Lectures and seminars

Book Launch: Syndicates and Societies: Criminal Politics in Dhaka

15:30 - 17:00 21 November 2024
Join GDI’s State-Society Relations Group for a panel discussion celebrating the launch of David Jackman’s new book, Syndicates and Societies: Criminal Politics in Dhaka (Cambridge University…

Econometrics Seminar - Jörg Stoye (Cornell)

12:00 - 13:00 21 November 2024
Title: TBA

Ehrhardt Seminar Programme 2024-25: Work as God’s Intention for Humanity in the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures

16:00 - 17:30 21 November 2024
To join us online or receive details of future seminars, please email lynne.potts@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Revisiting British Humanitarianism: Three Life Stories

13:00 - 13:45 21 November 2024
In this online seminar, Bertrand Taithe and Flora Chatt will use items from collections in the University’s recently established Humanitarian Archive to illustrate the lives of three…

Andrea Pia (LSE): Corallers of Crises: Between the horror and glee of climate inaction

15:00 - 17:00 25 November 2024
In a recent statement, Scientists Rebellion, the international organization of environmental activists with a scientific background, posed the question: "What's the point of documenting…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Amlan Banaji

14:00 25 November 2024
Speaker: Amlan Banaji (Loughborough University) Title: Coincidence and disparity of fractal dimensions for dynamically defined sets Abstract: There are many different ways that one…

Hananeh Aliee -- Causal inference and prediction in single-cell genomics [ONLINE]

14:00 - 15:00 25 November 2024
Join us for this seminar by Hananeh Ailee (Sanger) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. More details about the joint series can be found…

MIOIR & SCI Joint Seminar with Dr Lili Jia - Exploring sustainability pathways with action research

15:30 - 16:30 25 November 2024
Exploring sustainability pathways with action research The world’s understanding of sustainability is rapidly evolving. So is our appreciation of the need for sustainable solutions…

Algebra seminar - Scott Harper

14:00 - 15:00 26 November 2024
Title: Coverings of finite groups and derangements Abstract: A finite group is never the union of conjugates of a proper subgroup. Equivalently, a nontrivial finite transitive permutation…

Macro Seminar - Remzi Kaygusuz (Durham/Sabanci)

16:00 - 17:00 26 November 2024
Title: A Different World: Drivers of Income Inequality 1980-2020

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Jackie Voros

15:00 - 16:00 26 November 2024
Speaker: Jackie Voros (University of Bristol) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

Social Statistics Seminar Series

14:00 - 15:30 26 November 2024
Friedrich Geiecke Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science, London School of Economics Conversations at Scale: Robust AI-led Interviews with a Simple Open-Source Platform…

AI-Fun with ELLIS Seminar | Fabio Cuzzolin: Epistemic artificial intelligence

11:00 - 12:00 27 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. Abstract…

Brook Lecture in Middle English: Prof. Marion Turner (Oxford): 'Imagining Medieval Lives'

17:00 - 19:30 27 November 2024
Everyone is warmly invited to the Annual Brook Lecture in Middle English, to take place in: Ellen Wilkinson C1.18 at 5pm on Wednesday 27 November This year's lecturer is Marion Turner,…

Brownbag - Lucía Contreras

13:00 27 November 2024
Title: tbd

International Zones: Impasse and Waiting in a World of State-Making, 1919-1956

13:00 - 14:30 27 November 2024
History guest speaker research seminar. At the end of the First World War, the peacemakers placed a small number of territories in Europe under the direct international administration…

Logic seminar: Alex Wilkie

15:15 - 16:30 27 November 2024
ON ZILBER'S QUASIMINIMALITY CONJECTURE: AN ANALYTIC APPROACH This conjecture concerns the expansion \mathbb{C}_{exp} of the complex exponential field by the usual complex exponential…

Louis Gall -- Agent-based modelling of the intestinal epithelium [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 27 November 2024
Join us for this seminar by Dr Louis Gall (Birmingham) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Science. More details about the joint series can be…

MET Seminar - Claudia Herresthal

17:00 - 18:00 27 November 2024
Title: Data linkage between Markets: Does the Emergence of an Informed Insurer Cause Consumer Harm? Abstract: A merger of two companies active in seemingly unrelated markets creates…

MET Seminar - Claudia Herresthal

17:00 - 18:00 27 November 2024
Speaker website: http://www.cherresthal.com/ Contact: david.delacretaz@manchester.ac.uk

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 27 November 2024
Cecilia Menenghini, University of Exeter A network approach to study organised crime movement across local communities This talk explores how social network analysis can be used to…

Polygenic risk scores – presentations and speed networking

09:00 - 11:00 27 November 2024
The next event in the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) [https://www.manchesterbrc.nihr.ac.uk/news-and-events/nihr-manchester-brc-train…

Probability Seminar: Neofytos Rodosthenous (University College London) - Non-zero-sum optimal stopping game with continuous versus periodic exercise opportunities.

15:00 - 16:00 27 November 2024
Neofytos Rodosthenous will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Non-zero-sum optimal stopping game with continuous versus periodic exercise opportunities Abstract: We introduce…

Racial Capitalism Across the Black/White Atlantic

16:00 - 17:30 27 November 2024
Racial capitalism has become a widely used term—pointing to the intimate connections between processes of racialization and of capitalist organization. This talk will focus on an eighteenth-century…

The Problem with Mental Health Awareness: Dr Lucy Foulkes, University of Oxford

13:00 - 14:00 27 November 2024
The Education and Psychology group is pleased to invite you to an upcoming external seminar from Dr Lucy Foulkes, University of Oxford, on ‘the problem with mental health awareness’.…

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