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(Cancelled) Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Mattia Fumanti

16:00 - 18:00 16 March 2020
Title : The Remains of the Social : Traversing the Post-apartheid through Puncta This paper is concerned with the lasting presence of apartheid and its legacies in contemporary Namibia.…

Confucius Institute Talk: Xian Xinghai - The People’s Composer

18:00 - 19:00 16 March 2020
Xian Xinghai (1905-1945) is one of the most famous Chinese composers of the 20th century. Thanks to his hardworking nature and international education, he composed numerous music pieces…

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…

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…

DMDS Divisional Seminar Programme - Monday 16 March 2020

13:00 - 14:00 16 March 2020
DMDS Divisional Seminar Programme Open to all staff and students within DMDS Date: Monday 16 March 2020 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Samantha Smith – “Diversity…

Identification of predictive and causal biomarkers of disease" Spring School

13:00 16 - 13:00 19 March 2020
The Spring school will take place at the University of Manchester 1pm 16th - 1pm 19th March 2020. It will cover a range of topics including: · Types of bimedical/biomarker data…

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…

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,…

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…

[CANCELLED] Joe Leedale - Multiscale modelling of drug transport and metabolism in liver spheroids

14:00 - 15:00 16 March 2020
This event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled. (Zochonis Lecture Theatre D) Join us for this seminar by Joe Leedale (Liverpool) as part of the Mathematics in the Life Sciences…

Advances in Biosciences Seminar: Efficient and robust proteome-wide approaches for cross-linking mass spectrometry - Richard Scheltema, Utrecht University

15:00 - 16:00 17 March 2020
Advances in Biosciences Seminar: Efficient and robust proteome-wide approaches for cross-linking mass spectrometry Richard Scheltema, Utrecht University Host: Chiara Francavilla

Ashkan Javaherian - A full-3D ray-based inversion approach for ultrasound computed tomography of the breast

12:00 - 13:00 17 March 2020
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: Full-3D transmission…

CANCELLED - HCRI Research Seminar - Creative Engagement

16:00 - 19:00 17 March 2020
Unfortunately, the research seminar has been cancelled. We aim to reschedule later in the year. HCRI Research Seminar with Professor Jenny Edkins and Dr Nat O'Grady as Chair. The…

Cancelled. Manchester International Roots Orchestra creative workshops at Manchester Museum

14:30 - 16:30 17 March 2020
Caring for the health & wellbeing of our visitors, staff & volunteers is our priority. To reduce the risk of Covid-19 from Tues 17 March our events & schools programme is cancelled.…

George Shakan (Oxford) - An analytic approach to cardinalities of Sumsets

15:00 17 March 2020
Abstract : Let U be a subset of Z^d. The quantity |U+U|/|U|, known as the doubling constant, has been extensively studied in additive combinatorics. We replace this with a more complicated…

Manchester Neurimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 17 March 2020
Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series Dr Patrick Hales, Children with Cancer UK Research Fellow, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Health 'Advanced MRI in the clinic: using diffusion…

NCHS: Walking for Wellbeing

12:00 - 13:00 17 March 2020
Escape the everyday and explore the art outdoors. Walking for Wellbeing is an excellent way to get active, explore what’s on your doorstep and make new friends. Tuesdays, 12 -1pm Saturdays,…

Arts and Higher Education in the Criminal Justice Sector

12:00 - 18:00 18 March 2020
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This event has now been postponed. Please see further information here: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/coronavirus-update--17-march-2020/

Cancelled - Exploring the Excitement among Data, Network, Optimisation and Control Research Seminar

13:00 - 15:00 18 March 2020
Unfortunately, the research seminar has been postponed. A new date will be announced shortly. There are many challenges and opportunities, such network connection, big data, machine…

Cancelled. Grubtime Natter

12:30 - 13:30 18 March 2020
Caring for the health & wellbeing of our visitors, staff & volunteers is our priority. To reduce the risk of Covid-19 from Tues 17 March our events & schools programme is cancelled.…

NCHS: Tai-Chi for Wellbeing

08:30 - 09:30 18 March 2020
Tai Chi is a form of gentle exercise based on Tai Chi Chuan, a martial art with roots in ancient China. The underlying principles of Tai Chi facilitate improved coordination of body,…

NVivo for Qualitative Data Analysis

18 March 2020
This course introduces NVivo as a data management tool. The structure of the training session will be a combination of formal presentation alongside the practical application. Those…

The rise of a university: industry, engineering and science (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 18 March 2020
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the height of the industrial revolution to the white heat of 1960s scientific and technological innovation. Our guides explain the history…

Warning of volcanic eruptions in Campi Flegrei, southern Italy

13:00 - 14:00 18 March 2020
Prof Chris Kilburn, UCL Hazard Centre, UCL, London, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. The land carbon sink is calculated to be…

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