The Discrete Analysis Seminar has been running intermittently since its inception in 2007.
The range of topics covered by the seminar is broad. It includes, but is not limited to, harmonic analysis, additive combinatorics, analytic number theory, the geometry of Banach spaces, ergodic theory, and discrepancy theory.
During the academic year 2025-26, the seminar will normally be held on Wednesday afternoons from 1.30pm to 2.30pm in MR4 of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Speakers are encouraged to make their talk accessible to a non-specialist audience (including beginning graduate students).
Please subscribe to the calendar feed to receive regular updates about this seminar series, or email the organisers to request to be added to the seminar mailing list.
2 upcoming talks
View 148 archived talks
β οΈ Note this talk will take place in MR5.
π€ Harald Helfgott (CNRS--Jussieu)
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Wednesday 25 March 2026, 13:30-14:30
π MR5, CMS
π€ Florian Richter (EPFL)
π
Wednesday 18 March 2026, 13:30-14:30
π MR4, CMS
π€ Adam Harper (University of Warwick)
π
Wednesday 11 February 2026, 13:30-14:30
π MR4, CMS
π€ Rena Chu (University of GΓΆttingen)
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Wednesday 04 February 2026, 13:30-14:30
π MR4, CMS
π€ Ben Green (University of Oxford)
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Wednesday 28 January 2026, 13:30-14:30
π MR4, CMS
π€ Leonardo Coregliano (University of Chicago)
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Thursday 15 January 2026, 14:00-15:00
π MR13, CMS
π€ Leonardo Coregliano (University of Chicago)
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Wednesday 14 January 2026, 14:45-15:30
π MR13, CMS
π€ Leonardo Coregliano (University of Chicago)
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Wednesday 14 January 2026, 14:00-14:45
π MR13, CMS
π€ Benjamin Bedert (University of Cambridge)
π
Wednesday 26 November 2025, 13:30-14:30
π MR4, CMS
β οΈ Note: This talk will unusually take place on a Tuesday.
π€ Mehtaab Sawhney (Columbia University)
π
Tuesday 11 November 2025, 16:00-17:00
π MR2, CMS
π€ Ewan Cassidy (University of Cambridge)
π
Wednesday 05 November 2025, 13:30-14:30
π MR4, CMS
π€ Marcelo Campos (IMPA)
π
Wednesday 22 October 2025, 13:30-14:30
π MR4, CMS
π€ Davi de Castro Silva (University of Cambridge)
π
Wednesday 11 June 2025, 13:30-15:00
π MR14, CMS
π€ Joni TerΓ€vΓ€inen (University of Cambridge)
π
Wednesday 28 May 2025, 13:30-15:00
π MR4, CMS
π€ Max Xu (Courant Institute, NYU)
π
Wednesday 21 May 2025, 13:30-15:00
π MR4, CMS
π€ Tim Austin (University of Warwick)
π
Wednesday 30 April 2025, 13:30-15:00
π MR4, CMS
π€ Ben Krause (University of Bristol)
π
Wednesday 12 March 2025, 13:30-15:00
π MR4, CMS
π€ PΓ©ter VarjΓΊ (University of Cambridge)
π
Wednesday 05 March 2025, 13:30-15:00
π MR4, CMS
π€ Mike Hochman (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
π
Wednesday 26 February 2025, 13:30-15:00
π MR4, CMS
π€ Amador Martin-Pizarro (Albert-Ludwigs-UniversitΓ€t Freiburg)
π
Wednesday 12 February 2025, 13:30-15:00
π MR4, CMS
π€ CΓ©dric Pilatte (University of Oxford)
π
