Lectures and seminars

2023-24 Full Year: Undergraduate Politics Dissertation Conference

09:00 - 17:00 7 May 2024
Organised jointly by the Politics Department and Juncture [junctureuom.co.uk] student journal, the conference showcases undergraduate research in Politics & IR at the University of…

Algebra seminar - Gregory Kendall

14:00 - 15:00 7 May 2024
Title: The stable module category for infinite groups and some classification theorems Abstract: The stable module category is classically defined for finite groups over a field of…

AMBS Event: Tom Beahon, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Castore

17:00 - 18:00 7 May 2024
Title: Anyone can do it – from the kitchen table to billion-pound firm Hear from Tom Beahon as he shares how he and his brother launched Castore, the world’s first premium performance sportswear apparel brand for men.

Macro Seminar - Jeanne Commault (Sciences Po)

16:00 - 17:00 7 May 2024
Title: TBA

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Cassani

15:00 - 16:00 7 May 2024
Speaker: Cassani Title: The Pila-Zannier strategy and the Zilber-Pink conjecture Abstract: I will explain how the Pila-Zannier strategy plays out in the context of the Zilber-Pink…

Social Statistics Seminars: Prof. Juho Härkönen, (European University Institute)

14:00 - 15:30 7 May 2024
Professor Juho Härkönen, (European University Institute) will be presenting "Perinatal health in educational attainment: individual and population level relevance" (joint work with…

The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health 10th NCISH Conference 2024

10:00 - 13:00 7 May 2024
Please join us on 7th May for the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health 10th NCISH Conference 2024 Tuesday 7 May, 10am-1pm Online conference (via…

Adolfo Polo y La Borda (Nottingham): “Radical Mobility. The limits and resistance to mobility in the seventeenth-century Spanish Empire.”

17:00 - 18:30 8 May 2024
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies's research seminar series. This event will be face to face, room Samuel Alexander A116. it can also be followed online: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166…

AI-Fun Seminar | Neill Campbell: Generative models as priors for inverse problems

10:30 8 May 2024
The Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals is hosting a series of seminars featuring expert researchers working in the fundamentals of AI. Title: Generative models as priors for inverse…

AMBS Event: Data Analytics and Digital Transformations

16:00 - 17:00 8 May 2024
Join Erik Beulen, Professor of Information Management at AMBS, and Marla A. Dans, Head of Data Management and Governance at Chicago Trading Company, as they launch their new book 'Data…

Brownbag - Akbar Ullah (manchester Centre for Health Economics

13:00 - 14:00 8 May 2024
Title: The Impact of Observed and Unobserved Heterogeneity on Wage Variation and Wage Sorting: Evidence from England's Adult Social Care Sector

Dirk Moses – 'The End(s) of German Memory Culture and the Catastrophization of Politics'

17:30 - 19:30 8 May 2024
This paper begins with the catastrophization of politics in Germany today, meaning that the present is understood in terms of its catastrophic past: a repetition of impending National…

Logic seminar: Dugald Macpherson

15:15 - 16:30 8 May 2024
Title: Ultrahomogeneous tensor spaces – after Harman and Snowden Abstract: I will discuss aspects of `Ultrahomogeneous tensor spaces’ (Advances, 2024) by Nate Harman and Andrew Snowden…

Manchester Infection Seminar Series - (updated speaker) Aras Kadioglu - Host pathogen interactions during pneumococcal carriage, transmission and disease

11:00 - 12:00 8 May 2024
The next Manchester Infection Seminar will be by Aras Kadioglu (University of Liverpool) who will be presenting a talk titled 'Host pathogen interactions during pneumococcal carriage,…

MET Seminar - Joel Watson (UCSD)

17:00 - 18:00 8 May 2024
Title: Contractual Chains Abstract: This paper develops a model of private bilateral contracting, in which an exogenous network determines the pairs of players who can communicate…

Nikhil Desai -- Self-propulsion of Marangoni-stress-driven active drops along a wall [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 8 May 2024
Join us for this seminar by Nikhil Desai (Cambridge) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences The talk will be hosted by the University of…

Pankhurst Seminar Series: Digital Health Inequities Edition - Intersectionality in digital health disparities research

13:00 - 14:00 8 May 2024
Our next seminar in digital health inequities seminar series is on 8th of May, 1-2pm via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/91295080563). Laiba Husain from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care…

Research Café: Animals in Civic Futures

12:30 - 14:00 8 May 2024
'Animals in Civic Futures' brings together interdisciplinary academics from across geography, sociology and cultural practices to discuss multispecies perspectives on the lives and…

Vicky Henderson - Regret in Trading Decisions: An Empirical Study

15:00 - 16:00 8 May 2024
Vicky Henderson (University of Warwick) will speak at the Probability seminar. In this talk, we will present a simple model of asset sales under dynamic regret. We will use this to…

MANCEPT Seminar: Dr Merten Reglitz, “Public Broadcast and the Informational Environment of Democracies in the Age of Social Media”

16:00 9 May 2024
Dr Merten Reglitz, University of Birmingham - “Public Broadcast and the Informational Environment of Democracies in the Age of Social Media”

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Nicolas Manrique

15:00 - 16:00 9 May 2024
Speaker: Nicolas Manrique (Imperial College) Title: A non-linear spectrum for the Plateau problem Abstract: The production of minimal surfaces by min-max methods has seen immense…

The Ehrhardt seminar: "Monotheism and Creation in Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes"

16:10 9 May 2024
Katharine Dell 9 May 2024 4.10pm University Place 6.208, Hybrid format via Zoom Administration and registration: lev.eakins@manchester.ac.uk

Advances in Biosciences Seminar - Alexander van Oudenaarden - University Medical Center Utrecht and Utrecht University - Title: Novel sequencing tools to explore translation in individual cells

13:00 - 14:00 14 May 2024
Speaker Bio: Alexander van Oudenaarden is group leader at the Hubrecht Institute and professor of quantitative biology of gene regulation at the University Medical Center Utrecht and…

Algebra seminar - Jonathan Gruber

14:00 - 15:00 14 May 2024
Title: Minimal tilting complexes and generic direct summands of tensor products for reductive algebraic groups Abstract: Let G be a reductive algebraic group over an algebraically…

Social Statistics Seminars: Prof. Benjamin Lauderdale, (University College London)

14:00 - 15:30 14 May 2024
Professor Benjamin Lauderdale, (University College London) will be presenting "Polarization over the Priority of Political Problems". Abstract: What drives ideological division about…

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