As Ramadan will fall primarily within term time this year, the University Equality and Diversity Unit (EDU) has collated a list of spaces that can be available for prayer for staff and students who may be on-site in department buildings. In our case that means S0.30, at the far end of the South Side.
Tue, 05 May 2026
14:00
14:00
L6
We are seeking mentors and projects for online research projects with Africa. This scheme matches mentors with master’s-level students in sub-Saharan Africa who are not currently enrolled in a PhD programme. Through a combination of research experience and skills training, the scheme aims to empower students to make competitive graduate applications in Africa and elsewhere.
Professor Nicolaos Kapouleas (Oliver Smithies Visiting Lecturer) - Proofs for soap bubbles
26 February 2026, 5.15 pm, Gillis Lecture Theatre (drinks reception in the Buttery from 6.15 pm).
The dimension of the feasible region of pattern densities
Garbe, F
Kráľ, D
Malekshahian, A
Penaguiao, R
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
volume 178
issue 1
1-14
(09 Jan 2025)
Wed, 18 Feb 2026
16:00 -
17:00
L6
Fibring, foliations and group theory
William Thomas
((Mathematical Institute University of Oxford))
Abstract
The phenomena of 3-manifolds fibring over S^1 has strong links with group theory. A particular instance of this is Stallings’s fibring theorem, which roughly says that a compact 3-manifold fibres over S^1 if and only if its fundamental group admits a nontrivial homomorphism to Z with finitely generated kernel. A manifold fibring over S^1 is in some sense generalised by having a (codimension 1) foliation, with the latter forming a far broader class of objects. As such, one cannot hope in general to see a foliation in the fundamental group of your manifold, and especially not in as nice a form as a group homomorphism! In this talk we will give a gentle introduction to the objects mentioned above, before introducing a particularly nice class of foliations introduced by Thurston which do in fact appear in the fundamental group in the form of a quasimorphism with strong geometric properties. Time permitting, I will mention some ongoing work with Paula Heim on the study of these quasimorphisms from the perspective of group theory and coarse geometry.
Uncovering the Basis of Human Connectome Complexity: The Role of Neuronal Morphology
Barros Zulaica, N
Egas Santander, D
Kanari, L
Shi, Y
Perin, R
Pezzoli, M
Benavides-Piccione, R
DeFelipe, J
de Kock, C
Segev, I
Markram, H
Reimann, M
Interface dynamics in a degenerate Cahn–Hilliard model for viscoelastic phase separation
Hopf, K
King, J
Muench, A
Wagner, B
Interfaces and Free Boundaries