Lectures and seminars

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…

Reflecting on Environmental NGOs in Regulation = POSTPONED

17:30 - 19:30 15 March 2023
Environmental NGOs contribute to the regulatory space in a variety of ways. They can be involved in shaping the rules of regulation by participating in both the drafting of law and…

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

Design and integrity assessment of offshore wind turbine structures

15:00 - 16:00 21 March 2023
Note: This is a hybrid event. Abstract of the lecture: An efficient source of renewable energy, which is increasingly the preferred solution for realising Britain’s short- and long-term…

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…

BASS Annual Lecture 2023

11:00 - 12:00 23 March 2023
Nazir Afzal was appointed Chancellor of the University of Manchester in 2022. He has a long and prestigious record of engaging with, and fighting for human rights, social justice,…

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,…

Fred Jevons Lecture - Equity for Women in Science

17:00 - 18:30 23 March 2023
This year’s Fred Jevons lecture will be given by Dr. Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Professor and Tom and Marie Patton School Chair in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology.…

Jérémie Voirol (Geneva/UoM): Indigenous elegance in the city: Producing contemporary indigeneity through YouTube music videos in Otavalo, Ecuador

17:00 - 18:30 23 March 2023
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. This talk will be ftf in Samuel Alexander A114 but can be also followed…

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