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Academic year 2019-2020
Hilary Term 2020:
Week 3 Thur 06/02
Professor Peter Atkins
“The origin of the laws of nature”
Lincoln College, University of Oxford
Week 4 Tue 11/02
Professor Catherine Wilkins
“Career in a university Maths department”, co-hosted with The Oxford Invariants
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Week 5 Thur 20/02
Professor Kieran Clarke
“On development and use of a ketone ester drink: panacea or snake oil?”
Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford
Week 7 Thur 5/03
Professor Roberto Steiner
“Understanding cofactor-independent biological oxidation”
Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King’s College London
Michaelmas Term 2019:
Week 1 Thur 17/10
Professor Masaaki Miyazawa
“The arms race between retroviruses and mammals: Are we winning ?”
Kindai University, Japan
Week 2 Wed 23/10
Professor Peter Ratcliffe
“Understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms: implications for medicine”
Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University
Week 3 Wed 30/10
Dr. Neil Ashton
“Turbulence and Aerodynamics – enabling a greener future”
Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
Week 4 Wed 06/11
Dr Michael J. Bojdys
“Homing in on the “Goldilocks Zone” of materials: Beyond graphene and Silicon”
Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Week 5 Wed 13/11
Dr. Keyun Ruan
“Digital Asset Valuation and Cyber Risk Measurement: Economic Theories for Industry 4.0”
Chief Cloud Security, Google Cloud
Week 6 Thur 21/11
Professor Chas Bountra
“Great leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs will solve the world’s greatest challenges”
Pro Vice-Chancellor for Innovation, Oxford University
Week 7 Thur 28/11
Professor Charlotte Deane
“The Protein Structure Universe: from Creation to Medicine”
Department of Statistics, Oxford University
Academic year 2018-2019
Trinity Term 2019:
| Week 1 | Wed 1/05 |
Brian Launder “Climate Engineering to avert dangerous global heating?” Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Manchester |
| Week 2 | Wed 08/05
NOTE: 19:30 start |
Bryn Roberts
“How Big Data and AI are Revolutionising Medicines R&D” Global Head of Operations for Roche Pharmaceutical Research & Early Development, Switzerland |
| Week 3 | Wed 15/05 | Ben Davis
“The World Is Made Of Sugar And Dirt” Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford |
| Week 4 | Wed 22/05 | |
| Week 5 | Wed 29/05 | Dr Frank Haselbach,
Global Head of System Design, Rolls Royce |
| Week 6 | Tues 04/06 | David Gann,
Vice-President, Imperial college and Chair, UK Atomic Energy Authority |
| Week 7 | Wed 12/06 | BRIGHT International Oxford Chapter Presentation on NHS and Health Innovation |
| Week 8 | Wed 19/06 |
Hilary Term 2019:
| Week 1 | Wed 16/01
NOTE: Starts at 18:00 |
Prof. Adrian Hill, Director, The Jenner Institute, University of OxfordMalaria Vaccines – an Oxford First |
| Week 2 | Wed 23/01 | Dr. Tom Crawford, Mathematical InstituteNavier-Stokes Stripped |
| Week 3 | Wed 30/01 | Dr Katherine Wheelhouse, GSK“Don’t Process Chemists Just Make Things Bigger?” |
| Week 4 | Wed 06/02 | Dr Suzie Sheehy, University of Oxford“Particle Accelerators: From Curiosity Driven Research To Life-Changing Technology” |
| Week 5 | Wed 13/02 | Prof Elspeth Garman, University of Oxford“106 years of Crystallography: what has it taught us and where will it lead us?” |
| Week 6 | Wed 20/02
NOTE: Starts at 18:00 |
Bhavin Turakhia“Building a billion dollar tech business with zero funding – My story and lessons” |
| Week 7 | Wed 27/02
NOTE: Starts at 18:00 |
Sion Philpott-Morgan“NHS Digital: moving towards more tech-driven healthcare” |
| Week 9 | Cambridge University Scientific Society Founder’s Dinner |
15th March London Day Trip: Cambridge x Oxford SciSoc
Michaelmas Term 2018:
| Week 1 | Wed 10/10 | Richard Dinan, Applied Fusion Systems Will Fusion Reactors Power Space Rockets? |
| Week 2 | Wed 17/10 | Prof J Doyne Farmer, Oxford Martin School Prediction in Economics and Elsewhere |
| Week 3 | Wed 24/10 | Richard Barker “Bioscience – Lost in Translation?” |
| Week 4 | Wed 31/10 | Science Social |
| Week 5 | Wed 07/11 | Prof Chris Fairburn, Oxford NHS Trust Developing Effective Psychological Treatments |
| Week 6 | Wed 14/11 | Dr Elsa Sotiriadis, The Biofuturist How Biology became the Next Great Software Revolution |
| Week 7 | Wed 21/11 | Prof Brad Gibson, University of Hull The Death of Planet Earth |
| Week 8 | Wed 28/11 | Prof Varinder Aggarwal, University of Bristol Organic Synthesis in the 21st Century, and why Fish is Always Served with a Slice of Lemon |
Academic year 2017-2018
Trinity term 2018
| Week 1 | Wed 25/04 | Liz Parrish, BioViva Sciences The woman who wants to genetically engineer you: Gene and Cell Therapies to Cure Ageing |
| Week 2 | Wed 02/05 | Prof Steve Goldup, Southampton University Nanoscale Machinery: From Molecular Machines to Molecular Asymmetry |
| Week 4 | Wed 21/05 | Dr Josh Mouland, Manchester University How Light affects our Internal Body Clocks |
Hilary term 2018
| Week 1 | Wed 17/01 | Prof Fabrizio Schifano, University of Hertfordshire Recent Changes in Drug Scenarios and Cognitive Enhancers |
| Week 3 | Wed 31/01 | Dr Claire Patterson, AstraZeneca A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine Go Down? |
| Week 5 | Wed 14/02 | Dr Richard Smith, British Medical Journal The Many Defects in How We Publish Science: Time for Something Better |
| Week 5 | Sat 17/02 | TOAD Distillery Field Trip |
| Week 6 | Wed 21/02 | Prof Jane McKeating, Oxford University Combatting Viral Infections Early |
| Week 7 | Wed 28/02 | Libby Jackson, UK Space Agency Humans in Space: What’s Next? |
| Week 8 | Wed 07/03 | Prof Anders Sandberg, Oxford University Physical Eschatology: What Can We Say about the Far Future? |
Michaelmas term 2017
| Week 2 | Wed 18/10 | Prof Wade Allison, Oxford University Trust, Energy and the Environment: Nuclear, Please, 24/7! |
| Week 3 | Wed 25/10 | Prof Terezinha Nunes, Oxford University Using Mathematics to Understand the World |
| Week 4 | Wed 01/11 | Dr Colin Wright, Solipsys Ltd. Juggling: Theory and Practice |
