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Accommodation Tours

10:30 - 12:00 15 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.

Feb half term - Unearthed: Ancient Egypt

11:00 13 - 16:00 17 February 2012
11am-4pm. Dress like an ancient Egyptian and make bracelets, headdresses or amulets.

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…

Guided Visits

13:30 - 15:30 15 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

Linked and Open Data in Higher Education: a driver for change

14:00 - 15:30 15 February 2012
Speaker: Dr Su White. University of Southampton Host: Stephen Pettifer Abstract: There have been rumblings about the future benefits of linked data for higher education in the…

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,…

The Politics of Public Health

14:00 - 17:00 15 February 2012
Speaker: Professor M Kelly (Director of the Centre of Public Health Excellence at NICE) Further details: For further details please email admin@mms.org.uk, telephone 0161 273 6048…

The use of adipose derived stem cells for tissue engineering heart valves

14:00 - 15:00 15 February 2012
Manchester Tissue Regeneration & Stem Cell Network Seminar Series Speaker: Adrian Chester, Imperial College London

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…

Why Warburg Now? For and Against the Contemporary Turn in Art History

17:00 - 18:00 15 February 2012
Speaker: Prof. Griselda Pollock, Visiting Pilkington Professor (University of Leeds)

Why Warburg Now? For and Against the Contemporary Turn in Art History

17:00 - 18:00 15 February 2012
Speaker: Prof. Griselda Pollock, Visiting Pilkington Professor (University of Leeds)

Partnership research

12:30 - 14:00 16 February 2012
Humanities & Education present: Partnership research Speaker: Rohhss Chapman/Craig Blyth For further details: Diane Brooks: diane.brooks@manchester.ac.uk

Quatour Danel Seminar: ‘Masters of Composition’

14:30 16 February 2012
Seminar: ‘Masters of Composition’ - A workshop of new string quartets by Masters students in composition at the University. FREE

Researching counselling in schools: investigating prevalence and examining outcome

12:30 - 14:00 16 February 2012
Humanities & Education present: Researching counselling in schools: investigating prevalence and examining outcome Speaker: Terry Hanley/Clare Lennie For further details: Diane…

The bone detectives - the role of Forensic Radiography

17:30 - 19:00 16 February 2012
Speaker: Mr M D Viner (Chief Executive of the Inforce Foundation; Senior Clinical Planner and Forensic Radiographer, Barts and the London NHS Trust) Coffee & registration from 5.30…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Series - Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert

13:00 16 February 2012
Stravinsky Three Pieces for String Quartet Haydn Quartet in E flat, Op. 50, No. 3 One of the wackiest and wickedest compositions for string quartet, matched against the genial…

Contemporary Works

13:00 - 14:00 17 February 2012
Join us for the first of our free Lunchtime Concert series, with a selection of contemporary pieces and student commissions for small chamber ensembles.

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert

19:30 17 February 2012
Weinberg Quartet No. 6, Op. 35 Shostakovich Elegy Tchaikovsky Quartet No. 3 in E flat minor, Op. 30 Weinberg’s colossal six-movement Sixth Quartet was the audience choice…

University of Manchester Symphony Orchestra

19:30 - 21:30 18 February 2012
Stravinsky Scherzo a la Russe Butterworth Two English Idylls – No.1 Butterworth A Shropshire Lad Ravel Shéhérazade Jae Hong Lee Concerto for Orchestra – World Première – Student…

De-mobbing British Oceanography: The Founding of the National Institute of Oceanography

13:00 - 14:00 21 February 2012
Speaker: Sam Robinson, University of Manchester

Theory and practice of community engagement in a complex intervention - implications from the AMP programme

14:00 - 15:00 21 February 2012
Speaker: Dr Jon Lamb, Primary Care Group, University of Manchester Further details: In common with other chronic conditions, depression and anxiety often involve complex biopsychosocial…

Accommodation Tours

10:30 - 12:00 22 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.

Alcohol and the Nation's Health: the time bomb is exploding

13:30 - 17:00 22 February 2012
Further details: For further details please email admin@mms.org.uk, telephone 0161 273 6048 or visit www.mms.org.uk. There is a £30 registration charge for non members of the Manchester…

Guided Visits

13:30 - 15:30 22 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

On the Complexity of Computing Probabilistic Bisimilarity

14:00 - 15:30 22 February 2012
Speaker: Professor Franck van Breugel. York University Toronto Host: Richard Banach Probabilistic bisimilarity is a fundamental notion of equivalence on labelled Markov chains.…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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