Lectures and seminars

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:…

GDI Lecture: Do Courts Grant Indian Women Their Inheritance Claims?

16:30 - 18:00 19 February 2025
Despite inheritance law reform towards gender equality in India, families rarely transfer immovable property to women. Given this, do women use courts to claim their rights? If so,…

Logic seminar: Franziska Jahnke

15:00 - 16:00 19 February 2025
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 19 February 2025
Edmund Chattoe-Brown. University of Leicester. Processes and Theories: Can Agent-Based Modelling Contribute to Our Understanding of Social Networks? Proverbially, to the person who…

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…

Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: David Kennedy

14:00 - 16:00 20 February 2025
The next generation of the internet is on its way, set to transform how we connect and interact online. Join David Kennedy, Director of Arkenox Ltd., to explore the benefits of IPv6…

Expert Insights Series | Reprocessing: The art of recycling nuclear materials

13:00 - 14:00 20 February 2025
Watch the recording: https://youtu.be/_l2kgBGd478?si=7I1MJfNStY4GKpdl This presentation will provide background and information on the reprocessing of nuclear fuel. It will provide…

Free yourself: research, politics and doing (your) right thing - Yunis Alam

13:00 - 14:30 20 February 2025
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Yunis Alam from the University of Bradford shares his research. In this talk I will be exploring a range of themes linked with insider research, ethnography…

Sustainable Futures Seminar: Active Mobility | Climate Action

14:00 - 15:00 20 February 2025
The February edition of the Sustainable Futures Seminar will take place online and will feature Luana Scrivano, who will present on 'Active Mobility and Mental Health: A Scoping Review…

Deana Jovanovic (Utrecht University). Staging the Promises: Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town

15:00 - 17:00 24 February 2025
This seminar explores the temporal, political and economic effects of theatrically performed promises of aspirational futures, staged in a Serbian industrial town. Based on a decade-long…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Donald Robertson

14:00 24 February 2025
Speaker: Donald Robertson (University of Manchester) Title: A mild mixing rank one system with non-trivial joinings Abstract: In recent work with Jon Chaika an ergodic measure-preserving…

Econometrics Seminar - Maximilian Kasy (Oxford)

12:00 - 13:00 24 February 2025
Title TBA

MIOIR Seminar Series - Artificial Intelligence, between industrial dynamics and industrial policy

15:30 - 16:30 24 February 2025
Artificial Intelligence, between industrial dynamics and industrial policy In this talk, I will combine three of my ongoing projects to offer a bird's eye view of important trajectories…

'Fare Money' Stories: Transportation and everyday practices in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro

15:00 - 16:30 25 February 2025
This presentation contributes to ongoing debates on Southern urbanisms by arguing that taking money seriously - as a practical, moral and material issue and as an integral part of the…

Algebra seminar - Mark Wildon

14:00 - 15:00 25 February 2025
Title: An introduction to plethysm Abstract: The plethysm product on symmetric functions corresponds to composition of polynomial representations of general linear groups. Decomposing…

Feeling With the Trouble: Affective Entanglements In and Beyond the Human

16:00 - 17:30 26 February 2025
Join us for the latest in Affective Artefacts seminar series. This event is organised in collaboration with the Fear Research Network.

FeRN and Affective Artefact Seminar

16:00 - 17:30 26 February 2025
Erica Baffelli (Manchester), Zhaokun Xin (Manchester), Jane Caple (Manchester) and Frederick Schröer (Freie Universität, Berlin) will be presenting a roundtable on Feeling With the…

GDI Book Talk: City of Desire: Biography of the Largest Informal Settlement in Bangladesh

16:30 - 18:00 26 February 2025
Speaker: Tanzil Shafique (University of Sheffield) City of Desire, by Tanzil Shafique, is a portrait of the largest informal settlement in Bangladesh. It seeks to develop a Southern…

Logic seminar: Andrew Harrison-Migochi

15:00 - 16:00 26 February 2025
Title: Effective Lattice Point Counting Abstract: Joint with Raymond McCulloch. We use recent developments in effective o-minimality to obtain an effective version of Barroero and…

MET Seminar - Bettina Klaus

17:00 - 18:00 26 February 2025
Title: Happy birthday TTC! A survey and some recent results Abstract: I present a survey talk commemorating more that 50 years of Gale's famous top trading cycles (TTC) algorithm.…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 26 February 2025
Milena Tsvetkova London School of Economics. Social networks affect redistribution decisions and polarization. Most people dislike inequality, yet large disparities in income and…

Nate Millington (Geography, Manchester): Infrastructural repurposing and repair in São Paulo, Brazil

17:00 - 18:30 26 February 2025
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: Wed 26 February 2025, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person,…

Probability Seminar: Ofer Busani - On the number of infinite geodesics at exceptional directions in the KPZ class.

15:00 - 16:00 26 February 2025
Ofer Busani (The University of Edinburgh) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: On the number of infinite geodesics at exceptional directions in the KPZ class Abstract:…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Lasse Rempe

14:00 3 March 2025
Speaker: Lasse Rempe (University of Manchester) Title: A glimpse of transcendental dynamics Abstract: In (one-dimensional) holomorphic dynamics, one studies discrete dynamical systems…

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