Lectures and seminars

Aleksey Kolokolov - Cryptocrashes

15:00 - 16:00 17 April 2024
Aleksey Kolokolov (Lecturer in Finance - Alliance Manchester Business School) will speak at the Probability seminar. We examine a new nonparametric test for detecting short-lived locally…

AMBS Event: Sustainable manufacturing: from good to great

17:30 - 19:00 17 April 2024
Join us for this Vital Topics event where our panel of industry experts and academics will discuss the improvement of sustainable manufacturing. Hear from industry experts and academics…

Brownbag - Jason Sockin

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

Dr Raquel Campos Valverde (Leeds): "Spanish identities in the Latin music explosion"

17:00 - 18:30 17 April 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.…

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…

GDI Lecture: Where do we go from here? Navigating power inequalities between development NGOs in the aid system

15:00 - 16:30 17 April 2024
With speakers Nicola Banks, Badru Bukenya (Makarere University), Willem Elbers (Radboud University), Emmanuel Kumi (University of Ghana), Margit van Wessel (Wageningen University),…

Logic seminar: Giacomo Tendas

15:15 - 16:30 17 April 2024
Title: Theories, sketches, and accessible categories. Abstract: In this talk I will give an overview on the relationship between Logic, the theory of Sketches (whose notion sits between…

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)

MET Seminar - Christopher Sandmann (LSE)

17:00 - 18:00 17 April 2024
Title: Market Structure and Adverse Selection (joint with Dakang Huang) Abstract: This paper presents a unified perspective on multi-contracting in markets afflicted by adverse selection.…

Mitchell Centre Seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 17 April 2024
Eric Quintane, ESMT Berlin

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…

Canis Unfamiliaris: Species Stories and Species Categories

15:00 - 16:30 18 April 2024
Everywhere dogs are found, they are stitched into human hearts. But are humans stitched into dogs' hearts? Countless celebrations of 'the dog-human bond' suggest that they are. Yet…

CTIS Seminar: Dr Ruth Abou Rached, "Reading Iraqi women’s novels in English translation: Iraqi women’s stories"

13:00 - 14:30 18 April 2024
Since the 1970s, Iraqi women writers have engaged with translation as part of their creative expression and literary activism. Until recently, there was little research on how stories…

MANCEPT Seminar

16:00 - 17:30 18 April 2024
James Edwards, University of Manchester

The Rylands Lunchtime Online Seminar: Re-Mapping Past Weather and Climate

13:00 - 13:45 18 April 2024
Join us online to examine how historians, climatologists and their collaborators have mapped past weather and climate, drawing on a range of printed, digital, and algorithmic maps,…

The Skills Pathway – A digital skills audit and development tool for students

12:00 - 13:00 19 April 2024
Staff development online seminar This online seminar led by Amanda Conway, Careers Manager, and Penney Gordon Lanes, Careers Consultant, will introduce the new ‘Skills Pathway’ available…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Faustin Adiceam

14:00 - 15:00 22 April 2024
Speaker: Faustin Adiceam (Université Paris-Est Créteil) Title: Badly approximable vectors and putative counterexamples to the Littlewood conjecture Abstract: Answering a question…

Gabriele Schweikert -- Computational Strategies to Analyse, Impute and Interpret Epigenetic Control Mechanisms of Gene Regulation [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 22 April 2024
Join us for this seminar by Gabriele Schweikert (Dundee) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. The talk will be hosted in person in room…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Kasia Rejzner

15:00 - 16:00 22 April 2024
Speaker: Kasia Rejzner (York) Title: Perturbative algebraic quantum field theory meets the boundary Abstract: I will begin with outlining the formalism of perturbative algebraic…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Innovation and modernisation in contemporary Russia: Science towns, technology parks and very limited success

15:30 - 16:30 22 April 2024
Join us for the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 23/24 with Dr. Imogen Wade, Analyst, Science and Emerging Technology Team at RAND Europe, on Monday, 22nd…

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