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Episode Title	Description	People	Date
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	5 July, 2016
Authenticity	Three speakers examine Authenticity in the 8th Unconscious Memory seminar.	Andrew Parker, Hannah Drayson, Matthew Reynolds	4 July, 2016
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	4 July, 2016
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	23 June, 2016
Quantum Sensors sans Frontier	Physics Colloquium 10th June 2016 delivered by Professor Swapan Chattopadhyay	Swapan Chattopadhyay	16 June, 2016
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	15 June, 2016
The Prime Number Theorem	Oxford Students discuss the Prime Number Theorem.	Aled Walker, Simon Myerson, Sofia Lindqvist, Jamie Beacom	15 June, 2016
Time and Causation	Both time and causation seems to have the same 'direction’ . Can we explain this?	Marianne Talbot	9 June, 2016
Mental Causation	We do what we do because we believe what we believe. Or do we? How does mental causation work?	Marianne Talbot	9 June, 2016
The necessary connection analysis of causation	The idea that there are real metaphysical necessities relating cause and effect.	Marianne Talbot	9 June, 2016
The singularist theory of causation	The idea that causation is a relation science will one day discover.	Marianne Talbot	9 June, 2016
The regularity theory of causation	Hume's famously influential account of causation	Marianne Talbot	9 June, 2016
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	9 June, 2016
The Prime Number Theorem	Oxford Students discuss the Prime Number Theorem.	Aled Walker, Simon Myerson, Sofia Lindqvist, Jamie Beacom	9 June, 2016
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	7 June, 2016
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	1 June, 2016
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	1 June, 2016
Bionic Hearing: the Science and the Experience	Physics Colloquium 20th May 2016 delivered by Ian Shipsey	Ian Shipsey	24 May, 2016
Unveiling the Birth of Stars and Galaxies	The 2016 Hintze Biannual Lecture delivered by Professor Robert Kennicutt	Robert Kennicutt	18 May, 2016
What We Cannot Know - Marcus du Sautoy	Science is giving us unprecedented insight into the big questions that have challenged humanity.	Marcus du Sautoy	16 May, 2016
Medieval Song	Oxford students discuss medieval songs.	Aled Walker, Meghan Quinlan, Joseph Mason	13 May, 2016
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	12 May, 2016
ECHO, ECHo, Echo, echo... When echoes overwhelm Landau damping	Physics Colloquium 6th May 2016 delivered by Professor William Dorland	William Dorland	11 May, 2016
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	3 May, 2016
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	3 May, 2016
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	6 April, 2016
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	6 April, 2016
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	6 April, 2016
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	6 April, 2016
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	6 April, 2016
Cicero's 'De Inventione''	Oxford students discuss roman senator Cicero.	Aled Walker, Thierry Hirsch, Alice Harberd, Andrew Sillett	4 April, 2016
Dark Matter	Oxford Students discuss Dark Matter.	Aled Walker, Peter Hatfield, Fran Day, Talitha Bromwich	4 April, 2016
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	29 March, 2016
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	18 March, 2016
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	11 March, 2016
The Unity of the Universe	The Final Dennis Sciama Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor David Deutsch	David Deutsch	9 March, 2016
Engineering Defects in Diamond	Physics Colloquium 26th February 2016 delivered by Professor Mark Newton	Mark Newton	4 March, 2016
Optical Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Single Molecules and Single Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticles	Physics Colloquium 19th February 2016 delivered by Professor Michel Orrit	Michel Orrit	4 March, 2016
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	19 February, 2016
Stellarators, Fusion Energy and the Wendelstein 7-X Experiment	Physics Colloquium 29th January 2016 delivered by Professor Per Helender	Per Helender	19 February, 2016
Epidemics, Erdös Numbers and the Internet: the Physics of Networks	Physics Colloquium 12th February 2016 delivered by Professor Mark Newman	Mark Newman	19 February, 2016
DalitzFest	The Scientific Legacy of Dick Dalitz	Frank Close, Christopher Llewellyn-Smith	18 February, 2016
