Seminars and events

Upcoming events

EXtremes and Rare Events in Climate and related applications
18 June 2025, Slingo lecture theatre, JJ Thompson Building
Organisers: Abhishek Pal Majumder and Jeroen Wouters
Register before 2 June 2025

Spectral Theory Workshop
26 - 29 August 2025, University of Reading
Organisers: Sugata Mondal(University of Reading), Asma Hassannezhad (University of Bristol)

Seminar series

Seminars and colloquia in Mathematics and Statistics
Analysis seminars: Wednesdays, 16:00–17:00 or as advertised, contact Jani Virtanen. See also Analysis Seminars at Reading
Numerical analysis seminars: Fridays, 14:00–15:00 (or as advertised)
Pure mathematics seminars: Wednesday afternoons, contact Titus Hilberdink or Jani Virtanen
Complex fluids and theoretical polymer physics: contact Patrick Ilg or Zuowei Wang
Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE CDT) seminars and events
PhD seminar series: our PhD students run their own seminar series
Data Assimilation Research Centre (DARC) seminars

Recent events

The Great Western Number Theory Seminar
4 April 2025, University of Reading
Organisers: Daniel Loughran (Bath), Jesse Pajwani (Bath), Sam Streeter (Bristol), Henri Johnston (Exeter), James Newton (Oxford) and Chris Daw (Reading)

Eviatar's Inaugural Talk (Joint Met-Mathstat Seminar)
1 October 2024, Brian Hoskins GU01 lecture theatre

Joint 6th Operator Theory Workshop and OPSFOTA Meeting Supported by EPSRC and Isaac Newton Institute
19 – 21 August 2024, University of Reading
Organisers: H. Arroussi, S. Miihkinen, D. Norrbo, and J. Virtanen
Assisted by: G. Asghari and S. Sadeghi
Location: Building 22, London Road Campus, University of Reading
Contact: Jani Virtanen

CMPE meeting on "EXtremes and Rare Events in Climate and related applications"
3 July 2024
Organisers: Abhishek Pal Majumder, Jeroen Wouters, Reyk Boerner

Workshop in Nonlinear PDE, Calculus of Variations & Applications
24 - 26 June 2024, University of Sussex
Organisers: Nikos Katzourakis (University of Reading), Konstantinos Koumatos and Ali Taheri (University of Sussex)

Visit of Per Enflo to the UK
3 - 14 June 2024, University of Reading (organised by Jani Virtanen)

Polymer Group Seminar: Relationship between fracture of networks and the cycle rank
28 May 2024

AIM Workshop on Riemann-Hilbert problems, Toeplitz matrices, and applications
4 - 8 March 2024, American Institute of Mathematics, California, USA
Organisers: Torsten Ehrhardt (UCSC), Haakan Hedenmalm (KTH), Alisa Knizel (Chicago), and Jani Virtanen (Reading)

34^th International Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications
31 July - 4 August 2023, University of Helsinki, Finland
Chair of the organising committee: Jani Virtanen

