Exhibitions, Seminar

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Advances in Biosciences Seminar - Mechanical properties of intermediate filaments at high strains - Sarah Koester, University of Gottingen

15:00 - 16:00 18 February 2020
Advances in Biosciences Seminar "Mechanical properties of intermediate filaments at high strains" Sarah Koester, University of Gottingen Host: Joe Swift

Joni Teravainen (Oxford) - Higher order uniformity of the Möbius function

15:00 - 16:00 18 February 2020
Abstract : In a recent work, Matomäki, Radziwill and Tao showed that the Möbius function is discorrelated with linear exponential phases on almost all short intervals. I will discuss…

Macro Seminar - Fabian Kindermann (Regensburg)

16:00 - 17:00 18 February 2020
Title: Learning about Housing Cost: Survey Evidence from the German House Price Boom

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Robert Laugwitz - Braided Commutative Algebras over Quantized Enveloping Algebras

14:00 - 15:00 18 February 2020
Speaker - Robert Laugwitz Title: Braided Commutative Algebras over Quantized Enveloping Algebras Algebras that are commutative in a braided tensor category appear in rational conformal…

Shigeto Sonoda - Asian Views of China in the age of China's rise

12:30 - 13:30 18 February 2020
China’s rise is transforming global politics and economics, from Manchester to Manhattan. But China’s economic and security impact is being felt first and foremost by its Asian neighbours.…

CIDRAL Key Ideas seminar: Bryan Cheyette (Reading), 'The Metaphorical Thinking of Zygmunt Bauman'

14:00 - 16:00 19 February 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programmes Professor Bryan Cheyette (Professor of English Literature, University of Reading), will lead…

Environmental exposures and effects on the brain: cognitive performance and mental health

13:00 - 14:00 19 February 2020
Dr Juana Maria Delgado-Saborit, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. Dr Juana Maria…

Exhibition: The Soul of the Black Earth - 60 years of Contemporary Chinese Printmaking

19 February - 13 March 2020
The Confucius Institute is delighted to bring this fascinating exhibition to Manchester, telling the story of four generations of printmakers from Heilongjiang Province in the north-east…

Franziska Jahnke - Characterizing NIP henselian valued fields

15:00 - 16:00 19 February 2020
Franziska Jahnke joins us for the logic seminar. Abstract: (Joint work with Sylvy Anscombe) In this talk we characterize NIP henselian valued fields modulo the theory of their residue…

Professor Wendy Moncur: 'Keeping Secrets Online' - Digital Trust & Security Guest Seminar Series

13:00 - 14:30 19 February 2020
What strategies do people deploy in keeping secrets online? And how can these strategies be re-purposed to; (i) enhance the capacity of UK security agencies to detect & mitigate threats…

Schuster Colloquium - Probing the dielectric constant on the nanoscale: from thin films to DNA and confined water

15:00 - 16:00 19 February 2020
Join us for the February Schuster Colloquium with speaker Dr Laura Fumagalli. The talk will first review the work of Laura's team in which they developed scanning probe microscopy…

The Coevolution of Industry Architecture, Geography, and Innovation in Mobile Phone Manufacturing, 1992-2012

12:00 - 13:30 19 February 2020
We examine the shifting geography and architecture of the mobile handset industry over the entire ‘outsourcing era,’ leveraging data on virtually every significant supply relationships…

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