Lectures and seminars

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…

GDI Lecture: The Political Lives of Information - Janaki Srinivasan

16:30 - 18:00 5 November 2025
Speaker: Janaki Srinivasan, University of Oxford My talk will be based on my 2022 book, The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India,…

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…

Reimagining New Towns: Delivering Growth and Place-Making for 21st Century England

17:00 - 18:30 10 November 2025
Join us for an exploration of the New Towns Taskforce Report to Government, a major contribution to the national conversation on housing and place-making. The event will explore how…

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)

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Matt Chaffe

14:00 - 15:00 11 November 2025
TBA

Macro Seminar - Vincent Sterk (University College London)

16:00 - 17:00 11 November 2025
Title: The Macroeconomic and Welfare Effects of Energy Price Controls

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Cedric Pilatte

15:00 - 16:00 11 November 2025
Speaker: Cedric Pilatte (Oxford) Title: Fastest quantum algorithms for factoring Abstract: Quantum computers offer dramatic speedups for certain algorithmic tasks that are particularly…

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…

Roundtable: Free Trade Unravelling

13:30 - 15:00 11 November 2025
Please join us for a roundtable discussing the ongoing unravelling of the free trade consensus in global trade politics and governance with Laura Macdonald (Carleton University), Shamel…

The Heart of the Eye and the Heart of the Sun: The Struggle to Translate Science in Tokugawa Japan (East Asian Studies and CHSTM Joint Seminar)

16:00 - 17:30 11 November 2025
In 1802, the Nagasaki-based translator Shizuki Tadao completed the final volume of a work that presented Japanese readers for the first time with explanations of universal gravitation,…

AI-Fun & ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Chengchun Shi

11:00 - 12:00 12 November 2025
November’s AI-Fun and ELLIS Invited Speaker lecture will take place in Nancy Rothwell Building room 3A.012. This is in Core 1, on the third floor. If you go by stairs, once you get…

Brownbag - Itay Saporta Eksten

13:00 - 14:00 12 November 2025
Title TBD

Digital Health Equity seminar: Bridging the divide in pain management in Pakistan using digital tools

13:00 - 14:00 12 November 2025
Pain is a complex and personal experience that affects people and societies worldwide. Yet, how pain is expressed, understood, and managed can vary greatly across countries and cultures.…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Andrey Lazarev

12:00 - 13:00 12 November 2025
Speaker: Andrey Lazarev (Lancaster) Title: Duality for graded Lie algebras (joint work in progress with R. Tang) Abstract: Given a finite-dimensional Lie algebra g, its Chevalley-Eilenberg…

No one left behind: Supporting disadvantaged groups to adopt electric vehicles

12:30 - 14:30 12 November 2025
Join Policy@Manchester on Wednesday, 12 November for the first GM Policy Hub seminar of 2025/26 to discuss electric vehicles use in Greater Manchester. Domestic transport is the UK’s…

Probability Seminar: Goran Peskir - The Dubins constants for Walsh's spider process

15:00 - 16:00 12 November 2025
Goran Peskir (University of Manchester) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: The Dubins constants for Walsh's spider process Abstract: A long-standing open problem of L.…

Research Seminar, “Unions, Coops, and the Contradictions of Freedom” with John Las Heras (University of the Basque Country)

12 November 2025
“Unions, Coops, and the Contradictions of Freedom”, John Las Heras, University of the Basque Country

SQUIDS Seminar: Numerical Computation of Mean Field Games Using Cole-Hopf Transformation and Fictitious Play

13:00 - 14:00 12 November 2025
Speaker: Daisuke Inoue (Imperial College London) Abstract: Controlling large-scale multi-agent systems (MAS) is a critical challenge in today’s highly interconnected society. In this…

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