Exhibitions, Seminar

Exchanges: Recent Additions to the Collection

2 July 2021 - 1 May 2022
Exchanges sets art and artists together, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in opposition – always with insight and intention. In this evolving exhibition, art that has recently been…

Social Statistics Seminar - 18 January 2022

16:00 - 17:00 18 January 2022
Social Statistics Seminars 2021/22 – January Session We need to talk about statistics: The purpose of statistics is insight not numbers Neil Sheldon (Teaching Statistics Trust) …

Social Statistics Seminars 2021/22

1 October 2021 - 30 June 2022
We are pleased to announce this year's Social Statistics Seminars. Our speakers: 12/10: Iris Gomez-Lopez (University of Michigan) 02/11: David Haziza (University of Ottawa) 07/12:…

Standardisation and Deviation: The Whitworth Story

2 July 2021 - 1 February 2022
Founded in 1889 through Sir Joseph Whitworth’s legacy, the Whitworth was established to honour one of Britain’s greatest mechanical engineers. A proponent of standardisation, Sir Joseph…

Still Parents: Life after Baby Loss

24 September 2021 - 4 September 2022
Still Parents is the first exhibition of its kind, creating a platform to share personal stories open conversations and break the wall of silence that continues to surround baby loss.…

Suzanne Lacy: What kind of city? A manual for social change

26 November 2021 - 10 April 2022
The Whitworth presents the first major UK presentation of multiple works of US artist Suzanne Lacy, a pioneer of social practice and community organising for almost five decades. In…

Eduardo García Portugués - New uniformity tests on the hypersphere using projections

14:00 - 15:00 19 January 2022
Eduardo García Portugués, Associate Professor of Statistics at the Department of Statistics of Carlos III University of Madrid is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title:…

Ed Cohen - Wavelet spectra for multivariate point processes.

14:00 - 15:00 26 January 2022
Ed Cohen, Senior Lecturer in Statistics at the Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title: Wavelet spectra for multivariate…

Improved patient survival and the growing need for better materials for medical devices.

13:00 - 14:00 26 January 2022
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Professor Hans-Ulrich Laasch. Advances in oncological treatment have led to improved survival of cancer patients in most disease groups.…

The Door Opened: 1980s China - Photographs by Adrian Bradshaw

26 January - 6 July 2022
One can argue that nostalgia is the strongest emotion, a pure mixture of wistfulness and melancholy. Adrian Bradshaw, an English photographer, brings that sense of yearning into full…

Sustainable Futures Seminar Series | Green space: How off-world construction technologies could promote sustainable development on Earth & Microbial engineering for a healthy planet

14:00 - 15:15 27 January 2022
This event will see separate talks from The University of Manchester's Dr Neil Dixon and Dr Aled Roberts Agenda: 14:00: Welcome and introduction with event chair (TBC) 14:05: Dr…

Marco Polin -- Mixed active-passive suspensions: from particle entrainment to spontaneous demixing

14:00 - 15:00 31 January 2022
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Marco Polin (Warwick) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found…

Turing Fellow 'Spotlight': 14 December

14:00 - 15:00 1 February 2022
The Digital Futures team are hosting talks by The University of Manchester's new Turing Fellows for 2021-22. Presenting at this event are Alex Casson and Will Dixon. To register…

Emma Simpson - Conditional modelling of spatio-temporal extremes with an application to high surface temperatures in the Red Sea

14:00 - 15:00 2 February 2022
Emma Simpson, Lecturer in statistics at the Department of Statistical Science at University College London is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title: Conditional modelling…

Mitchell Centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:00 2 February 2022
Ulrik Brandes, ETH Taking Positions when Talking Networks Viewing networks as data rather than representations of systems, we break the suggestive bond between phenomenon and metaphor.…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr. Juan M. del Nido

16:00 - 18:00 7 February 2022
The Stranger that Stays as Such: Uber, competition and the logics of alterity in Buenos Aires Max Planck Cambridge Centre for Ethics, Economics and Social Change From the moment…

Ioannis Tsokanos (Manchester) - Visibility properties in Spirals and Forests

15:00 - 16:00 8 February 2022
Abstract : A spiral in the d-dimensional Euclidean space is a point set of the form S(U) = { k^{1/d+1} * u_k }_{k}, where U = (u_k)_{k} is a sequence in the (d-1)-dimensional unit…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Claudio Marchi

13:00 - 14:00 8 February 2022
Speaker: Claudio Marchi - University of Manchester Title: Picard groups for blocks with normal defect group Abstract: Picard groups of algebras have extensively been studied in…

Social Statistics Seminar - 8 February 2022

16:00 - 17:00 8 February 2022
Social Statistics Seminars 2021/22 – February Session Empirically calibrated network simulation as a methodology of the middle range Christian Steglich (Linköping University and…

Turing Fellow 'Spotlight': 8 February

14:00 - 15:00 8 February 2022
The Digital Futures team are hosting a series of online talks by The University of Manchester's new Turing Fellows for 2021-22. Presenting at this event are: Manuel López-Ibáñez,…

An introduction to the laser, optical, and electronic facilities of FSE

13:00 - 14:00 9 February 2022
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr Samantha Hardman. The ongoing technical review in FSE has created a platform to support "Laser Optical and Electronic" facilities.…

Digital Trust & Security Guest Seminar Series: Dr Andreas Theodorou

12:00 - 13:15 9 February 2022
At this Digital Trust & Security Seminar, we will be joined by Dr Andreas Theodorou who will be discussing meaningful control of AI. Speaker: Dr Andreas Theodorou is a Forskare (Research…

Eric Nalisnick - On the Calibration of Learning-to-Defer Systems

14:00 - 15:00 9 February 2022
Eric Nalisnick, Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam Machine Learning Lab, Informatics Institute at the University of Amsterdam is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title:…

Finn Box - The deformation of floating platforms

14:00 - 15:00 9 February 2022
Finn Box (University of Manchester) joins us for this in-person seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series Abstract: Let me tell you a tale of Gulliver's travels upon islands…

Pankhurst Seminar Series 2020/21

13:00 - 14:00 9 February 2022
Bev Craig Labour Ward Councillor for Burnage Ward February 9th 2022 1-2pm, Simon Building 2.61

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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