Lectures and seminars

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Peej Ingarfield

14:00 13 October 2025
Speaker: Peej Ingarfield (University of Manchester) Title: Dimension drop and estimating the gap Abstract: Iterated function systems (IFS) have played a key role in the study of fractals.…

Econometrics Seminar - Rosnel Sessinou (Surrey)

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

Kwame Phillips (University of Southampton). The Multisensorial as Maroon

15:00 - 17:00 13 October 2025
Collins, et al. (2017) invite anthropology into a renewed engagement with contemporary media ecologies and with the transformative potentialities of the multimodal. This position advocates…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Alexei Bolsinov

15:00 - 16:00 13 October 2025
Speaker: Alexei Bolsinov (Loughborough) Title: Nijenhuis Geometry Abstract: A Nijenhuis structure on a smooth manifold is given by a field $L$ of endomorphisms with zero Nijenhuis…

MIOIR Seminar Series - From Trust to Threat: A Case Study of Fraudulent Research Networks

15:30 - 16:30 13 October 2025
From Trust to Threat: A Case Study of Fraudulent Research Networks Leslie D. McIntosh explores how fraudulent research networks exploit trust in science and why stronger research integrity…

Navigating Power and Precarity: Violence and Resilience among Indonesian Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong

12:00 - 14:00 13 October 2025
GDI Migration, Refugees and Asylum Research Group Seminar Speaker: Yiqui (Mia) Huang, University of Hong Kong In this seminar, Mia will examine the experiences of Indonesian migrant…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Jialin Wang

14:00 - 15:00 14 October 2025
Title: Some endotrivial modules for the symmetric group Abstract: Let G be a finite group and F a field of characteristic p > 0. An FG-module M is endotrivial if HomF(M, M) \cong F…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Kenji Terao

15:00 - 16:00 14 October 2025
Speaker: Kenji Terao (Warwick) Title: An introduction to modular curves Abstract: Modular curves are objects of central importance in arithmetic geometry, parametrizing elliptic curves…

Refugees and the UK housing crisis (HCRI public event)

17:00 14 October 2025
Join the Humanitarian & Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) for roundtable discussion with four leading scholars on the realities and politics of refugee housing in the UK. SPEAKERS:…

Brownbag - Akos Valentinyi

13:00 - 14:00 15 October 2025
Title TBD

GDI Lecture: Globalisation, Populism, and Trump - Jan Nederveen Pieterse

16:00 - 17:30 15 October 2025
Speaker: Jan Nederveen Pieterse, University of California Santa Barbara What is the problem, Trump or the United States? American media talk about Trump nonstop, but what about frailties…

Logic Seminar - Mathieu Anel

14:00 - 15:00 15 October 2025
Speaker: Mathieu Anel (Carnegie Mellon University) Non-univalent Universes Homotopy type theory is famous for its univalence axiom on the family of all types. To give a perspective…

MET Seminar - Pawel Dziewulski (Sussex)

17:00 15 October 2025
Title: TBA Contact: sophie.kreutzkamp@manchester.ac.uk

Mitchell centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 15 October 2025
Laurence Mylène Brandenberger, University of Zurich

Probability Seminar: Aleksandar Mijatovic - Reflected diffusions in generalised parabolic domains

15:00 - 16:00 15 October 2025
Aleksandar Mijatovic (University of Warwick) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Reflected diffusions in generalised parabolic domains Abstract: This talk will describe…

Seminar by Prof Stefanie Wöhl - Civil Society Challenges to Global Supply Chains: The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive

15:00 - 16:30 15 October 2025
On October 15th, Stephanie Wöhl will be delivering a talk on "Civil Society Challenges to Global Supply Chains: The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive". It is from…

SPRITE+ and Digital Futures: Lunch and Learn with Jennifer Cearns

13:00 - 13:30 15 October 2025
Time & Location 15 Oct 2025, 13:00 – 13:30 Online About the event Join SPRITE+ and our event partner Digital Futures on Wednesday 15th October for Dr Jennifer Cearns' talk 'Through…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Paul Glendinning

14:00 - 15:00 20 October 2025
Speaker: Paul Glendinning (University of Manchester) Title: The boundary of chaos and the boundary of positive Hausdorff dimension of survivor sets for two-branch maps of the interval…

Mark Fricker -- Adaptive Biological Networks: from slime to society [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 20 October 2025
Join us for this seminar by Mark Fricker (Oxford) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data…

Sarah O'Brien (University of Manchester). Landscapes, timelessness and ambivalence in the nuclearised peninsula of La Hague

15:00 - 17:00 20 October 2025
Abstract to follow. Sarah O'Brien is a Research Associate (Mimesis in Action) in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester.

What’s happening to women’s mental health - and what must we do?

13:00 - 14:00 20 October 2025
Emerita Professor, Linda Gask, joins us to discuss has been happening to women, how are we failing them and what must we do? Over the last decade, we've been rightly concerned about…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Francesca Fedele

14:00 - 15:00 21 October 2025
TBA

Hope in the Dark: How a daring team of sexologists built the world’s first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich (CSSC and CHSTM Joint Seminar)

17:00 - 18:30 21 October 2025
Set in interwar Berlin, Brandy Schillace’s book The Intermediaries tells the story of the Institute for Sexual Science, the world’s first center for homosexual and transgender rights.…

Macro Seminar - Christoph Albert (Collegio Carlo Alberto)

16:00 - 17:00 21 October 2025
Title: Immigrants, Imports, and Welfare: Evidence from Household Purchase Data

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Raymond McCulloch

15:00 - 16:00 21 October 2025
Speaker: Raymond McCulloch Title: Sharp o-minimality and lattice point counting Abstract: Since the introduction of the celebrated Pila-Wilkie theorem there have been several applications…

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