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"Trouble at the Gut Trust”: The History of the IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) Network

13:00 - 14:00 28 February 2012
Speaker: Val Harrington, University of Manchester

Gateways - Year 10 Exploration Visit

09:30 - 14:30 28 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…

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…

Individual planning and the construction of educational difference: a cross-national comparative study

12:30 - 14:00 28 February 2012
Humanities & Education present: Individual planning and the construction of educational difference: a cross-national comparative study Speaker: Ines Alves For further details:…

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,…

Taking a salutogenic approach to chronic musculoskeletal pain

14:00 - 15:00 28 February 2012
28 February 2012 Health Sciences Group-Primary Care present 'Taking a salutogenic approach to chronic musculoskeletal pain' Speaker: Dr Jane Richardson, Senior Lecturer, Primary…

The influence on Chinese middle class parents' perspective of early child education

12:30 - 14:00 28 February 2012
Humanities & Education present: The influence on Chinese middle class parents' perspective of early child education Speaker: Shaohua Hong For further details: Diane Brooks: diane.brooks@manchester.ac.uk

Trouble at the Gut Trust”: The History of the IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) Network

13:00 - 14:00 28 February 2012
Speaker: Val Harrington, University of Manchester

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…

Accommodation Tours

10:30 - 12:00 29 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.

Automatic Feature Generation for Machine Learning for Compilers

14:00 - 15:30 29 February 2012
Speaker: Dr Hugh Leather. University of Edinburgh Host: Alasdair Rawsthorne Abstract: Machine learning has been shown to automate and in some cases outperform hand crafted…

Behind the Scenes tours of the Herbarium (plant store)

13:30 29 February 2012
1.30-2pm & 2.15-3.15pm. Find out about three collectors, Leo Grindon, Charles Bailey and James Cosmo who donated many of the plants in The Manchester Museum’s Herbarium. This is an…

Gateways - Year 10 Exploration Visit

09:30 - 14:30 29 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 29 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

Leap Day talks

10:00 - 16:00 29 February 2012
10.00am: Adam Bland - The Reproduction of Central American Leaf Frogs and their captive breeding as an important conservation tool. 10.45am: Matthew Wilson - The Ecology and Habits…

Star Lecture: Migration and the Transformation of Manchester

13:00 - 15:00 29 February 2012
Dr Laurence Brown will discuss past and present migration, focusing on the industrial and post-industrial eras. He will examine the migration of different peoples to Manchester including…

Taking it on Trust. Naturalism, Knowledge and the Fantastical from Leonardo to the Internet

17:00 29 February 2012
Speaker: Prof. Martin Kemp, Visiting Pilkington Professor (Oxford University)

Taking it on Trust. Naturalism, Knowledge and the Fantastical from Leonardo to the Internet

17:00 - 18:00 29 February 2012
Speaker: Prof. Martin Kemp, Visiting Pilkington Professor (Oxford University)

The Confucius Institute talks on China

13:00 - 14:00 29 February 2012
1-2pm. China is the most populous country in the world with a vast and diverse cultural landscape and a history that contains the roots of modern civilisation. This series of talks…

Gateways - Year 10 Exploration Visit

09:30 - 14:30 1 March 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…

Hardware/Software Techniques to Address the Memory Wall on Multi-Core Systems

14:00 - 15:00 1 March 2012
Speaker: Dr Aamer Jaleel. Intel Research, Boston Host: Mikel Lujan Abstract: Multi-core processors are commonly used to address the growing memory latency. Shared resource contention,…

Scott of the Antarctic and Manchester: the untold story

18:00 - 20:00 1 March 2012
6-8pm. Dr Max Jones, The University of Manchester, author of The Last Great Quest and editor of the Oxford World’s Classics edition of Scott’s last Journals, will reveal for the first…

The Invisible Dot Tour 2012: Comedy's New Wave with Jonny Sweet

20:00 - 22:00 1 March 2012
The Invisible Dot Tour 2012: Comedy's New Wave The Invisible Dot Ltd is one of the most exciting and innovative production companies in the country. Having worked extensively with…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series - Clare Hammond (piano)

13:00 - 14:00 1 March 2012
Philip Grange Piano Polyptych Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin Acclaimed by the Daily Telegraph as a pianist of “amazing power and panache”. Philip Grange’s scintillating and expansive…

Salford Sioux

13:00 - 14:00 2 March 2012
1-2pm. Join Stephen Welsh, Curator of Living Cultures at The Manchester Museum to find out why hundreds of Sioux Indians set up camp on the banks of the Irwell in Salford. Part of Manchester Histories Festival.

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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