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A Glowing Complexion: The Use of Radium in Cosmetics

13:00 - 14:00 1 May 2012
Speaker: Lucy Tetlow, Goldsmiths University of London

Alan Turing and Life’s Enigma

24 March - 18 November 2012
Inspired by 1950s design and combining Alan Turing’s notes with museum objects, this exhibition documents Turing’s investigation into one of the great mysteries of nature: how complex…

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…

Gateways - Year 7 University Uncovered Visit

09:45 - 14:30 2 May 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 2 May 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

Showcase lecture: Hacking the Museum

15:00 - 16:30 2 May 2012
3-4.30pm. With Chris Speed, The University of Edinburgh. This talk will reflect upon the temporal characteristics of the emerging phenomenon known as the Internet of Things. As objects…

Tomb Gifts and their Funerary Meaning in Ancient Etruria

16:30 - 17:30 2 May 2012
Speaker: Dr Tom Rasmussen (The University of Manchester)

Tour of the Palaeontology stores

13:30 2 May 2012
Every Wednesday, 1.30-2.15pm & 2.15-3pm: Tours of the stores. Go behind the scenes and explore our Palaeontology and Botany stores (one store per week).

Gateways - Year 7 University Uncovered Visit

09:45 - 14:30 3 May 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…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series - Caf€ Mozart presents: Haydn à l’anglaise

13:00 - 14:00 3 May 2012
When Haydn came to England in 1791 his songs were already available in English versions that differed somewhat from what had left Vienna. Furthermore his pupil Thomas Haigh ‘of Manchester’…

Gateways - Year 7 University Uncovered Visit

09:45 - 14:30 4 May 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…

Colm Tóibín with Paul Durcan

18:30 - 20:30 8 May 2012
Colm Tóibín and Paul Durcan will read from new work at Professor Tóibín’s final Manchester event. Like Colm Tóibín, Paul Durcan is one of Ireland’s foremost writers and is renowned…

Gateways - Year 8 Familiarisation Visit

09:30 - 14:30 8 May 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…

Technology and Regional Identity: Siemens in the North of England

13:00 - 14:00 8 May 2012
Speaker: Katherine Platt, University of Manchester

Campus Visits for School and College Groups

13:30 - 15:30 9 May 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…

Gateways - Year 8 Familiarisation Visit

09:30 - 14:30 9 May 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…

STM in the small: Trading Generality for Performance in Software Transactional Memory

14:15 - 15:15 9 May 2012
Dr Tim Harris. Microsoft Research, Cambridge

Gateways - Year 8 Familiarisation Visit

10 May 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…

Morgan Centre Interdisciplinary Dialogue: The genetic family in question

10:00 - 12:00 10 May 2012
Speaker: Dr Janet Fink (Open University), Dr Gill Haddow (University of Edinburgh), Dr Caroline Jones (University of Southampton), Dr Rebecca Dimond (University of Cardiff) Further…

Quatuor Danel Seminar: ‘Inevitable Rifts’

14:30 10 May 2012
Seminar: ‘Inevitable Rifts’ - Professor emeritus John Casken discusses his recent music and illustrates his new quintet. FREE

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Series - Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert

13:00 10 May 2012
Emily Howard Clarinet Quintet (second performance) Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A, K581 with Nicholas Cox – clarinet Mozart’s heavenly clarinet quintet still stands as the…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert

19:30 11 May 2012
John Casken Inevitable Rifts (UK première) Haydn Quartet in F sharp minor, Op. 50 No. 4 Schubert Quintet in C, D956 with Petr Prause – cello John Casken’s new string…

Cairo Chaos

11:00 - 12:00 13 May 2012
With the esteemed poet extraordinaire, Toot and Carboot in collaboration with the terrifyingly talented magician, Watt the Heka. More ‘laffs than a safari full of mere cats. More…

Advances in diabetes and obesity care: Therapy, treatments and techniques

09:00 - 16:00 14 May 2012
Institute of Health Sciences Speaker: Prof. Stephanie Amiel, Prof John Wilding, Mr Siba Senapati, Dr Martin Rutter, Prof Linda Gask plus others Further details: This workshop…

The Science Museum and ‘Modern’ Physics, 1923-1939

13:00 - 14:00 15 May 2012
Speaker: Imogen Clarke, University of Manchester

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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