Lectures and seminars

Andy Archer - Liquid droplets on a surface

14:00 - 14:50 20 November 2019
Andy Archer (Loughborough University) joins us for the Physical Applied Mathematics Series, back in our usual room of Frank Adams 1, Alan Turing Building. The talk will begin with…

CGP Seminar with Debbie Lisle: Making Safe: the dirty history of a bomb disposal robot

15:30 - 17:00 20 November 2019
Please join the Critical Global Politics Researcher Cluster for a seminar with Debbie Lisle (Queen’s University Belfast) 'Making Safe: the dirty history of a bomb disposal robot'. …

CIDRAL Public Lecture: David Wilkinson (Manchester Metropolitan): The Drop Outs Are Anticipating Future Economic Policy: Work, Class and Countercultural Legacies

17:00 - 19:00 20 November 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. This event is co-sponsored by the Raymond Williams Society. David Wilkinson (Manchester Metropolitan University) will…

Confucius Institute Film Club

15:00 - 17:00 20 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…

From Figures to Figurations. For a Cultural Critique of Tagging - Nicola Bozzi, Salford University

16:00 - 17:30 20 November 2019
Digital Humanities Seminar

MANCEPT Seminar with Cara Nine

16:00 - 17:30 20 November 2019
Please join the MANCEPT research cluster for a seminar with Cara Nine (University College Cork). Cara researches theories of resource rights and self-determination, including questions…

Marisol Verdugo (Manchester): 'Neoliberal feminisms? Hopes of social mobility and ordinary feminisms among Chilean youths'

17:00 - 18:30 20 November 2019
In 2017, when the so-called fourth wave of feminism in Chile was about to erupt in large feminist strikes across the country a year later, school-aged young women in the city of Concepción…

MES Seminar - Ian Crawford (Oxford)

13:30 - 15:00 20 November 2019
Title: Non-parametric Analysis of Labour Supply Using Random Fields

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 20 November 2019
Paola Zappa, School of Business – Maynooth University Bridging cultural holes in organizations: The dynamic structure of social networks and organizational vocabularies within and…

Pantelis Eleftheriou - Expansions of o-minimal structures which introduce no new smooth functions

15:00 - 16:00 20 November 2019
Pantelis Eleftheriou joins us for the logic seminar. We study expansions of o-minimal structures which preserve the tame geometric behavior on the class of all definable sets. Two…

Seminar: Applying Machine Learning to the Identification and Classification of Usability Requirements

14:00 - 15:00 20 November 2019
Join us for our forthcoming Computer Science Mercury talk with speaker Manal Binkhonain in Kilburn L.T 1.5 In the last few years, supervised machine learning algorithms have been…

The ‘Energy Transition’ – Myth or Reality

13:00 - 14:00 20 November 2019
Professor Jonathan Craig, Senior Vice President, Exploration Strategies & Profession Areas, Eni Upstream, Milan, Italy, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences…

Applied Economics Seminar - Joana Naritomi (LSE)

13:00 - 14:15 21 November 2019
Title: TBA

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: Countercultural Legacies: Led by David Wilkinson (Manchester Metropolitan)

14:00 - 16:00 21 November 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. David Wilkinson (Manchester Metropolitan University) will lead a CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar entitled Countercultural Legacies.…

CTIS Seminar: Knowledge Transfer and Technical Translation in Mid-19th Century China: The Work of Scottish Missionary-Scholar Alexander Wylie (1815-1887)

14:00 - 15:30 21 November 2019
Alexander Wylie was one of the leading members of a unique concentration of Missionary-Scholars and who lived and worked in Shanghai in the second half of the 19th Century. He was one…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. George J. Brooke (University of Chester) “Patterns of Priesthood and Patterns of Prayer in the Dead Sea Scrolls.”

14:00 - 16:00 21 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…

Jonathan Warburton to present at the Northern Growth Forum

21 November 2019
Jonathan Warburton, Chairman of Warburtons, will address business leaders at the Northern Growth Forum on Thursday 21 November, an event at Alliance Manchester Business School for senior…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Thomas Harvey (Oxford Centre for Mission Studies) “Back to the Future: Xi Jinping, Civil Society and Religious Policy”

16:00 - 17:30 21 November 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.

Robert M. Corless - Compact Finite Differences and Cubic Splines

14:00 - 15:00 22 November 2019
Robert Corless from University of Western Ontario will be speaking at the seminar. Abstract : In this talk I uncover and explain—using contour integrals and residues—a connection between…

Robin Green - Minimal Parabolic subgroups of finite groups

15:00 - 16:00 22 November 2019
This week's pure postgrad seminar will be given by Robin Green at 3pm in Frank Adams 1. Abstract: Minimal Parabolic subgroups are an important tool in the study of groups of Lie type.…

SIAM 3 Minute Thesis

15:00 - 16:30 22 November 2019
An 80,000-word thesis would take 9 hours to present; can you do it in just 3 minutes and a single slide? The Manchester SIAM-IMA Student Chapter is proud to organize the first 3-Minute…

DMDS Divisional Seminar: Divisional Award presentations - Monday 25 November 2019

13:00 - 14:00 25 November 2019
DMDS Divisional Seminar: Divisional Award presentations Date: Monday 25 November 2019 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Stephen Eyre – “Investigating long range…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Hildegard Diemberger - Monday 25th of November 2019 - This Seminar has now been cancelled.

16:00 - 18:00 25 November 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Hildegard Diemberger - Monday 25th of November 2019 - This Seminar has now been cancelled.

CANCELLED Martin Benning - Deep learning as optimal control problems

12:00 - 13:00 26 November 2019
**This seminar has been cancelled due to the industrial action** We are planning to reschedule for the spring semester. Abstract: We consider recent works where deep neural networks…

SPECIAL GENETICS SEMINAR - Tuesday 26 November 2019

13:00 - 14:00 26 November 2019
SPECIAL GENETICS SEMINAR Date: Tuesday 26 November 2019 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/2.825 Ines Cebola – “Insights into type 2 diabetes regulatory networks from…

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