Lectures and seminars

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…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Anna Budhi-Thornton, University of Manchester Jesus the Model Man?: Ancient masculinities and the Jesus of the Johannine Passion Narrative

14:10 - 15:30 2 March 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,…

Teresa Ko (Ursinus College): "Blackface and Black Press in 1920s Argentina"

17:00 - 18:30 3 March 2023
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. This event will be online: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166 Abstract: This talk analyzes two sources…

When ‘equal partners’ become parents: Individualism, equality and the cost of social reproduction

16:00 - 18:00 6 March 2023
Dr Charlotte Faircloth When ‘equal partners’ become parents: Individualism, equality and the cost of social reproduction Concerned with the sustainability of social reproduction,…

Advances in Data Science and AI | Welcome talks: Simon Rudkin and Xian Yang

14:00 - 15:00 7 March 2023
In this new seminar sub-series, our new academic colleagues working in data science and AI-related areas introduce themselves to the IDSAI community with short talks on their current…

Division of Psychology & Mental Health March Research Seminar - online event

12:00 - 13:00 7 March 2023
In March, we are pleased to welcome Lara Seefeld, Research associate and PhD candidate from the Department of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine TU Dresden…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Hung Bui

15:00 - 16:00 7 March 2023
Speaker: Hung Bui (University of Manchester) Title: EGGS, squares and integer points on hyperelliptic curves Abstract: Erdos, Graham and Selfridge considered, for each positive integer…

Nuclear weapons and humanitarian risks

17:00 - 18:30 7 March 2023
A HCRI public seminar exploring the current risks and potential humanitarian consequences of nuclear war. Guest speakers: Dr Becky Alexis-Martin, author of 'Disarming Doomsday: The…

UQ and data-driven techniques for turbulent flow problems

15:00 - 16:00 7 March 2023
Abstract of the lecture: Several challenges are involved in scale-resolving simulations of wall-bounded turbulent flows which appear in various engineering applications. The main challenges…

William Hurst - How Domestic and International Politics Shape China's International Relations

17:00 - 18:30 7 March 2023
(IN-PERSON) A conversation between Professor William Hurst of Cambridge University and MCI Director, Professor Pete Gries on how ever-shifting domestic and foreign policy continues…

Brownbag - Matheus Trotta Vianna

13:00 - 13:50 8 March 2023
Title: Technical Change and Effective Demand: Insights in a New Simplified Version of the Micro-Macro Multisectoral Model

Celebrating International Women’s Day

12:30 - 17:00 8 March 2023
Join us as we celebrate International Women's Day with an afternoon of talks by inspirational women in Chemistry! You'll hear from our inspiring keynote speakers: Lara Lalemi - an…

Comparative Politics Research Cluster Seminar - Angie Wilson

16:00 - 17:30 8 March 2023
Angie Wilson (University of Manchester)

Controlling the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle

13:00 - 14:00 8 March 2023
We are delighted and honoured to welcome Paul Nurse as one of our most eminent speakers. ‘While accumulating his many accolades, including the 2001 Nobel Prize for Medicine, Paul has…

Logic seminar: Kristina Vuškovic (Leeds) CANCELLED******

15:15 - 16:15 8 March 2023
Title: Structure and algorithms Abstract: In this talk we survey structural characterizations of different hereditary graph classes (i.e. classes closed under deletion of vertices),…

Martin Herdegen - Optimal Investment and Consumption with Epstein-Zin Stochastic Differential Utility and Proportional Transaction Costs

15:00 - 16:00 8 March 2023
Martin Herdegen (University of Warwick) will speak in the Probability seminar. (in-person) We study the optimal investment-consumption problem for an agent whose preferences are governed…

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