Seminar

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…

MIOIR Seminar Series with Prof. Riccardo Crescenzi

15:30 - 16:30 10 March 2025
Green(ing) Foreign Direct Investment and Sustainable Regional Development As the world transitions to net-zero emissions, goods and services are increasingly incorporating green attributes.…

Perveez Mody (Cambridge). Corrosive Kinship and Forms of Healing and Care: “Forced Marriage in the UK”

15:00 - 17:00 10 March 2025
This paper begins with a difficult and troubling question. It concerns the distortions that arise from a temporal privileging of the UK’s Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007,…

Algebra seminar - Patricia Medina-Capilla

14:00 - 15:00 11 March 2025
Title: The second maximal subgroups of the almost simple groups Abstract: In 2018, Lucchini, Marion, and Tracey showed that every maximal subgroup of an almost simple group is 5-generated,…

Macro Seminar - Isaac Baley Gaytan (Pompeu Fabra)

16:00 - 17:00 11 March 2025
Title: Lumpy Forecasts

Number Theory Seminar - Alexandros Konstantinou

15:00 - 16:00 11 March 2025
Speaker: Alexandros Konstantinou Title: The order of the Tate--Shafarevich group modulo squares Abstract: We present a method for decomposing abelian varieties up to isogeny using…

Urban Futures and the Threat to Heritage: A Look at Lagos, Nigeria

16:30 - 18:00 11 March 2025
Speaker: Taibat Lawanson (University of Liverpool) Seminar co-hosted by the African Cities Research Consortium and the Global Urban Futures and Environment, Policy and Place research…

AI-Fun with ELLIS Seminar | Siu Lun Chau: Credal Two-sample Tests: How to Test Hypothesis under Dataset Uncertainty

11:00 12 March 2025
March’s AI-Fun with ELLIS Seminar is with Siu Lun (Alan) Chau from CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. In-person attendance is recommended but for anyone who cannot be…

Applied Perception in Visual Computing by Prof. Kurt Debattista, University of Warwick

13:00 - 14:00 12 March 2025
Abstract Computer graphics, image processing and visual computing in general are deeply intertwined with human vision. This talk will present how applied perception principles can…

Logic seminar: Alex Kavvos

15:00 - 16:00 12 March 2025
Title: Two-dimensional Kripke Semantics Abstract: The study of modal logic has witnessed tremendous development following the introduction of Kripke semantics. However, recent developments…

Maria Paula Prates (Oxford). Other ways of extracting: reproductive (in)justices and Indigenous body-territories in Brazil

17:00 - 18:30 12 March 2025
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: Wed 12 March 2025, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in…

MET Seminar - Jose Apesteguia

17:00 - 18:00 12 March 2025
Title: The Rationalizability of survey responses Authors: Jose Apesteguia and Miguel A. Ballester Abstract: We propose the concept of survey rationalizability, that we base on classical…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 12 March 2025
Michael Genkin. University of Manchester. Understanding Self-Starter Terrorism: A Network Mobilization Perspective Despite a steady increase of self-starter terrorist plots in…

Probability Seminar: Vladislav Vysotskiy - Stationary random walks with a switch

15:00 - 16:00 12 March 2025
Vladislav Vysotskiy (University of Sussex) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Stationary random walks with a switch Abstract: A switching random walk, commonly known under…

CTIS Research Seminar - How can We Interact Better with GenAI in the Posthuman Era? A Call for the Development of Critical Interactional Competence in Intercultural Professional Communication

14:00 - 15:30 13 March 2025
Against the proliferation of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) products such as ChatGPT and Gemini, and their increasing use in professional communication training, researchers,…

Ida Danewid - 'A place where freedom means something': James Baldwin’s global maroon geographies

15:00 - 16:30 13 March 2025
Our next Political Economy Centre seminar on 13 March (3-4:30) will feature, Ida Danewid, Associate Professor in Gender & Global Political Economy at Sussex. She will be presenting…

Charlotte Taylor Barca and Muhammad Ahtazaz Ahsan -- Maths in the Life Sciences Seminar [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 17 March 2025
Join us for this special seminar to showcase PhD student research at the interface of maths and biology as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences.…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Xiong Jin

14:00 17 March 2025
Speaker: Xiong Jin (University of Manchester) Title: On the size of slices of planar self-similar sets with dense rotations Abstract: In this talk I will talk about the dimension…

Econometrics Seminar - Dimitris Korobilis (Glasgow)

12:00 - 13:00 17 March 2025
Title TBA

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Timothy Logvinenko

15:00 - 16:00 17 March 2025
Speaker: Dr Timothy Logvinenko (Cardiff) Title: Skein-triangulated representations of generalised braids Abstract: There are many examples where the braid group Br_n acts on the…

Mateusz Laszczkowski (Manchester). 'Territorio is Where You Meet Others': Politics of Place in an Alpine Rebellion

15:00 - 17:00 17 March 2025
This paper, drawing on a chapter from my upcoming book about the No TAV movement, fighting against the construction of high-speed railway through the Italian Alps, explores the concepts…

MIOIR-IB Group Joint Seminar - Human resource management and machine investments. A new take on the relations between technical change, automation and jobs in organizations

15:30 - 16:30 17 March 2025
Manchester Institute of Innovation Research & International Business (IB) Group Joint Seminar, with Guest Speaker Professor Martin Henning Human resource management and machine investments.…

Algebra seminar - Tuan Pham

14:00 - 15:00 18 March 2025
Title: The orbit method for the Virasoro algebra Abstract: Let W = C[t, t^{-1}]\del_t be the Witt algebra of algebraic vector fields on C* and let Vir be the Virasoro algebra, the unique…

Number Theory Seminar - Christopher Keyes

15:00 - 16:00 18 March 2025
Speaker: Christopher Keyes (KCL) Title: Towards Artin's conjecture on p-adic quintic forms Abstract: Let K be a p-adic field whose residue field has q elements and suppose f is a…

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