| Week 8 | Wed 29/11 | Termly General Meeting and Committee Elections |
Before 2017-2018
| Hilary Term 2015 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| When | Where | Who | What |
| First Week — Wednesday 21st January 2015, 1900 to 2200 | Thirsty Meeples! | SciSoc social at Thirsty Meeples! | SciSoc social at Thirsty Meeples! |
| Second Week — Wednesday 28th January 2015 at 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Artur Ekert | ‘The Ultimate Physical Limits of Privacy’ |
| Third Week — Wednesday 4th February 2015 at 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Michael Clare | ‘What lies beneath — exploring our deep seas and understanding the hazards’ |
| Fifth Week — Wednesday 18th February 2015 at 6pm | Brown’s Restaurant on Woodstock Road | Dinner with Professor Marcus du Sautoy OBE | ‘Dinner with Patron ’ |
| Sixth Week —Thursday 26th February 2015 at 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Alex Halliday FRS | ‘The Origin of the Moon’ |
| Seventh Week — Wednesday 4th March 2015 at 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff CBE FRS | ‘Old Solvents: New Solutions?’ |
| Eighth Week — Wednesday 11th March 2015 at 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Russell Foster CBE FRS FMedSci | ‘Light, clocks and sleep: keeping an eye on the time’ |
| Michaelmas Term 2014 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| First Week — Wednesday 15th October 2014 at 8:15pm | ICL | Colin Bruce, author and physicist | ‘Fusion: A New Dawn’ |
| Second Week — Wednesday 22nd October 2014 at 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Tristam Wyatt, University of Oxford | ‘Human pheromones: are we the scented ape?’ |
| Fourth Week — Wednesday 5th November 2014 at 8:15pm | ICL | Jamie Bartlett, Centre for the Analysis of Social Media | ‘The Dark Net: what happens under the conditions of anonymity?’ |
| Sixth Week — Wednesday 19th November 2014 at 8:15pm | ICL | Georgina Ferry, Science Oxford | ‘Choices and chances: Dorothy Hodgkin’s path to the Nobel Prize’ |
| Seventh Week — Wednesday 26th November 2014 at 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Adrian Hill, the Jenner Institute | ‘Vaccines against Malaria and Ebola’ |
| Trinity Term 2014 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| First Week — Wednesday 30th April 2014 at 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Doyne Farmer, Oxford Martin School | ‘An evolutionary view of technological progress’ |
| Second Week — Wednesday 7th May 2014 at 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Sir Rory Collins, Oxford Medical Sciences Division | ‘Statins: a simple story, so why the confusion?’ |
| Third Week — Wednesday 14th May 2014 at 8:10pm | ICL | Eric Lerner, LPPFusion | ‘Crowdfunding Fusion—Focus Fusion as the Short Route to Fusion Power’ |
| Fourth Week — Wednesday 21st May 2014 at 8:10pm | ICL | Dr Stephen L. Hicks, University of Oxford | ‘Enhancing Sight for Blind Individuals’ |
The Annual General Meeting of the Oxford University Scientific Society will be held after Dr Hicks’ talk this Wednesday to faciliate our committee elections for Michaelmas term! If you are interested in running for a position, do come to the meeting to tell us what you are interested in doing for SciSoc! Currently we have the standard positions of:
up for grabs! If you don’t think any of those positions suit your interests/skills, do tell us about it and we’ll see if we can tailor a specific job scope for you! The SciSoc will be expanding in the year to come so we definitely need more crazy excited people who are passionate about all things scientific to be on board with us! |
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| Hilary Term 2014 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| First Week —THURSDAY 23rd January 2014 at 8.15pm | Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford (Lindemann Lecture Theatre)Note: different location | Dr Eric Drexler | “Remaking the 21st Century” |
| Second Week — Wednesday 29th January 2014 at 8.15pm | ICL | Professor Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS, University of Oxford | “Are we Seeing Signals from Before the Big Bang?” |
| Third Week — Wednesday 5th February 2014 at 8.15pm | ICL | Dr Patricia Fara, University of Cambridge | “Erasmus Darwin, evolution and slavery” |
| Fourth Week — Wednesday 12th February 2014 at 8.15pm | ICL | Professor Sir Tim Hunt FRS, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute | How to Win a Nobel Prize — The secret of cell division |
| Fifth Week — Wednesday 19th February 2014 at 8.15pm | ICL | Professor Nicky Clayton FRS and Mr Clive Wilkins, University of Cambridge | “The Door to Identity” |
| Sixth Week — Wednesday 26th February 2014 at 8.15pm | ICL | Dr Chris Lintott, University of Oxford | “Tales from Zooniverse: the role of citizen science in modern research” |
| Seventh Week — Wednesday 5th March 2014 at 8.15pm | ICL | Dr Nick Lane, UCL (in conjunction with Oxford University Biological Society) | The Improbable Origin of Complex Life |
| Eighth Week — Wednesday 12th March 2014 at 8.15pm | ICL | Professor Dame Carol Robinson DBE FRS, University of Oxford | “Finding the right balance — from rare gases to rotary motors” |
| Michaelmas Term 2013 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| First Week — Wednesday 16th October 2013 at 8.15pm | ICL | Professor Sir Iain Chalmers | “Reducing waste in deciding what research to do” |
| Second Week — Wednesday 23rd October 2013 at 8.15pm | ICL | Professor Sir John Ball FRS FRSE, University of Oxford | “What can mathematics say about liquid crystals?” |
| Third Week — Wednesday 30th October 2013 at 8.15pm | ICL | Dr Alex Richardson, University of Oxford | “CHANGING DIETS, CHANGING MINDS: The Importance of Nutrition for Mental Health, Performance and Wellbeing” |
| Fourth Week — Wednesday 6th November 2013 at 8.15pm | ICL | Dr Nick Greeves, University of Liverpool | “Chemistry: Live and in 3D” |
| Fifth Week — Wednesday 13th November 2013 at 8.15pm | ICL | Professor Martin Raff FRS, UCL | “An outsider’s take on autism” |
| Sixth Week — Wednesday 20th November 2013 at 8.15pm | ICL | Dr Christiane Timmel, University of Oxford | “A bird’s eye view of the chemical compass — the chemistry of animal navigation in magnetic fields” |
