Lectures and seminars

AI-Fun Seminar | Fengxiang He: Building Up Deep Learning Theory: Perspectives of Optimisation and Loss Landscape

10:30 - 11:30 19 June 2024
The Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals is hosting a series of seminars featuring expert researchers working in the fundamentals of AI and our speaker on 19 June is Dr Fengxiang He.…

Lloyd Bridge -- Modern receptor theory and low-dimensional models for binding and signal transduction in mathematical pharmacology [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 19 June 2024
Join us for this seminar by Lloyd Bridge (Bristol) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Science The talk will be hosted by the University of Liverpool…

Manchester Infection Seminar Series - Ioly Kotta-Loizou (Imperial college) - Mycovirus infection in Aspergillus fumigatus

11:00 - 12:00 19 June 2024
The next Manchester Infection Seminar will be by Ioly Kotta-Loizou (Imperial college) who will present a talk entitled: 'Mycovirus infection in Aspergillus fumigatus'. The talk will…

Thomas Ashton Institute Lecture 2024 - A world of risk: the unheard voices and what we can learn from them, with guest speaker Dr Ruth Boumphrey

16:00 - 17:30 20 June 2024
The Lloyd’s Register Foundation World Risk Poll is the first global study of worry about, and harm from, risks to people’s safety. The latest edition includes the views of more than…

Let's Talk About Planning Strategically for Gender Equity

12:00 - 13:00 28 June 2024
Let's Talk About... Planning Strategically for Gender Equity Join us for our collaborative research seminar organised between the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Manchester, City of London,…

School of Health Sciences Research Seminar

12:30 - 13:30 2 July 2024
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Lena Palaniyappan, Professor of Psychiatry, McGill University, Psychiatrist in Youth Continuum, Douglas Mental Health University Institut who will be…

What is the health impact of poor housing?

14:00 - 15:00 2 July 2024
Join our Healthier Futures seminar on Tuesday 2nd July to explore the health impacts of poor housing and the results of our recent rapid evidence synthesis. Dr Hannah Long will present…

Manchester Infection Seminar Series - Joost Wauters (University of Leuven) - Viral-associated pulmonary aspergillosis

11:00 - 12:00 3 July 2024
The next Manchester Infection Seminar will be by Joost Wauters (University of Leuven) who will talk about 'Viral-associated pulmonary aspergillosis'. The talk will be Wednesday 3…

Pankhurst Seminar Series: Digital Health Inequities Edition - Trust in health research and technologies among Muslim minorities

13:00 - 14:00 10 July 2024
Our next seminar is on 10th of July, 1-2pm via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/93204990843). Saiyed Mohammad Mahin, an active Imam (a religious scholar who leads prayers) from a mosque in London…

Fear Research Network Seminar – Fear, Legal Victimhood and ‘Fraudulent’ Religion in Contemporary Japan

16:00 - 17:00 11 July 2024
Ioannis Gaitanidis (Chiba University) In the aftermath of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination, a nearly 40-year-old legal debate surrounding methods of soliciting religious…

Division of Psychology & Mental Health July Research Seminar

12:00 - 13:00 15 July 2024
Please join us in July for the Division of Psychology and Mental Health Research Seminar. For the divisional seminar in July, we are pleased to welcome <b>Dr Sarah Steeg</b>, Research…

Lunch Seminar with EPIC Games, Creator of Fortnite

12:00 - 13:30 17 July 2024
[UoM internal staff & students only] Lunch Seminar Event: Enhancing Higher Education with EPIC Games Hybrid Event: Online link will be circlauted to registrants | Location: Engineering…

Women's safety in public spaces

13:00 - 14:30 17 July 2024
Join the GM Policy Hub on Wednesday 17 July to discuss the safety of women runners in public spaces. Research at The University of Manchester has found that over two-thirds of women…

Special Seminar: Professor Mattias Trost "What phagosome proteomics has taught us: from 2D gels to ultra-sensitive mass spectrometry"

13:00 - 14:00 24 July 2024
Matthias is a proteomics expert with over 25 years of experience in mass spectrometry. He studied Chemistry in Freiburg, Germany, and Manchester, UK, did his PhD in Cellular Microbiology…

The Science of Sharing

12:30 - 14:00 6 September 2024
Join Keisha Thompson as she presents discoveries from her Innovation Fellowship. In association with The University of Manchester, British Council and MC2, Keisha ventured to Grenoble,…

Digital Health Equity seminar: Demystifying User Centred Design in Healthcare

15:00 - 16:00 11 September 2024
The next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities Seminar Series is on 11th September 3-4pm via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/96339700737. Tim Brazier from Thrive by Design will talk about…

Ethical Issues in Age-Friendly Community-Building and Co-Creation

12:00 - 13:30 11 September 2024
This edition of the MUARG Conversation Series, chaired by Patty Doran (University of Manchester), features two researchers sharing examples of ethical issues from everyday practice…

Magdalena Strauss -- Statistical modelling of heterogeneous response to perturbations in single cells [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 11 September 2024
Join us for this seminar by Magdalena Strauss (Exeter) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Science. More details about the joint series can be…

Lloyd Bridge -- Modern receptor theory and low-dimensional models for binding and signal transduction in mathematical pharmacology [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 18 September 2024
Join us for this seminar by Lloyd Bridge (Bristol) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Science. More details about the joint series can be found…

PSI Seminar: Meta-fibres: Optical fibres with meta-surfaces for hair-thin imaging devices

12:00 - 13:00 18 September 2024
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Prof. George Gordon. Optical endoscopes are widely used in medicine to identify early-stage cancers in accessible parts of the body,…

Webinar: Caring as a social determinant of health

12:00 - 13:00 18 September 2024
The [https://www.opfpru.nihr.ac.uk/ NIHR Policy Research Unit In Older People and Frailty / Healthy Ageing] June webinar will take place during Carers Week and will focus on work we…

Creative Healthy Brains Research Café

11:15 - 12:15 20 September 2024
Creative Manchester are pleased to present a morning research café as part of the So Many Beauties Dementia Friendly Music Festival, taking place at Bridgewater Hall on 20th September.…

Laurie Denyer Willis (Edinburgh): Instructing Settler Families in Canada: The Imperial Order Daughters of The Empire and the Toronto Preventorium as a eugenic experimental site

15:00 - 17:00 23 September 2024
Based on archival research and family-interviews, I consider the “Preventorium” as an early institution for making and instructing white settlers in Canada in the early to mid-1900s.…

Algebra seminar - Alice Dell'Arciprete

14:00 - 15:00 24 September 2024
Title: Quiver presentations for Hecke categories and KLR algebras Abstract: We discuss the algebraic structure of KLR algebras by way of the diagrammatic Hecke categories of maximal…

Brownbag - Nicholas Gachet

13:00 25 September 2024
Title: Property with Different Rights: The Long-Run Effects of Ecuador's Agrarian Reform

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