Lectures and seminars

Advanced electrocatalysts for sustainable energy technologies

12:00 - 13:00 12 October 2022
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr. Laurie King. The annual production of hydrogen is over 70 million tons, with > 96% generated from fossil fuels (mostly by steam methane…

Comparative Politics

16:00 - 17:30 12 October 2022
Puren Aktas (University of Manchester): “Understanding clinical autonomy through discretion: The case of NHS England” Leou Yang (University of Manchester): “Reimagination of Contemporary…

Critical Global Politics

14:00 - 15:30 12 October 2022
Professor Peter Gries (University of Manchester): “How Gendered Stereotypes of Race Shape Anti-Chinese Covid-related Prejudice”

Logic Seminar - Pantelis Eleftheriou (Leeds)

15:15 - 16:15 12 October 2022
Title: An unbounded version of Zarankiewicz's problem Abstract: Zarankiewicz's problem for hypergraphs asks for upper bounds on the number of edges of a hypergraph that has no complete…

Marc Hodes - Physical Applied Mathematics Seminar

14:00 12 October 2022
Marc Hodes (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University) joins us for this in-person seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series Title: Adiabatic section flow resistance…

Martin Larsson - Propagation of chaos for maxima of particle systems with mean-field drift interaction (online)

15:00 - 16:00 12 October 2022
Martin Larsson (Carnegie Mellon University) will speak in the Probability seminar. We study the asymptotic behavior of normalized maxima of real-valued particles with mean-field drift…

MET Seminar - Battal Dogan (Bristol)

17:00 - 18:00 12 October 2022
Title: Equitable Allocation of Vaccines in a Supply Network (with Madhav Raghavan)

Mitchell centre Seminar series

16:00 - 18:00 12 October 2022
Nick Crossley University of Manchester Music Worlds and Event Networks In earlier work I have conceptualised and analysed 'music worlds' (e.g. the punk scene in London in 1976) as…

Reverse engineering the locomotion of an early tetrapod: Insights from an multi-disciplinary approach

14:00 - 15:00 12 October 2022
Dr. John Nyakatura from Humbolt Universitat zu Berlin will present this week’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminar

Ehrhardt Seminar: George Brooke (University of Manchester) ‘Performing Scripture in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament’

14:00 - 15:30 13 October 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,…

Coloniality, Global Health, and Reparations

16:00 - 18:00 17 October 2022
Eugene Richardson (Harvard Medical School) Chair: Peter Wade

Coloniality, Global Health, and Reparations

16:00 - 18:00 17 October 2022
Eugene Richardson (Harvard Medical School) Chair: Peter Wade

Global Political Economy

11:00 - 12:30 18 October 2022
Laura Macdonald (Carleton University, Canada): “Field Work and Participant Action Research for Progressive Politics”. This an open talk as part of the invitation-only PhD masterclass…

Macro Seminar - Christine Braun (Warwick)

16:00 - 17:00 18 October 2022
Title: Measuring the Productivity of Working from Home Abstract: We document a doubling of hours worked at home in the US from 2003 to 2019. We propose a model where workers choose…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Shezad Mohammed

13:00 - 14:00 18 October 2022
Speaker: Shezad Mohammed - Manchester Title. The Weil descent functor in the category of algebras with free operators. Abstract, Weil restriction is a result of algebraic geometry…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Alex Torzewski

15:00 - 16:00 18 October 2022
Speaker: Alex Torzewski (King's College London) Title: Lawrence-Venkatesh bounds for curves in families Abstract: We outline how the method of Lawrence-Venkatesh to bound rational…

Brownbag - Christopher Wallace

13:00 - 14:00 19 October 2022
Title: Evidence Disclosure in Competitive Markets

Democracy and Elections

15:30 - 17:00 19 October 2022
Hannah Bunting (University of Exeter)

Dominykas Norgilas - Supermartingale shadow couplings (cancelled)

15:00 - 16:00 19 October 2022
Dominykas Norgilas (University of Michigan) will speak in the Probability seminar. A classical result of Strassen asserts that given probability measures $\mu,\nu$ on the real line…

GDI Lecture Series - FutureDAMS: Addressing the water-energy-food-environment challenge

15:00 - 16:30 19 October 2022
Following the completion of the interdisciplinary FutureDAMS project in early 2022, this lecture will be delivered by the project leads who will reflect on what they have learned through…

Kolyan Ray - Semiparametric Bayesian Causal Inference and Uncertainty Quantification

15:00 - 16:00 19 October 2022
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: Inferring the causal…

Logic seminar: Ivan Tomasic (QMUL)

15:15 - 16:15 19 October 2022
Title: tba

Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT)

16:00 - 17:30 19 October 2022
Zosia Stemplowska (Oxford University)

Morgan Centre seminar: #WeAreFamilyToo - Globordered Families Struggles against Covid-Regulation (Daphna Hacker)

14:00 - 15:30 19 October 2022
In my latest book, I explored the many ways families are affected by the interrelations between globalization and borders, and the key role of the law in shaping these globordered families’…

Yalin Zheng -- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare with Applications in Eye Diseases and Beyond [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 19 October 2022
Join us for this seminar by Yalin Zheng (Liverpool) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found here…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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