Seminar

Atlas Talk: The Reachability Problem for Petri Nets is Not Elementary

14:00 - 15:00 3 February 2021
Join us for the next Computer Science Atlas Talk (online) Join here: https://zoom.us/j/93918368182 Speaker: Ranko Lazic - University of Warwick https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/people/ranko_lazic/…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Carolina Vallejo

13:00 - 14:00 9 February 2021
Speaker: Carolina Vallejo Title: Problems on characters involving two primes. Abstract: In this talk I will discuss problems on character degrees, fields of values and principal…

Tyndall Manchester seminar- High End Energy Consumers – Overconsumption or Unmet Needs

13:00 - 14:00 9 February 2021
Speaker: Professor Karen Lucas, University of Manchester Abstract: This presentation addresses the issues of fairness and justice of energy resource allocations in the domestic energy…

Alex Freitas - Machine Learning for Ageing Research

13:00 - 14:00 10 February 2021
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Alex Freitas (Kent) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found…

Nicole Bonino (UoM): “Cities on the Edge: Urban Migration, Art, and Eco-Hybridity in the Southern Cone”

17:00 - 18:00 10 February 2021
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series. This event will be via Zoom. Here is the link: https://zoom.us/j/94462492930…

Perla Sousi - The uniform spanning tree in 4 dimensions

15:00 - 16:00 10 February 2021
Perla Sousi (Cambridge) will speak in the Probability seminar. A uniform spanning tree of Z^4 can be thought of as the ‘’uniform measure’’ on trees of Z^4. The past of 0 in the…

Philosophy Research Seminar - Dr Natacha McKeever (Leeds)

15:15 - 16:50 10 February 2021
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…

CoDE Seminar: Decolonising Political Theory: Reflecting on Teaching in a Post-structural way

15:00 - 16:30 11 February 2021
This paper reflects on Dr Sahra Taylor's recent experience redesigning the module Introduction to Political Theory. She draws on the 'art of teaching' approaches to the structure, theme,…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Justin Daneshmand (University of Manchester) ‘Vanishing Jesus Parallels: An Examination of Jesus’ Emmaus Disappearance (Luke 24:31b) and Literary Analogues’

14:00 - 16:00 11 February 2021
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.…

Pushkin on Grafton Street: Translating Russian Literature into Irish

13:00 - 14:30 11 February 2021
Why would anyone translate Russian literature into the Irish language? Given that authors, translators and publishers deplore the lack of readers for translated fiction in English,…

Donald Robertson: A Sumset Conjecture of Erdos - Pure Mathematics Colloquium

14:00 - 15:00 12 February 2021
Title: A Sumset Conjecture of Erdos Abstract: Density combinatorics is about discovering patterns that are guaranteed to belong to every large enough set in a given collection. Szemerédi’s…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Matt Booth

13:00 - 14:00 16 February 2021
Speaker: Matt Booth Title: Mac Lane cohomology and topological Hochschild cohomology Abstract: The deformation theory of an algebra over a field is controlled by its Hochschild…

A water window on biochemistry & physics: membranes, ions, ion channels, and neuronal activity

13:00 - 14:00 17 February 2021
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Professor Sylvie Roke. Lipid cell membranes are essential for life: They are a dynamic compartmentalized environment, a localized space…

CIDRAL Online Events - ‘Climate Emergency Music, Art and Activism: Artivism’

14:00 - 16:00 17 February 2021
CIDRAL Online Events - Spring 2021 (Semester Two) Key Ideas Seminars Kevin Malone, ‘Climate Emergency Music, Art and Activism: Artivism’ Kevin Malone, Reader in Composition, participated…

On The Origin of the Milky Way

17:15 - 18:30 17 February 2021
Professor Marcia Pointon On The Origin of the Milky Way (1637) by Peter Paul Rubens: Astronomy, Astrology and Mythology in early modern Europe Please pre-register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbri…

Optimizing the trade-offs between health outcomes and the economy under Covid-19: a multisectoral economic-epidemiological model

11:00 - 12:30 17 February 2021
Join us at the Institute for Health Policy and Organisation (IHPO) seminar series on 17th February. Zoom Recording: https://youtu.be/VLMTAXeW7Tc Abstract: We present an economic-epidemiological…

Peter Taylor - Limiting Behaviour for Heat Kernels of Random Processes in Random Environments

15:00 - 16:00 17 February 2021
Peter Taylor (Cambridge) will speak in the Probability seminar. In this talk I will present recent results on random processes moving in random environments. In the first part of…

Philosophy Research Seminar - Prof Elisabeth Camp (Rutgers)

15:15 - 16:50 17 February 2021
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…

Sociology seminar: 'A Sense of Inequality'

15:45 - 16:45 17 February 2021
In this talk Wendy Bottero discusses her book, 'A sense of inequality'. The book brings together a range of different literatures in order to better understand what provokes a sense…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Professor Philip Alexander (University of Manchester) ‘The Post-70 Jewish Apocalypses and Jewish Eschatological Hopes at the End of the First Century’

14:00 - 16:00 18 February 2021
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 Leah Payne (George Fox University, Oregon) “Gender and Pentecostal Revivalism: Making a Female Ministry in the Early Twentieth Century”

16:00 - 17:30 18 February 2021
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…

M Lisa Manning -- Predicting rigidity in biological tissue structures

14:00 - 15:00 22 February 2021
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Lisa Manning (Syracuse) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be…

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

13:00 - 14:00 23 February 2021
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…

Macro Seminar - Hans Holter (Oslo)

16:00 - 17:00 23 February 2021
Title: Dissecting Idiosyncratic Earnings Risk

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Ioan Stanciu - Two-sided ideals in the affinoid enveloping algebra of a semisimple Lie algebra.

13:00 - 14:00 23 February 2021
Speaker: Ioan Stanciu Title: Two-sided ideals in the affinoid enveloping algebra of a semisimple Lie algebra. Abstract: I will start by defining the affinoid enveloping algebra…

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