Seminars and events

Please note that for the time being events and seminars will be accessible by video link. Contact the event organiser for further details.

List of all seminar talks (in temporal order)

Seminar series

Distinguished Colloquium
contact Kalle Perfekt

PDE Seminars
contact Nikos Katzourakis 

Analysis Seminars
Fridays, 12-1pm or 4-5pm, or as advertised, contact Jani Virtanen

Numerical Analysis Seminars
Fridays, 2-3pm (or as advertised)

Pure Mathematics Seminars
Wednesday afternoon, contact Titus Hilberdink or Jani Virtanen

Reading Systems Biology Network
contact Marcus Tindall

Complex Fluids and Theoretical Polymer Physics
contact Patrick Ilg or Zuowei Wang

MPE CDT Events (Mathematics of Planet Earth Seminars and Events)

PhD Seminar series

Our PhD students run their own PhD seminar series.

Data Assimilation (DARC) Science meetings:

• Please see the Meteorology website for information on the Data Assimilation (DARC) Seminars.

Forthcoming Events: 

•   Date tbc: Conference in honour of Simon Chandler-Wilde's 60th Birthday

Recent Events:

• June 8, 2020 LMS Diopanine Geometry Seminar (ROW) - Reading Edition. Organiser: Chris Daw
• June 1-3, 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 11-15, 2020 LMS-CMI Research School "Methods for Random Matrix Theory and Applications". Organisers: Igor Krasovsky and Jani Virtanen (POSTPONED)
• 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 Dr 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) 
• October 28, 2015, Reading Old Codgers One-Day Combinatorics Colloquium
• June 2, 2015 Analysis, Geometry and Stochastics for Planet Earth,  supported by London Mathematical Society Institute and EPSRC-CDT Mathematics of Planet Earth
• January 21, 2015 Afternoon Meeting on Bayesian Computation,  joint meeting of the RSS Reading Local Group and the University of Reading
  
• December 15-16, 2014 Boundary and finite element methods for high frequency scattering problems
  
• November 5, 2014, Reading Old Codgers One-Day Combinatorics Colloquium
• September 15-19, 2014 Advanced Training Course in Data Assimilation and Visualization in Environmental Sciences
  
• September 11-12, 2014 Recent advances in discontinuous Galerkin methods
• June 18, 2014 LMS Hardy Lecture
  
• April 23-25,  2014  International Workshop on Correlated Observation Errors in Data Assimilation
  
• March 18, 2014 Morley Distinguished Lecture
  
• February 12-14, 2014, Workshop: Nonlinear PDE and Calculus of Variations
  
• October 21 - December 20, 2013 Mathematics for the Fluid Earth Programme (at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences)
  
• December 6, 2013 Afternoon Meeting on Bayesian Computation 
• October 30, 2013 Old Codger's Combinatorics Colloquium
• September 17-18, 2013 From Spectral Gaps to Particle Fillers (supported by the LMS)
  
• July 8-12, 2013 Modern Nonlinear PDE Methods in Fluid Dynamics (LMS-EPSRC Short Course)
  
• May 29-30, 2013 Meeting on Riemann-Hilbert problems and their applications
• April 23, 2013 Meeting to celebrate Professor Robert Curnow's 80th birthday
• March 4, 2013 Morley Distinguished Lecture
  
• January 8-11, 2013 LMS-sponsored Workshop: Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics and the Theory of Extreme Events in Earth Science
• January 8, 2013 SIAM UKIE Annual Meeting
• October 31, 2012 Old Codger's Combinatorics Colloquium 
• July 9-10, 2012 Mathmondes 2012 
• July 4-6, 2012 Short Course - Instabilities and Fluid Flows 
• July 2-3, 2012 Conference in honour of Nancy Nichols' 70th birthday 
• June 27, 2012 LMS Hardy Lecture  
• April 19-21, 2012 2nd International Conference on Neural Field Theory  
  
• March 31, 2012 Numerical Analysis Postgraduate Seminar Day
• November 2, 2011 Old Codger's Combinatorics Colloquium
• May 24, 2011 Recent Advances in Capture-Recapture Methods
• January 12-14, 2011 MAGIC Postgraduate Conference
• November 3rd, 2010  Old Codger's Combinatorics Colloquium
• July 12-16, 2010 CINN Summer School
• April 12-15, 2010 10th ICFD Conference on Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics
• December 4, 2009 Reading-Warwick data assimilation day
• November 4, 2009 Old Codger's One-Day Combinatorics Colloquium
• September 14-15, 2009  MOPNet Matrix and Operator Pencil Network Meeting 1
• September 10, 2009 Waves Meeting
• June 8, 2009 Boundary Integral Equation Methods for High Frequency Scattering (joint with the University of Bath)