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Andreea Mocanu (Durham) - On the connection between Jacobi forms and elliptic modular forms

15:00 - 16:00 8 October 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the Number Theory Seminar Series. Abstract : Jacobi forms arise naturally in number theory, for example as functions of lattices or as Fourier-Jacobi…

Ballroom and Latin for Beginners

13:05 25 September - 13:55 20 November 2019
Back due to popular demand, this autumn the Martin Harris Centre is going back to basics again! Join us for ‘Ballroom and Latin for Beginners’ in a relaxed and friendly environment.…

BAME learning lunch

12:00 - 13:30 8 October 2019
The buffet lunch will start at 12 noon, followed at 12.30 by a 30 minute presentation by Ken Clark from the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (University of Manchester) and a panel/open discussion.

Chris Nemeth - Multimodal sampling with pseudo-extended MCMC

12:00 - 13:00 8 October 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: Sampling from posterior…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Elizabeth Stephens (Queensland): The Optimised Self: A Brief History of Time Management and the Quantified Body

17:00 - 19:00 8 October 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. Elizabeth Stephens (University of Queensland) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'The Optimised Self: A Brief History…

Cézanne at the Whitworth

24 August 2019 - 1 March 2020
This exhibition celebrates an extraordinary collection of drawings and prints by Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) that has been gifted and placed on long-term loan to the Whitworth by gallerist,…

Daily: Art Hampers – resources for families at the Whitworth

10:00 31 August 2018 - 10:00 31 May 2020
Are you and your family hungry to get creative? Pick up a picnic hamper with a difference. Come to our Oxford Road or Parkside entrance and pick up one of our special hampers - free…

Elizabeth Price

25 September 2019 - 1 March 2020
Bringing together many new and acclaimed works - including drawings, sculpture and video - this exhibition engages with Price’s pre-occupations of technology, history, politics and…

Exchanges

24 March 2018 - 2 February 2020
Exchanges sets art and artists together, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in opposition – always with insight and intention. In this evolving exhibition, art that has recently been…

Four Corners of One Cloth: Textiles from the Islamic World

23 June 2018 - 3 November 2019
A section of a Kiswa will form the heart of the exhibition. The Kiswa cloth covers the Ka’bah and is replaced each year during Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca). Positioned in the direction…

Instruments of Change

19 March 2019 - 31 December 2020
Instruments of Change is an exhibition that showcases objects from the Beswick Collection at the Museum of Medicine and Health, telling the stories of the people of Manchester whose…

Li Yuan Chia: Unique Photographs

18 May - 15 December 2019
In his lifetime, Li Yuan Chia (1929-1994) travelled from China, to Taiwan, Bologna and London but found his home in a house that he bought in 1972 from Winifred Nicholson in Banks at…

Literature Live: Jonathan Safran Foer

19:00 - 20:15 8 October 2019
Climate change is the greatest threat the world faces. In his brilliant new book, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Starts at Breakfast, Jonathan Safran Foer demystifies the science…

Macro Seminar - Joao Madeira (York)

16:00 - 17:00 8 October 2019
Title: The origins of monetary policy disagreement: the role of supply and demand shocks

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Yangians and representations of the general linear Lie algebra in positive characteristic

14:00 - 15:00 8 October 2019
The speaker on October 8 is: Lewis Topley (Birmingham) Title: Yangians and representations of the general linear Lie algebra in positive characteristic Abstract: In this talk I will…

The Reno at the Whitworth

15 March 2019 - 1 March 2020
For a period of one year Linda Brogan and a group of local residents, who went to the Reno nightclub in the 1970s and 80s, will occupy the Whitworth. The Reno, located in Moss Side,…

This Garden of Ours

10:00 4 October - 17:00 1 November 2019
This Garden of Ours Fri 4 Oct – Fri 1 Nov A collaborative art project researching global horticulture, This Garden of Ours explores stories and links between the migration of plants…

Tours at Two

14:00 20 April 2018 - 14:45 31 December 2019
Each day our public tours are led by our Visitor Team and are an insightful view into our history, collections, exhibition spaces, architecture and park. Daily tours are designed for…

Unreformed: Wallpaper and Design Diversity

17 August 2019 - 5 July 2020
Unreformed: Wallpaper and Design Diversity In the middle of the nineteenth century wallpaper design suddenly became diverse. English manufacturers began to excel at the quick production…

Young, Rich & Famous

10:00 1 October 2019 - 17:00 1 January 2020
In this digital age of collecting selfies and more on social media, what does immortality mean? Manchester Museum’s latest installation at Manchester’s Central Library, Young, Rich…

Making the modern world: England's first civic university (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 9 October 2019
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the beginnings of England’s first civic university to the sites of world changing discoveries. It begins within the fine neo-gothic architecture…

Manchester Algebra Seminar Extra Session - Actions on the Ziegler spectra of domestic string algebras

13:00 - 14:00 9 October 2019
This is an extra session of the Manchester Algebra Seminar. The speaker is Amit Kuber (IIT, Kanpur) Title: Actions on the Ziegler spectra of domestic string algebras Abstract: (Joint…

Scott McCue - Numerical and analytical studies of Hele-Shaw flows

14:00 - 14:50 9 October 2019
Scott McCue (Queensland University of Technology) joins us for the Physical Applied Mathematics Series. Abstract: In this talk I shall discuss two studies of Hele-Shaw flow. In the…

The end-Permian mass extinction from a high southern palaeolatitude perspective

13:00 - 14:00 9 October 2019
Prof Chris Fielding, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. The dominant view of the continental…

Trafford Network - Autumn meeting

09:00 - 16:30 9 October 2019
Join us for our termly Primary Science Network Meeting for Trafford schools. To register for this meeting, please click on the 'register for this event' link.

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