Lectures and seminars

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.…

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,…

CGP Doctoral Researcher Seminar with Kai Heron and Jasper van der Kist

15:30 - 17:00 23 October 2019
Please join the Critical Global Politics Research Cluster for a joint Doctoral Researcher seminar with Kai Heron and Jasper van der Kist. Kai Heron (University of Manchester) will…

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:…

Claire McIlroy - Modelling Extrusion-Based 3D Printing of Entangled Polymers

14:00 - 14:50 23 October 2019
Claire McIlroy (University of Lincoln) joins us for this seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series. Note the unusual room - G.209 in the Alan Turing Building. Abstract: The…

Confucius Institute Film Club

15:00 - 17:00 23 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…

Critical MASS Research Seminar

17:00 - 19:00 23 October 2019
Dr Gordon Fraser (University of Manchester), ‘Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America' Dr Myka Tucker-Abramson (University of Warwick), ‘Four theses on…

GDI Lecture with Prof Anthony Shorrocks - Wealth Levels, Wealth Distribution and Wealth Inequality: A Global Perspective

17:00 - 18:30 23 October 2019
This century began with a remarkable spell of global wealth creation, notable not only for rapid growth but also its broad coverage, both geographically and socially. The “Golden Age”…

Hunting the Hadean Magnetic Field

13:00 - 14:00 23 October 2019
Dr Rich Taylor, University of Cambridge, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. The Earth’s magnetic field provides a shield from devastating…

John Truss - Reconstructing the topology on monoids and polymorphism clones

14:00 - 15:00 23 October 2019
We are interested in formulating conditions on a first order structure which ensure that it can be 'reconstructed' from its automorphism group G. Classically this is often done by appealing…

Marton Balazs (Bristol) - Nonexistence of bi-infinite geodesics in exponential last passage percolation - a probabilistic way

14:00 - 15:00 23 October 2019
Marton Balazs(Bristol) will give a talk at Probability seminar. Abstract: Take a point on the 2-dimensional integer lattice and another one North-East from the first. Place i.i.d.…

Seminar: Towards Automated Performance Analysis of Python Programs with VyPR

13:00 - 14:00 23 October 2019
Join us for the next Computer Science Mercury talk with speaker Joshua Dawes Analysing the performance of programs is typically a manual effort, involving profiling certain quantities…

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