Exhibitions, Seminar

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…

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.…

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…

Emma Bailey (Bristol) - Moments of Moments of Unitary, Symplectic, and Orthogonal matrices, and connections to various L-functions.

15:00 - 16:00 22 October 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the Number Theory Seminar Series. Abstract: I will motivate the study of moments of moments of various classical compact matrix groups via…

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…

Macro Seminar - Andre Silva (Nova de Lisboa)

16:00 - 17:00 22 October 2019
Title: Government Financing, Inflation, and the Financial Sector

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…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 22 October 2019
Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series - Project discussion meeting

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…

Accelerating streaming applications with reconfigurable accelerators: two examples from the bioinformatics and data summarization domains

14:00 - 15:00 23 October 2019
Join us for the next Computer Science Atlas talk with speaker Dionisios Pnevmatikatos, School of ECE, Technical University of Crete At the Microprocessor a Hardware Laboratory of…

Centre for Crisis Studies and Mitigation: Inaugural Meeting

13:00 - 17:00 23 October 2019
Welcome to the Inaugural Meeting of The University of Manchester Centre for Crisis Studies and Mitigation. Tentative agenda: - Centre for Crisis Studies and Mitigation: Introduction,…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: Leadership, Gender and Culture: How Discourse Analysis Can Help Make Sense of Abstract Concepts: Led by Stephanie Schnurr (Warwick)

14:00 - 16:00 23 October 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. Stephanie Schnurr (University of Warwick) will lead a CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar entitled 'Leadership, Gender and Culture:…

Claire McIlroy - Modelling Extrusion-Based 3D Printing of Entangled Polymers

14:00 - 14:50 23 October 2019
Claire McIlroy (University of Lincoln) joins us for this seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series. Note the unusual room - G.209 in the Alan Turing Building. Abstract: The…

Hunting the Hadean Magnetic Field

13:00 - 14:00 23 October 2019
Dr Rich Taylor, University of Cambridge, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. The Earth’s magnetic field provides a shield from devastating…

John Truss - Reconstructing the topology on monoids and polymorphism clones

14:00 - 15:00 23 October 2019
We are interested in formulating conditions on a first order structure which ensure that it can be 'reconstructed' from its automorphism group G. Classically this is often done by appealing…

Marton Balazs (Bristol) - Nonexistence of bi-infinite geodesics in exponential last passage percolation - a probabilistic way

14:00 - 15:00 23 October 2019
Marton Balazs(Bristol) will give a talk at Probability seminar. Abstract: Take a point on the 2-dimensional integer lattice and another one North-East from the first. Place i.i.d.…

Seminar: Towards Automated Performance Analysis of Python Programs with VyPR

13:00 - 14:00 23 October 2019
Join us for the next Computer Science Mercury talk with speaker Joshua Dawes Analysing the performance of programs is typically a manual effort, involving profiling certain quantities…

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