Events Archive 2026

Eoin moved to Edinburgh from Ireland in 2016 for a PhD in Theoretical and Computational Physics with Richard Blythe and Martin Evans, studying the differential equations behind bird flocking and how flocks turn. He also co-lead outreach activities for his Centre for Doctoral Training, developing skills that have helped him ...

If a finite group G acts on a complex vector space V then the set of orbits V/G is naturally an affine variety. It is almost always singular. Beginning with my PhD work, I've always been interested in resolutions of these singular spaces. I'll explain what a ...

Say you have a genus-2 surface and a diffeomorphism of that surface to itself, then you can make a 3-manifold by crossing that surface with the unit interval to form a “cylinder” and then use the diffeomorphism to glue one end of the cylinder to the other. Thurston showed that ...

For my research day job, I solve differential equations on computers. I do this by appropriating many of the special functions of mathematical physics to keep track of all kinds of information in numerical form. But looking at the inner workings of those functions leads to the striking observation: spherical ...