Seminar

Adventures in Global Health Seminar

18:30 - 20:00 6 October 2015
'''Host:''' Manchester Academic Health Science Centre '''About the event:''' ''One in three people born in the UK in 2015 is projected to develop dementia in their lifetimes'' - Alzheimer's…

Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop: Dr Takahiko Kiso

13:00 - 14:00 6 October 2015
Title: The Impact of Electricity Prices on the Installation of Residential Solar Photovoltaic Panels in Japan Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of electricity prices on…

Philosophy Research Seminar: Nikk Effingham (Birmingham)

15:00 - 17:00 6 October 2015
"Time Travel and Torturing Nikk Effingham" Abstract: As I’m about to present this paper, a time travelling DeLorean from the future appears and I stumble out of it. Delirious, and…

The politics of pollution promises: 'clean coal' and climate change, 1976 to the present

13:00 6 October 2015
This seminar is part of the lunchtime seminar series for the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM). Lunchtime seminars are typically no more than 30 minutes…

Civil society and ageing populations: what is the role of community organisations and volunteers?

14:00 - 16:00 7 October 2015
Seminar 14.00-16.00, Free networking lunch from 13.00 Civil society has become big news over the past few years. Politicians and media commentators from across the political spectrum…

English Literature and American Studies Show and Tell: Anke Bernau, Michelle Coghlan, Ben Harker

12:00 - 13:00 7 October 2015
The theme of today's informal lunchtime presentations is Teaching. The speakers are Anke Bernau, Michelle Coghlan, Ben Harker.

Humans, heuristics and voluntary hibernation - How Social Engineering can still break security in the cyber age, and why you should care...

14:00 - 15:00 7 October 2015
Humans, heuristics and voluntary hibernation - How Social Engineering can still break security in the cyber age, and why you should care...Jenny Radcliffe from Jenny Radcliffe Training…

Missing Data Seminar

14:00 - 17:00 7 October 2015
'''Host:''' Institute of Population Health '''About the event:''' The Centre for Biostatistics at The University of Manchester holds half-day seminars each March and October focused…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 7 October 2015
Nick Crossley, University of Manchester

Round of Brief Research Presentations by Members of SPLAS

17:00 - 18:30 7 October 2015
First meeting of the Spanish and Portuguese Research Seminar Series. Members of SPLAS will briefly present their current research. Venue: Samuel Alexander A4

Small area projections seminar

13:00 - 14:00 7 October 2015
Small area projections: data sources, assumptions and implementation in POPGROUP, drawing on a recent implementation for electoral wards in Manchester Manchester City Council Forecasting…

What's sex got to do with it? When a woman asks questions - Dr Bethan Harries

14:00 - 15:00 7 October 2015
In a moment in which social research is embracing ‘big data’, it is timely to reflect on the status of the qualitative interview. We must query how different types of data are valued.…

Econometrics and Applied Economics workshop: Dr Degui Li

16:15 - 17:45 8 October 2015
Econometrics and Applied Economics workshop Panel Data Models with Interactive Fixed Effects and Multiple Structural Breaks Abstract: In this paper we consider estimation of common…

Ehrhardt Seminar: David Lamb - "Let the Reader Understand: The Function of 'Narrative Asides' in the Gospel of John: A Literary and Linguistic Analysis"

14:00 - 15:30 8 October 2015
Ehrhardt seminar in Biblical Studies. 90 minutes followed by tea.

Forward Genetics of Human Immunity - Learning from Extreme Phenotypes

12:00 8 October 2015
MIG Seminar Series

Marginalia and mortality in early modern Venice

17:30 - 18:45 8 October 2015
This paper evaluates the significance of marginal images in Venice’s civic death registers. Throughout the early modern period, notaries drew attention to a small proportion of deaths…

Religious activity at the Oropian Amphiareion

16:55 - 18:30 8 October 2015
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Rethinking Remakes: Translation Beyond Language, by Jonathan Evans, University of Portsmouth

14:00 - 15:30 8 October 2015
Part of the CTIS Research Seminar Series. All welcome, no registration necessary. Abstract: This presentation focuses on film remakes as a form of translation. Remakes have often…

Understanding single cell live imaging of gene expression using Bayesian methods/The timing of cytokine stimulation differentially controls cellular heterogeneity and NF-kB-dependent gene expression

13:30 - 14:30 8 October 2015
CCB Autumn Seminar Series 2015

MCCIR AZ GSK Update Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 12 October 2015
Defining the mechanism(s) that dendritic cells utilise to initiate type-2 inflammation Peter Cook Dendritic cells (DCs) direct CD4+ T cell differentiation into distinct T helper subsets…

SCI Seminar Series - Richard Denniss - Export coal in a changing economic climate: the economics and politics of a moratorium on new coal mines

16:00 - 17:30 12 October 2015
Despite international commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions a number of countries, and companies, remain committed to significant expansion of the coal industry. The three proposed…

SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY SEMINARS SEMESTER 1 (2015- 2016)

16:00 - 18:00 12 October 2015
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 12th October 2015 4:15-6:00pm (Tea and Coffee will be available outside the boardroom at 4:00pm) Dr Gabriela Nicolescu, UCL Three faces of communism:…

The rise of Agribusiness in Europe. An innovative organisational response to the threat of price volatility in the Western European broiler chicken industry, 1945 to 1973

13:00 - 14:00 12 October 2015
Agribusiness has come to mean different things to different audiences: a vehicle for technological modernization, the erosion of traditional values, or a mechanism for avoiding transparency.…

Bombing Cancer: The Troubled History of Radium Teletherapy

03:30 - 17:00 13 October 2015
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminars Series Sept-Dec 2015. CHSTM seminars will be held fortnightly on Tuesdays at 4pm in Room 2.57 Simon Building, Brunswick Street, Manchester,…

Coordinating genome segregation with cell division

13:00 - 14:00 13 October 2015
Eukaryotic cells actively remodel their actin and microtubule cytoskeletons as they enter and exit mitosis. In this talk I will discuss the ways in which these two filament systems…

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