Lectures and seminars

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…

AI-Fun with ELLIS Seminar | Yusuf Sale: Online Selective Conformal Inference: Errors and Solutions

14:00 - 15:00 25 March 2025
Title: Online Selective Conformal Inference: Errors and Solutions Abstract: Conformal inference provides a principled way to construct prediction intervals with guaranteed coverage.…

Algebra seminar - Marina Anagnostopoulou-Merkouri

14:00 - 15:00 25 March 2025
Title: The regularity number of a finite group Abstract: Let $G$ be a transitive permutation group on a finite set $\Omega$ with point stabiliser $H$. Recall that a base for $G$ is…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Martin Orr

15:00 - 16:00 25 March 2025
Speaker: Martin Orr (University of Manchester) Title: Effectivity and very unlikely intersections in abelian varieties using G-functions Abstract: A special case of the Zilber-Pink…

Agata Serranò (Autónoma de Madrid): Participación de las mujeres en los procesos de justicia transicional. Propuestas de construcción de paz desde Colombia, Guatemala y Perú

17:00 - 18:30 26 March 2025
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: This event can be followed online via this link: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166…

Geography Seminar: Dr Monica Winsborrow, The Arctic University of Norway - Ice Sheets and the Global Carbon Cycle

15:00 - 16:00 26 March 2025
The department of Geography welcomes Dr Monica Winsborrow (UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø), to deliver this in-person seminar, 'Ice Sheets and the Global Carbon Cycle' open to staff and students.

Information Engines: Exploring Connections Between Intelligence and Thermodynamics

14:00 - 15:00 26 March 2025
In this talk I’ll explore connections between thermodynamic systems and intelligent decision-making through the lens of free energy principles. We’ll review concepts from statistical…

Logic seminar: Mike Prest

15:00 - 16:00 26 March 2025
Title: Elimination of quantifiers and elimination of imaginaries in triangulated categories Abstract: There is a natural language for objects in compactly generated triangulated categories.…

MET Seminar - Federico Echenique

17:00 - 18:00 26 March 2025
Title: Stable matching as transport Authors: Federico Echenique, Joseph Root, Fedor Sandomirskiy Abstract: This paper links matching markets with aligned preferences to optimal transport…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 26 March 2025
Giulia Berlusconi. University of Surrey Understanding risk in commercial sex markets: Exploring sex buyers’ sexual networks to understand their purchasing patterns and perception of…

Probability Seminar: Abel Guada Azze - Optimally Stopping a Gauss-Markov process with random terminal value

15:00 - 16:00 26 March 2025
Abel Guada Azze (CUNEF Universidad) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Optimally Stopping a Gauss-Markov process with random terminal value Abstract: Optimal stopping…

SQUIDS Seminar - Bayesian inference of discretely observed diffusions

15:00 - 16:00 26 March 2025
We consider the inverse problem of recovering the diffusion and drift functions of a stochastic differential equation from discrete measurements of its solution. We show the well-definedness…

Contesting "Just" Transitions in South Africa

15:30 - 17:00 27 March 2025
Politics, Governance, and Management research seminar Speakers: Alex Beresford (University of Leeds) Ruth Bookbinder (University of Leeds) The Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP)…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Leticia Pardo-Simón

14:00 31 March 2025
Speaker: Leticia Pardo-Simón (Universitat de Barcelona) Title: On the Hausdorff dimension of boundaries of attracting basins of entire maps Abstract: Given an entire map f with an…

Maria Abranches (East Anglia). When the Dust Settles: Exploring Temporalities amongst Reunited Refugee Families through Multi-Media Narratives

15:00 - 17:00 31 March 2025
This seminar will reflect on the results of one year of fieldwork with refugee families in Manchester and Glasgow using a co-production approach based on narrative interviews and participant-led…

MIOIR Seminar Series - From invention to innovation: The role of corporate inventors in bringing their technology to the market

15:30 - 16:30 31 March 2025
From invention to innovation: The role of corporate inventors in bringing their technology to the market Markus Simeth, Associate Professor at the Department of Strategy and Innovation…

Sam Daly -- Advances in volumetric super-resolution microscopy and single particle tracking [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 31 March 2025
Join us for this seminar by Sam Daly (Cambridge) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. More details about the joint series can be found…

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