Lectures and seminars

Jared Lichtman (Oxford) - Twin primes & a modified linear sieve

15:00 - 16:00 3 May 2022
Abstract : The linear sieve is a powerful tool to tackle problems related to the primes, when combined with equidistribution estimates for the remainder. In 1977 Iwaniec introduced…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Pavel Zalesski

13:00 - 14:00 3 May 2022
Speaker: Pavel Zalesskii - University of Brasilia Title. Splitting of pro-p groups (as an amalgam or HNN) Abstract. I shall talk about Stallings type results of splittings of pro-p…

Social Statistics Seminar - 3 May 2022

16:00 - 17:00 3 May 2022
Social Statistics Seminars 2021/22 – May Session Integrating and evaluating social network and systems approaches in health interventions Kayla de la Haye (University of Southern…

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:…

Danielle Terrazas Williams (Leeds): Who Dared to Question the Word of a Priest?: Free Black Women and Social Capital in Seventeenth-Century Mexico

17:00 4 May 2022
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series 2021/22. This event will take place in Sam Alex_SG.16 but can be followed via Zoom. Here is the…

Democracy and Elections Cluster Seminar Series – Semester 2 2021-22 - Elif Naz Kayran - University of Leiden

15:30 - 17:00 4 May 2022
Details to be advised. Please contact Val lenferna - val.lenferna@manchester.ac.uk for the zoom address.

Digital Trust & Security Seminar Series: Carolyn Swinney

13:00 - 14:15 4 May 2022
Talk title: Software Defined Radios: RF Enabled Cyber Vulnerability Exposure and Early Warning Venue: Manchester, Oxford Road area. Location details provided following registration…

Logic Seminar - Rosario Mennuni (Pisa)

15:00 - 16:00 4 May 2022
Title: Automorphisms of ordered abelian groups and positive logic Abstract: A common construction in model theory consists in starting with a theory T, adding to the language a symbol…

Pierre Patie - Discrete self-similarity and some ergodic Markov chains

15:00 - 16:00 4 May 2022
Pierre Patie (Cornell University) will speak in the Probability seminar. In this talk, resorting to the theory of group representation, we start by introducing an operator that defines…

Recent developments in cryo-atom probe tomography

13:00 - 14:00 4 May 2022
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Professor Baptiste Gault. Atom probe tomography (APT) is a microscopy and microanalysis technique that provides three-dimensional compositional…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Sherry Ashworth, University of Manchester, ‘It's complicated: the relationship between Esther and Mordecai, mediated by Charles Dickens' Bleak House’

14:00 - 15:30 5 May 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 - Mihaela Mihai, Edinburgh University ‘Feeling Responsible: Ecological Grief and the Oscillating Pendulum of Hope’

16:00 - 17:30 5 May 2022
MANCEPT Research Seminars Mihaela Mihai Edinburgh University ‘Feeling Responsible: Ecological Grief and the Oscillating Pendulum of Hope’ Details to be confirmed

Red Talks -'Stressed (stressing) socionatures: Urban metabolism, water scarcity and seawater desalination in Chile under a neoliberal paradigm

16:00 - 17:00 5 May 2022
The Resources, Environment, and Development (RED) Research Group –formerly known as the ‘Agrarian change and Political ecology’ group– in the Global Development Institute at the University…

Social Statistics Research Event: New Developments in Combining Probability and Non-probability sampling

13:30 - 16:00 5 May 2022
Social Statistics Research Event, University of Manchester May 5th 2022 New Developments in Combining Probability and Non-probability sampling Non-probability sampling is receiving…

The Annual Gillian White Lecture 2022

17:00 - 19:00 5 May 2022
The Human Right to Development as a New Foundation for International Economic Law Professor Dr. Diane Desierto is Professor of Law and Global Affairs, and Faculty Director of the…

The Rylands Lunchtime Seminar Series: Designing Dante in Manuscript and Print: Strategies of the Page

12:00 - 13:00 5 May 2022
Join this lunchtime talk to explore three iconic Dante items from the Rylands collections and how they reveal a multitude of design and presentation choices. Guyda Armstrong, curator…

DCS Next Generation Seminar Series: Dr Julia Kamenz, Rijksunversiteit Groningen, Netherlands: “How to get safely in and out of mitosis”

13:00 - 14:00 9 May 2022
When: Monday 9 May 2022, 13:00 – 14:00 BST (Pizza from 12:30) Where: Oglesby Cancer Research Building (OCRB) Lecture Theatre, 555 Wilmslow Rd, Manchester M20 4GJ Dr Julia Kamenz…

Advances in Data Science and AI Seminar | How to make the most of high energy physics data with real-time analysis and AI

14:00 - 15:00 10 May 2022
Caterina Doglioni is Professor of Particle Physics at The University of Manchester and throughout her research career has been working on the ATLAS experiment at the LHC at CERN. Caterina's…

Henry Box Brown Lecture 2022

17:30 - 19:00 10 May 2022
'Surviving the Ends of Empire, Or How Insurgent Aesthetics and Queer Collective Care are Transforming Our Worlds' - Ronak K Kapadia, University of Illinois at Chicago (Art Image Credit:…

Macro Seminar - Mathias Trabandt (Goethe University Frankfurt)

16:00 - 17:00 10 May 2022
Title: Expectations, Infections, and Economic Activity

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Konstantinos Karagiannis

13:00 - 14:00 10 May 2022
Speaker: Konstantinos Karagiannis - Manchester Title: Finite group actions on algebraic curves Abstract: In this talk I will discuss how questions arising in classic (ordinary, modular…

Thomas Ashton Institute for Risk and Regulatory Research - Annual Lecture 2022

16:30 10 May 2022
In person lecture followed by reception. Online option also available. Lecture Summary: Before chairing the Health and Safety Executive from 2007-2016, Dame Judith spent more…

Valeriya Kovaleva (Oxford) - Correlations of the Riemann Zeta on the critical line

15:00 - 16:00 10 May 2022
Abstract : in this talk we will discuss the correlations of the Riemann Zeta in various ranges, and prove a new result for correlations of squares. We will also explain how it is related…

Work and Equalities Institute Fourth Annual Lecture: Can workers be organised if the state isn’t? Digitalisation, work and employment in emerging and developing economies

10:00 - 11:30 10 May 2022
The role of the state in work and employment has traditionally been examined primarily at the macro level, focusing on its role as a regulator and employer in the context of employment…

Emmanuel Ogundimu - Recent advances in sample selection models

14:00 - 15:00 11 May 2022
Emmanuel Ogundimu, Assistant Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title: Recent advances…

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