The University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is Britain's largest single-site university, with around 4,300 academic and research staff and a student body of approximately 40,000. The university can trace its roots to 1824, and has a proud research history laying claim to 25 Nobel Prize winners amongst its current and former staff and students. The most recent award was the 2011 Physics prize to Professors Geim and Novoselov for the isolation of graphene. The University was ranked as 3rd in the UK in term of "research power" in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (2008), and was ranked 38th in the world (5th in the UK) in the 2011 Jiao Tong rankings.

Chemistry at Manchester
The School of Chemistry at the University of Manchester is the second largest in the UK, with over 60 academic staff, approximately 650 undergraduate and over 200 postgraduate research students. It was ranked 4th in the 2008 UK Research Assessment Exercise "research power" ratings. The School of Chemistry and the Photon Science Institute host the EPSRC-funded UK National EPR Research Facility & Service, directed by Professors Collison and McInnes.

Chancellors Hotel and Conference Centre
The Chancellors Hotel and Conference Centre is conveniently located 10 minutes away from Manchester City Centre and Piccadilly Train Station. Situated in beautiful surroundings, Chancellors is ideal for meetings, conferences and training events. It is a dedicated conference centre with 12 meeting rooms varying from 2 boardroom to 125 theatre style. In the east wing are six modern and well equipped conference rooms surrounding the main Flowers lecture theatre. For a touch of elegance and style, located in the mansion house are the traditionally furnished C.P. Scott and Whitworth conference rooms along with a selection of new and contemporary Executive Boardrooms. All meeting rooms benefit from complimentary WiFi, LCD projector, flipchart, Plasma TV and DVD player.

City of Manchester
Manchester started life as a Roman settlement, but turned into the world's first great industrial city during the industrial revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries, even being the site of the world's first railway station. It has a proud history in science and technology, the famous firsts including splitting of the atom and creation of the first programmable computer. Manchester has undergone a great deal of redevelopment over the last couple of decades and is now the 3rd most popular tourist city in the UK.