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Lincoln Leads in Medicine – Tuesday 21st February: ‘Lincoln’s medical breakthroughs: The past, present and future’ 17.45 -19.00. Wine reception from 17.15. Sign up at lincolnleads.eventbrite.co.uk Dr Eric Sidebottom’s ambition is to convince the world[...]
Victoria Summerley, London: An Unexpected Paradise Victoria Summerley is an award-winning journalist and author. She will be taking us on a personal tour of some of the gardens in her book, Great Gardens of London.
Director and adaptor, Wayne Jordan will be in conversation with Fiona Macintosh, discussing his acclaimed version of Sophocles’ ‘Oedipus’ at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2015. At 2.15pm on Monday 27 Feb. 2017. Followed by[...]
https://www.facebook.com/events/381244702236832/ The search for the elixir of youth has been a fantasy through the ages, but is it possible to live much longer, or desirable? Most babies born in 1900 did not live past 50,[...]
With Rory Stewart OBE MP, Minister of State at the Department for International Development and Conservative MP for Penrith and The Border.
We know people have been thinking about brains since ancient Egyptian times. From the sixth century BCE people began to understand that the brain was the home of the mind. As the scientific method developed,[...]
Mammalian brains store and update quantitative internal variables. Primates and rodents, for example, have an internal sense of whether they are 1 or 10 meters away from a landmark and whether a ripe fruit is twice or[...]
Dr Laura Shallcross (University College London) on why we need new drugs, new diagnostics and a complete re-think about how we consume antibiotics. Please note that the doors to the Museum will open at 5.45pm[...]
Peter Newbold will give an introduction to the Mammals of Oxfordshire and an overview of how to identify and record this illusive taxon. After studying Environmental Science at Southampton University, Peter has been a professional[...]
The talk will cover: identification of Swifts and differences between them, House Martins and Swallows; causes of recent population decline; what is being to to help; how local people can assist; and an outline of[...]
https://www.facebook.com/events/841633872641617/ A charity in America is campaigning to get chimpanzees recognised as ‘persons’, giving them basic human rights. But with rights come responsibilities. Could a chimp ever be guilty of a human crime? Join primatologist[...]
This is a joint event between the Oxford Martin School and the Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests One of our biggest technological innovations is that of time keeping. From the atomic to the astronomical scales,[...]
Celebrate the launch of this years Oxfordshire Science Festival by joining Richard Dawkins in conversation with Yan Wong about his previously unpublished essays on evolutionary theory and how our tree of life is presented in[...]
From mobile phones to hearing aids, microphones are very common, yet their designs still have significant drawbacks. Could nature play a role in improving their quality? Engineer Rob Malkin will show how studying insects with[...]
The first synthetic virus self-replicated in 2002. Its DNA molecules were created in a laboratory, using genetic information copied from nature. In 2016 an international project, the Human Genome Project – Write, was launched to[...]
A quirky theatrical evening of drama, discussion and disease. Killer germs, superbugs, pestilent plagues and global pandemics have fascinated writers, musicians and thinkers for centuries. As diseases spread through a population, likewise myths and ideas[...]
Isabelle Torrance (Associate Professor at Aarhus University) delivers an APGRD Public Lecture on Tom Paulin’s adaptation of Aeschylus’s Prometheus. Free, all welcome. No booking required. This lecture is at the conclusion of day one of[...]
Swift experts Jocelyne Hughes and Chris Mason will lead an evening stroll around Wolvercote, with plenty of stops to watch swifts and talk, in between searching for swift nests. Dr Jocelyne Hughes is Director of[...]
A travelogue presentation about the plants found in mountainous regions of Central Chile, based on an Alpine Garden Society tour there in January 2017. Many of these are high-alpines from volcanic screes, and Chile is[...]
Galaxy Zoo is the original project that spawned the world’s largest and most successful citizen science platform – the Zooniverse. Launched by University of Oxford researchers in July 2007, this week Galaxy Zoo is celebrating[...]
The Spanish Society of Researchers in the United Kigdom´s Oxford Constituency (SRUK/Oxford) brings the third event of Seminar series: visiting Spanish researchers in Oxford. In this occasion, we will be pleased to welcome Dr Rosario[...]
Numerous free talks, walking tours and workshops over two days in central Oxford. Visit the webpage to find out more and book into sessions.
Numerous free talks, walking tours and workshops over two days.
An illustrated introduction to the 37 families of British spiders focusing on field identification of spiders. Lawrence Bee is an ecological consultant and educator. He is the author of the Field Studies Council fold out[...]
Understanding how the UK’s flora and fauna is responding to climate change is one of the key challenges of our time. This illustrated talk reviews the findings of the Orchid Observers citizen science project. This[...]
We are delighted to be welcoming Sir Tom Stoppard to St Catz to deliver his inaugural lecture as the 26th holder of the Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professorship in Contemporary Theatre.
Adam Grzywaczewski from NVIDIA will present a seminar on the Wednesday 18th of October 2017, (at 1pm) entitled: Challenges of Scale in Deep Learning Abstract Deep learning algorithms require substantial computational resource and were made[...]
Join Sir Tim Rice for dinner on Thursday 19th October at Banbury Club for a meander through his magical, musical world! After a champagne reception, guests will join Sir Tim for a delicious four course[...]
Book Launch: Tim O’Reilly A rare opportunity to hear the legendary ‘oracle’ of Silicon Valley, Tim O’Reilly, who will deliver a major talk on his new book, WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up[...]
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