Lectures and seminars

Advances in Biosciences Seminar: Efficient and robust proteome-wide approaches for cross-linking mass spectrometry - Richard Scheltema, Utrecht University

15:00 - 16:00 17 March 2020
Advances in Biosciences Seminar: Efficient and robust proteome-wide approaches for cross-linking mass spectrometry Richard Scheltema, Utrecht University Host: Chiara Francavilla

Ashkan Javaherian - A full-3D ray-based inversion approach for ultrasound computed tomography of the breast

12:00 - 13:00 17 March 2020
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: Full-3D transmission…

CANCELLED - HCRI Research Seminar - Creative Engagement

16:00 - 19:00 17 March 2020
Unfortunately, the research seminar has been cancelled. We aim to reschedule later in the year. HCRI Research Seminar with Professor Jenny Edkins and Dr Nat O'Grady as Chair. The…

George Shakan (Oxford) - An analytic approach to cardinalities of Sumsets

15:00 17 March 2020
Abstract : Let U be a subset of Z^d. The quantity |U+U|/|U|, known as the doubling constant, has been extensively studied in additive combinatorics. We replace this with a more complicated…

Manchester Neurimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 17 March 2020
Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series Dr Patrick Hales, Children with Cancer UK Research Fellow, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Health 'Advanced MRI in the clinic: using diffusion…

(Cancelled) Social Anthropology Public Lecture and Wine Reception - Dr Shane Green - Please register on our Eventbrite page (Details included below)

16:00 - 18:00 18 March 2020
Title: Not Being Punk or Mexican-American while Predicating the Wildebeest of Our Future Abstract: This talk departs from a now abandoned historical question: When exactly did the…

Cancelled - Exploring the Excitement among Data, Network, Optimisation and Control Research Seminar

13:00 - 15:00 18 March 2020
Unfortunately, the research seminar has been postponed. A new date will be announced shortly. There are many challenges and opportunities, such network connection, big data, machine…

CANCELLED - N Brown Industrial Problem Solving Day

14:00 - 17:00 18 March 2020
............................................ Unfortunately, we have had to cancel the problem-solving day due to an N Brown decision to cancel all public events in line with COVID-19…

CANCELLED: Bragg Lecture: What fate for the Antarctic ice sheet?

15:00 - 16:00 18 March 2020
Unfortunately this event is now cancelled. We hope to rearrange for later in 2020.

Critical Global Politics Research Seminar with Aoileann Ní Mhurchú

15:30 - 17:00 18 March 2020
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for a seminar with Aoileann Ní Mhurchú entitled 'Voice, Imperialism and Struggles in Language'. Aoileann is a Lecturer in International Politics…

Dan Lucas - Layer formation and transition to turbulence in horizontally shearing stably stratified flows

14:00 - 14:50 18 March 2020
Dan Lucas (Keele) joins us for this seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series. Title: Layer formation and transition to turbulence in horizontally shearing stably stratified…

GDI Lecture with Prof Kathryn Hochstetler: Political Economies of Energy Transition: Wind and Solar Power in Brazil and South Africa

17:00 - 18:30 18 March 2020
Wind power has expanded quickly in Brazil, while solar power lags there and both wind and solar power have struggled to take off in South Africa. Prof Kathryn Hochstetler argues that…

MES Seminar - Barbara Rossi (UPF)

13:30 - 15:00 18 March 2020
Title: TBA

Prehistory to Primary Schools Project (Humanities Teaching Academy Workshops 2019-20)

14:00 - 15:00 18 March 2020
Prehistory to Primary Schools is a project established in 2018 by the department of archaeology which takes the cutting edge research at the University of Manchester and uses it to…

Seminar: Mercury Talk. Recent Developments in Automated Higher-Order Theorem Proving

14:00 - 15:00 18 March 2020
Please join us for the next Mercury talk with speaker Ahmed Bhayat on Wednesday 18 March 2020 at 2pm in Kilburn L.T 1.5 Higher-order logic is the natural language for many areas of…

Stachniewski Memorial Lecture 2020

17:00 - 18:00 18 March 2020
Join us for the Stachniewski Memorial Lecture, which will be delivered by Dr Farah Karim-Cooper. Farah Karim-Cooper will talk about ‘Gesture and Empathy in the Shakespearean Theatre’…

Using smartphone collected data: Experience Sampling Methodology and Intense Longitudinal data analysis.

14:00 - 17:00 18 March 2020
In honour of the late Professor Graham Dunn, The Centre for Biostatistics decided to rename their biannual seminar series to honour his contribution. The second Graham Dunn Seminar…

Warning of volcanic eruptions in Campi Flegrei, southern Italy

13:00 - 14:00 18 March 2020
Prof Chris Kilburn, UCL Hazard Centre, UCL, London, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. The land carbon sink is calculated to be…

(CANCELLED) CMI Seminar: Neil Sheldon "We need to talk about statistics"

15:00 - 16:00 19 March 2020
(CANCELLED) The Cathie Marsh Institute welcomes Neil Sheldon who will be speaking on the topic: We need to talk about statistics Abstract: In recent years, statistics teaching has…

CTIS Seminar: Pushkin on Grafton Street: Translating Russian Literature into Irish

14:00 - 15:30 19 March 2020

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Elizabeth Shively (University of St. Andrews)

14:00 - 16:00 19 March 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: Prof. Melissa Raphael (Gloucestershire) “The (Dis)appearing Feminine: Jewish Feminist Art and the Liberation of Women and God..."

16:00 - 17:30 19 March 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.

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