Lectures and seminars

Advances in Biosciences Seminar - Lovorka Stojic "Understanding how RNA-based mechanisms control genome stability in Cancer"

13:00 - 14:00 26 September 2023
Lovorka Stojic (LS) received her undergraduate degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Zagreb (Croatia). LS obtained her PhD at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) in…

Austerity's Histories

11:00 - 12:30 26 September 2023
Our fifth seminar in our Austerity and Altered Life-Courses series focuses on austerity’s histories. Research on austerity across the social sciences and humanities reminds us that…

Econometrics Seminar - Robert Miller (Carnegie Mellon)

12:00 - 13:00 26 September 2023
Title: An Empirical Model of Matching Job Applicants to Vacancies (joint with Rebecca Lessem).

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Steven Robertson

15:00 - 16:00 26 September 2023
Speaker: Steven Robertson (Manchester) Title: Combinatorics on Number Walls and the p(t)-adic Littlewood Abstract: The p-adic Littlewood Conjecture is one of the most well-studied…

Brownbag - Anna Wilding

13:00 27 September 2023
Title: Person-centred treatment effects of job flexibility on health

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 27 September 2023
Elisa Bellotti, Tomas Diviak Dataset presentation for MSc Social Network Analysis postgraduate students

Sustainable Futures September Seminar Series

14:00 - 15:00 28 September 2023
Our September edition of the monthly Sustainable Futures Seminar Series will be held on Thursday 28th September 2-3pm. This event will be a One Bin to Rule Them All Project Special…

Jennfier Tweedy -- Mathematical model of the unconventional drainage from the eye [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 2 October 2023
Join us for this seminar by Jennifer Tweedy (University of Bath) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be…

MIOIR Seminar Series - How do firms shape their interactions with universities to build economic, intellectual and reputational capital?

15:30 - 16:30 2 October 2023
Join us for the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 23/24 with Muthu De Silva, Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Head/Associate Dean Research,…

Time and progress across postsocialist China’s northeastern borders

16:00 - 18:00 2 October 2023
Ed Pulford (University of Manchester): Time and progress across postsocialist China’s northeastern borders. Crossing borders between states often involves a sense of temporal shift,…

Algebra seminar - A classification of subalgebras of the one-sided Witt algebra

14:00 - 15:00 3 October 2023
Speaker: Lucas Buzaglo - University of Edinburgh Title: A classification of subalgebras of the one-sided Witt algebra Abstract: We give a classification of Lie subalgebras of the…

Macro Seminar - Ricardo Reis (LSE)

16:00 - 17:00 3 October 2023
Title: Monetarism and the exchange rate: lessons from CNH-CNY

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Harry Schmidt

15:00 - 16:00 3 October 2023
Speaker: Harry Schmidt (Warwick) Title: Lower bounds for Galois orbits for certain uni-critical polynomials Abstract: In recent joint work with Habegger, we established a Schinzel-Zassenhaus…

Pankhurst Institute Seminar Series - Translating emerging technologies for health: Ethical & legal considerations

14:00 - 15:00 3 October 2023
Join us for the next Pankhurst Institute Seminar (hybrid) on Tuesday 3rd October 2023, held in the Emmeline Suite of the Pankhurst Building and via Teams https://tinyurl.com/4my98dfh…

Brownbag - Caitlin Brown

13:00 - 14:00 4 October 2023
Title: Improving Street Food Safety through Better Infrastructure and Training

Division of Psychology & Mental Health October Research Seminar: ‘Why is it so hard to stick to a diet? Health behaviours and cognitive control’

12:00 - 13:00 4 October 2023
Please join us in October for the Division of Psychology and Mental Health Research Seminar Wednesday 4th October 12:00 - 13:00 *hybrid seminar*. For the Divisional seminar in October,…

Ivan Tomašic (QMUL)

15:15 - 16:15 4 October 2023
Title: A categorical view of difference and differential Galois theories Abstract: Janelidze’s Categorical Galois theory provides a powerful template that encompasses almost all known…

MANCEPT Seminar

16:00 - 17:30 4 October 2023
Aurelia Bardon (Konstanz University)

MET Seminar - Artyom Jelnov (Ariel)

17:00 - 18:00 4 October 2023
Title: Lobbying under conflicting interests (joint with Doron Klunover) Abstract: A variation of a cheap talk game is considered in which the preferences of a special interest group…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 4 October 2023
Johan Koskinen, Stockholm University

Part-A: A brief and selective review of applications of RMT; Part B: Estimation of rectangular random matrices: Applications to high-dimensional biological data (- in person)

14:30 4 October 2023
Madhuchhanda Bhattacharjee, Reader in Statistics in the Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester. Title: Part-A: A brief and selective review of applications of RMT; Part…

Policing the Crisis Reloaded: Stop and Search, Gang Violence Matrix, and Structural Racism

16:00 - 18:00 4 October 2023
In the first event of the new Racial and Justice Seminar Series, Katrina Ffrench, founder and director of UNJUST, will talk about the organisation's campaign to fight racism and violence…

SQUIDS Seminar

14:30 - 16:00 4 October 2023
We are happy to invite you to the first SQUIDS seminar for this term; it will take place on Wednesday, October 4th ’23 in room G.114 in the Alan Turing Building. Speaker is our new…

The Dazzling Whiteness of an Early Tomfoolery: Sex Work and Racial Politics in Samuel Beckett and Nancy Cunard’s early 1930s work'

17:00 - 19:00 4 October 2023
Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture hosts this public lecture with Professor Daniela Caselli. The event is followed by drinks reception. Everyone is welcome!

William Fitzgerald - Random interface growth and interacting particle systems

15:00 - 16:00 4 October 2023
William Fitzgerald (University of Manchester) will speak in the Probability seminar. (in-person) Over the past two decades, there have been significant advances in our understanding…

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