Events

January 2026

 Add this event to your calendar Thu 29 Jan 2026
  14:00 - 15:00
Seminar: Rowland Seymour (Birmingham): Comparative Judgement Modeling to Map Forced Marriage at Local Levels
Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science

Forcing someone into marriage against their will is a violation of their human rights. In 2021, the county of Nottinghamshire, UK, launched a strategy to tackle forced marriage and violence against women and girls. We set out to map the risk of...

February 2026

 Add this event to your calendar Thu 12 Feb 2026
  14:00 - 15:00
Seminar: Dalia Chakrabarty (University of York): How Newton makes forecasts reliable
Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science

 Add this event to your calendar Wed 18 Feb 2026
  14:00 - 15:00
Seminar: Eleonora Secchi (ETH): Nonlinear rheology and mass transport in bacterial biofilms: a polymer-network perspective
Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science

Biofilms are aggregates of bacteria embedded in a self-secreted extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) matrix [1]. From a physical perspective, they can be regarded as living complex fluids [2]: soft, heterogeneous polymer networks that undergo...