Manchester Science Festival 2011
22 - 30 October 2011

What's on at The University of Manchester

Chemistry Building

University of Manchester Brunswick Street Manchester

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Test tubes

Using chemistry to discover new medicines and improve lives

Thu 20 Oct 2011 1pm - 2.30pm

Delivered by one of the worlds' leading pharmaceutical companies, this talk has been designed for students studying A-level Chemistry to demonstrate how Chemistry is used to discover new medicines...

Hulme Hall (Victoria Park Campus)

Manchester M14 5RR

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Neurons

A stroke of bad luck: Understanding brain disease (Fully booked)

Tue 18 Oct 2011 1pm - 2pm

This lecture will be aimed at sixth form and college Biology students, and the focus of the talk will be the brain...

Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama

University of Manchester Bridgeford Street Manchester M13 9PL

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Singing

Computers rock our music world

Tue 25 Oct 2011 7.30pm - 8.30pm

Oasis, The Chemical Brothers, The Fall: Manchester is well-known for its musical heritage, but where would it have got to without science?

Laughter

Laughter yoga workshop (Fully booked)

Mon 24 Oct 2011 5.30pm - 6.30pm

Laughter Yoga is based on the concept of laughing for no reason except that it’s good for us!

The Whitworth Art Gallery

University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M15 6ER

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Smoking test tube

Dialogues: art and science (Fully booked)

Tue 25 Oct 2011 6pm - 8.30pm

Join us at the intersection of art and science to discover how the two disciplines can collide with spectacular results.

Bug

Science spectacular

Sat 29 Oct 2011 11am - 3pm

Find out why plants don't fall over, take a journey through a jet engine, explore the invisible universe...

Research, Multi color test tubes over white background

Chemistry show in British Sign Language

Sat 29 Oct 2011 1pm - 2pm

Dr Audrey Cameron and Gary Quinn will play as ‘Brainy and Brawny’ and demonstrate science experiments in British Sign Language

Brain Cox, robin Ince

BBC Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage (Fully Booked)

Fri 14 Oct 2011 7.30pm - 9pm

Join Robin Ince and Professor Brian Cox and be entertained by their witty, irreverent take on the world according to science...

Fingerprint

Biomedical imaging: where physics and medicine meet (Fully booked)

Mon 17 Oct 2011 2.30pm - 4pm

In this event, researchers and current University students will give a series of short talks about cutting edge medical imaging research and speculate about future developments, followed by an audience-led discussion...