Wednesday 05 February 2025, 13:30-15:00
π MR4, CMS
π€ Dmitrii Zakharov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
π
Wednesday 29 January 2025, 13:30-15:00
π MR4, CMS
π€ Sean Prendiville (Lancaster University)
π
Wednesday 27 November 2024, 13:30-15:00
π MR4, CMS
π€ Dominique Maldague (University of Cambridge)
π
Wednesday 20 November 2024, 13:30-15:00
π MR4, CMS
β οΈ Joint seminar: Discrete Analysis - Geometric Group Theory - Combinatorics - Quantum Computing - Algorithms and Complexity
π€ Michael Chapman (NYU)
π
Wednesday 13 November 2024, 13:30-15:00
π MR4, CMS
π€ Olivine Silier (UC Berkeley)
π
Wednesday 06 November 2024, 13:30-15:00
π MR4, CMS
π€ Henry Bradford, University of Cambridge
π
Wednesday 04 March 2020, 13:45-14:45
π MR4, CMS
π€ Ville Suomala (University of Oulu)
π
Wednesday 26 February 2020, 13:45-14:45
π MR4, CMS
π€ Lisa Sauermann (Stanford University)
π
Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:45-14:45
π MR4, CMS
π€ Oren Becker (Cambridge)
π
Wednesday 22 January 2020, 13:45-14:45
π MR4, CMS
π€ Jonathan Hickman (Edinburgh)
π
Wednesday 15 January 2020, 13:45-14:45
π MR4, CMS
π€ Joel Moreira (University of Warwick)
π
Wednesday 27 November 2019, 13:45-14:45
π MR5, CMS
π€ Demi Allen (University of Bristol)
π
Wednesday 20 November 2019, 13:45-14:45
π MR5, CMS
π€ Matthew Tointon (University of Cambridge)
π
Wednesday 13 November 2019, 13:45-14:45
π MR5, CMS
π€ Cong Ling (Imperial College London)
π
Wednesday 06 November 2019, 13:45-14:45
π MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB
π€ Gabriel Conant (University of Cambridge)
π
Wednesday 23 October 2019, 13:45-14:45
π MR5, CMS
π€ Julian Sahasrabudhe (University of Cambridge)
π
Wednesday 16 October 2019, 13:45-14:45
π MR5, CMS
π€ Oliver Roche-Newton (RICAM, Linz, Austria)
π
Wednesday 29 May 2019, 13:45-14:45
π MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB
π€ Sean Eberhard (G-Research)
π
Wednesday 08 May 2019, 13:45-14:45
π MR4, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB
π€ Kevin Ford (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
π
Wednesday 01 May 2019, 13:45-14:45
π MR4, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB
π€ Tobias Hartnick (Giessen, Germany)
π
Wednesday 13 March 2019, 13:45-14:45
π MR11, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB
π€ Sam Chow (Oxford)
π
Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:45-14:45
π MR11, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB
π€ Dimitris Koukoulopoulos (UniversitΓ© de MontrΓ©al)
π
Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:45-14:45
π MR11, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB
π€ Daniel Palacin (Freiburg)
π
Wednesday 23 January 2019, 13:45-14:45
π MR11, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB
π€ Christopher Frei (Manchester)
π
Monday 14 January 2019, 16:15-16:55
π MR3, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB
π€ Winston Heap (UCL)
π
Monday 14 January 2019, 15:30-16:10
π MR3, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB
π€ Jason Long (Cambridge)
π
Monday 14 January 2019, 14:15-14:55
π MR3, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB
π€ Katherine Staden (Oxford)
