Lectures and seminars

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…

Macro Seminar - Marta Morazzoni (UCL)

16:00 - 17:00 14 May 2024
Title: TBA

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…

Brownbag - Guillaume Blanc

13:00 - 14:00 15 May 2024
Title: Malthusian Migrations

Logic seminar: Ricardo Palomino

15:15 - 16:30 15 May 2024
Title: Local real closed SV-rings of finite rank and their model theory Abstract: A commutative and unital ring A is a survaluation ring, or SV-ring for short, if A/ is a valuation…

Social Metabolism and Valuation Languages in the Atlas of Environmental Justice

16:30 - 18:00 15 May 2024
Join us for a lecture delivered by Joan Martinez-Alier, Emeritus Professor of Economics and Economic History, and senior researcher at ICTA UAB. Joan will discuss the Atlas of Environmental…

Centre for Digital Trust and Society Seed Corn Showcase

14:30 - 17:00 16 May 2024
The Centre for Digital Trust and Society (CDTS) is excited to present the CDTS Seed Corn Showcase. This event celebrates the groundbreaking achievements of the four research projects…

Venetian Seminar - in Memoriam Brian Pullan 1935-2022

10:00 - 17:00 17 May 2024
10.00 Coffee 10.30-12.00 Georg Christ (Manchester): Provincializing Venice? Consolidation of the Veneto-Mamluk alliance in the wake of the Cypriot Crusade…

Good Governance in Nigeria: Rethinking Accountability and Transparency in the Twenty-First Century

16:00 - 17:30 20 May 2024
Book launch with Dr Portia Roelofs, King’s College London Political science has long claimed that African political systems are dysfunctional because they are too embedded in social…

Advances in Biosciences Seminar: Dr Darius Koester, University of Warwick - "Using minimal systems to study mechanisms governing cell membrane organisation"

13:00 - 14:00 21 May 2024
Abstract: Cells in our body and in other organisms are constantly exposed to mechanical signals from their environment. The cell plasma membrane and its underlying actin cytoskeleton…

Algebra seminar - Stacey Law

14:00 - 15:00 21 May 2024
Title: A recursive formula for plethysm coefficients and some applications Abstract: Plethysms lie at the intersection of representation theory and algebraic combinatorics. We give…

Division of Psychology & Mental Health May ECR Research Seminar

12:00 - 13:00 21 May 2024
Please join us in May for the Division of Psychology and Mental Health ECR Research Seminar. <b>This is a hybrid event.</b> We will have presentations from three of our ECRs: <ul>…

EIGen RESEARCH METHODS SEMINAR SERIES

04:00 - 05:00 21 May 2024
The Evolution, Infection and Genomic Research Methods Seminar Series focuses on Gene Editing. Danyun Zhao, PhD Researcher, Manson Lab "Developing CRISPR-activation as a therapy for…

Professor Alex Frangi - In Silico Regulatory Science for the Digital Era

11:00 - 12:00 21 May 2024
The Pankhurst Seminar Series, AI in Healthcare theme is delighted to host Professor Alex Frangi on 21st May 2024 at the Christabel Pankhurst Institute, in the Emmeline Suite. The…

Comparative Politics Seminar

15:30 22 May 2024
Paul Tobin and Daniel B. Machado, University of Manchester

Insuring nuclear | Dalton Seminar Series

13:00 - 14:00 22 May 2024
Simon Wilcock, Construction Development and Senior Underwriter at Nuclear Risk Insurers is delivering a talk on how to approach the insurance of nuclear risks, the international nuclear…

Logic seminar: Francesco Gallinaro

15:15 - 16:30 22 May 2024
Title: Abelian exponential-algebraic closedness: the split case Abstract: The abelian exponential-algebraic closedness conjecture, stated by Bays and Kirby, predicts sufficient conditions…

Manchester Infection Seminar Series - Alan McNally (University of Birmingham) - The evolution of MDR clones: why are some lineages just better

11:00 - 12:00 22 May 2024
The next Manchester Infection Seminar will be by Alan McNally (University of Birmingham) who will present a talk entitled The evolution of MDR clones: why are some lineages just better…

Algebra seminar - Chris Bowman

14:00 - 15:00 28 May 2024
Title: The Hecke category in Lie theory. Abstract: The Hecke category provides the canonical setting for the study of (modular) Lie theoretic objects via Kazhdan—Lusztig theory. In…

Blind Spots, Gaps, and Archival Silences: Reconstructing Contestation in the Venetian State Archive

16:00 - 18:00 28 May 2024
Venice boasts one of the largest early modern state archives. Produced by the Republic of Venice (797-1797), it has been mined for pioneering studies in political, economic, social,…

Report Launch: GDI-SANEM study: “The COVID-19 Pandemic, Post-pandemic Challenges and Poverty Dynamics in Bangladesh”

11:00 - 13:00 28 May 2024
Report launch w/ Prof David Hulme (Chair), Prof Sohela Nazneen, Prof Selim Raihan, Prof David Fielding, and speaker TBC Bangladesh has witnessed remarkable economic growth and development…

Brownbag - Peter Murrell

13:00 - 14:00 29 May 2024
Title: Recombinant novelty in early-modern English caselaw

Sustainable Futures Seminar: Plastics and Circular Economy in UK

14:00 - 15:00 30 May 2024
This event is open to both internals and externals to The University of Manchester On Thursday 30th May 2024, Sustainable Futures will be hosting our fifth 2024 Seminar in our monthly…

The Rylands Lunchtime Online Seminar: Translation, Teleology & Technology- Digital Humanities Studies of the Ancient World

13:00 - 13:45 30 May 2024
This online talk will focus on the John Rylands Library's rare copy of the medieval Arabic translation of On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body by Galen of Pergamum (d. ca. 216…

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