Lectures and seminars

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…

Beyond the Uniform: Black and Asian Experiences in the Criminal Justice System

16:00 - 18:00 14 February 2024
This third seminar in the Department of Criminology’s Racial and Social Justice Seminar Series examines Black and Asian professionals in the criminal justice system (CJS) and how institutional…

Brownbag - Leonidas Koutsougeras

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

Comparative Politics Seminar

15:30 14 February 2024
Dr Jessica Smith, University of Edinburgh

Data Science in Practice

14:00 - 15:30 14 February 2024
Fifth event in the Data Science in Practice Series, organised by the Department of Social Statistics for any student interested in the use of Data Science in commercial settings. …

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…

Leandro Sanchez-Betancourt - Automated Market Makers Designs Beyond Constant Functions

15:00 - 16:00 14 February 2024
Leandro Sanchez-Betancourt (University of Oxford) will speak at the Probability seminar. Popular automated market makers (AMMs) use constant function markets (CFMs) to clear the demand…

Logic seminar: Lorna Gregory (University of East Anglia)

15:15 - 16:15 14 February 2024
Title: Pseudofinite-dimensional Modules over Finite-dimensional Algebras Abstract: The representation type of a finite-dimensional k-algebra is an algebraic measure of how hard it…

Mitchell Centre Seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 14 February 2024
Tomas Diviak, University of Manchester

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…

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