| ODEs and Nonlinear Dynamics (4.2) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses order of accuracy, convergence and stability, and adaptive ODE codes. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| ODEs and Nonlinear Dynamics (4.1) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses ODEs and IVPs, Runge-Kutta and multistep formulas, IVP codes in MATLAB and Simulink, and in the end reviews IVP solutions in Chebfun. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| PDEs (5.8) |
In this concluding lecture, Professor Nick Trefethen discusses the question Who invented the great numerical algorithms? |
Nick Trefethen |
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| PDEs (5.7) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses Chebyshev spectral discretization. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| On Criminal Strategy |
Do criminal groups use 'strategy'? Are crime wars really wars? This talk will reveal criminal groups using force and other means to determine political outcomes to suit their own agendas and competing with states in a common 'market for government'. |
James Cockayne |
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| Optimization (3.3) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses NEOS and COIN-OR, constraints and linear programming, and quadratic programming and linear constraints. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| Optimization (3.2) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses Newton's methods for minimizing a function of several variables. He then moves on from Newton's method to practical optimization. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| Optimization (3.1) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses Newton's methods for 1) a single equation, 2) a system of equations, and 3) minimizing a function of 1 variable. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| Dense Linear Algebra (2.5) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen provides a demonstration of Chebfun. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| Dense Linear Algebra (2.4) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses matrix factorizations and SVD. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| Dense Linear Algebra (2.3) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses floating point arithmetic and backward error analysis. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| Dense Linear Algebra (2.2) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses QR factorization, the computation of the QR factorization, and linear least-squares. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| Dense Linear Algebra (2.1) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses matrices, vectors and expansions, including orthogonal vectors and matrices. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| Sparse Matrices and Iterative Methods (1.4) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethon provides a definition of numerical analysis and provides an overview of matrix iterations, including a discussion on the Lanczos iteration. He also reviews various numerical software tools and information sources. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| Sparse Matrices and Iterative Methods (1.3) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses preconditioned CG and also provides examples of preconditioners |
Nick Trefethen |
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| Sparse Matrices and Iterative Methods (1.2) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses the topic of conjugate gradients and the convergence of CG. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| Sparse Matrices and Iterative Methods (1.1) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen first provides an overview of the field of linear algebra and optimization. Secondly, he discusses the question of how fast we can solve Ax=3Db? Thirdly, he discusses sparse matrices |
Nick Trefethen |
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| Roger Heath-Brown a Life in Mathematics |
Roger Heath-Brown is one of Oxford's foremost mathematicians. |
Roger Heath-Brown, Ben Green |
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| Jan Brueghel and his Views of Italian Ruins |
This lecture forms part of a series entitled "Antiquity After Antiquity" and is for first year Undergraduate History of Art students. It was delivered at the University of Oxford History of Art Department. |
An Van Camp |
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| Environment, Energy and Economics and the Structure of our Geo-Political Future |
Steven Jermy gives a talk for the Changing Character of War Programme seminar series. |
Steven Jermy |
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| Clan and Conflict: The Intersection between State Violence and Societal Violence in Somalia |
Mohamed Haji Ingiriis gives a talk for the Changing Character of War Programme seminar series. |
Mohamed Haji Ingiriis |
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| Children and War: Victims, Villains, and the United Nations |
Discussing the issues involved in using children in conflict, assesses the changing characteristics of security and war, and explains the complex international system and interwoven constraints and opportunities on government policy in this field. |
Robert Jackson |
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| Strategy and War in the Modern Age: CCW Annual Lecture 2016 |
Professor Jeremy Black from the University of Exeter delivers the CCW Annual Lecture on the theme of "Strategy and War in the Modern Age". |
Jeremy Black |
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| Mare Liberum and Mare Clausum: Maritime sovereignty, emerging countries and war |
Rodrigo Fracalossi de Moraes gives a talk for the Changing Character of War programme seminar series. |
Rodrigo Fracalossi de Moraes |
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| Responsibility to Protect on its Tenth Anniversary: Point of Collapse or Resurgence? |
