Lectures and seminars

Macro Seminar - Steven Ongena (Zurich)

16:00 - 17:00 14 February 2023
Title: “There is No Planet B", but for Banks “There are Countries B to Z": Domestic Climate Policy and Cross-Border Lending

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Rescheduled due to strike

13:00 - 14:00 14 February 2023
There will be no seminar this week due to industrial action.

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Michael Yiasemides

15:00 - 16:00 14 February 2023
Speaker: Michael Yiasemides (University of Nottingham) Title: Divisor sums and Hankel matrices Abstract: In this talk I will demonstrate a new approach to evaluating divisor sums,…

Optimizing LES closure models through Reinforcement Learning

15:00 - 16:00 14 February 2023
Please note that this is an online-only event. Abstract of lecture: Reinforcement learning (RL) is considered as the third learning paradigm, besides unsupervised and supervised learning.…

Brownbag - Guillaume Blanc

13:00 - 13:50 15 February 2023
Title: French

Dalton Seminar Series | Radiopharmaceutical Production & Research For Cancer Treatment

13:00 - 14:00 15 February 2023
Watch the recording with guest speaker Maarten Ooms of the NURA project at SCK CEN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kBKLf6P15U

Jordan Richards - (- Online)

14:00 - 15:00 15 February 2023
Jordan Richards, postdoctoral fellow in Extreme Statistics at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title: Abstract:…

Mitchell Centre for SNA seminar: Matthieu de Castlebajac - Tactical Ambiguity and Social Networks in the 1948 Bogotazo

16:00 - 17:00 15 February 2023
Matthieu de Castlebajac (Universidad de los Andes) Tactical Ambiguity and Social Networks in the 1948 Bogotazo Students of contentious politics often define social mobilizations…

Sara Svaluto-Ferro - From signature-based models to affine and polynomial processes and back

15:00 - 16:00 15 February 2023
Sara Svaluto-Ferro (University of Verona) will speak in the Probability seminar. (online) Modern universal classes of dynamic processes, based on neural networks or signature methods,…

Ehrhardt Seminar: John Applegate, Emmanuel Theological College “Do not pray for this people …”: Disaster, Trauma and Prayer (Jer. 7:16; 11:14; 14:11; 15:1)

14:10 - 15:30 16 February 2023
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,…

Gilded Space-Time: Economic subjectivities in a boom-and-bust economy

16:00 - 18:00 20 February 2023
Dr Amy Penfield Gilded Space-Time: Economic subjectivities in a boom-and-bust economy This paper explores moral reflections in encounters with gold and the activity of prospector…

Generative methods in Machine learning: Applications in science and engineering

15:00 - 17:00 21 February 2023
Note: this is a hybrid learning event. It is most beneficial to attend in-person Learning objectives: 1. To provide the audience with an accessible overview of the theory of generative…

Macro Seminar - Xavier Mateos-Planas (Queen Mary)

16:00 - 17:00 21 February 2023
Title: Trade Credit Default

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Rescheduled due to strike

13:00 - 14:00 21 February 2023
There will be no seminar this week due to industrial action.

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Paul Voutier

15:00 - 16:00 21 February 2023
Speaker: Paul Voutier Title: A kit for linear forms in three logarithms (joint work with Maurice Mignotte) Abstract: Lower bounds for linear forms in logarithms are a powerful tool…

MET Seminar - Volker Nocke (Mannheim)

17:00 - 18:00 22 February 2023
Title: Consumer Search and Choice Overload Abstract: In this paper, we develop a model of within-firm sequential, directed search and study a firm’s ability and incentive to steer…

PEM/MUI Research Seminar - Modelling and simulating urban expansion in Africa

12:00 - 13:30 22 February 2023
You are kindly invited to our next PEM/MUI Research Seminar This is a hybrid event taking place on Wednesday, February 22, 2023, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm at ALB, G.035/36 and on Teams (for…

Roxana Dumitrescu - title tbc

15:00 - 16:00 22 February 2023
Roxana Dumitrescu (King's College London) will speak in the Probability seminar. (online) abstract tbc

SQUIDS Seminar: Marie-Therese Wolfram - TBC

15:00 - 16:00 22 February 2023
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: TBC

Applied Seminar - Michele Fioretti (Science Po)

13:00 - 14:00 23 February 2023
Title: Saving for a Dry Day: Coal, Dams and the Energy Transition Abstract: Renewable generation creates a tradeoff between current and future energy production as generators produce…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Kelsie Rodenbiker, University of Glasgow 'Looking for Gold in Mud’: Ancient Ecclesiastical Perceptions of Pseudepigraphy

14:10 - 15:30 23 February 2023
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,…

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