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Fascinate CPD in North Manchester

09:15 3 - 15:30 12 October 2023
This brand new Fascinate CPD Programme is for year group teachers and Science Subject leaders from schools in Bury, Bolton and Wigan. Hosted at Greenhill Primary School, Mile Lane,…

Mandarin Corner (every Wednesday)

16:45 4 October - 17:45 13 December 2023
Practice your Chinese and develop an appreciation of Chinese culture at our weekly Mandarin Corner. These are informal conversation sessions at Beginner (HSK 1-3) and Advanced (HSK…

NCHS: Silent Spaces

10:00 - 12:00 6 October 2023
Fridays, 10am – 12pm Sundays, 10am – 12pm Take time out and enjoy the restorative benefits of being peaceful in a green space. All we ask is: No phones, no talking and no cameras. Thank you.

Where the Wind Blows - Chinese film screening at HOME cinema

6 - 12 October 2023
We are delighted to continue our collaboration with HOME Cinema with the screening of "Where the Wind Blows". The film will be showing from Friday, 6th October until Thursday, 12th…

Deborah Levy (Manchester Literature Festival 2023)

19:00 7 October 2023
‘I projected myself into her and she became music.’ In August Blue, the latest novel by acclaimed author Deborah Levy, virtuoso pianist Elsa M. Anderson sees a woman in a flea market…

Kate Mosse in Conversation

16:30 7 October 2023
‘I am, indeed, notorious, feared over sea and land. I am the one they did not believe could exist. I am the commander of the Ghost Ship.’ In her gripping new novel,?The Ghost Ship,…

Max Porter presents Shy (Manchester Literature Festival 2023)

19:30 7 October 2023
MLF Members can book advance tickets on Wednesday 21 June. Tickets go on general sale on Friday 23 June. MLF Get Closer Membership starts at £20 pa. To buy an MLF Get Closer Membership…

NCHS: Feel Good Kid’s Art Club

13:00 - 15:00 7 October 2023
Clore Garden Studio & Whitworth Park, FREE Join us for a fun and expressive art and mindfulness session. Aimed at ages 7 -12 years, children will explore calming mindfulness techniques…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Andreas Swerdlow

13:30 - 14:30 9 October 2023
Title: Graphical calculus: from numerical methods to Feynman diagrams to higher Lie theory and microformal morphisms, part 2 Abstract: The goal of these talks is to explore a number…

Tasty molds: brewing culinary cultures for contemporary Japan

16:00 - 18:00 9 October 2023
Alice Doublier (CNRS): Tasty molds: brewing culinary cultures for contemporary Japan. For about a decade now, a small group of Japanese soy sauce brewers have been working on the revitalisation…

A Book Conversation with Chinese Authors Liu Zhenyun & Liang Hong

17:00 - 18:30 10 October 2023
Curious about Chinese literature in translation? Want to see what is worth reading coming out this year? Join us in the beautiful Portico Library in Central Manchester for a fascinating…

Algebra seminar - Coherence, non-positive immersions and L^2-Betti numbers

14:00 - 15:00 10 October 2023
Abstract: A group is said to be coherent if all of its finitely generated subgroups are finitely presented. Proving a group or a class of groups is coherent can often be a delicate…

Conversations on Urban Ageing and Sustainable Cities

14:30 10 October 2023
In Conversation, MUARG and MUI present: In collaboration with the Manchester Urban Institute, Jenny Fisher and James Evans will be in conversation discussing Urban Ageing and Sustainable…

Digital Trust and Security Seminar: Youcheng Sun

14:00 - 15:30 10 October 2023
An Arms Race in Intellectual Property Protection of Deep Learning Models Seminar with Q&A and Networking Date & Time: Tuesday 10th October 2023 | 14.00-15.30 (UK) Venue: Alan Turing…

GDI Lecture Series: Unpacking the ‘Developing’ Country Classification: Origins and Hierarchies

12:00 10 October 2023
The GDI Lecture series is pleased to present a webinar by Dr Deborah Barros Leal Farias of The University of New South Wales. Talk blurb: The division of the world into ‘developing’…

Introduction to Quantitative Time Diary Analysis

14:00 10 - 17:00 17 October 2023
This free online short course aims to introduce participants to time diary data analysis, a multidisciplinary field which has made a sustained contribution to social science over the…

Macro Seminar - Stephen Hansen (UCL)

16:00 - 17:00 10 October 2023
Title: National Accounts in a World of Naturally Occurring Data: A Proof of Concept for Consumption

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Julia Stadlmann

15:00 - 16:00 10 October 2023
Speaker: Julia Stadlmann (Oxford) Title: Primes in arithmetic progressions to smooth moduli Abstract: The twin prime conjecture asserts that there are infinitely many primes p for…

Michael Lewis: Flash Boys & New Tycoons (Manchester Literature Festival 2023)

19:00 - 20:15 10 October 2023
'I asked him how much it would take for him to sell?FTX?and go do something other than make money. He thought the question over. “One hundred and fifty billion dollars,” he finally…

NCHS: Dementia Naturally Active

14:00 - 15:00 10 October 2023
Whitworth Park Come and join City of Trees and The Whitworth for our Dementia Friendly walk on the second Tuesday of every month. The walks are designed for anyone living with a…

NCHS: Nature for Health – Print and Book Making

13:00 - 15:00 10 October 2023
Every Tuesday; 1pm – 3pm Clore Garden Studio & Whitworth Park Create prints from nature and make a series of books using different techniques. To make a referral, please contact…

Brownbag - Maria Plakhtieva

13:00 - 14:00 11 October 2023
Title: Measuring the gains of participation of compatible pairs in a Kidney Exchange Program

Nanoscale advanced materials engineering

12:00 - 13:00 11 October 2023
Join this EEE research seminar - Photonic, Quantum Materials and Devices series seminar event. The ability to engineer the electrical, optical and magnetic properties of advanced materials…

Nanoscale Advanced Materials Engineering

12:00 - 13:00 11 October 2023
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Prof. Richard Curry. The ability to engineer the electrical, optical and magnetic properties of advanced materials on the nanoscale is…

Pankhurst Seminar Series: Digital Health Inequities Edition - Developing digital tools to support a culturally-adapted family intervention with African & Caribbean people with psychosis

13:00 - 14:00 11 October 2023
Our next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities seminar series is on 11th October, 1-2pm via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/96943367950). Prof Dawn Edge & Dr Pauline Whelan from the University…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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