Lectures and seminars

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.

Colloquium: Living to the limits; ageing well

15:00 - 17:00 27 September 2019
The University of Manchester at Harwell Director, Professor Neil Bourne, presented on 'Living to the limits; ageing well', at the Harwell Science & Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire.…

Teaching Large International cohorts (Humanities Teaching Academy Workshops 2019-20)

11:00 - 12:30 27 September 2019
This session will explore engagement challenges when teaching cohorts with a large international element. The workshop will seek to provide practical strategies to address the issues…

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…

HCRI Research Seminar - The Rise of the Phoenix: Gender Equity in the Wildland Fire Profession

16:00 - 19:00 1 October 2019
HCRI kick start our research seminar series for the new term with guest speaker Dr Christine Eriksen and Dr Billy Haworth as Chair. Event title: The Rise of the Phoenix: Gender Equity…

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

GDI Lecture with Prof Rhys Jenkins: How China Is Reshaping the Global Economy

17:00 - 18:30 2 October 2019
The Global Development Institute Lecture Series is pleased to present Prof Rhys Jenkins, University of East Anglia to discuss "How China Is Reshaping the Global Economy" China’s growing…

How do you induce a sense of revelation? Wassily Kandinsky’s adaptation of techniques from Persian paintings

17:00 - 18:30 2 October 2019
Emily Christensen, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London How do you induce a sense of revelation? Wassily Kandinsky’s adaptation of techniques from Persian paintings

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 2 October 2019
Jan Fuhse, University of Passau Social Networks in Communicative Events Like everything in the social world, seemingly stable networks of social relationships (as on or off) only…

Yuri Sobral - Collapse of immersed granular columns

14:00 - 14:50 2 October 2019
Yuri Dumaresq Sobral (University of Brasilia) joins us for the Physical Applied Mathematics Series. Note the unusual room - 5.210 in University Place. The collapse of granular columns…

Applied Economics Seminar - Stefan Lamp (Toulouse)

13:00 - 14:15 3 October 2019
Title: TBA

Ehrhardt Seminar: Love, Boundaries & Sacred Texts Group Discussion and Planning

14:00 - 16:00 3 October 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…

Innovating policy from the centre

16:00 - 17:30 3 October 2019
The case of Indonesia’s development priorities 2014-2019. Chair: Joe Ravetz, Manchester Urban Institute How can science-technology-innovation (STI) studies help with policy and policy-makers…

Prevention is better than cure - MERI Seminar

13:00 - 14:00 3 October 2019
Professor Ashley Woodcock OBE is a consultant physician and clinical director at the North West Lung Centre and Professor of respiratory medicine and associate dean for clinical affairs…

Theodore Voronov - Thick morphisms and spinor representation

14:30 - 15:30 3 October 2019
Theodore Voronov joins us for the Geometry, Topology and Mathematicals Physics Seminar. Abstract: Thick morphisms (also called microformal morphisms) between manifolds or supermanifolds…

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