Welcome to Manchester

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Welcome to Manchester

• Roger Barlow

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The Town

• Origins in Roman times

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The City

• Centre of the Cotton Industry
• Mills and warehouses (still around)

Massive growth in work and population and (for
some) wealth
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The architecture

• Wealthy cotton magnates spent money on civic
  buildings

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The Heritage

• Manchester School economists and politicians
• Cobden, Bright, Peel, Fielden, Brotherton,
  Owens
• Radical voices for
• democracy
• workers rights
• abolishing privilege
• free trade
• that shaped todays society

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The University

• Grew from 1824 Mechanics Institute
• 35,000 students
• 26,000 undergraduates
• Major rebuilding programme

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Physics

• School intake 250 undergraduates/year
• Research covers all Physics
• and Astronomy
• Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope is part of us

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Particle Physics - Past

• Rutherford split the atom here
• (Cambridge please note)
• Rochester and Butler discovered the Strange
  Particles
• (but never got the Nobel prize)

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Particle Physics Present and Future
EXPERIMENT
THEORY
ACCELERATORS
Model Building.
ILC
QCD
LHC
nsFFAG
FP420