Seminar

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…

Robots and the origin of their labour-saving impact

15:30 - 16:30 17 February 2020
Join us for MIOIR External Seminar Series 19/20, seminar hosted by Professor Fabio Montobbio. Abstract: This paper investigates the presence of explicit labour-saving heuristics within…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Florian Muehlfield

16:00 - 18:00 17 February 2020
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 17th of February 2020 Prof Florian Mühlfrield Ilia State University, Georgia Mistrusting the Obvious Facade Politics and their Responses in…

Advances in Biosciences Seminar - Mechanical properties of intermediate filaments at high strains - Sarah Koester, University of Gottingen

15:00 - 16:00 18 February 2020
Advances in Biosciences Seminar "Mechanical properties of intermediate filaments at high strains" Sarah Koester, University of Gottingen Host: Joe Swift

Joni Teravainen (Oxford) - Higher order uniformity of the Möbius function

15:00 - 16:00 18 February 2020
Abstract : In a recent work, Matomäki, Radziwill and Tao showed that the Möbius function is discorrelated with linear exponential phases on almost all short intervals. I will discuss…

Macro Seminar - Fabian Kindermann (Regensburg)

16:00 - 17:00 18 February 2020
Title: Learning about Housing Cost: Survey Evidence from the German House Price Boom

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Robert Laugwitz - Braided Commutative Algebras over Quantized Enveloping Algebras

14:00 - 15:00 18 February 2020
Speaker - Robert Laugwitz Title: Braided Commutative Algebras over Quantized Enveloping Algebras Algebras that are commutative in a braided tensor category appear in rational conformal…

Shigeto Sonoda - Asian Views of China in the age of China's rise

12:30 - 13:30 18 February 2020
China’s rise is transforming global politics and economics, from Manchester to Manhattan. But China’s economic and security impact is being felt first and foremost by its Asian neighbours.…

CIDRAL Key Ideas seminar: Bryan Cheyette (Reading), 'The Metaphorical Thinking of Zygmunt Bauman'

14:00 - 16:00 19 February 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programmes Professor Bryan Cheyette (Professor of English Literature, University of Reading), will lead…

Critical Global Politics PhD Researcher Seminar

15:30 - 17:00 19 February 2020
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for a PhD Researcher seminar. Jana Fey The everyday politics of mental health in international relations: producing neoliberal subjects through…

Environmental exposures and effects on the brain: cognitive performance and mental health

13:00 - 14:00 19 February 2020
Dr Juana Maria Delgado-Saborit, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. Dr Juana Maria…

Franziska Jahnke - Characterizing NIP henselian valued fields

15:00 - 16:00 19 February 2020
Franziska Jahnke joins us for the logic seminar. Abstract: (Joint work with Sylvy Anscombe) In this talk we characterize NIP henselian valued fields modulo the theory of their residue…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 19 February 2020
Luis Ospina-Forero, University of Manchester Network Comparison Statistics based on Subgraph counts and their potential application. While the number of network comparison methods…

Philosophy Research Seminar - Dr Thomas Smith (Manchester)

15:10 - 16:55 19 February 2020
Title: Collectivity in Action Abstract: A staple of the joint action literature is the good case/bad case pair. For some phi, in each case, some agents are phi-ing. In the good case,…

Professor Wendy Moncur: 'Keeping Secrets Online' - Digital Trust & Security Guest Seminar Series

13:00 - 14:30 19 February 2020
What strategies do people deploy in keeping secrets online? And how can these strategies be re-purposed to; (i) enhance the capacity of UK security agencies to detect & mitigate threats…

Schuster Colloquium - Probing the dielectric constant on the nanoscale: from thin films to DNA and confined water

15:00 - 16:00 19 February 2020
Join us for the February Schuster Colloquium with speaker Dr Laura Fumagalli. The talk will first review the work of Laura's team in which they developed scanning probe microscopy…

The Coevolution of Industry Architecture, Geography, and Innovation in Mobile Phone Manufacturing, 1992-2012

12:00 - 13:30 19 February 2020
We examine the shifting geography and architecture of the mobile handset industry over the entire ‘outsourcing era,’ leveraging data on virtually every significant supply relationships…

CTIS Seminar: Marketing Literature, Books in Translation, and Routes to the UK Market

14:00 - 15:30 20 February 2020

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Robert Evans (University of Chester) ‘“See what you hear” (Mark 4.24): Reflections on Translation and the BSL Bible from a (Hearing) Biblical Scholar’

14:00 - 16:00 20 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…

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