Exhibitions, Seminar

AN IMPERFECT ACCOUNT OF A COMET

18 November 2022 - 16 April 2023
An Imperfect Account of a Comet is an audio-visual installation by Lynda Laird celebrating the celestial discoveries of the 18th century astronomer Caroline Herschel. The work is presented…

APOLLO REMASTERED

3 December 2022 - 16 April 2023
To coincide with the 50th anniversary of our last steps on the Moon, Andy Saunders will present a small selection of remastered photographs from the final mission of the programme –…

Covid-19 Containment Measures in Japan and the Role of Society JOINT SEMINAR WITH JAPANESE STUDIES

17:00 - 18:30 14 March 2023
Amy Borovoy Covid-19 Containment Measures in Japan and the Role of Society This talk explores Japan’s policies of containing infection without heavy reliance on legally imposed lockdowns…

Digital Trust & Security Seminar Series: Robert di Schiavi

14:00 - 15:00 14 March 2023
Summary: Cybersecurity has become a major concern in the digital age, as the increasing reliance on technology has led to an increase in cyberattacks. The psychology of cyber security…

Macro Seminar - Tobias Broer (Paris School of Economics)

16:00 - 17:00 14 March 2023
Title: TBA

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Raymond McCulloch

13:00 - 14:00 14 March 2023
Speaker: Raymond McCulloch - Manchester Title: TBC Tea and biscuits 12:45 in the foyer

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Raymond McCulloch

13:00 - 14:00 14 March 2023
Speaker: Raymond McCulloch - Manchester Title: TBC Abstract: TBC Tea and biscuits 12:45 in the foyer

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Winston Heap

15:00 - 16:00 14 March 2023
Speaker: Winston Heap Title: Mean values of the Hurwitz zeta function on the critical line and its value distribution for irrational parameters. Abstract: It is known that for typical…

Democracy and Election Seminar

15:30 - 17:00 15 March 2023
Tom O’Grady (University College London)

MET Seminar - Sinem Hidir (Warwick)

17:00 - 18:00 15 March 2023
Title: When to go negative? (joint with Xueying Zhao) Abstract: We consider the problem of an incumbent politician who decides whether to use negative advertising against a competitor…

Rebecca Lewis - Cox reduction and confidence sets of models (- in person stat seminar)

14:00 - 15:00 15 March 2023
Rebecca Lewis, PhD student in the Department of Mathematics at the Imperial College London is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title: Cox reduction and confidence sets…

SMRs and Beyond: A Panel Discussion | Dalton Seminar Series

13:00 - 14:00 15 March 2023
Watch the recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MfEtOBB27k There is hope that Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), currently planned for the early 2030s, will provide low-carbon…

SQUIDS Seminar: Andrew McRae - Deep learning for weather forecasting

15:00 - 16:00 15 March 2023
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: Weather forecasting has…

Yvik Swan - On the distance between discrete and continuous random variables on the real line

15:00 - 16:00 15 March 2023
Yvik Swan (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) will speak in the Probability seminar. (in-person) We revisit Stein’s method of approximate computation of expectations, here with the aim…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Lynn Cohick, Northern Seminary, Topic: Judaism, Paul, and the Resurrection of the Body

14:10 - 15:30 16 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,…

MARG 2023 Spring seminar series Alan Lewis and Diana Osmolska, “The Intuitive Approach in Site Analysis: A Critique of Current Literature.”

12:00 - 14:00 19 March 2023
MARG 2023 Spring seminar series - 29th of March - 12-2pm Alan Lewis and Diana Osmolska, “The Intuitive Approach in Site Analysis: A Critique of Current Literature.” - Room Booked 1.27 HBS

Econometrics Seminar - Jeremy Fox (Rice)

13:00 - 14:00 20 March 2023
Title TBA

Macro Seminar - Anthony Priolo (Lancaster)

16:00 - 17:00 21 March 2023
Title: How Do Entrants Build Market Share? The Role of Demand Frictions

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Lassina Dembele

15:00 - 16:00 21 March 2023
Speaker: Lassina Dembele (KCL) Title: Congruences of Hilbert-Siegel modular forms and applications. Abstract: In this talk, we will explain how to compute congruences of Hilbert-Siegel…

Study Of High-Speed Aerodynamics: High-Fidelity Simulation, Turbulence Modeling and Flow Control

15:00 - 16:00 21 March 2023
Abstract of the lecture: The development of hypersonic vehicles is currently a prominent area of interest in the aviation field. However, two critical problems are hindering its progress:…

Alexey Lindo - Theta-positive branching in varying environment

15:00 - 16:00 22 March 2023
Alexey Lindo (University of Glasgow) will speak in the Probability seminar. (in-person) A time inhomogeneous Markov branching process is a stochastic model for the fluctuating size…

MET Seminar - Ludvig Sinander (Oxford)

17:00 - 18:00 22 March 2023
Title: Comparative statics with adjustment costs and the le Chatelier principle (joint with Eddie Dekel and John Quah) Abstract: We develop a theory of monotone comparative statics…

'Let me tell you a story': story-telling as a tool for claiming trustworthiness in organisational settings

14:00 - 15:30 23 March 2023
CTIS Research Seminar 2 'Let me tell you a story': story-telling as a tool for claiming trustworthiness in organisational settings Narratives are primary means of constructing identity…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Hilary Marlow, University of Cambridge, The Land, the Poor, and the Rich: An Ecojustice Reading of the Book of Amos

14:10 - 15:30 23 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,…

The Rylands Lunchtime Seminar: Gardening Can Speak Proper English: Exploring Early Modern Manuals

12:00 - 12:45 23 March 2023
Join us for an online discussion about John Evelyn’s translation of La Quintinie’s gardening summa, Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers of 1690, Stephen Switzer wrote,…

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