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"The Book of Beijing" at the Manchester Literature Festival

16:00 - 17:30 15 October 2023
The Confucius Institute is co-hosting a discussion as part of the Manchester Literature Festival with two authors from China. Gu Shi and Wen Zhen will be reading from and discussing…

Gaia Vince in Conversation

14:00 15 October 2023
‘Have no doubt, we are facing a species emergency – but we can manage it. We can survive, but to do so will require a planned and deliberate migration of a kind humanity has never before…

Introduction to Quantitative Time Diary Analysis

14:00 10 - 17:00 17 October 2023
This free online short course aims to introduce participants to time diary data analysis, a multidisciplinary field which has made a sustained contribution to social science over the…

Mandarin Corner (every Wednesday)

16:45 4 October - 17:45 13 December 2023
Practice your Chinese and develop an appreciation of Chinese culture at our weekly Mandarin Corner. These are informal conversation sessions at Beginner (HSK 1-3) and Advanced (HSK…

New Commission: Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (Manchester Literature Festival 2023)

14:00 15 October 2023
‘Ólafsdóttir’s specialty is the small journeys we take to save ourselves and the ones we care for. She is the heart’s finest map-maker.’– Sjón Icelandic novelist, poet and lyricist…

The Book of Beijing

16:00 15 October 2023
How does a city as complex as Beijing shape or inspire its authors and artists? Wen Zhen in her story ‘Date at the Art Gallery’ (translated by Jack Hargreaves) tells the story of a…

artsmethods Workshop: Theoretical Frameworks

11:00 - 13:00 16 October 2023
This workshop, offered by artsmethods@manchester for PGRs, addresses the suitability of theoretical frameworks for research projects. It provides an introduction to a selected range…

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…

NCHS: Nature for Health – Print and Book Making

13:00 - 15:00 17 October 2023
Every Tuesday; 1pm – 3pm Clore Garden Studio & Whitworth Park Create prints from nature and make a series of books using different techniques. To make a referral, please contact…

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.

FBMH Fellowship Academy Autumn Event – Managing a Fellowship

12:00 - 17:00 18 October 2023
This event is aimed at UoM research fellows inc. NHS partner fellows. Lunch will be provided followed by four sessions aimed at helping you manage your fellowship. All sessions will…

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

SQUIDS Seminar - Trace-class Gaussian priors for Bayesian reinforcement learning

14:30 - 16:00 18 October 2023
Schedule: - 2:30pm: pretalk - 3:05pm: research talk 'Trace-class Gaussian priors for Bayesian reinforcement learning' I will motivate the talk by looking at some challenges in reinforcement…

World Menopause Day

18 October 2023
Join us at the Whitworth Art Gallery and get creative about your menopause journey with a range of drop-in activities including; Collage, mindful art, drawing and Zumba. The workshops…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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