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Fully Booked Literature Live: Isabel Allende in Conversation with Jeanette Winterson

19:00 - 20:15 11 February 2020
***This event is now fully booked*** Manchester Literature Festival and the Centre for New Writing are thrilled to welcome one of Latin America’s greatest authors to the UK for her…

Advances in Biosciences Seminar: "Dynamic enhancer regulations in response to signalling - new paradigms for lineage priming and plasticity in differentiation" - Joshua Brickman

15:00 - 16:00 11 February 2020
Advances in Biosciences Seminar: "Dynamic enhancer regulations in response to signalling - new paradigms for lineage priming and plasticity in differentiation" - Joshua Brickman,…

Ben Barber (Manchester) - Stable isoperimetry in lattice-like graphs

15:00 11 February 2020
Abstract : In a graph G, the edge boundary of a set of vertices S is the set of edges leaving S; the vertex boundary of S is the set of vertices you can get to by following those…

Creative Manchester presents Music on Campus

12:15 11 February - 13:30 24 March 2020
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: In light of the developing situation around COVID-19 and the Government’s latest advice for people to avoid non-essential contact, we have taken the decision…

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…

Felicia Chan - The Little Nyonya: Sinicisation and the politics of return migration

12:30 - 13:30 11 February 2020
In 2008-2009, Singapore’s national broadcaster, MediaCorp, produced a 34-episode Mandarin-language TV soap series chronicling the trials and tribulations of a ‘Nyonya’ woman of Peranakan…

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…

Macro Seminar - Robert Zymek (Edinburgh)

16:00 - 17:00 11 February 2020
Title: Bilateral Trade Imbalances

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Bases for primitive permutation groups - Melissa Lee

14:00 - 15:00 11 February 2020
Speaker: Melissa Lee- Imperial College London Title: Bases for primitive permutation groups Abstract: Let $G \leq \mathrm{Sym}(\Omega)$ be a primitive permutation group. A base…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 11 February 2020
Holly Kings, Cardiff University Brain Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) - 'Investigating the impact of closed loop auditory stimulation upon sleep and memory'

Martin Benning - Deep learning as optimal control problems

12:00 - 13:00 11 February 2020
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: We consider recent works…

Multiple Linear Regression

11 February 2020
Outline This course provides a thorough grounding in the theory and methods of multiple linear regression including model selection, nonlinear relationships, and transformations, dummy…

Print a Palimpsest: Printing demo

11:15 - 11:30 11 February 2020
Drop in and peek into the world of palimpsests with our unique printing press demonstration. Using our Columbian printing press we’ll explore how old manuscripts were reused, giving…

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,…

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…

Utopias

31 January - 4 October 2020
Utopia is, at its essence, about creating a perfect world, yet in this way, it is always in opposition with the present. In his seminal book Utopia (1516), Thomas More gave name and…

Where students are coming from: Student experience and teaching at A Level (Humanities Teaching Academic Workshops 2019-20)

14:00 - 16:00 11 February 2020
In this session we will discuss where students are 'at' when they finish A levels and start undergraduate study. This will include monitoring of different groups of students, including…

Logistic Regression

12 February 2020
Outline This course examines the fitting of models to predict a binary response variable from a mixture of binary and interval explanatory variables, using STATA software. The approach…

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

13:00 - 14:00 12 February 2020
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…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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