Lectures and seminars

Seminar - Predicting the Difficulty of Multiple-Choice Questions in a High-stakes Medical Exam

14:00 - 15:00 28 August 2019
Join us for the next Computer Science Seminar with speaker Victoria Yaneva Abstract: For many years, approaches from Natural Language Processing (NLP) have been applied to estimating…

Seminar - Professor Gabor J Tigyi

11:00 - 12:00 28 August 2019
Professor Gabor J Tigyi will present a talk on 'LPA-Autotaxin Axis in the Communication of Neoplastic Cells with the Tumor Microenvironment' Abstract: Cancer metastasis (MET) and…

UK approaches to public engagement with nuclear issues

12:00 - 14:00 28 August 2019
12:00-13:00 Lunch and lecture 13:00-14:00 Activity session (optional) Delivered by the National Nuclear Laboratory’s Director of External Relations, Adrian Bull, and Plant Chemist…

Ethnography Summer School

5 - 6 September 2019
Description This two-day summer school considers the practice, methods, ethics and politics of ethnography. Ethnographic fieldwork can be mentally or physically challenging and exhilarating…

Kashmr: causes of crisis and consequences for citizens

9 September 2019
HCRI warmly invites you to their annual Landmark Lecture. India’s federal government recently changed its 70 year policy on Jammu and Kashmir State, stripping the contested territory…

Striking connections: Tales of ties and affinities in the 21st Century

12:00 - 17:00 13 September 2019
This Morgan Centre event explores contemporary sentiments of connectedness and affinity. It brings together scholars whose work in a variety of ways shows light on the meaning of being…

Monday Scientific Seminar - Monday 16 September 2019

13:00 - 14:00 16 September 2019
Monday Scientific Seminar Date: Monday 16 September 2019 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Special Divisional Teaching event for ALL staff and postgrads in Division…

Mark Girolami - The statistical finite element method

12:00 - 13:00 17 September 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: The finite element method…

“Welcome to the City of Expired Tear Gas”: Tourism and Politics in Hong Kong

16:00 - 17:30 19 September 2019
During the worst political crisis in Hong Kong’s history, anti-government protesters have staged massive sit-ins at the city’s airport. This talk examines the tactics and promotional…

Seminar: Parsl: Pervasive Parallel Programming in Python

14:00 - 15:00 20 September 2019
Join us for the next Computer Science Atlas talk with Daniel S Katz from the University of Illinois, USA. High-level programming languages such as Python are increasingly used to…

Adriana Dawes - Modeling cell fate specification in organogenesis

14:00 - 14:50 23 September 2019
(Room 3.44b Simon Building) Join us for this seminar by Adriana Dawes (Ohio State) as part of the Mathematics in the Life Sciences Series. Abstract: Nematode worms of the genus Caenorhabditis…

Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies 2019

18:00 - 19:30 23 September 2019
We are delighted to announce that the fifth series of Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies will be given by Prof. Tony Kushner (University of Southampton). The event is open to…

From Royal Cosmographers to Digital Humanists: a computational approach to Early Colonial Mexico - Raquel Liceras-Garrido, Lancaster University

16:00 - 17:30 23 September 2019
Digital Humanities Seminar

Leticia Pardo-Simon (Liverpool) - Splitting hairs with transcendental entire functions

15:00 - 16:00 23 September 2019
Leticia Pardo-Simon (Liverpool) will be speaking at this research seminar, part of the Dynamical Systems and Analysis seminar series. Abstract: In the study of the behaviour under…

Scientific Seminar of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research - Monday 23 September 2019

13:00 - 14:00 23 September 2019
Scientific Seminar of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research Date: Monday 23 September 2019 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Kim Lauper – “Real-world evidence…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Marco Di Nunzio - 23 September 2019

16:00 - 18:00 23 September 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 23 September 2019 Dr Marco Di Nunzio – University of Birmingham “The Act of Living. Street Life, Marginality and Development in Urban Ethiopa…

University Sustainability Seminar Series: Finance

13:00 - 14:00 23 September 2019
Join us to talk finance for our first sustainability seminar of the 2019/20 academic year. The seminar will be chaired by Professor Amanda Bamford (FBMH) and the speakers will be…

Ajay Jasra - Unbiased estimation of the gradient of the log-likelihood for partially observed diffusions

12:00 - 13:00 24 September 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: In this work we present…

Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies 2019

18:00 - 19:30 24 September 2019
We are delighted to announce that the fifth series of Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies will be given by Prof. Tony Kushner (University of Southampton). The event is open to…

Bogdanow Masterclass in Holocaust Studies 2019

14:00 - 16:00 24 September 2019
We are delighted to announce that the fifth series of Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies will be given by Prof. Tony Kushner (University of Southampton). As part of the annual lecture…

Efthymios Sofos (Glasgow) - Multivariate Gaussian distribution for integral points

15:00 - 16:00 24 September 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the Number Theory Seminar Series. Abstract : Given a Diophantine equation with "many" integer solutions, one may ask what is known about…

HCRI Landmark Lecture on Kashmir: causes of crisis and consequences for citizens

16:00 - 18:00 24 September 2019
HCRI warmly invites you to their annual Landmark Lecture. India’s federal government recently changed its 70 year policy on Jammu and Kashmir State, stripping the contested territory…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 24 September 2019
Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series - Darya Frank, University of Manchester, will look at How to use representational similarity analysis for fMRI

Peter Loxley - Dynamic programming with sparse codes: investigating a new computational role for sparse representations of natural image sequences

14:00 - 15:00 24 September 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. ***Please note unusual time and…

Travels with Maps: a Journey through Spatial History Methods and Questions

04:00 - 05:30 25 September 2019
Digital Humanities Seminar Speaker Dr Katherine (Katie) McDonough, Senior Research Associate, The Alan Turing Institute Katie is a historian of eighteenth-century France working at…

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