Lectures and seminars

Brownbag - Nicholas Gachet

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

Shashi Jainv - Exploring Alternative Hedging Strategies for Options: A Comparative Analysis of Static and Dynamic Approaches

15:00 - 16:00 25 September 2024
Shashi Jain (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Exploring Alternative Hedging Strategies for Options: A Comparative Analysis of Static…

Econometrics Seminar - Xavier d'Haultfoeuille (CREST)

12:00 - 13:00 26 September 2024
Title TBA

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Lasse Rempe

14:00 - 15:00 30 September 2024
Speaker: Lasse Rempe (University of Manchester) Title: A counterexample to Eremenko's conjecture Abstract: Let f be an entire function (i.e., a holomorphic self-map of the complex…

Global Development Today... Whose 'Development' Is It Really?

16:00 - 17:30 30 September 2024
Join Deborah Doane, author of ‘The INGO Problem: Power, Privilege and Renewal’, and Nana Asantewa Afadzinu, Executive Director of the West Africa Civil Society Institute, to discuss…

Mauricio Álvarez -- Bridging the gap between data-driven and mechanistic modelling: the latent force model approach. [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 30 September 2024
Join us for this seminar by Mauricio Álvarez (Manchester) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. More details about the joint series can…

Mike Degani (Cambridge): Nun of the River: The material and spiritual economies of small hydropower in rural Tanzania

15:00 - 17:00 30 September 2024
This talk examines the significance of hydroelectric mini-grids owned and operated by Catholic sisterhoods in rural Tanzania, situating them within a broader context of energy transition…

Algebra seminar - Pavel Zalesski

14:00 - 15:00 1 October 2024
Title: Prosoluble subgroups of free profinite products Abstract: I shall discuss prosoluble subgroups of free profinite products towards a complete characterization of them in terms…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Rodolphe Richard

15:00 - 16:00 1 October 2024
Speaker: Rodolphe Richard (University of Manchester) Title: The Hybrid conjecture Abstract: We present the Hybrid conjecture, an analogue for Shimura varieties of the Mordell - Lang…

AI-Fun with ELLIS Seminar | José Miguel Hernández-Lobato: Deep Generative Models for Molecular Simulation

11:00 - 12:00 2 October 2024
The Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals and Manchester's ELLIS Unit are co-hosting a series of seminars featuring expert researchers working in the fundamentals of AI. Abstract:…

AMBS Event - Digital Echoes: How Our Tech Past Shapes Our Future

13:00 - 14:00 2 October 2024
Our Original Thinking Lecture series showcases some of the world-leading research from colleagues at Alliance Manchester Business School. Michelle Carter, Professor of Information Systems…

Brownbag - Katsushi Imai

13:00 2 October 2024
Title: tbd

Fairtrade: Celebrating 30 Years of a Movement for Global Economic Justice

13:30 - 15:00 2 October 2024
The School of Environment, Education and Development Annual Social Responsibility Lecture Fairtrade is celebrating its 30th anniversary in the UK. When consumers buy Fairtrade labelled…

Lane Lecture 2024: Delivering Occupational Health Research in Government: an important front line service?

17:00 - 20:00 2 October 2024
HSE has a proud history of undertaking occupational health research, either by funding others or using its in house capability. In this lecture Professor Andrew Curran CBE will review…

Logic seminar: Philip Dittmann

15:15 - 16:30 2 October 2024
TBA

MET Seminar - Antonio Penta

17:00 - 18:00 2 October 2024
Title: Incentive Compatibility and Belief Restrictions (joint with Mariann Ollar) Abstract: We study a framework for robust mechanism design that can accommodate various degrees of…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 2 October 2024
Michael Heaney, University of Glasgow Theory and Possibilities in Social Network Analysis As social network analysis has grown in use over the past quarter century, it has become a…

Predicting COPD Exacerbations Using Personal Sensors

13:00 - 14:00 2 October 2024
We’re thrilled to welcome our partners at Imperial College London for the third webinar in the <b>Health Research from Home</b> series. This month, attendees will hear how <b>Professor…

SQUIDS Seminar - Linear Approximation and Manifold Learning in Optimal Transport

15:00 - 16:00 2 October 2024
Abstract: Optimal transport distances are popular due to their 'modelling assumptions'. But significant drawbacks such as a lack of off-the-shelf data analysis tools and high computation…

Behaviour Change Seminar Series: Dr Siobhan Caughey and Prof Mark Healey

15:00 - 16:00 3 October 2024
The Behaviour Change Meeting Group at The University of Manchester has the purpose of bringing together academics and clinicians across several institutes who are working with behaviour…

Econometrics Seminar - Pietro Emilio Spini (Bristol)

12:00 - 13:00 3 October 2024
Title TBA

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Yotam Smilansky

14:00 - 15:00 7 October 2024
Speaker: Yotam Smilansky (University of Manchester) Title: Equivalence relations on aperiodic point sets Abstract: A Delone set in Euclidean space is an infinite well-spaced (uniformly…

Reimagining meanings: co-curatorship and decolonizing methods

10:00 - 12:00 7 October 2024
Members of African diaspora communities are invited to attend this (by invitation only) session which aims to develop new understandings of the Museum’s African collections and develop…

Sandhya Fuchs (Bristol): Hate Crime Law as Meliorist Hope: Seeking justice for caste atrocities in Rajasthan

15:00 - 17:00 7 October 2024
Hate crime laws, which criminalise violent expressions of prejudice, have faced growing criticism. Scholars have argued that hate crime legislation relies on the collaboration of legal…

Algebra seminar - TBD

14:00 - 15:00 8 October 2024
Title: TBD Abstract: TBD

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