Seminar

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 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…

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…

CPPI Research Cluster Seminar with Dr. Gaby Ramia: Welfare State Transformation as a Global, National and Comparative Phenomenon: A Regulatory and Case Study Analysis

15:30 - 17:00 25 September 2019
Please join the CPPI Research Cluster for Dr. Gaby Ramia (University of Sydney) on 'Welfare State Transformation as a Global, National and Comparative Phenomenon: A Regulatory and Case…

GPE Cluster Seminar with David Blaney- Late-Victorian Economists and Empire: Jevons, Marshall and the Cultural Political Economy of Trade

15:30 - 17:00 25 September 2019
Please join us for the joint seminar of Global Political Economy and Critical Global Politics Research clusters with David Blaney (Macalester College). David Blaney works on the social…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 18:00 25 September 2019
Alejandro Espinosa-Rada, The University of Manchester Dynamic Multilevel Approach for the study of Scientific Networks How can we understand scientific networks using a dynamic multilevel…

Philosophy Research Seminar: Dr David Liggins (Manchester)

15:10 - 16:55 25 September 2019
*Title: The Truth-teller *Abstract: The Liar is the proposition which says of itself that it is not true. It has been extensively discussed, chiefly because it raises a paradox. Relatively…

Rosario Mennuni - Double-membership graphs of models of Anti-Foundation

15:00 - 16:00 25 September 2019
Rosario Mennuni joins us for the Logic Seminar. It is an old result that the "membership graph" of any countable model of set theory, obtained by joining x and y if x is in y *or*…

Tracing planetary differentiation with experimental petrology

13:00 - 14:00 25 September 2019
Planetary accretion and core formation are thought to have been simultaneous processes, and both left distinctive imprints on the composition of the silicate portions of planets. To…

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…

Applied Economics Seminar - Alessandro Tarozzi (UPF)

13:00 - 14:15 26 September 2019
Title: TBA

CoDE Seminar: White Guilt: Black History as a pedagogical tool for repenting for group-based ‘sins’

12:00 - 13:00 26 September 2019
This session is based on data from a research school in the north of England. A white Scottish history teacher, "Joanne", made an admission of guilt during an interview in relation…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. Peter Oakes (University of Manchester) “Comparing Galatians and Romans.”

14:00 - 16:00 26 September 2019
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session. Tea and biscuits…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr. Katie Edwards (Director of SIIBS, University of Sheffield) “Rape Myths and Gospel Truths: The Bible and Sexual Violence”.

16:00 - 17:30 26 September 2019
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session.

Understanding the impact of high-risk practitioners on patient safety - Dr Matthew Spittal

12:00 - 13:00 27 September 2019
Lapses in professionalism and clinical performance are not uncommon and pose substantial threats to patient safety. Yet, the regulation of health professionals remains a fundamentally…

CEAS Department Seminar - Dr Javier Rubio Garcia

10:30 - 12:00 30 September 2019
As part of the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science School Seminar Series, we'll be welcoming Dr Javier Rubio Garcia, from Imperial College London, UK, on Monday 30th…

Douglas Howroyd (St Andrews) - On the Hausdorff dimension of microsets

15:00 - 16:00 30 September 2019
Douglas Howroyd (St Andrews) will be speaking at this research seminar, part of the Dynamical Systems and Analysis seminar series. Abstract: Microsets heuristically represent all…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Professor Kath Weston - 30th of September 2019

16:00 - 18:00 30 September 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 30 September 2019 Professor Kath Weston – University of Edinburgh “Planetary Dispossession: Ecological Inheritance and the Last Generation.”…

Advances in Data Science Seminar : ‘A global-local approach for detecting eQTL hotspots in ultra-high multiple response regressions’

14:00 - 15:00 1 October 2019
Institute for Data Science & Artificial Intelligence Leonardo Bottolo (University of Cambridge / Alan Turing Institute) - A global-local approach for detecting eQTL hotspots in ultra-high…

John Blackman (Durham) - A geometric algorithm for multiplying continued fractions with applications to the p-adic Littlewood conjecture

15:00 - 16:00 1 October 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the Number Theory Seminar Series. Abstract : In recent years, the problem of deducing the continued fraction expansion of px from the continued…

John Brigham - Evaluation of Variations in the In Vivo Mechanics of the Human Right Ventricle through Shape Analysis Based Strategies

12:00 - 13:00 1 October 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: Right ventricular (RV)…

Manchester Algebra Seminar

14:00 - 15:00 1 October 2019
The algebra seminar will resume on October 1. Speaker: Michael Livesey (Jena and Manchester) Title: Arbitrarily large O-Morita Frobenius numbers Abstract: I will outline the importance…

MES Seminar - Antonio Ciccone (Mannheim/UPF)

13:30 - 15:00 1 October 2019
Title: TBA

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