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:…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr. Amita Baviskar

16:00 - 18:00 23 May 2022
Title : To be added shortly Description : To be added shortly Please register here : https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qdO2hqjouHtNwQF4AQQ-ruCzVYKrnHGzN

Manchester Algebra Seminar - John Murray

13:00 - 14:00 24 May 2022
Speaker: John Murray Title: From the Alperin-McKay conjecture to Berstein-Zelevinsky Triangles Abstract: The McKay conjecture asserts that a finite group has the same number of odd…

Brownbag - Stefan Petry

13:00 - 14:00 25 May 2022
Title: Firm Survival and Performance during Hyperinflation: Business as Usual?

CGP Cluster Seminar Series Events in Semester 2, 2021-2022 - Chenchen Zhang (Queens University Belfast)

13:00 - 15:30 25 May 2022
“Race, gender, and the culture war in the co-construction of the US-China rivalry”. Details to be confirmed

Logic Seminar - Paul Shafer (Leeds)

15:00 - 16:00 25 May 2022
Title: Cohesive powers of linear orders Abstract: A cohesive power of a computable structure is an effective analog of an ultrapower, where a cohesive set acts as an ultrafilter. We…

BASS Annual Lecture by Professor Helen Pankhurst CBE

11:00 - 12:00 26 May 2022
For the BA Social Sciences Annual Lecture, Helen Pankhurst will be giving a participatory lecture on women’s lives, past, present and future. The session will start with some reflections…

Sustainable Futures Seminar Series | Business models for sustainable energy & Polyaromatic hydrocarbon based cardiotoxicity

14:00 - 15:15 26 May 2022
This event will see separate talks from The University of Manchester's Professor Jonatan Pinkse and Professor Holly Shiels Agenda: 14:00: Welcome and introduction with event chair…

The Rylands Lunchtime Seminar Series: Cottonopolis: The Making of Global Manchester

12:00 26 May 2022
Join our lunchtime seminar to delve into questioning how the cotton industry allowed Manchester to become the metropolis it is today. In this lunchtime seminar, Edmond Smith and Janette…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Innovation, Growth and the Transition to Net Zero Emissions

15:30 - 16:30 30 May 2022
Join us for the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 21/22, webinar hosted by Anna Valero, Senior Policy Fellow at the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance, Deputy…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Carl-Fredrik Nyberg brodda

13:00 - 14:00 31 May 2022
Speaker: Roy Oste - University of Ghent Title: Supercentralisers for realisations of osp(1|2) and Howe duality Abstract: In this talk, we consider the orthosymplectic Lie superalgebra…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Roy Oste

CGP Cluster Seminar Series Events in Semester 2, 2021-2022 - Sabelo-Ndlovu Gatsheni (University of South Africa) Cross cluster event with GPE

13:30 - 15:00 1 June 2022
Time, Venue, Title and Description to be advised

Democracy and Elections Cluster Seminar Series – Semester 2 2021-22 - Tom O'Grady - University College London

15:30 - 17:00 1 June 2022
How Geographic Sorting Undermines Redistributive Politics

Quantum materials: the challenge of the second quantum revolution

13:00 - 14:00 1 June 2022
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Professor David Jamieson. A quantum computer with a billion qubits would have revolutionary capabilities including, potentially, quantum…

Advances in Data Science and AI Seminar | Artificial Adversarial Intelligence

14:00 - 15:00 7 June 2022
Artificial Adversarial Intelligence Una-May O'Reilly is leader of the AnyScale Learning For All (ALFA) group at CSAIL. ALFA focuses on scalable machine learning, evolutionary algorithms,…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Ben Smith

13:00 - 14:00 7 June 2022
Speaker: Ben Smith - Manchester TBC *subject to equipment and connection Tea and biscuits 12:45 in the foyer

Public Money, Monetary Privacy: Preserving Civil Liberties in the Era of Digital Currency.

16:00 - 17:00 8 June 2022
The Centre for Digital Trust and Society, part of the University of Manchester's Digital Futures research community, is delighted to host Professor Rohan Grey (Williamette University,…

Sustainable Futures Seminar Series | Life cycle assessment and circular economy principles applied to the agricultural sector & Community Climate Resilience in Manchester

14:00 - 15:15 9 June 2022
This event will see separate talks from The University of Manchester's Dr Alejandro Gallego Schmid and Dr Jenna Ashton Agenda: 14:00: Welcome and introduction with event chair (TBC)…

Digital Futures / Manchester Ecosystem: Urban Health & Post-COVID Recovery

10:00 - 13:00 10 June 2022
This GM Connected Health Ecosystem is being held in collaboration with the Digital Futures Health & Care and Cities and Environments themes. We will be meeting in-person at Citylabs…

Oleksiy Klurman (University of Bristol) - TBA

15:00 - 16:00 14 June 2022
Abstract : TBA

Controlling light down to the single-photon level with integrated quantum photonic devices

12:00 - 13:00 16 June 2022
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr Luca Sapienza. Light-matter interactions allow exploring new physics and adding functionalities to photonic on-chip devices, thus…

Atomistic and multi-scale simulations of (In,Ga)N heterostructures: Insights into carrier transport, radiative, non-radiative recombination properties

13:00 - 14:00 29 June 2022
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr Stefan Schulz. Semiconductor nanostructures utilizing indium gallium nitride ((In,Ga)N) alloys have attracted considerable research…

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