Lectures and seminars

Applied Seminar - Saurabh Singhal (Lancaster)

13:00 - 14:00 4 May 2023
Title: Agricultural Productivity and Deforestation Abstract: Improving agricultural productivity is vital to anti-poverty and food security goals but can have ecological ramifications.…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Alison Salvesen, University of Oxford, Symmachus, ‘the translator of the Jews’: what a Greek version of the Hebrew Bible can tell us about religious life in early 3rd C Palestine

14:10 - 15:30 4 May 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,…

Peace: symbolic, material, political

14:00 - 15:30 4 May 2023
What is peace in a contemporary context where wars of conquest, in Ukraine and before that in Iraq, seem to unravel, or even rupture, the postcolonial international order? What is peace…

The Problem of Poverty (MANCEPT)

16:00 - 17:30 4 May 2023
Dennis Pirdzuns (University of Manchester Abstract: Poverty is an obvious moral and political problem. An exceptional unanimity prevails in the theoretical literature that poverty…

The Science Behind the Star Wars Movies

14:00 - 15:00 4 May 2023
Alain Hostettler and Sam Cordingley from ILM will be visiting the Department on May 4th, 2023, 2 - 3pm, to present a talk about the science behind the movies. If you are interested…

Austerity and Solidarity

12:00 - 13:30 9 May 2023
Our next AALC seminar is focused on the topic: Austerity and Solidarity. With this online event we focus on resistance to, and in spite of austerity, and also consider how this topic…

CSSC Talk: Dr Monica Pearl, ' "Where is your rage?": AIDS Generations'

17:00 - 19:00 9 May 2023
This event is organised by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture (CSSC) at the University of Manchester. Veteran ACT UP activist and scholar, Dr Monica Pearl, has written…

High Reynolds number turbulent drag reduction by spanwise wall forcing

15:00 - 16:00 9 May 2023
Abstract of the talk Turbulent friction drag is an inevitable source of power consumption for aircrafts, trains, pipelines, and many other industrial applications. Significant efforts…

Macro Seminar - Anastasios Karantounias (Surrey)

16:00 - 17:00 9 May 2023
Title: A general theory of tax-smoothing

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Ruben La

13:00 - 14:00 9 May 2023
Speaker: Ruben La - Oxford Title: Maximality properties of generalised Springer representations of SO(N,C) Abstract: Let C be a unipotent class of G and E an irreducible G-equivariant…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Philippe Michaud-Jacobs

15:00 - 16:00 9 May 2023
Speaker: Philippe Michaud-Jacobs (Warwick) Title: Isogenies of elliptic curves and Diophantine equations Abstract: Isogenies are the basic building blocks of maps between elliptic…

Seeing Others: Redefining Worth in a Divided World - Professor Michele Lamont's Public Lecture

17:00 - 19:00 9 May 2023
Join us for a fascinating evening with visiting Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies Michèle Lamont from the University of Harvard who will be reflecting…

Brownbag - Nuno Palma

13:00 - 13:50 10 May 2023
Title: Justices of the Peace: Legal Foundations of the Industrial Revolution

Democracy and Election Seminar

15:30 - 17:00 10 May 2023
Raluca Pahontu (Kings College London)

Democracy and Election Seminar

15:30 - 17:00 10 May 2023
Raluca Pahontu (Kings College London)

Division of Psychology & Mental Health May Research Seminar: 'The best of both worlds: the value of mixed methods in applied health research' - Dr Chris Keyworth (Leeds)

12:00 - 13:00 10 May 2023
Please join us in May for the Division of Psychology and Mental Health Research Seminar Wednesday 10th May 12:00 - 13:00 *virtual seminar*. For the divisional seminar in May, we…

Generative AI and University Futures: Seminar 1/3

15:00 - 17:00 10 May 2023
*PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS NOW REACHED ATTENDEE CAPACITY* We're hosting 3 in person seminars about generative AI and university futures at the University of Manchester on Critical…

James Baker -- Seeing inside moving material: Dynamic x-ray imaging of granular flows

13:00 - 14:00 10 May 2023
Join us for this seminar by James Baker (Liverpool John Moores University) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series…

Jinhe Ye (Oxford)

15:15 - 16:15 10 May 2023
Title: Curve-excluding fields. Abstract: Given $C$ a curve over $\mathbb{Q}$ with genus at least 2 and $C(\mathbb{Q})$ is empty, the class of fields $K$ of characteristic 0 such that…

Lecture with Professor David Olusoga for A level (Y12) students: ‘Why study History? Empire, Slavery, and Identity in Britain today’

14:30 - 16:30 10 May 2023
Join us at Manchester Cathedral for this lecture for students in Year 12. It is a great opportunity to hear from David Olusoga, Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester,…

MARG 2023 Spring seminar series - Benjamin Blackwell 'Building academic/industrial infrastructures'

14:00 - 16:00 10 May 2023
MARG 2023 Spring seminar series - 10 May 2-4 pm – Benjamin Blackwell, 'Building academic/industrial infrastructures' - Room Booked G.016 ALB

MIOIR Seminar Series - Branding innovation: place branding through leveraging innovation discourses in the case of Alfred Noel's Karlskoga

13:30 - 14:30 10 May 2023
Join us for the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 22/23 with Dr Rhiannon Pugh, Senior Lecturer in Innovation studies at CIRCLE Lund University. Register to…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Branding innovation: place branding through leveraging innovation discourses in the case of Alfred Noel's Karlskoga

13:30 - 14:30 10 May 2023
Join us for the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 22/23 with Register to attend via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester-institute-of-innovation-research-dr…

Paul Gassiat - Zero noise limit for singular ODE regularized by fractional noise

15:00 - 16:00 10 May 2023
Paul Gassiat (Paris Dauphine University) will speak in the Probability seminar. (online) A classical manifestation of regularization by noise is that adding an irregular term to an…

SQUIDS Seminar: Kostas Zygalakis - Differential Equations, discrete approximations, and connections to optimization and sampling algorithms

15:00 - 16:00 10 May 2023
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: Optimization and Sampling…

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