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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…

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…

Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture (CSSC) PhD and Postdoctoral Event on Current Research

16:30 - 19:00 23 October 2024
4.30-7pm Wednesday 23 October, C1.18, Ellen Wilkinson Building. Chair: Jackie Stacey Psychoanalytic approaches: 4.30-5 Dr James Slattery: Taking Back Desire: A psychoanalytic approach…

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,…

Customer Segmentation Masterclass

17:00 - 18:30 23 October 2024
Date: Wednesday 23rd October 2024 Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Location: Room 3.006a, 3rd Floor, Alliance Manchester Business School Event Overview: The MEC Customer Segmentation Masterclass,…

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…

Exhibition – Alison Wilding: Sculptor's Drawings

6 June 2024 - 12 January 2025
<Strong>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 </Strong>…

Exhibition – Barbara Walker

4 October 2024 - 26 January 2025
<strong>Barbara Walker 4 October 2024 – 26 January 2025 Please note the Whitworth is closed on Mondays</strong> 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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

Social Media and Me: Exploring young people's digital worlds

10:00 - 11:30 23 October 2024
In a world where adults think they know what’s best, is banning social media the answer to improving everyone’s mental health? Do they really understand how young people use and experience…

Social Media: Lifting a lid on young people's digital worlds

12:00 - 13:00 23 October 2024
It's no secret that lots of people think social media is the reason young people are increasingly suffering from poor mental health, but what is the evidence really telling us? Join…

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…

The Industrious Revolution Reconsidered: Did it Initiate a Consumer Revolution?

16:00 - 17:30 23 October 2024
This public lecture is co-hosted by the Economics and History departments.

CTIS Research Seminars: "Publishing Contemporary Foreign Poetry: Transnational Exchange in 1950s-1960s Italy" (Dr Mila Milani)

14:00 - 15:30 24 October 2024
The years following the Second World War saw an exponential increase in the translation of contemporary foreign poetry in Italy. The practice was at its most acute in the 1950s and…

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