Lectures and seminars

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.

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…

GDI and MUI Lecture with Prof Raquel Rolnik: Urban Warfare - housing under the empire of finance

17:00 - 18:30 14 October 2019
The Global Development Institute Lecture Series is pleased to present Prof Raquel Rolnik: Urban warfare - housing under the empire of finance In cities across the world the story is…

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…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday, 14th October 2019 - Dr Catherine Allerton – London School of Economics

16:00 - 18:00 14 October 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 14 October 2019 Dr Catherine Allerton – London School of Economics “Transnational Ambivalence: Belonging and Forgetting Among Children Of Migrants…

Thomas Jordan (Bristol) - Dimension of ergodic measures projected onto self-similar sets

15:00 - 16:00 14 October 2019
Thomas Jordan (Bristol) will be speaking at this research seminar, part of the Dynamical Systems and Analysis seminar series. Abstract: Joint work with Ariel Rapaport. Self-similar…

Chris Lutsko (Bristol) - Farey sequences for Thin Groups.

15:00 - 16:00 15 October 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the Number Theory Seminar Series. Abstract : The study of thin groups has become a hot topic at the centre of a great deal of modern research.…

HCRI Research Seminar - Literary Activism in 21st Century Africa: Notes on Publics, Commons and Networks

16:00 - 19:00 15 October 2019
HCRI's second research seminar of the new term will be with guest speaker Professor Madhu Krishnan. Event title: Literary Activism in 21st Century Africa: Notes on Publics, Commons…

Macro Seminar - Julian Neira (Exeter)

16:00 - 17:00 15 October 2019
Title: From Population Growth to Firm Demographics: Implications for Concentration, Entrepreneurship and the Labor Share

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Normalised volumes of singularities

14:00 - 15:00 15 October 2019
The speaker on October 15 is: Hendrik Suess (Manchester) Title: Normalised volumes of singularities Abstract: The notion of the normalised volume of a singularity has been introduced…

Bethan Fisk (Leeds): 'Slavery and sacramental politics between Colombia’s two coasts'

17:00 - 18:30 16 October 2019
Conceptually the sacrament of baptism was a key tool in colonial governance of slavery in the Iberian world, yet the ways in which the ritual was practiced were contingent on the age,…

Mercury Seminar: Multiple Degrees-Of-Freedom Input Devices for Interactive Command and Control within Virtual Reality in Industrial Visualisations in KB L.T 1.5

14:00 - 15:00 16 October 2019
Join us for the next computer Science Mercury talk on 16 October 2019 with speaker Mario Sandoval Host: Xiaojun Zeng Multiple Degrees-Of-Freedom Input Devices for Interactive Command…

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