Lectures and seminars

A Month of Celebrations: International Women's Day Lunchtime Speakers - The Contribution of Women across the Lifespan in the Covid-19 Crisis

16 - 30 March 2022
A month of celebrations for international women's day: lunchtime talks to highlight women's contribution to the Covid- across the lifespan To celebrate International Women’s Day on…

Caleb Springer (University College London) - Every finite abelian group arises as the group of rational points of an ordinary abelian variety over F_2, F_3, and F_5

15:00 - 16:00 22 March 2022
Abstract : We will show that every finite abelian group arises as the group of rational points of an ordinary abelian variety over a finite field with 2, 3 or 5 elements. Similar results…

Macro Seminar - Johannes Boehm (Sciences Po)

16:00 - 17:00 22 March 2022
Title: Growth and the Fragmentation of Production

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Sinead Lyle

13:00 - 14:00 22 March 2022
Speaker: Sinead Lyle - UEA Title: Higher level Rouquier blocks Abstract: In the symmetric group algebra, the Rouquier blocks are an important class of blocks. We shall explore some…

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:…

Alexis Prevost - First passage percolation with long-range correlations and applications to random Schrödinger operators

15:00 - 16:00 23 March 2022
Alexis Prevost (University of Cambridge) will speak in the Probability seminar. I will present some results on first passage percolation (FPP) when the passage times have long-range…

Brownbag - Raffaele Rossi

13:00 - 14:00 23 March 2022
Title: Taxing Consumption in Unequal Economies

Carolina Cambre (Concordia University): "Molecular insurrections: An experiment in Visual Narrative Inquiry in Buenos Aires, Argentina"

17:00 23 March 2022
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series 2020/21. This event will be via Zoom. Here is the link: https://zoom.us/j/94462492930 I remember…

Democracy and Elections Cluster Seminar Series – Semester 2 2021-22 - Florian Foos - London School of Economics and Political Science

15:30 - 17:00 23 March 2022
Florian Foos (London School of Economics and Political Science) Making the Case for Democracy Please contact Val Lenferna - val.lenferna@manchester.ac.uk for the zoom address

English, American Studies, and Creative Writing Research Seminar - Inaugural seminar in the EAC critical race studies seminar series

17:00 23 March 2022
Dr Amy Bride (UoM), 'Monsters of Colour, Monsters of Means: Undead Consumers and the Race-Profit Correlation in Gothic American Fiction' The black-white binary of American gothic literature,…

GDI Lecture: Shifting South: Regional Value Chains, South-South Trade and Decent Work in Sub Saharan Africa

16:30 - 18:00 23 March 2022
How is garment and horticultural trade changing in sub-Saharan Africa? How important are domestic and regional value chains supplying retailers within Africa? Are product and social…

Logic Seminar - Richard Matthews (Leeds)

15:00 - 16:00 23 March 2022
Title: Constructing the Constructible Universe Constructively Abstract: Gödel's Constructible Universe, L, was introduced to show the consistency of the axiom of choice and the generalized…

Matthew Hennessy - Physical Applied Mathematics Seminar

14:00 - 15:00 23 March 2022
Matthew Hennessy (University of Bristol, Engineering Maths) joins us for this in-person seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series Abstract: Polyelectrolyte gels are soft,…

Michael Sieber -- What does microbiota composition tell us, and how do “microbiota” meet their host?

13:00 - 14:00 23 March 2022
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Michael Sieber (Max Planck Evolutionary Biology, Germany) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences.…

Mitchell Centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:00 23 March 2022
Mirco Schönfeld University of Bayreuth Networks in Context Analyzing networks in humanities research often involves aggregating diverse and many-faceted information about the objects…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Daniel J. Atkins, Nazarene Theological College, ‘Paul and the Shape of History: Narrative, Invasion, or Correspondence?’ (Zoom only)

14:00 - 15:30 24 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…

Sustainable Futures Seminar Series | Greener operations: Sustainable Perioperative Care & Towards Sustainability and Net Zero with Digitalised Surface Manufacturing

14:00 - 15:15 24 March 2022
This event will see separate talks from UoM's Professor Allan Matthews and Dr David Jones of Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Agenda: - 14:00: Welcome and introduction…

Andrew Scoones (University of York) - On the abc Conjecture in Algebraic Number Fields

15:00 - 16:00 29 March 2022
Abstract : While the abc conjecture remains open, much work has been done on weaker versions, and ongeneralising the conjecture to number fields. Stewart and Yu were able to give an…

Macro Seminar - Christopher Busch (Barcelona)

16:00 - 17:00 29 March 2022
Title: A Stage-Based Identification of Policy Effects

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Adam Brown

13:00 - 14:00 29 March 2022
Speaker: Adam Brown - UST Title: The local Langlands correspondence and unitary representations of GL(n) Abstract: Harish-Chandra's Lefschetz principle suggests that representations…

Turing Fellow 'Spotlight':29 March (rescheduled)

14:00 - 15:00 29 March 2022
*Please note: this event was originally scheduled to take place on 1 March but has been rescheduled due to the UCU strike action.* The Digital Futures team are hosting a series of…

Brownbag - Alessia Isopi

13:00 - 14:00 30 March 2022
Title: Bargaining Power and Inheritance Norms: Evidence from Polygamous Households in Nigeria

Christa Cuchiero - Optimal bailout strategies resulting from the drift controlled supercooled Stefan problem

13:30 - 14:30 30 March 2022
Christa Cuchiero (University of Vienna) will speak in the Probability seminar. We consider the problem faced by a central bank which bails out distressed financial institutions that…

Dalton Seminar Series | Fission/Fusion Crossover | Recording available

14:00 - 15:00 30 March 2022
A recording is available for this event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pES_AkvKXgw&t=68s What can those working in fission and fusion learn from each other and how can we best collaborate?…

JMCE Events Academic Year 2021-2022 SEMESTER II - Prof. Paul Irwin Crookes (Oxford School of Areas Studies, University of Oxford)

14:00 - 15:00 30 March 2022
Wednesday, March 30 2022, 2-3pm (GMT) * in person event co-organised with Manchester China Institute (MCI) Speaker: Prof. Paul Irwin Crookes (Oxford School of Areas Studies, University…

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