Past events
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Labour's wobbling Jenga tower: The 2024 general election two years on
16:00 - 18:00 14 May 2026
Join us in person for a presentation by Rob Ford, Professor of Political Science at the University of Manchester on his latest book: The British General Election of 2024. This is the latest in the world's longest-running and best-known series of election studies, long associated with David Butler, which...
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Training course on advanced scripting and batching of tomographic datasets
13 - 14 May 2026
Although X-ray tomography is an attractive characterisation technique in materials science, it generates a huge amount of data at a fast rate and it can be extremely time consuming to process the data manually. A great benefit to creating scripts and plugins in Avizo is the ability to reuse a workflow...
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AI-Fun & ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Nikolay Malkin
10:00 - 11:00 13 May 2026
For May's AI-Fun and ELLIS invited speaker series, we will have Nikolay Malkin from the University of Edinburgh. Title: Inferring stochastic dynamics without data: from diffusion samplers to discrete Schrödinger bridges Abstract: Probabilistic models that approximate a distribution by transporting...
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Digital Health Equity seminar: Women’s health, equity and the role of digital health policy in addressing health inequalities in the UK
12:00 - 13:00 13 May 2026
The next seminar in the University of Manchester Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 13th-May, 1-2pm BST via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/92175396746. Lopa Patel MBE (Diversity UK) will talk about Women’s health, equity and the role of digital health policy in addressing health inequalities...
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SQUIDS Seminar (HIMR-funded): Dissecting Deep Neural Networks
12:00 - 13:00 13 May 2026
Speaker: Dr Tiffany Vlaar (University of Glasgow) Abstract: First, I will discuss the role played by individual layers and substructures of deep neural networks. Layer-wise sensitivity to the choice of initialisation and optimiser hyperparameter settings varies. I will show that training neural network...
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