Seminar

Alex Cox - Controlled measure-valued martingales: a viscosity solution approach

15:00 - 16:00 28 April 2021
Alex Cox (University of Bath) will speak in the Probability seminar. We introduce a stochastic control problem for measure-valued martingales, which are stochastic processes taking…

Aqueous Solution-Vapor Interfaces Investigated with Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

13:00 - 14:00 28 April 2021
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Prof. Hendrik Bluhm. Aqueous solution-vapor interfaces govern important phenomena in the environment and atmosphere, including the uptake…

Digital Futures - Digital Trust and Security Seminar with Guest Speaker Dr Bran Knowles, Senior Lecturer in Data Science, Lancaster University

13:45 - 15:00 28 April 2021
We are delighted to announce Dr Bran Knowles, Senior Lecturer in Data Science, Lancaster University as the next speaker for the upcoming Digital Trust & Security Seminar Series, taking…

Morgan Centre seminar - Marking motherhood on the body: The tattoos of mothers who live apart from their children

15:00 - 16:00 28 April 2021
Speakers: Siobhan Beckwith and Lisa Morriss We will present the initial findings of a pilot project funded by the Sociological Review. We used a narrative approach alongside arts-based…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Kirsi Cobb (Cliff College) ‘“Look at what they’ve turned us into”: Reading the Story of Lot’s Daughters through the Lens of Trauma with a Little Help from the Handmaid’s Tale’

14:00 - 16:00 29 April 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.…

Making the Unknown Knowable

15:00 29 April - 16:30 27 May 2021
Making the unknown knowable has always been located at the heart of scientific activity. Yet, whether the goal is to understand extreme environments, outer space or the universe (Helmreich,…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Katja Stuerzenhofecker (Manchester) “An Act of Compassion? Normalizing Online Delivery of Jewish Orthodox Rituals and Female Participation Under COVID-19”

16:00 - 17:30 29 April 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…

Ken Ono - Can’t you just feel the moonshine? - Pure Mathematics Colloquium

15:00 - 16:00 30 April 2021
Speaker: Ken Ono, University of Virginia Series: Pure Mathematics Colloquium Date and Time: Friday 30th April 2021, 3pm - 4pm Title: Can’t you just feel the moonshine? Abstract:…

Hot rocks beneath our feet; 3D seismic reflection imaging of the processes and products of crustal magmatism

13:00 - 14:00 4 May 2021
Prof Christopher Jackson, University of Manchester, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. Volcanoes are hot, loud and scary, thus…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Caroline Lassueur - Kaiserslautern

13:00 - 14:00 4 May 2021
Speaker: Adam Thomas - University of Warwick Speaker: Caroline Lassueur - Kaiserslautern Title: On splendid Morita equivalences for principal blocks in characteristic 2. Abstract:…

CIDRAL Online Events - Merleau-Ponty, Embodiment and Neuroscience

14:00 - 16:00 5 May 2021
CIDRAL Online Events - Spring 2021 (Semester Two) Key Ideas Seminars Alex Samely, ‘Merleau-Ponty, Embodiment and Neuroscience’ ZOOM link - click on joining links Passcode: 741431

Computer Science Research Talk: : Exposing Previously Undetectable Faults in Deep Neural Networks

14:00 - 15:00 5 May 2021
You are welcome to the forthcoming Research Talk in Computer Science (online) Joining details: Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/91635482399 Speaker: Isaac Dunn Host: Dr Lucas…

Damien Lamberton - On the American put in the Heston model

15:00 - 16:00 5 May 2021
Damien Lamberton (Université Gustave-Eiffel) will speak in the Probability seminar. We study some qualitative properties of the American put price in the Heston model. In particular,…

Grete Stern: modernist photography and indigeneity in Argentina

17:15 - 18:15 5 May 2021
Ignacio Aguiló (Latin American Cultural Studies, University of Manchester) Grete Stern: modernist photography and indigeneity in Argentina Please pre-register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.c…

Ho-Kei Chan - Confinement-induced columnar crystals: A route to new architecture in the scientific world

14:00 - 15:00 5 May 2021
Ho-Kei Chan (Harbin Institute of Technology) joins us for this virtual seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series This seminar will be held via Zoom. Please email chris.johnson@manchester.ac.uk…

Mark Chaplain - A Mathematical Framework for Modelling the Metastatic Spread of Cancer

13:00 - 14:00 5 May 2021
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Mark Chaplain (St. Andrews) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can…

Pablo Hernández Sau (UoM): "Mimesis at Spanish Louisiana. Colonial interaction in late eighteenth century Mississippi"

17:00 - 18:00 5 May 2021
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar. This event will be via Zoom. Here is the link: https://zoom.us/j/94462492930 ABSTRACT: In 1763, Bourbon…

Sociology seminar: 'The social significance of dining out' (Alan Warde)

15:45 - 16:45 5 May 2021
Alan Warde will discuss research from his book, co-authored by Jessica Paddock and Jennifer Whillans, 'The social significance of dining out: A study of continuity and change'. All welcome.

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Holly Morse (University of Manchester) ‘Falling for the Devil: Eve and the Witch’

14:00 - 16:00 6 May 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.…

Sarah Harris -- Seeing Biomolecular Mechanics with Simulations

14:00 - 15:00 10 May 2021
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Sarah Harris (Leeds) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found…

Macro Seminar - Axelle Ferriere (Paris)

16:00 - 17:00 11 May 2021
Title: Larger Transfers Financed with More Progressive Taxes? On the Optimal Design of Taxes and Transfers

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Jay Taylor - University of Manchester

13:00 - 14:00 11 May 2021
Speaker: Adam Thomas - University of Warwick Speaker: Jay Taylor - University of Manchester Title: Invariant Bilinear Forms on Lie Algebras Abstract: Assume a group G acts linearly…

The spread of livestock, dairy and millet into the eastern steppes: Biomolecular perspectives from the Altai mountains and the Mongolian steppe

13:00 11 May 2021
Prof Cheryl Makarewicz, University of Kiel, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. The spread of domesticated plants and animals across…

Digital Futures - Digital Trust and Security Seminar with Guest Speaker Prof. Ajitha Rajan, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

12:45 - 14:00 12 May 2021
We are delighted to announce Prof. Ajitha Rajan, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh as a guest speaker for the upcoming Digital Trust & Security Seminar Series, taking place…

Lewi Stone -- Random matrices, biological networks, and the stability of complex systems

10:00 - 11:00 12 May 2021
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Lewi Stone (Melbourne) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found…

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