Exhibitions, Seminar

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

CMI Seminar: Data Privacy Concerns as a Source of Resistance to Participate in Surveys Using a Smartphone App

15:00 - 16:15 13 February 2020
The Cathie Marsh Institute welcomes Caroline Roberts from The University of Lausanne who will be speaking on the topic: Data Privacy Concerns as a Source of Resistance to Participate…

CTIS Seminar: Process and Situatedness: Two Aspects of Interpreting that Corpus Studies Cannot Handle – or Can They?

14:00 - 15:30 13 February 2020

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Stephen Barton (University of Manchester and Durham University) ‘Paul and Mental Health’

14:00 - 16:00 13 February 2020
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…

Natalia Balabanova: Vortices on non-orientable manifolds

14:30 - 15:30 13 February 2020
Vortex dynamics on orientable manifolds is a well-studied topic. In this talk we will discuss some aspects and related notions for vortex dynamics on a non-orientable manifold: a Moebius…

Eleanor Russell and Ben Calverley - Informal Applied Mathematics Seminar

15:00 - 16:00 14 February 2020
The Informal Applied Mathematics seminar will continue with a double bill from Eleanor Russell and Ben Calverley. Talks will take place in Frank Adams 2 (next to the Alan Turing Building's…

Jonathan Chapman - Arithmetic Colouring Problems

15:00 - 16:00 14 February 2020
This week's pure postgrad seminar will be given by Jonathan Chapman at 3pm in Frank Adams 1. Abstract: An equation is called partition regular over a set S if every finite colouring…

Collaborate Seminar Series: BBSRC LINK Case Study - Professor Alan Dickson with UCB

12:00 - 13:00 17 February 2020
The Research and Business Engagement Team welcome you to the Collaborate Seminar Series highlighting opportunities and mechanisms for collaboration. The series will be kick-started…

DMDS Divisional Seminar Programme - Monday 17 February 2020

13:00 - 14:00 17 February 2020
DMDS Divisional Seminar Programme Date: Monday 17 February 2020 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Lynne Macrae – “Research Governance and Ethics.” Research Practice…

Neil Thacker - Fundamental Issues Regarding Uncertainties in Artificial Neural Networks

14:00 - 15:00 17 February 2020
(Zochonis Lecture Theatre D) Join us for this seminar by Neil Thacker (Manchester) as part of the Mathematics in the Life Sciences Series. Abstract: The problem of assessment of uncertainty…

Projections of random measures on products of $\times m,\times n$-invariant sets and a random Furstenberg sumset conjecture - Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar Series

15:00 - 16:00 17 February 2020
Catherine Bruce will be speaking at this research seminar, part of the Dynamical Systems and Analysis seminar series. Abstract: In 2012 Hochman and Shmerkin proved that, given Borel…

Robots and the origin of their labour-saving impact

15:30 - 16:30 17 February 2020
Join us for MIOIR External Seminar Series 19/20, seminar hosted by Professor Fabio Montobbio. Abstract: This paper investigates the presence of explicit labour-saving heuristics within…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Florian Muehlfield

16:00 - 18:00 17 February 2020
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 17th of February 2020 Prof Florian Mühlfrield Ilia State University, Georgia Mistrusting the Obvious Facade Politics and their Responses in…

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