| Yuval Evri: Andalusian Legacies: the role of al-Andalus/Sepharad in the political and cultural history of Israel/Palestine |
Yuval Evri discusses the uses of the the image of Al-Andalus in political and cultural discourses in the turn of the 20th Century. |
Yuval Evri, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| Real versus rubbish EBM: do you know the difference? |
A light hearted account of being treated by the 'wrong' guideline - with a serious conclusion about making sure this doesn’t happen. |
Trish Greenhalgh |
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| The Decision Point: Military Command in the 21st Century |
Professor Anthony King gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series. |
Anthony King |
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| Adapting to Sanctions: How Russia Responded to Western Economic Statecraft |
Dr Richard Connolly gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series. |
Richard Connolly |
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| Seeing and Seeing-as: Building a politics of visibility in criminology |
All Souls Seminar: 1st February 2018. |
Sarah Armstrong |
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| Launch of new website to catalogue biases affecting health and medical research |
Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr David Nunan from the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine presented the launch of a new website that catalogues the important biases affecting health and medical research. |
Carl Heneghan, David Nunan, Sir Iain Chalmers |
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| Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order: Walling the Welfare State |
All Souls Seminar, Centre for Criminology, Univeristy of Oxford, 18th January 2018. |
Vanessa Barker |
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| Beyond accuracy: Evidence gaps and unintended consequences. Factors influencing utility of point-of-care diagnostic tests |
Point-of-care or near-patient-tests, are as these descriptors suggest, medical diagnostic tests which can be performed by a clinician, patient, or carer of a patient, without the need for samples to be transported to laboratories. |
Phil Turner |
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| Mixed methods in the real world: a messy business? |
Dr Katherine Pollard gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare seminar series. |
Katherine Pollard |
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| How To Think About Limited War (Without Limiting Your Thinking) |
'Limited War' is one of the terms making a frequent appearance in the strategic studies, international relations, and military history realms over the last 70 years. |
Donald Stoker |
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| The Role of Deterrence in Managing Great Power Competition |
This seminar will not only offer a core foundation in the concept of deterrence, from a practitioner's perspective, but explore its utility and application to present day conflict scenarios in Europe, in particular the case of Russia and NATO. |
Michael Kofman |
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| The Future of Healthcare - Evidencer and Value Based |
Muir Gray is now working with both NHS England and Public Health England to bring about a transformation of care with the aim of increasing value for both populations and individuals. Here he gives a talk on improving healthcare systems. |
Muir Gray |
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| The Culture of New Wars |
Mary Kaldor discussing her pioneering work on the concept of new wars and global civil society. Her work on the practical implementation of human security has directly influenced European and national politics. |
Mary kaldor |
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| Regional Opportunities and Challenges Facing the West in the Middle East |
The focus of this presentation is on post-ISIS Syria and Iraq, Iranian ascendancy in the region, and the reaction of the US, UK and their allies in the region. It also considers prospects for Saudi Arabian reform and leadership of the Arab world. |
Jonathan Paris |
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| 'Art and Attunement', by Professor Rita Felski, University of Virginia and Southern Denmark |
In this talk Rita Felski reported at new research on how we engage with works of art across a broad range (including cat videos) and considered the puzzling question of why we are drawn by some pieces of music, art and literature, and not by others. |
Rita Felski |
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| The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
Professor Emma Smith gives the last of her 2017 Shakespeare lectures on his early comedy, Two Gentlemen of Verona. |
Emma Smith |
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| Can Yule Solve My Problems? - Alex Bellos |
In our Oxford Mathematics Christmas Lecture Alex Bellos challenges you with some festive brainteasers as he tells the story of mathematical puzzles from the middle ages to modern day. |
Alex Bellos |
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| Core Course: Architects or Artisans? The Builders of the Medieval Cathedrals |