π
Monday 14 January 2019, 13:30-14:10
π MR3, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB
π€ Ariel Rapaport (Cambridge)
π
Monday 14 January 2019, 11:15-11:55
π MR3, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB
π€ Weikun He, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
π
Monday 10 December 2018, 15:15-16:15
π MR4, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB
π€ Sarah Peluse, Stanford University
π
Monday 10 December 2018, 13:45-14:45
π MR4, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB
π€ Niclas Technau, University of York
π
Wednesday 28 November 2018, 13:45-14:45
π MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB
π€ Lam Pham, Yale University
π
Wednesday 21 November 2018, 13:45-14:45
π MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB
π€ Ben Green, University of Oxford
π
Wednesday 14 November 2018, 13:45-14:45
π MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB
π€ Joni TerΓ€vΓ€inen, University of Oxford
π
Wednesday 07 November 2018, 13:45-14:45
π MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB
π€ Sanju Velani, York
π
Wednesday 12 June 2013, 16:00-17:00
π MR4, CMS
π€ Ben Green (Cambridge)
π
Tuesday 11 June 2013, 14:00-15:00
π MR2, CMS
π€ AndrΓ‘s MΓ‘thΓ©, University of Warwick
π
Wednesday 22 May 2013, 16:00-17:00
π MR11, CMS
π€ Lillian Pierce (Oxford)
π
Wednesday 08 May 2013, 16:00-17:00
π MR4, CMS
π€ Jon Bennet (Birmingham)
π
Wednesday 01 May 2013, 16:00-17:00
π MR11, CMS
π€ Kevin Hughes (Edinburgh)
π
Wednesday 24 April 2013, 16:00-17:00
π MR11, CMS
π€ Masaki Tsukamoto (Kyoto)
π
Wednesday 20 March 2013, 16:00-17:00
π MR11, CMS
π€ Eugene Gutkin, Nicolaus Copernicus University in ToruΕ
π
Wednesday 13 March 2013, 16:00-17:00
π MR4, CMS
π€ Neal Bez (Birmingham)
π
Wednesday 06 March 2013, 16:00-17:00
π MR11, CMS
π€ Thomas Jordan, University of Bristol
π
Wednesday 27 February 2013, 16:00-17:00
π MR11, CMS
π€ Miguel Walsh (Buenos Aires)
π
Wednesday 20 February 2013, 16:00-17:00
π MR11, CMS
π€ Miguel Walsh (Buenos Aires)
π
Wednesday 13 February 2013, 16:00-17:00
π MR11, CMS
π€ Pablo Shmerkin (Surrey)
π
Wednesday 06 February 2013, 16:00-17:00
π MR11, CMS
π€ Julia Wolf (Paris)
π
Wednesday 30 January 2013, 16:00-17:00
π MR11, CMS
π€ Emmanuel Kowalski, ETH
π
Wednesday 23 January 2013, 16:00-17:00
π MR4, CMS
π€ Jon Keating, Bristol
π
Wednesday 16 January 2013, 16:00-17:00
π MR11, CMS
π€ Ghaith Hiary, Bristol
π
Wednesday 28 November 2012, 16:00-17:00
π MR11, CMS
π€ Nick Gill (Open University)
π
Wednesday 28 November 2012, 14:30-15:00
π MR11, CMS
π€ James Maynard (Oxford)
π
Wednesday 21 November 2012, 16:00-17:00
π MR11, CMS
π€ Par Kurlberg
π
Wednesday 14 November 2012, 16:00-17:00
π MR11, CMS
π€ Roger Heath-Brown, Oxford
π
Wednesday 07 November 2012, 16:00-17:00
π MR11, CMS
π€ Matthew Tointon (Cambridge)
π
Wednesday 31 October 2012, 16:00-17:00
π MR11, CMS
π€ Bryna Kra, Northwestern University, Chicago
π
Wednesday 24 October 2012, 16:00-17:00
π MR11, CMS
π€ Yonatan Gutman (Cambridge)
π
Wednesday 24 October 2012, 14:30-15:30
π MR11, CMS
π€ Ilya Vinogradov, Bristol
π
Wednesday 17 October 2012, 16:00-17:00
π MR11, CMS
π€ Yonatan Gutman (IHES)
π
