Thu, 15 Oct 2026

12:00 - 13:00
C5

TBA

Sam Looi
(California Institute of Technology, USA)
Abstract

TBA

Tue, 20 Oct 2026
14:00
L4

On the maximum diameter of pseudomanifolds

Tibor Szabó
(Freie Universität Berlin)
Abstract

The study of the maximum diameter of $d$-dimensional pseudomanifolds on $n$ vertices was initiated by Criado and Santos as an abstraction of the analogous problem for polytopes, in relation to the Polynomial Hirsch Conjecture.
A series of works by Santos, Criado, Newman and Bohman establish the asymptotics. Here we use a mixture of deterministic and random tools to 
determine the exact value for every large enough $n$ when $d=2$, and for a positive fraction of $n$ when $d\geq 3$.  

Our pseudomanifolds with maximum diameter crucially depend on a surprising connection to the cube of Euler trails in uniform hypergraphs. To this end, for every fixed uniformity $d$ and power $r \geq 2$, we show that satisfying the natural divisibility conditions implies the existence of the $r$th power of an Euler tour/trail in any large enough $d$-uniform hypergraph with large enough codegree.  The talk represents joint work with Stefan Glock, Olaf Parczyk, and Silas Rathke.

Functional Analytic (Ir-)Regularity Properties of SABR-type Processes
Doering, L Horvath, B Teichmann, J (08 Jan 2017) doi:10.48550/arxiv.1701.02015
How Fast Do Signatures Learn? Statistical Theory and Applications for Path Regression
Horvath, B Su, W Wang, B Zhang, R (22 Aug 2026) doi:10.48550/arxiv.2607.17865

We are recruiting graduate students to participant in the 2027 Gene Golub SIAM Summer School on Nonlinear Solvers and Preconditioning Techniques for Multiphysics PDEs, to be held from June 14 to June 25, 2027, on the campus of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.  The two-week school is designed for about 55 advanced international graduate students. We are pleased to provide travel and accommodation support for all selected participants.  

Rosie and Nick are just about to start their third year. Before they finished their second year, we had a chat about stuff: maths stuff and Oxford stuff.

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