Lectures and seminars

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. <b>Wednesday 16 October, 12:00 - 13:00 *Online Seminar*.</b> For the divisional…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

Dr Jeffrey Kelu: Circadian regulation of protein turnover by muscle peripheral clock

13:00 - 14:00 18 October 2024
We are excited to announce that on Friday the 18 October, we are hosting a seminar by Dr. Jeffrey Kelu about his work entitled 'Circadian regulation of protein turnover by muscle peripheral…

PSI Seminar: Multi-Reflection Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometers at ISOLDE

12:00 - 13:00 18 October 2024
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr Lukas Nies. Measuring atomic masses allows us to draw conclusions on the structure and properties of the atomic nucleus, and thus,…

Dalia Iskander (UCL): Exteriorising (Hidden) Interiority and Interiorising (Unruly) Exteriority: Miniature dioramas of home and the uncertain terrain of empathetic imagination

15:00 - 17:00 21 October 2024
Based on ethnographic research conducted over the last two years in the UK, I describe the work of artists who craft tiny dioramas of the home. These ‘miniature narratives’ tell of…

‘Connecting Through Culture as We Age’: Digital Creative Citizenship

12:00 - 13:30 21 October 2024
In this edition of the MUARG Conversation Series, Helen Manchester (University of Bristol) will draw from her recently completed UKRI Healthy Ageing-funded research project ‘Connecting…

Algebra seminar - Guy Fowler

14:00 - 15:00 22 October 2024
Title: Unlikely intersections in algebraic groups Abstract: Given a subvariety V of an algebraic group G, the Zilber--Pink conjecture concerns the intersections of V with the torsion…

Back to Black? Identity Politics in Treacherous Times

11:30 - 13:00 22 October 2024
Claire Alexander, Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, gives the second in a series of lectures organised by the journal, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and…

Intersected: Class, Gender and Queer Lives in Post-Reform China - Susanne Yuk Ping Choi

15:30 - 18:00 22 October 2024
Please join us for the Department of Sociology’s guest lecture, by Leverhulme Visiting Professor Susanne Yuk Ping Choi. The lecture will run 3:30-5pm, followed by a drinks reception…

Macro Seminar - Sophocles Mavroeidis (Oxford)

16:00 - 17:00 22 October 2024
Title: Endogenous Regime Switching

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Thomas Bloom

15:00 - 16:00 22 October 2024
Speaker: Thomas Bloom (University of Manchester) Title: Numbers with small digits in multiple bases Abstract: An old conjecture of Graham asks whether there are infinitely many integers…

AI-Fun with ELLIS Seminar | Luca Magri: Scientific machine learning for chaotic forecasting and real-time digital twinning

11:00 - 12:00 23 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. Scientific…

Statistics Seminar - Predicting under intervention: the intersection of causal inference and prediction

14:00 23 October 2024
Abstract: Prediction and causal inference are usually seen as separate tasks (although sometimes people are somewhat confused about which they are doing). In prediction, we typically…

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