Seminar

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…

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…

“...No more than one can see the grass growing.”

16:00 - 18:00 21 November 2022
Alexander Schellow (Filmmaker and researcher, ERG - School of Graphic Research) Chair: Alexandra D’Onofrio

Macro Seminar - Daniel Lewis (UCL)

16:00 - 17:00 22 November 2022
Title: Dynamic Identification Using System Projections and Instrumental Variables

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Sue Sierra

13:00 - 14:00 22 November 2022
Speaker: Sue Sierra Title: TBC Place: Frank Adams (this term the seminar will not be streamed online) Tea and biscuits 12:45 in the foyer

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Roger Plymen

15:00 - 16:00 22 November 2022
Speaker: Roger Plymen (University of Manchester) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

Brownbag - Nuno Palma

13:00 - 14:00 23 November 2022
Title: The Fraudster and the Bank

Earth in the Emergency Room: Recovery of Earth after the Moonforming Giant Impact

13:00 - 14:00 23 November 2022
Dr. Simon Lock from Bristol University will present this week’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminar

Eradicating extreme poverty in China: A sociological account.

01:00 - 14:00 23 November 2022
China has lifted more than 700 million people out of poverty since late 1970s and announced in 2020 a sweeping victory on ending extreme poverty after an eight years’ national fight…

Logic seminar: Vahagn Aslanyan (Leeds)

15:15 - 16:15 23 November 2022
Title: Model-theoretic Algebraic Closure in Zilber’s Field Abstract: I will explain how the model-theoretic algebraic closure in Zilber’s pseudo-exponential field can be described…

Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT)

16:00 - 17:30 23 November 2022
Mihaela Popa-Wyatt (University of Manchester) https://mihaelapopawyatt.wordpress.com/

Pankhurst Seminar

14:00 - 15:00 23 November 2022
Conducted by Carl Death

Robert Gaunt - Normal approximation for the posterior in exponential families (in-person)

15:00 - 16:00 23 November 2022
Robert Gaunt (University of Manchester) will speak in the Probability seminar. (in-person) The Bernstein-von Mises (BvM) Theorem is a cornerstone in Bayesian statistics. Loosely put,…

Thomas Barker -- Continuum modelling of flowing grains [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 23 November 2022
Join us for this seminar by Tom Barker (Cardiff -- previously Manchester) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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