Lectures and seminars

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/…

Professor Richard Jones’ inaugural lecture

16:00 - 17:00 14 November 2022
Lecture title From self-stratifying films to levelling up: A random walk through polymer physics and science policy. Lecture abstract How could you make a paint-on solar cell? How…

Still This Puzzle and Promise of Technology

16:00 - 18:00 14 November 2022
James Cuffe (University College Cork) Chair: Jolynna Sinanan

Advances in Data Science and AI: Edward Salakpi

14:00 - 15:00 15 November 2022
The Advances in Data Science and AI seminar series showcases innovative research in data science and AI from across the world. This event is hybrid. Title: Forecasting vegetation…

Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw lecture by Professor Kevin Buzzard: Will computers replace mathematicians?

18:00 - 20:30 15 November 2022
For decades now, computers have been much better than humans at calculating. But mathematical research is not all about calculating -- humans make conjectures and prove theorems. Until…

Macro Seminar - Gisle Natvik (BI Norwegian)

16:00 - 17:00 15 November 2022
Title: Macro Shocks in a Micro Laboratory: Evidence on Spousal Income Insurance, Household Spending, and Spillovers

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Michael Livesey

13:00 - 14:00 15 November 2022
Speaker: Micheal Livesey Title: RoCK blocks for double covers of symmetric groups Abstract: Broué's conjecture posits that a block with abelian defect group is derived equivalent…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Francesco Ballini

15:00 - 16:00 15 November 2022
Speaker: Francesco Ballini (University of Oxford) Title: Hyperelliptic continued fractions Abstract: We can define a continued fraction for formal series f(t)=\sum_{i=-\infty}^d c_it^i…

Brownbag - Veronica Vienne Arancibia

13:00 - 14:00 16 November 2022
Title: Extreme weather and children’s non-cognitive outcomes

Democracy and Elections

15:30 - 17:00 16 November 2022
Tessa Ditonto (University of Durham)

Florian Schweiger - The maximum of log-correlated Gaussian fields in random environments (online)

15:00 - 16:00 16 November 2022
Florian Schweiger (Weizmann Institute of Science) will speak in the Probability seminar. (online) In recent years there has been a lot of progress in studying the extrema of logarithmically…

GDI Lecture Series - Understanding migration dynamics in the Horn of Africa

15:00 - 16:30 16 November 2022
The Horn of Africa (HoA) is a region with a long history of crises, including conflict, natural disasters, and mass displacement of people both within and across its borders. It is…

Logic seminar: Jonathan Kirby (UEA)

15:15 - 16:15 16 November 2022
Title: Quasiminimality of complex powers Abstract: Boris Zilber conjectured that the complex exponential field is quasiminimal: every definable subset is countable or co-countable.…

Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT)

16:00 - 17:30 16 November 2022
Christien Straehle

MET Seminar - Mariann Ollar (Edinburgh)

17:00 - 18:00 16 November 2022
Title: A Network Solution to Robust Implementation: the Case of Identical but UnknownDistributions (with Antonio Penta) Abstract: We study robust mechanism design in environments in…

Mitchell centre Seminar series

16:00 - 18:00 16 November 2022
Federico Bianchi Statale University of Milan Agent-based models of social networks The seminar will be centred on Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) as a strategy for modelling social networks…

Tatiana Bubba - Deeply learned regularization for limited angle computed tomography, with a little help from microlocal analysis

15:00 - 16:00 16 November 2022
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: In recent years, limited…

Applied Seminar - Ludovica Gazze (Warwick)

13:00 - 14:00 17 November 2022
Title: A View from the Fenceline: Evaluating Monitoring and Enforcement Policies to Reduce Oil and Gas Methane Emissions (joint with Thomas Covert, Michael Greenstone, Olga Rostapshova)

Econometrics Seminar - Debopam Bhattacharya (Cambridge)

11:00 - 12:00 17 November 2022
Inferring trade-offs in university admissions: evidence from Cambridge Abstract: How do elite universities balance diversity vs academics during admissions? We develop a theory-based…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Walter Houston (University of Manchester) '"I saw the prosperity of the wicked." Tracking down the rich in the Psalms.'

14:00 - 15:30 17 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,…

Global Political Economy

15:00 - 16:30 17 November 2022
Seminar “Lineages of Transition: PhD, Postdoc, Early Career”. Talks by Charlotte Weatherill, Aliki Koutlou, Franco Galdini (all GPE, Politics).

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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