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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…

CALL OPEN: Team Research Microcatalyst Call 2024 / 25

22 October - 15 November 2024
The University of Manchester Team Research Programme (TeamsBuildDreams) invites applications to the micro-catalyst call 2024/25, following on from the successful call 2023/24. For this…

Careers in Consulting Networking Event

17:30 - 19:30 22 October 2024
The [https://www.nwbiotech.co.uk/ North-West Biotech Initiative] is delighted to announce our first networking event of the academic year: Careers in Consulting Networking Event.…

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…

Gardening with Dementia: The power of nature and the outdoors

10:00 - 16:00 22 October 2024
Join us for a compelling photographic exhibition at the Royal Horticultural Society Bridgewater Garden in Worsley, Salford, celebrating the powerful connection between home and garden…

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…

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…

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.…

Startup Spotlight with Rijul Shukla

17:00 - 18:30 22 October 2024
Date: Tuesday 22nd October 2024 Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Location: Lecture Theatre 2.007, 2nd Floor, Alliance Manchester Business School Event Overview: Join us for an inspiring…

Teaching with census data

10:00 - 12:00 22 October 2024
Census 2021 provides demographic, employment, housing and other characteristics about local populations at neighbourhood level. This free workshop is designed to enable those teaching…

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…

Are Friends Electric?

10:00 - 15:30 23 October 2024
In this interactive exhibition led by Dr. Scott Midson, visitors will explore the concept of friendship and whether robots can be friends. The exhibition covers themes like emotion,…

Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir (book launch)

16:00 - 17:30 23 October 2024
Join us for this hybrid event with Dr Omer Aijazi, Lecturer in Disasters and Climate Crisis at the Humanitarian & Conflict Research Institute (HCRI), to hear about and discuss the content…

Creating interactive visualisations with gender identity data: Live code demonstration in Python and R

10:00 - 12:00 23 October 2024
The most recent census in 2021 asked two novel, voluntary questions on sexuality and gender identity. By learning how to create interactive visualisations with gender identity data,…

Data Treasure Hunt – Behind the scenes of where our everyday information comes from!

10:00 - 11:30 23 October 2024
As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, an event at Salford Museum & Art Gallery will explore the secrets behind everyday data. This 90-minute, in-person event includes a treasure…

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…

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…

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