Quantum Computer Simulation of Chemistry and Materials: Advances and Perspectives	Physics Colloquium 5th February 2016 delivered by Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik	Alán Aspuru-Guzik	11 February, 2016
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	29 January, 2016
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	29 January, 2016
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	18 December, 2015
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	17 December, 2015
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	7 December, 2015
Growing Black Holes over 12 Billion Years	The 2015 Hintze Biannual Lecture delivered by Professor Meg Urry	Meg Urry	4 December, 2015
The Einstein Lens and a Tale of Two Eclipses	Physics Colloquium 20th November 2015 delivered by Professor Tom Ray	Tom Ray	24 November, 2015
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	20 November, 2015
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	16 November, 2015
At a Physics Info/Sci Intersection	Physics Colloquium 30th October 2015 delivered by Professer Paul Ginsparg	Paul Ginsparg	3 November, 2015
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	2 November, 2015
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	26 October, 2015
What has EBM done for healthcare?	Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine podcast series.	Carl Heneghan	22 October, 2015
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	5 August, 2015
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	4 August, 2015
Understanding the Monsoon	The 2015 Halley Lecture delivered by Professor Peter J. Webster	Peter J. Webster	30 July, 2015
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	15 July, 2015
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	10 July, 2015
The Savile Library	Lunchtime lecture by Will Poole accompanying the exhibition Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries.	Will Poole	9 July, 2015
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	17 June, 2015
The Quantum Universe	The 2015 Hintze Lecture delivered by Professor Hitoshi Murayama	Hitoshi Murayama	16 June, 2015
Unlocking the Power of Hydrogen	Kylie Vincent and Philip Ash discuss how bacteria harness the energy stored within hydrogen molecules, and how this could help build a more sustainable energy future.	Kylie Vincent, Philip Ash	10 June, 2015
Chemistry is Central to our Energy Future	Phil Grunewald, Deputy Director of Energy Research at the University of Oxford, explains how chemistry helps to solve global energy challenges.	Phil Grunewald	10 June, 2015
Nanoparticle Catalysis: Size Matters	Hanif Mahadi, Researcher in Edman Tsang’s group, explains how nanoparticle catalysts help us use fossil fuels more efficiently and develop cleaner alternative sources of energy.	Hanif Mahadi	10 June, 2015
Using Catalysts to Make Exhaust Fumes Greener	How can we reduce the pollution from car exhausts?	Elizabeth Raine	10 June, 2015
The Energy Challenge: Research at Oxford	Providing secure, affordable and sustainable forms of energy is one of our biggest challenges this century. Hear how the cutting-edge fundamental research we undertake addresses real world problems and helps us to move towards a more sustainable future.	Phil Grunewald	10 June, 2015
Chasing Fast Dynamos in the Plasma Lab	Physics Colloquium 29th May 2015 delivered by Professor Cary Forest	Cary Forest	8 June, 2015
Climate Observations from Space	Physics Colloquium 5th June 2015 delivered by Professor Stephen Briggs	Stephen Briggs	8 June, 2015
Proustian Memory	Professor Gordon Shepherd (Yale) ‘Reassessing Mechanisms of Autobiographical Memory’ and Dr Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (St Catherine’s, Oxford) ‘Madeleines and Neuromodernism’. Chaired by Dr Sowon Park (Corpus Christi, Oxford)	Gordon Shepherd, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr	4 June, 2015
Zaharoff Lecture 2015: Figures de la disparition dans le roman français contemporain	Figures de la disparition dans le roman français contemporain	Dominique Rabaté, Michael Sheringham	1 June, 2015
Creating the evidence base for prescribing in psychiatry	Associate Professor Andrea Cipriani discusses his research that involves synthesising evidence for psychiatric medications	Andrea Cipriani	1 June, 2015
Cosmology from the Microwave Background	Physics Colloquium 22nd May 2015 delivered by Professor Jo Dunkley	Jo Dunkley	29 May, 2015
Everything from nothing, or how our universe was made	The 2015 Wetton Lecture delivered by Professor Carlos Frenk	Carlos Frenk	29 May, 2015
Long-period temperature records in the British Isles	Prof Chris Folland, University of East Anglia and Met Office Hadley Centre, gives a talk as part of the Met Office award for 200 years of continuous weather observations at Oxford ceremony on 15th May 2015.	Chris Folland	20 May, 2015