| Seventh Week — Wednesday 27th November 2013 at 8.15pm | ICL | Professor Lord May of Oxford FRS, University of Oxford | “Stability and complexity in financial ecosystems” |
| Eighth Week — Wednesday 4th December 2013 at 8.15pm | ICL | Professor James Binney FRS, University of Oxford | “Foundations of Quantum Mechanics” |
| Trinity Term 2013 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| First Week — Wednesday 24th April 2013 at 8.15pm | ICL | Professor Chris Cooper, University of Essex | “The Science behind Drugs and Doping in Sport” |
| Second Week — Wednesday 1st May 2013 at 8.15pm | ICL | Professor Joe Sweeney, University of Huddersfield | “Big Bad Pharma” |
| Third Week — Wednesday 8th May 2013 at 8.15pm | ICL | Professor Lloyd Peck, British Antarctic Survey | “Life in the Frozen State” |
| Fifth Week — Wednesday 22nd May 2013 at 8.15pm | ICL | Dr Eric Werner FLS, University of Oxford | “Cancer’s Hidden Networks” |
| Hilary Term 2013 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| First Week — Wednesday 16th January 2013 at 8.15pm | ICL | Dr Jessica Richman | “UBiome — Sequencing the Human Microbiome through Citizen Science (http://ubiome.com/)” |
| Second Week — Wednesday 23rd January 2013 at 7pm. Note it is at a different time! | ICL | Professor Steve Jones, University College London | “The Joy of Sect; rewriting the bible as a scientific textbook” (co-talk with the Oxford BioSoc) |
| Third Week — Wednesday 30th January 2013 at 8.15pm | ICL | Neuroskeptic | “Getting the Brain Wrong: on misunderstandings of neuroscience” |
| Fourth Week — Wednesday 6th February 2013 at 8.15pm | ICL | Dr Hugh Hunt, University of Cambridge | “Boomerangs, Bouncing Balls and Spinny Things” — lecture with live demonstrations! |
| Sixth Week — Wednesday 20th February 2013 at 8.15pm | ICL | Professor Robert Stockman, University of Nottingham | “From Chemical Weapons to Chemotherapy: An Unexpected Journey” |
| Seventh Week —Monday 25th February 2013 at 7:00pm. Note the unusual day, time, and place for this event! | This event is free and open to everyone. | Gary Taubes (author and journalist), Professor Philip James (President of the International Association for the Study of Obesity), and Professor Sir Richard Peto (Co-Director of the Clinical Trial Service Unit) | “A debate titled ‘Sloth, gluttony or hormones?’ “This House believes hormones, not Calories, make us fat.” “ |
| Seventh Week — Wednesday 27th February 2013 at 8.15pm | ICL | Professor Gero Miesenböck, University of Oxford | “Reengineering a Brain” |
| Eighth Week — Wednesday 6th March 2013 at 8.15pm | ICL | Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas, FRS, FREng, University of Cambridge | “Unpredictability and Chance in Science and Technology” |
| Michaelmas Term 2012 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| First Week — Wednesday 10th October 2012 at 8.15pm | ICL | Professor Kieran Clarke | “A new food group to improve physical performance and cognitive function: Helping human health” |
| Second Week — Wednesday 17th October 2012 at 8.15pm | ICL | Professor Ian Fleming | “Short Cuts: Anecdotes from a Research Career” |
| Third Week — Wednesday 24th October 2012 at 7pm(note new time and location!) | Martin Wood lecture theatre, Parks Road | Mark Henderson, George Monbiot & Tracy Brown as a Panel Discussion | “The Geek manifesto (a panel discussion)” |
| Fourth Week — Wednesday 31st October 2012 at 8.15pm. | ICL | Lord Ronald Oxburgh | “Energy for all—but from where?” |
| Fifth Week — Wednesday 7th November 2012 at 8.15pm | ICL | Dr Mark Oxborrow | “MASER (microwave LASER) working at room temperature—for the first time” |
| Sixth Week — Wednesday 14th November 2012 at 8.15pm | ICL | Dr Harry Witchel | “Reading the body language of engagement” |
| Seventh Week — Wednesday 21st November 2012 at 8.15pm | ICL | Professor Sir David Baulcombe | “Small RNA—the dark matter of genetics” |
| (LECTURE POSTPONED due to illness.) Eighth Week — Wednesday 28th November 2012 at 8.15pm | ICL | Professor Lloyd Peck | “Life in the frozen state” |
| Trinity Term 2012 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| First Week — Wednesday 25th April 2012 at 7:00pm. Doors open 6:15pm. Note different time and place! | Sheldonian Theatre | The Debate of the Ages: Dr Aubrey de Grey and Prof. Colin Blakemore, moderated by Prof. Sir Richard Peto | “THIS HOUSE WANTS TO DEFEAT AGEING ENTIRELY” |
| Second Week — Wednesday 2nd May 2012 at 8.15pm | ICL | Dr Alison Foster, Oxford University Botanic Garden | “The Botanic Garden — Your Modern Medicine Cabinet” |
| Third Week — Wednesday 9th May 2012 at 8.15pm | ICL | Prof. Marian Dawkins, University of Oxford | “Optical Flow, Collective Behaviour, and Animal Welfare” |
| Fourth Week — Wednesday 16th May 2012 at 8.15pm.Note this lecture is at a different location! | Physical & Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory lecture theatre, South Parks Road | Dr Andrew Hanson, National Physical Laboratory | “Confounding Colour Curiosities: the Science of Seeing Colour” |
| Fifth Week — Wednesday 23rd May 2012 at 8.15pm | ICL | Prof. David Nutt, Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs | “How the Current Drug Laws Hold Back Science” |
| Hilary Term 2012 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| First Week—Wednesday 18th January 2012 at 8.15pm | ICL | Professor Steve Jones | “Incest and Folk Dancing: Two Things to Avoid” |
| Second Week—Wednesday 25th January 2012 at 8.15pm | ICL | Dr Michael de Podesta, National Physical Lab | “How do you really know what the temperature is?” |
| Third Week—Wednesday 1st February 2012 at 8.15pm | ICL | Dr Peter Wothers, University of Cambridge | “Gods, Devils and Alcohol—their influence in chemical nomenclature” |
| Fourth Week—Wednesday 8th February 2012 at 8.15pm | ICL | Dr Susanne Shultz, University of Oxford | “Primate social evolution: new perspectives on an old question” |
| Fifth Week—Wednesday 15th February 2012 at 8.15pm | ICL | Professor Alison Smith, University of Cambridge | “Green (and brown and red) energy—prospects for algal biofuels” |
