Exhibitions, Seminar

Behaviour Change Meeting Seminar: Olivia Malkowski

15:00 - 16:00 5 December 2024
Our next Behaviour Change Meeting will be held on Thursday 5th December at 3pm, where we have Olivia Malkowski presenting on ‘Towards a precision digital intervention to promote…

Ehrhardt Seminar Programme 2024-25: What Is an Ancient Liturgy?

16:00 - 17:30 5 December 2024
To join us online or receive details of future seminars, please email lynne.potts@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Equity in Community-Centered Models for Ageing: A Virtual Summit

16:30 - 18:00 5 December 2024
This 90-minute virtual summit — hosted by the Hub for Aging Collaboration and developed in partnership with interdisciplinary scholars from the University of Manchester, UCSF, and Wayne…

Exhibition - Teenage Kicks: Girls growing up in Britain 1956-1974 – Andrea’s Story

13 November - 20 December 2024
This exhibition shares the stories of eight girls, who were teenagers and young women between 1956 and 1974, a time of huge social, economic and cultural change in Britain, based on…

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…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Benjamin Bedert

14:00 9 December 2024
Speaker: Benjamin Bedert (University of Oxford) Title: Zeros of polynomials with restricted coefficients: a problem of Littlewood Abstract: The study of polynomials whose coefficients…

Pankhurst/Northern Gritstone Seminar, Panel & Drop-in Session

14:00 - 15:00 9 December 2024
Thinking about turning your research into a business? Professor Alex Frangi, Northern Gritstone’s Jess McCreadie, and University of Manchester Innovation Factory's (UMIF) Elliott Jennings,…

Samir Ghadiali -- Translational Applications of Mathematical and Computational Modeling in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 9 December 2024
Join us for this seminar by Samir Ghadiali (Ohio) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. More details about the joint series can be found…

Algebra seminar - Peio Ardaiz

14:00 - 15:00 10 December 2024
Title: McCullough-Miller space for RAAGs Abstract: The McCullough-Miller space is a contractible simplicial complex that admits an action of the pure symmetric (outer) automorphisms…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Sacha Mangerel

15:00 - 16:00 10 December 2024
Speaker: Sacha Mangerel (Durham University) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

Brownbag - Lucas Morissette

13:00 11 December 2024
Title: tbd

Digital Health Equity seminar: Working in partnership with underserved communities to understand and address digital health inequities

13:00 - 14:00 11 December 2024
The next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities Seminar Series is on 11th of December 1-2pm via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/94475096756. Prof Caroline Sanders and colleagues will talk…

Logic seminar: Raffael Stenzel

15:15 - 16:30 11 December 2024
TBA

Statistics Seminar - Periodogram regression, a two stage mixed effects approach for modelling multiple integer-valued time series of tropical cyclone frequency

14:45 - 15:30 11 December 2024
Abstract Tropical cyclones (TC) are significant indicators of evolving climate dynamics. Two primary responses of interest are the cyclone frequency and intensity. In this paper we…

Statistics Seminar - Statistical inference for emerging diseases inspired by Covid-19

14:00 - 14:45 11 December 2024
Abstract (joint work with Prof Frank Ball) The Covid-19 pandemic has transformed the landscape in terms of how mathematical modelling of infectious diseases is viewed both in the academic…

AI-Fun with ELLIS Seminar | Ruth Misener

11:00 - 12:00 15 January 2025
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: Autonomous…

Dalton Expert Insights | History of Civil Nuclear Energy (Swords to Ploughshares)

13:00 - 14:00 15 January 2025
This talk will look at how the current range of nuclear reactor systems were established and spread across the developed world, as well as the prospects for use of advanced nuclear…

Shirin Rai - Depletion: The Human Costs of Caring

15:00 - 16:30 15 January 2025
Abstract. When thinking about the work of caring for others we often neglect the human cost born by those performing this care. Feminists have long talked about the ways in which unpaid…

Division of Psychology & Mental Health January Research Seminar

11:00 - 12:00 16 January 2025
Please join us in January for the Division of Psychology and Mental Health PGR Research Seminar. Thursday 16th January, 11:00 - 12:00 *Virtual seminar*. For the divisional…

Leaving being ‘left behind’: itineraries of operation and resistance in a post-industrial English city - Ajmal Hussain

13:00 - 14:30 16 January 2025
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Ajmal Hussain from the University of Warwick shares his research. ‘Left behind’ denotes a particular constituency of otherness, wherein disenchantment…

In Pursuit of the Meaning of Language: The Role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Generation (NLG)

14:00 - 15:00 22 January 2025
Large Language Models (LLMs), such as the GPT-x family, have taken the natural language processing (NLP) and generation (NLG) fields, if not the whole world, by storm. In this talk,…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Martin Wolf

15:00 - 16:00 27 January 2025
Speaker: Dr Martin Wolf (Surrey) Title: Homotopy Algebras and Field Theories Abstract: This is a pedagogical introduction to homotopy algebras and their applications in physical theories.…

Nikita Simpson (SOAS): How do we theorise ecological distress? A view from the Western Himalayas

15:00 - 17:00 27 January 2025
The Gaddi tribal community, who inhabit the foothills of India’s Dhaula Dhar range, have experienced a rapid shift in livelihood over the last century from agro-pastoralism to waged…

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