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Letters to a President - A National Writing Competition for School Pupils

21 January - 30 April 2021
This spring the University of Manchester’s programme in American Studies is asking UK school students in Years 9- 13 to write “Letters to a President”, to the incoming US presidential…

Online workshop: Introduction to the Labour Force Survey and Annual Population Survey

09:30 - 13:00 20 March 2021
Would you like to know more about using the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and Annual Population survey (APS) in research? This free half-day online workshop will give background information…

Social Statistics Seminar - 4pm, 1 June: Interviewer Falsification in Survey Research: Recent Developments

16:00 3 November 2020 - 17:00 1 June 2021
Social Statistics Seminars 2020/21 – June Session Interviewer Falsification in Survey Research: Recent Developments Joseph Sakshaug (German Institute for Employment Research) Join…

Social Statistics Seminars 2020/21

16:00 3 November 2020 - 17:00 1 June 2021
The Department of Social Statistics is pleased to invite everyone interested in quantitative social research to a series of online seminars. The events will be held once a month throughout…

Creative Writing Workshop (pupils Years 12&13) - supporting our Letters to a President writing competition for schools

17:30 - 18:30 22 March 2021
Join us for a free creative writing workshop on letter writing, offered in collaboration with the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing and supporting our American Studies…

Manu Setty -- Computational modelling of lineage decision mechanisms using single-cell data

16:00 - 17:00 22 March 2021
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Manu Setty (Fred Hutch, WA, USA) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series…

Novel Voices- Catherine Menon and Victoria Princewill

19:00 - 20:00 22 March 2021
Taking place between February and April 2021, Novel Voices is a five-part, online series featuring Ellah P. Wakatama in conversation with 10 debut authors who are helping to shape 2021's…

The origin of originality in science

15:30 - 17:00 22 March 2021
Join us for Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 20/21, webinar hosted by guest speaker, Sotaro Shibayama, Senior Lecturer at School of Economics and Management,…

CIDRAL Online Events - ‘The Egyptian Coffee House’

14:00 - 16:00 23 March 2021
CIDRAL Online Events - Spring 2021 (Semester Two) Key Ideas Seminars Amina Elbendary and Dalia Moustafa, ‘The Egyptian Coffee House’ ZOOM Link - click on joining links Passcode: 932176

Macro Seminar - Tim Lee (Queen Mary)

16:00 - 17:00 23 March 2021
Title: Transforming Institutions: Labor Reallocation and Wage Growth in a Reunified Germany

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Michael Livesey - Towards RoCK blocks for double covers of symmetric and alternating group

13:00 - 14:00 23 March 2021
Speaker: Michael Livesey Title: Towards RoCK blocks for double covers of symmetric and alternating group Abstract: In this talk I will give an overview of RoCK blocks and their significance…

One Reason Why Aerospace Needs Geologists: How Mineral Dust Damages Engines

13:00 - 14:00 23 March 2021
Dr Rory Clarkson, Rolls Royce, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. Sand and mineral dust is increasingly becoming a problem for…

Politics Pankhurst Seminar with Professor Francesca Gains: Metro Mayors: Who are They and What do They Do? - A Pre-Election Primer

13:00 - 14:00 23 March 2021
Politics Pankhurst Seminar with Professor Francesca Gains Metro Mayors: Who are They and What do They Do? - A Pre-Election Primer March 23d 2021 1-2pm Zoom meeting ID:…

Tobias Ross - The Chinese Football Dream: How voluntarily-driven is China’s private football boom? [Early Career Researcher Workshop]

12:30 - 13:30 23 March 2021
Since initiating a set of large-scale reforms in the field of football at the highest political level in 2014, China is aiming to become a leading football nation by 2050. With a clear…

Webinar: Tables and Pivot Tables in Excel

14:00 - 15:30 23 March 2021
Tables were introduced into Excel in 2007 but are still not that commonly used. Perhaps because casual users think they are using tables all of the time, after all their data is in…

Annual Bragg Lecture - Dr Tamsin Edwards

15:00 - 16:00 24 March 2021
What fate for the Antarctic ice sheet? Antarctica is a distant, unfamiliar place. We hear of ice shelves collapsing, giant icebergs breaking away, glaciers crumbling: but how much…

Evaluating culture change in the English NHS: Learning and insights for culture change post-Covid 19

12:30 - 13:30 24 March 2021
Join us at the Institute for Health Policy and Organisation (IHPO) seminar series on 24 March. Zoom Recording: https://youtu.be/7t-EsuiuapU Abstract: The Culture and Leadership Programme…

Explore your planet

13:00 - 16:00 24 March 2021
The aim of this virtual event is to demonstrate how A level Physics, Maths, Chemistry and Biology are both applicable and essential to the study of the Earth and the environment. …

Fire, explosion, flood and pestilence: how to build a resilient world post-pandemic

14:00 - 15:00 24 March 2021
Professor Neil Bourne, MACE, is presenting the first talk, hosted by the Institute of Physics, in a series from experts within the field of high strain-rate / pressure phenomena. COVID-19…

Gabriel Neiva (Manchester): Amerindian traditions in fictional writings: A literary panorama of the Guianas

17:00 - 18:30 24 March 2021
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series 2020/21. This event will be via Zoom. Here is the link: https://zoom.us/j/94462492930

Irmgard Bischofsberger - Instabilities and flow-induced defects in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals

14:00 - 15:00 24 March 2021
Irmgard Bischofsberger (MIT) joins us for this virtual seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series This seminar will be held via Zoom. Please email alice.thompson@manchester.ac.uk…

Jen Creaser - Domino-like transient dynamics at seizure onset

13:00 - 14:00 24 March 2021
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Jen Creaser (Exeter) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found…

Manchester Connect

14:00 - 16:00 24 March 2021
We're offering students the opportunity to book a one-to-one session with a member of University staff! As we aren't currently visiting schools and colleges in person, Manchester Connect…

Morgan Centre seminar: The Affective Temporalities of Friendships (Kinneret Lahad)

15:00 - 16:00 24 March 2021
"When will we meet?" "It's been ages since we last spoke", or "We must catch up soon", are just some of the commonplace and seemingly insignificant sayings between friends. In this…

Ryoki Fukushima - Number of paths in oriented percolation as zero temperature limit of directed polymer

15:00 - 16:00 24 March 2021
Ryoki Fukushima (University of Tsukuba) will speak in the Probability seminar. Consider the number of open paths in the supercritical oriented percolation. It is known to grow exponentially,…

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