Seminar

CIDRAL Online Events - ‘The Egyptian Coffee House’

14:00 - 16:00 23 March 2021
CIDRAL Online Events - Spring 2021 (Semester Two) Key Ideas Seminars Amina Elbendary and Dalia Moustafa, ‘The Egyptian Coffee House’ ZOOM Link - click on joining links Passcode: 932176

Macro Seminar - Tim Lee (Queen Mary)

16:00 - 17:00 23 March 2021
Title: Transforming Institutions: Labor Reallocation and Wage Growth in a Reunified Germany

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Michael Livesey - Towards RoCK blocks for double covers of symmetric and alternating group

13:00 - 14:00 23 March 2021
Speaker: Michael Livesey Title: Towards RoCK blocks for double covers of symmetric and alternating group Abstract: In this talk I will give an overview of RoCK blocks and their significance…

One Reason Why Aerospace Needs Geologists: How Mineral Dust Damages Engines

13:00 - 14:00 23 March 2021
Dr Rory Clarkson, Rolls Royce, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. Sand and mineral dust is increasingly becoming a problem for…

Politics Pankhurst Seminar with Professor Francesca Gains: Metro Mayors: Who are They and What do They Do? - A Pre-Election Primer

13:00 - 14:00 23 March 2021
Politics Pankhurst Seminar with Professor Francesca Gains Metro Mayors: Who are They and What do They Do? - A Pre-Election Primer March 23d 2021 1-2pm Zoom meeting ID:…

Annual Bragg Lecture - Dr Tamsin Edwards

15:00 - 16:00 24 March 2021
What fate for the Antarctic ice sheet? Antarctica is a distant, unfamiliar place. We hear of ice shelves collapsing, giant icebergs breaking away, glaciers crumbling: but how much…

Evaluating culture change in the English NHS: Learning and insights for culture change post-Covid 19

12:30 - 13:30 24 March 2021
Join us at the Institute for Health Policy and Organisation (IHPO) seminar series on 24 March. Zoom Recording: https://youtu.be/7t-EsuiuapU Abstract: The Culture and Leadership Programme…

Gabriel Neiva (Manchester): Amerindian traditions in fictional writings: A literary panorama of the Guianas

17:00 - 18:30 24 March 2021
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series 2020/21. This event will be via Zoom. Here is the link: https://zoom.us/j/94462492930

Irmgard Bischofsberger - Instabilities and flow-induced defects in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals

14:00 - 15:00 24 March 2021
Irmgard Bischofsberger (MIT) joins us for this virtual seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series This seminar will be held via Zoom. Please email alice.thompson@manchester.ac.uk…

Jen Creaser - Domino-like transient dynamics at seizure onset

13:00 - 14:00 24 March 2021
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Jen Creaser (Exeter) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found…

Realist Utopia: Houses and Neighbourhoods in 1920s and 1930s Milan

17:15 - 18:15 24 March 2021
Francesca Billiani (Italian Studies, University of Manchester) Realist Utopia: Houses and Neighbourhoods in 1920s and 1930s Milan Please pre-register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fr…

Ryoki Fukushima - Number of paths in oriented percolation as zero temperature limit of directed polymer

15:00 - 16:00 24 March 2021
Ryoki Fukushima (University of Tsukuba) will speak in the Probability seminar. Consider the number of open paths in the supercritical oriented percolation. It is known to grow exponentially,…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Christophe Nihan (University of Lausanne) ‘Ashdod’s Mice and Yhwh as a Plague God: Versions and Contexts in 1 Samuel 5’

14:00 - 16:00 25 March 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.…

Remote vs face-to-face interpreting – Does it make a difference in interpreter performance?

10:00 - 11:30 25 March 2021
Remote interpreting has traditionally been the least preferred option when face-to-face interpreting was infeasible (Skinner et al, 2018). Interpreters typically prefer face-to-face…

John Voight, Dartmouth College - Definite quaternion orders with stable cancellation - Pure Mathematics Colloquium

15:00 - 16:00 26 March 2021
Speaker: John Voight, Dartmouth College Series: Pure Mathematics Colloquium Date and Time: Friday 26th March 2021, 3pm - 4pm Title: Definite quaternion orders with stable cancellation…

Computer Science Mercury Talk

14:00 - 15:00 31 March 2021
Join us for the next Computer Science Mercury Talk (online): https://zoom.us/j/98440686007 Speaker: Kaled Alshmrany Host: Lucas Cordeiro Title: FuSeBMC: A White-Box Fuzzer for…

Interpretation and applicability of ultra-high resolution STM and NC-AFM to the study of molecular and 2D systems

13:00 - 14:00 31 March 2021
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr Adam Sweetman. The last decade has seen a dramatic improvement in our ability to characterize surfaces at the atomic scale via scanning…

Dr Petra Tjitske Kalshoven: For a familiar future: The power of habit in England’s nuclear heartland

16:00 - 17:30 12 April 2021
Dr Petra Tjitske Kalshoven, University of Manchester Title: For a familiar future: The power of habit in England’s nuclear heartland Abstract: This is a story of two recent energy-related…

Climate Change: Why complexity appears to hinder -- but may actually help -- humanity to act?

13:00 - 14:00 13 April 2021
Politics Pankhurst Seminar with Dr. Paul Tobin Climate Change: Why complexity appears to hinder -- but may actually help -- humanity to act? April 13th 2021 1-2pm Zoom…

CPC&HSR Seminar – Three PhD presentations by current postgraduate students at the Centre for Primary Care and Health Services research

13:00 - 14:00 13 April 2021
We are pleased to invite you to this CPC&HSR seminar where three of our postgraduate students will present about their interesting PhD studies. • Alyaa Ajabnoor will present a talk…

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