Lectures and seminars

Brownbag - Xiaobing Wang

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

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:…

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…

Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Lecture by Professor Colva Roney-Dougal

17:00 - 20:30 19 October 2023
Professor Colva Roney-Dougal is a mathematician specializing in group theory and computational algebra. She is a Professor of Pure Mathematics and the Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary…

Ethics and Sustainability for Today's Translation Professional

13:00 - 14:30 19 October 2023
Abstract: While ethical issues have now long been an important concern for translation scholars, professionals, and students alike, the challenging contemporary environment that we…

Lane Lecture 2023: Convergent Junctions, with guest speaker Professor Ira Madan

16:30 - 19:30 19 October 2023
In this year's annual Lane Lecture, Professor Madan will reflect on how the clinical, political, and cultural landscape has changed Occupational Health practice in recent decades and…

Memory of stochastic single-cell apoptotic signalling promotes chemoresistance in neuroblastoma

13:00 - 14:00 19 October 2023
Advances in Regenerative Medicine & Cell Matrix Biology Seminar Series: Dave Croucher Abstract: Many theories have been proposed describing the single-cell dynamics of chemotherapy…

Political Economy Centre Research Seminar

02:00 - 15:30 19 October 2023
Political Economy Centre Research Seminar with Professor Stephanie Barrientos, Professor Emeritus at the University of Manchester. Professor Barrientos will be speaking about her important…

The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth

13:00 - 14:30 19 October 2023
In The Culture Trap, Derron Wallace argues that the overreliance on culture to explain Black students' achievement and behavior in schools is a trap that undermines the historical factors…

Writing And Submitting A Journal Article In 12 Weeks - Part 2

14:00 - 16:00 19 October 2023
This is the second 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…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Pavel Tumarkin

13:30 - 14:30 23 October 2023
Speaker: Professor Pavel Tumarkin (Durham) Title: The Farey graph and ideal tetrahedra Abstract: We explore a 3-dimensional counterpart of the Farey tessellation and show that it…

What does care take? Saving and sequestering in orangutan conservation

16:00 - 18:00 23 October 2023
Liana Chua (with the GLO [globallivesoftheorangutan.org] and POKOK [pokokborneo.wordpress.com] project teams): What does care take? Saving and sequestering in orangutan conservation.…

Algebra seminar - Simple modules for algebraic groups

14:00 - 15:00 24 October 2023
Abstract: I will speak about joint work with David Stewart, giving a classification by highest weight of simple modules for smooth connected algebraic groups over a field, and also…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Ethan Lee

15:00 - 16:00 24 October 2023
Speaker: Ethan Lee (Bristol) Title: Explicit bounds on the residue of the Dedekind zeta-function Abstract: In analytic number theory, we can study the distribution of prime ideals…

Austerity's Histories - Austerity and Altered Life Courses

14:00 - 15:30 25 October 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…

Brownbag - Nuno Palma

13:00 - 14:00 25 October 2023
Title: African Slavery and the Reckoning of Brazil

Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Seminar

15:00 - 16:00 25 October 2023
Professor Dominique Kirchner Reill. University of Miami. Immigrant Empires: Habsburg Europe’s Legacy in the United States. Char: Dr Christian Goeschel (UoM SALC). Co-organised with Dr Claire Morelon (UoM History)

Unleashing the Potential of Metamaterial-Driven Light to Matter Interaction

12:00 - 13:00 25 October 2023
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr. Joel Loh. Metamaterials are unique structures with light-matter interaction properties that are not seen in nature. The growing climate…

Unleashing the potential of metamaterial-driven light to matter interaction

12:00 25 October 2023
Join this EEE research seminar - Photonic, Quantum Materials and Devices series seminar event. Metamaterials are unique structures with light-matter interaction properties that are…

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