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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

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…

Cara Levey (Cork): Documenting Diaspora, Diasporizing Memory: Screening the Hijxs del exilio

17:00 - 19:00 23 November 2022
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. This event will take place in Samuel Alexander Building A202. However, it can be followed online…

Comparative Politics

16:00 - 17:30 23 November 2022
Diana Kudaibergenova (Cambridge University)

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…

Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT)

16:00 - 17:30 23 November 2022
Mihaela Popa-Wyatt (University of Manchester) https://mihaelapopawyatt.wordpress.com/

MET Seminar - Nikhil Vellodi (Paris School of Economics)

17:00 - 18:00 23 November 2022
Title: Insider Imitation Abstract: We study how regulating data usage impacts innovation in digital markets. Platforms commonly use proprietary data about third-party sellers to inform…

Mitchell centre Seminar series

16:00 - 18:00 23 November 2022
Paolo Campana University of Cambridge The Anatomy of Organised Crime Cooperation in a UK Police Area Organised Crime Groups (OCGs) constitute the backbone of many illegal markets…

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…

Applied Seminar - Jonathan Chapman (Bologna)

13:00 - 14:00 24 November 2022
Title: Democracy, Redistribution, and Inequality: Evidence from the English Poor Law

Consent issues in data sharing

10:00 - 11:30 24 November 2022
This free 90-minute online workshop will explain the difference between types of consent and how, as a researcher, you can consider data archiving, plus future reuse in the consent…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Kelsie Rodenbiker (University of Glasgow) ‘”Looking for Gold in Mud”: Ancient Ecclesiastical Perceptions of Pseudepigraphy’

14:00 - 15:30 24 November 2022
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. Sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via Zoom. To register to attend online,…

Living Songs

13:10 - 14:00 24 November 2022
Continuing their mission to bring new songs to music lovers around the UK, soprano Jessica Summers and pianist Jelena Makarova will give a lunchtime recital of songs both old and new,…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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