Lectures and seminars

Advances in Biosciences Seminar - Dr Daniel Wehner "Axon regeneration in the vertebrate CNS - a matter of ECM composition, structure and mechanics"

13:00 - 14:00 20 February 2024
Extracellular matrix (ECM) deposition after central nervous system (CNS) injury leads to inhibitory scarring in humans and other mammals, whereas it facilitates axon regeneration in…

Algebra seminar - Eileen Pan

14:00 - 15:00 20 February 2024
Talk: Some coset actions in G_2(q) Abstract: The coset actions of almost simple groups have sparked much interest, and a lot has been done by various authors, but there remains much…

DR IBRAR BHATT & HENG WANG: A Semiotics of Muslimness in China

17:00 - 18:30 20 February 2024
In this in-person talk, Dr Ibrar Bhatt and Heng Wang explore the semiotic heritage of Sino-Muslim communities in China. In this presentation, we [the speakers] delve into the intricate…

Macro Seminar - Federica Romei (Oxford)

16:00 - 17:00 20 February 2024
Title: Inequality, Demand Composition, and the Transmission of Monetary Policy

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Gareth Jones

15:00 - 16:00 20 February 2024
Speaker: Gareth Jones (University of Manchester) Title: An effective version of a theorem of Habegger Abstract: Habegger showed that a subvariety of a fibre power of the Legendre…

Advanced Materials in Medicine Seminar

13:00 - 14:00 21 February 2024
The Advanced Materials in Medicine (AMM) Seminars are delivered as part of the Pankhurst Seminar Series. The Pankhurst Seminar Series provides an opportunity to experience talk and…

Brownbag - Rachel Griffith

13:00 - 14:00 21 February 2024
Title: The Gender Pay Gap: Evidence from UK Universities

Carlos Fernández (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): "César Vallejo: Trilce y dadá París: huellas de un estímulo silenciado"

17:00 - 18:30 21 February 2024
Part of the research seminar of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (SPLAS). Co-organised by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. This event will be in Spanish.…

Chemical analysis of pollen and spores: new tools for reconstructing past vegetation and environmental change

15:00 - 17:00 21 February 2024
Geography Department Research Seminars Spring 2024 Dr Phil Jardine (Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, University of Münster) Chemical analysis of pollen and spores: new tools…

Logic seminar: Pablo Andujar Guerrero (University of Leeds)

15:15 - 16:30 21 February 2024
Title: Defining definable compactness Abstract: The first notion of definable topological compactness was introduced within o-minimality in 1999 by K. Peterzil and C. Steinhorn for…

MET Seminar - Sarah Auster (Bonn)

17:00 - 18:00 21 February 2024
Title: Timing decisions under model uncertainty (joint with Christian Kellner, Southampton) Abstract: We study the effect of ambiguity on timing decisions. An agent faces a stopping…

Mitchell Centre Seminar series

16:00 21 February 2024
Alejandro Espinosa-Rada, ETH Zurich

Piotr Slowinski -- Modelling UV avoidance circuit in a marine annelid, Platynereis dumerili. [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 21 February 2024
Join us for this seminar by Piotr Slowinski (Exeter) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences The talk will be hosted by the University of…

Victor Manuel Rivero Mercado - Representations of the Wiener-Hopf factorization for Markov additive processes

16:00 - 17:00 21 February 2024
Victor Manuel Rivero Mercado (Center of Research in Mathematics in Guanajuato, Mexico) will speak at the Probability seminar. A keystone in the fluctuation theory of Levy processes…

Dürer and the Making of Modernism with Prof Ulinka Rublack

17:15 - 18:30 22 February 2024
This is a hybrid event taking place online and at the Whitworth Art Gallery on Oxford Road in the Study Centre, you can find the precise location here: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/maps/interactive-map/?id=80…

Division for Populational Health, Health Services Research, and Primary Care Post Graduate Student Showcase

09:30 - 16:30 23 February 2024
We are pleased to announce that the next Division for Populational Health, Health Services Research, and Primary Care Post Graduate Student Showcase will take place 9.30am to 16.30pm…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Reem Yassawi

14:00 - 15:00 26 February 2024
Speaker: Reem Yassawi (Queen Mary University) Title: Mahler equations for Zeckendorf numeration Abstract: Fixed points of Pisot substitutions can be visualised as projections, via…

Econometrics Seminar - Claudia Noack (University of Bonn)

12:00 - 13:00 26 February 2024
Title: Flexible Covariate Adjustments in Regression Discontinuity Designs joint with Christoph Rothe and Tomasz Olma Abstract: Empirical regression discontinuity (RD) studies often…

Guy Blanchard -- 2D and 3D kinematics and mechanics of cell behaviours that drive epithelial morphogenesis [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 26 February 2024
Join us for this seminar by Guy Blanchard (Cambridge) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences The talk will be hosted in person in room 4.63…

Kevin Yildirim (University of Cambridge)

16:00 - 18:00 26 February 2024
Kevin Yildrim: Evaluating profit: inter-ethnic tensions in Istanbul's waste import sector In this talk, I analyse inter-ethnic tensions among workers in a recycling depot in Istanbul…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Richard Webb

15:00 - 16:00 26 February 2024
Speaker: Dr Richard Webb (Manchester) Title: An equator theorem for the 2-sphere Abstract: In this talk, we will focus on the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms (and area-preserving…

Advances in Biosciences Seminar - Dr Eneda Toska "Mechanisms of epigenetic regulation and therapeutic response in hormone-driven cancers"

13:00 - 14:00 27 February 2024
Abstract: The Toska Lab’s research focus is centered on elucidating the role that transcriptional and epigenetic regulators play in normal and cancer development, and therapeutic response.…

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