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AI-Fun with ELLIS Seminar | Tolga Birdal: Topological Complexity Measures as Proxies for Generalization in Neural Networks

11:00 - 12:00 16 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. On 16 October,…

AMES Public Seminar: Dr Walaa Quisay – Dying to Live: Islam, Incarceration, and Hunger Strikes

16:30 - 18:00 16 October 2024
The Department of Arabic & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), University of Manchester warmly invites you to this event: Part of the AMES Research Seminar Series 2024 – Living, Reconstructing…

Brownbag - Abhishek Chakravarty

13:00 16 October 2024
Title: tbd

Division of Psychology & Mental Health September Research Seminar

12:00 - 13:00 16 October 2024
Please join us in October for the Division of Psychology and Mental Health PhD Student Research Seminar. Wednesday 16 October, 12:00 - 13:00 *Online Seminar*. For the divisional…

Exhibition – Alison Wilding: Sculptor's Drawings

6 June 2024 - 12 January 2025
Alison Wilding: Sculptor's Drawings A display of newly acquired works on paper by the British sculptor Alison Wilding. Please note the Whitworth is closed on Mondays …

Exhibition – Barbara Walker

4 October 2024 - 26 January 2025
Barbara Walker 4 October 2024 – 26 January 2025 Please note the Whitworth is closed on Mondays Our autumn 2024 programme leads with the first-ever survey exhibition…

Exhibition – The ‘Death’ of the Life Room

6 June 2024 - 12 January 2025
The ‘Death’ of the Life Room 6 Jun 2024 – 12 January 2025 *Please note the Whitworth is closed on Mondays* Set against the backdrop of the 1950s this collection display highlights…

From Galaxies to Galacticos: data-driven decision making in professional football

15:00 - 16:00 16 October 2024
The quantity of data collected during professional football games has increased enormously over the last decade, as has the demand for techniques for gaining competitive advantage through…

Future Lives and Austerity - Austerity and Altered Life Courses online symposium

09:00 - 17:30 16 October 2024
The international online symposium has been designed in collaboration with brilliant partner organisations, institutions, and experts, and aims to amplify the experiences of young people…

GLOBAL MARXISM - Simin Fadaee in conversation with Kevin Gillan

18:30 - 20:00 16 October 2024
Blackwell's Manchester are delighted to be working with Manchester University Press and movements@manchester to host the launch of Simin Fadaee's Global Marxism - a cutting-edge exploration…

Global Marxism book launch - Simin Fadaee in conversation with Kevin Gillan

18:30 - 20:00 16 October 2024
Join Blackwell's Bookshop Manchester, together with publishers Manchester University Press and movements@manchester ad they host the launch of Simin Fadaee's Global Marxism - a cutting-edge…

Hear me! Exhibition

1 - 31 October 2024
The Hear Me! science/art exhibition about impact of hearing loss, tinnitus and dizziness, which has just been installed at Students Hub in Jean McFarlane building. The exhibition…

IBIC Academic Workshop

10:00 - 16:00 16 October 2024
The Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Catalyst (IBIC) invites you to an Academic Workshop on Wednesday 16th October 2024. This free, one-day, in-person event will take place at The…

Irene Manton Lecture 2024

17:30 - 19:00 16 October 2024
The Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health in collaboration with The Linnean Society of London and Manchester Museum, will host the 2024 Irene Manton lecture, celebrating the significant…

Logic seminar: Guy Fowler

15:15 - 16:30 16 October 2024
Title: Effectivity and atypical intersections. Abstract: I will describe how work of Binyamini on effective o-minimality may be applied to obtain effective versions of some atypical…

Mandarin Corner (EVERY WEDNESDAY)

16:30 2 October - 17:30 4 December 2024
THIS IS A RECURRING EVENT - EVERY WEDNESDAY at 4:30PM – 5:30PM Mandarin Corner is back for another term and we're delighted to bring you more language practice and some cultural activities.…

Mark Chaplain -- Mechanical Models of Pattern and Form in Biological Tissues: The Role of Stress–Strain Constitutive Equations [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 16 October 2024
Join us for this seminar by Mark Chaplain FRSE (St Andrews) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Science. More details about the joint series can…

MET Seminar - Ani Guerdjikova

17:00 - 18:00 16 October 2024
Title: Do You Know What I mean? A Syntactic Representation for Differential Bounded Awareness (joint with JohnQuiggin) Abstract: This paper provides methodological foundations for…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 16 October 2024
Fanqi Zeng, University of Oxford Waves of cooperation in public goods games on networks Cooperation, as a reciprocal behaviour that brings benefits to others while costs to oneself,…

MLF 2024: Andrew O'Hagan with Dave Haslam

19:00 - 20:15 16 October 2024
‘Andrew O’Hagan has made more than a great book – he has made a social miracle.’ Joshua Cohen Scottish author Andrew O’Hagan joins us to discuss his gripping new state-of-the-nation…

Probability Seminar: Khoa Lê - Recent progresses in regularization by noise problem.

16:00 - 17:00 16 October 2024
Khoa Lê (University of Leeds) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Recent progresses in regularization by noise problem. Abstract: The addition of a noise source to an…

Statistics Seminar - Reproducibility of Statistical Hypothesis Tests

14:00 - 15:00 16 October 2024
Abstract: Reproducibility is of great importance for scientific research. While many practical issues affecting reproducibility have received much attention in recent years, the reproducibility…

The Suburban Frontier: Middle-Class Construction in Dar es Salaam

16:30 - 18:00 16 October 2024
Speaker: Claire Mercer (LSE) Co-organised with the Geography Department African cities are under construction. Beyond the urban redevelopment schemes and large-scale infrastructure…

CoDE seminar: French citizens of Indian descent: resisting invisibility and creating “new” French identities - Dr Manuela Latchoumaya

13:00 - 14:30 17 October 2024
Please join us for the next Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) seminar, by Dr Manuela Latchoumaya (University of Manchester). This is a hybrid event. Please register for zoom…

WCLC: Tom Ollendorff, Will Vinson, David Ingamells and Viktor Nyberg (Jazz Quartet)

13:10 - 13:55 17 October 2024
Guitarist Tom Ollendorff embarks on a European tour with this Quartet this October featuring the highly regarded saxophonist, Will Vinson. The tour is celebrating the release of Tom's…

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