Events at The University of Manchester

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Applied Seminar - Mauro Rota (Rome)

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

Nano in Medicine & Health Lecture Series: Technology for Bioelectronic Medicine - Professor George Malliaras, University of Cambridge

14:00 - 15:00 25 November 2021
On behalf of the Nanomedicine Lab at the Faculty of Biology, Medicine & Health and the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) we are delighted to invite you to our…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Katherine Brown (University of Birmingham) “Extremist Myths and Extremist Masculinities in Indonesia, Philippines and Pakistan”

16:00 - 17:30 25 November 2021
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. This is a hybrid session and can be attended in person or online. Please register to receive the Zoom link…

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:…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Samuli Schielke and Mukhtar Shehata - ‘What literature does to writers. Intersections of writing and life from Alexandria’

16:00 - 18:00 29 November 2021
Samuli Schielke and Mukhtar Shehata ‘What literature does to writers. Intersections of writing and life from Alexandria’ From 2010 to 2019, the anthropologist Samuli Schielke and…

Macro Seminar - Andreas Mueller (Essex)

16:00 - 17:00 30 November 2021
Title: Structural Reforms in the Shadow of Debt Overhang: A Quantitative Perspective (joint with Kjetil Storesletten and Fabrizio Zilibotti)

Manchester Algebra Seminar - James Timmins

13:00 - 14:00 30 November 2021
Speaker: James Timmins - Oxford Title: Krull dimension of some Iwasawa algebras Abstract: The Krull dimension of a commutative algebra measures the dimension of the corresponding…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Robert Nicolaides

13:00 - 14:00 30 November 2021
Speaker: Robert Nicolaides - Manchester Title: TBC Place: Frank Adams (and to be streamed online*) *subject to equipment and connection Tea and biscuits 12:45 in the foyer

Alessandra Cipriani - Scale-free percolation mixing time in one dimension

15:00 - 16:00 1 December 2021
Alessandra Cipriani (TU Delft) will speak in the Probability seminar. Assign to each vertex of the one-dimensional torus i.i.d. weights with a heavy-tail of index ??1>0. Connect then…

Brownbag - Michele Berardi

12:00 - 13:00 1 December 2021
Title: TBA

Hunting down a theory on monuments: memorials, trauma and healing

17:15 - 18:15 1 December 2021
Online Event Hunting down a theory on monuments: memorials, trauma and healing Ana Milosevic is known by the academic community as 'the Monument Hunter.' She is Post-Doctoral Researcher…

Julia Brettschneider -- North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences

13:00 - 14:00 1 December 2021
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Julia Brettschneider (Warwick) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series…

Microbes in radioactive waste disposal

13:00 - 14:00 1 December 2021
Prof Rizlan Bernier-Latmani from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne will present this week’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminar

Applied Seminar - Andrea Tesei (Queen Mary)

13:00 - 14:00 2 December 2021
Title: TBA

Social Anthropology Seminar - via Zoom and in the Boardroom - Dr Rosana Pinheiro Machado

16:00 - 18:00 6 December 2021
Speaker : Rosana Pinheiro Machado Title : The right to shine : Poverty, consumption, and the politics of pleasure in Brazil. Description of the talk : The talk examines the political…

Macro Seminar - Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis (Barcelona)

16:00 - 17:00 7 December 2021
Title: Transfer Progressivity and Development (joint with Enric Martorell and Leandro De Magalhaes)

Manchester Algebra Seminar - James Timmins

13:00 - 14:00 7 December 2021
Speaker: Rob Nicolaides Title: Coxeter Groups and Tilings of Polygons Abstract: Coxeter groups are a family of groups with a rich, combinatorial theory. Each group is equipped with…

Social Statistics Seminar - 7 December 2021

16:00 - 17:00 7 December 2021
Social Statistics Seminars 2021/22 – December Session New measures for assessing non-ignorable selection bias in non-probability samples and low response rate probability samples…

The Moses Gaster Seminar

14:00 - 15:30 7 December 2021
This academic year (2021-22) the John Rylands Research Institute and Library will complete the online cataloguing of the codices in Hebrew script in the Rylands Library Manchester.…

Turing Fellow 'Spotlight': 7 December

14:00 - 15:00 7 December 2021
The Digital Futures team are hosting talks by The University of Manchester's new Turing Fellows for 2021-22. Presenting at this event are Glen Martin and Matthew Sperrin. To register…

Computer Science ATLAS talk - Learning from Disagreements

14:00 - 15:00 8 December 2021
Please join us for our forthcoming Atlas Talk (online) in Computer Science Joining details: https://zoom.us/j/98513350116 Passcode 910561 Title - Learning from Disagreements Speaker…

Finding and fixing greenhouse gas leaks: where humans disrupt the plumbing of the global carbon cycle

13:00 - 14:00 8 December 2021
Dr Joshua Dean from the University of Liverpool will present this week’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminar

Michael Hofstetter - Extreme values of the sine-Gordon field

15:00 - 16:00 8 December 2021
Michael Hofstetter (University of Cambridge) will speak in the Probability seminar. In recent years there has been significant progress in the study of extreme values of log-correlated…

Rea Antoniou-Kourounioti -- North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences

13:00 - 14:00 8 December 2021
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Rea Antoniou-Kourounioti (John Innes Centre) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the…

Steering ultrafast photochemical reactions with infrared excitation

13:00 - 14:00 8 December 2021
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Prof. Julia Weinstein. Light absorption in molecules initiates a plethora of reactions on the ultrafast timescale. Designing the ways…

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