Friday 24 February 2012, 16:00-17:00
π MR15, CMS
π€ Tom Sanders (University of Oxford)
π
Friday 17 February 2012, 16:00-17:00
π MR15, CMS
β οΈ Tea in Pavilion E from 3.30
π€ Boris Bukh (University of Cambridge)
π
Friday 25 November 2011, 16:00-17:00
π MR12, CMS
β οΈ Tea in Pavilion E from 3.30
π€ Pablo Candela Pokorna
π
Friday 18 November 2011, 16:00-17:00
π MR15, CMS
β οΈ Tea in Pavilion E from 3.30
π€ Adam Harper, Cambridge
π
Friday 11 November 2011, 16:00-17:00
π MR15, CMS
β οΈ Tea in Pavilion E from 3.30
π€ Carlos Vinuesa (Cambridge)
π
Friday 04 November 2011, 16:00-17:00
π MR15, CMS
β οΈ Tea in Pavilion E from 3.30
π€ Ben Green, Cambridge
π
Friday 28 October 2011, 16:00-17:00
π MR15, CMS
β οΈ Tea in Pavilion E from 3.30
π€ Matthew Tointon, Cambridge
π
Friday 21 October 2011, 16:00-17:00
π MR15, CMS
β οΈ Tea in Pavilion E from 3.30pm
π€ Wojciech Samotij, Cambridge
π
Friday 14 October 2011, 16:00-17:00
π MR15, CMS
π€ Tom Sanders (University of Cambridge)
π
Tuesday 23 November 2010, 17:30-18:30
π MR4, CMS
π€ Pablo Candela (University of Cambridge)
π
Tuesday 23 November 2010, 16:00-17:00
π MR4, CMS
π€ Hung Bui (University of Oxford)
π
Tuesday 09 November 2010, 17:30-18:30
π MR4, CMS
π€ Lilian Matthiesen (University of Cambridge)
π
Tuesday 09 November 2010, 16:00-17:00
π MR4, CMS
π€ Thomas Ward (UEA Norwich)
π
Tuesday 26 October 2010, 17:30-18:30
π MR4, CMS
π€ Nikolay Nikolov (Imperial College London)
π
Tuesday 26 October 2010, 16:00-17:00
π MR4, CMS
π€ Carlos Vinuesa (University of Cambridge)
π
Tuesday 12 October 2010, 17:30-18:30
π MR4, CMS
π€ Adam Harper (University of Cambridge)
π
Tuesday 12 October 2010, 16:00-17:00
π MR4, CMS
π€ Anthony Carbery (University of Edinburgh)
π
Wednesday 17 March 2010, 14:00-15:00
π MR12, CMS
π€ Roger Heath-Brown (University of Oxford)
π
Wednesday 03 March 2010, 14:00-15:00
π MR12, CMS
π€ Javier Cilleruelo (Universidad AutΓ³noma de Madrid)
π
Wednesday 24 February 2010, 14:00-15:00
π MR12, CMS
π€ MΓ‘tΓ© Matolcsi
π
Wednesday 17 February 2010, 14:00-15:00
π MR12, CMS
π€ Olof Sisask (Queen Mary)
π
Wednesday 10 February 2010, 14:00-15:00
π MR12, CMS
π€ Timothy Gowers (University of Cambridge)
π
Wednesday 03 February 2010, 14:00-15:00
π MR12, CMS
π€ Boris Bukh (University of Cambridge)
π
Monday 23 November 2009, 16:00-17:00
π MR4, CMS
π€ Misha Rudnev (University of Bristol)
π
Monday 09 November 2009, 16:00-17:00
π MR12, CMS
π€ Stephan Baier (University of Bristol)
π
Monday 26 October 2009, 16:00-17:00
π MR12, CMS
π€ Ben Green (University of Cambridge)
π
Friday 16 October 2009, 16:30-17:30
π MR13, CMS
π€ Assaf Naor (Courant/Weizmann)
π
Friday 06 March 2009, 16:30-17:30
π MR4, CMS
π€ Franck Barthe (Toulouse)
π
Thursday 05 March 2009, 16:30-17:30
π MR12, CMS
π€ Katalin Gyarmati (Eotvos Lorand, Budapest)
π
Wednesday 18 February 2009, 14:15-15:15
π MR12, CMS
π€ Bryna Kra (Northwestern/Paris)
π
Wednesday 11 February 2009, 14:15-15:15
π MR12, CMS
π€ Joshua Batson (Cambridge/Yale)
π
Wednesday 04 February 2009, 14:15-15:15
π MR12, CMS
π€ Rainer Dietmann (Bristol)
π
Wednesday 28 January 2009, 14:15-15:15
π MR12, CMS
π€ Boris Bukh (UCLA)
π
Friday 23 January 2009, 16:30-17:30
π MR13, CMS
π€ Ben Green (Cambridge)
