Lectures and seminars

CMI Seminar: Prof Paul Smith "Population size estimation with covariates having missing values and measurement error"

15:00 - 16:00 14 May 2020
The Cathie Marsh Institute welcomes Paul Smith from The University of Southampton who will be speaking on the topic: Population size estimation with covariates having missing values…

Informal Applied Mathematics Seminar - First Year talks

15:00 - 16:00 15 May 2020
The Informal Applied Mathematics seminar series will continue with a series of short talks from first-year PhD students. Talks will take place in Frank Adams 2 (next to the Alan Turing…

Rea Antoniou-Kourounioti - Modelling how plants sense and remember winter

14:00 - 15:00 18 May 2020
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Rea Antoniou-Kourounioti (John-Innes Centre) as part of the Mathematics in the Life Sciences Series. Abstract: To ensure reproductive success,…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Marcelo DeMartino - Deformation of a Howe duality

14:00 - 15:00 19 May 2020
Speaker: Marcelo DeMartino Title: Deformation of a Howe duality Abstract: In this talk, I will report about a joint work with D. Ciubotaru, in which we investigate the Dunkl version…

Manchester Neuromaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 19 May 2020
Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series Dr. Nelson Trujillo-Barreto, Senior Research Fellow, University of Manchester The discrete logic of the Brain - Explicit modelling of Brain State durations in EEG and MEG

Bursting bubbles: new perspectives on volcanic eruptions from the communities who experience them

13:00 - 14:00 20 May 2020
Prof Jenni Barclay, UEA, Norwich, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. Some 800 million people live within 100 km of an active volcanic…

MES Seminar - Balazs Szentes (LSE)

13:30 - 15:00 20 May 2020
Title: TBA

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Brian Klug (Oxford), 'Unasking the Jewish Question'

17:00 - 19:00 21 May 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programme. Brian Klug (University of Oxford) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Unasking the Jewish…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: 'Defining Antisemitism: The IHRA Definition': Led by Brian Klug (Oxford)

14:00 - 16:00 22 May 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programmes Brian Klug (University of Oxford) will lead a Key Ideas seminar entitled 'Defining Antisemitism:…

Oliver Rhodes - TBA

14:00 - 15:00 22 May 2020
Dr Oliver Rhodes from The University of Manchester will be speaking at this seminar.

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Michael Livesey - On Donovan's conjecture for non-abelian defect groups

14:00 - 15:00 26 May 2020
Speaker: Michael Livesey Title: On Donovan's conjecture for non-abelian defect groups Abstract: Donovan's conjecture states that for any finite p-group P there exist finitely many…

CoDE Seminar: Mixed-race, white (rural) space: Black (and white) mixed-race family’s experiences of managing and negotiating racialisation and racism in a predominantly white English town

12:00 - 13:00 28 May 2020
In this ethnographic thesis Chantelle Lewis explores the retrospective accounts of racialisation and racism experienced, negotiated and managed by six Black mixed-race families who…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Philippe Meyer - Dirac operators for colour Lie algebras

14:00 - 15:00 2 June 2020
Speaker: Philippe Meyer - University of Oxford Time: 2pm Title: Dirac operators for colour Lie algebras. Abstract: The notion of colour Lie algebra, introduced by Ree (1960), generalises…

Cancelled - Seminar: The Reachability Problem for Petri Nets is Not Elementary

14:00 - 15:00 3 June 2020
Due to the University closure (Coronavirus) this talk is postponed and we will hold it on a future date. Join us for the next Computer Science Atlas Talk with speaker Ranko Lazic,…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Sa’ed Atshan (Swarthmore College): 'Complicity, Dissent, and the Palestinian Intellectual'

17:00 - 19:00 8 June 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programme. Sa’ed Atshan (Swarthmore College) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Complicity, Dissent,…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: 'Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique': Led by Sa’ed Atshan (Swarthmore College)

12:00 - 14:00 9 June 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programmes Sa’ed Atshan (Swarthmore College) will lead a Key Ideas seminar entitled 'Queer Palestine and…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Edward Jones-Healey - Twists of rational Cherednik algebras

14:00 - 15:00 9 June 2020
Speaker: Edward Jones-Healey - University of Manchester Title: Twists of rational Cherednik algebras Abstract: Rational Cherednik algebras arose as degenerations of Cherednik’s double…

Manchester Neuromaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 9 June 2020
Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series Dr. Martyn Mcfarquhar, Lecturer, University of Manchester Developing a new, open-source, community-driven platform for imaging data analysis

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Sira Gratz - SL(k)-friezes

14:00 - 15:00 16 June 2020
Speaker: Sira Gratz - University of Glasgow Title: SL(k)-friezes Abstract: Classical frieze patterns are combinatorial structures which relate back to Gauss' Pentagramma Mirificum,…

Mitchell Centre Seminar

16:00 - 17:30 17 June 2020
Nikita Basov, St Petersburg University "Socio-semantic network analysis of meaning structures" Please contact david.schoch@manchester.ac.uk for zoom link

GECS Seminar: Denes Hnisz "Transcriptional condensates in health and disease"

13:00 - 14:00 18 June 2020
GECS Seminar Denes Hnisz - Max Planck Institute, Germany "Transcriptional condensates in health and disease" Via Zoom contact organiser for details

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Louise Sutton - Decomposable Specht modules for level 2 cyclotomic KLR algebras

14:00 - 15:00 23 June 2020
Speaker: Louise Sutton - University of Manchester Title: Decomposable Specht modules for level 2 cyclotomic KLR algebras Abstract: Specht modules are an important family of modules…

Manchester Neuromaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 23 June 2020
Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series Dr. Bo Yao, Lecturer, University of Manchester The neural mechanisms of inner speech

GECS Seminar: Jacques Drouin "The essence of pioneering: unraveling the genome in development"

15:00 - 16:00 25 June 2020
GECS Seminar **** 3pm, 25th June **** Jacques Drouin - IRCM, University of Montreal "The essence of pioneering: unraveling the genome in development" Via Zoom (contact organiser for details)

ARC/ARG3.1 as a major coordinator of cognition - Sonia Correa-Muller, MMU

29 June - 6 July 2020
EXTERNAL SEMINAR SERIES – VIA ZOOM HOSTED BY STUART ALLAN AND CATH LAWRENCE TUESDAY 7TH JULY, 2020 15.00 – 16.00 REGISTRATION VIA EVENTBRITE https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dnep-external-seminar-series…

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