Lectures and seminars

AI-Fun with ELLIS Seminar | Jack Liell-Cock: Compositional imprecise probability

11:00 - 12:00 13 November 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. Jack Liell-Cock…

Brownbag - Ron Chan

13:00 13 November 2024
Title: tbd

CSSC Lecture: Dr Danielle Bobker (Concordia Univ) with Dr Noelle Gallagher (EACW, UoM) 'Burlesque: Sexuality, Disability and Humour, 1734 v. 2024'

17:30 - 19:00 13 November 2024
Dr Danielle Bobker (Concordia Univ) with Dr Noelle Gallagher (EACW, UoM) 'Burlesque: Sexuality, Disability and Humour, 1734 v. 2024' C1.18 seminar room, Ellen Wilkinson Building…

Digital Health Equity seminar: An introduction to algorithmic fairness

13:00 - 14:00 13 November 2024
The next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities Seminar Series is on 13th of November 1-2pm via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/96704384543. Matt Sperrin and Jose Benitez-Aurioles will provide…

DKO 2024 Lecture: Professor Reidun Twarock

17:00 - 20:00 13 November 2024
This year’s speaker is Professor Reidun Twarock form the University of York. Reidun Twarock is Professor of Mathematical & Computational Virology at the University of York. Her research…

Extreme Nationalism in Contemporary Norway: Ideologies, Mobilisation and Activism - Christopher Fardan

15:00 - 16:00 13 November 2024
Christopher Fardan, winner of the inaugural Manchester Jean Monnet Centre Doctoral Thesis Prize, shares his research on extreme nationalism in Norway. All welcome at this online lecture.…

Kylie Ainslie -- On the epidemiological characteristics of scabies [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 13 November 2024
Join us for this seminar by Dr Kylie Ainslie (RIVM, Netherlands) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Science. More details about the joint series…

MET Seminar - Arina Nikanrova

17:00 - 18:00 13 November 2024
Title: The Effect of Mergers on Innovation (joint with Kaustav Das and Tatiana Mayskaya) Abstract: We study the effect of a merger on R&D activity in a dynamic model with uncertainty…

Mitchell Centre Seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 13 November 2024
Andras Voros University of Birmingham

Probability Seminar: Ben Hambly (University of Oxford)- Particle systems and systemic risk.

15:00 13 November 2024
Ben Hambly will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Particle systems and systemic risk Abstract: Motivated by modelling systemic risk we consider some simple particle systems…

Restless Archive: The Holocaust and the Cinema of the Displaced

15:00 - 16:30 13 November 2024
In this event, Dr. Simone Gigliotti presents her book Restless Archive: The Holocaust and the Cinema of the Displaced. Her talk will be followed by a response from Prof. Jean-Marc Dreyfus.…

Behaviour Change Meeting Seminar: Dr Jack Birch

15:00 - 16:00 14 November 2024
The Behaviour Change Meeting Group at The University of Manchester has the purpose of bringing together academics and clinicians across several institutes who are working with behaviour…

Econometrics Seminar - Patrik Guggenberger (PSU)

12:00 - 13:00 14 November 2024
Title TBA

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr James Lorenz (York St John University) - Through the Attentive Lens: Film, Time, and Contemplation

16:00 - 17:30 14 November 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…

Future Archive and the Biomolecular Humanities - DNA Storage systems and the future of information

12:30 - 14:00 15 November 2024
<strong>Join us for an informal networking lunch to discuss the future of data storage.</strong> Molecular storage solutions for our incipient data crisis are being developed in haphazard…

What's In Your Wardrobe? Telling & Sharing Clothing Stories

10:00 - 12:00 16 November 2024
We invite attendees to bring along items of clothing and share the stories, memories, and connections these special items have for them, demonstrating how clothing can inform and record landmarks in personal lives.

Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Prof Rob Black

14:00 - 16:00 18 November 2024
Join Digital Futures and Prof Rob Black for a free event on 18th November to explore the concepts of a proactive cyber defence strategy, through weaponising their trust and utilising…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Michael Dymond

14:00 18 November 2024
Speaker: Michael Dymond (University of Birmingham) Title: Comparing separated nets in Euclidean spaces Abstract: Separated nets of Euclidean spaces, sometimes called Delone sets in…

Sami Hermez (Northwestern University, Qatar) and Sireen Sawalha: My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine

15:00 - 17:00 18 November 2024
In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. The book My Brother, My Land is the story of Sireen's family in the…

Algebra seminar - Gareth Tracey

14:00 - 15:00 19 November 2024
Title: Primitive amalgams and the Goldschmidt-Sims conjecture Abstract: A triple of finite groups (H,M,K), usually written H> M<K, is called a primitive amalgam if M is a subgroup…

CHSTM Research Seminar: Establishing Trading Zones between Knowledge Traditions – Co-Production and Co-Design

16:00 - 17:30 19 November 2024
Abstract: In this talk, I reflect on how various knowledge traditions have interacted in the past, and how they can be made to interact more fruitfully today according to the principles…

Macro Seminar - Rhys M. Bidder (King's College London)

16:00 - 17:00 19 November 2024
Title: CBDC and banks: Disintermediating fast and slow

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Ross Paterson

15:00 - 16:00 19 November 2024
Speaker: Ross Paterson (University of Bristol) Title: Quadratic Twists as Random Variables Abstract: This talk will be concerned with the statistical behaviour of Selmer groups.…

PROF YIJIE ZHUANG: The Origins of Hydraulic Societies in China [Research Talk]

17:00 - 18:30 19 November 2024
Join us for an in-person talk with Prof Yijie Zhuang l to learn more about the origins of hydraulic societies in prehistoric China. ABOUT THE TALK: The rapid accumulation of archaeological…

PSI Seminar: Effect of Resonant Overlaps Between the Optical Bandgaps and Large Twist Angle in the Interlayer Energy Transfer Process

12:00 - 13:00 20 November 2024
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr Arka Karmakar. In the post silicon era, type-II transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) heterostructures (HSs) are predicted to be…

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