Seminar

Webinar: Addressing physical inactivity amongst adults in mid to later life: challenges and strategies

12:00 - 13:00 23 April 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…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Anna Jove Campabadal

14:00 28 April 2025
Speaker: Anna Jove Campabadal (University of Barcelona) Title: Boundaries of multiply connected Fatou components. A unified approach Abstract: In this talk, we will focus on boundaries…

Maron Greenleaf (Dartmouth College). Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon – Book talk

15:00 - 17:00 28 April 2025
The book Forest Lost (Duke, 2024) is an ethnography of forest carbon offsets and the wider effort to make the living rainforest valuable in the Brazilian Amazon. Unlike other forest…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Deploying AI in Organisations

15:30 28 April 2025
Deploying AI in Organisations Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds the potential to revolutionise individual organisations and transform the way organisations across sectors — public,…

Algebra seminar - Jay Taylor

14:00 - 15:00 29 April 2025
Title: Modular Reduction of Nilpotent Orbits Abstract: If () is a finite reductive group, where is a prime power, then Lusztig has defined a set of complex irreducible characters UCh(())…

Number Theory Seminar - Jessica Alessandri

15:00 - 16:00 29 April 2025
Speaker: Jessica Alessandri (Bath) Title: The Integral Hilbert Property on some degree-2 del Pezzo surfaces. Abstract: In this talk I will consider a Diophantine equation known also…

NWBI - "Beyond the Degree" entrepreneurship seminar

16:00 - 18:35 29 April 2025
The North West Biotech Initiative is thrilled to invite you to the Beyond the Degree – our annual seminar dedicated to life beyond university academia - the exciting world of biotech…

The Contemporary Recontextualisation of Kuwaiti and Khaleeji Folk Music: From Zuhairiya and Sowt to Tanboura and Bahri Arts

16:00 - 17:00 29 April 2025
Speaker: Adnan Marafi (PhD Researcher, Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures) This lecture is part of The Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern…

Words Across Borders: French Words in Seventeenth-Century England

14:00 - 15:30 29 April 2025
This workshop will consist of two presentations: Professor Richard Scholar (Durham) will present his work on untranslated French words such as ennui or je-ne-sais-quoi and what these…

Logic seminar: Andrew Pitts

15:00 - 16:00 30 April 2025
Title: Heyting Algebras and Higher-Order Logic Abstract: Every logical theory gives rise to a Lindenbaum-Tarski algebra of truth values, whose underlying set is the theory's sentences…

Probability Seminar: Zixin Ye - Berry-Esseen type bounds for the stable central limit theorem via Stein’s method

15:00 - 16:00 30 April 2025
Zixin Ye (University of Manchester) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Berry-Esseen type bounds for the stable central limit theorem via Stein’s method. Abstract: The…

Algebra seminar - Jan Grabowski

14:00 - 15:00 6 May 2025
Title: Categorifying and quantizing cluster ensembles Abstract: Cluster ensembles were introduced by Fock and Goncharov to encode seed data for cluster algebras in terms of certain…

Macro Seminar - Aseem Patel (Essex)

16:00 - 17:00 6 May 2025
Title: Automation, Market Power and Welfare

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Yichen You

15:00 - 16:00 6 May 2025
Speaker: Yichen You (Durham) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

Prof Alejandro Frangi -- Maths in the Life Sciences Seminar [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 6 May 2025
Join us for this seminar by Prof Alejandro Frangi (Manchester) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. More details about the joint series…

Attending to absence: Supporting schools to increase school attendance

13:00 - 14:30 7 May 2025
Join Policy@Manchester on Wednesday, 7 May for an in person GM Policy Hub seminar exploring how local approaches can improve school attendance and support disadvantaged children. Persistent…

Logic seminar: David Meretzky

15:00 - 16:00 7 May 2025
Title: Differential Galois theory with new algebraic constants. Abstract: A well-known counterexample due to Seidenberg shows that Picard-Vessiot extensions need not exist for arbitrary…

Movement in an Age of Extremes

15:00 7 May 2025
In her book Mobility Justice (2018) Professor Mimi Sheller referred to the age of extremes as a triple crisis involving climate disruption, unsustainable urban mobilities, and a crisis…

Probability Seminar: Liqian Zhang - Berry-Esseen bounds for U-statistics: Studentized and incomplete variants with applications to random forests

15:00 - 16:00 7 May 2025
Liqian Zhang (University of Manchester) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Berry-Esseen bounds for U-statistics: Studentized and incomplete variants with applications to…

Reclaiming Islamic and Arabic philosophical heritage: translator’s interventions in the Hekmah Journal Translations

16:00 - 17:00 7 May 2025
Speaker: Hanan Alotaibi (PhD Researcher, Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures) This lecture is part of The Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern…

Social Statistics Seminar Series - Prof Michael Elliott

15:00 - 16:00 7 May 2025
Please join us for the last Social Statistics seminar of the semester. We have coffee and cake! Michael Elliott Professor of Biostatistics University of Michigan Title: The Role of…

Health Workforce Spring External Seminar

14:00 - 15:30 8 May 2025
You are invited to the Health Workforce Spring External Seminar, hosted by the Division of Medical Education, University of Manchester. This seminar brings together expertise from…

Creativity + AI: Music

12:30 - 14:30 12 May 2025
Presented in partnership by Creative Manchester, Digital Futures and the Turing Innovation Catalyst (TIC) Manchester, the CreaTech 2025 series of events aims to support the development…

Dr Pablo Rodríguez Mier -- CORNETO: A unified framework for joint network inference from prior knowledge and omics data [ONLINE]

14:00 - 15:00 12 May 2025
Join us for this seminar by Dr Pablo Rodríguez Mier (Heidelberg, Germany) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. More details about the…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Phil Rippon & Gwyneth Stallard

14:00 - 16:00 12 May 2025
Talk I. Speaker: Gwyneth Stallard (The Open University) Title: Wandering domains and non-autonomous dynamics Abstract: Complex dynamics concerns the iteration of analytic functions…

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