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Asaf Karagila - Countable unions of countable sets and the power of their power sets without the Axiom of Choice

15:00 9 October 2019
Asaf Karagila joins us for the Logic Seminar. How large is a countable union of countable sets? Assuming ZFC, the answer is simple: it's countable, and in particular its power set…

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.…

CGP Research Seminar with Charlotte Heath-Kelly: Imperial Boomerang: The Prevent Strategy as Counter-Insurgency Welfare State

15:30 - 17:00 9 October 2019
Please join the Critical Global Politics Research Cluster for Charlotte Heath-Kelly (University of Warwick) 'Imperial Boomerang: The Prevent Strategy as Counter-Insurgency Welfare State'.…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: Critical Genealogy as Method: Led by Elizabeth Stephens and Peter Cryle (Queensland)

14:00 - 16:00 9 October 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. Elizabeth Stephens and Peter Cryle (University of Queensland) will lead a CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar entitled Critical Genealogy…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Wiktor Marzec (Warsaw): From Cotton and Smoke: Lodz – the Industrial City and Discourses of Ansynchronous Modernity

17:00 - 19:00 9 October 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. Co-hosted by the Russia and Eastern European Studies Seminar. Wiktor Marzec (University of Warsaw) will deliver a public…

Confucius Institute Film Club

15:00 - 17:00 9 October 2019
We are holding our Film Club, one of our intercultural activities for students, once again from October 2019! The club provides a platform for students to engage in inter-cultural…

CPPI Research Cluster Seminar with Yoram Gorlizki: Sub-State Dictatorship: Networks, Loyalty and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union

15:30 - 17:00 9 October 2019
Please join the CPPI Research Cluster for a seminar with Prof. Yoram Gorlizki, 'Sub-State Dictatorship: Networks, Loyalty and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union'. Yoram is a…

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…

David Nott: War Doctor

19:00 - 20:15 9 October 2019
David Nott is the most experienced trauma surgeon in the world. In his fascinating book, War Doctor, he recounts learning to perform an emergency caesarean section in Kabul, following…

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…

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…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 9 October 2019
Frank Takes, University of Amsterdam Discovering the Building Blocks of Social Networks Do people with different academic backgrounds communicate differently? Is the financial sector…

Proton Therapy at the Christie

15:00 - 17:00 9 October 2019
In December 2018 the Christie NHS Foundation Trust opened a new proton beam therapy (PBT) facility. This is the first NHS high- energy PBT centre in the UK as part of a E250M NHS England…

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…

Seminar - Modelling Expression Rates of Hypoxia-inducible Factors in Growing Tumours: Investigating Potentials for Non-Invasive Cancer Therapies

14:00 - 14:30 9 October 2019
Join us for the first PG Computer Science Mercury Seminar with speaker Dario Panada In-silico modelling has the potential to complement laboratory studies by accurately simulating…

Sociology seminar: Who Is Multiracial? Investigating the Generational Locus of Mixing among 'Multi-Generation' Multiracials (Miri Song)

14:00 - 16:00 9 October 2019
While there has been significant growth in studies about ‘multiracial’ (or ‘mixed race’) individuals – that is, the children of so-called interracial unions’ – very few studies have…

Spatial History: Mapping the Past/Literary GIS: Close Reading with Digital Maps - Digital Humanities Seminar

16:00 - 17:30 9 October 2019
Luca Scholz (Lecturer in Digital Humanities) and Jo Taylor (Presidential Academic Fellow in Digital Humanities) will be discussing aspects of their research.

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…

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…

Tiziano De Angelis (Leeds) - Optimal dividends with partial information and stopping of a degenerate reflecting diffusion

14:00 - 15:00 9 October 2019
Abstract: We study the optimal dividend problem for a firm's manager who has partial information on the profitability of the firm. The problem is formulated as one of singular stochastic…

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