Lectures and seminars

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…

HCRI End of Term Lecture - Homelessness: Creating Solutions

16:00 - 19:00 26 November 2019
Our End of Term lecture is dedicated to an important humanitarian issue we face in our own community. A growing number of people in the UK, including in Manchester, are sleeping rough.…

Joni Teravainen (Oxford) - Multiplicative functions in short arithmetic progressions

15:00 - 16:00 26 November 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the Number Theory Seminar Series. Abstract: A celebrated theorem of Matomäki and Radziwi?? states that the partial sums of a bounded multiplicative…

Macro Seminar - Yu Zheng (Queen Mary)

16:00 - 17:00 26 November 2019
Title: Innovate to Lead or Innovate to Prevail: When do Monopolistic Rents Induce Growth?

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Maximal subgroups of Grigorchuk-Gupta-Sidki (GGS-)groups

14:00 - 15:00 26 November 2019
Speaker: Anitha Thillaisundaram (Lincoln) Title: Maximal subgroups of Grigorchuk-Gupta-Sidki (GGS-)groups Abstract: The GGS-groups were some of the early positive answers to the…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 26 November 2019
Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series Internal Speaker TBC

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…

Postponed Apala Majumdar - Physical Applied Mathematics Seminar

14:00 - 14:50 27 November 2019
Due to the current strike action, this seminar has been rescheduled for 12 February 2020. Apala Majumdar (Bath) joins us for the Physical Applied Mathematics Series.

Andrew Titman - Testing the Markov assumption in general multi-state models

14:00 27 November 2019
Andrew Titman (Lancaster University) joins us for the Statistics seminar series. Recently there has been interest in the development of estimators of the transition probabilities for…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: Insurgent Empire: Shades of Resistance: Led by Priyamvada Gopal (Cambridge)

14:00 - 16:00 27 November 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism theme, presented in collaboration with Creative Manchester. Priyamvada Gopal (University of Cambridge)…

Colliders, Higgs and the strong interaction

15:00 - 17:00 27 November 2019
Particle colliders are our main laboratory tool to study the smallest distance scales accessible to humankind. Recent years have seen major advances, notably the discovery of long-…

D&E Seminar with Ed Fieldhouse, Kasper Hansen and Chris Prosser: Breaking the voting habit: do interruptions to voting have long term-effects?

15:30 - 17:00 27 November 2019
Please join the Democracy and Elections Research Cluster for a special Manchester-Copenhagen collaboration: ‘Breaking the voting habit: do interruptions to voting have long term-effects?’…

JMCE Seminar with Dr Lamprini Rori: The landscape of political violence in crisis-ridden Greece

14:00 - 15:00 27 November 2019
Please join the Jean Monet Centre of Excellence for a seminar with Lamprini Rori (University of Exeter) entitled 'The landscape of political violence in crisis-ridden Greece'. Dr…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 27 November 2019
Jürgen Lerner, University of Konstanz How to get work done online: network analysis of open peer-production Recent decades have witnessed the emergence of open peer-production in…

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