematically. The goal of this talk will be to recall a mathematician's definition of TFT, and demonstrate how it recovers features of QFT that are familiar to physicists. I will then introduce the notion of extended TFT, and explain how dualizability properties can be used to classify TFTs.
Alison Etheridge has been awarded the Ulf Grenander Prize in Stochastic Theory and Modeling by The American Mathematical Society for pioneering contributions to measure-valued branching processes, population genetics, and the interplay between these fields, including innovative population genetics models for structured populations.