Lectures and seminars

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…

Lecture: Dr Michael Sappol (Uppsala University, Sweden) 'Queer Anatomies: Aesthetics and perverse desire in the anatomical image; or The Epistemology of the Anatomical Closet'.

17:30 - 19:00 4 March 2025
Dr Michael Sappol (Uppsala University, Sweden) 'Queer Anatomies: Aesthetics and perverse desire in the anatomical image; or The Epistemology of the Anatomical Closet'. Room 2.60,…

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

American Studies Lecture: Prof. Lisa McGirr (Harvard), 'Charles Lindbergh: Hitler’s American Friend and the America First Movement'

16:30 - 18:00 5 March 2025
American Studies lecture: Prof. Lisa McGirr (Harvard), 'Charles Lindbergh: Hitler’s American Friend and the America First Movement' Venue: SG.16, Samuel Alexander Building 4.30pm…

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…

EAS-FeRN Seminar – Nuclear Minds: Anxiety and Transformation in A-bomb Psychology

16:30 - 18:00 5 March 2025
In 1945, researchers on a mission to Hiroshima with the United States Strategic Bombing Survey canvassed survivors of the nuclear attack. This marked the beginning of global efforts—by…

GDI Lecture: Enforcers Beyond Borders: The Growing Role of NGOs in International Law Enforcement and Effects on Wider Advocacy Movements

15:00 - 16:30 5 March 2025
Speaker: Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni NGOs have generally served as issue-entrepreneurs, advocates and service providers, leaving law enforcement to states. However, in recent decades,…

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.…

Manchester Cathedral Event: The Samuel Ferguson Lecture with Prof. J. Kameron Carter (University of California, Irvine)

12:00 - 13:00 6 March 2025
The annual Samuel Ferguson Lecture will be delivered by J. Kameron Carter who will give his presentation on Beyond Idolatry (Political and Otherwise) at Manchester Cathedral. Inaugurated…

The Samuel Ferguson Lecture with Prof. J. Kameron Carter (University of California, Irvine)) - Lecture

16:00 - 17:30 6 March 2025
We are pleased to announce that the 2025 Samuel Ferguson lecturer is Prof. J. Kameron Carter (University of California, Irvine). Prof. Carter is Professor of African American Studies,…

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…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Alexander Veselov

15:00 - 16:00 10 March 2025
Speaker: Dr Alexander Veselov (Loughborough) Title: Differential algebra of polytopes and inversion formulas Abstract: For any formal power series, the coefficients of its compositional…

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