Joanne Neenan gives a talk for the Changing Character of War Programme seminar series. |
Joanne Neenan |
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| Strategy and Democracy |
Sir Hew Strachan gives a valedictory lecture for the Changing Character of War upon stepping down as Chichele Professor of the History of War. |
Hew Strachan |
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| The Utility of Force in Cities: Calibrating Security and Development Tools for Urban Stability |
Rapid and unmanaged urbanisation is leading to protracted armed violence in key cities of the developing world. This seminar analyses the conduct of recent stabilisation operations within large and mega-cities. |
Antonio Sampaio |
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| Prisoners of the Past, Preparing for the Future: The Influence of Institutions, Experience, and Culture on Military Adaptability |
Jason Clark gives a talk for the Changing Character of War Programme seminar series. |
Jason Clark |
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| The Morality of Unconventional Force |
Tom Simpson gives a talk for the Changing Character of War programme seminar series. |
Tom Simpson |
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| Concentration and Asymmetry in Air Combat |
Historical Lessons for the Defensive Employment of Air Power |
Niall Mackay |
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| Diplomacy: The First Line of Defence |
James Kidner gives a talk for the Changing Character of War programme seminar series. |
James Kidner |
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| Towards Mobilization? The Evolution of Russian Grand Strategy |
This talk will explores the various aspects of Russian strategic thinking and planning, the conducting of the orchestra and what appears to be a move towards mobilisation measures. |
Andrew Monaghan |
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| Arrangements of Convenience Among Violent Non-state Actors |
This talk will discuss how rebels, paramilitaries and criminals cooperate in borderland areas, and what this means for security. |
Annette Idler |
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| The Evolution of Grand Strategy in Theory and Practice |
Lucas Milevski gives a talk for the Changing Character of War programme seminar series. |
Lucas Milevski |
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| War in the Time of Terror |
This talk attempts to set out what IS aims are, whether there are negotiating possibilities and what the West's response to this new phenomenon should be. |
Ivor Roberts |
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| Cybersecurity and the Age of Privateering: An Historical Analogy |
DPhil research using a historical analogy to mercantile companies, privateers, and pirates to shed light onto the blurred boundaries between state and private interests. |
Florian Egloffs |
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| Authenticity |
Three speakers examine Authenticity in the 8th Unconscious Memory seminar. |
Andrew Parker, Hannah Drayson, Matthew Reynolds |
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| And all this time it dwells behind the door |
Annie Freud, the award-winning poet and artist, will talk about where her poems come from, her development as an artist and writer, and the relationship between her poems and paintings. |
Annie Freud, Sowon Park |
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| The point of qualitative research |
Prof Aksel Tjora, Professor of Sociology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, gives a talk for the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care programme. |
Aksel Tjora |
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| Quantum Sensors sans Frontier |
Physics Colloquium 10th June 2016 delivered by Professor Swapan Chattopadhyay |
Swapan Chattopadhyay |
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| The Origins and Evolution of Exoplanet Atmospheres and Oceans |
3rd Annual Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture in Planetary Geology delivered by Professor Raymond T Pierrehumbert. |
Raymond T Pierrehumbert |
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| The Prime Number Theorem |
Oxford Students discuss the Prime Number Theorem. |
Aled Walker, Simon Myerson, Sofia Lindqvist, Jamie Beacom |
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| The Value of Europe and European Values |
The Right Honourable Shirley Williams gave this, the 2016 Tanner Lecture on Human Values, just before the European Referendum where voters would be deciding whether to remain in the EU or Brexit. |
Shirley Williams |
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| Time and Causation |
Both time and causation seems to have the same 'direction’ . Can we explain this? |
Marianne Talbot |
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| Mental Causation |
We do what we do because we believe what we believe. Or do we? How does mental causation work? |
Marianne Talbot |
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| The necessary connection analysis of causation |
The idea that there are real metaphysical necessities relating cause and effect. |
Marianne Talbot |
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| The singularist theory of causation |
The idea that causation is a relation science will one day discover. |
Marianne Talbot |
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| The regularity theory of causation |
Hume's famously influential account of causation |
Marianne Talbot |
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| The counterfactual theory of causation |
The idea that event c causes event e if and only if had c not had occurred e would not have occurred either. |
Marianne Talbot |
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| The Prime Number Theorem |
Oxford Students discuss the Prime Number Theorem. |
Aled Walker, Simon Myerson, Sofia Lindqvist, Jamie Beacom |
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| 2016 Disability Lecture: A Psychiatrist's Experience of Depression |
