Seminar

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…

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…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Laurent Bartholdi

14:00 - 15:00 6 October 2025
Speaker: Laurent Bartholdi (CNRS Lyon) Title: Hyperbolic correspondences Abstract: In joint work with Dima Dudko and Kevin Pilgrim, we consider certain correspondences on a Riemann…

CHSTM Research Seminar: Flying While Black - The Slow Pace of Racial Integration in the U.S. Airline Industry

16:00 - 17:30 7 October 2025
Thanks to Black History Month, most school-age children in the United States have heard of the Tuskegee Airmen. We celebrate these pioneering aviators’ impressive record fighting racial…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Ben Smith

14:00 - 15:00 7 October 2025
Title: Coxeter matroids, minuscule varieties and Plücker equations Abstract: A matroid is a combinatorial object that can be seen as an abstraction of a linear space. For example,…

Macro Seminar - Calumn G. Hamilton (Groningen & Wageningen)

16:00 - 17:00 7 October 2025
Title: Foreign Aid and Structural Change

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Ilaria Cruciani

15:00 - 16:00 7 October 2025
Speaker: Ilaria Cruciani (Roma Tre/Manchester) Title: Finiteness in powers of elliptic schemes over cyclotomic extensions Abstract: A central theme in number theory is understanding…

AI-Fun & ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Pablo Moreno Muñoz

11:00 - 12:00 8 October 2025
This month’s AI-Fun and ELLIS Invited Speaker lecture will take place in Engineering Building B, room 2B.003. It’s easy to find: from the second floor (where Eng B and Nancy Rothwell…

Brownbag - Keitaro Ninomiya (UIUC)

13:00 - 14:00 8 October 2025
Title TBD

Digital Health Equity Seminar Series - Advocating for digital health equity in the academic and digital health sectors - 8th Oct

13:00 - 14:30 8 October 2025
The next seminar in the Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 8th-Oct, 1-2pm BST (8-9am EDT) via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/91546057388. Victoria Betton (co-founder of the…

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