Exhibitions, Seminar

An introduction to the Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry (KCMC)

13:00 - 14:00 23 February 2022
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr John Baker. The Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry (KCMC) is a partnership between universities (Manchester, Liverpool, Bolton,…

Brownbag - Veronica Vienne Arancibia

13:00 - 14:00 23 February 2022
Title: Air Pollution and Labour Productivity: Evidence from Europe

Dalton Seminar Series | How do we develop fusion regulation?

13:00 - 14:00 23 February 2022
A virtual round table discussion about what we need to do to develop the regulation required for future fusion reactors, with representatives from The University of Manchester, the…

Exchanges: Recent Additions to the Collection

2 July 2021 - 1 May 2022
Exchanges sets art and artists together, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in opposition – always with insight and intention. In this evolving exhibition, art that has recently been…

Finn Lindgren - inlabru: Extending and simplifying the INLA interface for spatial and non-linear models

14:00 - 15:00 23 February 2022
Finn Lindgren, Professor of Statistics in the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title: inlabru: Extending and simplifying…

Julio Villa-García & Francisco Martín Miguel (University of Oviedo): "Lessons from linguistics: putting the science of language to use"

16:00 - 17:30 23 February 2022
In this talk, we argue that knowledge of linguistics can be extremely useful, particularly for language experts (teachers, translators, etc.). Far from the preconceived idea that a…

Mitchell Centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:00 23 February 2022
Marion Hoffman IAST Toulouse Statistical modeling of social groups: An example and some outlooks Many social relations are situated within groups. Social groups are formed, for example,…

Naval Singh - Reversible Trapping of Colloids in Microgrooved Channels by Diffusiophoresis

14:00 - 15:00 23 February 2022
Naval Singh (University of Manchester) joins us for this in-person seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series Reversible Trapping of Colloids in Microgrooved Channels by Diffusiophoresis…

Philosophy Research Seminar: Professor Michael Ridge (Edinburgh)

15:15 - 16:50 23 February 2022
Please note that this seminar will be taking place on Zoom. For the relevant Zoom link, contact Dr Stephen Ingram Title: *Playfulness as a Moral Virtue? Abstract: *In this paper I…

Robert Shorten -- Cyber-physical Systems, Control Theory, and examples of Health Interventions

13:00 - 14:00 23 February 2022
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Robert Shorten (Imperial) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be…

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:…

Still Parents: Life after Baby Loss

24 September 2021 - 4 September 2022
Still Parents is the first exhibition of its kind, creating a platform to share personal stories open conversations and break the wall of silence that continues to surround baby loss.…

Suzanne Lacy: What kind of city? A manual for social change

26 November 2021 - 10 April 2022
The Whitworth presents the first major UK presentation of multiple works of US artist Suzanne Lacy, a pioneer of social practice and community organising for almost five decades. In…

The Door Opened: 1980s China - Photographs by Adrian Bradshaw

26 January - 6 July 2022
One can argue that nostalgia is the strongest emotion, a pure mixture of wistfulness and melancholy. Adrian Bradshaw, an English photographer, brings that sense of yearning into full…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Maria Cioata, University of Manchester, 'Traditional Reactions to Modern Higher-Criticism: the Case of Dr. Moses Gaster' (Zoom only)

14:00 - 15:30 24 February 2022
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. This session will take place online via Zoom. To register to attend online, please email siobhan.jolley@manchester.ac.uk. For…

The Rylands Lunchtime Seminar Series: Imaging and Imagining Early Modern Feather Fans

12:00 - 13:00 24 February 2022
Join us for an online lunchtime seminar exploring how imaging technology was used on an early modern fan to advance our understanding of artisanal creativity. Dr Stefan Hanß and Tony…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr. Ed Pulford

16:00 - 18:00 28 February 2022
Title : Colliding temporalities across northeast China’s postsocialist borders Description : Crossing borders between states often involves a sense of temporal shift, with varied…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Aram Derminjian - Online

13:00 - 14:00 1 March 2022
Speaker: Aram Derminjian - University of Manchester Title: TBC Place: Online

Social Statistics Seminar - 1 March 2022

16:00 - 17:00 1 March 2022
Manchester Social Statistics Seminars 2021/22 – March Session Measuring and understanding migration of scholars: Evidence from bibliometric data Emilio Zagheni (Max Planck Institute…

Turing Fellow 'Spotlight': 1 March

14:00 - 15:00 1 March 2022
The Digital Futures team are hosting a series of online talks by The University of Manchester's new Turing Fellows for 2021-22. For the final event in this series, new Turing Fellow…

Christoph Czichowsky - Rough volatility and portfolio optimisation under transaction costs

15:00 2 March 2022
Christoph Czichowsky (LSE will speak in the Probability seminar. Rough volatility models have become quite popular recently, as they capture both the fractional scaling of the time…

Mitchell Centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:00 2 March 2022
Michal Bojanowski Kozminski University Exponential-family Random Graph Models for egocentrically-sampled data: examples and new developments with illustrations using data on core discussion…

Ehrhardt Seminar: John Applegate, ‘Hopeless leaders? Hopeful texts? Demolishing and building reputations in deutero-Jeremianic and cultural perspectives.’ (Zoom only)

14:00 - 15:30 3 March 2022
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. This session will take place online via Zoom. To register to attend online, please email siobhan.jolley@manchester.ac.uk. For…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Professor Catherine Keller (Drew University) Apocalypse After All? Climate, Politics and Faith in the Possible. [Zoom Only]

16:00 - 17:30 3 March 2022
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. This is an online event. Please register to receive the Zoom link by emailing Dr Andrew Boakye. Seminars…

The Rylands Lunchtime Seminar Series: Maps and Magic in the Manchester Geographical Society Collections

12:00 - 13:00 3 March 2022
Join us for an online lunchtime seminar uncovering contrasting sides of Victorian exploration. Brian Wallace and Donna Sherman (curator of the map collection at University of Manchester)…

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