Lectures and seminars

Digital Humanities Seminar: James Baker, 'Data Environmentalism'

13:00 - 14:00 24 January 2024
James Baker (U. Southampton), 'Data Environmentalism: reflections on 'Digital Humanities in the Anthropocene' at ten.' In her Digital Humanities 2014 keynote Bethany Nowviskie asked…

Industrialization and Assimilation: Understanding Ethnic Change in the Modern World

16:00 - 17:30 24 January 2024
Elliott Green (LSE) explains how and why ethnicity changes across time, showing that, by altering the basis of economic production from land to labour and removing people from the 'idiocy…

Pankhurst Institute Seminar Series - AI in Healthcare theme: Enhancing the use of The Christie’s health data – a new 5 years strategy and integrated unit

10:00 - 11:00 24 January 2024
We are very excited to announce our first AI in Healthcare theme, Pankhurst Institute seminar on 24t January 2024 Title: Enhancing the use of The Christie’s health data – a new 5…

ScN/GaN(1-100): a new platform for the epitaxy of twin-free metal-semiconductor heterostructures

13:00 - 14:00 24 January 2024
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr. Philipp John. Dr. John studies the molecular beam epitaxy of rock-salt ScN on the wurtzite GaN(1-100) surface. To this end, ScN is…

Econometrics Job Talk - Ayden Higgins (Oxford)

09:00 - 19:00 25 January 2024
Title: Instrumental Variables for Dynamic Spatial Models with Interactive Effects

Sustainable Futures January 2024 Seminar Series

14:00 - 15:00 25 January 2024
On Thursday 25th January 2024, Sustainable Futures will be launching the first occurrence in our 2024 Seminar Series with Dr Maggy Fostier and Dr Richard Kirkham. Indicative Agenda…

Jennifer Cearns

16:00 - 18:00 29 January 2024
Jennifer Cearns- TBC

Advances in Biosciences Seminar: Professor David Eisner, University of Manhester - Title: "Ups and downs of calcium in the heart"

13:00 - 14:00 30 January 2024
Abstract: I will begin the presentation by reviewing how calcium is used to regulate cell function. Since calcium cannot be destroyed, regulation of its concentration requires pumping…

Algebra seminar - Damiano Rossi

14:00 - 15:00 30 January 2024
Title: Above the Alperin Weight Conjecture Abstract: Modular representation theory is the study of representations of finite groups defined over a field of positive characteristic…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Kevin Kwan

15:00 - 16:00 30 January 2024
Speaker: Kevin Kwan (University College London) Title: Moments and Periods for GL(3) Abstract: Moments of L-functions have been important in number theory and are well-motivated…

The Albatross Lecture 2024: Professor Mark Miodownik

11:00 - 14:00 30 January 2024
Why the Albatross Lectures? Check back soon to find out why we chose the Albatross to champion this lecture. The Albatross Lecture 2024 Join us on 30th January 2024 to hear a keynote…

Comparative Politics Seminar

15:30 31 January 2024
Prof Eugene Finkel, Johns Hopkins/Bologna

Econometrics Job Talk - Luis Enrique Candelaria (Warwick)

09:00 - 19:00 31 January 2024
Title: Robust Inference in Locally Misspecified Bipartite Networks

Vadim Shcherbakov - On interacting birth-and-death processes

15:00 - 16:00 31 January 2024
Vadim Shcherbakov (Royal Holloway, University of London) will speak at the Probability seminar. This talk concerns a probabilistic model that can be interpreted as a system of interacting…

The Simon and Hallsworth Visiting Professorship Distinguished Lecture-Professor Ira Rabin - Panorama of black writing inks: from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages

17:00 - 18:00 1 February 2024
Join us for this online event exploring the science of written inks. Black writing inks in the period under consideration can be divided into three different classes: soot, tannin and…

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