This lecture forms part of series entitled Introduction to the History of Art, a core course taught to the first year undergraduate History of Art students. |
Gervase Rosser |
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| Life as a trial statistician – the good, the bad and the ugly |
Professor Jonathan Cook is a Senior Medical Statistician at the Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit. |
Jonathan Cook |
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| Avi Shlaim - A Jordanian Perspective on Israel |
Prof. Avi Shlaim reviews the history of the Jordanian-Israeli relations, and considers how Israel is viewed and understood from the Jordanian side |
Avi Shlaim, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| How we change behaviour and what to do to support it: lessons from randomised controlled trials and other research |
Professor Paul Aveyard, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences gives a talk on behavioural change in evidence based medicine. |
Paul Aveyard |
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| And then the magic happens! Can realist synthesis really be systematic? |
Dr Andrew Booth gives a talk for the Realist Reviews and Realist Evaluations short course. |
Andrew Booth |
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| The State of the Universe |
Our Universe was created in 'The Big Bang' and has been expanding ever since. Professor Schmidt describes the vital statistics of the Universe, and tries to make sense of the Universe's past, present, and future. |
Brian Schmidt |
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| Lessons From a Study in Failure - The Force Intervention Brigade and the United Nations Mission in Congo, 2012-2017 |
This seminar is concerned with the broad issues raised by the UN’s long-running mission in the DRC and what it tells us about the deeper challenges facing the UN as it continues to grapple with civil war and protection crises in different parts of Africa. |
Mats Berdal |
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| Wall Street Goes to War |
In this provocative seminar, Dr Sean McFate, author, novelist and expert in foreign policy and national security strategy, looks at the neglected area of the economics of war. |
Sean McFate |
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| Working 'up' and 'out': how qualitative researchers approach analysis |
Dr John MacArtney gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare seminar series. |
John MacArtney |
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| Henry VI, Part 2 |
Professor Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a 2017 lecture on the early history play, Henry VI, Part 2. |
Emma Smith |
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| Jews, Israel and Debate: Understanding Israel in the Diaspora |
Why and how should we study Diaspora Jews' relation to Israel? |
Ilan z Baron, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| Soft War: The Ethics on Unarmed Conflict |
Soft war tactics, including cyber-warfare and economic sanctions, propaganda and non-violent resistance are of increasing importance but largely unexplored in just war theory. This talk illuminates this neglected aspect of international conflict. |
Michael L. Gross |
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| The Merry Wives of Windsor |
Professor Emma Smith lectures on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. |
Emma Smith |
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| All's Well That Ends Well |
Professor Emma Smith lectures on Shakespeare’s comedy All's Well That Ends Well. |
Emma Smith |
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| Superconductors: why it’s cool to be repulsive |
A family-friendly demonstration of superconductors in action. Fran explores the low temperatures we need to make them work, and how we can use superconductors for levitating trains. |
Fran Kirschner |
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| Cymbeline |
Professor Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on one of Shakespeare’s later plays, Cymbeline. |
Emma Smith |
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| Giving Up The Gun: Disengaging from Politically Motivated Violence in Northern Ireland |
Is de-radicalisation of former terrorists helpful or even possible? This presentation explores the processes involved in leaving social movements or disengaging from terrorist activities. |
Neil Ferguson |
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| A little known law of numbers |
Professor Jeffrey Aronson, Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare lecture series, |
Jeffrey Aronson |
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| Cassini-Huygens: Space Odyssey to Saturn and Titan |
Public Lecture organised by the Aeronautical Society of Oxford in conjunction with the Department of Physics. |
David Southwood |
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| The End of Peace and Optimism: Assessing the Changing Character of War |
A 'deliberately provocative' assessment of contemporary conflict. |
Rob Johnson |
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| Critical Appraisal and EBM in the Real World |
