Lectures and seminars

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…

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.…

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…

Applied Economics Seminar - Antonio Castro Henriques (Porto)

13:00 - 14:00 24 October 2019
Title: TBA

CTIS Seminar: "Subtitles Must Go!" The Invention, Innovation and Diffusion of Dubbing

14:00 - 15:30 24 October 2019
My presentation draws on a three-year research project funded by the British Academy which investigates the transatlantic development and diffusion of interlingual dubbing in the years…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Benedict Kent (University of Manchester) "Graeco-Roman Curse Tablets and Paul’s Cursing in Galatians.”

14:00 - 16:00 24 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…

James Montaldi - The 2-body problem on surfaces of constant curvature

14:30 - 15:30 24 October 2019
James Montaldi joins us for the Geometry, Topology and Mathematicals Physics Seminar. Abstract: By reducing to the centre of mass frame, the 2-body problem in the plane reduces to…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Caleb Gordon (Manchester) "Theology, Aesthetics & Environmental Ethics: A Critical Proposal for the Inclusion of Aesthetic Experience[...]”

16:00 - 17:30 24 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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