Lectures and seminars

David Wedge -- The genomic evolution of cancer

14:00 - 15:00 25 April 2022
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by David Wedge (Manchester) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Self-driving cars and the rules of the road

15:30 - 16:30 25 April 2022
Join us for the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 21/22, webinar hosted by Jack Stilgoe, Professor in Science and Technology studies at University College London.…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr. Meadhbh McIvor

16:00 - 18:00 25 April 2022
Title: To Love "Beyond Belief": Liberal Religion and Civic Engagement in a Divided United States Méadhbh McIvor is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester,…

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:…

Advances in Data Science and AI Seminar | Urban-Regional Planning and Data-intensive technologies: needs, trends and challenges in a developing country

14:00 - 15:00 26 April 2022
Dr. Augusto dos Santos Pereira is a Brazilian Geographer at the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (Brazilian census bureau). He also works as a consultant in Urban Geography,…

Demi Allen (University of Exeter) - An inhomogeneous Khintchine–Groshev Theorem without monotonicity

15:00 - 16:00 26 April 2022
Abstract : The classical (inhomogeneous) Khintchine–Groshev Theorem tells us that for a monotonic approximating function ?:N?[0,?) the Lebesgue measure of the set of (inhomogeneously)…

Macro Seminar - Jonna Olsson (Edinburgh)

16:00 - 17:00 26 April 2022
Title: Subjective Life Expectancies, Time Preference Heterogeneity and Wealth Inequality

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Billy Woods

13:00 - 14:00 26 April 2022
Speaker: Billy Woods - University of Essex Title: Filtered skew power series rings Abstract: Skew polynomial rings show up naturally as group algebras, universal enveloping algebras…

Trans Healthcare: Past, Present & What Might Have Been

18:00 - 20:00 26 April 2022
Part of a broader project on trans healthcare and creativity, this event will explore the past, present and 'what might have been' of trans healthcare provision in the UK. What is trans…

CGP Cluster Seminar Series Events in Semester 2, 2021-2022 - Roundtable

13:30 - 15:00 27 April 2022
'A Messy/uncomfortable Conversation about Whiteness In the Academy'

Comparative Politics - Semester Two - Gidon Cohen (Durham), ‘Party development and election violence: evidence from nineteenth century England and Wales’

16:00 - 17:00 27 April 2022
Gidon Cohen (Durham), ‘Party development and election violence: evidence from nineteenth century England and Wales’ Discussant: Chris Butler

Jennifer Wadsworth - A tour through multivariate extreme value methodology

14:00 - 15:00 27 April 2022
Jennifer Wadsworth, Senior Lecturer in Statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University. is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title: A…

Kirsty Wan -- Distinct gaits of self-propulsion in microswimmers

13:00 - 14:00 27 April 2022
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Kirsty Wan (Exeter) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found…

Logic Seminar - Victor Lisinski (Oxford)

15:00 - 16:00 27 April 2022
Title: Decidability of equal characteristic tame Hahn fields in the language L_t Abstract: The model theory of tame fields in the language of valued fields has been extensively studied…

Mikolaj Kasprzak - Stein's method and Gaussian process approximations

15:00 - 16:00 27 April 2022
Mikolaj Kasprzak (University of Luxembourg) will speak in the Probability seminar. Functional limit theorems have found multiple applications in fields ranging from statistical changepoint…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 27 April 2022
Shaping the climate transition: multistakeholder networks, elites, and green finance policy in Europe Daniel Tischer (University of Bristol) & Tomaso Ferrando (University of Antwerp)…

Suzie Protiere - Physical Applied Mathematics Seminar

14:00 - 15:00 27 April 2022
Suzie Protiere (Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Université Pierre et Marie Curie) joins us for this in-person seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series Abstract: TBC

Book celebration ‘Latour for Architects’, curated by Demetra Kourri & Albena Yaneva

14:00 - 16:30 28 April 2022
MARG Spring Seminars Series 28 April, 2pm, HBS, 1.27, hybrid event – ‘Latour for Architects’, curated by Demetra Kourri & Albena Yaneva Invited speakers: Rania Ghosn, MIT Architecture,…

College Behind Bars: Lessons from the US Bard Prison Initiative

15:00 - 16:30 28 April 2022
A Making a Difference Event A documentary and Q&A about one university’s 20-year struggle to provide tuition-free, full-time higher education to incarcerated students. This 90-minute…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Peter Atkins, University of Chester, ‘Reading Across the Human-Animal Boundary: The Animalising Affliction of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 4’

14:00 - 15:30 28 April 2022
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. Sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via Zoom. To register to attend online,…

MANCEPT Research Seminars - Riki Yamochi - University of Manchester - ‘Collective Moral Agency and Legitimate Authority

16:00 - 17:30 28 April 2022
MANCEPT Research Seminars April 28: Riki Yamochi - Manchester University - ‘Collective Moral Agency and Legitimate Authority Details to be confirmed

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Professor Grant Macaskill (University of Aberdeen) “Autism, Selfhood and Language: Social, Biblical and Theological Intersections”. [Zoom Only]

16:00 - 17:30 28 April 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…

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