Lectures and seminars

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).

R&T Panel: Hannah Cobb, Scott Midson, Holly Morse, Katja Stuerzenhofecker (Manchester) 'Pedagogies for value-based teaching: Religions & Theology in the classroom and beyond'

16:00 - 17:30 17 November 2022
The Religion and Theology department's fortnightly seminar series. Sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via Zoom. To register to…

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