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Join your colleagues, friends and mentors at this event to see teams present their projects and find out who will be awarded funding! The Carbon Innovation Programme is an opportunity for students and staff at[...]
Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism” The following seminars will be given at 2 pm on Wednesdays, normally in the Barclay Room, Green Templeton College. Convenors: James Painter, David Levy Nazanine Moshiri,[...]
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.
One week after the 1967 ‘Six-Day War’, a group of young kibbutzniks, led by renowned author Amos Oz and Editor Avraham Shapira, recorded intimate conversations with soldiers returning from the battlefield. The Israeli army censored[...]
A public meeting featuring veteran peace campaigner Bruce Kent plus speakers from CND and Momentum. There will also be questions and discussion. Parliament will soon be making a decision on Trident replacement. Come and hear[...]
Machine learning, or the study of algorithms that can learn and act, allows automated decision-making that is both scalable and free of human error. It is becoming increasingly apparent that many tasks and even jobs[...]
Dear Post-Graduates, The ASI Fellowship is a highly selective programme enabling outstanding PhDs and post-doctorates from the world’s top universities to become data scientists and data engineers. Application for the next Fellowship, starting in May[...]
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[...]
Technologies are not neutral tools that emerge independently of the society that invents them. Rather, their design and use reflect as much as shape society. So what does the contemporary fascination with humanoid robots and[...]
How is the technology behind driverless cars designed and implemented? How does an autonomous vehicle interpret a complex and dynamic real world environment, and what are the ethical and social implications of taking humans out[...]
The 2016 annual Heron-Allen lecture will be given by Dominic Johnson, Alastair Buchan Chair of International Relations, Director of Research, at the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR), Oxford. For millions of years, humans[...]
Oxford Fabian Society presents ‘The Future of Work’ What is work? How will digital technology transform the economy and the workforce? And how should progressive politics respond to technological change? This event will bring together[...]
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.
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
An introductory talk of about twenty minutes, followed by Q&As and an hour or so’s discussion among the audience. You’re welcome to come along just to listen, or to take an active part in the[...]
Dr Barghouti will talk about the situation in Palestine, concentrating on the Palestinian strategy of non-violent resistance, and the exposure of the grave violations of human rights in occupied Palestine. Speaker: Dr Mustafa Barghouti, General[...]
Speaker: Dr Rita Giacaman, Founding Director, Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, Palestine Rita Giacaman will present research findings on the impact of the 2009 and 2014 assaults on the health of the[...]
Introductory Speaker and Chair: ▪Karl Sabbagh, British-Palestinian writer, documentary maker, and publisher Panel members: ▪ Mustafa Barghouti, Palestine National Initiative (Mubadara), Ramallah, Palestine ▪ Rita Giacaman, Birzeit University, Palestine ▪ Jeremy Moodey, Embrace the Middle[...]
Short film and panel discussion with: ▪ Sir Stephen Sedley – one of the authors of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office report ‘Children in Military Custody’ (2012) which was discussed this January in Parliament ▪[...]
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,[...]
In the fourth and final lecture of the Trinity Term Annual Lecture Series on ‘Global Education’, Prof Stefan Dercon will discuss ‘Education and jobs as a response to the Syrian refugee crisis’. Speaker Prof Stefan[...]
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[...]
‘Gene-editing’ sounds like science fiction, but today it is an emerging reality. This raises hope for treating medical problems, but also opens ethical quandaries about equality, privacy, and personal freedom. Discuss these questions with a[...]
BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson discusses his first-hand experiences of world-wide events, from the 2011 Libyan civil war to the current-day migrant crisis.
Colette Morgan works for SAFE! as the Child on Parent Violence Project Development Manager. Sadly, Child-on-Parent violence is on the rise and this fascinating talk will show us how SAFE! tackles this problem and works[...]
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