John Conway Spirited Seminar Series
Department of Mathematics
A Channel for Dissemination & Collaboration of Mathematical Knowledge.
Creating an ambiance of learning through collaboration.
About John H. Conway:
In his career, Conway made significant contributions to mathematics in the fields of group theory, number theory, algebra, geometric topology, theoretical physics, combinatorial game theory and geometry. Conway received the Berwick Prize (1971), was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (1981), became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992, was the first recipient of the Pólya Prize (LMS) (1987), won the Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (1998) and received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition (2000) of the American Mathematical Society.
John Conway Spirited Seminar Series:
John Conway Spirited Seminar series started in 2021 by the Department of Mathematics at Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering-LUMS, Pakistan. These seminars allow mathematicians from all over the World to indulge in productive discussions on recently evolved theories, expositions, and research. These seminars are purposefully kept online (through Zoom) to avoid the logistics limitations of inviting a speaker from the mathematically developed World and provide a latitude for researchers and students to benefit from these seminars. Almost all the talks are recorded with the speaker's prior consent, and these recorded talks are available on this website. We strongly believe that staying connected with recent development through seminars is highly important for researchers living in third-world nations like Pakistan. Though John Conway never visited Pakistan, it is an endeavor to live his spirited enthusiasm for promoting mathematics. A humble tribute to his grand legacy and spirited attitude to promoting mathematical discussions. We invite all mathematicians, young researchers, and students to these seminars. You may get all the recordings and updates on upcoming talks on this website.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
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Spring 2024
Alberto Abbondandolo (Bochum, Germany)
Title: Shortest periodic orbits
Updated Schedule: March 22, 2024 at 10:00 AM PKST (Friday)
Jürgen Herzog (Essen, Germany)
Title: Rings of Teter type and the trace of the canonical module
Updated Schedule: February 12, 2024. (04:00AM - 05:00AM) PKST
Frank Neumann (Università degli Studi di Pavia)
Title: 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+ ….=-1/12 or the Hidden Secrets of Mathematics
Updated Schedule: February 02, 2024. (10:00AM - 11:00AM) PKST
Daniele Angella (Università di Firenze)
Title: Classification of surfaces: a path from topology to differential geometry to complex analysis
Updated Schedule: January 19, 2024. (10:00AM - 11:00AM) PKST
Fall 2023
Nabil Mustafa (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France)
Title: Expansion in Planar Graphs
Updated Schedule: December 5, 2023. (4:00PM - 5:00PM) PKST
Peter Stevenhagen (Leiden University, Netherlands)
Title: Escher and Droste in Pakistan
Schedule: December 1, 2023. (11:30AM - 12:30PM) PKST
Emanuela De Negri (Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Genova, Genova , Italy)
Title: Cartwright-Sturmfel Ideals of graphs and linear spaces
Schedule: TBA, 2023, 2023. (4:00PM - 5:00PM) PKST
TBA (University , TBA)
Title: TBA
Schedule: TBA, 2023. (4:00PM - 5:00PM) PKST
Charlene Kalle (Leiden University, Netherlands)
Title: Normal numbers in various number systems
Schedule: November 24, 2023 (10:30AM - 11:30AM) PKST
Špela Špenko (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium)
Title: HMS Symmetries and Hypergeometric Systems
Schedule: November 17, 2023 (11:30 AM - 12:30 PM) PKST (Friday)
Andrea Solotar (Universidad de Buenos Aires , Argentina)
Title: About Han's conjecture
Schedule: October 23, 2023. (4:00PM - 5:00PM) PKST
Hassan Azad (Professor KFUPM, KSA)
Title: SEMISIMPLE ALGEBRAS OF VECTOR FIELDS IN C3
Schedule: October 16, 2023. (4:00PM - 5:00PM) PKST
Marco Abate (University of Pisa , Italy)
Title: In Search of lost roots
Schedule: October 13, 2023. (10:00AM - 11:00AM) PKST
Stefano Luzzatto (Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy)
Title: Fractal Geometry in Nature and Mathematics
Schedule: September 22, 2023. (3:00PM - 4:00PM) PKST
Michael Joswig (Technischen Universität Berlin , Germany)
Title: What does tropical geometry tell us about linear programming?
Schedule: September 18, 2023. (4:00PM - 5:00PM) PKST
Imre Barany (UniversityAlfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungary)
Title: Vector-sum theorems, their relatives and applications
Schedule: September 11, 2023. (4:00PM - 5:00PM) PKST
Balázs Szendrői (University of Vienna , Austria)
Title: Polytopes and graded rings
Schedule: September 04, 2023. (4:00PM - 5:00PM) PKST
Khalid Saifullah (Quaid-i-Azam University , Pakistan)
Title: Using Lie Symmetries to Solve Einstein’s Field Equations
Schedule: August 07, 2023. (4:00PM - 5:00PM) PKST
Spring 2023
Peter Hines (University of York , UK)
Title: On Conway's proof of undecidability in Elementary Arithmetic
Schedule: March 20, 2023. (4:00PM - 5:00PM) PKST
Volkmar Welker (Philipps-Universität Marburg , Germany)
Title: Spaces or real polynomials with restricted root multiplicities
Schedule: March 06, 2023. (4:00PM - 5:00PM) PKST
Vidit Nanda (University of Oxford, UK)
Title: Path signatures in topology, dynamics and data
Schedule: February 20, 2023. (4:00PM - 5:00PM) PKST
José F. Alves (University of Porto, Portugal)
Title: Inducing and deducing in chaotic dynamics
Schedule: February 06, 2023. (4:00PM - 5:00PM) PKST
Karim Adiprasito (Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Title: Combinatorial Hodge and Lefschetz theory
Schedule: January 30, 2023. (4:00PM - 5:00PM) PKST
Junaid Razzaq (University of Bologna, ltaly)
Title: Grassmannian Supermanifolds: An Introduction
Schedule: January 16, 2023. (4:00PM - 5:00PM) PKST
Nabil Mustafa (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France)
Title: Expansion in Planar Graphs
Updated Schedule: December 5, 2023. (4:00PM - 5:00PM) PKST