Lectures and seminars

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…

Macro Seminar - Morten Olsen (Copenhagen)

16:00 - 17:00 18 March 2025
Title: The Spillover Effects of Top Income Inequality

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…

"The Moss Side "joint enterprise" case and miscarriage of justice concerns in the criminal trial system" - David Conn

15:00 - 16:00 19 March 2025
Refreshments will be provided. In 2017, 11 young black people were convicted of the killing of Abdul Hafidah, who was fatally stabbed by one of them. Seven were convicted of murder,…

Annual PPE Lecture - Professor Alex Voorhoeve (LSE) on 'Power, Privacy, and the Digital Pound'

15:00 - 16:30 19 March 2025
We are pleased to announce the Annual PPE lecture for 2025. This is a lecture on interdisciplinary issues relating to philosophy, politics, and economics. Our speaker this year will…

Early Modern Masculinities: Sources, Approaches, and Cultures

16:00 - 17:30 19 March 2025
Join us for the latest in the Affective Artefacts seminar series.

GDI Lecture: Decolonization and the Future of Academic Research

16:30 - 18:00 19 March 2025
On the panel: - Diana Mitlin (African Cities Research Consortium, GDI) - Eyob Balcha Gebremariam (Perivoli Africa research centre, Bristol) - Dani Beltrame (GDI, reflecting on her…

Leverhulme Visiting Professor Lecture: Prof. Karen Karbiener (NYU), 'Whitman, Censorship, and the Question of Truly Free Verse'

16:00 - 17:15 19 March 2025
Leverhulme Visiting Professor Karen Karbiener (NYU) will deliver a public lecture on Walt Whitman: 'Whitman, Censorship, and the Question of Truly Free Verse' Venue: Samuel Alexander…

Logic seminar: Neer Bhardwaj

15:00 - 16:00 19 March 2025
Title: Effective and approximate Pila-Wilkie type counting with complex-analytic sets Abstract: The Pila-Wilkie point counting theorem has had striking applications to arithmetic…

Mauro Greco (Buenos Aires, Conicet): “The Aesthetics of the Argentine Dictatorship: Arts and Ethnography at the Crossroads of Collective Responsibilities”

17:00 - 18:30 19 March 2025
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures of the University of Manchester. It is co-organised with the Centre for Latin American and…

MET Seminar - John Levy

17:00 - 18:00 19 March 2025
Title: Small Player Robustness Abstract: We introduce a concept of stability of a Nash equilibrium, or of a set of Nash equilibria, to the addition of small players, i.e., players…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series with CMI

16:00 - 17:30 19 March 2025
Juergen Lerner. University of Konstanz Relational hyperevent models for the coevolution of coauthoring and citation networks. The development of appropriate statistical models has…

Probability Seminar: Emma Horton - Genealogies of branching Markov processes

15:00 - 16:00 19 March 2025
Emma Horton (University of Warwick) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Genealogies of branching Markov processes Abstract: Branching processes are pertinent to understanding…

SQUIDS Seminar - Classification of small-ball modes and maximum a posteriori estimators on metric spaces

15:00 - 16:00 19 March 2025
A mode, or `most likely point', for a probability measure $\mu$ can be defined in various ways using the asymptotic behaviour of the $\mu$-mass of balls of radius $r \to 0$. Such points…

Statistics Seminar - Prof. Victor Elvira (Univ. of Edinburgh)

14:00 - 15:00 19 March 2025
State-space Models as Graphs Prof. Victor Elvira School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh Abstract: Modelling and inference in multivariate time series is central in statistics,…

Webinar: Promoting healthy ageing: inclusive approaches to physical activity for older adults

12:00 - 13:00 19 March 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…

Expert Insights Series | Beyond the reactor: Robotics and AI in nuclear operations

10:00 - 11:00 20 March 2025
https://youtu.be/ao-sqjpluas For this talk we will be joined by 3 expert panelists who will discuss the applications of robotics and AI within nuclear research and operations. This…

Exploring carceral intersections of race, class and disability - Margarita Aragon

12:00 - 13:30 20 March 2025
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Margarita Aragon from the University of London shares her research. In this paper, I will explore the incarceration of those perceived to be intellectually…

Global Dignity And ‘Seeing Others’ - Professor Michèle Lamont

14:30 - 17:30 20 March 2025
In this lecture Michèle Lamont addresses the power of recognition for understanding and addressing the global contemporary crisis of inequality. Discussing the key ideas from her recent…

Lovell Lecture Live stream - Exploring the universe with the SKA Observatory

19:30 - 21:00 20 March 2025
Curious about the ground-breaking discoveries made at one of the world’s top observatories? Fresh from a milestone announcement (coming soon!), join Prof. Philip Diamond CBE, Director-General…

Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: The Example of Multi-method Large-N Qualitative analysis.

16:00 - 17:30 20 March 2025
Evidential Pluralism: The Example of Multi-method Large-N Qualitative analysis. In other work, we have explored methodological issues around a research approach we call Large-N Qualitative…

Untold HerStories: Forgotten Women's Voices of Slaves in River Spirit by Leila Aboulela and The Secrets of Zaafranah by Badyah Al-Beshr

15:15 - 16:15 21 March 2025
Speaker: Reem Alghusun

Climate Crimes and Human Rights: Examining the Efficacy of Human Rights, International Law and Criminal Law in the Fight for Climate Justice

16:00 - 17:30 24 March 2025
Seminar hosted by the Climate and Justice Study Group Speaker: Paul Clark, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers Given the role that the law and the courts play in contemporary governance…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Daniel Meyer

14:00 24 March 2025
Speaker: Daniel Meyer (University of Liverpool) Title: Weaving of Folding Maps Abstract: A folding map is obtained by a piece of paper (i.e., a $k$-gon) that is folded and mapped…

Jieun Kim (Leeds). Blood and Citizenship in a Fragmented Nation: Logics of Gift, Debt and Inheritance in South Korea

15:00 - 17:00 24 March 2025
Drawing on archival materials and interviews with donors, blood bank staff, and experts, this talk explores how the logics of gift, debt and inheritance shape the moral and affective…

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