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HADES: fast singularity detection via local measure comparison
Lim, U Oberhauser, H Nanda, V SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science
Goodness-of-fit via count statistics in dense random simplicial complexes
Temcinas, T Nanda, V Reinert, G Foundations of Data Science (01 Aug 2025)

What's the one thing you know about maths now that you didn't know at school (with thanks to Sam Cohen for the idea)?

Stratified manifolds with corners
Joyce, D (29 Jul 2025)
Cyclic Subsets in Regular Dirac Graphs
Draganić, N Keevash, P Müyesser, A International Mathematics Research Notices volume 2025 issue 14 (22 Jul 2025)
Topological classification of tumour-immune interactions and dynamics
Yang, J Fang, H Dhesi, J Yoon, I Bull, J Byrne, H Harrington, H Grindstaff, G Journal of Mathematical Biology volume 91 issue 3 (05 Aug 2025)
Advection-dominated models of atherosclerotic plaque composition: the impacts of cell death and cholesterol toxicity
Ahmed, I Byrne, H Myerscough, M Mathematical Biosciences volume 387 (11 Jul 2025)

Part 2 of video featuring Mirzakhani Society students Ellie Gupa and Sienna Jacobs. What advice would they give to a 13- year-old girl who doesn't think maths is for them?

Tue, 02 Dec 2025
14:00
L6

An Explicit Basis for the Centre of the Restricted Enveloping Algebra of sl_2

Zhenyu Yang, Rick Chen
(Oxford University)
Abstract

The centre of the universal enveloping algebra of a complex semisimple Lie algebra has been understood for a long time since the pioneering work of Harish-Chandra. In contrast, the centres of the equivalent notions in characteristic p are still yet to be computed explicitly. In this talk, Zhenyu Yang and Rick Chen will present an explicit basis for the centre of the restricted enveloping algebra of sl_2, constructed from explicit calculations combined with techniques from non-commutative rings and Morita equivalences. They will then explain how to generalise the argument to compute the centre of the distribution algebra of the second Frobenius kernel of the algebraic group SL_2. This work was part of their summer project under the supervision of Konstantin Ardakov.

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