Lectures and seminars

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,…

Lewis Lab Seminar - Sean Bottomley (Northumbria)

16:00 - 17:00 23 February 2023
Title: TBC

Anthropology against the big idea

16:00 - 18:00 27 February 2023
Dr David Zeitlyn (Oxford University) Anthropology against the big idea Enough of turns. They make me dizzy and give me vertigo so on health and safety grounds I am trying to avoid them.…

Professor Philip Edmondson's Inaugural Lecture

11:00 - 13:00 27 February 2023
The Inaugural Lecture of Professor Philip Edmondson will take place on Monday 27th February 2023 between 11am and 12pm. This event will take place in Blended Lecture Theatre 2 (2B.020),…

Theo Kypraios -- Bayesian nonparametric inference for stochastic infectious disease models [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 27 February 2023
Join us for this seminar by Theo Kypraios (University of Nottingham) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can…

Generative algorithms to search for optimal geometric configuration for seismic barriers/seismic metamaterials

15:00 - 16:00 28 February 2023
Please note that this is a hybrid event. You can join in-person or through zoom. Abstract of the lecture Utilization of seismic barriers and seismic metamaterials for protection against…

Macro Seminar - João Valle e Azevedo (Bank of Portugal)

16:00 - 17:00 28 February 2023
Title: Permanent and temporary monetary policy shocks and the dynamics of exchange rates

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Beth Romano

13:00 - 14:00 28 February 2023
Speaker: Beth Romano, KCL Title: Graded Lie algebras and families of algebraic curves Abstract: Graded Lie algebras give a uniform approach to many questions in arithmetic statistics.…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Beth Romano

13:00 - 14:00 28 February 2023
Joint talk with Algebra seminar - note the unusual time of 1 pm Speaker: Beth Romano (KCL) Title: Graded Lie algebras and families of algebraic curves Abstract: Graded Lie algebras…

Adrian Fischer (- in person)

14:00 - 15:00 1 March 2023
Adrian Fischer, PhD student at the Universite Libre Bruxelles is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title: Point estimation through Stein's method Abstract: In Stein's…

Applied Seminar - Francesco Amodio (McGill)

13:00 - 14:00 1 March 2023
Title: Labor Market Power, Self-employment, and Development Abstract: We use data on firms and workers in Peru and a general equilibrium model to investigate the extent, determinants…

MET Seminar - Antonio Rosato (Queensland)

17:00 - 18:00 1 March 2023
Title: Quality is in the Eye of the Beholder: Taste Projection in Markets with Observational Learning. (Joint with Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch, Florida State.) Abstract: We study how misperceptions…

Pavel Gapeev - Perpetual American standard and lookback options with event risk and asymmetric information

15:00 - 16:00 1 March 2023
Pavel Gapeev (London School of Economics) will speak in the Probability seminar. (in-person) We derive closed-form solutions to the perpetual American standard and floating-strike…

Applied Seminar - Matthias Doepke (LSE)

13:00 - 14:00 2 March 2023
Title: It Takes a Village: The Economics of Parenting with Neighborhood and Peer Effects (with Francesco Agostinelli, Giuseppi Sorrenti and Fabrizio Zilibotti) Abstract: As children…

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