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COOKIES: This site uses Google Analytics Cookies for performance monitoring. Search for a talk, series, speaker or venueAll of Today's Talks | Browse by Date | Recently AddedFeatured listsFeatured talksSunday 25 OctoberMonday 26 October
Scott Lecture I - Was Einstein Right? A Centennial AssessmentProfessor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida 
On the origin of animals, and the invention of the modern biosphereProfessor Nick Butterfield, Department of Earth Sciences Wednesday 28 October
Scott Lecture II - The Cosmic Barber: Counting Gravitational Hair in the Solar System and BeyondProfessor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida Friday 30 October
Colloquia on the European Crises: Banks' Stress Tests in the US: Lessons for EuropeTil Schuermann, Partner at Oliver Wyman & Former Senior Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Scott Lecture III - On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of post-Newtonian Theory in Gravitational PhysicsProfessor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida 
Future Energy Needs and Engineering RealityProfessor Michael Kelly ( Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, University of Cambridge) Saturday 31 OctoberMonday 02 November
Order and object: constructing collections in late 18th-century FranceEmma Spary (Faculty of History) 
Maths and the ArtsProfessor John Barrow FRS, Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge Wednesday 04 NovemberThursday 05 November
Fireworks & Waterworks - Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration LectureDr Andrew Szydlo (Highgate School, London) Friday 06 November
Solving the current crisis in the NHS: why the powers that be are missing the point and why they don’t need to.Jan Filochowski, Clinical and Professional Adviser at CQC; NIHR; Commonwealth Fund and IHI Monday 09 NovemberDigital Technologies and Democracy: A Minimalist, Practice-oriented Institutional ApproachRasmus Kleis Nielsen, Oxford
Systems, synonyms and strife – the making of European entomology around 1800Dominik Huenniger (University of Göttingen)
The human brain - a lesson in green technologyProfessor Simon Laughlin FRS, Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Zoology Wednesday 11 November
HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Molecules against cancer or for long-term memory storageProfessor Roger Y Tsien ForMemRS, Department of Pharmacology, Chemistry & Biochemistry and HHMI, University of California, San Diego Thursday 12 November
Psychiatry – Medicine’s Secret WeaponProfessor Dame Sue Bailey, Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges 
Turn-taking, language processing and the evolution of languageProf. Stephen Levinson (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) Monday 16 November
The Norman Conquest of the materia medica? Expanding pharmaceutical horizons in 11th-century EnglandDebby Banham (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic) Wednesday 18 NovemberThursday 19 November
Astronomy lecture: Gaia - the first 3D census of the Milky WayProf Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge Friday 20 NovemberMonday 23 November
Spicing up Mauritius' gardens: informal empire and the hybridity of knowledge and plant exchange in the East Indies, 1740s to 1770sDorit Brixius (European University Institute)
Epigenetic inheritance and parent-of-origin effectsProfessor Anne Ferguson Smith, Department of Genetics Wednesday 25 NovemberFriday 27 November
Tales from the crypt: How science harvests death for humanity's benefitProfessor Jeffery K. Tomberlin, Texas A&M University Monday 30 November
From 'clap-trap and flummery' to 'scope and methods' – the Royal Geographical Society's lantern-slide lectures, c.1886–1913Emily Hayes (University of Exeter)
Earthquake Science and Vulnerability in AsiaProfessor James Jackson CBE, FRS, Professor of Active Tectonics, University of Cambridge Wednesday 02 DecemberThursday 03 December
DIY Evolution - A Historian's Guide to Amateur Plant BreedingHelen Anne Curry, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge Friday 04 December
The role of perceived injustice in chronic pain: Outcomes, mechanisms, and opportunities for interventionDr Whitney Scott, King’s College London Monday 07 December
Technology DevelopmentDr Hermann Hauser KBE, FRS, FREng, FinstP, C Phys Co-Founder and Partner, Amadeus Capital Partners Friday 15 JanuaryMonday 18 January
The Challenge and Excitement of Discovering New MedicinesDr Menelas Pangalos, Executive Vice-President, Astra Zeneca Friday 22 JanuaryFriday 29 JanuaryMonday 01 February
Depicting the Dead and Verifying the Visage Facial identification:Forensic and Archaeological ApplicationProfessor Caroline Wilkinson, Director, Face Lab, Liverpool John Moores University Friday 05 FebruaryFriday 12 FebruaryFriday 19 FebruaryFriday 26 FebruaryMonday 29 February
EDSAC Reborn: A computer detective storyDr Nigel Bennee FBCS, The EDSAC Replica Project, The National Museum of Computing Friday 04 MarchSaturday 12 MarchMonday 04 AprilMonday 16 MayMonday 06 June
Landing on a CometProfessor Monica Grady CBE, Professor of Planetary and Space Science, The Open University Monday 20 June
Sustainable Engineering and Design for the Built EnvironmentProfessor Max Fordham OBE,RDI,FREng,MA,FCIBSE,Hon FRIBA |
