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Advances in Data Science and AI Seminar | Urban-Regional Planning and Data-intensive technologies: needs, trends and challenges in a developing country

14:00 - 15:00 26 April 2022
Dr. Augusto dos Santos Pereira is a Brazilian Geographer at the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (Brazilian census bureau). He also works as a consultant in Urban Geography,…

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

Cancer Research UK Manchester Centre Launch Celebration

10:00 - 13:00 26 April 2022
The Cancer Research UK Manchester Centre Launch Celebration event will mark the launch of the new Centre following the successful renewal of research funding for a further five years…

David Stroup - Pure and True: The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China's Hui Muslims (Book Launch)

12:30 - 13:30 26 April 2022
China points to the Hui—the largest Muslim ethnic group—as a model ethnic minority and touts its harmonious relations with the group as an example of the party’s success in ethnic politics.…

Demi Allen (University of Exeter) - An inhomogeneous Khintchine–Groshev Theorem without monotonicity

15:00 - 16:00 26 April 2022
Abstract : The classical (inhomogeneous) Khintchine–Groshev Theorem tells us that for a monotonic approximating function ?:N?[0,?) the Lebesgue measure of the set of (inhomogeneously)…

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…

GM Connected Health Ecosystem: Deep dive into the GM Care Record – connecting health and care across Greater Manchester

13:00 - 15:00 26 April 2022
The next Connected Health Ecosystem of 2021 will be held virtually on Tuesday 26 April 2022, 13.00 - 15.00. Health and care organisations across Greater Manchester have accelerated…

Macro Seminar - Jonna Olsson (Edinburgh)

16:00 - 17:00 26 April 2022
Title: Subjective Life Expectancies, Time Preference Heterogeneity and Wealth Inequality

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Billy Woods

13:00 - 14:00 26 April 2022
Speaker: Billy Woods - University of Essex Title: Filtered skew power series rings Abstract: Skew polynomial rings show up naturally as group algebras, universal enveloping algebras…

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…

Reproducibility Bootcamp - online

26 April - 24 May 2022
Ideally, research is collaborative, well-documented, sharable, and can be reproduced by others (or by the original researchers at a later point in time). Not only does this make a researcher’s…

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:…

Star Hunters Trail

6 April - 1 May 2022
Star Hunters Trail Wednesday 6th April – Sunday 1st May Please note the centre will be closed from 15-18 April. Seek out what the night sky has to offer in this brand new scavenger…

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.…

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…

Trans Healthcare: Past, Present & What Might Have Been

18:00 - 20:00 26 April 2022
Part of a broader project on trans healthcare and creativity, this event will explore the past, present and 'what might have been' of trans healthcare provision in the UK. What is trans…

Writing and Industrial Revolution, 1795 - 1835 with Jon Mee

17:15 - 19:00 26 April 2022
In this online event, Professor Jon Mee (University of York) presents, “All that the most romantic imagination could previously have conceived”: Writing an Industrial Revolution 1795…

Bike Registration Event

08:00 - 11:00 27 April 2022
Free Bike Marking session - To qualify for a discounted 'D' lock students and staff must register their bikes on the University scheme. LOCKS MUST BE BOUGHT THROUGH THE UNIVERSITY'S…

CGP Cluster Seminar Series Events in Semester 2, 2021-2022 - Roundtable

13:30 - 15:00 27 April 2022
'A Messy/uncomfortable Conversation about Whiteness In the Academy'

Doing sensory methods: Sensations and everyday elicitations

09:30 - 13:00 27 April 2022
Part of the Creative stream organised by methods@manchester, this event offers a practical introduction and develops a critical consideration of sensory methods. Sensory methods can…

Jennifer Wadsworth - A tour through multivariate extreme value methodology

14:00 - 15:00 27 April 2022
Jennifer Wadsworth, Senior Lecturer in Statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University. is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title: A…

Kirsty Wan -- Distinct gaits of self-propulsion in microswimmers

13:00 - 14:00 27 April 2022
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Kirsty Wan (Exeter) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found…

Norman Erikson Pasaribu in conversation with Will Harris

12:30 - 14:00 27 April 2022
International Booker Prize long-lister Norman Erikson Pasaribu will be in conversation with the poet and Burgess Writer Fellow, Will Harris. Norman Erikson Pasaribu is a writer and…

Training Course on Advanced Scripting and Batching of Tomographic Datasets

09:00 27 - 17:00 28 April 2022
Although X-ray tomography is an attractive characterisation technique in materials science, it generates a huge amount of data at a fast rate and it can be extremely time consuming…

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