Lectures and seminars

CEAS Department Seminar - Prof Fausto Gallucci

10:30 - 12:00 28 October 2019
As part of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science Department Seminar Series, we'll be welcoming Prof Fausto Gallucci, from Eindhoven University Technology, The…

DMDS Divisional Seminar - Monday 28 October 2019

13:00 - 14:00 28 October 2019
DMDS Divisional Seminar Date: Monday 28 October 2019 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Cloudy with a Chance of Pain? Results of our UK-wide smartphone study Presenters:…

Dying experiments. A case study

15:30 - 16:30 28 October 2019
Join us for MIOIR External Seminar Series 19/20, seminar hosted by Dr Lukas Mairhofer. Abstract: Working experiments are the exception rather than the rule. Experimental setups seem…

Seminar: Nano-carbons in the Environment: From single- to mixture toxicity assessment

12:00 - 13:00 28 October 2019
Dr Diego Stefani Teodoro Martinez, from Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory (LNNano) at the National Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Campinas, Brazil is…

Natalia Bochkina - Bayesian Inverse Problems with Heterogeneous Variance

12:00 - 13:00 29 October 2019
***Please note unusual location*** Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series.…

Teddy Chester lecture: "Why are workforce issues so critical now and what would a good strategy look like?" - Anita Charlesworth, Director of Research and Economics, The Health Foundation

17:30 - 19:30 29 October 2019
This annual lecture marks the contribution of Teddy Chester, who was the first professor of social administration at the University of Manchester. From his appointment in the early…

Tyndall Manchester seminar- Professor Sarah Bell- Community co-design for resilient infrastructure

13:30 - 14:30 29 October 2019
Infrastructure resilience requires wide stakeholder engagement, including with local communities and households. This is a challenge for professions, organisations and policies that…

Digital literacy (Humanities Teaching Academy Workshops 2019-20)

09:30 - 11:30 30 October 2019
This masterclass will enable participants to explore how they might effectively and appropriately integrate digital literacy into the teaching and learning environment to support single…

GDI Annual Lecture with Dr Rachel Glennerster - Can technology solve global poverty?

17:00 - 18:30 30 October 2019
The lives of the poor around the world have been transformed by relatively simple but powerful technologies from mobile phones to high yielding wheat seeds. Many of these technologies…

Philosophy Research Seminar: Dr Nakul Krishna (Cambridge)

15:10 - 16:55 30 October 2019
*Title: Analytic Philosophy as a Stylistic Tradition? *Abstract: Historians of analytic philosophy have looked to many things to unite the disparate range of philosophers and texts…

Volcanic outgassing of sulphur and metals

13:00 - 14:00 30 October 2019
Prof Marie Edmonds, University of Cambridge, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. It is well known that volcanic eruptions produce…

Applied Economics Seminar - Sabrina Eisenbarth (Exeter)

13:00 - 14:15 31 October 2019
Title: TBA

CoDE Seminar: Conviviality at/from the border

31 October 2019
This CoDE Seminar is presented by De Luke de Noronha, Simon Fellow at the University of Manchester, whose research focuses on immigration control, deportation and racism. Paul Gilroy’s…

Understanding our skin – what happens as we age?

13:00 - 16:00 31 October 2019
You are invited to a free seminar on Understanding our skin – what happens as we age? MICRA is pleased to announce the first seminar of the 2019/20 academic year - Understanding…

Macro Seminar - Gabriele La Spada

15:00 - 16:00 1 November 2019
Title: Investors’ Appetite for Money-Like Assets: The MMF Industry after the 2014 Regulatory Reform

MaRMN seminar with Professor Kostas Kostarelos - " How does the Brain respond to Implantation of Macro- and Nano-Devices?

13:00 - 14:00 1 November 2019
PLEASE NOTE - THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED IT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR 17 JANUARY 2020 Professor Kostas Kostarelos will be holding a seminar on Friday 1st November, Michael Smith…

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