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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

ESRC Festival of Social Science Returns to Manchester for its 20th anniversary

18 October - 13 November 2022
We are delighted to announce that between 22nd October to 13th November, the annual ESRC Festival of Social Sciences returns to Manchester for its 20th anniversary, with events taking…

Qualitative Methods Training for Manchester City Council, Autumn 2022

3 - 31 October 2022
We ran five qualitative methods training sessions for members of Manchester City Council as part of our CAPE project. After introducing the foundations and principles of qualitative…

The Chinese economy in the long run

21 October 2022
Date: October 21, 2022 Conference title: The Chinese Economy in the Long Run Location: The University of Manchester Room: Arthur Lewis Building Boardroom 2.016 (second floor)…

[Internal UoM Event] Data Science and AI Innovation Club Monthly Meeting

15:00 - 16:00 21 October 2022
This is a monthly meeting of the Data Science and AI Innovation Club. Innovation Spotlight: David Wong will talk to us about research funding for Data Science and AI. The purpose…

October half-term: Journey Through The Night Sky

22 - 30 October 2022
Bottoms on seats, head in the stars, stare into space and be guided through the night sky during our traditional Dome Shows led by our team of experienced presenters, using software…

October half-term: Meet The Expert

22 - 30 October 2022
Curious about the cosmos? Meet an expert who will welcome you to their science and blow your mind. Ask all the space questions you have ever wanted to! These sessions may include experts…

October half-term: Telescope Walking Tours

22 - 30 October 2022
Jodrell Bank is famous for its big dish. Find out why and what it does. Wow doesn’t even capture it. Talks last approximately 30 minutes and take place at various times throughout the day.

October half-term: We Are Stars

22 - 30 October 2022
This immersive show takes you on an exciting journey to discover our cosmic origins through use of amazing animation. Find the answers to some of the biggest questions of all time such…

Behind Closed Doors

18:00 - 20:00 24 October 2022
Over a third of the population have tried illegal drugs and a tenth take them regularly. Yet the possession of drugs is illegal. In the context of prohibitionist drug policies, how…

Doing Legal Anthropology in Indonesia and Japan: Reimagining Law and its Plurality through the Concept of "Jyouri"

16:00 - 18:00 24 October 2022
Sayaka Takano (Chuo University) Chair: Méadhbh McIvor

Fayyaz Minhas -- How Machine Learning is Transforming Pathology [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 24 October 2022
Join us for this seminar by Fayyaz Minhas (Warwick) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found here…

Introduction to machine learning

13:00 - 14:00 24 October 2022
What is machine learning? How is machine learning different from classic statistics? What are its applications? What type of models exist within machine learning? If these are questions…

MIOIR Seminar Series - What is the future of scientific theory in the era of proxy? Measures and algorithmic decision-making

15:30 - 16:30 24 October 2022
Join us for the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 22/23, webinar hosted by Dirk Lindebaum, Professor in Organisation and Management at Grenoble Ecole de Management…

Macro Seminar - Jane Olmstead-Rumsey (LSE)

16:00 - 17:00 25 October 2022
Title: Market Concentration and the Productivity Slowdown

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Shezad Mohammed

13:00 - 14:00 25 October 2022
Speaker: Martin Van beek - Manchester Title: Fusion Systems and Rank Two Amalgams Abstract: Saturated fusion systems capture abstract conjugacy in $p$-subgroups of finite groups and…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Kyle Pratt

15:00 - 16:00 25 October 2022
Speaker: Kyle Pratt (University of Oxford) Title: The irrationality of a divisor function series of Erdos and Kac Abstract: For each positive integer k Erdos and Kac defined a number,…

October half-term: Autism Friendly Early Opening

25 October 2022
Join us from 9am on Tuesday 25th October for our autism-friendly early-opening session. There will be a chill out room and reduced noise in our exhibition spaces; we’ll also run a relaxed…

Brownbag - Guillaume Blanc

13:00 - 14:00 26 October 2022
Title: Demographic Change and Development Using Crowdsourced Genealogies

Enrique Thomann - Branching Process applied to Partial Differential Equations (in-person)

14:00 - 15:00 26 October 2022
Enrique Thomann (Oregon State University) will speak in the Probability seminar. A survey of recent results obtained in joint work with Radu Dascaliuc, Tuan Pham and Ed Waymire, relating…

Molten membranes and solid sorbents for next-generation carbon dioxide separation

12:00 - 13:00 26 October 2022
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr Greg A. Mutch. Chemical separation processes account for 10 – 15% of global energy consumption and 40 – 90% of capital and operating…

Training Course on Advanced Scripting and Batching of Tomographic Datasets

09:00 26 - 17:00 27 October 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…

What Makes a Place Urban?

12:00 - 13:30 26 October 2022
Please contact Felix Agyemang at <felix.agyemang@manchester.ac.uk> for the Zoom link and password for this event. The quintessence of urbanity is a sustained geographic concentration…

Where microbes meet metals, minerals and magnetism

14:00 - 15:00 26 October 2022
Dr. James Byrne from Bristol University will present this week’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminar

Would you trust a cybercriminal?

13:00 - 14:00 26 October 2022
Digital Trust & Security Seminar Series: Dr Alice Hutchings Date & Time: Wednesday 26th October 2022, 1300 - 1400 (UK). Online seminar with Q&A and discussion. Summary: Cybercrime…

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