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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

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…

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…

The Heart of the Home: The Design and Material Culture of the Modern Kitchen

18:00 - 19:30 3 October 2019
Association for Art History Annual Public Lecture A Whitworth Studies Event Deborah Sugg Ryan, Professor of Design History and Theory, Plymouth University The Heart of the Home: The…

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…

CoDE Seminar: Conviviality at/from the border

12:00 - 13:00 4 October 2019
Luke de Noronha presents a CoDE seminar on Conviviality at/from the border: Paul Gilroy’s theorisations of ‘conviviality’ have been profoundly generative, leading some sociologists…

Five Minute Talks - Informal Applied Mathematics Seminar

16:00 - 17:00 4 October 2019
We will be resuming the Informal Applied Mathematics seminars for the new academic year with the customary 5-minute talks. Students will be presenting their PhDs (so far) in no more…

Five Minute Talks - Pure Postgraduate Seminar

15:00 - 16:00 4 October 2019
The first pure postgrad seminar of the year will be the traditional 5 minute talks. The event will take place in Frank Adams 1 You’re all welcome to attend, so feel free to join. …

MaRMN Seminar - 04 October 2019, 1pm Michael Smith Lecture Theatre - Professor Martin Lowe

13:00 - 14:00 4 October 2019
Professor Martin Lowe, The University of Manchester - Understanding how defects in the secretory pathway cause skeletal disease

Philosophy Research Seminar: Professor Luke Russell (Sydney)

15:00 - 17:00 4 October 2019
This event is being coorganised with MANCEPT. Please note the earlier than usual start time of 15.00. *Title: Have You Forgiven Me? *Abstract: In this talk I try to answer a series…

Valerie Fraser (Essex): 'Gordon Brotherstone's contribution to Latin American Studies'

4 October 2019
Ramsden Gybbon-Monypenny Commemorative Lecture, organised jointly by Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies and the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Joseph Baron - The role of noise and memory effects in developmental pattern formation

14:00 - 14:50 7 October 2019
(Room 2.60 Simon Building) Join us for this seminar by Joseph Baron (Manchester) as part of the Mathematics in the Life Sciences Series. Abstract: Many mechanisms have been developed…

Paul Colognese (Warwick) - Volume growth on translation surfaces

15:00 - 16:00 7 October 2019
Paul Colognese (Warwick) will be speaking at this research seminar, part of the Dynamical Systems and Analysis seminar series. Abstract: Translation surfaces can be viewed as a collection…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday 7th October 2019 - Dr Vanessa Grotti

16:00 - 18:00 7 October 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 07 October 2019 Dr Vanessa Grotti – European University Institute in Florence “Hosting the Dead: Forensics, Ritual and the Memorialisation…

BAME learning lunch

12:00 - 13:30 8 October 2019
The buffet lunch will start at 12 noon, followed at 12.30 by a 30 minute presentation by Ken Clark from the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (University of Manchester) and a panel/open discussion.

Chris Nemeth - Multimodal sampling with pseudo-extended MCMC

12:00 - 13:00 8 October 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: Sampling from posterior…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Yangians and representations of the general linear Lie algebra in positive characteristic

14:00 - 15:00 8 October 2019
The speaker on October 8 is: Lewis Topley (Birmingham) Title: Yangians and representations of the general linear Lie algebra in positive characteristic Abstract: In this talk I will…

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