Seminar

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Alice Wilson

16:00 - 18:00 10 February 2020
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 10th of February 2020 Dr Alice Wilson University of Sussex Unofficial Commemoration Of Silenced Revolution In Dhufar, Oman Studies of commemoration…

Uniform distribution of saddle connection lengths - Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar Series

15:00 - 16:00 10 February 2020
Donald Robertson will be speaking at this research seminar, part of the Dynamical Systems and Analysis seminar series. Abstract: Saddle connections on flat surfaces are those straight…

Advances in Biosciences Seminar: "Dynamic enhancer regulations in response to signalling - new paradigms for lineage priming and plasticity in differentiation" - Joshua Brickman

15:00 - 16:00 11 February 2020
Advances in Biosciences Seminar: "Dynamic enhancer regulations in response to signalling - new paradigms for lineage priming and plasticity in differentiation" - Joshua Brickman,…

Ben Barber (Manchester) - Stable isoperimetry in lattice-like graphs

15:00 11 February 2020
Abstract : In a graph G, the edge boundary of a set of vertices S is the set of edges leaving S; the vertex boundary of S is the set of vertices you can get to by following those…

Felicia Chan - The Little Nyonya: Sinicisation and the politics of return migration

12:30 - 13:30 11 February 2020
In 2008-2009, Singapore’s national broadcaster, MediaCorp, produced a 34-episode Mandarin-language TV soap series chronicling the trials and tribulations of a ‘Nyonya’ woman of Peranakan…

Macro Seminar - Robert Zymek (Edinburgh)

16:00 - 17:00 11 February 2020
Title: Bilateral Trade Imbalances

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Bases for primitive permutation groups - Melissa Lee

14:00 - 15:00 11 February 2020
Speaker: Melissa Lee- Imperial College London Title: Bases for primitive permutation groups Abstract: Let $G \leq \mathrm{Sym}(\Omega)$ be a primitive permutation group. A base…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 11 February 2020
Holly Kings, Cardiff University Brain Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) - 'Investigating the impact of closed loop auditory stimulation upon sleep and memory'

Martin Benning - Deep learning as optimal control problems

12:00 - 13:00 11 February 2020
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: We consider recent works…

Apala Majumdar - Pattern Formation in Confined Nematic Systems

14:00 - 14:50 12 February 2020
Apala Majumdar (University of Strathclyde) joins us for this event in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series (rescheduled from November 2019). Abstract: Nematic liquid crystals are…

Dr Christine Okoth, 'Black Aesthetics of Extraction' and Dr Emily Raymundo, 'Beige Empire: Netflix in Japan'

17:00 - 19:00 12 February 2020
EAC Research Seminar

Eve Hayes De Kalaf (Liverpool): 'Organising Citizens: Legal Identity, Access to Documentation and Race in the Contemporary Dominican Republic'

17:00 - 18:30 12 February 2020
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies seminar series. Abstract: Legal identity is a global story. Over the coming decade, states are aiming to provide all people,…

Gareth Boxall - The definable (p,q) conjecture and distality

15:00 - 16:00 12 February 2020
Gareth Boxall joins us for the logic seminar The definable (p,q) conjecture for NIP theories is so called on account of a connection with a theorem in combinatorics which I shall…

Large Deviations for a Stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert Equation Driven by Pure Jump Noise

15:00 - 15:30 12 February 2020
We consider a one-dimensional stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with jump noise in the Marcus canonical form. We first show that there exists a strong solution to this equation,…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 12 February 2020
Lorien Jasny, University of Exeter Multiplex Networks of Civic Organizations in Cape Town, South Africa The urban environment of Cape Town is contested along various dimensions of…

CMI Seminar: Data Privacy Concerns as a Source of Resistance to Participate in Surveys Using a Smartphone App

15:00 - 16:15 13 February 2020
The Cathie Marsh Institute welcomes Caroline Roberts from The University of Lausanne who will be speaking on the topic: Data Privacy Concerns as a Source of Resistance to Participate…

CTIS Seminar: Process and Situatedness: Two Aspects of Interpreting that Corpus Studies Cannot Handle – or Can They?

14:00 - 15:30 13 February 2020

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Stephen Barton (University of Manchester and Durham University) ‘Paul and Mental Health’

14:00 - 16:00 13 February 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…

Natalia Balabanova: Vortices on non-orientable manifolds

14:30 - 15:30 13 February 2020
Vortex dynamics on orientable manifolds is a well-studied topic. In this talk we will discuss some aspects and related notions for vortex dynamics on a non-orientable manifold: a Moebius…

Eleanor Russell and Ben Calverley - Informal Applied Mathematics Seminar

15:00 - 16:00 14 February 2020
The Informal Applied Mathematics seminar will continue with a double bill from Eleanor Russell and Ben Calverley. Talks will take place in Frank Adams 2 (next to the Alan Turing Building's…

Jonathan Chapman - Arithmetic Colouring Problems

15:00 - 16:00 14 February 2020
This week's pure postgrad seminar will be given by Jonathan Chapman at 3pm in Frank Adams 1. Abstract: An equation is called partition regular over a set S if every finite colouring…

Collaborate Seminar Series: BBSRC LINK Case Study - Professor Alan Dickson with UCB

12:00 - 13:00 17 February 2020
The Research and Business Engagement Team welcome you to the Collaborate Seminar Series highlighting opportunities and mechanisms for collaboration. The series will be kick-started…

DMDS Divisional Seminar Programme - Monday 17 February 2020

13:00 - 14:00 17 February 2020
DMDS Divisional Seminar Programme Date: Monday 17 February 2020 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Lynne Macrae – “Research Governance and Ethics.” Research Practice…

Neil Thacker - Fundamental Issues Regarding Uncertainties in Artificial Neural Networks

14:00 - 15:00 17 February 2020
(Zochonis Lecture Theatre D) Join us for this seminar by Neil Thacker (Manchester) as part of the Mathematics in the Life Sciences Series. Abstract: The problem of assessment of uncertainty…

Projections of random measures on products of $\times m,\times n$-invariant sets and a random Furstenberg sumset conjecture - Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar Series

15:00 - 16:00 17 February 2020
Catherine Bruce will be speaking at this research seminar, part of the Dynamical Systems and Analysis seminar series. Abstract: In 2012 Hochman and Shmerkin proved that, given Borel…

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