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Curiosities - Celebrating Trees

13 January - 5 February 2012
Exhibition displaying the winning entries from the Curiosities favourite tree photography competition. Competition entrants were asked to take photos of their favourite trees, to create images that tell a story.

Grave Secrets: Tales of the Ancient Nubians

19 November 2011 - 4 March 2012
An exhibition of bone specimens and artefacts excavated during the Archaeological Survey of Nubia (1907-1911), revealing the lives of the inhabitants of ancient Nubia, Egypt’s southern…

Living Worlds

14 April 2011 - 14 April 2012
Now open (permanent gallery) If you think nature is something far away, think again - we are nature. Living Worlds explores the connections between all living things, including us,…

MUMS Chamber Music Festival Day One: Opera

19:00 - 21:00 3 February 2012
Handel Semele (Opera) Artistic Director: Timothy Langston Conductor: Jamie Phillips Chorus Master: David Wishart Producer: Matthew Cundy The opening concert of the Music Society's…

Unearthed: Ancient Egypt

30 September 2011 - 6 September 2012
30 Sep 2011-6 Sep 2012. Calling all budding Egyptologists and archaeologists. We need your help! Our Egyptologist Dr Digby (played on film by Terry Deary, author of Horrible Histories…

MUMS Chamber Festival Day Two: Chamber Orchestra

19:30 - 21:30 4 February 2012
Stravinsky Ragtime Gary Carpenter Sonatinas for Alto Saxophone Jose Puello Student Commission Louis Andriessen M is for Men, Music, Mozart Soloist: Dan White – Saxophone Conductors:…

MUMS Chamber Festival Day Two: Lunchtime Concert

13:00 - 15:00 4 February 2012
Tomasi Fanfares Liturgiques Bizet Carmen Suite Gounod Petite Symphony Conductors: Leo Geyer | Jonathan Evans | Tom Jarvis Come join our Brass and Wind Ensembles for the second concert…

Commercialisation of Research

15:00 - 17:00 6 February 2012
Speaker: Professor Matthew Sanders Further details: The School of Psychological Sciences and the Faculty Research Office invite you to attend an afternoon seminar on the Commercialisation…

Campus Visits for School and College Groups

13:30 7 February 2012
A presentation on The University of Manchester and Higher Education - helping students to be aware of the choices available to them. This is followed by a chance to meet some current…

Driving service improvement through research – an example from the Australian Aboriginal primary health care service sector

14:00 - 15:00 7 February 2012
Health Sciences Group-Primary Care present 'Driving service improvement through research – an example from the Australian Aboriginal primary health care service sector' Speaker:…

Gateways - Year 11 Skills for Success Visit

09:30 - 14:30 7 February 2012
The University of Manchester Gateway Programme provides a new opportunity for Year 7-11 learners within Greater Manchester to participate in a coherent series of academic enrichment…

On the Boundary of Linearity: The Split between Basic and Applied Research in Sweden in the Late 1940s

13:00 - 14:00 7 February 2012
CHSTM lunchtime seminar series Feb-May Speaker: Ingemar Pettersson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Accommodation Tours

8 February 2012
A chance to take a walking tour of our largest accommodation campus in Fallowfield, with the opportunity to see inside at least one student bedroom.

Amyloidosis - where are we now?

17:00 - 18:30 8 February 2012
Speaker: Dr H J Lachmann (Senior Lecturer/Hons Consultant, National Amyloidosis Centre, University College London) Coffee & Registration from 5.00 pm Further details: For further…

Gateways - Year 11 Skills for Success Visit

09:30 - 17:30 8 February 2012
The University of Manchester Gateway Programme provides a new opportunity for Year 7-11 learners within Greater Manchester to participate in a coherent series of academic enrichment…

Guided Visits

13:30 - 15:30 8 February 2012
A presentation on The University of Manchester by a member of the Undergraduate Recruitment and Widening Participation Team, followed by a question and answer session and a tour of the campus with a current student

Shakespeare A Level Study Day (Gifted & Talented Programme)

09:45 - 15:45 8 February 2012
We would like to invite English A-Level students from across Manchester to take part in a series of interactive workshops on Shakespeare and his works. The day will focus on Shakespearean…

Simultaneous EEG-fMRI - from acquisition methods to application

12:30 - 14:30 8 February 2012
Speaker: Dr Karen Mullinger Lunch from 12.30 Further details: Combining electroencephalography (EEG) with functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) in simultaneous recordings…

The Moving Still: David Claerbout meets Giorgio Agamben on the Boulevard du Temple

16:30 - 17:30 8 February 2012
Art History and Visual Studies Research Seminars 2012 Speaker: Prof. Janet Harbord (Queen Mary, University of London)

Tour of Grave Secrets: Tales of the Ancient Nubians

13:00 - 14:00 8 February 2012
Tour of Grave Secrets: Tales of the Ancient Nubians - an exhibition of bone specimens and artefacts excavated during the Archaeological Survey of Nubia (1907-1911), revealing the lives…

Two-Variable First-Order Logics over Transitive Structures

14:00 - 16:00 8 February 2012
Speaker: Dr Lidia Tendera. University of Opole, Poland Host: Ian Pratt-Hartmann Abstract: Two prominent decidable fragments of classical first-order logic, namely the two-variables…

Gateways - Year 11 Skills for Success Visit

09:30 - 14:30 9 February 2012
The University of Manchester Gateway Programme provides a new opportunity for Year 7-11 learners within Greater Manchester to participate in a coherent series of academic enrichment…

Of Mice And Men

19:30 - 22:00 9 February 2012
Directed by Ian Moore Presented by Black Box Theatre Company Black Box Theatre Company present a brand new piece inspired by John Steinbeck’s classic Of Mice and Men. Ian Moore…

The labour market of science and engineering PhDs

15:30 - 17:00 9 February 2012
Speaker: Dr Hsing-Fen Lee Further details: This is an EWERC seminar. Refreshments will be available at 3.30pm and the seminar will start shortly after. Please contact Dr Charlotte…

Trainees' Prize Evening

18:30 - 20:00 9 February 2012
Coffee & registration from 6.30 pm Further details: For further details please email admin@mms.org.uk, telephone 0161 273 6048 or visit www.mms.org.uk. There is a £10 registration…

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