| Sixth Week—Wednesday 22nd February 2012 at 8.15pm | ICL | Dr Susan Ozanne, Univeristy of Cambridge | “You are what your mother ate: the developmental origins of type 2 diabetes” |
| Seventh Week—Wednesday 29th February 2012 at 8.15pm | ICL | Professor Kevin Warwick, University of Reading | “Human Enhancement: A User’s Guide” |
| Eighth Week—Tuesday 6th March 2012 at 8.15pmNote: different day this week | ICL | Dr Mark Briffa, University of Plymouth | “Personality and a bit of aggression in marine invertebrates” |
| Michaelmas Term 2011 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Summer — Thursday 8th September 2011 at 17.00 note different day, time, and place | in the Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building (Department of Physics on Keble Road) | Michael Nielsen, author and advocate of open science | “Open Science: The Promise and the Challenge” |
| First Week – Wednesday 12th October 2011 at 8.15pm | ICL | Dr Andrew Pontzen, University of Oxford | “What is Cold Dark Matter? And is it heating up?” |
| Second Week – Wednesday 19th October 2011 at 8.15pm | ICL | Dr Chris Faulkes, Queen Mary University of London | “Biodiversity and sociality in African mole rats: an evolutionary perspective” |
| Third Week – Wednesday 26th October 2011 at 8.15pm | ICL | Laurie Winkless, National Physical Laboratory | “Raiders of the Lost Amp” |
| Fourth Week – Wednesday 2nd November 2011 at 8.15pm | ICL | The Reverend Ron Lancaster, Kimbolton Fireworks | “Fireworks: Principles and Practice” |
| Fifth Week – Wednesday 9th November 2011 at 8.15pm | ICL | Prof. Wade Allison, University of Oxford | “What have we learnt from Fukushima?” |
| Sixth Week – Wednesday 16th November 2011 at 8.15pm* *EVENT CANCELLED |
ICL | Prof. Steve Jones, University College London | “Incest and Folk Dancing: Two Things to Avoid” |
| Seventh Week – Wednesday 23rd November 2011 at 8.15pm | ICL | Mark Lynas, popular science author | “Why scientists should take over the world” |
| Eighth Week – Wednesday 30th November 2011 at 8.15pm | ICL | Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell, University of Oxford | “Will the world end in 2012? The astronomical evidence” |
| Trinity Term 2011 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| First Week – Wednesday 4th May 2011 – 20:15 | ICL | Dr Len Fisher, Popular Science Author and Presenter | “Science and Prediction: How Reliably Can We See the Future?” |
| Second Week – Wednesday 11th May 2011 – 20:15 | ICL | Prof. Robin Dunbar, University of Oxford | “Why Humans Aren’t Just Great Apes” |
| Third Week – Wednesday 18th May 2011 – 20:15 | ICL | Cory Doctorow | “A Little Bit Pregnant: Why It’s a Bad Idea to Regulate Computers the Way We Regulate Radios, Guns, Uranium and Other Special-Purpose Tools” |
| Fourth Week – Wednesday 25th May 2011 – 20:15 | ICL | Dr. Roi Cohen Kadosh, University of Oxford | “Searching for the Mathematical Brain” |
| Hilary Term 2011 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| First Week – Wednesday 19th January 2011 – 20:15 | ICL | Professor Stephen Curry, Imperial College London | “Foot-and-mouth and foot-in-mouth: science and talking about science” |
| Second Week – Wednesday 26th January 2011 – 20:15 | ICL | David McCandless | “Information Is Beautiful” (joint event with Oxford Invariants) |
| Third Week – Wednesday 2nd February 2011 – 20:15 | ICL | Dr Nick Lane, UCL | Energetics and the evolution of complex life (joint event with Oxford Biological Society) |
| Fourth Week – Wednesday 9th February 2011 – 20:15 | ICL | ||
| Fifth Week – Wednesday 16th February 2011 – 20:15 | ICL | Professor David Sims, Plymouth | “Lévy flights and the search behaviour of marine predators” (joint event with Oxford Biological Society) |
| Sixth Week – Wednesday 23rd February 2011 – 20:15 | ICL | Professor David Fell, Oxford Brookes University | “Modeling Biochemical Networks: from DNA to Cellular Function” |
| Seventh Week – Wednesday 2nd March 2011 – 20:15 | ICL | Dr Adrian Jenkins, British Antarctic Survey | “Ocean forcing of ice sheet change in West Antarctica” (joint event with Oxford Geology Group) |
| Eighth Week – Wednesday 9th March 2011 – 20:15 | ICL | Professor Sonia Contera, University of Oxford | “Nanotechnology: From Single Molecule Biophysics to Biology and Nanomedicine” (joint event with Oxford Transhumanists) |
| Ninth Week – Wednesday 16th March 2011 – 20:15 | ICL | ||
| Michaelmas Term 2010 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| First Week – Wednesday 13th October 2010 – 20:15 | ICL | Professor Chris Boshoff, University College London | Viral Oncology |
| Second Week – Wednesday 20th October 2010 – 20:15 | ICL | Film Night | The Age of Stupid |
| Third Week – Wednesday 27th October 2010 – 20:15 | ICL | Dr Michael Chappell, University of Oxford | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) |
| Fourth Week – Wednesday 3rd November 2010 – 20:15 | ICL | Dr Waljit Dhillo, Imperial College London | Kisspeptin (novel hormone) |
| Fifth Week – Wednesday 10th November 2010 – 20:15 | ICL | Professor Dame Athene Donald, University of Cambridge | Females in Science (In association with Women’s Initiative, Oxford Union) |
| Sixth Week – Wednesday 17th November 2010 – 20:15 | ICL | Professor Jean-Pierre Allain, University of Cambridge | Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) |
| Seventh Week – Wednesday 24th November 2010 – 20:15 | ICL | Dr Elspeth Graham, University of St Andrews | CHAMPSEA |
| Eighth Week – Wednesday 1st December 2010 – 20:15 | ICL | Professor Jonathan Flint, University of Oxford [CANCELLED]Dr Anders Sandberg, James Martin research fellow, Oxford University | Psychiatric Disorder of Depression (In association with the Psychology Society)[CANCELLED]”What does a computational neuroscientist do in the philosophy department?” |
| Trinity Term 2010 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| First Week – Wednesday 28th April 2010 – 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Monica Grady, the Open University | Astronomy by Microscope |
| Second Week – Wednesday 5th May 2010 – 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Charles Godfray FRS, University of Oxford | Malaria, Mosquitoes, and Models |
