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Alien Hunt!

24 April - 20 June 2021
Alien Hunt! Saturday 24th April – Sunday 20th June Aliens have arrived at Jodrell Bank! Seek them out across the site in our brand new scavenger hunt. Hunt them all and discover the…

Astronomy Photographer of the Year

24 April - 31 October 2021
Astronomy Photographer of the Year Saturday 25 September – Sunday 31 October The Royal Observatory Greenwich’s hugely popular Astronomy Photographer of the Year exhibition opens at…

COVID-19 Recovery, Renewal, Resilience Experiences

16:00 - 17:00 7 May 2021
In the latest of our series of webinars (in partnership with The International Emergency Managers Society – TIEMS, and Capacity Building International - CBI) our speakers will explore…

Daily Telescope Talks

24 April - 20 June 2021
Daily Telescope Talks Saturday 24th April – Sunday 20th June Join one of our expert Explainers for a short talk on the giant Lovell Telescope. You’ll learn all about its fascinating…

Making the Unknown Knowable

15:00 29 April - 16:30 27 May 2021
Making the unknown knowable has always been located at the heart of scientific activity. Yet, whether the goal is to understand extreme environments, outer space or the universe (Helmreich,…

Manchester Literature Festival Spring 2021 Online Events- Kazuo Ishiguro & Jackie Kay in Conversation

19:30 19 April - 12:00 17 May 2021
This event will be first broadcast at 7.30pm on Mon 19 April 2021 and available to watch until 17 May. The event will be pre-recorded and captioned. ‘Do you believe in the human heart?’…

Natalie Diaz NEW COMMISSION Hosted by Mary Jean Chan

22 April - 21 May 2021
This event will be first broadcast at 7.30pm on Thursday 22 April 2021 and available to watch until 21 May. The event will be pre-recorded and captioned. ‘Natalie Diaz is a poet who…

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…

A Healthy Bottom Line: How Market-Based Innovation Shapes the Pursuit of Health Equity

15:30 - 17:00 10 May 2021
Join us for the Joint Seminar hosted by Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIOIR) and the Institute for Health Policy and Organisation (IHPO), with guest speaker Professor…

Sarah Harris -- Seeing Biomolecular Mechanics with Simulations

14:00 - 15:00 10 May 2021
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Sarah Harris (Leeds) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found…

#ReconstructionWork: Racial Disparities in Mental Healthcare, with James Nazroo and Lanre Malaolu

19:00 - 20:15 11 May 2021
Organised by the Stuart Hall Foundation in partnership with the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE), this online discussion features James Nazroo, Fellow of the British Academy…

CIDRAL Online Events - SALC Book Launch

17:00 - 19:00 11 May 2021
CIDRAL Online Events - Spring 2021 (Semester Two) SALC Book Launch ZOOM Link - click on joining links Passcode: 489795

Diggers and Builders - Writers as community activists

20:00 - 21:00 11 May 2021
Linda Brogan, Shamshad Khan, Peter Kalu and Jonny Wright discuss 'Diggers and Builders - Writers as community activists' We often forget that a compelling story can be the result of…

Dr. Chika Watanabe: Playing through the Apocalypse: Preparing Children for Mass Disasters in Japan and Chile

13:00 - 14:00 11 May 2021
There is currently a growing trend to prepare children for future disasters. A Japanese non-profit organization has developed an event called Iza! Kaeru Caravan, which includes games…

Hannah Theaker - No Mere Soldiers: Gansu's Republican-era Muslim 'Warlords' as Politicians, 1911-1932

12:30 - 13:30 11 May 2021
The Ma Family Muslim leaders who dominated northwestern Chinese politics through the early Republican era have unenviable reputations: classed as 'warlords', they are most often described…

INFRA+ Infrastructure for Fragmented Cities: Intersections

14:30 11 May 2021
Speakers: Giulia Maci, Cities Alliance Dr Beatriz Mella Lira, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Dr Anna Plyushteva, University of Oxford Chair: Dr Debapriya Chakrabarti,…

Macro Seminar - Axelle Ferriere (Paris)

16:00 - 17:00 11 May 2021
Title: Larger Transfers Financed with More Progressive Taxes? On the Optimal Design of Taxes and Transfers

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Jay Taylor - University of Manchester

13:00 - 14:00 11 May 2021
Speaker: Adam Thomas - University of Warwick Speaker: Jay Taylor - University of Manchester Title: Invariant Bilinear Forms on Lie Algebras Abstract: Assume a group G acts linearly…

The spread of livestock, dairy and millet into the eastern steppes: Biomolecular perspectives from the Altai mountains and the Mongolian steppe

13:00 11 May 2021
Prof Cheryl Makarewicz, University of Kiel, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. The spread of domesticated plants and animals across…

Andrey Aleksyuk - Local description of the three-dimensional wake transition

14:00 - 15:00 12 May 2021
Andrey Aleksyuk (University of Manchester) joins us for this virtual seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series This seminar will be held via Zoom. Please email chris.johnson@manchester.ac.uk…

Bruno Buonaguidi - An optimal sequential procedure for determining the drift of a Brownian motion among three values

15:00 - 16:00 12 May 2021
Bruno Buonaguidi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) will speak in the Probability seminar. Consider the motion of a Brownian particle in one dimension, having a random and unobservable…

Digital Futures - Digital Trust and Security Seminar with Guest Speaker Prof. Ajitha Rajan, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

12:45 - 14:00 12 May 2021
We are delighted to announce Prof. Ajitha Rajan, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh as a guest speaker for the upcoming Digital Trust & Security Seminar Series, taking place…

Lewi Stone -- Random matrices, biological networks, and the stability of complex systems

10:00 - 11:00 12 May 2021
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Lewi Stone (Melbourne) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found…

PSI Seminar with guest speaker Dr. Izzy Jayasinghe

13:00 - 14:00 12 May 2021
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr. Izzy Jayasinghe In this seminar, Dr. Jayasinghe will outline how the continued improvement and strategic adaptation of super-resolution…

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