Lectures and seminars

Dielectric breakdown phenomena of conventional and ‘new’ transformer liquids

14:30 12 October 2023
Mineral oils, as a conventional insulating liquid option, have been widely used in power transformers for over a century. In the past decades, a variety of ‘new’ transformer liquids…

Language and normalised abnormalities in the world today - Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o

18:00 - 20:00 12 October 2023
In this lecture, Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o will address topics of coloniality and harms of imperialism/colonialisation. He will, in particular, focus on the lasting impact on colonialism…

The Politics and Everyday Practice of International Humanitarianism - HCRI book launch

16:00 - 17:30 12 October 2023
Book launch and Q&A with HCRI's Dr Miriam Bradley, Senior Lecturer in Humanitarian Studies ABOUT THE EVENT This is the first of HCRI public events programme for 2023/24. Dr Bradley…

Writing And Submitting A Journal Article In 12 Weeks - Part 1

14:00 - 16:00 12 October 2023
This is the first of a two-part lecture with Q&A, offered by artsmethods@manchester for PGRs. This online training event is designed to help you revise completed research, such as…

GL Brown Prize Lecture 2023: Calcium signalling through acidic organelles: From Ringer to the Cell’s Inner – Prof Sandip Patel

14:00 - 15:00 13 October 2023
This is a prize lecture awarded by the Physiological Society to a renowned Physiology researcher at University College London, Professor Sandip Patel. This lecture will appeal to…

Entitled to contraband: citizenship and sovereignty in an indigenous borderland (Venezuela-Guyana)

16:00 - 18:00 16 October 2023
Olivier Allard (EHESS): Entitled to contraband : citizenship and sovereignty in an indigenous borderland (Venezuela-Guyana). Illicit trade became pervasive in Venezuela in the late…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Andreas Swerdlow

13:30 - 14:30 16 October 2023
Title: Graphical calculus: from numerical methods to Feynman diagrams to higher Lie theory and microformal morphisms, part 3 Abstract: The goal of these talks is to explore a number…

Mo Lotfollahi -- Generative modelling of cellular niches and morphlogy [ONLINE]

14:00 - 15:00 16 October 2023
Join us for this seminar by Mo Lotfollahi (Wellcome Sanger Institute) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series…

Algebra seminar - From toric degenerations of the Grassmannian to its algebraic matroid

14:00 - 15:00 17 October 2023
Abstract: The coordinate ring of the Grassmannian under the Pluecker embedding is generated by maximal minors. These generators are natural as they satisfy 'straightening relations'…

GDI Lecture: On Wars: Who decides to go to war and are their decisions rational? with Michael Mann

16:00 - 17:30 17 October 2023
Join us for our GDI Lecture with Professor Michael Mann, UCLA who will be discussing his new book 'On Wars: Who decides to go to war and are their decisions rational?' In his new book,…

Macro Seminar - David Hemous (Zurich)

14:00 - 15:00 17 October 2023
Title: Trade, Innovation and Optimal Patent Protection

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Netan Dogra

15:00 - 16:00 17 October 2023
Speaker: Netan Dogra (KCL) Title: The Chabauty-Coleman method in higher dimensions and in families Abstract: The Chabauty-Coleman method is a method for proving an explicit bound…

Brownbag - Xiaobing Wang

13:00 - 14:00 18 October 2023
Title: A Class of Prosperity Measures

Comparative Politics Seminar

15:30 - 16:30 18 October 2023
Dr Peg Murray-Evans (University of York) & Dr Peter O'Reilly (Liverpool John Moores University). Performing local vaccine production in Africa: from vaccine apartheid to biontainers.

Linglong Yuan - Kingman's House of Cards model with random mutation probabilities

15:00 - 16:00 18 October 2023
Linglong Yuan (University of Liverpool) will speak at the Probability seminar. (in-person) Kingman introduced, in 1978, a simple population model with discrete generations and infinite…

Logic seminar: Vahagn Aslanyan (Manchester)

15:15 - 16:15 18 October 2023
Title: Equations involving the j-invariant and its derivatives. Abstract: I'll discuss the problem of solvability of equations in a single complex variable involving the j-function…

MANCEPT Seminar

16:00 - 17:30 18 October 2023
Rufaida Al Hashmi (Nuffield College Oxford)

MET Seminar - Jorgen Kratz (York)

17:00 - 18:00 18 October 2023
Title: Weak Misrepresentations in College Admissions (joint with Makoto Shimojo) Abstract: Much of the literature on admission mechanisms for schools and universities is focused on…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 18 October 2023
Giulia Berlusconi, University of Surrey

Nuno Pinto (Manchester): Better decision support for better urban governance: How decision-support knowledge and methods help different stakeholders, examples from Brazil, Mexico and Ecuador

17:00 - 18:30 18 October 2023
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. This event will be face to face, in Samuel Alexander A116. But it can also be followed online:…

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