Long-period precipitation records in the British Isles	Prof Tim Burt, University of Durham, gives a talk as part of the Met Office award for 200 years of continuous weather observations at Oxford ceremony on 15th May 2015	Tim Burt	20 May, 2015
Topological Boundary Modes from Quantum Electronics to Classical Mechanics	The 2015 Cherwell-Simon Lecture delivered by Professor Charles Kane	Charles Kane	20 May, 2015
Early Intervention in Psychosis	Dr Matthew Broome discusses what is known about predicting the risk of transition to psychosis in high risk groups	Matthew Broome	14 May, 2015
2015 Disability Lecture: Hilary Lister, from Jesus College to sailing solo around the UK	Hilary Lister is giving the first University of Oxford Disability Lecture. Hilary was an undergraduate at Jesus College who has since gained fame as a quadriplegic sailor. She was the first disabled woman to sail solo around Britain.	Hilary Lister	7 May, 2015
Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis	Richard Brown( Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University) and Mark Solms (Chair of Neuropsychology, University of Cape Town) give the fourth talk in the Unconscious Memory series.	Richard Brown, Mark Solms	7 May, 2015
Managing large scale international clinical trials	Managing clinical trials, of whatever size and complexity, requires efficient trial management. Barbara Farrell shares from her wide experience.	Barbara Farrell	6 May, 2015
Re-thinking police legitimacy	Dr Justice Tankebe, University of Cambridge - 12 March 2015	Justice Tankebe	5 May, 2015
Too Big to Jail: Theory and Evidence on Corporate Crime Enforcement in the U.S.	Professor Brandon Garrett, University of Virginia School of Law - 30 April 2015	Brandon Garrett	5 May, 2015
Storytelling in diabetes: a mixed-methods study	The patient as storyteller and the story as ‘self management’	Trish Greenhalgh	7 April, 2015
Research impact: the new jargon for knowledge to action	If we are going to take impact seriously, we need to be clear about the philosophical assumptions underpinning different kinds of research and also the different kinds of links between research, practice and policy.	Trish Greenhalgh	26 March, 2015
Combatting Corruption with Mobile Phones	India’s right to information movement demonstrated the potential to combat corruption through social audits – an exercise to share and verify public records with people.	Vivek Srinivasan	26 March, 2015
The Campaign for Real EBM Evidence Based Medicine	Professor Trish Greenhalgh gives a talk on the crisis facing evidence based medicine and offers a solution for its rennaissance within healthcare.	Trish Greenhalgh	24 March, 2015
Impact of genetics on neuropsychopharmacology	Professor Paul Harrison discusses the genetics of mental health conditions	Paul Harrison	24 March, 2015
The Higgs Boson and Particle Physics at the LHC: a Progress Report and Plans for the Future	Physics Colloquium 13th February 2015 Deliverd by Daniela Bortoletto	Daniela Bortoletto	16 March, 2015
Science with a crowd: The Zooniverse from Galaxy Zoo to LSST	Physics Colloquium 30th January 2015 delivered by Chris Lintott	Chris Lintott	16 March, 2015
Colours from Earth: preparing for exo-earth characterisation	Physics Colloquium 6th March 2015 deliverd by Robert Fosbury	Robert Fosbury	16 March, 2015
Using ketamine in treatment resistant depression	Dr Rupert McShane is interviewed about his current research into the antidepressant effects of ketamine infusion	Rupert McShane	24 February, 2015
Priming	Professor Masud Husain and Dr Ben Morgan give the third Unconscious Memory talk.	Masud Husain, Ben Morgan	18 February, 2015
Unconscious Memory and Mental Space	Professor Michael Burke and Dr Sebastian Groes give the second Unconscious Memory talk.	Michael Burke, Sebastian Groes	18 February, 2015
Exploring the Two Cultures	Professor Larry Squire and Dr Simon Kemp give the first Unconscious Memory Seminar.	Larry Squire, Simon Kemp	18 February, 2015
One century, three Polands: the Second Republic, People’s Poland, and the Third Republic	Prof Dariusz Stola, Director of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, gives a talk for the Programme on Modern Poland on 4th February 2015.	Dariusz Stola	16 February, 2015
5 SOLDIERS – The Body is The Frontline: Choreographing 21st Century War	Rosie Kay gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series on dance and war	Rosie Kay	12 January, 2015
The Russian-Ukrainian War: Challenges for Military Policy in the Baltic State	Dr Deividas Slekys (University of Vilnius), gives a talk for the Changing Character of War programme seminar series.	Deividas Slekys	12 January, 2015