Lectures and seminars

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…

GDI Lecture: Age of Abandonment: States of Uncaring from Syria to Gaza

16:30 - 18:00 7 May 2025
Speaker: Noam Leshem (Durham University) This talk interrogates no man’s land as a site of radical uncaring: abandoned by a sovereign power in a relinquishment of responsibility for…

Henry Box Brown Lecture in American Studies: Prof. Adrienne Brown (Chicago), 'The Residential is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership'

16:00 - 17:30 7 May 2025
Henry Box Brown Lecture in American Studies: Prof. Adrienne Brown (Chicago), 'The Residential is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership' Venue: A7, Samuel Alexander Building…

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…

EACW Research Seminar: Dr. Natalie Pollard (Exeter), '21st Century Climate Imaginaries: Activism, Ecopoetry and Environmental Justice'

13:30 - 15:00 8 May 2025
English, American Studies and Creative Writing research seminar: Dr. Natalie Pollard (Exeter), '21st Century Climate Imaginaries: Activism, Ecopoetry and Environmental Justice' Venue:…

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…

Creative Practice, Politics, and (Post)Colonialism: Roundtable Discussion

15:00 - 16:30 12 May 2025
This roundtable discussion will focus on some of the challenges and insights of using creative practices when addressing issues related to politics, colonialism, and postcolonialism.…

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…

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