Lectures and seminars

A flipped family of alpha-continued fractions

15:00 - 16:00 14 May 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the Analysis and dynamics seminar series. Continued fractions offer a representation of real numbers that is in many ways more natural that…

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Restricted Access: The Effect of Job Candidates’ Disability on Recruitment Judgements - Prof Daniela Lup

15:00 - 16:15 14 May 2019
Speaker: Prof. Daniela Lup, Associate Professor of Human Resources Management and Organisational Behaviour, ESCP Europe Abstract: To increase workforce diversity organizations depend…

Understanding 70 Years of Growth and Distribution in China

12:30 - 14:30 14 May 2019
Understanding 70 Years of Growth and Distribution in China Since the inception of the People’s Republic in 1949, China’s economy has grown from accounting for less than 4.2 percent…

CGP Research Cluster with Debbie Lisle: Making Safe: the dirty history of a bomb disposal robot

15:30 - 17:00 15 May 2019
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for Debbie Lisle's 'Making Safe: the dirty history of the bomb disposal robot'. Debbie Leslie is a Professor in the School of History, Anthropology,…

Confucius Institute Film Club

15:00 - 17:00 15 May 2019
We are holding our Film Club, one of our intercultural activities for students once again from February! The club is providing a platform for students to engage in inter-cultural…

D&E Cluster Seminar with Sarah Liu: Limited Democracy? The Impact of Democratization on Women's Political Participation

15:30 - 17:00 15 May 2019
Democracy is believed to be more representative and inclusive than other forms of government and is generally coveted by the public. Gender equality is also considered as a core component…

Diffusions and PDEs on Wasserstein Space

14:00 - 15:00 15 May 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the Probability and statistics seminar series. By solving image dependent SDEs, diffusion processes are constructed on the Wasserstein space.…

Genericity of o-minimality for smooth functions

15:00 - 16:00 15 May 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the Logic seminar series. We give an explicit condition on the Taylor developments of a smooth real valued function \(f\) defined on a compact…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 15 May 2019
Vincent Lorant, Université Catholique de Louvain Ego-net consortium (François Wyngaerden, Pablo Nicaise, Hélène Garin, Sébastien d'Oreye de Lantremange, Sébastien Combéfis, Vincent…

Professor Liam Harte's Inaugural Lecture, 'Irish Autobiography: Singular Lives, Plural Selves'

17:30 - 19:00 15 May 2019
You are invited to attend Professor Liam Harte's Inaugural Lecture, 'Irish Biography: Singular Lives, Plural Selves'. Despite being an ancient and widespread practice in Irish culture,…

Professorial Inaugural Lecture: Prof. Liam Harte, 'Irish Autobiography: Singular Lives, Plural Selves'

17:00 - 19:00 15 May 2019
Despite being an ancient and widespread practice in Irish culture, autobiography has received far less critical attention than the nation’s poetry, drama and prose fiction. This lecture…

Elucidating the Missing Heritability of Inherited Retinal Disease: Novel Genes, Non-coding Variants and Hypomorphic Alleles

11:00 - 12:00 16 May 2019
Dr Gavin Arno from UCL will be giving a talk entitled 'Elucidating the Missing Heritability of Inherited Retinal Disease: Novel Genes, Non-coding Variants and Hypomorphic Alleles' from…

Engraving China’s Last Golden Age

12:00 - 13:30 16 May 2019
The recent discovery of a complete set of engravings of European Palaces in Yuan Ming Yuan at the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, and the presence of a complete set…

Interpolation-based rational approximation in the Loewner framework

15:00 - 16:00 17 May 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the Numerical analysis and scientific computing seminar series. The goal of model order reduction is to construct low-dimensional systems…

Scientific Seminar of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research - Monday 20 May 2019

13:00 - 14:00 20 May 2019
Scientific Seminar of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research Date: Monday 20 May 2019 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Ian Bruce – “Lumping or splitting in Systemic…

Sexuality Summer School Lecture, ‘Beside Her in Time: A Conversation with Elizabeth Freeman’

12:00 - 14:00 20 May 2019
Sexuality Summer School Lecture Elizabeth Freeman (UC Davis) ‘Beside Her in Time: A Conversation with Elizabeth Freeman’ Chair: Jackie Stacey (Manchester)

CANCELLED: CMI Afternoon Seminar: Hate crime and hate speech around Brexit - Prof. Matthew L Williams

15:00 - 16:15 21 May 2019
Speaker: Prof. Matthew L Williams, Cardiff University Abstract: An abstract will be available closer to the date of the seminar Tea/coffee and cakes from 2.45. Join us for this event,…

China's new global economic footprint: the political economy of intellectual property rights and innovation protection

12:00 - 13:30 22 May 2019
Intellectual property rights (IPRs) have become a bone of contention, not just between China and the US but also about China’s role and commitment to the global political economy.…

David Olusoga OBE Inaugural Professorial Lecture: "Identity, Britishness and the Windrush"

17:30 - 18:30 22 May 2019
Historian, broadcaster and film-maker David Olusoga OBE will deliver his inaugural professorial lecture since joining The University of Manchester as a Professor of Public History.…

Don Share in conversation with John McAuliffe

17:00 - 19:00 22 May 2019
The John Rylands Research Institute and Centre for New Writing are pleased to present: Don Share in conversation with John McAuliffe. Don Share is the editor of Poetry magazine. His…

Manchester Neuroimaging with Dr Brice Fernandez, General Electric Healthcare

13:00 - 14:00 22 May 2019
Dr Brice Fernandez of General Electric Healthcare will give a talk entitled Multi-echo EPI (and Multiband Multi-echo EPI) on task and resting state

MARG 2019 Lecture series "British Television and the Abolition of Every Possibility of Remoteness" by Dr. Léa-Catherine Szacka

12:30 - 14:30 22 May 2019
MARG 2019 Lecture series "British Television and the Abolition of Every Possibility of Remoteness" by Dr. Léa-Catherine Szacka

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