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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…

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…

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…

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

Cell-based approaches for the treatment of musculoskeletal tissue damage

14:00 - 15:00 16 May 2012
Manchester Tissue Regeneration & Stem Cell Network Seminar Series Speaker: Rachel Oldershaw, Newcastle University

Diagnostics Workshop

12:00 16 May 2012
Speaker: Prof Jon Deeks, Prof Katherine Payne, Kate Misso (NICE), Toni Tan (NICE), Khalid Ashfaq (NICE) Further details: This workshop is suitable for specialist and non-specialist…

Guided Visits

13:30 - 15:30 16 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

Mastering Teaching and Learning? Research issues emerging from the first two years of the MTL

12:30 - 14:00 16 May 2012
Humanities & Education present: Mastering Teaching and Learning? Research issues emerging from the first two years of the MTL Speaker: Colin Mills & MTL team For further details:…

New Object Lessons: Curating for 2012 and Beyond

10:00 - 13:00 16 May 2012
10am-1pm. Specially devised for museum professionals and creative practitioners, this brand new edition of the highly popular and thought-provoking Curating for 2012 will explore links…

Transforming Manchester workshop 2

09:00 - 16:30 16 May 2012

After Hours – secret gardens in the city

18:30 - 20:30 18 May 2012
6.30-8.30pm. For our Museums at Night After Hours, we're inviting you to our tranquil secret gardens in the city. Play croquet on our allotment with a glass of pimms, go into our secret…

Big Saturday: Patterns in nature

11:00 - 16:00 19 May 2012
11am-4pm. In an incredible article published in 1952, Alan Turing suggested that everything from the spots and stripes on animals to the arrangement of pine cones and flowers could…

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