Events
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the Faculty of Science and Engineering.
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Maths education seminar: Lara Alcock on Reasoning about Mathematical ‘If-Then’ Statements
11:00 - 12:00 25 September 2026
Speaker: Prof Lara Alcock (Loughborough University) Title: Reasoning about Mathematical ‘If-Then’ Statements Abstract: Mathematics routinely uses ‘if-then’ statements to express theorems and conjectures, stipulating that a proposition ‘if A then B’ is false only if A is true and B is false. Everyday language routinely uses ‘if-then’...
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SALIENT Lunch & Learn Webinar Series 2026
30 April - 26 November 2026
SALIENT Lunch and Learn Webinars are your chance to:? Discover the latest developments in the world of National security and resilience? Hear short TED-style talks by experts on related topics.? Get your questions answered with 10 mins of Q&A.? Join us on the last Thursday of the month at 12:00 pm (GMT) for a lightning 20-minute talk from an...
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Training course on Visualisation, AI-Assisted Analysis and Quantification of Tomographic Datasets
28 - 29 September 2026
General course information Lab/synchrotron X-ray tomography has emerged as one of the most important techniques for research in a wide range of applications including healthcare, energy, food and geology. Advances in the quality of X-ray beams, optics, high speed data acquisition and in-situ environments have made significant improvements to non-destructive...
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Women’s Health Technology Summit 2026
12:00 - 17:00 01 October 2026
The Women’s Health Technology Summit 2026 will bring together leaders from healthcare, research, technology, investment, academia, policy, and industry to examine the persistent inequality in women’s health outcomes as one of the defining healthcare and social justice challenges of our time, and the role of digital technology in tackling it. The...
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Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Ashwin Bhat
14:00 - 05 October 2026
Speaker: Ashwin Bhat (University of Birmingham) Title: Constructing Non-Rectifiable Delone Sets Abstract: Delone sets, also known as separated nets, are point sets in Euclidean space that are both relatively dense and uniformly discrete. They model aperiodic structures, which have been of great interest since Dan Shechtman first observed quasicrystals,...
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Frankie Patten-Elliott -- Modelling drug binding to biological ion channels [IN PERSON]
14:00 - 15:00 05 October 2026
Join us for this seminar by Frankie Patten-Elliott (Manchester) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences in collaboration with Liverpool Universities). Title: Modelling drug binding to biological ion channels Abstract: In a healthy heart, ion...
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Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Sam Streeter (Bristol)
15:00 - 16:00 06 October 2026
Speaker: Sam Streeter (Bristol) Title: Hilbert property for del Pezzo surfaces of degree one Abstract: Various conjectures in arithmetic geometry predict the abundance of rational points on Fano varieties. In dimension two, these are the well-studied family of del Pezzo surfaces, whose arithmetic and geometric complexity is controlled by their...
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Martin Falcke -- Constitutive relations of cell motility and Ca2+ signalling and the role of noise [IN PERSON]
14:00 - 15:00 12 October 2026
Join us for this seminar by Martin Falcke (Berlin) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences in collaboration with Liverpool Universities). Title: Constitutive relations of cell motility and Ca2+ signalling and the role of noise Abstract to follow. The...
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Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Giovanna De Lauri (Lancaster)
15:00 - 16:00 13 October 2026
Speaker: Giovanna De Lauri (Lancaster) Title: TBC Abstract: TBC Room: Frank Adams 1, Alan Turing Building
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Welcome to Fusion - a webinar for students from every subject
14:00 - 15:00 16 October 2026
Curious about how the science that powers the Sun might one day power the world? And how your research area, whatever it is, could lead to a career in fusion energy? Fusion is one of the most exciting and interdisciplinary industries emerging today, and it needs people from every subject. This webinar is designed to introduce students from all...
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