Lectures and seminars

Seminar: Computer Science Atlas Talk in Kilburn L.T 1.5. Automating software development: When will we stop programming?

13:00 - 14:00 15 January 2020
Join us for our next Computer Science Seminar with speaker Dr Barry Porter, Lancaster University on Wednesday 15 January 2020 at 1pm in Kilburn L.T 1.5 Abstract: Despite extensive…

What Now? Architecture History Today

14:00 - 17:00 15 January 2020
"What Now? Architecture History Today", an event with Michiel Dehaene, Anne Kockelkorn and Huda Tayob (plus inputs by Richard Brooks, Kim Förster, Lukasz Stanek, Lea-Catherine Szacka and Ola Oduku).

CMI Seminar: Bayesian Methods for Population Forecasting

15:00 - 16:15 16 January 2020
The Cathie Marsh Institute welcomes Jon Forster from The University of Warwick who will be speaking on the topic: Bayesian Methods for Population Forecasting Abstract The estimation…

MaRMN Seminar

13:00 - 14:00 17 January 2020
Professor Kostas Kostarelos, The University of Manchester "How does the Brain respond to Implantation of Macro- and Nano-Devices?"

Evolutionary Human Capital: theoretical fundamentals and outline of a research agenda

15:30 - 16:30 20 January 2020
Dr. Carolina Cañibano is a research fellow at the Institute for Innovation and Knowledge Management in Valencia (INGENIO, CSIC-UPV). She was trained as an economist at the Universidad…

IHPO/HOPE seminar: Suzanne Grant: Using video-reflexive ethnography to examine the hidden dimensions of inter-professional safety work in an acute medical unit

14:00 - 15:00 20 January 2020
Please join us at the IHPO and HOPE joint seminar on Monday, 20th January 2020 2-3pm, Williamson Building 5th floor, seminar room 1 (5.14- directions attached) Speaker: Dr Suzanne…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 21 January 2020
Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series Christopher Brown from the University of Liverpool will be introducing a Bayesian model of predictive coding, plus linear mixed models applied…

Morgan Centre seminar: Nothing to write home about: personal stories of unlived experience (Susie Scott)

12:00 - 14:00 22 January 2020
Speaker: Professor Susie Scott (University of Sussex) Stories of identity tend to be based on positive, or ‘lived’ experience, but what happens if we turn over the mirror? Applying…

MaRMN Seminar

13:00 - 14:00 24 January 2020
Professor Robert Lucas, The University of Manchester - Using animal opsins for optogenetic applications in regenerative medicine

DMDS Divisional Seminar - Monday 27 January 2020

13:00 - 14:00 27 January 2020
DMDS Divisional Seminar Date: Monday 27 January 2020 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Sophia Ananiadou – “Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods for Biomedical applications.”…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Caroline M. Parker – University of Manchester

16:00 - 18:00 27 January 2020
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 27th of January 2020 Dr Caroline M. Parker – University of Manchester Carceral Livelihoods in Puerto Rico Dr Caroline M. Parker will present…

André Macedo (Reading) - Explicit methods for the Hasse norm principle

15:00 - 16:00 28 January 2020
Abstract: Given an extension L/K of number fields, we say that the Hasse norm principle (HNP) holds if every non-zero element of K which is a norm everywhere locally is in fact a global…

Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies 2020

18:00 - 19:30 28 January 2020
We are delighted to announce that the sixth series of Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies will be given by Prof. Dina Porat (Tel Aviv University) . The event is open to the public;…

Keith Butler - Applied machine learning for accelerated materials design and analysis

12:00 - 13:00 28 January 2020
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: I will present work showing…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Homomorphisms between Specht modules of KLR algebras - George Witty

14:00 - 15:00 28 January 2020
Speaker: George Witty - University of East Anglia Title: Homomorphisms between Specht modules of KLR algebras Abstract: Khovanov-Lauda-Rouquier algebras have an almighty presentation…

Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies 2020

18:00 - 19:30 29 January 2020
We are delighted to announce that the sixth series of Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies will be given by Prof. Dina Porat (Tel Aviv University) . The event is open to the public;…

Bogdanow Masterclass in Holocaust Studies 2020

14:00 - 16:00 29 January 2020
We are delighted to announce that the sixth series of Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies will be given by Prof. Dina Porat (Tel Aviv University). As part of the annual lecture series…

GDI Lecture with Dr Nick Jepson: In China's Wake: How the commodity boom transformed development strategies in the global south

17:00 29 January 2020
In the early years of the 21st century, breakneck economic growth in China stimulated a boom of unprecedented duration and extent in world markets for metals and fuels. In China’s Wake…

Juan del Nido (Manchester): 'Uber and gladiatorial truths: the moral traction of popular choice in Global South late capitalism'

17:00 - 18:30 29 January 2020
Abstract: Based on my fieldwork into the logics, rhetoric and affects surrounding the Uber conflict in Buenos Aires, Argentina, I will examine how the middle class’ conviction that…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 29 January 2020
Matthew Smith, University of Greenwich Understanding collaboration patterns on UK funded research projects - a network analysis This study provides an examination of inter-organisational…

Special seminar: Discovering essential extracellular receptor-ligand interactions: methods and application to pathogen and leukocyte cellular recognition

12:00 - 13:00 29 January 2020
Gavin is interested in identifying the molecular basis of cellular recognition events both between cells with our own bodies and also with pathogens. To investigate this, he has developed…

The Emergence of Platform-Dependent Entrepreneurs: Power Asymmetries, Risk, and Uncertainty

15:30 - 16:30 29 January 2020
Join us for MIOIR External Seminar Series 19/20, seminar hosted by Professor Martin Kenney. Abstract: Online digital platforms organize and mediate an ever-increasing share of economic…

CODE Seminar: Race, Class and Gender and the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Does School Prepare Men for Prison?

12:00 - 13:00 30 January 2020
The potential link between educational ‘failure’ and offending is perennially debated. Research and popular discourses tend to focus on the community, cultural or family backgrounds…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Kimberley Fowler (Durham University) ‘Asceticism in Late-Antique Egypt as told through the Book of Thomas the Contender (NHC II,7)’

14:00 - 16:00 30 January 2020
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…

Tyndall Manchester seminar- Professor David Schultz- Atmosfear: Communicating the effects of climate change on extreme weather

12:30 - 13:30 30 January 2020
The potential and serious effects of anthropogenic climate change are often communicated through the soundbite that anthropogenic climate change will produce more extreme weather. This…

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