π
Wednesday 03 December 2008, 14:15-15:15
π MR5, CMS
π€ Nikita Sidorov (Manchester)
π
Wednesday 26 November 2008, 14:15-15:15
π tba
π€ Chris Smyth (Edinburgh)
π
Wednesday 19 November 2008, 14:15-15:15
π MR5, CMS
π€ Ben Green (Cambridge)
π
Wednesday 12 November 2008, 14:15-15:15
π MR5, CMS
π€ Speaker to be confirmed
π
Wednesday 05 November 2008, 14:15-15:15
π MR5, CMS
π€ Adam Harper (Cambridge)
π
Wednesday 29 October 2008, 14:15-15:15
π MR5, CMS
π€ Olof Sisask (Cambridge)
π
Wednesday 22 October 2008, 14:15-15:15
π MR5, CMS
π€ Ben Green (Cambridge)
π
Wednesday 15 October 2008, 14:15-15:15
π MR5, CMS
π€ Alex Gorodnik, Bristol
π
Tuesday 13 May 2008, 16:00-17:00
π MR13, CMS
π€ Nick Kingsbury, Cambridge University Engineering Department
π
Tuesday 06 May 2008, 16:00-17:00
π MR13, CMS
π€ Emmanuel Breuillard, Ecole Polytechnique
π
Tuesday 29 April 2008, 16:00-17:00
π MR13, CMS
π€ Edward Crane, Bristol
π
Tuesday 11 March 2008, 16:00-17:00
π MR13, CMS
π€ Roger Heath-Brown, University of Oxford
π
Tuesday 04 March 2008, 16:00-17:00
π MR5, CMS
π€ Tim Browning, Bristol
π
Tuesday 26 February 2008, 16:00-17:00
π MR4, CMS
π€ Szilard Revesz (Renyi Institute, Budapest)
π
Tuesday 26 February 2008, 15:00-16:00
π MR4, CMS
π€ Christian Elsholtz, Royal Holloway
π
Tuesday 19 February 2008, 16:00-17:00
π MR4, CMS
π€ Tim Austin, UCLA
π
Tuesday 19 February 2008, 15:00-16:00
π MR4, CMS
π€ Bernard Host, Marne-le-Vallee
π
Tuesday 12 February 2008, 16:00-17:00
π MR13, CMS
π€ Trevor Wooley, Bristol
π
Tuesday 05 February 2008, 16:00-17:00
π MR13, CMS
π€ Olivier Guedon, Jessieu
π
Tuesday 29 January 2008, 16:00-17:00
π MR13, CMS
π€ Thomas Ward, UEA Norwich
π
Tuesday 22 January 2008, 16:00-17:00
π MR13, CMS
Kuwait Foundation Lectures
π€ Professor M. Bennett (University of British Columbia)
π
Monday 21 May 2007, 17:00-18:00
π Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge
π€ Julia Wolf (Cambridge University)
π
Monday 14 May 2007, 14:30-15:30
π MR4, CMS
π€ Yitzhak Katznelson (Stanford University)
π
Monday 07 May 2007, 14:30-15:30
π MR4, CMS
π€ T. N. Shorey (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)
π
Wednesday 14 March 2007, 14:00-15:00
π MR13, CMS
Kuwait Foundation Lectures
π€ Professor K. Soundararajan (Stanford University)
π
Tuesday 13 March 2007, 17:00-18:00
π Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge
π€ K. Soundararajan (Stanford University)
π
Monday 12 March 2007, 16:30-17:30
π MR11, CMS
π€ Glyn Harman (Royal Holloway)
π
Tuesday 06 March 2007, 16:30-17:30
π MR4, CMS
π€ Tim Gowers (Cambridge University)
π
Tuesday 27 February 2007, 17:00-18:00
π MR4, CMS
π€ Keith Ball (University College, London)
π
Friday 23 February 2007, 16:30-17:30
π MR4, CMS
Kuwait Foundation Lectures
π€ Professor A. Naor (Microsoft Research and Courant Institute)
π
Tuesday 13 February 2007, 17:00-18:00
π Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge
π€ Jean-Pierre Kahane (Orsay)
π
Tuesday 06 February 2007, 16:30-17:30
π MR4, CMS
π€ Jon Bennett (Birmingham)
π
Tuesday 30 January 2007, 16:30-17:30
π MR4, CMS
π€ Harald Helfgott (Bristol)
π
Tuesday 23 January 2007, 16:30-17:30
π MR4, CMS
Please see above for contact details for this list.