Lectures and seminars

Agathe Faure (LSE): Moving and settling in history: Indigenous Emberá people between the city and the rainforest

17:00 - 18:30 10 April 2024
Part of the research seminar of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. This event will be face to face, room Samuel Alexander A116. But it can also be followed online:…

AI-Fun Seminar | Rishideep Roy: Forecasting Election Results Through Multinomial Model with Randomly Varying Probabilities

10:30 - 11:30 10 April 2024
The Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals is hosting a series of seminars featuring expert researchers working in the fundamentals of AI. Rishideep Roy is a Lecturer in Statistics…

Brownbag - Yizhou (Kyle) Kuang

13:00 - 14:00 10 April 2024
Title: Identification-driven Monte Carlo Sampling

Comparative Politics Seminar - 'Russia and Ukraine: Entagled Histories Divering States'

15:30 10 April 2024
Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel, McGill University/Tufts University - 'Russia and Ukraine: Entagled Histories Divering States'

Francesca Billiani's Inaugural Lecture – 'The Aesthetics of Modernisation: Italy and the Short Twentieth-Century'

16:00 - 18:00 10 April 2024
Throughout the Twentieth Century, Italy has struggled with the imperative of becoming a modern Nation-State. This lecture will focus on some key historical and political junctions –…

Jonas Arista - On the Pitman's 2M-X theorem and its variations

15:00 - 16:00 10 April 2024
Jonas Arista (Lancaster University) will speak at the Probability seminar. Pitman's classical 2M-X theorem asserts that twice the maxima M of one-dimensional Brownian motion X, minus…

Logic seminar: Sandra Kiefer

15:15 - 16:30 10 April 2024
Title: Treelike decompositions for transductions of sparse graphs Abstract: Research on structural sparsity studies classes of graphs interpretable in sparse graphs using logics.…

Manchester Infection Seminar Series - David Patrick (University of British Columbia) - Antibiotics and Public Health: Wise Use May Produce Benefits Beyond Limiting Antimicrobial Resistance

11:00 - 12:00 10 April 2024
The next Manchester Infection Seminar will be by David Patrick (University of British Columbia) who will be presenting a talk titled Antibiotics and Public Health: Wise Use May Produce…

MET Seminar - Malachy Gavan (Liverpool)

17:00 - 18:00 10 April 2024
Title: Safe Implementation (joint with Antonio Penta) Abstract: We introduce Safe Implementation, a framework for implementation theory that adds to the standard requirements the restriction…

Mitchell Centre Seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 10 April 2024
Sarah Day

Research Café: Plants in Civic Futures

12:30 - 14:00 10 April 2024
‘Plants in Civic Futures’ brings together academics working across Literature, History, Geography, and Cultural Practices to discuss interdisciplinary multispecies perspectives on plant…

Employability Preparedness of International Students for an Era of Artificial Intelligence

13:00 - 14:30 11 April 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) is shaping the future of work, potentially replacing human jobs, and risking many job categories (West, 2018; Poba-Nzaou et al., 2021). In higher education,…

MANCEPT Seminar: Prof Alasdair Cochrane, “Animals, Innocence and the Institution of War”

16:00 - 17:30 11 April 2024
Prof Alasdair Cochraine, University of Sheffield - “Animals, Innocence and the Institution of War”

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Chris Lutsko

14:00 - 15:00 15 April 2024
Speaker: Chris Lutsko (University of Zurich) Title: Hyperbolic lattice point counting in unbounded rank Abstract: Counting lattice points in balls is a classical problem which goes…

Haiping Lu -- Exploring Multimodal AI for Health and Biological Sciences: From Heart to Mind [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 15 April 2024
Join us for this seminar by Haiping Lu (Sheffield) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found here https://www.cms.livjm.ac.uk/APMSeminar/…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Sam Hughes

15:00 - 16:00 15 April 2024
Speaker: Sam Hughes (Oxford) Title: Complements of smooth surfaces in simply connected 4-manifolds Abstract: In this talk based on joint work with Daniel Ruberman I will discuss…

MIOIR Seminar Series - The Entanglement of Technologies and R&D Management Practices

16:00 - 17:00 15 April 2024
Join us for the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 23/24 with Jeremy Klein on Monday, 15th April, from 4pm to 5pm in Room 9.041 at AMBS (Hybrid) You can register…

The Humanitarian Archive in Historical Perspective

15:30 - 18:00 15 April 2024
This session will explore the constitution of a new archive of humanitarian records and how historians develop a synchronous way of engaging with very contemporary sources they are…

Algebra seminar - Peter Rowley

14:00 - 15:00 16 April 2024
Title: Euler characteristics and groups Abstract: Starting from a poset, meaning a partially ordered set, we may view it as a simplicial complex. This opens the door to such concepts…

Macro Seminar - Christian Stoltenberg (Amsterdam)

16:00 - 17:00 16 April 2024
Title: TBA

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Chris Lutsko

15:00 - 16:00 16 April 2024
Speaker: Chris Lutsko (University of Zurich) Title: Average variance bounds for points on the sphere. Abstract: Consider the integer points lying on the sphere of fixed radius projected…

Brownbag - Jason Sockin

13:00 - 14:00 17 April 2024
Title: Bring It On: Interview Difficulty and the Rejection of Job Offers

GDI Book Talk – Global Shifts: Business, Politics, and Deforestation in a Changing World Economy

12:00 - 14:00 17 April 2024
Organised by GDI's Global Production Networks, Trade, and Labour (GPNTL) group and Resources, Environment, and Development (RED) group. Philip Schleifer (University of Amsterdam) discusses…

Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Seminar

15:00 - 16:00 17 April 2024
Dr Marc-William Palen, University of Exeter - "Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World" Chair: Dr Adrienne Roberts (UoM Politics)

Pax Economica: Left-Wing Versions of a Free Trade World

15:00 - 16:00 17 April 2024
Dr Marc-William Palen, Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter. A PEC Research Seminar, co-sponsored with the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre Today, free trade is often associated with…

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