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A Month of Celebrations: International Women's Day Lunchtime Speakers - The Contribution of Women across the Lifespan in the Covid-19 Crisis

16 - 30 March 2022
A month of celebrations for international women's day: lunchtime talks to highlight women's contribution to the Covid- across the lifespan To celebrate International Women’s Day on…

ASTRONOMY PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

22 January - 31 December 2022
Be blown away by the stunning images in this year’s Astronomy Photography of the Year exhibition from The Royal Observatory Greenwich. IMAGE: Polar Lights Dance © Dmitrii Rybalka

Avant-garde and arts-based methods in qualitative research - Online

21 - 23 March 2022
This course will give you an overview of avant-garde and arts-based approaches of doing qualitative research and provide you with basic knowledge about creative methods in the social…

Caleb Springer (University College London) - Every finite abelian group arises as the group of rational points of an ordinary abelian variety over F_2, F_3, and F_5

15:00 - 16:00 22 March 2022
Abstract : We will show that every finite abelian group arises as the group of rational points of an ordinary abelian variety over a finite field with 2, 3 or 5 elements. Similar results…

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…

Islamic Manuscript Cultures; Talk

16:00 - 18:00 22 March 2022
Join Christopher Bahl (Durham University) and Konrad Hirschler (University of Hamburg) for a conversation that will bring together manuscript studies, Islamic Studies, and material…

Macro Seminar - Johannes Boehm (Sciences Po)

16:00 - 17:00 22 March 2022
Title: Growth and the Fragmentation of Production

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Sinead Lyle

13:00 - 14:00 22 March 2022
Speaker: Sinead Lyle - UEA Title: Higher level Rouquier blocks Abstract: In the symmetric group algebra, the Rouquier blocks are an important class of blocks. We shall explore some…

Martin Palmer - Daoism in China’s Climate Change Policy

12:30 - 13:30 22 March 2022
This event is co-organised with the Manchester Museum. In this talk, broadcaster and theologian Martin Palmer will be examining the unique Daoist understanding of the Climate Crisis,…

Online Talk: Chinese Tea Culture - from the Yunnanese forests to Europe

18:00 - 19:00 22 March 2022
Join the Confucius Institute for an online talk on Chinese tea with tea-scholars and farmers Vivian Zhang and Lorenzo Barbieri from Eastern Leaves, who will show us how tea is grown…

Outdoor Explorers

4 August 2021 - 17 August 2022
Whether you live in a city or town, countryside or seaside, you will find all sorts of nature on your doorstep. Just like the scientists and researchers who have collected and studied…

Sarah Jones Careers Seminar

16:00 - 17:00 22 March 2022
Join the HCRI for its new Careers Seminar Series! Hear all about where your degree can take you from those in the workplace. We're delighted to welcome Sarah Jones, Headteacher at…

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:…

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…

Telescope Talks

25 September 2021 - 29 May 2022
Telescope Talks (weekends only) Times: 11am, 12pm, 2:15pm and 3:15pm Come and join one of our expert Explainers for a talk about the Lovell telescope. You’ll learn all about the fascinating…

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…

Workshop: Academic aero mobility in a post-pandemic future

09:00 - 11:00 22 March 2022
This workshop aims to spark/leverage changes on the academic structures and systems, helping to build institutional alliances that leverage About this event This workshop aims to spark/leverage…

Alexis Prevost - First passage percolation with long-range correlations and applications to random Schrödinger operators

15:00 - 16:00 23 March 2022
Alexis Prevost (University of Cambridge) will speak in the Probability seminar. I will present some results on first passage percolation (FPP) when the passage times have long-range…

Brownbag - Raffaele Rossi

13:00 - 14:00 23 March 2022
Title: Taxing Consumption in Unequal Economies

Islamic Manuscript Cultures; Workshop

13:00 - 14:30 23 March 2022
This workshop delves deeper into the topics introduced in our public talk ‘Islamic Manuscript Cultures’. Participants will see some of the finest examples of manuscripts from the University…

Logic Seminar - Richard Matthews (Leeds)

15:00 - 16:00 23 March 2022
Title: Constructing the Constructible Universe Constructively Abstract: Gödel's Constructible Universe, L, was introduced to show the consistency of the axiom of choice and the generalized…

Matthew Hennessy - Physical Applied Mathematics Seminar

14:00 - 15:00 23 March 2022
Matthew Hennessy (University of Bristol, Engineering Maths) joins us for this in-person seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series Abstract: Polyelectrolyte gels are soft,…

Michael Sieber -- What does microbiota composition tell us, and how do “microbiota” meet their host?

13:00 - 14:00 23 March 2022
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Michael Sieber (Max Planck Evolutionary Biology, Germany) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences.…

Training Course on Visualisation & quantification of tomographic datasets

09:00 23 - 17:00 24 March 2022
A 2 day training course covering theory and computer-based practical works using the Thermo Scientific™ Amira-Avizo Software. Lab/synchrotron X-ray tomography has emerged as one of…

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