Lectures and seminars

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Nadia Mazza

13:00 - 14:00 4 October 2022
Speaker: Nadia Mazza - University of Lancaster Title: On the (crossed) Burnside ring of profinite groups. Abstract: Given a finite group G, the Burnside ring B(G) of G is a commutative…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Efthymios Sofos

15:00 - 16:00 4 October 2022
Speaker: Efthymios Sofos (University of Glasgow) Title: Schinzel Hypothesis on average Abstract: Schinzel's Hypothesis regards prime values taken by a polynomial with integer coefficients.…

Alfredo Villar (Independent): "De la historieta a la historia: Conflicto armado interno, memorias y contra estéticas visuales en la narrativa gráfica peruana"

17:00 - 19:00 5 October 2022
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. This event will take place in Samuel Alexander Building A202. However, it can be followed online…

Brownbag - Vaidehi Tandel

13:00 - 14:00 5 October 2022
Title: Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons?

Gechun Liang - Robust limit theorem for nonlinear Levy processes under sublinear expectation (online)

15:00 - 16:00 5 October 2022
Gechun Liang (University of Warwick) will speak in the Probability seminar. We introduce a universal robust limit theorem under a sublinear expectation framework. It covers both Peng's…

Jonas Latz - Gradient flows and randomised thresholding: sparse inversion and classification

15:00 - 16:00 5 October 2022
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: Sparse inversion and…

Logic Seminar - Nicola Gambino (Manchester)

15:15 - 16:15 5 October 2022
Title: Differential lambda-calculus and analytic functors Abstract: In a seminal 2003 paper, Ehrhard and Regnier introduced the differential lambda-calculus, an extension of the lambda-calculus…

MET Seminar - David Rietzke (Lancaster)

17:00 - 18:00 5 October 2022
Title: TBA

Mitchell centre Seminar series

16:00 - 18:00 5 October 2022
Elisa Bellotti Nick Crossley Tomas Diviak Presentation of network datasets available for analysis.

Suhasini Subba Rao - Graphical models for nonstationary time series (in person stat seminar)

14:00 - 15:00 5 October 2022
Suhasini Subba Rao, Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University, USA is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title: Graphical models for…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Graham Twelftree (London School of Theology) ‘Magic and the Purpose of John’s Apocalypse’

14:00 - 15:30 6 October 2022
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. Sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via Zoom. To register to attend online,…

Dafydd Fell - How do Movement Parties Learn Lessons of Defeat in Taiwan? The Case of the Green Party

12:30 - 13:30 7 October 2022
IN-PERSON: Electoral defeat is often viewed as the mother of party change. However, studies show that parties do not necessarily learn the right lessons of defeat. The way that parties…

Black History Month lecture delivered by Professor David Olusoga OBE

10:00 - 11:30 10 October 2022
To celebrate Black History Month join us for a lecture with award-winning writer, historian and broadcaster, Professor David Olusoga OBE. The University of Manchester’s Professor of…

Disasters and gender: presence and absence (HCRI Landmark Lecture)

17:30 - 19:00 11 October 2022
The HCRI 2022 Landmark Lecture will be given by UCL's Prof. Maureen Fordham, an expert on community-based disaster risk reduction and vulnerability analysis, focusing on the inclusion…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Simon May

13:00 - 14:00 11 October 2022
Speaker: Simon May - Leeds Title: A non-commutative resolution for discriminants of complex reflection groups. Abstract: In this talk I will introduce the complex reflection groups…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Martin Orr

15:00 - 16:00 11 October 2022
Speaker: Martin Orr (University of Manchester) Title: Galois bounds for unlikely intersections in a product of modular curves Abstract: The Zilber-Pink conjecture predicts that there…

Advanced electrocatalysts for sustainable energy technologies

12:00 - 13:00 12 October 2022
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr. Laurie King. The annual production of hydrogen is over 70 million tons, with > 96% generated from fossil fuels (mostly by steam methane…

Martin Larsson - Propagation of chaos for maxima of particle systems with mean-field drift interaction (online)

15:00 - 16:00 12 October 2022
Martin Larsson (Carnegie Mellon University) will speak in the Probability seminar. We study the asymptotic behavior of normalized maxima of real-valued particles with mean-field drift…

Mitchell centre Seminar series

16:00 - 18:00 12 October 2022
Nick Crossley University of Manchester Music Worlds and Event Networks In earlier work I have conceptualised and analysed 'music worlds' (e.g. the punk scene in London in 1976) as…

Reverse engineering the locomotion of an early tetrapod: Insights from an multi-disciplinary approach

14:00 - 15:00 12 October 2022
Dr. John Nyakatura from Humbolt Universitat zu Berlin will present this week’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminar

Ehrhardt Seminar: George Brooke (University of Manchester) ‘Performing Scripture in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament’

14:00 - 15:30 13 October 2022
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. Sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via Zoom. To register to attend online,…

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