Exhibitions, Seminar

Applied Economics Seminar - Jonathan de Quidt (IISE)

13:00 - 14:15 14 November 2019
Title: TBA

CTIS Seminar: Developing ColloCaid, a Text Editor for Improving Vocabulary and Fluency of Academic Writing

14:00 - 15:30 14 November 2019
It is widely acknowledged that people less accustomed to academic writing may struggle to employ collocations which more experienced academic writers habitually use, like increase IN…

Curating SOLD! Dealers, Museums & the Art Market

17:00 - 18:30 14 November 2019
A Whitworth Studies Event Mark Westgarth, University of Leeds Curating SOLD! Dealers, Museums & the Art Market The Whitworth, Study Centre

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,…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Benedict Kent and Prof. Peter Oakes (University of Manchester) “Enabling Public Understanding of Social Diversity among New Testament Audiences.”

14:00 - 16:00 14 November 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…

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…

Erik Baurdoux (LSE) - Lp optimal prediction of the last zero of a spectrally negative Lévy process

14:00 - 15:00 14 November 2019
Erick Baurdoux joins us for the Probability seminar. Given a spectrally negative Lévy process $X$ drifting to infinity, we are interested in finding a stopping time which minimises…

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…

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…

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,…

Theodore Voronov - On super analog of the Pluecker embedding

15:00 - 16:00 14 November 2019
Theodore Voronov joins us for the Geometry, Topology and Mathematicals Physics Seminar. Abstract: The classical Pluecker map takes the Grassmann manifold to the projectivization…

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…

MaRMN Seminar

13:00 - 14:00 15 November 2019
Dr Claire Higgins – Imperial College London "Hacking the skin’s ability to bear load"

Rose Wagstaffe - Left vs. right modules and elementary duality

15:00 - 16:00 15 November 2019
This week's pure postgrad seminar will be given by Rose Wagstaffe at 3pm in Frank Adams 1. Abstract: Given a noncommutative ring R, the category of right R-modules and the category…

Sean Edwards and Tom McSweeney - Informal Applied Mathematics Seminar

15:00 - 16:00 15 November 2019
The Informal Applied Mathematics seminar will continue with a double bill from Sean Edwards and Tom McSweeney. Talks will take place in Frank Adams 2 (next to the Alan Turing Building's…

Music and Migration - Being Human Festival

16 - 23 November 2019
Visit this family-friendly exhibition of musical instruments and be part of a momentous celebration of Bengali folk music in the North West. The exhibition will recall how singing was…

All the World’s a Stage: Henry Box Brown in Manchester

13:00 - 14:30 18 November 2019
Research Talk by Dr Hannah-Rose Murray about famed abolitionist Henry 'Box' Brown. Please join us for sandwiches from 12.30 in the lobby outside the room (Sam Alex SG.16) All Welcome.

Contextualizing societal challenge-oriented innovation policy

15:30 - 16:30 18 November 2019
Join us for MIOIR External Seminar Series 19/20, seminar hosted by Professor Iris Wanzenb?ck. Abstract: There is emerging consensus that innovation policy should focus on solving urgent…

Giulio Caravagna - Integrating machine learning and population genetics to better elucidate cancer evolutionary dynamics

14:00 - 14:50 18 November 2019
(Room 3.44b Simon Building) Join us for this seminar by Giulio Caravagna (Institute for Cancer Research) as part of the Mathematics in the Life Sciences Series. Abstract: Cancers originate…

Igor Evstigneev (Manchester) - Von Neumann-Gale dynamical systems and their applications

15:00 - 16:00 18 November 2019
Igor Evstigneev (Economics Department, University of Manchester) will be speaking at this research seminar, part of the Dynamical Systems and Analysis seminar series. Abstract: Von…

SPECIAL DMDS Divisional Seminar – Benjamin Fairfax – Venue: Michael Smith Lecture Theatre

13:00 - 14:00 18 November 2019
SPECIAL DMDS Divisional Seminar – Venue: Michael Smith Lecture Theatre Dear All, Benjamin Fairfax from Oxford will give a presentation at our DMDS Divisional Seminar on 18th November…

SPECIAL DMDS Divisional Seminar – Venue: Michael Smith Lecture Theatre

13:00 - 14:00 18 November 2019
SPECIAL DMDS Divisional Seminar – Venue: Michael Smith Lecture Theatre Date: Monday 18 November 2019 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Michael Smith Lecture Theatre SPECIAL DMDS Divisional Seminar:…

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