Events

The Albatross Lecture 2025: Dr Jared Margulies

11:00 - 15:00 23 January 2025

* **Please note this event is open to those both internal and external to The University of Manchester*** Join us on the 23rd January 2024 to hear a keynote presentation from Dr Jared Margulies, Assistant Professor at The University of Alabama and author of The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade. Followed by..

Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Dr. Ben Collier

14:00 - 16:00 29 January 2025

UK police forces are increasingly adopting 'influence policing', a form of digital influence campaign that uses internet technologies and behavioral psychology to prevent crime. Initially developed for counter-radicalization, it now targets a range of areas, including online child abuse, knife crime, and cybercrime, raising ethical and theoret..

Training Course on Visualisation & quantification of tomographic datasets

30 - 31 January 2025

A 2 day in person training course covering theory and computer-based practical works using the Thermo Scientificâ„¢ 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..

Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter (HCRI talk)

14:00 - 15:30 05 February 2025

The Humanitarian & Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) is hosting Prof Tom Scott-Smith to introduce and discuss his new book - Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter. Registration is required, via https://fragments-of-home.eventbrite.co.uk ABOUT THE BOOK Abandoned airports. Shipping containers. Squatted hotels. These a..

Training Course on In situ experiments and Digital Volume Correlation

18 - 19 February 2025

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 w..

Training Course on Advanced Scripting and Batching of Tomographic Datasets

24 - 25 March 2025

Although X-ray tomography is an attractive characterisation technique in materials science, it generates a huge amount of data at a fast rate and it can be extremely time consuming to process the data manually. A great benefit to creating scripts and plugins in Avizo is the ability to reuse a workflow on more than one image or to develop a bes..

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