Wed, 21 Oct 2026

11:00 - 13:00
L4

TBA

Salvador Esquivel
((Mathematical Institute University of Oxford))
Abstract

TBA

Tue, 01 Dec 2026
14:00
L4

TBA

Annika Heckel
(Uppsala University)
Abstract

TBA

Tue, 17 Nov 2026
14:00
L4

TBA

Antonio Girao
(University College London)
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TBA

Tue, 03 Nov 2026
14:00
L4

TBA

Adva Mond
((Mathematical Institute University of Oxford))
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TBA

Fri, 16 Oct 2026
13:00
L4

The fiber of multiparameter persistent homology for simplicial complexes

Maria Torras-Pérez
(Oxford University)
Abstract

Multiparameter persistent homology (MPH) associates to a vector-valued filter function on a simplicial complex a multiparameter persistence module. In this talk, I will present recent joint work with Heather Harrington and Ulrike Tillmann on the inverse problem for MPH: given a persistence module, what can we say about the data that generated it? To study the geometry of the fibers of MPH, we equip both the space of filters and the moduli space of essentially finite persistence modules with natural stratifications that are preserved by the map. Over each stratum in its image, MPH restricts to a trivial fiber bundle whose fiber is a polyhedral complex. We also bound the dimension of MPH fibers in terms of multigraded Betti numbers, recovering the one-parameter bound of Leygonie and Tillmann as a special case.

Wed, 14 Oct 2026

11:00 - 13:00
L4

Composite local observables of sine–Gordon via stochastic analysis

Peter Paulovics
((Mathematical Institute University of Oxford))
Abstract
We develop a framework for the rigorous description of general local composite observables in Euclidean quantum field theories. The approach is nonperturbative and combines renormalization group ideas with techniques of stochastic analysis. Via renormalization dictated by sufficiently precise approximate solution theory of corresponding flow equations, we construct various highly singular observables of the massive sine–Gordon model on the full space up to β^2<6π, including polynomials, derivatives and vertex fields. Applications of the approach include a simple, direct proof of smoothness of observable-inserted correlation functions, and verification that the constructed objects satisfy a version of the prefactorization algebra axioms adapted to our setting. 
 
Based on joint work with M. Gubinelli.
 


 

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.

Mon, 23 Nov 2026

16:30 - 17:30
L4

TBA

Matthew Schrecker
(University of Bath)
Abstract

TBA

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