Lectures and seminars

Alexander Gilbert - Quasi-Monte Carlo methods for the uncertainty quantification of eigenvalue problems

14:00 - 15:00 20 March 2020
Dr. Alexander Gilbert from Institute for Applied Mathematics at Heidelberg University will be speaking at this seminar. Abstract: Eigenvalue problems are useful for modelling many…

CANCELLED - HCRI Public Lecture: Working with age-disputed young migrants

10:00 - 11:00 20 March 2020
Unfortunately, the public lecture has been cancelled. We aim to reschedule later in the year. Public lecture: working with age-disputed young migrants with Laura Gibbons, Public Law…

CANCELLED MaRMN Seminar

13:00 - 14:00 20 March 2020
Professor Rachel Williams, University of Liverpool " Peptide hydrogels for corneal applications"

James Haughton - Informal Applied Mathematics Seminar

15:00 - 16:00 20 March 2020
The Informal Applied Mathematics seminar will continue with an hour long talk from James Haughton. The talk will take place in Frank Adams 2 (next to the Alan Turing Building's kitchen),…

(cancelled) Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Nayanika Mathur

16:00 - 18:00 23 March 2020
Entrapment: new ways of seeing big cats in India This paper is taken from my forthcoming book, Crooked Cats, which is centred upon understanding how humans live in close proximity…

Professor Mike Levi: "Responses to Cyber-Enabled Scams and Fears of Cybercrime" - Digital Trust & Security Guest Seminar Series

13:00 - 14:30 23 March 2020
Responses to Cyber-Enabled Scams and Fears of Cybercrime: Rethinking the Standard Models Government strategies have involved adapting counter-terrorism models to all serious and organised…

Advances in Biosciences Seminar: The Aging Brain Proteome- Alessandro Ori, Liebniz Institute on Aging

15:00 - 16:00 24 March 2020
Advances in Biosciences Seminar: The Aging Brain Proteome Alessandro Ori, Liebniz Institute on Aging Host: Chiara Francavilla

CANCELLED - HCRI Research Seminar - Putin's Human Rights

16:00 - 19:00 24 March 2020
Unfortunately, the research seminar has been cancelled. We aim to reschedule later in the year. HCRI Research Seminar with Sergei Nikitin, former Head of Amnesty International office…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Rob Kurinczuk - Local Langlands in families

14:00 - 15:00 24 March 2020
Speaker: Rob Kurinczuk Title: Local Langlands in families Abstract: For general linear groups over a p-adic field, local Langlands in families (established recently by Helm-Moss)…

Vandita Patel (Manchester) - Shifted powers in the Fibonacci sequence

15:00 24 March 2020
Abstract: The explicit determination of perfect powers in (shifted) non-degenerate, integer, binary linear recurrence sequences has only been achieved in a handful of cases. In this…

[Cancelled] Linda Li - Institutional contradictions and change: Challenges for Hong Kong and a globalizing China

12:30 - 13:30 24 March 2020
How can we assess the challenges and opportunities for Hong Kong and China given the conspicuous conflicts as witnessed in the unrest of 2019? This seminar contextualizes the inquiry…

CANCELLED: Dr Ainhoa Montoya (SAS)

17:00 - 18:30 25 March 2020
Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

CANCELLED: IHPO seminar Prof Erik Schokkaert "Justice in health: equality of opportunity or equality of well-being?"

10:30 - 12:00 25 March 2020
Unfortunately, the research seminar has been cancelled. We aim to reschedule later in the year. Please join us at the IHPO seminar series on 25 March 2020 in AMBS Lecture theatre…

Merlin Etzold - Physical Applied Mathematics Seminar

14:00 - 14:50 25 March 2020
Merlin Etzold (Cambridge) joins us for this seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series.

MES Seminar - Kjetil Storesletten (Oslo)

13:30 - 15:00 25 March 2020
Title: TBA

Philosophy Research Seminar - Olly Spinney (Manchester)

15:10 - 16:55 25 March 2020
*Title: Wittgenstein's Fundamental Thought *Abstract: That Wittgenstein was committed to the principle of ‘bipolarity’ during his early period is a claim which enjoys widespread agreement…

CoDE Seminar: Apocalypse forever?: racial capitalism and the social causes and consequences of the climate crisis

12:00 - 13:00 26 March 2020
This seminar is presented by Dr Leon Sealey-Huggins, Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick. His work centres on the social and political relations of climate change,…

Ehrhardt Seminar: On Love, Boundaries, and Sacred Texts: Reflections, Possibilities, Questions

14:00 - 16:00 26 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…

Informal Applied Mathematics Seminar - BAMC special

15:00 - 16:00 27 March 2020
The Informal Applied Mathematics seminar series will continue with a BAMC special. Talks will take place in Frank Adams 2 (next to the Alan Turing Building's kitchen), with complimentary…

[Cancelled] Heike Fassbender - A new framework for solving Lyapunov (and other matrix) equations

14:00 - 15:00 27 March 2020
Prof. Heike Fassbender from University of Oxford will be speaking at the seminar. Abstract: We will consider model order reduction for stable linear time-invariant (LTI) systems \[\dot{x}=Ax+Bu,\quad…

Advances in Biosciences Seminar: The life of an mRNA is controlled by DEAD-box ATPases - Karsten Weis, ETH Zurich

15:00 - 16:00 31 March 2020
Advances in Biosciences Seminar: The life of an mRNA is controlled by DEAD-box ATPases Karsten Weis, ETH Zurich Host: Mark Ashe

Manchester Neurimaging Seminar Series

15:30 31 March 2020
Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series Dr Shruti Garg, Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester TBA

Cancelled - Interfacial network geometry: some effects of deformation and melting

13:00 - 14:00 1 April 2020
Unfortunately this event has been cancelled. Dr Katharina Marquardt, Imperial College London, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below.…

Neil Chada CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 OUTBREAK On optimal annealing schedules for Langevin algorithms (Joint with work Huy Chau)

12:00 - 13:00 7 April 2020
***This seminar has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak.*** Abstract: Simulated annealing is a popular optimization method designed to find global minimizers through perturbing…

Improving employability skills with the use of video (Humanities Teaching Academy Workshops 2019-20)

13:00 - 14:00 8 April 2020
The workshop will take attendees through the experience and outcomes of exploring a non-traditional assessment format. Video was used for both group and individual assessment to enhance…

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