The overwhelming volume of evidence and its lack of relevance to patient care and decisions means health professionals require skills to sift evidence more efficiently: discarding what doesn't make a difference to focus on evidence that matters for health |
Carl Heneghan |
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| The Problem of Evil |
Oxford students discuss the problem posed by the existence of evil in the world to the Christian and Hindu gods. |
Alice Harberd, Frazer MacDiarmid, Luke Martin, Tilak Parekh |
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| Making trials more efficient: Trial Forge and how you can help |
Trials are important; very often they are also inefficient. Trial Forge aims to improve trial efficacy by identifying and then filling gaps in trial methods research. |
Shaun Treweek |
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| Using mixed methods in health psychology: Reflections on research design, epistemology, and practicalities |
In this talk, Dr Felicity Bishop will critically reflect on mixed methods research that she has conducted and discuss the philosophical and technical challenges of mixed methods. |
Felicity Bishop |
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| The Law of the Few - Sanjeev Goyal |
The study of networks offers a fruitful approach to understanding human behaviour. Sanjeev Goyal is one of its pioneers. In this lecture Sanjeev presents a puzzle: |
Sanjeev Goyal |
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| Observation of the mergers of binary black holes: The opening of gravitational wave astronomy |
The 2017 Halley Lecture 7th June 2017 delivered by Professor Rainer Weiss, MIT on behalf of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration |
Rainer Weiss |
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| Ghost Imaging with Quantum Light |
Physics Colloquium 26th May 2017 delivered by Professor Miles Padgett, University of Glasgow |
Miles Padgett |
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| Pulsars and Extreme Physics - A 50th Anniversary |
Physics Colloquium 5th May 2017 delivered by Dame Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
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| Starquakes Expose Stellar Heartbeats |
The 14th Hintze Biannual Lecture 4th May 2017 delivered by Professor Conny Aerts - Director, Institute of Astronomy KU Leuven |
Connie Aerts |
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| On the origin and nature of values |
One of the world's leading theorist in Cosmology, Professor Ellis delivers the 2017 Tanner Lecture on Human Values |
George Ellis |
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| Curiosity’s Search for Ancient Habitable Environments at Gale Crater, Mars |
4th Annual Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture in Planetary Geology delivered by Professor John Grotzinger, Caltech, USA |
John Grotzinger |
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| Spatio-temporal Optical Vortices |
Physics Colloquium 10th March 2017 delivered by Professor Howard Milchberg, University of Maryland, USA |
Howard Milchberg |
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| Learning new physics from a medieval thinker: Big Bangs and Rainbows |
Physics Colloquium 24 February 2017 delivered by Professor Tom McLeish FRS, Department of Physics and Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Durham University, UK |
Tom McLeish |
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| The applied side of Bell nonlocality |
Physics Colloquium 17 February 2016 delivered by Professor Valerio Scarani |
Valerio Scarani |
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| Better evidence for better healthcare manifesto |
The integration of evidence with clinical expertise and patient values which underpins the delivery of high quality evidence-based medicine. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| Moving Beyond Punitivism: Anthropological Engagements with Punishment and State Failure |
Insa Koch, LSE - 19 Jan 2017 |
Insa Koch |
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| Exploring the Long Term Effects of 'Thatcherite' Social and Economic Policies for Crime |
Stephen Farrall, University of Sheffield - 02 Feb 2017 |
Stephen Farrall |
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| Crime, Order and the Two Faces of Conservatism |
Ian Loader, University of Oxford - 10 Nov 2016 |
Ian Loader |
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| The Problems of Long-term Imprisonment |
Ben Crewe, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge - 6 October 2016 |
Ben Crewe |
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| The Beauty of Flavour - Latest results from the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider |
Physics Colloquium 3 February 2017 delivered by Professor Val Gibson, Cambridge |
Val Gibson |
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| From Materials to Cosmology: Studying the early universe under the microscope |
Physics Colloquium 27 January 2017 delivered by Professor Nicola Spaldin, ETH Zurich |
Nicola Spaldin |
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| The Ontology of Autonomy for Autonomous Weapons Systems |
Dr Heather Roff discusses the role of autonomous weapons systems within the international community. She provides a theoretical framework for defining and classifying these systems, examining the diplomatic and moral concerns that they pose. |