Professor Linda Gask had a successful career as psychiatrist and academic, despite living with depression and anxiety. She speaks with candour about her experiences of periods of mental ill-health. |
Linda Gask |
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| Evidence informed decision making? (Know your cognitive biases) |
Prof Neal Maskrey gives a talk for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine seminar series. |
Neal Maskrey |
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| Why on earth do we waste so much research? |
Dr Kamal Mahtani is an NHS GP, NIHR Clinical Lecturer and Deputy Director at the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine. His talk explores why so much research is wasted. |
Kamal Mahtani |
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| Bionic Hearing: the Science and the Experience |
Physics Colloquium 20th May 2016 delivered by Ian Shipsey |
Ian Shipsey |
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| Unveiling the Birth of Stars and Galaxies |
The 2016 Hintze Biannual Lecture delivered by Professor Robert Kennicutt |
Robert Kennicutt |
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| What We Cannot Know - Marcus du Sautoy |
Science is giving us unprecedented insight into the big questions that have challenged humanity. |
Marcus du Sautoy |
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| Medieval Song |
Oxford students discuss medieval songs. |
Aled Walker, Meghan Quinlan, Joseph Mason |
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| Cognitive approaches to treating psychosis |
Professor Daniel Freeman discusses his research into how psychosis can be treated through the use of cognitive behavioural techniques |
Daniel Freeman |
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| ECHO, ECHo, Echo, echo... When echoes overwhelm Landau damping |
Physics Colloquium 6th May 2016 delivered by Professor William Dorland |
William Dorland |
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| Overdiagnosis and Too Much Medicine How did we get here and how do we get out of the mess |
Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care programme |
Carl Heneghan |
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| Breathalysers, babies and bumps on the road: delving into diagnostic studies |
Talk by Dr Helen Ashdown regarding three rather different diagnostic studies People: Helen Ashdown |
Helen Ashdown |
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| Crime and Mental Health: Vulnerability and Resilience in the Face of Trauma (5) |
Plenary Session II: Vulnerable Adults and the Criminal Justice System |
Keith Hawton, Seena Fazel |
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| Crime and Mental Health: Vulnerability and Resilience in the Face of Trauma (4) |
Panel 2: (Re)shaping Vulnerabilities through Criminal Proceedings, Detention and Immigration detention of Adults |
Sarah Turnbull |
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| Crime and Mental Health: Vulnerability and Resilience in the Face of Trauma (3) |
Panel 2: (Re)shaping Vulnerabilities through Criminal Proceedings, Detention and Immigration detention of Adults |
Morwenna Bennallick |
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| Crime and Mental Health: Vulnerability and Resilience in the Face of Trauma (1) |
Plenary Session I: Vulnerable Young People and the Criminal Justice System |
Sarah Brennan |
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| Crime and Mental Health: Vulnerability and Resilience in the Face of Trauma (2) |
Panel 1: (Re)shaping Vulnerabilities through Criminal Justice Interventions with Young People and their Parents |
Alison Thorne |
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| Cicero's 'De Inventione'' |
Oxford students discuss roman senator Cicero. |
Aled Walker, Thierry Hirsch, Alice Harberd, Andrew Sillett |
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| Dark Matter |
Oxford Students discuss Dark Matter. |
Aled Walker, Peter Hatfield, Fran Day, Talitha Bromwich |
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| Core Course: Modernism and Post-modernism |
This lecture forms part of a series entitled "Art History: Concepts and Methods" and is for second year Undergraduate and MSt History of Art students. It was delivered at the University of Oxford History of Art Department. |
Alex J. Taylor |
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| Significant Form |
Semir Zeki gives a presentation entitled; The Neurobiology of Beauty, and Gerhard Lauer gives a talk entitled, Is there an Aesthetic Experience in this Experiment? The Chair is Professor Andrew Parker. |
Semir Zeki, Gerhard Lauer, Andrew Parker |
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| In the Beginning: Crime, Criminology and Criminal Justice in 1966 |
Professor David Downes, Professor Tim Newburn, and Professor Paul Rock, London School of Economics |
David Downes |
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| The Unity of the Universe |
The Final Dennis Sciama Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor David Deutsch |
David Deutsch |
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| Engineering Defects in Diamond |
Physics Colloquium 26th February 2016 delivered by Professor Mark Newton |
Mark Newton |
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| Optical Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Single Molecules and Single Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticles |
Physics Colloquium 19th February 2016 delivered by Professor Michel Orrit |
Michel Orrit |
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| 2016 Kolakowski Lecture - What makes Poland special: Polish Nationalism in Comparative Context |
Professor John Connelly (UC Berkeley) gives the 2016 Annual Kolakowski lecture for the Programme on Modern Poland. Chaired by Mikolaj Kunicki (St. Antony's College). |
John Connelly |
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| Stellarators, Fusion Energy and the Wendelstein 7-X Experiment |
