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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…

Alumni Event: Life After Anthropology at Manchester

15:30 - 17:30 12 May 2021
Join us online for a roundtable discussion with four alumni of the Manchester anthropology degree programme. Hear about four different life and career trajectories of Manchester anthropology…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

National Teachers and Advisers Conference 2021

16:00 - 18:30 12 May 2021
Due to coronavirus restrictions, our National Teachers and Advisers Conference will be a virtual event in 2021 and will take place on Wednesday 12 May. In addition, given the time…

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…

Schuster Colloquium: Probing the neutrino mass in the laboratory - new results from KATRIN

15:00 - 16:00 12 May 2021
Join us for a virtual Schuster Colloquium with Professor Dr Susanne Mertens from the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich. With a mass at least six orders of magnitudes smaller…

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…

CoDE Seminar: Brexit and the Boomerang of Empire

14:00 - 15:30 13 May 2021
In the midst of Britain’s ongoing political crisis, this paper reframes the Brexit question by beginning at edges of Britain’s relationship to its colonial outposts over the twentieth…

Online Talk: Finding work in the UK - my personal story

18:00 - 19:00 13 May 2021
Many international students come to study in the UK with the aim to gain some work experience upon graduation. With the Graduate route becoming effective on 1 July, international students…

Online workshop: How to become a Computational Social Scientist

11:00 - 12:30 13 May 2021
Scientific research and teaching is increasingly influenced by computational tools, methods and paradigms. The social sciences are no different, with many new forms of social data only…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr. Isaac T. Soon (University of Durham) “Medicine to the Weak: Disability, Ecclesia, and Healing in Irenaeus' Adversus Haereses”

16:00 - 17:30 13 May 2021
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. This semester the seminars will take place online via Zoom - please register to receive the link by emailing…

Tao Wang [ECR] - How does Guanxi shape democracy? A case study using evidence from Taiwan

12:30 - 13:30 13 May 2021
Political scientists have produced a voluminous amount of literature on the subject of 'guanxi', the Chinese term for particularistic ties. Much of the work has focused on its role…

The University of Manchester at Harwell - The Portal to National Facility Science with participation from The Henry Moseley X-Ray Imaging Facility

11:00 - 12:00 13 May 2021
Dr Fabien Léonard will present The University of Manchester at Harwell (UoMaH) and its raison d’être: to identify and help bring forward new techniques and technologies for light source…

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