Seminar

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…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Professor George Pattison (University of Glasgow) “Love Came Down at Christmas”

16:00 - 17:30 20 February 2020
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session.

STRIKE! Seminar has been cancelled

14:30 - 15:30 20 February 2020
The Geometry, Topology and Mathematical Physics Seminar has been cancelled due to the strike action of the University and College Union (UCU) on pensions and pay, workload, equality and casualisation.

Gabriel Ng - Ultraproducts and Applications

15:00 - 16:00 21 February 2020
This week's pure postgrad seminar will be given by Gabriel Ng at 3pm in Frank Adams 1. Abstract: One of the primary aims of Model Theory is the study of the relationship between a…

MaRMN Seminar

13:00 - 14:00 21 February 2020
Professor Alicia El Haj, University of Birmingham " Engineering cells and tissues - translation to the clinic "

Steven Elsworth - Informal Applied Mathematics Seminar

15:00 - 16:00 21 February 2020
The Informal Applied Mathematics seminar will continue with an hour-long talk from Steven Elsworth. The talk will take place in Frank Adams 2 (next to the Alan Turing Building's kitchen),…

Collaborate Seminar Series: BBSRC IPA Case Study: Prof Simon Luckman with Eli Lilly 'IPA: Anorectic Signalling by the Central GDF15/GFRAL System'

12:00 - 13:00 24 February 2020
This 30 minute presentation will provide focus on the scheme and application process, the industry-academic collaboration behind the project and the benefits emerging from it. After…

Advances in Biosciences Seminar: TGF-B superfamily signalling - an exploration in space and time - Caroline Hill, Francis Crick Institute

15:00 - 16:00 25 February 2020
Advances in Biosciences Seminar: TGF-B superfamily signalling - an exploration in space and time Caroline Hill, Francis Crick Institute Host: Hilary Ashe

Jana De Wiljes - Sequential learning via a combined reinforcement learning and data assimilation ansatz for decision support

12:00 - 13:00 25 February 2020
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: In many applicational…

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