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Manchester Algebra Seminar - Roy Oste - Ghent University - Deformations of unitary Howe dual pairs

13:00 - 14:00 8 December 2020
Speaker: Roy Oste - Ghent University Title: Deformations of unitary Howe dual pairs Abstract: In this talk, we discuss the deformation of the Howe dual pairs $(\mathrm{U}(n),\mathfrak{u}(1,1))$…

Building the mammal back

13:00 - 14:00 9 December 2020
Dr Katrina Jone, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. The origin of mammals is…

Computer Science Atlas Talk

14:00 - 15:00 9 December 2020
Join us for the next Computer Science Atlas Talk (online) on Wednesday 9 December 2020 Joining details: https://zoom.us/j/94871425671 Title: Interacting with Socially Intelligent…

Eleanor Archer - Random walks on decorated Galton-Watson trees

15:00 - 16:00 9 December 2020
Eleanor Archer (Tel Aviv) will speak in the Probability seminar. https://zoom.us/j/91491645346 Abstract: Random trees are the building blocks for a range of probabilistic structures,…

Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova - An Integrative Mathematical-Experimental Approach to Pulsatile Hormone Dynamics

14:00 - 15:00 9 December 2020
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova (Exeter) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series…

Meta-Optics for night vision technologies

10:00 - 11:00 9 December 2020
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Professor Dragomir Neshev. In this talk, Professor Neshev will introduce the recently established Australian Centre of Excellence for…

Philosophy Research Seminar - Simon Walgenbach (University of Manchester)

15:15 - 16:50 9 December 2020
This year we are running all of our research seminars online using Zoom. If you would like to attend, and are not included on our events mailing list, please email Dr Stephen Ingram…

What does an architect need to know?

14:00 9 December 2020
What does an architect need to know? Hear from Alan Lewis (MARG, Manchester), Diana Osmolska (MARG, Manchester), and Fionn Stevenson (University of Sheffield).

“O Alienista": The Quixotic Science

17:00 - 18:00 9 December 2020
This paper aims to examine notions of science and madness in O Alienista (1881) by Machado de Assis. It focuses on how the plot structure of the novella satirises the progressive philosophy…

CoDE Seminar: Media, ‘Diversity’ and Racial Capitalism: A Case Study on the UK Publishing Industry

14:00 10 December 2020
In this paper, Anamik Saha produces a critical account of the ‘diversity’ paradigm that characterises creative industries policy. Drawing from a recent AHRC-funded project ‘Rethinking…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Nicholas Kay (King’s College, London) ‘The Concept of ‘ir in 11Q19: Spatiality’

14:00 - 16:00 10 December 2020
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. This semester all sessions will take place online via Zoom. To register to attend, please email siobhan.jolley@manchester.ac.uk.…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Andrew Boakye (University of Manchester) “Apostles Behaving Badly: Peter, Paul and Black Lives Matter”

16:00 - 17:30 10 December 2020
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. This semester the seminars will take place online via Zoom - please register to receive the link by emailing…

‘A marvellous order’: the spatial and economic structures that make agglomeration economies work in Greater Manchester

15:30 - 17:00 14 December 2020
Join us for Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 20/21, webinar hosted by Francesca Froy, Research Associate at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Emily Rudman

13:00 - 14:00 15 December 2020
Speaker: Emily Rudman Title: The cyclic homology of $k[x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_d]/(x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_d)^2$ Abstract: The Hochschild homology of the ring $k[x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_d]/(x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_d)^2$…

Christian Bick - Oscillators on evolving networks: Fast and slow evolution

13:00 - 14:00 16 December 2020
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Christian Bick (Exeter) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be…

When Systems Fail: Covid-19, NHS acute hospitals and public health

15:00 - 16:00 16 December 2020
Join us at the Institute for Health Policy and Organisation (IHPO) seminar series on 16th December. Zoom Recording: https://youtu.be/nKkHTAeNUXM Abstract: The seminar will introduce…

Xiaoqin Guo - Heat kernel estimates for random walks in an i.i.d. balanced random environment

15:00 - 16:00 16 December 2020
Xiaoqin Guo (Cincinnati) will speak in the Probability seminar. We consider a random walk in an i.i.d. random environment in the integer lattice with no drift. It is known that the…

Morgan Centre seminar: 'Birth and Death: relations and connections' - Kath Woodward and Sophie Woodward

14:00 - 15:00 17 December 2020
Birth and death are usually conceived in opposition: birth as a beginning, death an end, birth as a source of hope and optimism and death the cause of grief. In this talk we will outline…

Queering the Gay Anthology: Edward Carpenter’s Ioläus

14:00 - 15:30 17 December 2020
This paper explores the central role played by translation in the gay liberation movement, focusing on the anthology as a privileged, although understudied, cultural form in minoritarian…

Photogenerated radical pairs as spin qubits: exploiting quantum entanglement of electron spins

15:00 - 16:00 20 January 2021
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Professor Michael R. Wasielewski. Ultrafast photodriven electron transfer reactions are used to prepare entangled electron spins having…

Debating Buddhist Translations in Cyberspace: The Buddhist Online Discussion Forum as a Discursive and Epitextual Space

13:00 - 14:30 21 January 2021
Recent research in contemporary Buddhist studies has evinced a growing interest in how Buddhism is constructed and performed in the digital space (Grieve and Veidlinger 2015), and how…

Influence beyond authority: a narrative study of politics and political skill in the implementation of strategic health system change

14:00 - 15:30 25 January 2021
Join us at the Institute for Health Policy and Organisation (IHPO) seminar series on 25th January. Zoom Recording: https://youtu.be/cNTxoap05A0 Abstract: The informal ‘power and…

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