Lectures and seminars

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…

Welcome to the Sacrifice Zone(s): Fear and Militarism in Okinawa (Fear Research Network Seminar Series / East Asian Studies Seminar Series)

16:30 5 December 2024
American and increasingly Japanese militarism is an ever-present feature of people’s daily lives in Japan’s southernmost prefecture, Okinawa. Being located closer to Taiwan than to…

‘Solstice and Equinox’ Series with Jeanette Winterson CBE

18:00 - 19:30 5 December 2024
Award-winning writer, acclaimed author and Professor of New Writing at The University of Manchester, Jeanette Winterson returns to the John Rylands Research Institute and Library this…

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

AMES Public Seminar: Dr Lindsey Moore – ‘Taking the Suit for a Walk’: Re-imagining Urban Modernity before the Nakba

16:30 - 18:00 11 December 2024
The Department of Arabic & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), University of Manchester warmly invites you to this event: Part of the AMES Research Seminar Series 2024 – Living, Reconstructing…

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…

Could You Be the Next Great Scientist-Founder?- Scientist to Founder at Manchester

18:00 - 20:00 22 January 2025
If you're wondering: How do I turn my breakthrough science into a start-up? Am I addressing a problem with a large enough market? How do I recruit a team? Am I the right person to do…

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,…

The Albatross Lecture 2025: Dr Jared Margulies

11:00 - 15:00 23 January 2025
* **Please note this event is open to those both internal and external to The University of Manchester*** Join us on the 23rd January 2024 to hear a keynote presentation from Dr Jared…

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.…

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