Lectures - 2016/2017

OK Computer – teaching machines to write music

Ed Newton-Rex

Mon 17th Oct 2016
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Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture

Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia FRS FREng FNAE, Dept of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge

Mon 24th Oct 2016
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What shapes the human immune system?

Dr Michelle Linterman, Babraham Institute and Churchill College, University of Cambridge

Mon 31st Oct 2016
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Big Data in Biology: Challenges and Opportunities for Health Care and Research

Dr Ewan Birney, FRS FMedSci, European Bioinformatics Institute

Mon 14th Nov 2016
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Leonardo, Rapunzel and the Physics of Hair

Professor Raymond Goldstein, FRS FInstP, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Churchill College, University of Cambridge

Mon 28th Nov 2016
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Manufacturing – the vital capability for effective innovation

Professor Sir Mike Gregory, CBE, FREng, Churchill College, University of Cambridge

Mon 9th Jan 2017
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Creating and erasing memories with epigenetics

Professor Wolf Reik, FRS FMedSci, Babraham Institute, University of Cambridge

Mon 23rd Jan 2017
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Black Holes at Work

Professor Andy Fabian, OBE, FRS, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge

Mon 6th Feb 2017
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Citizens, Science and Science for Citizens

Professor Dame Athene Donald, DBE, FRS, Dept. of Physics, Churchill College, University of Cambridge

Mon 20th Feb 2017
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A trick of the light? Development, function and evolution of plant nanostructures that influence animal behaviour

Prof. Beverley Glover, FLS, Dept. of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Mon 6th Mar 2017
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Towards General Artificial Intelligence

Dr Demis Hassabis, Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, Vice President of Engineering at Google DeepMind

Mon 20th Mar 2017
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Meet the Authors

Jo Marchant, Tony Hey and Simon Taylor will talk about their new books and join in discussion afterwards

Mon 24th Apr 2017
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Architecture for Resilience – surviving earthquakes, tornadoes, fire and floods

Dr Emily So, MEng PhD CEng MICE, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, Director of Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd.

Mon 8th May 2017
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CSAR Debate: This house believes that Artificial Intelligence / Robotics will make us happier

The annual CSAR debate

Mon 22nd May 2017
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The world in 2050 - and beyond?

Lord Martin Rees, OM, FRS, FREng, FMedSci, Trinity College and Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Astronomer Royal

Our Earth is 45 million centuries old. But this century is the first when one species - ours - can determine the biosphere's fate.

Mon 5th Jun 2017
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Mutational processes in the human genome

Dr Serena Nik-Zainal, Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow & CDF Group Leader, Cancer Genome Project, Sanger Institute

How a cancer genome provides a unique opportunity to view the historic mutagenic activity that has occurred throughout the development of a tumour

Mon 19th Jun 2017
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Previous lectures

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