Exhibitions, Seminar

Applied Economics Seminar - Davide Cerruti (ETH Zurich)

13:00 - 14:15 17 October 2019
Title: TBA

Big data and the psychosocial origins of depression

17 - 23 October 2019
Dear All Do Come and hear Gabriella Juhasz speak – Thursday 24th October, 12.30 – 13.30 in Lecture Theatre D, Zochonis Building – about her work on the multifactorial causation of depression.…

CTIS Seminar: Leading the Translational Dance: Music as Instrument of Translation

14:00 - 15:30 17 October 2019
This talk will explore how music not only undergoes different forms of translation but how it can be a model for and an instrument of translation, aesthetically, socially and emotionally.…

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,…

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…

International approaches to public engagement with nuclear issues

12:00 - 14:00 17 October 2019
12:00-13:00 Lunch and lecture 13:00-14:00 Activity session (optional) Delivered by the National Nuclear Laboratory’s Director of External Relations, Adrian Bull, and Plant Chemist…

Leonid Monin (Bristol) - Cohomology ring of toric bundles

14:30 - 15:30 17 October 2019
Abstract: Using Bernstein-Kushnirenko theorem one can describe the cohomology ring of a smooth projective toric variety via volume polynomial on the space of polytopes. One can extend…

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…

Manson Memorial Lecture - Prof. Andréas Dettwiler (University of Geneva) ‘Pauline Churches as “Learning Spaces” – Colossians and Ephesians as a Test Case’

14:00 - 16:00 17 October 2019
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session. Tea and biscuits…

Tapestries

12 October 2019 - 1 March 2020
A tapestry is a coming together of people or things, usually thread, to make an intricate whole. This exhibition shows the breadth of the textiles at the Whitworth that are made with…

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…

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…

Five Minute Talks - Informal Applied Mathematics Seminar

16:00 18 October 2019
We will be resuming the Informal Applied Mathematics seminars for the new academic year with the customary 5-minute talks. Students will be presenting their PhDs (so far) in no more…

Five Minute Talks - Pure Postgraduate Seminar

15:00 - 16:00 18 October 2019
This week is the second and last 5 minute talks seminar. The event will take place in Frank Adams 1 You’re all welcome to attend, so feel free to join. This week's speakers are: …

MaRMN Seminar with Dr Ilyas Khan - "Articular cartilage maturation: the final piece in the puzzle of repair?"

13:00 - 14:00 18 October 2019
Dr Ilyas Khan, Swansea University - "Articular cartilage maturation: the final piece in the puzzle of repair?"

Istvan Kolossvary (St Andrews) - Overlapping self-affine planar carpets

15:00 - 16:00 21 October 2019
Istvan Kolossvary (St Andrews) will be speaking at this research seminar, part of the Dynamical Systems and Analysis seminar series. Abstract: We will survey the different types of…

Kat Coyte - From stability to assembly: understanding the dynamic microbiome

14:00 - 14:50 21 October 2019
(Room 3.62 Simon Building) Join us for this seminar by Kat Coyte (Manchester) as part of the Mathematics in the Life Sciences Series. Abstract: Mammalian guts harbour diverse microbial…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Olivia Casagrande - Monday 21st October 2019

16:00 - 18:00 21 October 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 21st October 2019 Dr Olivia Casagrande – University of Manchester “ Performing the Mapuche City: Political Imaginations, Emplaced Aesthetics and…

Abdul-Lateef Haji-Ali - Sub-sampling and other considerations for efficient risk estimation in large portfolios

12:00 - 13:00 22 October 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: Computing risk measures…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Representations of reduced enveloping algebras for gln and restricted Yangians

14:00 - 15:00 22 October 2019
Speaker: Simon Goodwin (Birmingham) Title: Representations of reduced enveloping algebras for gl_n and restricted Yangians Let $\mathfrak g = \mathfrak{gl}_n(k)$ be the general linear…

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