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AN IMPERFECT ACCOUNT OF A COMET

18 November 2022 - 16 April 2023
An Imperfect Account of a Comet is an audio-visual installation by Lynda Laird celebrating the celestial discoveries of the 18th century astronomer Caroline Herschel. The work is presented…

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

Guantanamo and the legal battle against torture (HCRI/MILC event)

17:30 - 19:00 21 November 2022
Prof. Lisa Hajjar will discuss her new book, 'The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture', with a particular focus on the legal battles over the treatment of people detained…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Look where they are! Firms’ eco-innovation and Industry 4.0 technologies in urban and rural areas

11:30 - 12:30 21 November 2022
Join us for the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 22/23, webinar hosted by Sandro Montresor, full professor of Applied Economics at the Gran Sasso Science Institute…

“...No more than one can see the grass growing.”

16:00 - 18:00 21 November 2022
Alexander Schellow (Filmmaker and researcher, ERG - School of Graphic Research) Chair: Alexandra D’Onofrio

Confucius Institute Talk: Male beauty vlogging in China - a masculinities perspective

18:00 - 19:00 22 November 2022
Male beauty vlogging is flourishing in China despite fears of a masculinity ‘crisis’, sissyphobia and LGBT crackdowns. Key questions arise: To what extent does male beauty vlogging…

How to become a computational social scientist

10:00 - 11:30 22 November 2022
This free workshop is an introduction to computational social science. It offers attendees a chance to understand and discuss what computational social science is, what it is good for,…

Macro Seminar - Daniel Lewis (UCL)

16:00 - 17:00 22 November 2022
Title: Dynamic Identification Using System Projections and Instrumental Variables

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Sue Sierra

13:00 - 14:00 22 November 2022
Speaker: Sue Sierra Title: TBC Place: Frank Adams (this term the seminar will not be streamed online) Tea and biscuits 12:45 in the foyer

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Roger Plymen

15:00 - 16:00 22 November 2022
Speaker: Roger Plymen (University of Manchester) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

William C. Kirby - "Empire of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China," (Book Discussion)

17:00 - 18:00 22 November 2022
WEBINAR: Today American institutions dominate nearly every major ranking of global universities. Yet in historical terms, America’s preeminence is relatively new, and there is no reason…

Brownbag - Nuno Palma

13:00 - 14:00 23 November 2022
Title: The Fraudster and the Bank

Campus visit for school and college groups

13:15 - 15:15 23 November 2022
The visit will take place between 1.15pm and 3.15pm and the timetable is as follows: 1.15pm A welcome presentation delivered by a member of the Student Recruitment Team, who will…

Earth in the Emergency Room: Recovery of Earth after the Moonforming Giant Impact

13:00 - 14:00 23 November 2022
Dr. Simon Lock from Bristol University will present this week’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminar

Eradicating extreme poverty in China: A sociological account.

01:00 - 14:00 23 November 2022
China has lifted more than 700 million people out of poverty since late 1970s and announced in 2020 a sweeping victory on ending extreme poverty after an eight years’ national fight…

GDI Lecture Series - Lost Lands: Indigenous People and Land Rights in East Africa - POSTPONED

15:00 - 16:30 23 November 2022
Indigenous people’s land claims meet with suspicion and distrust. This lecture will explore examples of indigenous people’s claims to lost lands. It reads these claims through the lens…

Logic seminar: Vahagn Aslanyan (Leeds)

15:15 - 16:15 23 November 2022
Title: Model-theoretic Algebraic Closure in Zilber’s Field Abstract: I will explain how the model-theoretic algebraic closure in Zilber’s pseudo-exponential field can be described…

Pankhurst Seminar

14:00 - 15:00 23 November 2022
Conducted by Carl Death

Robert Gaunt - Normal approximation for the posterior in exponential families (in-person)

15:00 - 16:00 23 November 2022
Robert Gaunt (University of Manchester) will speak in the Probability seminar. (in-person) The Bernstein-von Mises (BvM) Theorem is a cornerstone in Bayesian statistics. Loosely put,…

Rochdale Catholic Primary Science Subject Leader Network: Autumn Term Meeting

13:00 - 16:00 23 November 2022
We're delighted that SEERIH's termly Primary Science Subject Leader Regional Networks will take place in person throughout 2022-2023. In order to facilitate forward planning in schools,…

Rochdale REAL Trust Primary Science Subject Leader Network: Autumn Term Meeting

09:00 - 12:00 23 November 2022
We're delighted that SEERIH's termly Primary Science Subject Leader Regional Networks will take place in person throughout 2022-2023. We encourage teachers attend all sessions wherever…

School of Environment, Education and Development Inaugural Lectures

04:30 - 06:30 23 November 2022
O?n Wednesday, 23 November, join the School of Environment, Education and Development for our winter inaugural lectures with Professor Terry Hanley and Professor Sarah Marie Hall from…

Thomas Barker -- Continuum modelling of flowing grains [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 23 November 2022
Join us for this seminar by Tom Barker (Cardiff -- previously Manchester) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series…

Training Course on Advanced Scripting and Batching of Tomographic Datasets

09:00 23 - 17:00 24 November 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…

[Internal UoM Event] Mapping/GIS Innovation Club Monthly Meeting

15:00 - 16:00 23 November 2022
This is a monthly meeting of the Mapping/GIS Innovation Club. Innovation Spotlight: Jonny Huck on using GIT for GIS. The purpose of Mapping/GIS club activity is to allow UoM researchers…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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