Lectures and seminars

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…

The Annual Harry Street Lecture

17:00 - 19:00 17 October 2019
We are delighted to announce that The Annual Harry Street Lecture 2019, entitled 'Andy Burnham on Greater Manchester and the North of England', will be delivered by Andy Burnham,…

Five Minute Talks - Informal Applied Mathematics Seminar

16:00 18 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 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?"

Istvan Kolossvary (St Andrews) - Overlapping self-affine planar carpets

15:00 - 16:00 21 October 2019
Istvan Kolossvary (St Andrews) will be speaking at this research seminar, part of the Dynamical Systems and Analysis seminar series. Abstract: We will survey the different types of…

Kat Coyte - From stability to assembly: understanding the dynamic microbiome

14:00 - 14:50 21 October 2019
(Room 3.62 Simon Building) Join us for this seminar by Kat Coyte (Manchester) as part of the Mathematics in the Life Sciences Series. Abstract: Mammalian guts harbour diverse microbial…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Olivia Casagrande - Monday 21st October 2019

16:00 - 18:00 21 October 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 21st October 2019 Dr Olivia Casagrande – University of Manchester “ Performing the Mapuche City: Political Imaginations, Emplaced Aesthetics and…

Abdul-Lateef Haji-Ali - Sub-sampling and other considerations for efficient risk estimation in large portfolios

12:00 - 13:00 22 October 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: Computing risk measures…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Stephanie Schnurr (Warwick): Challenging Hegemonic Notions of Leadership Through Storytelling: Experiences From Professionals Around the Globe

17:00 - 19:00 22 October 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. Stephanie Schnurr (University of Warwick) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Challenging Hegemonic Notions of Leadership…

Emma Bailey (Bristol) - Moments of Moments of Unitary, Symplectic, and Orthogonal matrices, and connections to various L-functions.

15:00 - 16:00 22 October 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the Number Theory Seminar Series. Abstract: I will motivate the study of moments of moments of various classical compact matrix groups via…

Macro Seminar - Andre Silva (Nova de Lisboa)

16:00 - 17:00 22 October 2019
Title: Government Financing, Inflation, and the Financial Sector

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Representations of reduced enveloping algebras for gln and restricted Yangians

14:00 - 15:00 22 October 2019
Speaker: Simon Goodwin (Birmingham) Title: Representations of reduced enveloping algebras for gl_n and restricted Yangians Let $\mathfrak g = \mathfrak{gl}_n(k)$ be the general linear…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 22 October 2019
Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series - Project discussion meeting

Accelerating streaming applications with reconfigurable accelerators: two examples from the bioinformatics and data summarization domains

14:00 - 15:00 23 October 2019
Join us for the next Computer Science Atlas talk with speaker Dionisios Pnevmatikatos, School of ECE, Technical University of Crete At the Microprocessor a Hardware Laboratory of…

Centre for Crisis Studies and Mitigation: Inaugural Meeting

13:00 - 17:00 23 October 2019
Welcome to the Inaugural Meeting of The University of Manchester Centre for Crisis Studies and Mitigation. Tentative agenda: - Centre for Crisis Studies and Mitigation: Introduction,…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: Leadership, Gender and Culture: How Discourse Analysis Can Help Make Sense of Abstract Concepts: Led by Stephanie Schnurr (Warwick)

14:00 - 16:00 23 October 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. Stephanie Schnurr (University of Warwick) will lead a CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar entitled 'Leadership, Gender and Culture:…

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