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Apala Majumdar - Pattern Formation in Confined Nematic Systems

14:00 - 14:50 12 February 2020
Apala Majumdar (University of Strathclyde) joins us for this event in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series (rescheduled from November 2019). Abstract: Nematic liquid crystals are…

Belonging and alienation in academic practices. Panel and plenary discussion

15:00 - 18:00 12 February 2020
The Centre for Jewish Studies and the Jewish-Muslim Research Network are hosting a panel and plenary on “Belonging and alienation in academic practices: Jewish studies and Jewish identities…

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…

Dr Christine Okoth, 'Black Aesthetics of Extraction' and Dr Emily Raymundo, 'Beige Empire: Netflix in Japan'

17:00 - 19:00 12 February 2020
EAC Research Seminar

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…

Eve Hayes De Kalaf (Liverpool): 'Organising Citizens: Legal Identity, Access to Documentation and Race in the Contemporary Dominican Republic'

17:00 - 18:30 12 February 2020
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies seminar series. Abstract: Legal identity is a global story. Over the coming decade, states are aiming to provide all people,…

Gareth Boxall - The definable (p,q) conjecture and distality

15:00 - 16:00 12 February 2020
Gareth Boxall joins us for the logic seminar The definable (p,q) conjecture for NIP theories is so called on account of a connection with a theorem in combinatorics which I shall…

GDI Lecture with Dr Jelmer Kamstra and Zoe Abrahamson: Civil society aid as balancing act - Navigating between managerial and social transformative principles

17:00 - 18:30 12 February 2020
The civil society policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands saw big shifts in 2015/2016, with its budget halved and its focus shifted from service delivery to lobby…

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…

Large Deviations for a Stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert Equation Driven by Pure Jump Noise

15:00 - 15:30 12 February 2020
We consider a one-dimensional stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with jump noise in the Marcus canonical form. We first show that there exists a strong solution to this equation,…

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…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 12 February 2020
Lorien Jasny, University of Exeter Multiplex Networks of Civic Organizations in Cape Town, South Africa The urban environment of Cape Town is contested along various dimensions of…

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,…

UMDS presents An Intervention by Mike Bartlett

19:00 - 21:00 12 February 2020
This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books. UMDS’ 2020 season opens with ‘An Intervention’, by Mike Bartlett. Set against the backdrop of the British…

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…

Abracadabra: Printing demo

11:15 - 11:30 13 February 2020
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…

Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert with Richard Whalley (piano)

13:10 - 14:00 13 February 2020
Dusapin Iti for Solo Violin Lekeu Adagio Molto Weinberg Sonata No. 4 for Violin and Piano One of a series of works for solo instruments, all beginning with the letter ‘i’, by…

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