Heather Roff |
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| Technology and the Rise of Boundless Warfare |
Professor David Galbreath gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series. |
David Galbreath |
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| Social Pluralism Religious Cleansing and Hybrid Warfare in Syria |
Since the ‘Arab Spring’ uprising of 2011, the United States and a network of European and regional Sunni allies have applied instruments of coercion against Syria that collectively take on the character of ‘hybrid warfare’. |
John Eibner |
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| Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice: Three Meanings of Brexit |
Lecture with Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony’s College). Respondent: Anand Menon (King’s College London) Convenors: Timothy Garton Ash and Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony’s College). |
Kalypso Nicolaidis, Anand Menon, Timothy Garton Ash |
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| Imaginary Invalids? Euro-Atlantic Populisms and the Crisis of Democracy |
Richard von Weizsåcker Lecture with Paul Nolte (Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow St Antony’s College), the chair is Paul Betts (St Antony's College). |
Paul Nolte |
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| A new politics of globalization? Taking stock of what 2016 brought Europe and America |
ESC Lunchtime Seminar. A talk given by Robert Howse (NYU Law School), Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony’s College)on 13th January 2017. |
Robert Howse |
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| Rethinking the epidemic of overdiagnosis |
Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of "disease" that will never cause symptoms or death during a patient's lifetime. Newer, more accurate technologies, and the desire to detect disease even earlier means Overdiagnosis is on the rise. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| Criminology |
Oxford graduate students discuss Criminology, and the societal affects of real-life crime documentaries. |
Aled Walker, Kate Evans, Liz Kullmann, Jess Jo |
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| Évariste Galois |
Oxford graduate students discuss the life and work of 19th century French mathematical prodigy Évariste Galois |
Aled Walker, Chris Nicholls, Benjamin Green. |
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| Resuscitating poor quality research |
Healthcare research is all too often plagued by biases that are rooted in poor methods, leading to the wrong result and conclusions and preventing uptake into practice. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| The Mathematics of Visual Illusions - Ian Stewart |
Puzzling things happen in human perception when ambiguous or incomplete information is presented to the eyes. |
Ian Stewart |
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| Militant Jihadi Culture: Poetry as a Weapon |
The power of poetry to move Arab listeners and readers emotionally, to infiltrate the psyche and to create an aura of authenticity around the ideologies it enshrines, make it a perfect weapon for militant jihadist causes. |
Elisabeth Kendall |
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| What we are missing about the Missing; searching for the disappeared victims of armed conflict |
One of the aspects of the changing character of war is an increased awareness of and attention to those who go missing due to armed conflict. |
Derek Congram |
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| Strategy Evolves from apes to Artificial Intelligence |
Kenneth Payne explores the evolutionary basis of strategic behaviour, and assesses the impact of non-biological intelligence on the future of warfare. From chimpanzees to computers, via a dose of Clausewitz: hopefully something for everyone. |
Kenneth Payne |
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| Astronomy at the Highest Energies: Exploring the Extreme Universe with Gamma Rays |
Physics Colloquium 25 November 2016 delivered by Dr Jamie Holder |
Jamie Holder |
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| Blogging and Social Media in Criminology |
Sarah Turnbull and Ines Hasselberg, Centre for Criminology, give a talk for the Centre for Criminology seminar series on 5th June 2015. |
Sarah Turnbull, Ines Hasselberg |
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| Doing Research with or without Impact: Policing Studies as a Global Field of Interest |
Ian Loader and Ben Bradford, Centre for Criminology, give a talk for the Centre for Criminology seminar series on 5th June 2015. |
Ian Loader, Ben Bradford |
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| Prisons and the problem of trust: contrasting approaches to risk, radicalisation and personal growth in two high security prisons |
Professor Alison Liebling, University of Cambridge, gives a talk for the Centre for Criminology on 5th June 2015. |
Alison Liebling |
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| Zaharoff Lecture 2016: Ecrire et ne pas écrire |
Ecrire et ne pas écrire. (This lecture is in French.) |
Marie Darrieussecq, Catriona Seth |
