Lectures and seminars

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.…

Algebra seminar - Angela Tabiri

14:00 - 15:00 11 February 2025
Title: Hopf Algebra Constructions for Degree n Polynomials Abstract: For a polynomial g of degree n in one variable x, we can construct the Hopf algebra A(x,a,g). For degree n=2,3,…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Akshat Mudgal

15:00 - 16:00 11 February 2025
Speaker: Akshat Mudgal (Warwick) Title: Large deviations of L-functions Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss statistical properties of values of L-functions and their extreme values.…

Seminar- Understanding Users for Product Development

11:00 - 12:00 11 February 2025
- Could you better assess the needs and desires of the very people your innovations are meant to serve? - How can rigorous academic research translate into impactful and usable solutions…

AI Security: Language Models, Data Encryption, Software Verification

14:00 - 15:00 12 February 2025
Neural networks are slowly getting integrated into safety-critical systems. Unfortunately, we still lack a full suite of algorithms and tools to guarantee their safety. In this talk,…

Catherine Andrews (CIDE, Mexico). The Republic Needs a Man! The Plan of Guadalajara and the Debate about Dictatorship in Mexico, 1852-1853

17:00 - 18:30 12 February 2025
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: This event can be followed online via this link: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166…

GDI Film Screening and Panel Discussion: We Don't Do Charity

16:30 - 18:00 12 February 2025
Panel: Alan Braithwaite (Executive Producer) Amanda Campbell (Producer) David Campbell (Director) Join GDI and One World Together for a screening of ‘We don’t do charity’, a compelling…

Leverhulme Visiting Professor Lecture: Prof. Karen Karbiener (NYU), “I Am What I Am”: Walt Whitman, Good Gay Poet

16:00 - 17:30 12 February 2025
Leverhulme Visiting Professor Karen Karbiener (NYU) will deliver a public lecture on Walt Whitman: “I Am What I Am”: Walt Whitman, Good Gay Poet Venue: Sam Alex Lecture Theatre, Samuel…

Logic seminar: Françoise Point

15:15 - 16:30 12 February 2025
Title: On definable groups in generic differential expansions of certain geometric theories of fields. Abstract: We will first describe rather general conditions under which one can…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 12 February 2025
Filip Agneessens. University of Manchester. Mechanisms reinforcing and countering religious segregation in schools: Network processes involving friendship and dislike ties. In many…

Social Statistics Seminar Series - Matthew Wallace

14:00 - 15:30 12 February 2025
Please join us for the first Social Statistics Seminar of the year on Wednesday 12th February at 2pm. This seminar will be in person, so please join us for coffee and cake. Zoom link…

Webinar: New insights and perspectives on multiple long term conditions – from global to local

12:00 - 13:00 12 February 2025
In partnership with Dunhill Medical Trust, NIHR Applied Research Collaborations Greater Manchester and North East and North Cumbria, NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre, Newcastle…

Christabel Pankhurst Lecture 2025: 'The Terrorism Nobody is Talking About'

17:00 - 19:30 13 February 2025
Join us for the Annual Christabel Pankhurst Lecture as our guest speaker, best-selling author and founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, Laura Bates reveals her two-year undercover…

David Conn: The miscarriages of justice following the Hillsborough disaster (Mark George Memorial Lecture)

17:30 - 19:00 13 February 2025
<strong>About the event</strong> David Conn will deliver the inaugural Mark George Memorial Lecture, which will reflect on the Hillsborough disaster, the families’ longstanding fight…

Technologies of the YouTuber Self: Digital Vigilantism, Masculinities, and the Attention Economy in Neoliberal Japan

16:30 14 February 2025
Technologies of the YouTuber Self: Digital Vigilantism, Masculinities, and the Attention Economy in Neoliberal Japan Yutaka Yoshida (Cardiff University) and Yoko Demelius (Turku Universities)…

Cecilia Vergnano (KU Leuven). Alpine Border Conflict: Migration and Social Polarization in the Everyday Life of Intra-EU Borders

15:00 - 17:00 17 February 2025
Since 2015, the reintroduction of (racialised) border controls within the supposedly border-free Schengen area and, in particular, at northern Italian borders – envisaged to contain…

Prof Ruth Baker -- What can identifiable models tell us about regulation of the cell cycle? [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 17 February 2025
Join us for this seminar by Prof Ruth Baker (Oxford) 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 - Ilaria Colazzo

14:00 - 15:00 18 February 2025
Title: Combinatorial Solutions to the Pentagon Equation and Matched Pairs of Groups Abstract: In this talk, I will present a complete classification of finite bijective set-theoretic…

Expert Insight Series | Nuclear Fuel: At the heart of nuclear power

13:00 - 14:00 18 February 2025
Watch the recording: https://youtu.be/ZIAkKv7IVOE?si=PSEHIMMofottNhIi This talk will focus on nuclear fuels with Professor in Nuclear Fuel Technology, Tim Abram. Speaker Professor…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Katerina Santicola

15:00 - 16:00 18 February 2025
Speaker: Katerina Santicola (Warwick) Title: Størmer's conjecture on arctan identities A Machin-like formula is a technique for computing the digits of pi with high accuracy, involving…

AI-Fun with ELLIS Seminar | Masha Vladimirova: Fairness in online systems

11:00 - 12:00 19 February 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: Fairness…

EACW research seminar: Dr. Kelechi Anucha (Manchester), 'Moten’s Fugitive Style: Literary Form and the (Necro)politics of Refusal'

12:30 - 14:30 19 February 2025
English, American Studies and Creative Writing Research Seminar: Dr. Kelechi Anucha (Manchester), 'Moten’s Fugitive Style: Literary Form and the (Necro)politics of Refusal' 12.30pm:…

Logic seminar: Franziska Jahnke

15:00 - 16:00 19 February 2025
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Statistics Seminar - Statistical Disclosure Control and Differential Privacy

14:00 - 14:50 19 February 2025
Prof. Natalie Shlomo University of Manchester Abstract For decades, statistical agencies have been disseminating statistical data in the form of microdata from social surveys and…

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