Events
Find out more about the events, seminars and public lectures you can attend in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Lovell Lecture - Planetary Defence: Preventing Asteroid impacts
A live stream of Professor Alan Fitzsimmons’s lecture about asteroid 2024 YRA and the critical importance of planetary defence. Discover how scientists track cosmic threats and the ways they are preparing to defend our planet.
Training Course on In situ experiments and Digital Volume Correlation
Digital Volume Correlation (DVC) is a powerful experimental technique that computes 3D full-field displacement and strain maps from volumes images acquired during a deformation process of a material. DVC is the 3D extension of Digital Image Correlation (DIC) which was first described four decades ago. The emergence of DVC started early 2000s with...
Lovell Lecture: The Ingredients for life - OSIRIS-REx mission update
What can the Asteroid Bennu reveal about the early days of the Solar System? Join Dr Sarah Crowther for insights into the first published results from NASA's OSIRIS- REx misson - one of the most exciting space explorations of our time. This will be a live stream.
Training Course on Visualisation & quantification of tomographic datasets
A 2 day in person training course covering theory and computer-based practical works using the Thermo Scientific™ Amira-Avizo Software. Lab/synchrotron X-ray tomography has emerged as one of the most important techniques for research in a wide range of applications including healthcare, energy, food and geology. Advances in the quality of X-ray...
Team Research Spring 2025 Community Seminar (online)
Announcing the Team Research Spring 2025 Community Seminar (online) on Wednesday 21st May from 1.30pm to 3pm Join the Spring seminar from the University of Manchester’s Team Research Programme: with a keynote from Tayana Soukup Ascensao, Board member at INSciTS, Imperial College London, an introduction to PURE and Research Explorer from...
Translational Research at Manchester 2025: Celebrating Successes and Paving the Path Forward!
Translational Research at Manchester 2025 Join us to celebrate the successes of Translation Manchester, and to hear about the path forward for translational research support at the University of Manchester 2025 marks the sixth anniversary since the launch of Translation Manchester. It is also the final year of the Wellcome Trust Translational...
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