| Third Week – Wednesday 12th May 2010 – 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Enrico Cohen, John Innes Centre, Norwich | The Snapdragon’s Tale: How Genes Control Shape (Co-hosted with The Oxford Biological Society) |
| Third Week – Saturday 15th May 2010 – 2:00pm | Magdalen Bridge | Punting (members only) | Meet at the punt house |
| Fourth Week – Wednesday 19th May 2010 – 8:15pm | ICL | Professor David Pyle, University of Oxford | Volcanic Eruptions: Causes and Consequences |
| Hilary Term 2010 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| First Week – Thursday 21st January 2010 – 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Stuart Warren, Cambridge University | Inventing Chemistry and Writing Textbooks |
| Second Week – Tuesday 26th January 2010 – 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Amanda Cooper-Sarkar, Oxford University | What are we really looking for at the Large Hadron Collider? |
| Third Week – Thursday 4th February 2010 – 8:30pm | Meet outside Mansfield College | Joint observation session | Joint observation session with OUSAS (Oxford University Space and Astronomical Society) |
| Fourth Week – Wednesday 10th February 2010 – 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Sir Richard Friend, University of Cambridge | Plastic Electronics: Carbon-based semiconductors—new science, new engineering and new applications |
| Fifth Week – Wednesday 17th February 2010 – 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Christopher French, Goldsmiths, University of London | The Psychology of Anomalous Experiences |
| Sixth Week – Tuesday 23rd February 2010 – 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Peter McOwan, Queen Mary, University of London | The Magic of Computer Science: Are You Watching Closely? |
| Seventh Week – Wednesday 3rd March 2010 – 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Sir Martin Evans, Cardiff University | Co-hosted with Oxford University Biochemical Society |
| Eighth Week – Wednesday 10th March 2010 – 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Vincent Cunliffe, University of Sheffield | Fishing for clues: how zebrafish are making a big splash in biochemical research |
| Michaelmas Term 2009 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| First Week – Wednesday 14th October 2009 – 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Aubrey de Grey, SENS Foundation | Applying Regenerative Medicine to the Problem of Ageing |
| Second Week – Wednesday 21st October 2009 – 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Edmund Harriss (The Open University) | How do Shapes Fill Space? |
| Third Week – Wednesday 28th October 2009 – 8:15pm | ICL | Dr David Watkin (University of Oxford) | So, what does Vitamin C Look Like? |
| Fourth Week – Wednesday 4th November 2009 – 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Julia Yeomans (University of Oxford) | Nature’s Raincoats |
| Fifth Week – Wednesday 11th November 2009 – 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Andrew deMello (Imperial College London) | The Lilliput Laboratory: is Size Important? |
| Sixth Week – Wednesday 18th November 2009 – 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Nicola Clayton (University of Cambridge) | Comparative Cognition: Lessons from Corvids and Children |
| Seventh Week – Date and time to be announced | Black Tie Christmas Dinner | ||
| Seventh Week – Wednesday 25th November 2009 – 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Carlos Frenk (University of Durham) | The Great Cosmic Gamble: Making Galaxies from Nothing |
| Eighth Week – Wednesday 2nd December 2009 – 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Andrew Abbott (University of Leicester) | Plastic from Potatoes and Rubber from Rice |
| Trinity Term 2009 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| First Week –Thursday 30th April 2009 – 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Lynn Margulis, University of Massachusetts Amherst | Early Evolution of Earth’s Life |
| Fourth Week –Monday 18th May 2009 – 8:15pm* *CANCELLED |
ICL | Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, University of Cambridge | Prenatal Testosterone in Mind |
| Fourth Week – Wednesday 20th May 2009 – 6:00pm | ICL | Professor Sir David King, University of Oxford | 21st Century Challenges |
| Fifth Week – Wednesday 27th May 2009 – 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Peter Atkins, University of Oxford | The Nature of Energy |
| Hilary Term 2009 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| First Week – Wednesday 21st Jan 2009 – 8:15pm | Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Lab | Susie Sheehy and Andrew Steele | Accelerate! Physics Show |
| Second Week – Wednesday 28th Jan 2009 – 8:15pm | ICL | Nick Lane—Popular Science Author | From the Origin of Life to the Origin of Complexity |
| Third Week – Wednesday 4th Feb 2009 – 8:15pm | ICL | Prof Dennis Noble, Oxford | The Music of Life: How to Put Humpty-Dumpty Back Together Again |
| Fourth Week – Wednesday 11th Feb 2009 – 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Jim Bennett, Museum of the History of Science | What is the (Museum of the) History of Science for? |
| Fifth Week – Wednesday 18th Feb 2009 – 7:00pm | ICL | Prof Simon Conway-Morris, University of Cambridge | Darwin’s Compass: How Evolution Discovers the Song of Creation |
| Sixth Week – Wednesday 25th Feb 2009 – 8:15pm* *CANCELLED |
ICL | Prof Joyce Tait, University of Edinburgh | Science and Technology Foresight—Can we do it? |
| Seventh Week – Wednesday 4th Mar 2009 – 8:15pm | ICL | Prof Peter Donnelly | The Genetics of Common Human Diseases |
| Eighth Week – Wednesday 11th Mar 2009 – 8:15pm | ICL | Sir Peter Mansfield, Nottingham | Snap-shot MRI and Beyond |
| Eighth Week –Thursday 12th Mar 2009 – 8:15pm* *CANCELLED |
ICL | Prof Andrew de Mello, Imperial College London | Chemical Nanoscience |
| Michaelmas Term 2008 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| First Week – Wednesday 15th Oct 2008 – 7:00–9:00pm | ICL | Welcome drinks | |
| Second Week – Wednesday 22nd Oct 2008 – 8:15pm | ICL | Prof Sir Alec Jeffreys, Royal Society | Genetic Fingerprinting and Beyond |
