Seminar

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…

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.…

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…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 16 October 2019
David Schoch, The University of Manchester Projecting Signed Two-Mode Networks Research on signed networks is mainly driven by structural balance theory and the concept of clusterability…

Mo Dick Wong(Oxford) - Tail universality of Gaussian multiplicative chaos

15:00 16 October 2019
Abstract: Gaussian multiplicative chaos (GMC), formally known as the exponentiation of a log-correlated Gaussian field, has attracted much attention in recent years due to connections…

Philosophy Research Seminar: Dr Sonia Roca Royes (Stirling)

15:10 - 16:55 16 October 2019
*Title: A Priori Knowledge and Peer (Dis-)agreement *Abstract: The phenomenon of persistent disagreement is large especially in areas, like Philosophy, where knowledge is typically…

Sam Sanders - Plato and the foundations of mathematics

15:00 16 October 2019
Sam Sanders joins us for the Logic Seminar. Plato is well-known in mathematics for the eponymous foundational philosophy ‘Platonism' based on ideal objects. Plato’s 'allegory of the…

Selection for antimicrobial resistance in the environment

12:30 - 13:30 16 October 2019
Dr Aimee Murray, University of Exeter Medical School, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one…

Applied Economics Seminar - Davide Cerruti (ETH Zurich)

13:00 - 14:15 17 October 2019
Title: TBA

Big data and the psychosocial origins of depression

17 - 23 October 2019
Dear All Do Come and hear Gabriella Juhasz speak – Thursday 24th October, 12.30 – 13.30 in Lecture Theatre D, Zochonis Building – about her work on the multifactorial causation of depression.…

CTIS Seminar: Leading the Translational Dance: Music as Instrument of Translation

14:00 - 15:30 17 October 2019
This talk will explore how music not only undergoes different forms of translation but how it can be a model for and an instrument of translation, aesthetically, socially and emotionally.…

International approaches to public engagement with nuclear issues

12:00 - 14:00 17 October 2019
12:00-13:00 Lunch and lecture 13:00-14:00 Activity session (optional) Delivered by the National Nuclear Laboratory’s Director of External Relations, Adrian Bull, and Plant Chemist…

Leonid Monin (Bristol) - Cohomology ring of toric bundles

14:30 - 15:30 17 October 2019
Abstract: Using Bernstein-Kushnirenko theorem one can describe the cohomology ring of a smooth projective toric variety via volume polynomial on the space of polytopes. One can extend…

Manson Memorial Lecture - Prof. Andréas Dettwiler (University of Geneva) ‘Pauline Churches as “Learning Spaces” – Colossians and Ephesians as a Test Case’

14:00 - 16:00 17 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…

Five Minute Talks - Pure Postgraduate Seminar

15:00 - 16:00 18 October 2019
This week is the second and last 5 minute talks seminar. The event will take place in Frank Adams 1 You’re all welcome to attend, so feel free to join. This week's speakers are: …

MaRMN Seminar with Dr Ilyas Khan - "Articular cartilage maturation: the final piece in the puzzle of repair?"

13:00 - 14:00 18 October 2019
Dr Ilyas Khan, Swansea University - "Articular cartilage maturation: the final piece in the puzzle of repair?"

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