Some face-to-face events are returning. Check carefully for any requirements.

May 7 – May 9 all-day Pegasus Theater
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[...]
May 7 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Habakkuk Room, Jesus College
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[...]
May 30 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Oxford Brookes University
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[...]
Jun 10 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Oxford Brookes University, JHB Lecture Theatre, Headington Campus
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[...]
Jun 21 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm The Story Musuem
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[...]
Jun 21 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm The Story Musuem
Author and cyclist Max Gaskin explores the science of cycling from hydrogen to helmets! 6.30pm – 7.30pm £8/£5 concessions
Jun 25 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm MCS Festival Marquee
International table tennis player, broadcaster and writer, Matthew Syed will reflect on the psychology of performance.
Sep 24 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Town Hall, St Aldates, Oxford
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[...]
Sep 30 @ 10:30 am – 6:00 pm Ertegun House
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[...]
Dec 2 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm New Radcliffe House 2nd Floor
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[...]
Dec 9 @ 10:00 am – Dec 10 @ 4:00 pm Mathematical Institute
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[...]
Feb 2 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College
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.
Feb 27 @ 10:30 am – 5:00 pm St Cross College
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[...]
Mar 14 @ 7:15 pm – 9:00 pm Natural Motion Offices
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.
Mar 31 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Old Fire Station
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[...]
Apr 11 @ 7:15 pm – 9:00 pm Natural Motion Ltd
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
Apr 18 @ 9:00 am – Apr 19 @ 5:00 pm Merton College, Oxford
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[...]
Apr 18 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Oxford Centre for Innovation
A Talk by Konstantin Kudryavtsev, Head of Technical Relations at Ethcore This will be about the Ethereum ecosystem and the blockchain
May 24 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Maths Institute, University of Oxford
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,[...]
Jun 18 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Magdalen College School
Writer Robert Penn discusses his love affair with cycling and how the journey to build his dream bike ended in a freewheeling pilgrimage.
Jun 20 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Magdalen College School
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.
Jun 28 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Mathematical Institute, Andrew Wiles Building
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[...]
Jun 28 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Old Fire Station, Oxford
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[...]
Oct 6 @ 7:30 pm – 8:45 pm Amey Theatre
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.[...]
Oct 14 @ 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm St Aldates Conference Centre
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[...]
Oct 19 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm St Aldates Tavern (The Blue Room)
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[...]
Oct 31 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Department of Earth Sciences
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[...]
Nov 17 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Department of Earth Sciences
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[...]
Nov 17 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm The Mitre (upstairs function room)
A twenty minute talk to introduce the topic, followed by Q&As and about an hour’s discussion. All welcome.
Nov 22 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm St Anne's College
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[...]