| Third Week – Wednesday 29th Oct 2008 – 8:15pm | ICL | Prof Tim Hunt | Getting in and out of mitosis |
| Fourth Week – Wednesday 5th Nov 2008 – 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Fumiko Esashi | Old and new role of CDKs in the maintenance of genome integrity |
| Fifth Week – Wednesday 12th Nov 2008 – 8:15pm* *CANCELLED |
ICL | Sir Peter Mansfield | Snap-shot MRI and Beyond |
| Sixth Week –Tuesday 18th Nov 2009 – 8:15pm | ICL | Prof John Walker | Oxygen, Energy Conversion, Life and Health |
| Seventh Week – Wednesday 26th Nov 2009 – 8:15pm* *CANCELLED |
ICL | Prof Jean Beggs | TBA |
| Eighth Week –Tuesday 2nd Dec 2009 – 8:15pm | ICL | Prof Colin Blakemore | Vision Impossible |
| Trinity Term 2008 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| First Week – 24 April 2008 – 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Paul JA Howarth, Director of Research, Dalton Nuclear Institute, Manchester University | Future Energy Policy – The Role of Nuclear |
| Second Week – 30 April 2008 – 8:15pm | ICL | John E Walker, Medical Research Council Dunn Human Nutrition Unit, Cambridge, UK | Oxygen, Energy Conversion, Life and Health |
| Third Week – 7 May 2008 – 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Richard Crowther, Head of Space Technology, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory | The Outlook For Near-Earth Space Exploration |
| Fourth Week – 12 May 2008 – 8:15pm | ICL | Jacob Klein | Israeli Medical Developments: Saving Lives Worldwide |
| Fourth Week – 14 May 2008 – 8:15pm | ICL | EFDA-JET, Culham Science Centre | OUSS Visit to the Joint European Torus (JET) |
| Eighth Week – 9 June 2008 6:30pm | Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road | Susan Greenfield | ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century |
| Hilary Term 2008 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday second week (23 January) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Andrew Briggs, Department of Materials, University of Oxford | The Emerging Discipline of Quantum Nanoscience |
| Wednesday third week (30 January) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Brian Ford, Broadcaster and writer, Leicester | The Intelligence of Cells |
| Wednesday forth week (6 February) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Graham Richards, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford | Molecules by the Million – the use of computers in drug discovery |
| Wednesday sixth week (20 February) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Philip Maini, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford | Mathematical Modelling of Solid Cancer Growth |
| Wednesday eighth week (5 March) 8:15pm | ICL | Mr Kamil Fadel, Palais de la découverte, Paris | Lucky Life & Magic Furnace |
| Michealmas Term 2007 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday first week (October 10th) 8:15pm | Lincoln College | Welcome Drinks | |
| Wednesday second week (October 17th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Aubrey de Grey (Chairman and Chief Science Officer of the Methuselah Foundation, Cambridge) | Prospects for extending healthy life – a lot |
| Wednesday third week (December 31st) 8:15pm | ICL | Mr Andrew Lound (UK Regional Coordinator for The Planetary Society) | To see the beginning of Time |
| Wednesday fourth week (October 31st) 7:30pm | ICL | Sir Richard Peto (Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology) | Halving premature death |
| Wednesday fifth week (November 7th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Alan Baddeley (Professor of Psychology, York) | Developing the concept of working memory |
| Wednesday sixth week (November 14th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Wade Allison (Professor of Physics, Oxford) | Nuclear without fear |
| Monday seventh week (November 19th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Jonathan Hodgkin (Professor of Genetics, Oxford) | Studying bacterial warfare using a tiny nematode worm |
| Thursday seventh week (November 22nd) | Black Tie Dinner | ||
| Wednesday eighth week (November 28th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Heinz Wolff (Emeritus Professor of Bioengineering, Brunel) | Science, Society, Education and the Future. Have we got it all wrong? |
| Wednesday eighth week (November 28th) | Tour of Rutherford Appleton Laboratory | ||
| Trinity Term 2007 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday first week (April 25th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Eric Werner (University of Oxford and Cellnomica Inc) | What do genes mean? |
| Wednesday second week (May 2nd) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Andrew Briggs (Professor of nanomaterials, University of Oxford) | The emerging discipline of quantum nanoscience |
| Wednesday third week (May 9th) 6:00pm | ICL | Professor Elizabeth Warrington (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) | The organization of knowledge systems in the brain |
| Wednesday fourth week (May 16th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Bryan Sykes () | To be announced |
| Hilary Term 2007 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday first week (January 17th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Chris Lintott (Co-presenter of The Sky at Night) | The 1st Stars |
| Wednesday second week (January 24th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Nick Lane (Honorary Senior Research Fellow, UCL) | Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life |
| Saturday second week (January 27th) 11:15pm | Exam Schools | Career Services () | Alternatives for Scientists |
| Monday third week (January 29th) 8:15pm | ICL | Elaine Baxter (Topsat Operations Manager, QinetiQ) | TopSat – low cost imagery from space |
| Wednesday third week (January 31st) 5:00pm | New College Lecture Room 6 | Accenture Career Event: What is Management Consultancy? | |
| Wednesday fourth week (February 7th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Peter Smith (Special Professor of Sustainable Energy, University of Nottingham) | Beware the Tipping Point: A Scenario for Renewables |
