Past events
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Manchester Geometry Seminar - Rubén Izquierdo López
14:00 - 15:00 30 March 2026
Speaker: Rubén Izquierdo López (ICMAT, Madrid) Title: The geometry of variational problems: An introduction to multisymplectic geometry Abstract: It is well known that autonomous classical mechanics can be described using symplectic geometry. By introducing a symplectic structure on an even-dimensional...
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From Bench to Business: Lessons from Building LanthaGen Bio
12:00 - 13:00 26 March 2026
Dr Dan Healy and Dr Sahara Bhanot, Co-founders of LanthaGen Bio, will be speaking on the topic below. How do early-stage ideas progress into a young biotech company? What roles do founders take on as they move from research to building an organisation? What unique challenges and perspectives arise along...
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The Past, Present & Future of the Computer in Electronic Music
12:15 - 16:00 25 March 2026
Music and Manchester: Join us for a research cafe exploring the past, present and future of computers in electronic music. While Manchester is prominently featured in music history, the role that it played in the creation of electronic music is less known. This event will: take the audience back to...
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SQUIDS-NASC Joint Seminar: Generalized Friendship Paradoxes in Network Science
13:00 - 14:00 25 March 2026
Speaker: Professor Desmond J. Higham (University of Edinburgh) Abstract: Generalized friendship paradoxes occur when, on average, our friends have more of some attribute than us. These paradoxes are relevant to many aspects of human interaction, notably in social science and epidemiology. I will present...
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Logic Seminar - Charlotte Bartnick
15:00 - 16:00 25 March 2026
Speaker: Charlotte Bartnick (Universität Freiburg) Title: Definable groups in differentially closed fields of positive characteristic Abstract: Definable groups in theories of fields can often be described in terms of algebraic groups. For example, by a result of Pillay, every definable group in a...
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