Lectures and seminars

CIDRAL Online Events - Book Launch & Conversation

17:00 - 19:00 5 May 2021
Book Launch & Conversation: The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond (Organised by the Jewish-Muslim Research Network, University of Michigan)…

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…

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,…

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…

Andrey Aleksyuk - Local description of the three-dimensional wake transition

14:00 - 15:00 12 May 2021
Andrey Aleksyuk (University of Manchester) 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…

Bruno Buonaguidi - An optimal sequential procedure for determining the drift of a Brownian motion among three values

15:00 - 16:00 12 May 2021
Bruno Buonaguidi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) will speak in the Probability seminar. Consider the motion of a Brownian particle in one dimension, having a random and unobservable…

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…

PSI Seminar with guest speaker Dr. Izzy Jayasinghe

13:00 - 14:00 12 May 2021
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr. Izzy Jayasinghe In this seminar, Dr. Jayasinghe will outline how the continued improvement and strategic adaptation of super-resolution…

Schuster Colloquium: Probing the neutrino mass in the laboratory - new results from KATRIN

15:00 - 16:00 12 May 2021
Join us for a virtual Schuster Colloquium with Professor Dr Susanne Mertens from the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich. With a mass at least six orders of magnitudes smaller…

CoDE Seminar: Brexit and the Boomerang of Empire

14:00 - 15:30 13 May 2021
In the midst of Britain’s ongoing political crisis, this paper reframes the Brexit question by beginning at edges of Britain’s relationship to its colonial outposts over the twentieth…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr. Isaac T. Soon (University of Durham) “Medicine to the Weak: Disability, Ecclesia, and Healing in Irenaeus' Adversus Haereses”

16:00 - 17:30 13 May 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…

Pure Mathematics Colloquium - Martin Hairer - Geometric stochastic PDEs

15:00 - 16:00 14 May 2021
Speaker: Martin Hairer, Imperial College London Series: Pure Mathematics Colloquium Title: Geometric stochastic PDEs Abstract: We review Parisi and Wu’s stochastic quantisation…

Restud Tour 2021

13:45 17 - 17:00 21 May 2021
The Review of Economic Studies May Meetings have been held annually in May since 1989. Every year, in line with the Review’s tradition of encouraging the work of young economists, some…

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