| Wednesday fifth week (February 14th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor John Wood FREng (Cheif Executive, Council for the Central Laboratories of the Research Councils) | Big Science and Materials: Opportunities, Breakthroughs and the Future |
| Friday fifth week (February 16th) 8:15pm | TBC | High Profile Speaker | Animals in Medical Research: Magic or Tragic? |
| Tuesday seventh week (February 27th) 1:45pm | MINI Factory | Tour of the MINI Factory Plant | |
| Wednesday sixth week (February 21st) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Chris Leaver (Head of the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford) | GM Crops: Food for Thought |
| Tuesday seventh week (February 27th) 8:15pm | Martin Wood Lecture Theatre | Reverend Professor Alister McGrath (Professor of Theology, Oxford University) | Has Science Disproved God? Richard Dawkins on the ‘God Delusion’ |
| Wednesday eighth week (March 7th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Phil Donoghue (Department of Earth Sciences, Bristol University) | Paleontology, Particle Physics and Penis Worms |
| Michealmas Term 2006 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday first week (October 11th) 8:15pm | ICL | Welcome drinks | |
| Wednesday second week (October 18th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr A Fitzgibbon (Microsoft Research Centre) | Computer Vision and the Geometry of Nature |
| Wednesday third week (October 25th) 8:15pm | ICL | Reverend Ron Lancaster MBE (Kimbolton Fireworks) | Fireworks: Principles and Practice |
| Thursday third week (October 26th) 2:30pm | Museum of the History of Science | Tour of the Oxford Museum of the History of Science | |
| Wednesday fourth week (November 1st) 8:15pm | ICL | Mr Jay Tate (Spaceguard UK) | Avoiding Armageddon |
| Monday fifth week (November 6th) 8:15pm | ICL | Elaine Baxter (Topsat Operations Manager, QinetiQ) | Topsat: low cost imagery from space |
| Wednesday fifth week (November 8th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Steven Jones (Professor of Genetics at University College London) | Why intelligent design is for stupid people |
| Wednesday sixth week (November 15th) 8:15pm | Martin Wood | Professor Sir Roger Penrose (Oxford University) | Before the Big Bang: A radical solution to a profound cosmological mystery |
| Friday sixth week (November 17th) 1:40pm | TBC | Trip to Didcot Power Station | |
| Wednesday seventh week (November 22nd) 8:15pm | ICL | Mr Peter Head (Director of ARUP) | The Dontang Eco-City Project |
| Thursday seventh week (November 23rd) TBC | Lincoln College | OU Scientific Society Black Tie Dinner | |
| Wednesday eighth week (November 29th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Peter Edwards (Oxford University) | Hydrogen: Key to a sustainable energy future? |
| Trinity Term 2006 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday first week (April 26th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Martin Westwell (Institution of the Future of the Mind) | The future of the mind |
| Wednesday second week (May 3rd) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Patrick Grant (Cookson Professor of Materials) | The manufacture of new materials for industrial applications using droplets |
| Wednesday third week (May 10th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Frank Close (Professor of Particle Physics) | The Particle Odyssey |
| Wednesday fourth week (May 17th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Chris Schofield (Chemical Research Laboratory) | The chemistry of natural oxygen sensing |
| Hilary Term 2006 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Saturday first week (January 21st) 11:00am | Careers Service | Careers | Careers Service Event |
| Wednesday second week (January 25th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Shamita Das (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford) | Earthquakes |
| Wednesday fourth week (February 8th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr. Sarah Rowland-Jones (Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford) | Towards an HIV vaccine |
| Wednesday fifth week (February 15th) 8:15pm | ICL | Frazer Pearce (School of Physics and Astronomy, Nottingham University) | Exoplanets: are we alone? |
| Wednesday sixth week (February 22nd) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor George G Brownlee, FRS (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford) | The bird flu threat |
| Wednesday seventh week (March 1st) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Nevill and Professor Greg Whyte (University of Wolverhampton and English Institute of Sport) | Are there limits to running world-records? |
| Wednesday eighth week (March 8th) 8:15pm | ICL | Vikram Patel (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) | Achieving the Millennium Development Goals |
| Michealmas Term 2005 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday second week (October 19th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Jim Horne (Sleep Research Laboratory, Loughborough University) | Why Sleep? |
| Wednesday third week (October 26th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr. Sarah Rowland-Jones (Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford) | Towards an HIV vaccine? Lessons from Africa |
| Wednesday fourth week (November 2nd) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr. John Emsley (Department of Chemistry, Cambridge) | Elements of Murder: The Dark Side of the Periodic Table |
| Wednesday sixth week (November 16th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Cyril Isenberg (Department of Physical Sciences, University of Kent at Canterbury) | The Magic of Soap Bubbles |
| Wednesday seventh week (November 23rd) 8:15pm | ICL | Prof C. Wickramasinghe (Department of Mathematics, Cardiff University) | The Continuing Search for our Cosmic Ancestry |
| Wednesday eighth week (November 30th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Igor Aleksander (Imperial College) | Machines with Minds: Hype or Sensible Science? |
