Seminar

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…

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…

Asaf Karagila - Countable unions of countable sets and the power of their power sets without the Axiom of Choice

15:00 9 October 2019
Asaf Karagila joins us for the Logic Seminar. How large is a countable union of countable sets? Assuming ZFC, the answer is simple: it's countable, and in particular its power set…

CGP Research Seminar with Charlotte Heath-Kelly: Imperial Boomerang: The Prevent Strategy as Counter-Insurgency Welfare State

15:30 - 17:00 9 October 2019
Please join the Critical Global Politics Research Cluster for Charlotte Heath-Kelly (University of Warwick) 'Imperial Boomerang: The Prevent Strategy as Counter-Insurgency Welfare State'.…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: Critical Genealogy as Method: Led by Elizabeth Stephens and Peter Cryle (Queensland)

14:00 - 16:00 9 October 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. Elizabeth Stephens and Peter Cryle (University of Queensland) will lead a CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar entitled Critical Genealogy…

Confucius Institute Film Club

15:00 - 17:00 9 October 2019
We are holding our Film Club, one of our intercultural activities for students, once again from October 2019! The club provides a platform for students to engage in inter-cultural…

CPPI Research Cluster Seminar with Yoram Gorlizki: Sub-State Dictatorship: Networks, Loyalty and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union

15:30 - 17:00 9 October 2019
Please join the CPPI Research Cluster for a seminar with Prof. Yoram Gorlizki, 'Sub-State Dictatorship: Networks, Loyalty and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union'. Yoram is a…

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…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 9 October 2019
Frank Takes, University of Amsterdam Discovering the Building Blocks of Social Networks Do people with different academic backgrounds communicate differently? Is the financial sector…

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…

Seminar - Modelling Expression Rates of Hypoxia-inducible Factors in Growing Tumours: Investigating Potentials for Non-Invasive Cancer Therapies

14:00 - 14:30 9 October 2019
Join us for the first PG Computer Science Mercury Seminar with speaker Dario Panada In-silico modelling has the potential to complement laboratory studies by accurately simulating…

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…

Spatial History: Mapping the Past/Literary GIS: Close Reading with Digital Maps - Digital Humanities Seminar

16:00 - 17:30 9 October 2019
Luca Scholz (Lecturer in Digital Humanities) and Jo Taylor (Presidential Academic Fellow in Digital Humanities) will be discussing aspects of their research.

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…

Tiziano De Angelis (Leeds) - Optimal dividends with partial information and stopping of a degenerate reflecting diffusion

14:00 - 15:00 9 October 2019
Abstract: We study the optimal dividend problem for a firm's manager who has partial information on the profitability of the firm. The problem is formulated as one of singular stochastic…

Applied Economics Seminar - Felix Ward (Erasmus)

13:00 - 14:15 10 October 2019
Title: TBA

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. Mary Mills (Newman University) “Memorialising Jeremiah’s Jerusalem: Walking the City with Walter Benjamin.”

14:00 - 16:00 10 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…

Hendrik Suess - Toric topology of G(2,5) and the del Pezzo surface of degree 5

14:30 - 15:30 10 October 2019
This talk is concerned with the topology of the orbit space of the action of a maximal compact torus on the complex Grassmannian G(2,5). More precisely, I will discuss how to calculate…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr. Kerry Pimblott (Manchester) “Beyond De-Christianization: Rethinking the Religious Landscapes and Legacies of Black Power in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter”

16:00 - 17:30 10 October 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.

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