Lectures and seminars

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…

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…

Andreea Mocanu (Durham) - On the connection between Jacobi forms and elliptic modular forms

15:00 - 16:00 8 October 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the Number Theory Seminar Series. Abstract : Jacobi forms arise naturally in number theory, for example as functions of lattices or as Fourier-Jacobi…

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…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Elizabeth Stephens (Queensland): The Optimised Self: A Brief History of Time Management and the Quantified Body

17:00 - 19:00 8 October 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. Elizabeth Stephens (University of Queensland) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'The Optimised Self: A Brief History…

Macro Seminar - Joao Madeira (York)

16:00 - 17:00 8 October 2019
Title: The origins of monetary policy disagreement: the role of supply and demand shocks

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…

Manchester Algebra Seminar Extra Session - Actions on the Ziegler spectra of domestic string algebras

13:00 - 14:00 9 October 2019
This is an extra session of the Manchester Algebra Seminar. The speaker is Amit Kuber (IIT, Kanpur) Title: Actions on the Ziegler spectra of domestic string algebras Abstract: (Joint…

Scott McCue - Numerical and analytical studies of Hele-Shaw flows

14:00 - 14:50 9 October 2019
Scott McCue (Queensland University of Technology) joins us for the Physical Applied Mathematics Series. Abstract: In this talk I shall discuss two studies of Hele-Shaw flow. In the…

Sociology seminar: Who Is Multiracial? Investigating the Generational Locus of Mixing among 'Multi-Generation' Multiracials (Miri Song)

14:00 - 16:00 9 October 2019
While there has been significant growth in studies about ‘multiracial’ (or ‘mixed race’) individuals – that is, the children of so-called interracial unions’ – very few studies have…

The end-Permian mass extinction from a high southern palaeolatitude perspective

13:00 - 14:00 9 October 2019
Prof Chris Fielding, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. The dominant view of the continental…

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