Exhibitions, Seminar

Imran Perretta: the destructors

8 May - 4 October 2020
The Whitworth presents a new 2-screen film by London-based artist Imran Perretta. Drawing on the artist’s own experience as a young man of Bangladeshi heritage, the film explores personal…

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…

Rea Antoniou-Kourounioti - Modelling how plants sense and remember winter

14:00 - 15:00 18 May 2020
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Rea Antoniou-Kourounioti (John-Innes Centre) as part of the Mathematics in the Life Sciences Series. Abstract: To ensure reproductive success,…

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…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Marcelo DeMartino - Deformation of a Howe duality

14:00 - 15:00 19 May 2020
Speaker: Marcelo DeMartino Title: Deformation of a Howe duality Abstract: In this talk, I will report about a joint work with D. Ciubotaru, in which we investigate the Dunkl version…

Manchester Neuromaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 19 May 2020
Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series Dr. Nelson Trujillo-Barreto, Senior Research Fellow, University of Manchester The discrete logic of the Brain - Explicit modelling of Brain State durations in EEG and MEG

Bursting bubbles: new perspectives on volcanic eruptions from the communities who experience them

13:00 - 14:00 20 May 2020
Prof Jenni Barclay, UEA, Norwich, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. Some 800 million people live within 100 km of an active volcanic…

MES Seminar - Balazs Szentes (LSE)

13:30 - 15:00 20 May 2020
Title: TBA

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: 'Defining Antisemitism: The IHRA Definition': Led by Brian Klug (Oxford)

14:00 - 16:00 22 May 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programmes Brian Klug (University of Oxford) will lead a Key Ideas seminar entitled 'Defining Antisemitism:…

Oliver Rhodes - TBA

14:00 - 15:00 22 May 2020
Dr Oliver Rhodes from The University of Manchester will be speaking at this seminar.

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Michael Livesey - On Donovan's conjecture for non-abelian defect groups

14:00 - 15:00 26 May 2020
Speaker: Michael Livesey Title: On Donovan's conjecture for non-abelian defect groups Abstract: Donovan's conjecture states that for any finite p-group P there exist finitely many…

CoDE Seminar: Mixed-race, white (rural) space: Black (and white) mixed-race family’s experiences of managing and negotiating racialisation and racism in a predominantly white English town

12:00 - 13:00 28 May 2020
In this ethnographic thesis Chantelle Lewis explores the retrospective accounts of racialisation and racism experienced, negotiated and managed by six Black mixed-race families who…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Philippe Meyer - Dirac operators for colour Lie algebras

14:00 - 15:00 2 June 2020
Speaker: Philippe Meyer - University of Oxford Time: 2pm Title: Dirac operators for colour Lie algebras. Abstract: The notion of colour Lie algebra, introduced by Ree (1960), generalises…

Cancelled - Seminar: The Reachability Problem for Petri Nets is Not Elementary

14:00 - 15:00 3 June 2020
Due to the University closure (Coronavirus) this talk is postponed and we will hold it on a future date. Join us for the next Computer Science Atlas Talk with speaker Ranko Lazic,…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: 'Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique': Led by Sa’ed Atshan (Swarthmore College)

12:00 - 14:00 9 June 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programmes Sa’ed Atshan (Swarthmore College) will lead a Key Ideas seminar entitled 'Queer Palestine and…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Edward Jones-Healey - Twists of rational Cherednik algebras

14:00 - 15:00 9 June 2020
Speaker: Edward Jones-Healey - University of Manchester Title: Twists of rational Cherednik algebras Abstract: Rational Cherednik algebras arose as degenerations of Cherednik’s double…

Manchester Neuromaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 9 June 2020
Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series Dr. Martyn Mcfarquhar, Lecturer, University of Manchester Developing a new, open-source, community-driven platform for imaging data analysis

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Sira Gratz - SL(k)-friezes

14:00 - 15:00 16 June 2020
Speaker: Sira Gratz - University of Glasgow Title: SL(k)-friezes Abstract: Classical frieze patterns are combinatorial structures which relate back to Gauss' Pentagramma Mirificum,…

Mitchell Centre Seminar

16:00 - 17:30 17 June 2020
Nikita Basov, St Petersburg University "Socio-semantic network analysis of meaning structures" Please contact david.schoch@manchester.ac.uk for zoom link

GECS Seminar: Denes Hnisz "Transcriptional condensates in health and disease"

13:00 - 14:00 18 June 2020
GECS Seminar Denes Hnisz - Max Planck Institute, Germany "Transcriptional condensates in health and disease" Via Zoom contact organiser for details

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Louise Sutton - Decomposable Specht modules for level 2 cyclotomic KLR algebras

14:00 - 15:00 23 June 2020
Speaker: Louise Sutton - University of Manchester Title: Decomposable Specht modules for level 2 cyclotomic KLR algebras Abstract: Specht modules are an important family of modules…

Manchester Neuromaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 23 June 2020
Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series Dr. Bo Yao, Lecturer, University of Manchester The neural mechanisms of inner speech

GECS Seminar: Jacques Drouin "The essence of pioneering: unraveling the genome in development"

15:00 - 16:00 25 June 2020
GECS Seminar **** 3pm, 25th June **** Jacques Drouin - IRCM, University of Montreal "The essence of pioneering: unraveling the genome in development" Via Zoom (contact organiser for details)

ARC/ARG3.1 as a major coordinator of cognition - Sonia Correa-Muller, MMU

29 June - 6 July 2020
EXTERNAL SEMINAR SERIES – VIA ZOOM HOSTED BY STUART ALLAN AND CATH LAWRENCE TUESDAY 7TH JULY, 2020 15.00 – 16.00 REGISTRATION VIA EVENTBRITE https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dnep-external-seminar-series…

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