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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

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…

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…

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…

Lane Lecture 2024: Delivering Occupational Health Research in Government: an important front line service?

17:00 - 20:00 2 October 2024
HSE has a proud history of undertaking occupational health research, either by funding others or using its in house capability. In this lecture Professor Andrew Curran CBE will review…

Logic seminar: Philip Dittmann

15:15 - 16:30 2 October 2024
TBA

Mandarin Corner (EVERY WEDNESDAY)

16:30 2 October - 17:30 4 December 2024
THIS IS A RECURRING EVENT - EVERY WEDNESDAY at 4:30PM – 5:30PM Mandarin Corner is back for another term and we're delighted to bring you more language practice and some cultural activities.…

MET Seminar - Antonio Penta

17:00 - 18:00 2 October 2024
Title: Incentive Compatibility and Belief Restrictions (joint with Mariann Ollar) Abstract: We study a framework for robust mechanism design that can accommodate various degrees of…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 2 October 2024
Michael Heaney, University of Glasgow Theory and Possibilities in Social Network Analysis As social network analysis has grown in use over the past quarter century, it has become a…

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…

Are Race and Religion on the 2024 US Election Ballot?

13:00 - 14:30 3 October 2024
Join us for a lunchtime discussion of race and religion in the 2024 US election campaign. Keith Magee, renowned intellectual, theologian and scholar will be in discussion with writer…

Behaviour Change Seminar Series: Dr Siobhan Caughey and Prof Mark Healey

15:00 - 16:00 3 October 2024
The Behaviour Change Meeting Group at The University of Manchester has the purpose of bringing together academics and clinicians across several institutes who are working with behaviour…

Econometrics Seminar - Pietro Emilio Spini (Bristol)

12:00 - 13:00 3 October 2024
Title TBA

Startup Spotlight with Sid Sethi

17:00 - 18:30 3 October 2024
Date: Thursday 3rd October 2024 Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Location: Enterprise Zone 2.039, 2nd Floor, Alliance Manchester Business School Event Overview: Join us for an exciting edition…

The Man who Photobombed De Gaulle

16:00 - 18:00 3 October 2024
The 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris offers an opportunity to explore the discrepancy between race-based mythologies around the Second World War and Black involvement in…

WCLC: The Lucky Dog Picturehouse – silent movie screening with live musical accompaniment

13:10 - 13:55 3 October 2024
Experience silent comedies from over 100 years ago with era-authentic scores, performed live by the musicians of The Lucky Dog Picturehouse. Presented by Music, Drama & Film departments.…

Exhibition – Barbara Walker

4 October 2024 - 26 January 2025
Barbara Walker 4 October 2024 – 26 January 2025 Please note the Whitworth is closed on Mondays Our autumn 2024 programme leads with the first-ever survey exhibition…

Lunchtime concert: Manchester University Music Society’s Piano Showcase

13:10 - 13:55 4 October 2024
Manchester University Music Society’s Piano Showcase is the first weekly lunchtime concert of the academic year! Come along to see your friends and peers play piano music by Bach, Liszt, Faure, and more!

Manchester Literature Festival 2024: Caroline Lucas

14:30 - 15:45 5 October 2024
‘Engaging, illuminating and ultimately uplifting, Another England opens the path to a renewed country with real reasons to be proud of itself.’ Fintan O’Toole Caroline Lucas, former…

MLF 2024: Jackie Kay: A Life in Poetry and Protest

19:00 - 20:15 5 October 2024
Festival favourite Jackie Kay (Red Dust Road) returns to celebrate her new poetry collection May Day. From Reclaim the Streets to Pride to Greenham Common to Black Lives Matter, Jackie…

Manchester Literature Festival: Lindsey Hilsum

16:30 - 17:45 6 October 2024
‘I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a poem came to me when I could no longer find my own.’ In the four decades she’s spent…

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