Lectures and seminars

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…

PSI Seminar: Oxide Interfaces: Playing away from UHV

12:00 - 13:00 30 October 2024
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr Rob Lindsay. Preparing and/or probing metal oxide interfaces away from ultra-high vacuum (UHV) can be hugely challenging but is of…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Ian Morris

14:00 4 November 2024
Speaker: Ian Morris (Queen Mary University) Title: Projections and sum sets of self-affine fractals Abstract: I will describe some recent joint work with Ça?r? Sert in which we establish…

Jon Schubert (Basel): Authoritarian Planning: Speculation, spectral infrastructure, and extractivism in Angola

15:00 - 17:00 4 November 2024
In a moment of pervasive economic crisis, when any economic rationalities that may have justified investments in big infrastructure appear increasingly like pure fantasy, what visions…

Algebra seminar - Ben Briggs

14:00 - 15:00 5 November 2024
Title: Koszul duality for (seemingly) non-Koszul rings Abstract: This is a talk about a relative version of Koszul duality, and how it can tell us about the homological algebra of (seemingly)…

CHSTM Research Seminar: Bloodless surgery and surgical wars – medicine, empire, and European modernity, 1870-1914

16:00 - 17:30 5 November 2024
Abstract: This paper uses the language of bloodshed to analyse the intertwined discourses of medico-military-imperial modernity at the turn of the twentieth century. At a time when…

Macro Seminar - Alistair Macaulay (Surrey)

16:00 - 17:00 5 November 2024
Title: The Mis(Allocation) of Corporate News

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Maryam Nowroozi

15:00 - 16:00 5 November 2024
Speaker: Maryam Nowroozi (University of Warwick) Title: Perfect powers in elliptic divisibility sequences Abstract: Let E be an elliptic curve over the rationals given by an integral…

Brownbag - Yiming Liu (UMich, UCL)

13:00 6 November 2024
Title: tbd

Early Modern Witch Bottles (Affective Artefacts speaker series)

16:00 - 17:30 6 November 2024
Join us for the latest in the Affective Artefacts seminar series, courtesy of the Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective. All welcome and no booking required.

Logic seminar: Abhiram Natarajan

15:15 - 16:30 6 November 2024
Title: Polynomial and Pfaffian Partitioning of Semi-Pfaffian Sets with Applications Abstract: The polynomial partitioning theorem of Guth and Katz, in addition to helping nearly resolve…

MET Seminar - Simon Jantschgi

17:00 - 18:00 6 November 2024
Title: The Hidden Cost of Zero-Commission Abstract: This paper studies how transaction cost transparency influences incentives and welfare in two-sided markets. Hidden transaction…

Mitchell Centre Seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 6 November 2024
Elisa Bellotti & Tomas Diviak University of Manchester Gender inequalities: the role of social networks in gendered interactions and social structures. Gender inequalities are a worldwide…

Probability Seminar: Alejandro Santoyo - Stable processes via fractional calculus.

15:00 - 16:00 6 November 2024
Alejandro Santoyo will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Stable processes via fractional calculus. Abstract: In this talk, we will explore the connection between stable processes…

Quintijn Kat (Ashoka University; Warwick): "Latin America shaping US hegemony from below: deference and defiance in trade and counternarcotics policy"

17:00 - 18:30 6 November 2024
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: Wed 6 November 2024, 5pm (UK time). This event will take place in Samuel…

Ehrhardt Seminar Programme 2024-25: Jesus the Model Man? Ancient Masculinities and the Jesus of the Johannine Passion Narrative

16:00 - 17:30 7 November 2024
To join us online or receive details of future seminars, please email lynne.potts@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

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