Seminar

Macro Seminar - Kathrin Schlafmann (Copenhagen)

16:00 - 17:00 16 November 2021
Title: Designing Pension Plans According to Consumption-Savings Theory

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Jenny August

13:00 - 14:00 16 November 2021
Speaker: Jenny August - Aarhus Higher torsion classes and tau_n-tilting theory Many of the classical concepts in representation theory such as abelian categories, torsion classes,…

Social Statistics Seminars 2021/22

1 October 2021 - 30 June 2022
We are pleased to announce this year's Social Statistics Seminars. Our speakers: 12/10: Iris Gomez-Lopez (University of Michigan) 02/11: David Haziza (University of Ottawa) 07/12:…

Brownbag - Kyriakos Neanidis

12:00 - 13:00 17 November 2021
Title: The Currency Composition Channel of Monetary Policy and the Role of Macroprudential Regulation

Fordyce Davidson -- The Architecture of Biofilms

13:00 - 14:00 17 November 2021
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Fordyce Davidson (Dundee) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be…

From car to coronary: the cardiovascular effects of diesel exhaust particles

13:00 - 14:00 17 November 2021
Dr Mark Miller from the University of Edinburgh will present this week’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminar

Kolyan Ray - Variational Bayes for high-dimensional linear regression with sparse priors

14:00 - 15:00 17 November 2021
Kolyan Ray, Lecturer in Statistics at the Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title: Variational Bayes for high-dimensional…

Philosophy Research Seminar: Professor Siobhan Chapman (University of Liverpool)

15:15 - 16:50 17 November 2021
This seminar will be taking place on campus, and in person, at Roscoe 2.3. If you are unable to come to campus, a zoom option will be available - please contact Dr Stephen Ingram to…

Saul Jacka - Towards a Theory of Control for General Levy-Type Jump Processes

15:00 - 16:00 17 November 2021
Saul Jacka (University of Warwick) will speak in the Probability seminar. The talk will discuss a theory for control via dynamic control of the (infinite activity) Levy measure (rather…

Sociology seminar: 'The Educational Stratification of Families: A sibling perspective'

14:45 - 15:45 17 November 2021
Speaker: Stian Uvaag (University of Bergen) Inequality in educational attainment is well-known to sociologists. An individual’s level of education is strongly associated with his or…

Applied Seminar - Annamaria Milazzo (World Bank)

13:00 - 14:00 18 November 2021
Title: TBA

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Stephen Barton (Durham University and University of Manchester) ‘Creation in the Synoptic Gospels’

14:00 - 16:00 18 November 2021
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. All sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via Zoom. To register to attend online,…

Christopher Overton -- Investigating how the epidemic phase biases the severity risk of observed cases

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

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Miranda Sheild Johansson - via Zoom in the boardroom

16:00 - 18:00 22 November 2021
Dr Miranda Sheild Johansson The seminar is at 16:15 - 17:45pm in the boardroom if you are in the Arthur Lewis Building, in the Boardroom, Second Floor, 2.016/017 and via zoom. Please…

Macro Seminar - Edouard Schaal (CREI)

16:00 - 17:00 23 November 2021
Title: Herding through Booms and Busts (joint with Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel)

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Alexander Stasinski

13:00 - 14:00 23 November 2021
Speaker: Alexander Stasinski - Durham Title: Rationality of representation zeta functions of compact p-adic analytic groups Abstract: A representation zeta function of a group G…

Abeyamí Ortega (UoM): 'The ‘mestizo gaze’ and the ‘scopic regime of mestizaje’: Racial logics, visual culture, and citizenship in Mexico'

17:00 - 18:30 24 November 2021
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series 2020/21. This event will be on campus (Samuel Alexander A101) but you can also follow it via Zoom.…

Brownbag - Katsushi Imai

12:00 - 13:00 24 November 2021
Title: Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Education and Labour Market Outcomes in the Future Generation?

Christophe Ley - Directional statistics and protein bioinformatics: a flexible approach

14:00 - 15:00 24 November 2021
Christophe Ley, Associate Professor of Statistics at the Department of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics at Ghent University is our speaker for the Statistics seminar…

Jian Ding - A New Correlation Inequality for Ising Models with External Fields

15:00 - 16:00 24 November 2021
Jian Ding (University of Pennsylvania) will speak in the Probability seminar. We study ferromagnetic Ising models on finite graphs with an inhomogeneous external field, where a subset…

Museums as space of care: COVID-19 responses

17:15 - 18:15 24 November 2021
Online Event Drawing on her recent book, The Museum as a Space of Social Care (2020), Dr Nuala Moore explores the potential of ‘care thinking’ for understanding the social role of…

Reinhard Bürger -- The effects of epistasis and linkage on the invasion of locally beneficial mutations

12:00 - 13:00 24 November 2021
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Reinhard Bürger (Vienna) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be…

The new EPSRC NNUF Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation (RADER) and Williamson Research Centre Laboratories - Research capabilities and opportunities

13:00 - 14:00 24 November 2021
Profs Kath Morris and Jon Lloyd from the The University of Manchester will present this week’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminar

VerSoX B07-B: A new beamline for high-throughput XPS and ambient pressure XAS

13:00 - 14:00 24 November 2021
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr. David Grinter. Dr. Grinter will present a new beamline at Diamond Light Source, B07-B, dedicated to soft X-ray spectroscopy under…

Applied Seminar - Mauro Rota (Rome)

13:00 - 14:00 25 November 2021
Title: TBA

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