Lectures and seminars

Lovell Lecture: The Ingredients for life - OSIRIS-REx mission update

19:30 - 21:00 15 May 2025
What can the Asteroid Bennu reveal about the early days of the Solar System? Join Dr Sarah Crowther for insights into the first published results from NASA's OSIRIS- REx misson - one…

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…

The 2025 Sherman Lecture: Moses Gaster; Scholar, Collector, Rabbi, Activist

17:00 - 18:30 20 May 2025
Under the auspices of the Manchester University Centre for Jewish Studies: Professor Philip Alexander “Moses Gaster (1856-1939) – Scholar, Collector, Rabbi, Activist: His scholarly…

AI-Fun with ELLIS Seminar | Kristina Ulicna: Decoding Biology by Learning Meaningful Representations of Cell Morphologies from Single-Cell Imaging Phenomaps

11:00 - 12:00 21 May 2025
The Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals and Manchester's ELLIS Unit are co-hosting a series of seminars featuring expert researchers working in the fundamentals of AI. Kristina…

GDI Lecture: The transformative-transdisciplinary imperative: Decolonizing development in a transboundary delta

16:30 - 18:00 21 May 2025
Speaker: Jenia Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur The Sundarbans is the largest contiguous mangroves delta in the world, spanning India and Bangladesh. The delta is…

Logic seminar: Abhiram Natarajan

15:00 - 16:00 21 May 2025
Title: Partitioning Theorems for Sets of Semi-Pfaffian Sets, with Applications Abstract: We generalize the seminal polynomial partitioning theorems of Guth and Katz [1, 2] to a set…

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
Title: Non-singular identities for finite groups Abstract: A law (respectively an identity with constants) for a group G is an equation in one or more variables (respectively variables…

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
Title: Permutation modules for omega-categorical structures. Abstract: Suppose F is a field and W is a countable, omega-categorical structure with automorphism group G. Consider the…

Logic seminar: Boris Zilber

11:00 - 12:30 29 May 2025
Title: Continuous model theory and axioms of quantum mechanics

Sarah Marzi -- Decoding the Cell Type-Specific Epigenome in Alzheimer’s Disease [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 2 June 2025
Join us for this seminar by Sarah Marzi (King's) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. More details about the joint series can be found…

Expert Insights Series | Power and people: Unpacking social value in the nuclear sector

13:00 - 14:00 3 June 2025
https://youtu.be/DDyEHoyz5QY This open and interactive panel explores the deeper questions around nuclear power's role in society. Our speakers unpack what "social value" really means,…

Migrant Colonialism: South American States and European Empires, c.1830-c.1950

16:00 - 17:30 4 June 2025
Please do join us for this special lecture from our Simon Visiting Professor, Lucy Riall, FBA.

GM Policy Seminar: Against the clock: Delivering local climate change targets

13:00 - 14:30 11 June 2025
Join the GM Policy Hub on Wednesday, 11 June for seminar which will explore how local authorities can set, review, and address their climate change targets. In 2020, it was reported…

Socially constructed concepts related to Gene and Health for addressing health inequities

13:00 - 14:00 11 June 2025
The next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities Seminar Series is on Wed 11-June 2025 at 1-2pm BST via zoom (https://zoom.us/j/91602578521). This edition, Salman Waqar (president…

Creativity + AI: Publishing

15:00 - 17:00 16 June 2025
The rapid expansion of AI is impacting and changing the publishing industry. We will be asking a panel of publishers, authors and librarians to reflect on the pace of change in the…

Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Epistemic games and causal problems

14:00 - 15:30 16 June 2025
Epistemic games and causal problems: a framework for teaching the evaluation of scientific information. Studies in science education demonstrate that laypeople typically engage with…

AI-Fun with ELLIS Seminar | Theo Damoulas: Decision Making under the Exponential Family: Distributionally Robust Optimisation with Bayesian Ambiguity Sets

11:00 - 12:00 18 June 2025
The Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals and Manchester's ELLIS Unit are co-hosting a series of seminars featuring expert researchers working in the fundamentals of AI. On 18 June,…

Careers Seminar Series: From Postdoc to a Career in Intellectual Property

13:00 - 14:00 18 June 2025
Date: 18 June Time: 1- 2pm Title: From Postdoc to a Career in Intellectual Property Speakers: Dr Sarah Harvey, Patent Attorney, Mewburn Ellis Location: Online via Zoom Zoom Meeting…

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