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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…

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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.…

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.…

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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,…

CGP Doctoral Researcher Seminar with Kai Heron and Jasper van der Kist

15:30 - 17:00 23 October 2019
Please join the Critical Global Politics Research Cluster for a joint Doctoral Researcher seminar with Kai Heron and Jasper van der Kist. Kai Heron (University of Manchester) will…

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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…

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Confucius Institute Film Club

15:00 - 17:00 23 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…

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Critical MASS Research Seminar

17:00 - 19:00 23 October 2019
Dr Gordon Fraser (University of Manchester), ‘Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America' Dr Myka Tucker-Abramson (University of Warwick), ‘Four theses on…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Family Stargazing Night

19 October 2019 - 8 February 2020
6pm – 9pm Calling all budding young stargazers. You are invited to join us for an unmissable opportunity to get started in astronomy. During our fun-packed evening you will enjoy…

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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…

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GDI Lecture with Prof Anthony Shorrocks - Wealth Levels, Wealth Distribution and Wealth Inequality: A Global Perspective

17:00 - 18:30 23 October 2019
This century began with a remarkable spell of global wealth creation, notable not only for rapid growth but also its broad coverage, both geographically and socially. The “Golden Age”…

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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…

Instruments of Change

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…

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Introduction to Astrophotography

23 October 2019 - 26 February 2020
Introduction to Astrophotography Wednesdays 23rd October, 20th November, 15th January and 26th February, 7.30pm – 10pm Jodrell Bank's popular Introduction to Astrophotography workshops…

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…

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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…

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

13:00 - 14:00 23 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…

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.…

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October Half Term: Meet the Expert

21 October - 1 November 2019
(weekdays only), 1pm Here’s your chance to meet one of our residents science and astronomy experts. You’ll learn all about their work, plus have the chance to ask the space questions you’ve always wanted to ask!

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October Half Term: Planet Hunters

21 October - 3 November 2019
Live Science Show: Planet Hunters 21st October – 3rd November (various times) Join the search for another planet like the Earth in Jodrell Bank's brand new science show. We know there…

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October Half Term: Telescope Walk and Talk

21 October - 3 November 2019
11.45am and 3.15pm Join one of Jodrell Bank’s popular Telescope Walk & Talks as our friendly Explainers take you for a stroll around the base of the impressive Lovell Telescope. You’ll…

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One Giant Leap: Talk and Tour

12 October - 17 November 2019
One Giant Leap: Jodrell Bank and the Race to the Moon, 13:30-16:00 NEW DATES ANNOUNCED! 2019 marks 50 years since humans first set foot on another celestial body. And so, in this,…

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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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…

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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,…

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Thinking about Teaching? PGCE Open Evening

17:00 - 19:00 23 October 2019
The University of Manchester is holding an open evening for anyone thinking about a career in teaching. Come along to find out about our PGCEs (Postgraduate Certificates of Education)…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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