Seminar

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…

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…

CHSTM Research Seminar: Twisted Pipelines - How Antibiotics Became a Market Failure

16:00 - 17:30 13 May 2025
Antibiotic innovation has slowed since the 1980s and incentivising research and development (R&D) has triggered substantial investment by the international community. This presentation…

Expert Insights Series | Nuclear and geopolitics: Reflections on dealing with hot topics at the IAEA

13:00 - 14:30 13 May 2025
Nuclear and geopolitics: Reflections on dealing with hot topics at the IAEA. This talk will briefly recap on the history of the global nuclear system and will concentrate on the IAEA's…

HIMR-sponsored Algebra seminar - Colva Roney-Dougal

14:00 - 15:00 13 May 2025
Title: Asymptotic enumeration of permutation groups Abstract: One of the most elementary, but difficult, questions we can ask about a finite group G is how many subgroups it has. An…

Digital Health equity seminar: The impact of patient-facing digital health technologies on equity: a realist review

13:00 - 14:00 14 May 2025
The next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities Seminar Series is on Wed 14-May 2025 at 1-2pm BST via zoom. This edition, Shoshana Bloom (founder of Equiti Health) will talk about…

Dylan Bradbury (UoM): "Sounds that tell a world": Mapuzugun, orality and auditory regimes in Argentina

17:00 14 May 2025
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 14 May 2025, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building,…

Fiction and Research

14:30 - 16:00 14 May 2025
This online seminar is aimed at researchers who are interested in learning about the different ways fiction relates to social science research. Drawing on Becky and Leah's recently…

Logic seminar: Nicolai Kraus

15:00 - 16:00 14 May 2025
Title: Constructive Ordinal Arithmetic Abstract: Cantor's ordinal numbers can be described as an extension of the natural numbers: 0, 1, 2, ..., omega, omega+1, and so on. Although…

MET Seminar - Peter Klibanoff (Northwestern)

17:00 - 18:00 14 May 2025
Title: Persuasion with Ambiguous Communication Authors: Xiaoyu Cheng, Peter Klibanoff, Sujoy Mukerji and Ludovic Renou Abstract: This paper explores whether and to what extent ambiguous…

The History of the Department in Pictures

14:00 - 15:00 14 May 2025
Abstract We have over 2,000 images of the department dating back to the 1940s: some iconic, some frankly quite obscure. The talk will describe the building of a new system that makes…

Racial health equity and the question of Black (non?)being: Exploring the uses of Afropessimism in approaches to anti-racist health promotion - Tanisha Spratt

13:00 - 14:30 15 May 2025
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Tanisha Spratt from Kings College London shares her research. SUMMARY Afropessimism is a critical framework that is often used to analyse anti-Black…

Bartered Bridegrooms: Transacting Muslim masculinities as colonial legacy (Suriyah Bi)

16:15 - 18:00 19 May 2025
In this hybrid seminar, Dr Suriyah Bi (Cardiff University) introduces research from her recent book 'Bartered Bridegrooms: Transacting Muslim masculinities as colonial legacy' published…

Statistics Seminar - Prof. Haavard Rue (KAUST)

15:00 - 16:00 19 May 2025
Why we should care about Variational Bayes Håvard Rue KAUST, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia In this talk I will discuss Variational Bayes (VB), what it is, why we should care, and why…

HIMR-sponsored Algebra seminar - Mark Wildon

14:00 - 15:00 20 May 2025
Title: Plethyms of symmetric functions: modular isomorphisms and stability. Abstract: The plethysm product of Schur functions corresponds to composition of polynomial representations…

Logic seminar: Abhiram Natarajan

15:00 - 16:00 21 May 2025
TBA

Saudi Women’s Activism Through Writing

16:00 - 17:00 21 May 2025
Speaker: Hind Aldossary (PhD Researcher, Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures) Join on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/3944838983 This lecture is part…

CHSTM Research Seminar: Protest and Identity Formation in the Time of Covid - The UK in Historical Context

16:00 - 17:30 27 May 2025
This talk will examine the nature of protest activity during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020-22. It does so as a case study of the impact of pandemics and epidemics on society – a familiar…

HIMR-sponsored Algebra seminar - Henry Bradford

14:00 - 15:00 27 May 2025
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Desi Queers: Exploring Intergenerationality in LGBTQ South Asian Cultures in Britain

18:30 28 May 2025
How do ideas, cultures and ways of living ‘move’ across generations in queer contexts? How do queer people’s positions outside of mainstream forms of biological (nuclear family) and…

Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Dr Colin Williams

14:00 - 16:00 28 May 2025
Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Dr Colin Williams Date: 28th May 2025 Time: 14:00-16:00 Location: The University of Manchester Join us for an engaging seminar on The…

Logic seminar: David Evans

15:00 - 16:00 28 May 2025
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Logic seminar: Boris Zilber

11:00 - 12:30 29 May 2025
TBA

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