Exhibitions, Seminar

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…

Algebra seminar - Jordan Haden

14:00 - 15:00 28 January 2025
Title: 3-Preprojective Algebras of Type D Abstract: Over an algebraically closed field, Gabriel’s theorem states that the path algebra kQ of a connected quiver is representation-finite…

GM Policy Hub seminar- Social prescribing: equitable and effective health and wellbeing support

13:00 - 14:30 28 January 2025
Date: 28 January Time: 1:00pm – 2:30pm (with registration and light lunch from 12.30pm) Location: The University of Manchester Campus (room confirmed on registration) Social prescribing…

Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Dr. Ben Collier

14:00 - 16:00 29 January 2025
UK police forces are increasingly adopting 'influence policing', a form of digital influence campaign that uses internet technologies and behavioral psychology to prevent crime. Initially…

Faculty Research Seminar- Science and Social: Digital Health and AI

15:00 - 16:30 29 January 2025
<b>Faculty Research Seminar- Science and Social: Digital Health and AI</b> Date: Wednesday 29th January 2025 Time: 3pm - 4.30pm (followed by time to socialise) Venue: Lecture Theatre…

Francisco Sánchez and Castellar Granados (Salamanca University): Race, Inequality, and Political Trust in Latin America

17:00 - 18:30 29 January 2025
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: Wed 29 January 2025, 5pm (UK time). This event will be online via this…

Inaugural Chair Lecture - Building Trustworthy Software and AI Systems by Prof. Lucas Cordeiro

13:00 - 14:00 29 January 2025
Software and AI systems have become ubiquitous today, but their trustworthiness remains a pressing concern. In 2022 alone, poor software quality cost US companies $2.41 trillion, while…

International Collaborative for Translational Digital Health Seminar: Introducing the Health Services and Implementation Hub

14:00 - 15:00 29 January 2025
The International Collaborative for Translational Digital Health (ICDTH) is a collaboration between Universities of Manchester, Melbourne and Toronto. The mission of the ICDTH is to…

PEC Seminar with Aaron Benavav (University of Cornell) - The Impact of Generative AI on Employment: Hype, Reality, and the Future of Work

17:00 - 19:00 29 January 2025
This talk provides a critical analysis of the potential impact of generative AI technologies, such as ChatGPT, on the job market. While researchers and tech leaders have predicted that…

PSI Seminar: Strong light-matter coupling excitons in microcavities and their applications

12:00 - 13:00 29 January 2025
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr Sai Kiran Rajendran. Radiative properties of excitons can be modified when placed in microcavities. Since the 1990s, the strong coupling…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Shreyasi Datta

14:00 3 February 2025
Speaker: Shreyasi Datta (University of York) Title: Fourier asymptotics and effective equidistribution Abstract: We talk about effective equidistribution of the expanding horocycles…

Heilbronn Institute Sponsored Seminar -- Dr Marine Fontaine: Dynamical landscapes and neural tube patterning [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 3 February 2025
Join us for this Heilbronn Institute Sponsored Seminar by Dr Marine Fontaine (Warwick) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. More details…

Kevin Donovan (Edinburgh): The CEO’s Two Bodies: Corporate Personhood and the Corporate Persona in Kenya

15:00 - 17:00 3 February 2025
In July 2019, the CEO of Kenya’s largest company, Safaricom, died. This talk uses the funeral of Robert Collymore as a jumping off point to consider the curious personalisation of the…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Theodore Voronov

15:00 - 16:00 3 February 2025
Speaker: Theodore Voronov (Manchester) Title: On a complex arising from variation of integrals and on the superanalog of differential forms Abstract: All known constructions of differentials…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Local Business Networks and New Firm Formation

15:30 - 16:30 3 February 2025
Local Business Networks and New Firm Formation Hanna Hottenrott, Professor of Innovation Economics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), will discuss how local business networks…

Algebra seminar - Lucia Morotti

14:00 - 15:00 4 February 2025
Title: Irreducible restrictions of spin representations of symmetric and alternating groups Abstract: In positive characteristic, irreducible restrictions of spin representations of…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Nathan Creighton

15:00 - 16:00 4 February 2025
Speaker: Nathan Creighton (Oxford) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

Logic seminar: Calliope Ryan-Smith

15:15 - 16:30 5 February 2025
Title: The Hartogs–Lindenbaum Spectrum Abstract: Under the axiom of choice, if there is a surjection Y-->X then there is an injection X-->Y. However, if the axiom of choice fails this…

Medical Writing Webinar with VML

18:00 - 19:30 5 February 2025
Are you a scientist or student that wants to explore their options outside of the lab? Do you love learning about new and exciting research? Do you have an aptitude for understanding…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 5 February 2025
Riccardo De Vita, Manchester Metropolitan. NETWORK RESILIENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION: AN ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL BRANCH CAMPUSES International Branch Campuses (IBCs) are one of the most…

Probability Seminar: Jonas Latz - The random timestep Euler method and its continuous dynamics.

15:00 5 February 2025
Jonas Latz (University of Manchester) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: The random timestep Euler method and its continuous dynamics. Abstract: ODE solvers with randomly…

Statistics Seminar - A taxonomy of designs for randomised optimisation trials of therapist-led interventions: A systematic overview of methods

14:00 - 14:50 5 February 2025
Dr. Rebecca Walwyn University of Leeds Abstract Background: Therapist-led interventions such as psychotherapy are complex, delivered by therapists to individuals, and commonly evaluated…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Sean Prendiville

14:00 10 February 2025
Speaker: Sean Prendiville (University of Lancaster) Title: An inverse theorem for the Gowers U^3 norm relative to quadratic level sets Abstract: The Gowers uniformity norms have become…

Omer Aijazi (Manchester). Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir

15:00 - 17:00 10 February 2025
Atmospheric Violence explores how people in the militarized, ecologically fragile borderlands of Kashmir attempt to flourish in an environment where violence is everywhere, or atmospheric.…

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