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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'.…

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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…

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CIDRAL Public Lecture: Wiktor Marzec (Warsaw): From Cotton and Smoke: Lodz – the Industrial City and Discourses of Ansynchronous Modernity

17:00 - 19:00 9 October 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. Co-hosted by the Russia and Eastern European Studies Seminar. Wiktor Marzec (University of Warsaw) will deliver a public…

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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…

Proton Therapy at the Christie

15:00 - 17:00 9 October 2019
In December 2018 the Christie NHS Foundation Trust opened a new proton beam therapy (PBT) facility. This is the first NHS high- energy PBT centre in the UK as part of a E250M NHS England…

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…

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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.

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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

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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…

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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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Scale up Partnership breakfast event: How to build your leadership capacity

08:00 - 10:00 10 October 2019
Hear from Ciara Keeling, CEO at Bruntwood Works and Robin Martin, Professor of Organisational Psychology, Alliance Manchester Business School as they discuss leadership capacity, workplace…

Cesare Ardito - Classifying 2-blocks with an elementary abelian defect group

15:00 - 16:00 11 October 2019
This week's pure postgrad seminar will be given by Cesare Ardito at 3pm in Frank Adams 1. Abstract: Donovan's conjecture predicts that given a p-group D there are only finitely many…

Five Minute Talks - Informal Applied Mathematics Seminar

16:00 - 17:00 11 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…

CEAS Department Seminar - Dr Ronny Pini

10:30 - 12:00 14 October 2019
As part of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science Department Seminar Series, we'll be welcoming Dr Ronny Pini, from Imperial College London, UK, on Monday 14…

DMDS Divisional Seminar

13:00 - 14:00 14 October 2019
DMDS Divisional Seminar Date: Monday 14 October 2019 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Catherine O'Neill – “From molecule to medicine: translation through commercialisation…

Seminar: ML to Augment Scholarly Infrastructure

14:00 - 15:00 14 October 2019
Join us for the next Computer Science Seminar with speaker Paco Nathan ML to Augment Scholarly Infrastructure This talk is about Rich Context and the associated new features for data…

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