Extreme value statistics born out of domains of attraction
16 November 2022

"How to write 4*papers: reflections of REF 2021" , Mathematical Modelling in Soft Matter and Biological Physics and Who needs nonlinear PDE theory in the era of supercomputers
19 October 2022
Scattering and propagation of waves: theoretical and computational challenges (a workshop celebrating Simon Chandler-Wilde's 60th birthday)
27 – 29 June 2022
CMPE-LMS Conference “Modern Mathematics for Complex Systems”
29 – 30 June 2022
University of Reading SIAM-IMA Student Chapter Annual Conference
4 July 2022
"Recent advances in the calculus of variations in L∞"
13 – 14 July 2022
INI Satellite programme “Geophysical fluid dynamics; from mathematical theory to operational prediction”
30 August 2022 – 23 September 2022
LMS-CMI Research School “Methods for Random Matrix Theory and Applications
16 – 20 May 2022
LMS Women in Mathematics Day 11 May 2022
Tackling large-scale least squares problems, 28 October, 13:00–14:00 with speaker Jennifer Scott
Location: Harry Pitt 175 and remotely via Teams
25 February 2021 WORKing Diophantine Geometry Seminar
29 September - 27 October 2020, Online MPE School: Modern data-based and complex systems approaches to climate dynamics
21-23 October 2020 5th Operator Theory Workshop, supported by EPSRC and the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme, organized by Raffael Hagger and Jani Virtanen
8 June, 2020 LMS Diopanine Geometry Seminar (ROW) - Reading Edition. Organiser: Chris Daw
1-3 June 2020 SIAM-IMA Reading Student Chapter Online Conference 2020
May 18-22, 2020 Workshop on Integral Equations and Operator Theory. Organisers: Simon Chandler-Wilde, Raffael Hagger and Jani Virtanen (POSTPONED)
May 16-20 2022 LMS-CMI Research School "Methods for Random Matrix Theory and Applications". Organisers: Igor Krasovsky and Jani Virtanen
November 26, 2019 Distinguished Colloquium (Departmental Colloquium)
November 20-22, 2019 8th OPSFOTA Meeting and Operator Theory Workshop. Organiser: Jani Virtanen
November 6, 2019 Reading Old Codgers One-Day Combinatorics Colloquium. Organiser: Anthony Hilton
October 23, 2019 Morley Distinguished Lecture - SMPCS Seventh Annual Morley Seminar, by Gwyneth Stallard, OBE, Professor of Pure Mathematics, Open University
September 9-10, 2019, UK Quantitative Systems Pharmacology Network
Exchange Workshop 3. Organiser: Marcus Tindall
July 8-12, 2019 LMS Summer School - Mathematics of Climate
June 7, 2019 SIAM-IMA Student Chapter Conference
May 10, 2019 Journeys of Women in Mathematics
December, 19, 2018, One-Day Meeting 'A Wave in a Manger' - dedicated to the mathematics of waves (organiser Steve Langdon)
November, 26, 2018, Morley Distinguished Lecture - Sixth Annual Distinguished Morley Seminar by Professor Marta Kwiatkowska, Professor of Computing Systems and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Oxford
November 7, 2018, Reading Old Codgers One-Day Combinatorics Colloquium
October 17, 2018 Afternoon Meeting on Bayesian Methods
September 19-21, 2018 CliMathNet Conference 2018
September 3-4, 2018 LMS Meeting and Operator Theory Workshop (supported by the LMS and the Leverhulme Trust)
June 4, 11 ,18, 2018 Tutorials on Bayesian Statistics and Monte Carlo Methods (organised by Richard Everitt)
May 14-25, 2018 Advanced Workshop on Nonequilibrium Systems in Physics, Geosciences, and Life Sciences, ICTP, Trieste, Italy
May 11, 2018 University of Reading SIAM-IMA Student Chapter Conference
April 23-26, 2018 Summer School Mathematics of Planet Earth (organised by Tobias Kuna)
April 4, 2018 Meeting on Operator and Spectral Theory (supported by the LMS), organised by Karl-Mikael Perfekt
February 6, 2018, Southwest Network in Generalised Solutions for Nonlinear PDEs (Meeting 9)
January 31, 2018 Afternoon Meeting on Bayesian Computation
November 24-25, 2017 Workshop on 'Mathematical modelling of random multicomponent systems' (organised by Tobias Kuna)
November 24, 2017 Jennifer Scott's Inaugural Lecture
November 1, 2017 Reading Old Codgers One-Day Combinatorics Colloquium
October 2-4, 2017 Reading Operator Theory Workshop (supported by the EPSRC)
September 7-8, 2017 LMS Prospects in Mathematics Workshop 2017 (supported by the LMS)
August 29 to September 1, 2017 CliMathNet Conference 2017
July 5, 2017 LMS Invited Lecture: "Adjacency Preservers" by Peter Semrl (University of Ljubljana), see pure mathematics seminars for details
June 16, 2017, University of Reading SIAM-IMA Student Chapter Conference
June 13, 2017 7th Meeting of the Reading-Bath-Cardiff network on generalised solutions for nonlinear PDEs
May 25, 2017 SMPCS Fifth Annual Distinguished Morley Seminar: "Physics, meteorology, the Sun and how I ended up in an exciting career I didn't anticipate" by Professor Joanna Haigh, CBE (Co-Director Grantham Institute - Climate Change and Environment
May 2, 2017 Rough Paths in Probability and Statistics (supported by the LMS)
December 12-14, 2016 The British Society of Rheology Midwinter Meeting 2016 and Symposium on "The Science of Alexei Likhtman"
November 2, 2016 Reading Old Codgers One-Day Combinatorics Colloquium
September 30, 2016, 4th workshop of the Cardiff-Bath-Reading network in "Generalised Solutions for nonlinear PDE"
August 15-16, 2016 Operator Theory Workshop (supported by the EPSRC)
July 18-22, 2016 ISDA 2016, The 5th Annual International Symposium on Data Assimilation
July 4-8, 2016 Modern topics in Nonlinear PDE and Geometric Analysis, LMS-CMI Research School
May 25, 2016 Distinguished Morley Seminar
April 19, 2016 Afternoon Meeting on Bayesian Computation (Joint meeting of the RSS Reading Local Group and the University of Reading)
February 22-23, 2016, Joint Research Group Mathematical modelling of random multicomponent systems (partly supported by LMS Scheme 3 grant)

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