Lectures and seminars

“What next for OpenMP and for MPI?”

14:00 - 15:30 3 July 2015
OpenMP and MPI are the workhorse programming APIs for high performance computing applications. Both APIs are now quite mature, but yet are still under active development by their respective…

MCCIR AZ GSK Update Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 6 July 2015
Instruction of Inflammatory Cell Function During Acute Gastrointestinal Infection John Grainger Monocytes and neutrophils are the dominant inflammatory cell populations recruited…

Synaptic integration in a circuit controlling feeding and innate escape behaviour

13:00 - 14:00 7 July 2015
This seminar is part of the Future Leaders in Neuroscience series. Innate defensive behaviors ensure animal survival. Actions such as escaping and hiding from predators are critical…

External Seminar Series | Politics and Public Health: A History of Community Nursing

12:00 - 13:00 8 July 2015
'''Host:''' School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work '''About the event:''' The School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social work run external research seminars every month. Presenters…

'When I was a little child': Childhood, memory, and eighteenth-century Methodism.

14:00 - 16:00 13 July 2015
Accounts of childhood occur frequently in Methodist life writings, with childhood regretted as a time of sinfulness or celebrated for juvenile piety. Conventions governing such accounts…

Democracy and Elections Seminar: Young people's civic engagement in a social media age

01:00 - 14:30 13 July 2015
Young voters' civic engagement in a social media age. Dr Ariadne Vromen How young people use social media to engage with politics in an age of online celebrities and politicians is…

"Towards self-improving schools: lessons from the field"

17:00 14 July 2015
"Towards self-improving schools: lessons from the field" Professor Mel Ainscow CBE Tuesday 14th July, 5pm Room C5.1, Ellen Wilkinson Building Please contact shelley.darlington@manchester.ac.uk to reserve a place.

Towards self-improving school systems : lessons from the field

17:00 - 18:30 14 July 2015
Sarah Field Seminar Series-Manchester Institute of Education Celebrating excellence in educational research Seminars are open to all staff.students and members of the public email Shelley.darlington@manchester.ac.uk…

"How to write a 4* publication - some thoughts"

12:00 - 13:00 15 July 2015
"How to write a 4* publication - some thoughts" Helen Gunter, Carlo Raffo, Neil Humphrey and Julian Williams Wednesday 15th July 2015, 12-1pm C3.19/20, Ellen Wilkinson Building **Lunch…

Arthur Lewis Centennial Lecture: Modelling Labour Markets in Developing Countries

15:30 - 17:00 16 July 2015
The year 2015 is the centennial of the birth of Nobel laureate Arthur Lewis. Professor Gary Fields, the leading labour economist in the world working on developing countries, will present…

Linking dialogue to decision: Engaging capacities for responsible innovation in the laboratory

12:00 - 13:00 17 July 2015
Integrating societal considerations directly into research and development processes is often included as a component of programs meant to address the ethics and governance of science.…

The Manchester Poverty Masterclass

10:00 - 12:00 17 July 2015
The Manchester Poverty Masterclass is a series of lectures for PhD students and staff. Professor Gary Fields of Cornell University will be presenting this Masterclass on "Labour Markets…

Electrophysiological Markers of Neurodegenerative Disease and Sleep/Wake Quality

13:00 21 July 2015
This Seminar is part of the Future Leaders series. …

Human and Mouse Genome Wide CRISPR-guide RNA Arrayed Libraries

09:30 - 10:30 22 July 2015
CRISPR-Cas9 has proven to be a useful tool for genome editing and has shown great potential in genome wide genetic screens. Here we present the first genome wide, arrayed guide RNA…

U-Battery – A Local Modular Energy Source

12:00 - 13:00 29 July 2015
The Dalton Seminar Series aims to promote exchange and offer informative events across institutions and facilities associated with The University of Manchester’s Dalton Nuclear Institute.…

Education-driven rent-gap in jiaoyufication areas: the case of Nanjing, China

11:00 - 12:30 18 August 2015
Gentrification, or the class-based restructuring of cities, is a process that has accrued a considerable historical depth and a wide geographical compass. But despite the existence…

Lovell Lecture: The Square Kilometre Array – the future of radio astronomy

19:30 - 21:00 20 August 2015
Professor Keith Grainge University of Manchester The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope. It will address fundamental unanswered…

Celebrating FLS Research Success: mRNA selection for translation: new perspectives on the cytosolic site of translation and the machinery involved

15:00 - 16:00 4 September 2015
The next seminar in the ‘Celebrating Research Success in FLS’ series will be given by Dr Mark Ashe, who is a member of the Computational and Evolutionary Biology (CEB) Research Theme…

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