Lectures and seminars

Advances in Biosciences Seminar - Dr Mattias Soller, Birmingham University - Title: Keeping RNA regulation in shape for health

13:00 - 14:00 21 November 2023
Matthias Soller received his PhD in 1997 at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He then moved to Brandeis University, Boston, USA to study RNA binding proteins and their function…

Algebra seminar - Jack Saunders

14:00 - 15:00 21 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…

Control and learning for networked systems

13:00 - 14:00 21 November 2023
Join in this EEE open seminar from the department's new academics. Network-connected systems have received significant research attention over the past two decades, especially, in…

Macro Seminar - Lukas Mayr (Essex)

16:00 - 17:00 21 November 2023
Title: Taxing Capital in the Presence of Trickle-Down Effects

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Dan Fretwell

15:00 - 16:00 21 November 2023
Speaker: Dan Fretwell (Lancaster) Title: Quaternary lattices, modular forms and elliptic curves Abstract: A common theme in modern Number Theory is to find non-trivial links between…

MET Seminar - Jack Fanning (Brown)

17:00 - 18:00 21 November 2023
Title: Reputation and competitive selection (joint with Joyee Deb) Abstract: We demonstrate how selection in competitive markets can severely impede reputational incentives. Reputational…

Resilience to economic shrinking as a development strategy for the 21st century

16:00 - 17:30 21 November 2023
Dr. Martin Andersson and Dr. Tobias Axelsson from Lund University will present their work on “Resilience to economic shrinking as a development strategy for the 21st century” and their…

Brownbag - Nahid Farnaz

13:00 - 14:00 22 November 2023
Title: Does financial development relieve or exacerbate income inequality? A quantile regression approach

Democracy & Elections Seminar

15:30 - 17:00 22 November 2023
Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte (University of Southampton)

Infection Seminar series: Unravelling how Klebsiella pneumoniae manipulates innate defences to promote infection

11:00 - 12:00 22 November 2023
We are delighted to welcome Professor Jose Bengoechea as in-person speaker at the Infection seminar series on Wednesday 22nd November at 11am. The seminar will be in the Michael Smith…

Logic seminar: Sonia Marin (University of Birmingham)

15:15 - 16:15 22 November 2023
Title: Proof theory for intuitionistic modal logic, new developments. Abstract: In his thesis in 1994, Simpson gave a comprehensive presentation of the field of intuitionistic modal…

Lumicks: Molecular Tweezers for the life sciences

13:00 - 14:00 22 November 2023
Molecular tweezers are a Nobel Prize winning technology and are at the forefront of single molecule analysis. The technique utilises optical traps providing force measurements combined…

MANCEPT Seminar

16:00 - 17:30 22 November 2023
Sabine Hohl (Graz University)

Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Seminar

15:00 - 16:15 22 November 2023
Professor Georg Menz- Old Dominion University. The Resistible Corrosion of Europe’s Centre Left After 2008 Chair: Dr Silke Trommer (UoM SoSS). Discussants: Gergely Agoston (UoM Politics),…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 22 November 2023
Artem Volgin, University of Manchester

Queering the Clinamen: Unearthly Objects as Queer Forms in Eighteenth-Century Poetry

17:00 - 19:00 22 November 2023
Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture hosts this public lecture with Dr James Metcalf. The event is followed by drinks reception. Everyone is welcome!

Sarah Fielden Lecture with Prof Susan L. Robertson

16:00 - 17:30 22 November 2023
The Sarah Fielden Lecture Series: "Promises Promises: The OECD, Promissory Legitimacy and its Strategic Re-Negotiation of Education Futures" - Professor Susan L. Robertson All staff,…

TBA

14:00 - 15:00 22 November 2023
Statistics seminar

UoM Sustainability Teaching and Learning Community of Practice Launch Event

13:45 - 16:00 22 November 2023
The Inspired and Informed Challenge Area and the Institute of Teaching and Learning are launching a University wide community of practice (CoP) in, and around, sustainability (self…

Workshop: Knowledge and power in State-Indigenous relations in Ecuador

14:00 - 17:00 22 November 2023
This online workshop (in Spanish) is organised by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Manchester. Time/Date: 14.00-17.00 (GMT), 22 November 2023…

Econometrics Seminar - Zhipeng Liao (UCLA)

17:00 - 18:00 23 November 2023
Title: Learning Before Testing: A Selective Nonparametric Test for Conditional Moment Restrictions. Zoom for the talk: https://zoom.us/j/92210985660 Meeting ID: 922 1098 5660 Passcode: 422545

Voices of our National Health Service: Building a national oral history archive of the NHS and Covid-19

14:00 - 15:00 23 November 2023
Between 2017 and 2022, the NHS at 70 and NHS Voices of Covid-19 projects, based at the University of Manchester worked with volunteers from all walks of life to record the stories of…

Empowerment in the context of international migration: The case of women and gender non-conforming people in Mexico

14:00 - 15:30 24 November 2023
Join the Global Development Institute for a lecture and Photovoice exhibition presenting some of the creations of the research project collaborators Migration brings with it new opportunities…

Hashem Koohy -- Decoding T cell recognition: Unravelling the intricacies of adaptive T cell immunity [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 27 November 2023
Join us for this seminar by Hashem Koohy (University of Oxford) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be…

Russian (schizo-)patriotism: ancient Orthodox perspectives on the war in Ukraine

16:00 - 18:00 27 November 2023
Dominic Martin (Oxford University): Russian (schizo-)patriotism: ancient Orthodox perspectives on the war in Ukraine. This paper, which is based on 10 months’ fieldwork in 2022 in…

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