Lectures and seminars

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…

Beyond Lecture Capture - does screen casting encourage student engagement? (Humanities Teaching Academy Workshops 2019-20)

13:00 - 14:00 4 February 2020
For the 2018/19 academic year the PLAN30852/60852 Green Infrastructure & Sustainable Cities module produced weekly screen casts to introduce students to the topics being debated in…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Christian Fuchs (Westminster): Capitalism and Communication: Critical Theory in the Age of the Internet and Communicative/Digital Capitalism

17:30 - 19:00 4 February 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programme. Christian Fuchs, professor of media and communication studies and Director of the Communication…

Dr Joanne Konkel, Inaugural Lister Lecture: Tissue-specific control of immune responses in the oral mucosa

11:30 - 12:30 4 February 2020
Maintaining integrity of mucosal barrier surfaces, the major interfaces between our inside body and the outside world, presents unique challenges to the immune system. Each barrier…

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…

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

14:00 - 15:00 5 February 2020
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: Christian Fuchs (Westminster): Internet Platforms, Social Media & Society

14:00 - 16:00 5 February 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programme. Christian Fuchs, professor of media and communication studies and Director of the Communication…

Matthieu Roche - Continuous Marangoni flows

14:00 - 15:00 5 February 2020
Matthieu Roche (University of Paris Diderot) joins us for this seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series. Title: Continuous Marangoni flows Abstract: The presence of a surface-concentration…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 5 February 2020
Örjan Bodin, Stockholm Resilience Centre A network perspective in understanding environmental governance: how cooperation, conflict and the natural environment interact in shaping…

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,…

Philosophy Research Seminar - Dr Wesley Buckwalter (Manchester)

15:10 - 16:50 5 February 2020
*Title: The Replication Crisis and Philosophy *Abstract: The replication crisis is perceived by many as one of the most significant threats to the reliability of research in cognitive…

Sascha Post - Linear Lie Groups and o-minimality.

15:00 5 February 2020
Sascha Post joins us for the logic seminar It is well known since the 80's that any group definable in an o-minimal expansion of the reals can be equipped with a Lie group structure.…

Sociology seminar - Being Available: Relational Agency and Kinship Time in the Narratives of Egg and Sperm Donors (Leah Gilman)

14:00 - 15:00 5 February 2020
Please join us for the first Sociology Departmental Seminar of the semester. All are welcome. Abstract: Historically, the connections created through donor conception have often…

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