Lectures and seminars

AI in Healthcare: Transforming the Future with Large Language Models

09:45 - 13:30 24 July 2025
AI in Healthcare: Transforming the Future with Large Language Models | GM Connected Health Ecosystem Digital Futures at the University of Manchester, Manchester University NHS Foundation…

AI-Fun with ELLIS Invited Speaker Lecture | Rafael Izbicki

11:00 - 12:00 3 September 2025
The Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals and Manchester's ELLIS Unit are co-hosting a series of invited lectures featuring expert researchers working in the fundamentals of AI. Bio:…

Digital Health Equity Seminar Series - Exploring barriers to digital inclusion for remote monitoring of rheumatoid arthritis - 10th Sept

13:00 - 14:00 10 September 2025
The next seminar in the Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 10-Sep, 1-2pm via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99435997840). Caroline Sanders, Josh Behan-Devlin, and Karen Staniland…

CANDUs in Cumbria: Third Time's the Charm?

13:00 - 14:00 12 September 2025
Please join us for our seminar featuring Dr Stevel Lisgo. A general fact-finding discussion concerning potential CANDU reactor builds at Sellafield. Topics include UK electrification…

Nexus Fusion

14:15 - 15:15 12 September 2025
Please join us for the following seminar featuring Dr Steven Lisgo. An advanced materials and wall design services startup. To accelerate progress, technology development strategies…

Resources, Environment, and Development Research Group Seminar

12:00 - 14:00 15 September 2025
Presentation 1: Environmental Justice as Reparation Speaker: Prof Maano Ramutsindela Professor Maano Ramutsindela is the University of Pretoria-University of Cape Town Future Africa…

Settler Colonial Urbanism(s) and Infrastructural Changes in Palestine

14:00 - 15:30 15 September 2025
A joint initiative between the GDI Students for Palestine group and the Global Urban Futures and Resource, Environment and Development research groups. This hybrid session will focus…

Patient Safety from the Start: A World Patient Safety Day Webinar hosted by RCPCH and NIHR PSRC Network

13:00 - 14:00 17 September 2025
Celebrating the theme of “Safe care for every newborn and child”, the RCPCH and NIHR PSRC Network (SafetyNet) are jointly running a webinar open to everyone involved in any aspect of…

SQUIDS Seminar: Bayesian Experimental Design and Entropy Computation

11:00 - 12:00 17 September 2025
Speaker: Jinglai Li (Birmingham) Abstract: Bayesian experimental design provides a principled approach for selecting experiments that maximize expected information gain. A central challenge…

MIOIR Seminar Series with Prof Valentina Tartari

15:30 - 16:30 22 September 2025
Strategic Idea Revival: How Creators Leverage Evaluator Turnover to Resubmit Rejected Ideas Dr Valentina Tartari will examine how evaluator turnover shapes the resubmission of previously…

Expert Insight Series | Bridging the Gap: Science, Regulation and Diplomacy in Nuclear Policy

14:00 - 15:00 24 September 2025
Join leading experts for a thought-provoking panel on the future of UK nuclear policy in the era of climate urgency and energy security. This event will explore how science, regulation,…

Foreign Traders: Brokers to Bridge China and the World

14:30 - 16:30 25 September 2025
GDI Migration, Refugees and Asylum Research Group Seminar Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jixia Lu, China Agricultural University Since the 1990s, China has become a significant migration destination…

SOLD OUT - Gemini and Mercury Remastered Heritage Lecture

19:30 - 21:00 25 September 2025
SOLD OUT -To coincide with his latest exhibition, NASA digital restoration expert Andy Saunders delivers a special Heritage Lecture sharing the untold story of humanity’s first ventures…

Alistair Lomas (University of Manchester). Revolution, salvation, seaweed: Toward an anthropology of hype

15:00 - 17:00 29 September 2025
While undertaking research into seaweed cultivation on the west coast of Scotland in 2022-23, I struggled to understand a gap between what was being written and spoken about seaweed…

Division of Psychology & Mental Health Seminar hosted by the Health & Justice Research Network (HJRN)

11:30 - 13:00 29 September 2025
We’re delighted to welcome Dr Iain McKinnon, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Psychiatry at Newcastle University and Consultant Psychiatrist with Cumbria Northumberland Tyne & Wear…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Harvey Sykes

14:00 - 15:00 30 September 2025
Title: Complete reducibility in Kac-Moody groups Abstract: A Kac-Moody group G generalises a split reductive group. I will give a brief overview of these groups and discuss how to…

Brownbag - Adam Sanjurjo (Boston College)

13:00 - 14:00 1 October 2025
Title TBD

Probability Seminar: Ofelia Bonesini - Continuous-time persuasion by filtering.

15:00 - 16:00 1 October 2025
Ofelia Bonesini (London School of Economics) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Continuous-time persuasion by filtering Abstract: We frame dynamic persuasion in a partial…

Behaviour Change Meeting Seminar: Dr Nicky Knowles

15:00 - 16:00 2 October 2025
The Behaviour Change Meeting Group at The University of Manchester has the purpose of bringing together academics and clinicians across several institutes who are working with behaviour…

Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Dr Chester & Dr Lane

16:00 - 17:00 3 October 2025
Talk Title: Automated Data Collection from Politically Restricted Social Media Platforms: Challenges and insights from China and Russia Join us for a webinar to learn about the automated…

Ava Khamseh -- Pinpointing cell (sub)types, states and transcription factor mechanisms via quantification of (high order) molecular dependencies [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 6 October 2025
Join us for this seminar by Ava Khamseh (Edinburgh) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series here in Manchester (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical…

Declan Murray (University of Manchester) The Plastic Divide: Global environmentalism and the search for life in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

15:00 - 17:00 6 October 2025
On 1 June 2019 plastic bags were banned in Tanzania. The ban was driven by a global environmentalist narrative that plastic bags harm marine life and livestock; contribute to flooding…

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