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Andrew Titman - Testing the Markov assumption in general multi-state models

14:00 - 15:00 5 February 2020
Andrew Titman (Lancaster University) joins us for the Statistics seminar series. Recently there has been interest in the development of estimators of the transition probabilities for…

CIDRAL Key Ideas seminar: Christian Fuchs (Westminster): Internet Platforms, Social Media & Society

14:00 - 16:00 5 February 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programme. Christian Fuchs, professor of media and communication studies and Director of the Communication…

Creepy-Crawly Chronicles Children’s Story Competition

7 December 2019 - 9 March 2020
From ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and ‘Charlotte’s Web’ to 'Spiderman’, insects have inspired countless much-loved stories and comics. Enter your ideas into our story competition to…

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…

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…

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…

Matthieu Roche - Continuous Marangoni flows

14:00 - 15:00 5 February 2020
Matthieu Roche (University of Paris Diderot) joins us for this seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series. Title: Continuous Marangoni flows Abstract: The presence of a surface-concentration…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 5 February 2020
Örjan Bodin, Stockholm Resilience Centre A network perspective in understanding environmental governance: how cooperation, conflict and the natural environment interact in shaping…

Novel isotopic window into old crust: tracing Earth’s tectonic regime through the evolution of its continental crust

13:00 - 14:00 5 February 2020
Dr Marc-Alban Millet, Cardiff University, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. The extraction of the continental crust from the mantle,…

Philosophy Research Seminar - Dr Wesley Buckwalter (Manchester)

15:10 - 16:50 5 February 2020
*Title: The Replication Crisis and Philosophy *Abstract: The replication crisis is perceived by many as one of the most significant threats to the reliability of research in cognitive…

Sascha Post - Linear Lie Groups and o-minimality.

15:00 5 February 2020
Sascha Post joins us for the logic seminar It is well known since the 80's that any group definable in an o-minimal expansion of the reals can be equipped with a Lie group structure.…

Sociology seminar - Being Available: Relational Agency and Kinship Time in the Narratives of Egg and Sperm Donors (Leah Gilman)

14:00 - 15:00 5 February 2020
Please join us for the first Sociology Departmental Seminar of the semester. All are welcome. Abstract: Historically, the connections created through donor conception have often…

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