Science lectures archive

Missed one of our lectures? Here’s a list of some of the topics we’ve covered in the past. Some of our talks are also available online and you can watch them on YouTube.

  • 2023

    Thursday 2 February 2023 - Dr Paul Giles: “Cosmology in crisis: Galaxy clusters to the rescue”

    Friday 17 February 2023 - Prof Peter Giesl: “Dynamical systems: attractivity, chaos and predicting the future”

    Thursday 9 March 2023 - Dr Simon Mitchell: “Will virtual patients help us choose the right treatments?”

    Thursday 23 March 2023 - Dr Kate Shaw: “Bringing Large Hadron Collider data to the world”

    Thursday 30 March 2023 - Prof. Hazel Cox: “Quantum Chemistry: Two's company, three's a crowd.”

    Monday 9 October 2023 – Will Roper: “Simulating the first galaxies: a tale of birds and bugs fixes”

    Monday 23 October 2023 – Dr Faith Matcham: “Digital sensing in major depression”

    Monday 6 November 2023 – Dr Josh McFayden: “Catching ghosts: first neutrino observation and searchers for Dark Matter”

    Monday 20 November 2023 – Dr Martin White: “Is waste heat a wasted opportunity?”

    Monday 4 December 2023 – Professor Gillian Forrester: “Hand to mouth: the language puzzle”

  • 2024

    Tuesday 6 February 2024 – Chris Brown: “Bringing nanomaterials to life: applying nanotechnology to biological systems”

    Tuesday 20 February 2024 – Claire Smith: “The making of My Dead Body: how can the deceased teach the living”

    Tuesday 5 March 2024 – Professor Gianluca Memoli: “The light and sound quiz show”

    Tuesday 19 March 2024 – Dr Bryan Singer: “The gambling game”

    Tuesday 16 April 2024 – Professor Konstantin Blyuss: “Mathematics of life: from epidemics to sex”

    Tuesday 16 April 2024 – Professor Yuliya Kyrychko: “Time-delayed systems: challenges and opportunities”

    Tuesday 30 April 2024 – Dr Jonas Lindert: “The LHC’s precision path to the series of the cosmos”

    Tuesday 15 October 2024 – Professor Stephen Wilkins: “Exploring the end of the dark ages”

    Tuesday 29 October 2024 – Dr Charlotte Rae: “How does a four-day working week improve wellbeing and workplace performance?”

    Tuesday 12 November 2024 – Dr Iris Asllani: “Unveiling the Brain's Hemodynamics: Absolute Blood Flow Measurement for Diagnost”