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Capture the K-Culture - 2024 Korean culture promotion event

1 July - 30 September 2024
This project is designed to promote Korean culture to the public with students' creativity and their passion for their Korean culture. The topic of 2024 is Korean Alphabets, Hangul.…

DR PASCALE MASSOT: China's Vulnerability Paradox [Book Talk]

17:00 - 18:30 26 September 2024
Join our in-person book discussion on "China's Vulnerability Paradox", with Dr Pascale Massot (author) & Prof Matthew Paterson (moderator). ABOUT THE BOOK: "China’s Vulnerability Paradox"…

Econometrics Seminar - Xavier d'Haultfoeuille (CREST)

12:00 - 13:00 26 September 2024
Title TBA

Exhibition – Alison Wilding: Sculptor's Drawings

6 June 2024 - 12 January 2025
Alison Wilding: Sculptor's Drawings A display of newly acquired works on paper by the British sculptor Alison Wilding. Please note the Whitworth is closed on Mondays …

Exhibition – The ‘Death’ of the Life Room

6 June 2024 - 12 January 2025
The ‘Death’ of the Life Room 6 Jun 2024 – 12 January 2025 *Please note the Whitworth is closed on Mondays* Set against the backdrop of the 1950s this collection display highlights…

GDI Webinar: Why culture matters: a revised approach to political settlements analysis and institutional change

13:00 - 14:00 26 September 2024
Join us for the first GDI webinar of the new semester. Dr Clare Cummings (Lecturer in Politics and Development at GDI) will discuss her recent work surrounding political settlements…

WCLC: The Quatuor Danel with Richard Whalley (piano) - Bruckner 200 years Special

13:10 - 13:55 26 September 2024
Part of the Bruckner 200 years celebration, Richard Whalley joins the strings for a piano quartet by disciple of Bruckner, Gustav Mahler. Succeeded by Beethoven’s quartet in C minor,…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert: Bruckner 200 years Special

19:30 - 21:30 27 September 2024
Anton Bruckner (1824–1896) Six Scherzi for String Quartet, WAB 209 (1862) Theme and variations in E-flat major, WAB 210 (1862) String Quartet in C minor, WAB 111 (1862) Rondo in…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Lasse Rempe

14:00 - 15:00 30 September 2024
Speaker: Lasse Rempe (University of Manchester) Title: A counterexample to Eremenko's conjecture Abstract: Let f be an entire function (i.e., a holomorphic self-map of the complex…

Global Development Today... Whose 'Development' Is It Really?

16:00 - 17:30 30 September 2024
Join Deborah Doane, author of ‘The INGO Problem: Power, Privilege and Renewal’, and Nana Asantewa Afadzinu, Executive Director of the West Africa Civil Society Institute, to discuss…

Introduction to effective and practical research data management

10:00 - 11:30 30 September 2024
Research data management encompasses all stages of handling data created during a research project, either primary or secondary. It is not only about adhering to principles but also…

Mauricio Álvarez -- Bridging the gap between data-driven and mechanistic modelling: the latent force model approach. [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 30 September 2024
Join us for this seminar by Mauricio Álvarez (Manchester) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. More details about the joint series can…

Mike Degani (Cambridge): Nun of the River: The material and spiritual economies of small hydropower in rural Tanzania

15:00 - 17:00 30 September 2024
This talk examines the significance of hydroelectric mini-grids owned and operated by Catholic sisterhoods in rural Tanzania, situating them within a broader context of energy transition…

Welcome Concert: Manchester University Music Society and Chorus

13:10 - 14:00 30 September 2024
Manchester University Music Society (MUMS) host this special performance to welcome a new cohort of students to Manchester. In partnership with Chorus and Symphony, the concert signals…

Algebra seminar - Pavel Zalesski

14:00 - 15:00 1 October 2024
Title: Prosoluble subgroups of free profinite products Abstract: I shall discuss prosoluble subgroups of free profinite products towards a complete characterization of them in terms…

Hear me! Exhibition

1 - 31 October 2024
The Hear Me! science/art exhibition about impact of hearing loss, tinnitus and dizziness, which has just been installed at Students Hub in Jean McFarlane building. The exhibition…

How to become a computational social scientist

10:00 - 11:30 1 October 2024
Scientific research and teaching are increasingly influenced by computational tools, methods and paradigms. The social sciences are no different, with many new forms of social data…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Rodolphe Richard

15:00 - 16:00 1 October 2024
Speaker: Rodolphe Richard (University of Manchester) Title: The Hybrid conjecture Abstract: We present the Hybrid conjecture, an analogue for Shimura varieties of the Mordell - Lang…

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Manchester's Changing Chinese Community

17:00 - 18:30 1 October 2024
Join our in-person roundtable discussion with leaders of the local Manchester Chinese community. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS: Karen Wang - Deputy Director of the Confucius Institute Lisa Yam…

AI-Fun with ELLIS Seminar | José Miguel Hernández-Lobato: Deep Generative Models for Molecular Simulation

11:00 - 12:00 2 October 2024
The Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals and Manchester's ELLIS Unit are co-hosting a series of seminars featuring expert researchers working in the fundamentals of AI. Abstract:…

AMBS Event - Digital Echoes: How Our Tech Past Shapes Our Future

13:00 - 14:00 2 October 2024
Our Original Thinking Lecture series showcases some of the world-leading research from colleagues at Alliance Manchester Business School. Michelle Carter, Professor of Information Systems…

Brownbag - Katsushi Imai

13:00 2 October 2024
Title: tbd

Fairtrade: Celebrating 30 Years of a Movement for Global Economic Justice

13:30 - 15:00 2 October 2024
The School of Environment, Education and Development Annual Social Responsibility Lecture Fairtrade is celebrating its 30th anniversary in the UK. When consumers buy Fairtrade labelled…

Predicting COPD Exacerbations Using Personal Sensors

13:00 - 14:00 2 October 2024
We’re thrilled to welcome our partners at Imperial College London for the third webinar in the Health Research from Home series. This month, attendees will hear how Professor…

SQUIDS Seminar - Linear Approximation and Manifold Learning in Optimal Transport

15:00 - 16:00 2 October 2024
Abstract: Optimal transport distances are popular due to their 'modelling assumptions'. But significant drawbacks such as a lack of off-the-shelf data analysis tools and high computation…

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