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| Writing the Enlightenment: Reflections on Work in Progress |
Professor Ritchie Robertson FBA, Taylor Professor of German at the University of Oxford, will speak on ‘Writing the Enlightenment: Reflections on Work in Progress’. |
Ritchie Robertson |
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| Autism and Minds Wired for Science |
Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Cambridge, and Director of the Autism Research Centre, gives the 2016 Charles Simonyi Lecture on new research into autism. |
Simon Baron-Cohen, Marcus du Sautoy |
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| Exotic combinations of quarks - A journey of fifty years |
Physics Colloquium 11 November 2016 delivered by Professor Jon Rosner |
Jon Rosner |
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| Our Simple but Strange Universe |
The 13th Hintze Biannual Lecture delivered by Professor David Spergel |
David Spergel |
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| Trials and Tribulations in Africa |
Dr Merlin Willcox gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series. |
Merlin Willcox |
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| Science and Politics |
Oxford DPhil students discuss the relationship between scientific advice and government policy |
Aled Walker, Kathryn Boast, Rob Shalloo |
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| Searching for - and finding! Gravitational Waves |
Physics Colloquium 27th October 2016 delivered by Professor Gabriela Gonzalez |
Gabriela Gonzalez |
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| Visualizing Quantum Matter |
Physics Colloquium 28 October 2016 delivered by Professor Séamus Davis |
Séamus Davis |
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| Atmospheric Circulation and Climate Change |
Physics Colloquium 21st October 2016 delivered by Professor Theodore (Ted) Shepherd |
Theodore (Ted) Shepherd |
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| Better evidence for better health care |
Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care programme. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| Autism and Minds Wired for Science |
Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Cambridge, and Director of the Autism Research Centre, gives the 2016 Charles Simonyi Lecture on new research into autism. |
Simon Baron-Cohen, Marcus du Sautoy |
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| The explosion mechanism of massive stars |
Physics Colloquium 14th October 2016 delivered by Professor Thierry Foglizzo |
Thierry Foglizzo |
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| The American election of 1896 |
Host Aled Walker is joined by DPhil students Nonie Kubie and Daniel Rowe to discuss the American presidential election of 1896, a fascinating and pivotal moment in American history. |
Aled Walker, Nonie Kubie, Dan Rowe |
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| As he retires from the the Savilian Chair of Geometry, Oxford Mathematician Nigel Hitchin reflects |
From early mathematical inspiration at school in Duffield, Derbyshire, Nigel recalls his often unplanned progress via Jesus College, Oxford, Princeton, Cambridge and Warwick, before his final return to Oxford. |
Nigel Hitching, Martin Bridson |
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| Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe - Roger Penrose |
What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, scientists are immune to trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? |
Roger Penrose |
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| PDEs (5.6) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses Fourier, Laurent, and Chebyshev. Then, Chebyshev series and interpolants |
Nick Trefethen |
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| PDEs (5.5) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses Fourier spectral discretization and Fourier spectral discretization via FFT. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| PDEs (5.4) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses finite differencing in general grids and multiple space dimensions. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| PDEs (5.3) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses order of accuracy and reaction-diffusion equations and other stiff PDEs. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| PDEs (5.2) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses numerical instability and implicit 1D finite differences. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| PDEs (5.1) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses PDEs in science and engineering, and explicit 1D finite differences. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| ODEs and Nonlinear Dynamics (4.4) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses stability regions, stiffness, and looks at BVPs in Chebfun. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| ODEs and Nonlinear Dynamics (4.3) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses planetary motions, chaos and Lyapunov exponents, the Lorenz equations, and lastly Sinai billiards and the SIAM 100-digit challenge. |
Nick Trefethen |
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