Lectures and seminars

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…

Reflecting on Environmental NGOs in Regulation

17:30 - 19:00 4 October 2023
An Inaugural Lecture by Professor Carolyn Abbot Environmental NGOs contribute to the regulatory space in a variety of ways. They can be involved in shaping the rules of regulation…

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…

Dorothy Emmet Lecture 2023

16:00 - 18:00 5 October 2023
Our annual Dorothy Emmet Lecture will be hosting Professor Alison Stone. Taking place Thursday, the 5th of October from 4pm-6pm, we hope you can make it! This event is generously supported…

The Future of the Factory: How Megatrends are Changing Industrialization

15:30 - 17:00 5 October 2023
Dr. Jostein Hauge (Assistant Professor, Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge) will give a talk on his new book - The Future of the Factory: How Megatrends are Changing…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Andreas Swerdlow

13:30 - 14:30 9 October 2023
Title: Graphical calculus: from numerical methods to Feynman diagrams to higher Lie theory and microformal morphisms, part 2 Abstract: The goal of these talks is to explore a number…

Tasty molds: brewing culinary cultures for contemporary Japan

16:00 - 18:00 9 October 2023
Alice Doublier (CNRS): Tasty molds: brewing culinary cultures for contemporary Japan. For about a decade now, a small group of Japanese soy sauce brewers have been working on the revitalisation…

Algebra seminar - Coherence, non-positive immersions and L^2-Betti numbers

14:00 - 15:00 10 October 2023
Abstract: A group is said to be coherent if all of its finitely generated subgroups are finitely presented. Proving a group or a class of groups is coherent can often be a delicate…

Conversations on Urban Ageing and Sustainable Cities

14:30 10 October 2023
In Conversation, MUARG and MUI present: In collaboration with the Manchester Urban Institute, Jenny Fisher and James Evans will be in conversation discussing Urban Ageing and Sustainable…

Digital Trust and Security Seminar: Youcheng Sun

14:00 - 15:30 10 October 2023
An Arms Race in Intellectual Property Protection of Deep Learning Models Seminar with Q&A and Networking Date & Time: Tuesday 10th October 2023 | 14.00-15.30 (UK) Venue: Alan Turing…

Macro Seminar - Stephen Hansen (UCL)

16:00 - 17:00 10 October 2023
Title: National Accounts in a World of Naturally Occurring Data: A Proof of Concept for Consumption

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Julia Stadlmann

15:00 - 16:00 10 October 2023
Speaker: Julia Stadlmann (Oxford) Title: Primes in arithmetic progressions to smooth moduli Abstract: The twin prime conjecture asserts that there are infinitely many primes p for…

Brownbag - Maria Plakhtieva

13:00 - 14:00 11 October 2023
Title: Measuring the gains of participation of compatible pairs in a Kidney Exchange Program

Nanoscale advanced materials engineering

12:00 - 13:00 11 October 2023
Join this EEE research seminar - Photonic, Quantum Materials and Devices series seminar event. The ability to engineer the electrical, optical and magnetic properties of advanced materials…

Nanoscale Advanced Materials Engineering

12:00 - 13:00 11 October 2023
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Prof. Richard Curry. The ability to engineer the electrical, optical and magnetic properties of advanced materials on the nanoscale is…

Pankhurst Seminar Series: Digital Health Inequities Edition - Developing digital tools to support a culturally-adapted family intervention with African & Caribbean people with psychosis

13:00 - 14:00 11 October 2023
Our next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities seminar series is on 11th October, 1-2pm via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/96943367950). Prof Dawn Edge & Dr Pauline Whelan from the University…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum