Lectures and seminars

HCRI Research Seminar - On The Border of Soldiering: Ambiguous Visuals of War Participation

16:00 - 19:00 5 November 2019
HCRI's fourth research seminar of the new term will be with guest speakers Dr Hannah Partis-Jennings and Dr Henry Redwood. Event title: On the border of Soldiering: Ambiguous Visuals…

Henry Moss - MUMBO: MUlti-task Max-value Bayesian Optimization

12:00 - 13:00 5 November 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: We propose MUMBO, the…

Macro Seminar - Søren Hove Ravn (Copenhagn)

16:00 - 17:00 5 November 2019
Title: The Inflation Response to Government Spending Shocks: A Fiscal Price Puzzle?

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Rationality problems, degenerations of the diagonal, and prelog Chow rings

14:00 - 15:00 5 November 2019
Speaker: Christian Boehning (University of Warwick) Title: Rationality problems, degenerations of the diagonal, and prelog Chow rings Abstract: The degeneration method due to Voisin-Merkurjev-Collio…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 5 November 2019
Seminar on How To?

Victor Beresnevich (York) - Badly approximable points: state of the art and open problems

15:00 - 16:00 5 November 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the Number Theory Seminar Series. Abstract : In this talk I will describe the state of the art and yet open problems in the theory of badly…

'What are we learning from studying new ways of working in healthcare organisations?' - Anne McBride inaugural lecture

17:00 - 19:00 6 November 2019
The People, Management and Organisations division will be hosting a special lecture on 6 November 2019 as part of a cross-school AMBS inaugural lecture series. The lectures provide…

Cameron Hall - Chains and rings of spherical magnets

14:00 - 14:50 6 November 2019
Cameron Hall (University of Bristol) joins us for the Physical Applied Mathematics Series. Note the unusual room - G.207 in the Alan Turing Building. Abstract: Neodymium-iron-boron…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Tammy A. Gales (Hofstra): Netflix and Change?: Forensic Linguistics and False Confessions in the Age of “True Crime”

17:00 - 19:00 6 November 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. Tammy A. Gales (Hofstra University) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Netflix and Change?: Forensic Linguistics…

Confucius Institute Film Club

15:00 - 17:00 6 November 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…

CPPI Seminar with Ben Noble: Consolidation or Constraint? A Theory of Legislative Closures and Openings in Authoritarian Regimes."

15:30 - 17:00 6 November 2019
Please join the CPPI Research Cluster for Dr Ben Noble (University College London) presenting on "Consolidation or Constraint? A Theory of Legislative Closures and Openings in Authoritarian…

JMCE Seminar with Dr. Nieves Perez-Solorzano Borragan- Brexit: Path dependency, unintended consequences and the Article 50 Process

14:00 - 15:00 6 November 2019
Please join the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for a seminar with Dr. Nieves Perez-Solorzano Borragan (University of Bristol) entitled 'Brexit: Path dependency, unintended consequences…

Lane P. Hughston (Goldsmiths University of London) - Lévy-Ito Models in Finance

14:00 - 15:00 6 November 2019
We propose a class of financial models in which the prices of assets are Lévy-Ito processes driven by Brownian motion and a dynamic Poisson random measure. Each such model consists…

MANCEPT Seminar with Simon Caney

16:00 - 17:30 6 November 2019
Please join the MANCEPT research cluster for a seminar with Simon Caney (Warwick). Simon's interests primarily lie in the application of political philosophy to global politics. He…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 6 November 2019
Bruce Edmonds, Manchester Metropolitan University Post hoc identification of essential properties of the social networks from a complex simulation base

Niall HD Geraghty (UCL/ILAS): 'Repaying evil with a blessing: León Ferrari’s illustrated Nunca más and beyond'

17:00 - 18:30 6 November 2019
León Ferrari (1920-2013) was and remains one of the most provocative visual artists in twentieth-century Argentina. His artistic practice (incorporating painting, collage, sculpture,…

Novel isotopic window into old crust: tracing Earth’s tectonic regime through the evolution of its continental crust

13:00 - 14:00 6 November 2019
Dr Marc-Alban Millet, Cardiff University, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. The extraction of the continental crust from the mantle,…

Omar Leon Sanchez - Existence of PPV-extensions over differentially large fields.

15:00 - 16:00 6 November 2019
Join us for this seminar, part of the Logic Seminar Series. Note the unusual room: University Place 3.213 In a 2016 paper, Crespo, Hajto, and van der Put proved that if a differential…

Roundtable with New Doctoral Students in Art History

17:00 - 18:30 6 November 2019
Florrie Badley and Kylie Gilchrist, Doctoral Candidates in Art History and Cultural Practices Roundtable with New Doctoral Students in Art History

Seminar: The Cache-Aware Roofline Model and Application Characterization in L.T 1.5

14:00 - 15:00 6 November 2019
Please join us for the forthcoming Computer Science Atlas Talk with speaker Professor Leonel Sousa Abstract: Simple models and analysis methods, such as Cache-Aware Roofline Model,…

The long way to steady state fusion plasmas - the superconducting stellarator device Wendelstein 7-X

14:30 - 16:00 6 November 2019
The stable generation of high temperature hydrogen plasmas (ion and electron temperature in the range 10-20 keV corresponding to about 100-200 million "K) is the basis for the use of…

What are we learning from studying new ways of working in healthcare organisations?

17:00 - 19:00 6 November 2019
Anne McBride, Professor of Employment Relations, will give a talk on “What are we learning from studying new ways of working in healthcare organisations – and can it lead to changes…

Applied Economics Seminar - Emma Riley (Oxford)

13:00 - 14:15 7 November 2019
Title: TBA

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: Ideologies of Violence: Threatening Language Ideologies vs. Threatening Language Realities: Led by Tammy A. Gales (Hofstra)

14:00 - 16:00 7 November 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. Tammy A. Gales (Hofstra University) will lead a CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar entitled 'Threatening Language Ideologies vs.…

CTIS Seminar: Against Translation as Creative Writing: Risks and Opportunities of the Commodification of Literature

14:00 - 15:30 7 November 2019
In this presentation I make two, related, arguments. First, that literary translation is a hybrid art from, combining elements of both literary and performing arts. This claim is made…

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