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Chris and Javier and the plant
When you've got the world's largest and smelliest flower you want to know why it is so large and why it is so smelly.

A huge and pungent story of Oxford scientific collaboration starring botanist Chris Thorogood and mathematician Javier Chico Vazquez.

Oxford Entrepreneurs Startup Fair

 

Wednesday 20 November 5:00PM to 7:00PM at Oxford Westgate Library, BIPC Centre

 

Are you a current Oxford student or recent alum interested in working at a startup? 

SPARK 2024 is back, starting from 29th November until the 19th of December 2024. As a reminder, this coding challenge is especially suited for first-year undergraduates from all STEM disciplines. There are lots of daily prizes up for grabs, and a £1000 for the overall winner. 

 

 

Nomura have offered themselves up for an hour to network with any DPhil students that are interested in a role withNomura (@Nomura) / X them, so please don't hesitate to come over an have a chat with them. They are providing a "speed networking" set of 3 sessions with their eTrading, Quant Research and Desk Strat teams at Nomura, for interested mathematical PhD students.

Mon, 10 Mar 2025
14:15
L5

A functorial approach to quantization of symplectic singularities

Lewis Topley
(University of Bath)
Abstract

Namikawa has shown that the functor of flat graded Poisson deformations of a conic symplectic singularity is unobstructed and pro-representable. In a subsequent work, Losev showed that the universal Poisson deformation admits, a quantization which enjoys a rather remarkable universal property. In a recent work, we have repackaged the latter theorem as an expression of the representability of a new functor: the functor of quantizations. I will describe how this theorem leads to an easy proof of the existence of a universal equivariant quantizations, and outline a work in progress in which we describe a presentation of a rather complicated quantum Hamiltonian reduction: the finite W-algebra associated to a nilpotent element in a classical Lie algebra. The latter result hinges on new presentations of twisted Yangians.

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