Seminar

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…

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 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…

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…

CMI Seminar: Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper: A Tool for Visualizing Multidimensional Datasets

15:00 - 16:30 30 January 2020
The Cathie Marsh Institute welcomes Simon Rudkin from Swansea University who will be speaking on the topic: Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper: A Tool for Visualizing Multidimensional…

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…

Anja Meyer - Homological algebra and its applications to groups

15:00 - 16:00 31 January 2020
This week's pure postgrad seminar will be given by Anja Meyer at 3pm in Frank Adams 1. Abstract: The talk will start with an overview on how homological algebra developed out of algebraic…

Borys Kuca -Counting polynomial configurations and equidistribution on nilmanifolds

15:00 - 16:00 3 February 2020
Borys Kuca will be speaking at this research seminar, part of the Dynamical Systems and Analysis seminar series. Abstract: The equidistribution theorem of Weyl gives a sufficient…

DMDS Divisional Seminar Programme - Monday 3 February 2020

13:00 - 14:00 3 February 2020
DMDS Divisional Seminar Programme Date: Monday 3 February 2020 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Sarah Wood – “Understanding the views of community pharmacists on…

Dov Stekel - Mathematical models for spread of antimicrobial resistance

14:00 - 15:00 3 February 2020
(Zochonis Lecture Theatre D) Join us for this seminar by Dov Stekel (Nottingham) as part of the Mathematics in the Life Sciences Series. Abstract: This seminar will cover aspects of…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Professor Thomas Stodulka

16:00 - 18:00 3 February 2020
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 3rd of February 2020 Professor Thomas Stodulka University of Berlin Affective Scholarship, Emotional Economies, and The Coming of Age on the…

IHPO seminar: Iain Snelling: Leadership development for trainee doctors

13:30 - 15:00 4 February 2020
Please join us at the IHPO seminar series on 04 February 2020 in AMBS Lecture theatre Pod A (1st floor). Networking and refreshments at 1.30pm, seminar starting at 2pm. Speaker: Iain…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Finite simple quotients of mapping class groups - Emilio Pierro

14:00 - 15:00 4 February 2020
Speaker: Emilio Pierro - LSA Title: Finite simple quotients of mapping class groups Abstract: In this talk we discuss how the Classification of Finite Simple Group can be used to…

Manchester Neuromaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 4 February 2020
Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series Herve Boutin, The University of Manchester - 'PET imaging with new tracers leucine (protein synthesis) and SV2A (synaptic density)'

Sam Chow (Warwick) - Dyadic approximation in the Cantor set

15:00 4 February 2020
Abstract : We investigate the approximation rate of a typical element of the Cantor set by dyadic rational numbers. This is a manifestation of the times two times three phenomenon,…

Seminar: Fugitive Words: Deep Learning and the Deep Past in Australia

16:00 - 17:30 4 February 2020
Digital Humanities Seminar to be given by Dr Michael Falk, Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Kent. Dr Falk is a digital humanist and scholar of eighteenth-century…

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

13:00 - 14:00 5 February 2020
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,…

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