Lectures and seminars

Social Statistics Seminars 2021/22

1 October 2021 - 30 June 2022
We are pleased to announce this year's Social Statistics Seminars. Our speakers: 12/10: Iris Gomez-Lopez (University of Michigan) 02/11: David Haziza (University of Ottawa) 07/12:…

Ed Cohen - Wavelet spectra for multivariate point processes.

14:00 - 15:00 26 January 2022
Ed Cohen, Senior Lecturer in Statistics at the Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title: Wavelet spectra for multivariate…

Improved patient survival and the growing need for better materials for medical devices.

13:00 - 14:00 26 January 2022
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Professor Hans-Ulrich Laasch. Advances in oncological treatment have led to improved survival of cancer patients in most disease groups.…

Sustainable Futures Seminar Series | Green space: How off-world construction technologies could promote sustainable development on Earth & Microbial engineering for a healthy planet

14:00 - 15:15 27 January 2022
This event will see separate talks from The University of Manchester's Dr Neil Dixon and Dr Aled Roberts Agenda: 14:00: Welcome and introduction with event chair (TBC) 14:05: Dr…

Marco Polin -- Mixed active-passive suspensions: from particle entrainment to spontaneous demixing

14:00 - 15:00 31 January 2022
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Marco Polin (Warwick) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found…

Turing Fellow 'Spotlight': 14 December

14:00 - 15:00 1 February 2022
The Digital Futures team are hosting talks by The University of Manchester's new Turing Fellows for 2021-22. Presenting at this event are Alex Casson and Will Dixon. To register…

Emma Simpson - Conditional modelling of spatio-temporal extremes with an application to high surface temperatures in the Red Sea

14:00 - 15:00 2 February 2022
Emma Simpson, Lecturer in statistics at the Department of Statistical Science at University College London is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title: Conditional modelling…

Manufacturing Dissent: Moments of Solidarity (Stuart Hall Foundation 5th Annual Lecture)

16:00 - 16:45 3 February 2022
Chaired by Gary Younge, the event this year will focus on the relationship between political organising and alliance-building between different groups of people. Together we will explore…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr. Juan M. del Nido

16:00 - 18:00 7 February 2022
The Stranger that Stays as Such: Uber, competition and the logics of alterity in Buenos Aires Max Planck Cambridge Centre for Ethics, Economics and Social Change From the moment…

Bogdanow Online Holocaust Lecture 2022

18:00 - 19:30 8 February 2022
The University of Manchester Centre for Jewish Studies is pleased to announce that the eighth series of Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies will be given by Prof Marion Kaplan, Skirball…

Turing Fellow 'Spotlight': 8 February

14:00 - 15:00 8 February 2022
The Digital Futures team are hosting a series of online talks by The University of Manchester's new Turing Fellows for 2021-22. Presenting at this event are: Manuel López-Ibáñez,…

Bogdanow Online Holocaust Lecture 2022

18:00 - 19:30 9 February 2022
The University of Manchester Centre for Jewish Studies is pleased to announce that the eighth series of Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies will be given by Prof Marion Kaplan, Skirball…

Bogdanow Online Holocaust Materclass 2022

15:00 - 16:30 9 February 2022
'Refugees and gender studies: new perspectives in Holocaust studies'. Prof. Marion Kaplan (New York University). Prof. Kaplan is a three-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award…

Digital Trust & Security Guest Seminar Series: Dr Andreas Theodorou

12:00 - 13:15 9 February 2022
At this Digital Trust & Security Seminar, we will be joined by Dr Andreas Theodorou who will be discussing meaningful control of AI. Speaker: Dr Andreas Theodorou is a Forskare (Research…

Eric Nalisnick - On Prior Specification for Bayesian Neural Networks

14:00 - 15:00 9 February 2022
Eric Nalisnick, Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam Machine Learning Lab, Informatics Institute at the University of Amsterdam is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title:…

Morgan Centre seminar: 'Blackface Desdemona: Theorizing Interracial Kinship Anxieties from William Shakespeare to Toni Morrison'

15:00 - 16:00 9 February 2022
Speaker: Brigitte Fielder (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Depictions of white women in interracial sexual kinship illustrate the rhetoric by which antebellum discourses of race theorize…

Sustainable Futures Seminar Series | Beyond COP26 - tools for a ‘collective climatic intelligence’ & The NERC Digital Solutions Hub

14:00 - 15:15 10 February 2022
This event will see separate talks from The University of Manchester's Joe Ravetz and Professor Richard Kingston. Agenda: 14:00: Welcome and introduction with event chair (TBC) …

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