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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…

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

13:00 - 14:00 15 May 2012
Speaker: Imogen Clarke, 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…

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,…

Campus Visits for School and College Groups

13:30 - 15:30 23 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…

Edinburgh Previews: Iain Stirling and Dan Nightingale

20:00 - 22:00 23 May 2012
Catch these comedians on their way up (to Edinburgh) Stand-up comedian, and the current face of CBBC, Iain Stirling has been dubbed one of Scotland's "hottest newcomers" by The Scotsman…

MACE

14:00 - 14:40 23 May 2012
Human as a living machine: challenges to asses its working condition. Dr. Leu Ren - Structure, Dynamics and Extreme Loading Research Group

MACE

14:40 - 15:20 23 May 2012
Back to the future: Flettner rotors for low-carbon maritime propulsion? Professor Brian Launder - Aerospace Research Group

MACE

15:20 - 16:00 23 May 2012
Engineering applications of smooth particle hydrodynamic (SPH) modelling: the original science behind animated film and games making. Dr. Ben Rogers - Energy, Environment and Climate Change Research Group

Showcase lecture: What is happening behind the hoardings?

15:00 - 16:30 23 May 2012
3-4.30pm. With Sam Sportun, The Manchester Museum. An update on the re-display of the Museum's Ancient Egypt and Archaeology galleries: the challenges and opportunities that the Heritage…

Edinburgh Previews: Ian Stirling and Hanks & Conran (Pigs in Blankets)

20:00 - 22:00 24 May 2012
Catch these comedians on their way up (to Edinburgh) Stand-up comedian, and the current face of CBBC, Iain Stirling has been dubbed one of Scotland's "hottest newcomers" by The Scotsman…

Magic Carpet: Nature

11:00 - 12:00 25 May 2012
Storytelling and activity session for under 5s and their families/carers.

Commissioning for Public Health

09:00 - 17:00 28 May 2012
Speaker: Dr. Ruth Hussey, Prof Iain Buchan, Prof Ian Jacobs, Dr Kath Checkland Further details: The public health community faces a period of intense change and uncertainty in…

Tours of the Vivarium (live animals) - every Tues & Thurs (except school holidays)

12:00 - 13:00 29 May 2012
Every Tues & Thurs, 12-1pm (except school holidays). Tours of the Vivarium (live animals). Meet the Museum's live animals and learn about the education and conservation work taking place beyond the displays.

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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