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OutBurst is the Oxford Brookes University festival at the Pegasus Theatre on Magdalen Road. Brookes will be bursting out of the university campus into the community, bringing great ideas, activities, and entertainment right to the[...]
https://www.facebook.com/events/495653777253176/ The Oxford Guild is very excited to welcome Larry Hirst CBE, former Chairman of IBM EMEA, to speak on Thursday 7th May. This will be an incredibly insightful talk and is not one to[...]
As part of this year’s community outreach program, Oxford Brookes University’s 150th anniversary, and as a way showing our appreciation to all participants, clinicians, researchers, members of the public and organisations that have supported our[...]
So many of us are desperately busy doing what’s immediately in front of us rather than the things that make a real difference. Ben will tell the story of the GB men’s rowing 8+ in[...]
Two hour cycle ride with Max as he reveals some surprising facts about the science of cycling. Ride and demonstration. Please show up 10 minutes before departure at The Story Museum. The ride will finish[...]
Author and cyclist Max Gaskin explores the science of cycling from hydrogen to helmets! 6.30pm – 7.30pm £8/£5 concessions
International table tennis player, broadcaster and writer, Matthew Syed will reflect on the psychology of performance.
Part 3 of a three-part mini-series on notation: Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. Part 1 was Reading Slough and London Paddington: the persistent lure of spelling reform (July 16th). Part 2 was Writing little messages in[...]
Conceptions of Enlightenment is a one-day conference concluding in a public lecture at 5pm. The lecture will be delivered by Dennis Rasmussen (Tufts University, Boston), author of The Pragmatic Enlightenment (CUP, 2014). Over the last[...]
Professor Carl Heneghan will deliver an interactive workshop, taking an evidence-based approach to answering your own clinical questions. With over 20 year’s experience in clinical epidemiology, Professor Heneghan has over 200 peer reviewed publications that[...]
The Symposium, celebrating Ada Lovelace’s 200th birthday on 10 December 2015, is aimed at a broad audience of those interested in the history and culture of mathematics and computer science, presenting current scholarship on Lovelace’s[...]
Acclaimed mathematician Marcus du Sautoy gives the second of the Weinrebe Lecture Series, on the theme of ‘Variations on Biography’, hosted by the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing.
This conference is intended to challenge the commonly held view of the prolonged gap in the progress of Western civilisation’s understanding of the natural world between the theories of the Ancient Greeks, led in particular[...]
This is the monthly meeting of the Oxford AI Meetup group. The talks include an analysis of Deep Mind’s AlphaGo software that has just beaten the world champion in their first match.
It’s been a terrible time for the glorious game: corruption, escalating prices and shrinking grass roots involvement. Could a more scientific approach to everything from the offside rule to deciding who hosts World Cups make[...]
Our monthly meetup includes Alpha Go : How did Deep Mind beat the world champion and just how big an achievement is it? Fun with Recurrent Neural Networks The Latest AI news
IN[SCI]TE is a new interdisciplinary science, technology, and engineering conference, which will take place on Monday and Tuesday of 0th Week Trinity Term 2016. IN[SCI]TE is run by undergrads, and the talks will be both[...]
A Talk by Konstantin Kudryavtsev, Head of Technical Relations at Ethcore This will be about the Ethereum ecosystem and the blockchain
TUE, 24 MAY AT 14:00, OXFORD Strachey Lecture – Quantum Supremacy – Dr Scott Aaronson (MIT, UT Austin) Quantum Supremacy In the near future, it will likely become possible to perform special-purpose quantum computations that,[...]
Writer Robert Penn discusses his love affair with cycling and how the journey to build his dream bike ended in a freewheeling pilgrimage.
Legendary British athlete Roger Black MBE discusses lessons learned throughout his career as well as his thoughts on Team GB’s prospects at Rio 2016.
Britain’s most famous mathematician explores the limits of human knowledge, to probe whether there is anything we truly cannot know. Are there limits to what we can discover about our physical Universe? Is time before[...]
Ludo, snakes & ladders and draughts are all popular pastimes, but in the past couple of decades a new generation of board games from designers with backgrounds in maths and science has begun to break[...]
Pen Hadow is one of the world’s leading polar explorers; in 2003 he made history and became the first, and so far only, person to trek solo without resupply from Canada to the North Pole.[...]
Get your game face on – it’s poker night at Science Oxford. Brush off your pack of cards and outplay Lady Luck with an evening of poker probability and psychology. Learn more about the head[...]
Prime numbers are fundamentally important in mathematics. What can bracelets reveal about the distribution of the primes? Join us to hear Dr Vicky Neale discuss this topic, discover some of the beautiful properties of prime[...]
This July, a team of four from Oxford travelled high into the Arctic Circle to ski from East to West across the island of Spitsbergen. For the first time in ninety-three years they retraced the[...]
8 countries, 50 days, 2300km, countless encounters – Between March and May of this year Christian cycled from Munich along the Western Balkan refugee route to Athens. Attempting to understand what European and national politics[...]
A twenty minute talk to introduce the topic, followed by Q&As and about an hour’s discussion. All welcome.
Evgenia Emets, Katerina Loschinina and Oliver Gingrich from Analema Group will talk about their ongoing research and artistic project KIMA, exploring sound through its visual counterpart – geometry and light. They will speak on how[...]
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