Physics Colloquium 29th January 2016 delivered by Professor Per Helender |
Per Helender |
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| Epidemics, Erdös Numbers and the Internet: the Physics of Networks |
Physics Colloquium 12th February 2016 delivered by Professor Mark Newman |
Mark Newman |
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| DalitzFest |
The Scientific Legacy of Dick Dalitz |
Frank Close, Christopher Llewellyn-Smith |
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| Quantum Computer Simulation of Chemistry and Materials: Advances and Perspectives |
Physics Colloquium 5th February 2016 delivered by Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik |
Alán Aspuru-Guzik |
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| 200 years of fun and games |
Richard Ballam talks about the rich collections of games and pastimes he has recently donated to the Bodleian, the subject of the display Playing with History. |
Richard Ballam |
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| 10 Top tips for doing applied healthcare research: How to get started |
Carl Heneghan gives a talk held on January 11th 2016 Kellogg College. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| Mathematics and culture: geometry and its ‘Figures in the Air’ |
Judith Grabiner, Pitzer College describes how the 19th century saw radical change, producing new ideas of space, destroying the unchallenging authority of mathematics, revolutionising art, making relativity possible and helping create modernism. |
Judith Grabiner |
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| Interpreting dreams of abstract machines |
Bernard Sufrin, University of Oxford establishes a context of Ada's 'Translators Notes' using more recent descriptions of computing machinery and programming methods. |
Bernard Sufrin |
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| Symmetry, Spaces and Undecidability - Martin Bridson |
The understanding of the possible geometries in dimension 3 is one of the triumphs of 20th century mathematics. In this talk Martin Bridson explains why such an understanding is impossible in higher dimensions. |
Martin Bridson |
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| Growing Black Holes over 12 Billion Years |
The 2015 Hintze Biannual Lecture delivered by Professor Meg Urry |
Meg Urry |
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| The Einstein Lens and a Tale of Two Eclipses |
Physics Colloquium 20th November 2015 delivered by Professor Tom Ray |
Tom Ray |
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| The French Revolutionary Terror: Proto-Totalitarian or Public Sphere? |
Professor Colin Jones CBE (Queen Mary University of London) delivers the annual Besterman Lecture for the Voltaire Foundation at Wolfson College, Oxford |
Colin Jones |
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| Putting the Higgs Boson in its Place |
Professor Melissa Franklin talks about her experiences working towards the discovery of the Higgs Boson and her work today at the Large Hadron Collider |
Melissa Franklin, Marcus du Sautoy |
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| At a Physics Info/Sci Intersection |
Physics Colloquium 30th October 2015 delivered by Professer Paul Ginsparg |
Paul Ginsparg |
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| The Unconscious: a Concept or a Metaphor? |
Andrew Mayes, and Angus Nicholls, give a talk for the Unconscious Memory seminar series. |
Andrew Mayes, Angus Nicholls |
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| How hot will it get in a world run by economists? A physicist’s take on climate change policy |
Physics Colloquium 23rd October 2015 delivered by Professor Myles Allen |
Myles Allen |
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| What has EBM done for healthcare? |
Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine podcast series. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| Theorising with narrative: How careful analysis of stories can help us rise above the ontological desert of ‘behaviour change’ research |
Professor Trish Greenhalgh gives a talk for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine. |
Trish Greenhalgh |
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| Malone's Chronologizing of Aubrey's Lives (putt in writing... tumultuarily) |
Keynote lecture by Margreta de Grazia, (Emerita Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor of the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania) for the Marginal Malone conference held in Oxford on June 26th, 2015. |
Margreta de Grazia |
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| Understanding the Monsoon |
The 2015 Halley Lecture delivered by Professor Peter J. Webster |
Peter J. Webster |
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| Distinguishing Marks of Genius |
What do geniuses have in common, across the arts and sciences? And how do we distinguish genius from talent? Andrew Robinson, author of Genius: A Very Short Introduction, considers (a little of) the evidence. |
Andrew Robinson |
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| Pieces of the jigsaw: history through the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera |
A lunchtime lecture by Julie-Anne Lambert accompanying the exhibition Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries. |
Julie-Anne Lambert |
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| The Savile Library |
Lunchtime lecture by Will Poole accompanying the exhibition Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries. |
Will Poole |
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| Parlez-vous Beams? The Frontier of Beam Physics and Accelerator Science: from High Energy Particle Colliders to Quantum Degenerate Beams |
Physics Colloquium 12th June 2015 delivered by Professer Swapan Chattopadhyay |
Swapan Chattopadhyay |
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| The Quantum Universe |
The 2015 Hintze Lecture delivered by Professor Hitoshi Murayama |
Hitoshi Murayama |
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