Lectures and seminars

Macro Seminar - Pedro Teles (Catolica Lisbon)

16:00 - 17:00 6 December 2022
Title: TBA

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Emine Yilidirim

13:00 - 14:00 6 December 2022
Speaker: Emine Yilidirim Title: Categories from poset quivers Abstract: Let Q be a quiver which is simply a directed graph. We will talk about a construction of a new quiver Q'=(Q,P)…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Kostas Karagiannis

15:00 - 16:00 6 December 2022
Speaker: Kostas Karagiannis (University of Manchester) Title: The Galois module structure problem for Fermat curves Abstract: The function field analogy is a general principle that…

Rountable - Attacked: Healthcare systems in Ukraine and Syria

17:00 - 18:30 6 December 2022
This event will see updates from and comparisons between the humanitarian situations in Syria and Ukraine, with a focus on attacks on and the responses of healthcare systems and workers.…

SCI Annual Lecture 2022: In Conversation with Kate Raworth

15:00 - 18:00 6 December 2022
The Sustainable Consumption Institute is delighted to welcome Kate Raworth (author of Doughnut Economics) at the Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, for the…

The Next Pandemic: Roundtable event

17:15 - 18:30 6 December 2022
The roundtable will address the question of the next pandemic: • What lessons have we learned from the Covid pandemic that might help us cope with the next pandemic? • Should we be…

Allison Bigelow (University of Virginia): From Archive to Main Street: How Colonial Latin Americanists Can Redefine Our Field and Remake Community Landscapes

17:00 - 18:30 7 December 2022
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. This event will be online: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166 Abstract: Year after year, we read…

Atomistic and multi-scale simulations of (In,Ga)N heterostructures: Insights into carrier transport, radiative, non-radiative recombination properties

12:00 - 13:00 7 December 2022
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr Stefan Schulz. Semiconductor nanostructures utilizing indium gallium nitride ((In,Ga)N) alloys have attracted considerable research…

Comparative Politics

16:00 - 17:30 7 December 2022
Peter Gries (University of Manchester): “Authoritarian Responsiveness and Regime Legitimation in China Today”

Confronting Racism Denial - Public lecture by Professor Camara Jones

17:00 - 18:30 7 December 2022
Join our public lecture on confronting racism denial, given by Professor Camara Jones. The lecture will be chaired by Professor Bridget Byrne, Director of CoDE. The lecture and questions…

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

13:00 - 14:00 7 December 2022
Professor Maria McNamara from the University of Manchester will present this week’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminar

Critical Global Politics

14:00 - 16:00 7 December 2022
Cross-cluster event with GPE: Professor Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni (University of Johannesburg) via zoom. For zoom access please email Olivia.Jankiewicz@manchester.ac.uk

Dominykas Norgilas - Supermartingale shadow couplings (cancelled)

15:00 - 16:00 7 December 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…

Global Political Economy

14:00 - 15:30 7 December 2022
Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni (Johannesburg University), ‘TBC’. Joint seminar with the Critical Global Politics cluster via zoom. For zoom access please email Olivia.Jankiewicz@manchester.ac.uk

Larisa Soldatova -- Data solutions for the robot scientist [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 7 December 2022
Join us for this seminar by Larisa Soldatova (Goldsmiths) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found…

Logic seminar: Uli Sattler (Manchester)

15:15 - 16:15 7 December 2022
Title: Description Logics, Ontology Languages, Modularity, and Automated Reasoning Abstract: Description Logics have been developed for knowledge representation and reasoning, and…

Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT)

16:00 - 17:30 7 December 2022
*Christmas Special* Jonny Benson (University of Manchester) https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/j.benson.html

Mitchell centre Seminar series

16:00 - 18:00 7 December 2022
James Hollway Geneva Graduate Institute Multimodal political discourse dynamics and the curious case of the German nuclear policy pivot The 2011 policy pivot of the German government,…

Applied Seminar - Nicolas Astier (PSE)

13:00 - 14:00 8 December 2022
Title: TBC

CTIS Research Seminar Series: The Radical Potential of Translational Poetics in the Experimental Multilingual Writing of Erín Moure, Josely Vianna Baptista and Kathy Acker

14:00 - 15:30 8 December 2022
Research seminar as part of the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies seminar series. The seminar will be delivered in person by Dr Melissa Tanti, University of Manchester.…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Megan Warner (Luther King Centre for Theology and Ministry) ‘Violence in Genesis 12 – 50’

14:00 - 15:30 8 December 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,…

Irene Manton Lecture 2022

17:30 - 19:00 8 December 2022
Join us to celebrate and commemorate the significant contribution made by women to the Natural Sciences at the 2022 Irene Manton lecture. The lecture is free to attend and is open…

Omer Bayraktar -- Mapping human tissue architecture and pathology using spatial genomics [ONLINE]

12:00 - 13:00 8 December 2022
Join us for this seminar by Omer Bayraktar (Sanger) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found here…

R&T Seminar: Marius Dorobantu (VU Amsterdam) 'Could robots become religious? Spiritual intelligence in humans and machines' (Zoom only)

16:00 - 17:30 8 December 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…

The Rylands Lunchtime Seminar Series: Scribbling In Old Books: Annotations and The Stories They Can Tell Us

13:00 - 13:45 8 December 2022
This online talk will explore what jottings and notes in books can tell us about life in 18th and 19th century northern English towns. Hannah Barker and Jane Gallagher (Head of Digital…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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