Past events
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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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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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Logic Seminar - Leo Gitin
14:00 - 15:00 13 May 2026
Speaker: Leo Gitin (University of Oxford) Infinitary methods in valuative algebra Infinitary logic is a well-established extension of "ordinary" first-order logic, which flourished in the 60s and 70s. Its usefulness for algebraic applications has been recognised by many, though now it is less commonly...
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Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Charley Cummings
13:00 - 14:00 12 May 2026
Title: tbc Abstract: tbc
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Maths education seminar: Jonas Latz an analogy between machine learning and a child learning through a game
13:00 - 14:00 11 May 2026
Speaker: Jonas Latz (University of Manchester) Title: Machine Learning is (not) child’s play Abstract: Machine learning describes the generation of an artificial intelligence (AI) through data. The terminology creates an analogy between this process and the learning in intelligent beings: An analogy...
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