Lectures and seminars

Delivering on the Promise of Small Modular Reactors | Dalton Nuclear Institute

13:00 - 14:00 7 February 2024
Watch the recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cIwaEGoHp4 Dr. Rita Baranwal, Senior Vice President at Westinghouse will deliver a seminar on Westinghouse’s AP300™ SMR. This…

Digital Transformation in Healthcare: An Ecosystem Approach

17:30 - 18:30 7 February 2024
At this event Panos Constantinides, Professor of Digital Innovation and Digital Learning Lead for Executive Education at Alliance Manchester Business School, will launch his new book…

Emily Baker (UCL): Possible Worlds: Contemporary Latin American Ecological Fiction

17:00 - 18:30 7 February 2024
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:…

Mitchell Centre Seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 7 February 2024
Filip Agneessens, University of Trento

Philip A. Ernst - Yule's ``nonsense correlation'' solved: Part II

16:00 - 17:00 7 February 2024
Philip A. Ernst (Imperial College London) will speak at the Probability seminar. In 1926, G. Udny Yule considered the following problem: given a sequence of pairs of random variables…

Research Café: Creative Health and Health Inequalities

12:00 - 14:00 7 February 2024
Research Café: Creative Health and Health Inequalities Join us for a panel discussion on Creative Health and Health Inequalities in Greater Manchester. The relationship between the…

The infrastructural South:Techno-environments of the third wave of urbanization

15:00 - 17:00 7 February 2024
GDI Lecture organised in conjunction with the Department of Geography and Manchester Urban Institute. In this lecture, Jon Silver will discuss insights from his recent book, The Infrastructural…

Beyond the Plate: Intra-household Inequality and Undernutrition in Asia

12:00 - 13:00 8 February 2024
Dr Caitlin Brown from the Department of Economics. Date: 08 February 2024, 12:00?13:00 Where: University Place, Room 3.205 Topic: Beyond the Plate: Intra-household Inequality and…

RESCHEDULED - MANCEPT Seminar: Dr Merten Reglitz, “Public Broadcast and the Informational Environment of Democracies in the Age of Social Media”

16:00 - 17:30 8 February 2024
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been rescheduled to Thursday 9th May - Dr Merten Reglitz, University of Birmingham - “Public Broadcast and the Informational Environment…

Andrew Graan (University of Helsinki)

16:00 - 18:00 12 February 2024
Andrew Graan: A Groundwork for an Anthropology of Projects? We live in a world saturated by projects: research projects, reform projects, entrepreneurial projects, projects of technological…

Chips war? Global production networks and geopolitics in the post-pandemic US and East Asia

15:00 - 16:30 12 February 2024
Lecture organised by the Global production networks, trade and labour group Based on his lead-authored chapter on semiconductors in Global Value Chain Development Report 2023 and his…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Thomas Jordan

14:00 - 15:00 12 February 2024
Speaker: Thomas Jordan (University of Bristol) Title: Multifractal analysis for self-affine measures and phase transitions Abstract: One form of multifractal analysis looks at local…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - James Montaldi

15:00 - 16:00 12 February 2024
Speaker: Dr James Montaldi (Manchester) Title: Bifurcations of equilibria in contact dynamics Abstract: I will describe the structure of the set of eigenvalues of an equilibrium point…

Advance in Biosciences Seminar - 13th February 2024, 1pm Michael Smith Lecture Theatre - Professor Adrian Goldman "Integral membrane pyrophosphatases: Structure, Function and Drug Design

13:00 - 14:00 13 February 2024
Integral membrane pyrophosphatases occur in all kingdoms of life apart from multicellular animals. They are essential players in combatting inorganic stress in (archae)bacteria, plants…

Algebra seminar - Bethany Marsh

14:00 - 15:00 13 February 2024
Title: An introduction to tau-exceptional sequences. Abstract: Exceptional sequences in module categories over hereditary algebras (e.g. path algebras of quivers) were introduced and…

MIOIR-SCI Seminar - Geography and Trade Again? 21st Century Evidence on International Trade, Investment, and the Localisation of Production

10:00 - 11:00 13 February 2024
You are invited to attend the jointly hosted seminar by Manchester Institute of Innovation Research and Sustainable Consumption Institute with Professor Henry Yeung, Distinguished Professor,…

PROF HARRY WU: Can China Overcome Growth Slowdown and Productivity Deterioration?

17:00 - 18:30 13 February 2024
In this in-person talk, Prof Harry Wu examines how can China rise to the challenges of growth slowdown and productivity deterioration. The talk begins with China's growth decline over…

Research with older ethnic minority people: paying attention to racism, not just ‘race’ (Dharmi Kapadia)

16:00 - 17:00 13 February 2024
Organised by the British Society of Gerontology (BSG) Early Careers Researcher Association. In this informal session aimed mainly at early career researchers, Dharmi Kapadia will discuss…

‘Author meets readers’ for Theory and Explanation in Geography (Wiley)

15:00 - 17:00 13 February 2024
Geography Department Research Seminar Professor Henry Yeung (Department of Geography, National University of Singapore) Chair: Martin Hess; 3pm in HBS building, room G33

AI-Fun Seminar | Robert Loftin: Learning, Negotiation and Cooperation in Differentiable Games

10:30 - 11:30 14 February 2024
The Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals is hosting a series of seminars featuring expert researchers working in the fundamentals of AI. On 14 February, Dr Robert Loftin joins us…

Brownbag - Leonidas Koutsougeras

13:00 - 14:00 14 February 2024
Title: Mediated Trade across Markets

ELLIS Manchester | Wenlong Chen and Yingzhen Li: Calibrating transformers via sparse Gaussian processes

13:00 - 14:00 14 February 2024
The European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) recently added The University of Manchester as a partner of its global members who strive towards a meaningful contribution…

Pankhurst Seminar Series: Digital Health Inequities Edition - Co-designing ???? (Gene) a genetics app to improve genetics understanding with the British Pakistani community

13:00 - 14:00 14 February 2024
Our next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities seminar series is on 14th February, 1-2pm via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/93665163466). Prof Ang Davies from the University of Manchester…

Research Café - Manchester's DNA

12:30 - 14:00 14 February 2024
Are geneticists historians? How does archaeology and history deal with the new data being generated in the lab? Does biomolecular investigation open up a new type of humanities scholarship?…

“Strathclyde Minor Groove Binders: a novel class of broad-spectrum anti-infective agents” via Zoom

11:00 - 12:00 14 February 2024
The next Manchester Infection Seminar will be by Dr Fraser Scott, University of Strathclyde, who will be presenting a talk titled “Strathclyde Minor Groove Binders: a novel class of…

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