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AHCP Research Seminars

3 December 2025 - 3 December 2026
Please check the research seminars of the department here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/department-of-art-history-and-cultural-practices-115441163851

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Ethan Ackelsberg

14:00 - 15:00 18 May 2026
Speaker: Ethan Ackelsberg (EPFL) Title: Sumsets of sets of positive density in the integers Abstract: A central object of study in additive combinatorics is the sumset A+B of two…

Expert Insight Series - Demystifying AI and its Applications in Nuclear

14:00 - 15:00 18 May 2026
Join us to explore how AI is currently used and planned to be used in the nuclear industry. AI is increasingly being discussed within the nuclear sector, yet much of the conversation…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Developing possible entrepreneurial selves: The experience of graduate students and postdocs participating in entrepreneurship training for research commercialization

15:30 - 16:30 18 May 2026
Save the date, further details will be available shortly. Speaker Bio: Professor Christopher Hayter, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Professor Chris Hayter

15:30 - 16:30 18 May 2026
Professor Christopher Hayter will discuss graduate experiences of participating in entrepeneurship training for research commercialization Developing entrepreneurial selves: The experience…

Logic Seminar - Philip Saville

15:00 - 16:00 20 May 2026
Speaker: Philip Saville (University of Sussex) Title: Semantic models for functions, via logic and universal algebra. Abstract: It turns out that ideas from logic and universal algebra…

Probability Seminar: Edward Crane - Coupling Markov chains with a common image chain

15:00 - 16:00 20 May 2026
Edward Crane (University of Bristol) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Coupling Markov chains with a common image chain Abstract: (Joint work with Erin Russell and Alexander…

Carelessness: On the Geographies of Care and Violence - Carl Bonner-Thompson (Utrecht)

14:00 - 16:00 21 May 2026
This paper explores the relationship between care and violence through the lens of carelessness, arguing for a more sustained theorisation of how they are entangled and mutually constitutive.…

FBMH GenAI in Teaching Seminar series: May 21st @ 1pm

13:00 - 14:00 21 May 2026
Please come and join us May 21st @ 13:00 in person in the Emmeline Suite at the Pankhurst Institute, or virtually via Teams, for the next in our series showcasing some of the creative…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Neil Saunders

14:00 - 15:00 26 May 2026
Title: Springer Fibres, Parabolic Induction & Stacking Maps in Classical Type Abstract: Fibres coming from the Springer resolution on the nilpotent cone are incredibly rich algebraic…

PGR SEED-Interdisciplinary Research Seminar- "The Role of Future Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Development, Human Resources, and Employability"

10:00 - 12:00 26 May 2026
The Role of Future Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Development, Human Resources, and Employability"" This seminar will bring together two distinguished speakers to lead…

Probability Seminar: Yanzhao Yang - A New Solution to Time Inconsistent Stopping Problem

15:00 - 16:00 27 May 2026
Yanzhao Yang (University of Oxford) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: A New Solution to Time Inconsistent Stopping Problem Abstract: Time inconsistency is a situation…

Insights from the 2026 UK Innovation Report and what it means for the North West

12:30 - 14:30 2 June 2026
Organised and hosted by: The Manchester Institute of Innovation Research at Alliance Manchester Business School, Accenture, and the North West Business Leadership Team Join us for…

SQUIDS-NASC Joint Seminar: Metropolis-Hastings Acceptance Behavior for Bayesian Inversion with Random Forward Solvers

12:00 - 13:00 2 June 2026
Speaker: Emil Løvbak (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Abstract: In various application domains, one wishes to determine which parameter values should be used for a model…

Behaviour Change Meeting Seminar: Prof Felix Naughton

15:00 - 16:00 4 June 2026
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…

Benjamin Maier -- From Multi-Omics Data to Executable Mechanistic Models of Cell Signalling [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 8 June 2026
Join us for this seminar by Benji Maier (EMBL-EBI) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Matthew Nicol

14:00 8 June 2026
Speaker: Matthew Nicol (University of Houston) Title: Stable laws for slowly mixing dynamical systems Abstract: Stable laws are a generalization of the central limit theorem. We investigate…

Departmental Seminar: “Formal Methods at Industrial Scale, Before and After AI” by Dr Claudia Cauli, Principal Research Engineer, Huawei R&D

14:00 - 15:00 10 June 2026
Over the past two years, my team at Huawei Cloud has applied formal methods to production cloud infrastructure. We deployed model checking, deductive verification, and SMT encodings,…

Digital Health Equity seminar: Visual aspects of digital exclusion

13:00 - 14:00 10 June 2026
The next seminar in the University of Manchester Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 10th-Jun, 1-2pm via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95221111981. Sam Waller (University of Cambridge)…

Hive of Pride: Colonisation, criminalisation & community building - Fight for LGBTQ+ rights globally

17:00 - 18:00 10 June 2026
It’s 2026, but a third of the world’s countries still criminalise consensual same-sex relationships. Many of these laws are a direct legacy of colonialism and empire building, reinforced…

Ke Yuan -- Mapping the landscape of histomorphological cancer phenotypes with self-supervised learning [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 15 June 2026
Join us for this seminar by Ke Yuan (Glasgow) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences…

Departmental Seminar: "Trust in Open Systems: Security, Privacy, and Cryptography from Distributed Ledgers to Decentralized AI" by Dr. Zhipeng Wang

13:00 - 14:00 17 June 2026
Open and decentralized systems, such as blockchain and collaborative AI systems, are reshaping how we think about computation, coordination, and trust. By removing central authorities,…

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