Café π news - Ramen Pop-Up

Ramen Lunch Pop-Up, Tuesday 24 February, 12 – 2 pm

  • Choose from sesame tofu or char siu pork
  • Pick your base: egg noodles or rice noodles
  • Served in a comforting vegetable broth with pak choi, beansprouts, and your choice of toppings including spring onion, red chilli, coriander, and sesame seeds

Student Tea@11 – starting Monday

The Student Tea@11 service is starting this Monday (23rd February) at 11 am in the Common Room. We look forward to welcoming you with fresh cups of coffee, tea, and a variety of biscuits, all served efficiently by one of our student volunteers.

We hope to see many of you there to start us off strong. Can’t make it Monday? No need to worry: we’ll be there Mon-Fri from 11:00 to 11:15 am until the end of Week 9.

Unitary Friedberg–Jacquet periods and anticyclotomic p-adic L-functions
 Graham, A Forum of Mathematics Sigma volume 14 e21 (09 Feb 2026)

Café π news - Ramen Pop-Up

Ramen Lunch Pop-Up, Tuesday 24 February, 12 – 2 pm

  • Choose from sesame tofu or char siu pork
  • Pick your base: egg noodles or rice noodles
  • Served in a comforting vegetable broth with pak choi, beansprouts, and your choice of toppings including spring onion, red chilli, coriander, and sesame seeds
Tue, 28 Apr 2026
15:30
L4

Formal integration of derived foliations

Lukas Brantner
(Oxford)
Abstract

Frobenius’ theorem in differential geometry asserts that, given a smooth manifold $M,$ every involutive subbundle $E \subset T_M$ determines a decomposition of $M$ into smooth leaves tangent to $E$. I will explain an infinitesimal analogue of this integration phenomenon for suitably nice schemes over coherent base rings, and then discuss an application. This talk is based on joint work with Magidson and Nuiten and ties into the work of Jiaqi Fu.

Computers, Geometry and Einstein

Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Wednesday 11 March, 5 pm.

Computers have long been useful for studying mathematical problems. But recently computer techniques have been used to prove new theorems in geometry, specifically related to the study of gravity through Einstein's theory of General Relativity. This talk will describe these developments and what they might mean for the future.

Jason Lotay is Professor of Mathematics here in the Mathematical Institute.

Tue, 05 May 2026
15:30

Realizability of tropical curves and Lagrangian submanifolds

Jeff Hicks
(St Andrews)
Abstract

Tropicalization is a process by which we replace algebraic geometry with the geometry of piecewise linear (tropical) objects. One of the central questions in the field is when this process can be reversed: that is, when can we realize a tropical object with an honest algebraic one. In this talk, I'll discuss some recent work on the tropical to Lagrangian correspondence, and state under what conditions homological mirror symmetry allows us to transfer Lagrangian realizations into algebraic ones.

PhD Scholarships at the University of Reading

PhD Scholarships are available in the Centre for Doctoral Training in the Mathematics for our Future Climate (MFC CDT) at the University of Reading. The opportunity offers an enhanced stipend of £10,000 above the UKRI minimum stipend of £21,000 for students eligible for home fees status. 

The final application deadline is Sunday 8th March 2026. 

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