Lectures and seminars

Adrian Leftwich memorial lecture: Cathy Boone - Spatial inequality in African political economy: rethinking uneven development

17:00 13 November 2019
Catherine Boone is Professor of Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is interested in patters conducted research on industrial, commercial…

Antoine Gaillard - Flow and stability of a viscoelastic liquid curtain

14:00 - 15:00 13 November 2019
Antoine Gaillard (University of Manchester) joins us for the Physical Applied Mathematics Series, to be held in Frank Adams 1, Alan Turing Building. Abstract: Liquid curtains are…

CGP Seminar with Louiza Odysseos

13:30 - 15:00 13 November 2019
Please join the Critical Global Politics Research Cluster for a seminar with Louiza Odysseos (University of Sussex). Louiza Odysseos is Professor of International Relations in the…

D&E Research Cluster Seminar with Lawrence McKay: Spatial inequalities and political discontent in the UK

15:30 - 17:00 13 November 2019
Please join the Democracy and Elections Research Cluster for a seminar with Lawrence McKay on 'Spatial inequalities and political discontent in the UK'. Lawrence is a Doctoral Researcher…

Frank Dondelinger - A Bayesian Multi-Task Approach for Detecting Global Microbiome Associations

14:00 13 November 2019
Frank Dondelinger, lecturer in biostatistics at the Centre for Health Informatics, Computation and Statistics at Lancaster University, joins us for the Statistics seminar series. …

Gareth Jones - Powers are easy to avoid

15:00 - 16:00 13 November 2019
Gareth Jones joins us for the logic seminar. Suppose that a set is definable in the expansion of the real field by restricted analytic functions, and is also definable in the expansion…

JMCE Seminar with Dr Ruairidh Tarvet: Northern Nationalisms: Renegotiating Swedish and Danish National Identities

14:00 - 15:00 13 November 2019
Please join the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for a seminar with Dr Ruairidh Tarvet (University of Edinburgh), entitled 'Northern Nationalisms: Renegotiating Swedish and Danish National…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 13 November 2019
Emma Seddon, Newcastle University The human in the loop: assembling machine translation and professional identity with ethnography and SNA Translators seem to be on a professional…

Nadia Sidorova(UCL) - Localisation and delocalisation in the parabolic Anderson model

15:00 - 16:00 13 November 2019
Nadia Sidorova (UCL) joins us for the Probability seminar series. The parabolic Anderson problem is the Cauchy problem for the heat equation on the integer lattice with random potential.…

Philosophy Research Seminar: Dr Jonathan Mitchell (Manchester)

15:10 - 16:55 13 November 2019
*Title: Self-Locating Content in Visual Experience and the H-Replacement Account *Abstract: According to the Self-Location Thesis certain types of visual experiences have self-locating…

Seminar: The Effect of Moderating Physical Activity Goals based on Self-Trackers’ Self-Efficacy

14:00 - 15:00 13 November 2019
Join us for our next Computer Science Mercury Talk with speaker Deema Alqathani in Kilburn L.T 1.5 Many self-trackers lose interest in tracking, disengage and ultimately they even…

Sociology Seminar: 'Political Astroturfing on Social Media: How to Coordinate a Disinformation Campaign'

14:00 - 15:00 13 November 2019
The next Sociology seminar is given by David Schoch, University of Manchester. At the very latest since the Russian Internet Research Agency’s (IRA) intervention in the U.S. presidential…

Applied Economics Seminar - Jonathan de Quidt (IISE)

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

CTIS Seminar: Developing ColloCaid, a Text Editor for Improving Vocabulary and Fluency of Academic Writing

14:00 - 15:30 14 November 2019
It is widely acknowledged that people less accustomed to academic writing may struggle to employ collocations which more experienced academic writers habitually use, like increase IN…

Curating SOLD! Dealers, Museums & the Art Market

17:00 - 18:30 14 November 2019
A Whitworth Studies Event Mark Westgarth, University of Leeds Curating SOLD! Dealers, Museums & the Art Market The Whitworth, Study Centre

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Benedict Kent and Prof. Peter Oakes (University of Manchester) “Enabling Public Understanding of Social Diversity among New Testament Audiences.”

14:00 - 16:00 14 November 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…

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