Lectures and seminars

Nexperia automotive power MOSFETs

16:00 - 17:00 2 November 2023
Joint this EEE Seminar - Power Conversion Speaker: Nandor Bodo from Nexperia UK Ltd. Talk of "Nexperia automotive power MOSFETs" to EEE 1st and 3rd year UG students.

The Rylands Lunchtime seminar: Haunting at the Rectory: Women’s Words and the Ghostly Roots of Methodism

13:00 - 13:45 2 November 2023
Please join us for a fascinating seminar delving into the unknown, as we explore a historical haunting and its place in Methodist history. This talk will explore the story of a ghost…

MCRC Director's Lecture with Prof. Patricia LoRusso

15:30 - 16:30 3 November 2023
MCRC Director’s Lecture with Professor Patricia LoRusso Join us on Friday 3rd November for the latest MCRC Director’s Lecture. Our special guest is Professor Patricia LoRusso, Professor…

Free culture and the city: hackers, commoners and neighbours in Madrid, 1997-2017

16:00 - 18:00 6 November 2023
Alberto Corsin Jimenez (Spanish National Research Council): Free culture and the city: hackers, commoners and neighbours in Madrid, 1997-2017. This talk introduces our recently published…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Andreas Swerdlow

13:30 - 14:30 6 November 2023
Title: Graphical calculus: from numerical methods to Feynman diagrams to higher Lie theory and microformal morphisms, part 4 Abstract: The goal of these talks is to explore a number…

“Solstice and Equinox Series” with David Olusoga OBE

18:00 - 19:30 6 November 2023
About this event: As the Autumn Equinox approaches, we celebrate new beginnings, and in particular, the reopening of the University’s Manchester Museum following a £15m transformation.…

Algebra seminar - Rachel Pengelly

14:00 - 15:00 7 November 2023
Title: A1-subgroups and their unipotent elements Abstract: Let G be a simple algebraic group over an algebraically closed field of prime characteristic, and let u be a unipotent element…

Creative Data Analysis - Austerity and Altered Life Courses

13:30 - 14:30 7 November 2023
We are excited to announce our Austerity and Altered Life-Courses sixth seminar series on creative data analysis in the context of qualitative research. By adopting innovative and imaginative…

Macro Seminar - Iacopo Morchio (Bristol)

16:00 - 17:00 7 November 2023
Title: Policies for Early Childhood Skills Formation: Accounting for Parental Choices and Noncognitive Skills

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Diana Mocanu

15:00 - 16:00 7 November 2023
Speaker: Diana Mocanu (Warwick) Title: The modular approach for solving x^r+y^r=z^p Abstract: Since Wiles’ famous proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem, number theorists extensively studied…

Democracy & Elections Seminar

15:30 - 17:00 8 November 2023
Vittorio Merolla (University of Durham)

Developing a Minimum Digital Living Standard for Households With Children

13:00 - 14:00 8 November 2023
Our next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities Seminar Series is on 8th November, 1-2pm via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/92149996434). Prof Simeon Yates from the University of Liverpool…

Digital Trust and Security Seminar: Asier Moneva

14:30 - 16:00 8 November 2023
Online Ads Against Cybercrime Seminar with Q&A and Networking Date & Time: Wednesday 8th November 2023 | 14.30-16.00 (UK) Venue: Manchester Tech Incubator, Circle Square, Oxford Rd,…

EACW Research Seminar

14:00 - 16:00 8 November 2023
Lubaaba Al-Azami, UoM, 'Early Modern English Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean', and Amy Bride, UoM, book talk on Financial Gothic, just out from U of Wales Press A7, Samuel Alexander,…

Eduardo Restrepo (Temuco): '“Blancos” en un mundo negro: marcaciones raciales y distinciones de clase en Tumaco, Pacífico sur colombiano'

17:00 - 18:30 8 November 2023
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. This event will be online: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166 Abstract: Tumaco es un poblado costero…

Global Political Economy Seminar

15:00 - 16:30 8 November 2023
Teaching Global Political Economy

Jan Palczewski - A non-zero sum game of exit with asymmetric information

15:00 - 16:00 8 November 2023
Jan Palczewski (University of Leeds) will speak at the Probability seminar. (in-person) The timing of a strategic exit from a competitive market is one of the most important business…

Logic seminar: Boris Zilber (University of Oxford)

15:15 - 16:15 8 November 2023
Title: Model theory and topological invariants of algebraic varieties. Abstract: Can model theory distinguish complex algebraic varieties which are isomorphic as structures but topologically…

MANCEPT Seminar

16:00 - 17:30 8 November 2023
Dr Matilda Carter (Glasgow University)

MET Seminar - Bernhard Kasberger (Konstanz)

17:00 - 18:00 8 November 2023
Title: The combinatorial multi-round auction (with Alex Teytelboym) Abstract: The Combinatorial Multi-Round Ascending Auction (CMRA) is a new auction format that has already been used…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 8 November 2023
Paola Zappa, University College London

Teaching GPE (Panel and Roundtable Discussion)

15:00 - 16:30 8 November 2023
Co-hosted with GPE research cluster Abstract: In collaboration with the Political Economy Center, this seminar builds on and furthers some of our conversations around teaching GPE,…

‘Bannockburn to Brexit 1314-2014’ – Philipp Roessner’s Inaugural Lecture

16:45 - 18:15 8 November 2023
For more than seven centuries Scotland has been part of Europe. Its links with Europe, including the German-speaking lands, have often been ignored, dismissed, and downplayed. Scotland…

On the Ethics and Politics of (not)Understanding: Going beyond Language in Multilingual and Multimodal Research Entanglements

13:00 - 14:30 9 November 2023
This talk discusses the problematics of understanding in intercultural communication research. It poses questions such as what happens when researchers do not understand? Should we…

Researching the City - the Economic Transition of Manchester: A Case Study

16:00 - 17:30 9 November 2023
Manchester Urban Institute is delighted to welcome Mike Emmerich to The University of Manchester on Thursday, 9 November to deliver the biennial Brian Robson Lecture Researching the…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

Search