Seminar

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…

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…

Logic seminar: Michal Szachniewicz

15:15 - 16:30 23 October 2024
Title: Foundations of globally valued fields. Abstract: I will present results from a joint work with Itaï Ben Yaacov, Pablo Destic and Ehud Hrushovski, where we lay foundations of…

MET Seminar - Aram Grigoryan

17:00 - 18:00 23 October 2024
Title: Robust Market Design under Opaque Announcements Authors: Aram Grigoryan & Markus Möller Abstract: We introduce a framework where the announcements of a clearinghouse about…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 23 October 2024
Robin Dunbar, University of Oxford The Fractal Structure of Social Networks Human egocentric social networks have a limiting size (around 150 alters) and a very distinctive fractal…

Probability Seminar: Giulia Livieri - Low-dimensional approximations of the conditional law of Volterra processes: a non-positive curvature approach.

15:00 - 16:00 23 October 2024
Giulia Livieri (London School of Economics) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Low-dimensional approximations of the conditional law of Volterra processes: a non-positive…

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…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Sun-Kyo Park (University of Manchester) - The Imagination of Salim: Transforming an Apocalyptic Unconscious to the Politics of Salim

16:00 - 17:30 24 October 2024
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. This is a hybrid session and can be attended in person or online. To join us online or receive details…

AI and the City: Urbanistic perspectives on artificial intelligence

13:30 - 15:30 28 October 2024
Manchester Urban Institute seminar with Dr Federico Cugurollo, Trinity College Dublin Innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming cities in unprecedented ways. In this…

Jonathan Swinton -- New results and current questions in Fibonacci phyllotaxis [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 28 October 2024
Join us for this seminar by Jonathan Swinton as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. More details about the joint series can be found here…

Algebra seminar - JC Tang

14:00 - 15:00 29 October 2024
Title: Why Condensed Abelian Groups are Better Than Topological Abelian Groups Abstract: The category PAb of profinite abelian groups is an abelian category with many nice properties…

Division of Psychology & Mental Health October Research Seminar

14:00 - 15:00 29 October 2024
Please join us in October for the Division of Psychology and Mental Health Research Seminar. <b>Tuesday 29th October, 14:00 - 15:00 *Online Seminar*</b> For the divisional seminar…

Macro Seminar - Piotr Denderski (Leicester)

16:00 - 17:00 29 October 2024
Title: The Job ladder, Unemployment Risk, and Incomplete Markets

AI-Fun with ELLIS Seminar | Chrysoula Zerva: Uncertainty in NLP & beyond: quantification, interpretation, evaluation

11:00 - 12:00 30 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. Title: Uncertainty…

Felipe Tuxá (UFBA, Oxford): "Are ‘autodemarcações’ a form of refusal? Imagining the future with the Tuxá community of São Francisco River, Brazil"

17:00 - 18:30 30 October 2024
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: Wed 30 October 2024, 5pm (UK time). This event will take place in Samuel…

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