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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…

Black holes, information and wormholes

15:00 - 16:30 10 February 2021
In the 1970s, Hawking showed that black holes, like any finite-temperature system, radiate energy and so eventually evaporate away entirely. However, his calculations showed something…

Bogdanow Masterclass 2021 'Film in the Face of Historical Crisis' - for University of Manchester students and staff

14:00 - 16:00 10 February 2021
The University of Manchester Centre for Jewish Studies is pleased to announce the 2021 Bogdanow Lecture in Holocaust Studies will be delivered by Oscar-winning film director László…

Greater Manchester Engineering Challenge - Lessons

13:30 8 February - 14:00 8 March 2021
In response to lockdown 3, we’re proud to present a brand new series of lessons designed by the GMEC team to support you to deliver engineering learning to your pupils. These hands-on,…

Introduction to Access Manchester webinar

16:00 - 16:30 10 February 2021
Join our 'Introduction to Access Manchester' talk to find out more about the access schemes we offer at The University of Manchester, plus ask us any questions you may have about our…

Letters to a President - A National Writing Competition for School Pupils

21 January - 30 April 2021
This spring the University of Manchester’s programme in American Studies is asking UK school students in Years 9- 13 to write “Letters to a President”, to the incoming US presidential…

Manchester Connect

14:00 - 16:00 10 February 2021
We're offering students the opportunity to book a one-to-one session with a member of University staff! As we aren't currently visiting schools and colleges in person, Manchester Connect…

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…

Online workshop: Using Crime Data in R – how to work with it, visualise and map it!

10:00 10 - 15:00 12 February 2021
This free three-day workshop, jointly organised by the UK Data Service, methods@manchester and the University of Leeds will introduce you to using crime data in the software package…

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…

Social Statistics Seminar - 4pm, 1 June: Interviewer Falsification in Survey Research: Recent Developments

16:00 3 November 2020 - 17:00 1 June 2021
Social Statistics Seminars 2020/21 – June Session Interviewer Falsification in Survey Research: Recent Developments Joseph Sakshaug (German Institute for Employment Research) Join…

Social Statistics Seminars 2020/21

16:00 3 November 2020 - 17:00 1 June 2021
The Department of Social Statistics is pleased to invite everyone interested in quantitative social research to a series of online seminars. The events will be held once a month throughout…

TALK: Traditional Chinese New Year food with Sam Sin

16:00 - 17:00 10 February 2021
Find out how people in China celebrate Chinese New Year and what foods are eaten at this time of year. Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year or Spring Festival, is China's…

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.…

Panel Event: Devolution, data and levelling-up

11:00 - 12:00 11 February 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the importance of policy makers using data effectively to help them make decisions in a crisis. However, at the same time, it has exposed the lack…

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,…

Careers in Humanitarianism Day 2021

12 February 2021
Our annual Careers in Humanitarianism Day is returning for the 8th time in February 2021 - virtually! This is a brilliant opportunity for our students, and wider community, to hear…

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…

Alison Hardie - China and Northern Europe: Horticultural and Botanical Connections

12:30 - 13:30 16 February 2021
This talk explores the relationship between China and Northern Europe from the perspective of plants, gardens, and garden architecture, focusing particularly on Scotland, Sweden, and…

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…

Social Media Data Analysis

16 February 2021
This course describes how to use free Windows software Mozdeh to gather tweets and to download comments on YouTube videos. The course will also describe simple and big data-style text…

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…

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…

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