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CANCELLED Richard Nickl - Statistical guarantees for the Bayesian approach to inverse problems

12:00 - 13:00 3 December 2019
**This seminar has been cancelled due to the industrial action** We are planning to reschedule for the spring semester. Abstract: Bayes methods for inverse problems have become very…

Abracadabra: Printing demo

11:15 - 11:30 3 December 2019
Watch our beautiful Columbian printing press in action and discover the power of ancient words. Shazam! Did you know that people used to think words had the power to ward off illness…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Christina Lupton (Copenhagen): Queer Times for the Straight Book: Michel Serres and Maggie Nelson

17:00 - 19:00 3 December 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. Christina Lupton (University of Copenhagen) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Queer Times for the Straight Book:…

Community Curators; inside the pharmacy collection

10:00 - 16:00 3 December 2019
Community Curators; inside the pharmacy collection Have you ever wanted to discover the hidden world behind the scenes of a museum? Or want to have a go at conducting academic research?…

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…

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…

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…

Getting to Know Your Camera: Photography Workshop

24 November 2019 - 12 January 2020
10am – 1pm Ever wanted to take your camera off the auto setting and see how you can be in more control of the images you make and be able to explore more creative options? In our introduction…

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…

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…

Kyle Pratt (Oxford) - Low-lying zeros of Dirichlet L-functions

15:00 - 16:00 3 December 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the Number Theory Seminar Series. Abstract: I will present work in progress with Sary Drappeau and Maksym Radziwill on low-lying zeros of…

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 - Spyridon Lazarakis (Lancaster)

16:00 - 17:00 3 December 2019
Title: The Distributional Effects of Peer and Aspirational Pressure

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Quest for D-Affinity

14:00 - 15:00 3 December 2019
Speaker: Dmitriy Rumynin (Warwick) TITLE: Quest for D-Affinity. ABSTRACT: I am interested in the following problem: "classify all smooth connected D-affine projective varieties".…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 3 December 2019
Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series - Holly Kings, CUBRIC, University of Cardiff, will give a talk entitled Investigating the impact of closed loop auditory stimulation upon sleep and memory

Maxwell, Manchester and Me Seminar

17:30 - 19:30 3 December 2019
This talk will take a look at the role of a research academic by tracking the journey of three different research programmes from their initial conception, through their various phases…

Seminar: A radical vision for the future of public service broadcasting? How to get involved...

12:00 - 13:00 3 December 2019
Join us for our next Computer Science Seminar with speaker Ian Forrester Ian, Senior Firestarter from BBC R&D will run through a number of the BBC R&D projects and how they merge…

Stargazing Night

15 November 2019 - 20 March 2020
7pm – 10pm Join us at Jodrell Bank for an unmissable opportunity to get started in astronomy. You’ll learn how to navigate the skies and locate the stars in our inflatable Planetarium,…

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,…

The True Cost of Christmas

2 - 16 December 2019
Want to learn how to live more sustainably? This interactive installation highlights hidden environmental impacts and shows exactly how small changes can help us all live more sustainably.…

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…

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…

Wood Street Mission 2019 appeal

25 November - 4 December 2019
This year marks 150 years of the Wood Street Mission, a charity that since its beginnings in 1869 has collected together and distributed Christmas gifts to local children of Manchester.…

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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