Lectures and seminars

Democracy and Election Seminar

09:00 - 17:00 24 May 2023
Joint workshop held with Cathie Marsh Institute

Generative AI and University Futures: Seminar 3/3

15:00 - 17:00 24 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…

MARG 2023 Spring seminar series - Ewan Harrison, “Contested Imaginaries: The West African Luxury Hotel at the Ends of Empire”

14:00 - 16:00 24 May 2023
MARG 2023 Spring seminar series - 24 May 2-4 pm – Ewan Harrison, “Contested Imaginaries: The West African Luxury Hotel at the Ends of Empire” - Room Booked 1.27 HBS

Measuring Inclusion and Diversity in Nuclear | Dalton Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 24 May 2023
Watch the recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2M7napJ8A8 Measuring Inclusion and Diversity in Nuclear is a hugely challenging and important area that is required to ensure…

MET Seminar - Gregorio Curello (Bonn)

17:00 - 18:00 24 May 2023
Title: Incentives for Collective Innovation Abstract: Agents exert hidden effort to produce randomly-sized innovations in a technology they share. Returns from using the technology…

SQUIDS Seminar: Marie-Therese Wolfram - Ensemble Inference Methods for Models with Noisy and Expensive Likelihood

12:00 - 13:00 24 May 2023
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: In this talk we focus…

Dai-Oji : The Oji Paper Company and Japan's Pulp Pipelines in Asia (CIDRAL Visiting Fellow Keynote Talk)

16:00 - 18:00 25 May 2023
This talk explores the tangled histories of green imperialism and green capitalism in Asia through the lens of a Japanese corporation: the Oji Paper Company, historically one of the…

The Muslim, State and Mind: Islamophobia in Mental Health and Psychology (Tarek Younis)

13:00 - 14:15 25 May 2023
Please join the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) for a hybrid seminar with Dr Tarek Younis (Middlesex University). Mental health is placed as the cure for all of society’s…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Kamilla Rekvenyi

13:00 - 14:00 30 May 2023
Speaker: Kamilla Rekvenyi - Imperial Title: TBC Tea and biscuits 12:45 in the foyer

Structures defined on the polyhedral cell complexes in their relation to material processing and design

15:00 - 16:00 30 May 2023
Abstract of the talk Polyhedral cell complex (PCC) is a discrete representation of a 3D space tessellation providing an excellent model of real polycrystalline materials [1] such as…

Sustainable Consumption Institute Seminar with Ruth Lane - Households and churn in the circular economy

10:30 - 12:30 30 May 2023
Sustainable Consumption Institute Seminar With Ruth Lane (Monash University) May 30th, 2023, 10:30-12:30, UK time AMBS Penthouse (10.001) All welcome to attend. Book your place via…

The Intersection of Psychology and Cybersecurity: Implications for Research and Practice

12:30 - 14:00 30 May 2023
Digital Trust & Security Seminar Series: Robert di Schiavi (Head of Technical Advisory for Bsides Lancashire) Seminar with Q&A and lunch provided Date & Time: Tuesday 30th May 2023…

Logic seminar: Soinbhe Nic Dhonncha (University of Manchester)

15:15 - 16:15 31 May 2023
Title: Chains of R-modules Abstract: The model theory of modules extends naturally to certain functor categories. One such category is that in which the objects can be thought of as…

MET Seminar - Gabriel Carroll (Toronto)

17:00 - 18:00 31 May 2023
Title: Dynamic Incentives in Incompletely Specified Environments Abstract: Consider a repeated interaction where it is unknown which of various stage games will be played each period.…

Spin-optical materials from luminescent organic radicals

12:00 - 13:00 31 May 2023
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Emrys Evans. New materials based on pi-conjugated organic radicals offer exciting opportunities to advance optoelectronics and molecular…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - David Cushing

13:00 - 14:00 6 June 2023
Speaker: David Cushing - Manchester Title: TBC Tea and biscuits 12:45 in the foyer

Manchester Algebra Seminar - David Cushing

13:00 - 14:00 6 June 2023
Speaker: David Cushing - Manchester Title: Prolog whispering: Searching for new simple Lie Algebras Abstract: We provide an exploration of the utilisation of Prolog programming and…

Political Economy Seminar with Ilias Alami "Foreign investment screening mechanisms and emergent geographies of (post)globalization"

15:00 - 16:30 6 June 2023
Abstract. Technologically advanced states and large emerging economies increasingly use foreign investment screening mechanisms (FISM) to block inward foreign investment targeting sectors…

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