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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…

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

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 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…

'Not a Special Science': Forensic Medicine and the Child's Body in Late Nineteenth Century Britain

13:00 - 14:00 22 May 2012
Speaker: Victoria Bates, University of Exeter

How do we research recovery?

12:00 22 May 2012
Speaker: Mr Simon Morton and James Irving Further details: The drug and alcohol treatment landscape is changing, with a new emphasis of the process of recovery from dependence…

How do we research recovery?

12:00 22 May 2012
Speaker: Dr. Tim Millar, Mr Simon Morton, James Irving Further details: The drug and alcohol treatment landscape is changing, with a new emphasis of the process of recovery from…

How do we research recovery?

12:00 22 May 2012
Further details: The drug and alcohol treatment landscape is changing, with a new emphasis of the process of recovery from dependence which, as the government’s own strategy notes,…

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