Seminar

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…

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…

Emma Crewe (SOAS). Strategic Ignorance, Forgetting and Misrecognition in Parliaments

15:00 - 17:00 3 March 2025
Are parliaments past their heyday or have they never had one? Elected representatives claim to represent our interests, for which they need to know what we need or want, and knowledge…

Prof Nir Gov -- Modelling the migration of branched cells on networks [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 3 March 2025
Join us for this seminar by Prof Nir Gov (Weizmann Institute, Israel) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. More details about the joint…

Algebra seminar - Justin Lynd

14:00 - 15:00 4 March 2025
Title: Partial groups and higher Segal conditions Abstract: A partial group is a set together with a multivariable product that is only defined on certain "multipliable" words of the…

Macro Seminar - Josef Sigurdsson (Stockholm)

16:00 - 17:00 4 March 2025
Title: It Runs in the Family: Occupational Choice and the Allocation of Talent

Digital Health Equity Seminar: Cross-pollinating Knowledge on Digital Health Equity: Lessons from Two Countries

13:00 - 14:00 5 March 2025
The next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities Seminar Series is on Wed 5-Mar 2025 at 1-2pm GMT (2-3pm CET; 8-9am ET) for a virtual conversation titled “Cross-pollinating Knowledge…

Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Dr Gunes Acar

14:00 - 16:00 5 March 2025
Register to explore a groundbreaking study on web tracking and advertising on child-directed websites. The research, which analyzes 2,000 sites, finds that nearly 90% embed trackers…

Imprecise Probabilistic Machine Learning - Being Precise about Imprecision by Dr. Michele Caprio

13:00 - 14:00 5 March 2025
In this talk, I will introduce myself to my new colleagues. After that, I will (briefly) talk about the history of Imprecise Probabilities (IPs) — my main research area — from their…

Logic seminar: Cas Burton

15:00 - 16:00 5 March 2025
Title: A Basis Theorem for Rings with Commuting Generalised Hasse-Schmidt Operators. Abstract: In 1961, Kolchin proved the differential basis theorem for a differential ring with multiple…

MET Seminar - Ran Shorrer

17:00 - 18:00 5 March 2025
Title: Algorithmic Collusion by Large Language Models Authors: Sara Fish, Yannai A. Gonczarowski, Ran I. Shorrer Abstract: The rise of algorithmic pricing raises concerns of algorithmic…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 5 March 2025
Nick Crossley University of Manchester. Dr Hoor is unwell and so this weeks seminar has been changed. Nick Crossley has kindly agreed to step in. The Social Structure of Punk in…

Probability Seminar: Goran Peskir - The Optimal Mean-Variance Selling Problem with Finite Horizon

15:00 - 16:00 5 March 2025
Goran Peskir (The University of Manchester) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: The Optimal Mean-Variance Selling Problem with Finite Horizon Abstract: Imagine an investor…

SQUIDS Seminar - Nested expectations with kernel quadrature

15:00 - 16:00 5 March 2025
This paper considers the challenging computational task of estimating nested expectations. Existing algorithms, such as nested Monte Carlo or multilevel Monte Carlo, are known to be…

Statistics Seminar - Bayesian Functional Regression for Extremes

14:00 - 15:00 5 March 2025
Dr. Nicolas Hernandez (QMUL) Title: "Bayesian Functional Regression for Extremes". Abstract: Recent record-breaking extreme events-such as catastrophic wildfires, unprecedented flooding,…

Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Prof Cristian Vaccari

14:00 - 16:00 6 March 2025
Join us for an eye-opening seminar exploring how trusted sources like BBC News can influence the spread of both truth and disinformation on personal messaging platforms like WhatsApp.…

Pearl diving, oil discovery and rentierism: Projections of Collective Memory in the Theater of Qatari Playwright Abdulrahman AlMannai

16:00 - 17:00 7 March 2025
Speaker: Kaltham AlSuwaidi

WEI Seminar with Julia Soul: Latin American Labour Movements in times of Crisis: labour reforms, far-right offensive, and the disorganisation of the working class

7 March 2025
Latin American Labour Movements in times of Crisis: labour reforms, far-right offensive, and the disorganisation of the working class The presentation outlooks the challenges that…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Andrew Mitchell

14:00 10 March 2025
Speaker: Andrew Mitchell (The Open University) Title: Classifying intrinsic ergodicity for random substitution systems Abstract: Classifying the measures of maximal entropy for a…

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