| Modelling genes: the backwards and forwards of mathematical population genetics - Alison Etheridge |
In this lecture Professor Alison Etheridge explores some of the simple mathematical caricatures that underpin our understanding of modern genetic data. |
Alison Etheridge |
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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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| Marxism |
Host Aled Walker and guests Cameron J. Quinn and Xavier Cohen discuss the life, the work, and the legacy of Karl Marx. |
Aled Walker, Cameron J Quinn, Xavier Cohen |
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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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| Strachey Lecture: Quantum Supremacy |
Dr Scott Aaronson (MIT, UT Austin) gives the 2016 Strachey lecture. |
Scott Aaronson |
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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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| The life of Oscar Wilde |
Oxford students discuss the life of Oscar Wilde. |
Aled Walker, Davis Rivera, Yannick Lambert, Conor Malloy |
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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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| Bioinformatics at the heart of biology and genomics medicine |
The Ninth annual Florence Nightingale Lecture, given by Professor Dame Janet Thornton, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge. Held on Thursday 21st April 2016. |
Dame Janet Thornton |
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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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| 1594: Shakespeare's most important year |
In the summer of 1594 William Shakespeare decided to invest around 50 Pounds to become a shareholder in a newly formed acting company: Lord Chamberlain's Men. This lecture examines the consequences of this decision, unique in English theatrical history. |
Bart van Es |
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| Strachey Lecture: Artificial Intelligence and the Future |
In this talk Demis Hassabis discuss's what is happening at the cutting edge of AI research, its future impact on fields such as science and healthcare, and how developing AI may help us better understand the human mind. |
Demis Hassabis |
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| The Prayer-Book of Abbess Odilia |
Abbess Baerbel Goercke, Mariensee, delivers a talk for the Medingen Manuscripts Masterclass. |
Bärbel Görcke |
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| Musical Notation |
Ulrike Hascher-Burger, Utrecht University, delivers a talk for the Medingen Manuscripts Masterclass. |
Ulrike Hascher-Burger |
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| The Incunable Traces |
Alan Coates, Rare Books Assistant Librarian, Bodleain, delivers a talk for the Medingen Manuscripts Masterclass. |
Alan Coates |
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| Cistercian Punctuation |
Nigel F. Palmer, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, delivers a talk for the Medingen Manuscripts Masterclass. |
Nigel Palmer |
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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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| The Plaque in the Psalter and the Bindings |
Andrew Honey, Book Conservator (Research and Teaching), University of Oxford, delivers a talk for the Medingen Manuscripts Masterclass. |
Andrew Honey |
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| Masterclass: Medingen Manuscripts - Introduction |
Introduction to the Masterclass by Professor Henrike Laehnemann, Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics, University of Oxford. |
Henrike Lähnemann |
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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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| Seeing the High Energy Universe with IceCube |
Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics hosted the 3rd morning of Theoretical Physics covering the subject of Inner Space Meets Outer Space: Covering the Connections Between Cosmology and Particle Physics |
Subir Sarkar |
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| Enchantress of Abstraction, Bride of Science: must Ada Lovelace be a superheroine? |
Panel discussion to conclude the symposium with Muffy Calder, Valerie Barr, Suw Charman-Anderson, Murray Pittock and Cheryl Praeger. |
Muffy Calder, Valerie Barr, Suw Charman-Anderson, Murray Pittock, Cheryl Praeger |
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| Humans, machines, and the future of work |
Moshe Vardi, Rice University explores the question "If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?". |
Moshe Vardi |
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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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| Imaginary engines |
In this talk graphic artist and animator Sydney Padua talks about her bestselling graphic novel "The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage". She will also display her 3D animations of how the Analytical Engine would have looked and operated. |
Sydney Padua |
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| The Analytical Engine and the Aeolian Harp |
In this talk Imogen Forbes-Macphail, University of California, Berkeley, contextualises Lovelace's work on the engines against the backdrop of Romantic thought surrounding the power of poetry and the nature of original composition. |
Imogen Forbes-Macphail |
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| Enchantress of Numbers or a mere debugger?: a brief history of cultural and academic understandings of Ada Lovelace |
To mark the 200th anniversary of Lovelace's birth, Elizabeth Bruton, Museum of the History of Science, reviews and explores academic and popular representations of Ada Lovelace and engage with the controversy of her claim as the first computer programmer. |
Elizabeth Bruton, Sally Shuttleworth |
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| The mathematical correspondence of Ada Lovelace and Augustus De Morgan |
During the years 1840-1, Ada Lovelace corresponded with the mathematician Augustus De Morgan. In this talk Christopher Hollings, University of Oxford reports on recent new studies of the mathematics Ada was learning with De Morgan. |
Christopher Hollings |
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| The early education of Ada Byron |
In this talk Julia Markus, Hofstra University shall dispel the myth that Lady Byron kept Ada from poetry, she will also show that the mother-daughter relationship was a psychological spur to Ada's early experiments. |
Julia Markus |
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| The Travelling Santa Problem and Other Seasonal Challenges - Marcus du Sautoy |
The Oxford Mathematics Christmas Public Lecture 2015 examined an aspect of Christmas not often considered: the mathematics. |
Marcus du Sautoy |
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| Pythagoras to pacifism: mathematics and archives |
In this talk June Barrow-Green from the Open University describes some mathematical archives and some of the issues associated with them. Includes an introduction from Vicki Hanson, Vice-President of the ACM. |
June Barrow-Green, Vicki Hanson |
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| Will you concede me Poetical Science? |
Ada Lovelace had a broad interest in the science and technologies of the day and explored post-Romantic ideas which made a significant link between science and poetry. In this talk Richard Holmes looks at some of these surprising connections. |
Richard Holmes |
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| Ada Lovelace lives forever: Ada’s four questions |
How Ada approached information is the key to understanding her contribution. In this talk Betty Toole, author of "ADA: The Enchantress of Numbers" focuses on Ada's four questions: What is the source? What does it mean? What if? and Why not? |
Betty Toole |
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| From Byron to the Ada Programming Language |
John Barnes, Ada software consultant talks about Byron and his bear and the evolution of the computing language named after Ada Lovelace. |
John Barnes |
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| Turning numbers into notes |
Composer Emily Howard talks to David De Roure about her musical composition 'Ada sketches'. |
Emily Howard, David De Roure |
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| Ada Lovelace, a scientist in the archives |
Ursula Martin, University of Oxford and Soren Riis, Queen Mary University of London give new focus to letters within the archive of Ada Lovelace's family documents. Includes an introduction by Nick Woodhouse, President of the Clay Mathematics Institute. |
Soren Riis, Ursula Martin, Nick Woodhouse |
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| Notions and notations: designing computers before computing |
Adrian Johnstone, Royal Holloway, University of London reviews Babbage's remarkable 'Mechanical Notation'. |
Adrian Johnstone |
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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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| Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace: two visions of computing |
Doron Swade, Royal Holloway, University of London reviews the trajectory of Babbage's calculating Engines and examines Ada Lovelace's contribution to computing. |
Doron Swade |
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| Introduction to the Ada Lovelace Symposium |
Alexander Wolf, President of the Association for Computing Machinery and Imperial College London, introduces the Ada Lovelace Symposium. |
Alexander Wolf |
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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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| Strachey Lecture: Bidirectional Computation is Effectful |
A reconstruction (slides and voiceover) of a talk given at the Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (snapl.org/2015) in May 2015. |
Jeremy Gibbons |
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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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