Seminar series In 'News and events' News and events homepageLatest news - School of MathematicsSeminar seriesConferences and lecturesBirmingham Popular Maths LecturesInaugural lecturesNewsletter The School of Mathematics runs a collection of seminar series, which mostly take place during term time. There are seminar series in algebra, analysis, combinatorics, geometry and mathematical physics, mathematical finance, optimisation and numerical analysis, statistics and data science, and topology. The Mathematical Biology and Continuum Mechanics groups run a joint applied mathematics seminar.