Lectures and seminars

Ageing and the Uncanny Return of Carceral Churn

16:00 - 18:00 7 November 2022
Jason Danely (Oxford Brookes University) Chair: Chika Watanabe

Interconnected Worlds of Electronics Global Production Networks After the Pandemic

16:00 - 17:30 7 November 2022
Based on his recent monograph Interconnected Worlds (Stanford University Press, June 2022), this presentation offers some key observations on the co-evolutionary trajectories of electronics…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Alex Levine

13:00 - 14:00 8 November 2022
Speaker: Alex Levine Title: Languages, group equations, and quadratic equations in integers Abstract: In 2015, Duchin, Liang and Shapiro proved that there is an algorithm that…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Pedro Cazorla Garcia

15:00 - 16:00 8 November 2022
Speaker: Pedro Cazorla Garcia (University of Manchester) Title: The generalised Lebesgue-Ramanujan-Nagell equation Abstract: The Lebesgue-Ramanujan-Nagell equation x^2 + D = y^n…

What is dependency and when does it become a problem in later life? Differences across gender - Marion Repetti & Giannina Vaccaro

12:00 - 14:00 8 November 2022
Dr. Marion Repetti is professor at the School of Social Work, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland. Her research themes are aging, social policies, and inequalities.…

Brownbag - Sukanya Honkote

13:00 - 14:00 9 November 2022
Title: Labour-market flexibility and employment: Evidence from reforms in Rajasthan, India

Comparative Politics

16:00 - 17:30 9 November 2022
Periloux Peay (Georgia State University, via zoom) For zoom access please contact Olivia.Jankiewicz@manchester.ac.uk

Coupling Data Science and Numerical Simulations to Empower Atmospheric and Environmental Research

13:00 - 14:00 9 November 2022
Dr. Josh Lynn from the University of Manchester will present this week’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminar

Critical Global Politics

14:00 - 16:00 9 November 2022
"How can multisensory research (and its use in pedagogy where relevant) be useful to bring out the politics of the everyday?" This is the question addressed in this workshop. Several…

GDI Lecture Series - Transformative change from below in a context of climate-related uncertainties: praxis, patches and politics - POSTPONED

15:00 - 16:30 9 November 2022
Climate-related uncertainties have tended to be defined by experts and bureaucrats (the ‘above’), mostly ignoring local perspectives and knowledges. Living in landscapes characterised…

Logic seminar: Sebastian Eterovic (Leeds)

15:15 - 16:15 9 November 2022
Title: Likely Intersections Abstract: The past few years have seen many important results in Diophantine geometry concerning unlikely intersections, and model theory has played a crucial…

Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT)

16:00 - 17:30 9 November 2022
Marta Wojciechowska (King’s College London)

MET Seminar - Daniel Garrett (Essex)

17:00 - 18:00 9 November 2022
Meet the speaker: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K6pJH2D1qKGE_xDVXqfEPDJWDxMKMY-hgs12QB1qHaU/edit?usp=sharing Full schedule: http://daviddelacretaz.net/seminars/

Mitchell centre Seminar series

16:00 - 18:00 9 November 2022
Raffaele Vacca Statale University of Milan Unequal ties: describing and explaining stratification in personal networks Personal networks influence individual behaviors and outcomes…

Near-Infrared Colloidal Quantum Dots Lasers

12:00 - 13:00 9 November 2022
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr. Guy Whitworth. Solution-processed semiconductor lasers have achieved much success across the nanomaterial research community. The…

Randolf Altmeyer - Optimal parameter estimation for linear SPDEs from multiple local measurements (in-person)

15:00 - 16:00 9 November 2022
Randolf Altmeyer (University of Cambridge) will speak in the Probability seminar. The problem of parameter estimation in a general second order linear stochastic partial differential…

Xiaochun Meng - Scores for Multivariate Distributions and Level Sets (in person stat seminar)

14:00 - 15:00 9 November 2022
Xiaochun Meng, lecturer in Finance at the University of Sussex Business School is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title: Scores for Multivariate Distributions and Level…

CTIS research seminar: “Mine own deformity”: Translations of Shakespeare's Richard III through the lens of Critical Disability Studies

14:00 - 15:30 10 November 2022
Research seminar as part of the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies Seminar Series This presentation will be delivered online by Dr Eva Spišiaková, University of Vienna.…

Ehrhardt Seminar: James Aitken (University of Cambridge) ‘Competency and Complexity in Septuagint Translations’

14:00 - 15:30 10 November 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,…

R&T Seminar: Samuel O’Connor Perks (Manchester) 'Radical conversions: Catholicism, welfare and labour in the 20th century'

16:00 - 17:30 10 November 2022
The Religion and Theology department's fortnightly seminar series. Unless otherwise stated sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via…

Tyndall Manchester Seminar on 'Understanding and responding to the backlash against climate policy in the UK’ by Prof. Matthew Paterson

12:30 - 13:30 10 November 2022
Tyndall Manchester invite you to attend the first of its re-launched seminars on ‘Understanding and responding to the backlash against climate policy in the UK’ by Prof. Matthew Paterson,…

James E. Moore Jr -- Challenges in Quantifying Lymphatic System Transport and Immune Cell Trafficking [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 14 November 2022
Join us for this seminar by Jimmy Moore (Imperial) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found here https://www.cms.livjm.ac.uk/APMSeminar/…

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