Seminar

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Jonathan Fraser

14:00 - 15:00 27 October 2025
Speaker: Jonathan Fraser (University of St Andrews) Title: Dimensions of orbital sets in complex dynamics Abstract: Let E be a non-empty compact subset of the Riemann sphere and T…

Econometrics Seminar - Philipp Ketz (PSE)

12:00 - 13:00 27 October 2025
Title TBA

Emmanuelle Ricaud Oneto (CSGA, Dijon). "Our children? Sold to the State. They will come back in cans of tuna”: Analysis of a rumor on social policies in the Peruvian Amazon

15:00 - 17:00 27 October 2025
This presentation suggests taking seriously a rumor circulating among the Maijuna, a Western Tukanoan indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon, regarding social policies such as cash…

Mapping Biblical Reception: Questions, Answers, Stories (Religions and Theology – Erhardt Seminars)

15:00 - 17:00 27 October 2025
Speaker: Dr Andrew Mein (The Queen's Foundation)

MIOIR Seminar Series - Multimarket Competition and Patent Litigation in Platform Markets: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Industry

15:30 - 16:30 27 October 2025
Multimarket Competition and Patent Litigation in Platform Markets: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Industry Dmitry Sharapov examines how competition across multiple markets shapes…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Tim Burness

14:00 - 15:00 28 October 2025
Title: Simple groups, nilpotent subgroups and their intersections Abstract: Let G be a finite group, let p be a prime and let H be a Sylow p-subgroup. Problems concerning the intersections…

Brownbag - Qiwei He (Edinburgh)

13:00 - 14:00 29 October 2025
Title TBD

Geography Department Research Seminar - Dr Matthew Dennis

15:00 - 16:00 29 October 2025
Geography Department Research Seminar Dr Matthew Dennis (Geography, SEED, University of Manchester) In search of Schrödinger’s patch: looking for a functional spatial ecology

Logic Seminar - Anna Dmitrieva

15:00 - 16:00 29 October 2025
Speaker: Anna Dmitrieva (University of Manchester) Quasiminimality and generic functions One of the well-known accomplishments of model theory is the study of the field of complex…

MET Seminar - Pietro Dall'Ara (Naples)

17:00 - 18:00 29 October 2025
Title: Screening in digital monopolies Author: Pietro Dall'Ara Abstract: A defining feature of digital goods is that damaging and replication are costless: once a high-quality good…

MIOIR & MEC Joint Seminar - Educational Diversity and Work Experience Paths Towards Entrepreneurship

15:00 - 16:00 29 October 2025
Educational Diversity and Work Experience Paths Towards Entrepreneurship Shiri Breznitz, Ralph and Roz Halbert Professor of Innovation at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Lars Leszczensky (Goethe University Frankfurt) - Gendered Mechanisms of Social Segregation Among Muslim Youth

16:00 - 17:30 29 October 2025
This talk will present findings from an ongoing research project on why friendships between Muslim and non-Muslim adolescents are relatively rare. The focus is on gender-specific processes…

SQUIDS Seminar (ProbAI-sponsored): Adaptive friction and nonlinear damping for model training

13:00 - 14:00 29 October 2025
Speaker: Katerina Karoni (Bristol) Abstract: We discuss novel damping procedures for training large scale Bayesian data models, such as deep neural networks. Drawing inspiration from…

Imagining Our Working Lives

14:00 - 16:00 1 November 2025
Join us for a creative, participatory workshop exploring how work shapes our lives, relationships, and aspirations. Open to adults (18+) in Greater Manchester and the North West, including…

Yasser Roudi -- Long-term behaviour of learning machines under closed-loop learning [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 3 November 2025
Join us for this seminar by Yasser Roudi (King's) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Sudip Pandit

15:00 - 16:00 4 November 2025
Speaker: Sudip Pandit (Kings College London) Title: Explicit Mordell–Lang bound for curves in low rank Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss the Buium–Coleman method to study the…

Geography Department Research Seminar - Dr Rakib Akhtar

15:00 - 16:00 5 November 2025
Neoliberalism and Hindutva in the making of an Indian smart city. Dr. Rakib Akhtar is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Birmingham. An interdisciplinary…

Seminar by Ben Selwyn (Sussex), "Capitalist Value Chains: Labour Exploitation, Nature Destruction, Geopolitics"

14:00 - 15:30 5 November 2025
Please join us on Nov 5th for a book launch of Prof Ben Selwyn's book (co-authored with Christin Bernhold) Capitalist Value Chains: Labour Exploitation, Nature Destruction, Geopolitics…

Behaviour Change Meeting Seminar: Mai Haiba

15:00 - 16:00 6 November 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…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Nikolai Prochorov

14:00 - 15:00 10 November 2025
Speaker: Nikolai Prochorov (Aix-Marseille University) Title: Thurston theory for critically fixed branched covering maps Abstract: In the 1980’s, William Thurston obtained his celebrated…

Megnaa Mehtta (University College London). Retreat or Remain? Notions of a full life and a slow death from Sundarbans’ eroding coastlines

15:00 - 17:00 10 November 2025
As sea level rise erode coastlines of the Sundarbans, “managed retreat”—a process of relocating people to supposedly safer areas—is put forth by policymakers globally, and in India,…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Gender and the Distribution of Power in Entrepreneurial Teams: Evidence from Denmark

15:30 - 16:30 10 November 2025
Gender and the Distribution of Power in Entrepreneurial Teams: Evidence from Denmark (Joint work with Ali Mohammadi, Copenhagen Business School) Isabelle Solal discusses how gender…

MIOIR Seminar Series with Dr Isabelle Solal

15:30 - 16:30 10 November 2025
MIOIR Seminar Series with Dr Isabelle Solal Gender and the Distribution of Power in Entrepreneurial Teams: Evidence from Denmark (Joint work with Ali Mohammadi, Copenhagen Business…

The Convent in the Community: How Secular Use of Sacred Space Contributes to Catholic Nuns' Pursuit of the Good in Eastern Indonesia (Religions and Theology Research Seminar)

15:00 - 17:00 10 November 2025
Speaker: Meghan Rose Donnelly (The University of Manchester)

Maths education seminar: Graham Murphy on subject-specific language support for international mathematics students

12:00 - 13:00 11 November 2025
Speaker: Graham Murphy (University of Leeds) Title: Subject-specific language support for international undergraduate mathematics students Abstract: Subject-specific language difficulties…

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