Events at The University of Manchester

Lectures and seminars

Algebra seminar - Marianne Johnson

14:00 - 15:00 5 March 2024
Title: Tropical representations and semigroup identities of plactic-like monoids Abstract: This talk concerns several well-studied families of monoids whose elements are combinatorial…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Lilybelle Cowland Kellock

15:00 - 16:00 5 March 2024
Speaker: Lilybelle Cowland Kellock (UCL) Title: A generalisation of Tate’s algorithm for hyperelliptic curves Abstract: Tate's algorithm tells us that, for an elliptic curve E over…

Monthly Bioinformatics Seminar series - Vicky Smith - 'Using high dimensional CyTOF data to explore the immune microenvironment of Acute Myeloid Leukaemia'

11:00 - 12:00 5 March 2024
In response to valuable community feedback and to promote communication and collaboration within the University, this seminar series aims to highlight innovative research taking place…

Social Statistics Seminars: Prof. Patrick Sturgis (LSE)

14:00 - 15:30 5 March 2024
Professor Patrick Sturgis (LSE) will be presenting some of his recent work. The even will be online.

Contemporary Challenges to Social Movement Studies

14:00 6 March 2024
Simin Fadaee, department of Sociology at The University of Manchester, is part of this online roundtable "Contemporary Challenges to Social Movement Studies" Session organized by Social…

Division of Psychology & Mental Health March PGR Research Seminar

13:00 - 14:00 6 March 2024
Please join us in March for the Division of Psychology and Mental Health Research Seminar Wednesday 6th March, 13:00 - 14:00 *hybrid seminar*. For the divisional PGR seminar on 6th…

GDI Lecture: Contending nationalisms in Ethiopia: New contours of Amhara politics

16:30 - 18:00 6 March 2024
Ethiopia is one of the few countries in Africa where the idea of the nation state was implemented in the European sense of the term; expressed in the form of cultural homogenization…

International Women's Day 2024 #InspireInclusion with Professor Olive Mugenda

12:30 - 13:30 6 March 2024
The Faculty invites you to attend our extra-special bicentennial IWD 2024 event with Professor Olive Mugenda, who will reflect on her experiences of navigating challenges in the workplace…

Logic seminar: Gabriel Ng

15:15 - 16:30 6 March 2024
Title: On Taylor Morphisms and Differentially Large Fields Abstract: Differentially large fields are a class of differential fields introduced by León Sánchez and Tressl which generalise…

MET Seminar - Ángel Hernándo-Veciana (Carlos III, Madrid)

17:00 - 18:00 6 March 2024
Title: The Market for Lemons under Regularity Abstract: In this paper, we conduct an investigation on a competitive version of the market for lemons using the tools of mechanism design.…

Mitchell Centre Seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 6 March 2024
Susan O'Shea, Manchester Metropolitan University

Robotics in nuclear | Dalton Seminar Series

13:00 - 14:00 6 March 2024
There are many challenges of working in the Nuclear industry, especially operating in hostile locations. One of the solutions to this is to utilise robotics for remote inspection and…

Samuel Cohen - Optimal adaptive control with separable drift uncertainty

15:00 - 16:00 6 March 2024
Samuel Cohen (University of Oxford) will speak at the Probability seminar. We consider a problem of stochastic optimal control with drift uncertainty, in a strong formulation on a…

Vital Topics: The Economics of Levelling Up

17:30 - 19:00 6 March 2024
In this Vital Topics lecture Paul Ormerod, chair of the Atom Valley Mayoral Development Zone and the Rochdale Development Agency and Honorary Professor at AMBS, will explore the connections…

MANCEPT Seminar: Dr Charlotte Unruh, ”Meaningful Work, Achievement, and Automation”

16:00 - 17:30 7 March 2024
Dr Charlotte Unruh, University of Bristol - ”Meaningful Work, Achievement, and Automation”

The Samuel Ferguson Lecture with Prof. Niels Henrik Gregersen (Copenhagen University) - Lecture

16:00 - 17:30 7 March 2024
The Samuel Ferguson Lecture—Thursday 7 March 2024 We are pleased to announce that the 2024 Samuel Ferguson lecturer is Prof. Niels Henrik Gregersen (Copenhagen University). The focus…

The Samuel Ferguson Lecture with Prof. Niels Henrik Gregersen (Copenhagen University) - Presentation VENUE UPDATE

12:00 - 13:00 7 March 2024
The Samuel Ferguson Lecture—Thursday 7 March 2024 We are pleased to announce that the 2024 Samuel Ferguson lecturer is Prof. Niels Henrik Gregersen (Copenhagen University). The focus…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Tony Samuel

14:00 - 15:00 11 March 2024
Speaker: Tony Samuel (University of Birmingham) Title: On the complexity and geometry of Sturmians and Random Substitutions Abstract: Aperiodic sequences and sequence spaces form…

Econometrics Seminar - Raffaella Giacomini (FRB Chicago, UCL)

12:00 - 13:00 11 March 2024
Title: A Robust Method for Microforecasting and Estimation of Random Effects Authors: Raffaella Giacomini, Sokbae Lee, Silvia Sarpietro Abstract: We propose a method for forecasting…

Juli Perczel (University of Cambridge)

16:00 - 18:00 11 March 2024
Juli Perczel: Labouring for the dream of a circular world Despite the extreme academic suspicion of the informal economy concept in the social sciences, it continues to be used as…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Simon Willerton

15:00 - 16:00 11 March 2024
Speaker: Dr Simon Willerton (Sheffield) Title: The Magnitude of Metric Spaces Abstract: Magnitude is an invariant of metric spaces that is intended as a measure of size of the metric…

The Archive and Researching Women's Professional Careers in the Italian and UK Film Press

16:30 - 18:00 11 March 2024
This event on The Archive and Researching Women's Professional Careers in the Italian and UK Film Press, chaired by Dr. Silvia Angeli, comprises two presentations: Stella Scabelli:…

Algebra seminar - Yago Antolin

14:00 - 15:00 12 March 2024
Titles: Even Artin groups of FC-type. Abstract: I will discuss a family of Artin groups that extends the family of RAAGs and share many similarities with them. I will present some of…

Macro Seminar - Xavier Ragot (Sciences Po)

16:00 - 17:00 12 March 2024
Title: TBA

AI-Fun Seminar | Luis Muñoz-González: Machine Learning Under Attack

10:30 - 11:30 13 March 2024
The Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals is hosting a series of seminars featuring expert researchers working in the fundamentals of AI. Luis Muñoz-González is Senior Research Scientist,…

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