| Trinity Term 2005 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday first week (April 27th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Alan Windle FRS (Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge) | Carbon Nanotubes: a new science, a new benefit? |
| Wednesday second week (May 4th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor John Brooke (Department of Theology, University of Oxford) | Famous myths in the history of science |
| Thursday third week (May 12th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Les Iversen (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford) | Medical Marijuana |
| Wednesday fourth week (May 18th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Malcolm Haines (Department of Physics, Imperial College London) | Controlled Fusion: a broad approach |
| Hilary Term 2005 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday second week (January 26th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr. John Stein (Department of Physiology, University of Oxford) | Eyes, Ears, Families and Fish – The Magnocellular Hypothesis of Developmental Dyslexia |
| Wednesday fourth week (February 9th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr. P Barham (Department of Physics, Bristol University) | The Physics of Ice Cream |
| Wednesday fifth week (February 16th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr. J Young (Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine – Imperial College, London) | Newton and the Nature of Electronic Editions ~ An Introduction to the Isaac Newton Manuscript Project |
| Wednesday seventh week (March 2nd) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr. Armand Leroi (Department of Biological Sciences – Imperial College, London) | The Genes that make us Human |
| Wednesday eighth week (March 9th) 8:15pm | ICL | Chris Luebkeman (Director and leader of Arup’s global Foresight and Innovation initiative) | Can you imagine…? |
| Michealmas Term 2004 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday second week (October 20th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr. Hans Kraus (Department of Physics, University of Oxford) | Dark Matter in the Universe |
| Wednesday fourth week (November 3rd) 8:15pm | ICL | Prof Peter Atkins (Department of Chemistry, Oxford University) | Galileo’s Finger: The ten great ideas of science |
| Wednesday fifth week (November 10th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Robert McNeill Alexander (School of Biology, University of Leeds) | How animals do the (apparently) impossible. |
| Wednesday sixth week (November 17th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Giles Davies (School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds) | Squeezing more out of the electromagnetic spectrum: terahertz science and technology |
| Friday sixth week (November 19th) 2:00pm | TBC | Visit to JET (Joint European Torus) | |
| Wednesday seventh week (November 24th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Mitch Dowsett (Head of Biochemistry, Institute of Cancer Research) | Science increases incidence but reduces mortality from breast cancer |
| Wednesday eighth week (December 1st) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Paul Coleman (Department of Physics, University of Bath) | Probing Matter with Antimatter |
| Trinity Term 2004 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday second week (May 5th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Emeritus Richard Langton Gregory (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol) | Phenomenal Phenomena – the nature of perception |
| Wednesday third week (May 12th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr. Vlatko Vedral (Centre for Quantum Computation, Imperial College, University of London) | Keeping It Real: Untangling Entanglement |
| Wednesday fourth week (May 19th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Philippe Blondel (Department of Physics, University of Bath) | From Bath to the Ocean: Seabed mapping, the past and the future |
| Hilary Term 2004 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday second week (January 28th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr. John Tippetts (Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Sheffield) | Fluidics |
| Wednesday third week (February 4th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Frank Close (Professor of Particle Physics) | Lucifer’s Legacy |
| Wednesday seventh week (March 3rd) 8:15pm | ICL | Adrian Hon (The Queen’s College, Oxford University) | The Human Mission to Mars |
| Wednesday eighth week (March 10th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Julia Slingo (Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling, Reading University) | Climate in a Changing World |
| Saturday sixth week (February 28th) TBC | TBC | Visit | |
| Michealmas Term 2003 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Saturday first week (October 18th) 2:00pm | Merton gradua e buildings, Holywell St | Welcome BBQ | |
| Wednesday second week (October 22nd) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Alan Cooper (Henry Wellcome Ancient Biomolecules Centre, Oxford University) | Ancient DNA Studies of Humans and Animals |
| Wednesday third week (October 29th) 8:15pm | ICL | Timothy Walker (Botanic Gardens, Oxford University) | The Healing Power of Plants |
| Saturday fifth week (November 15th) 9:00am | Gloucester Green coach station | Visit to The Royal Observatory and National Maritime Museum, Greenwich | |
| Wednesday sixth week (November 19th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor A. Peter Willmore (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Birmingham) | Gamma Ray Bursts |
| Wednesday seventh week (November 26th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor W. Graham Richards (Chairman of Chemistry, University of Oxford) | The Screensaver, Lifesaver Project |
| Wednesday eighth week (December 3rd) 8:15pm | ICL | Reverend Ron Lancaster MBE (Kimbolton Fireworks) | Fireworks!! |
| Trinity Term 2003 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday first week (April 30th) 8:15pm | ICL | Sir Brian K. Follett (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford) | The Marriage Of Animal Behaviour To Molecular Biology |
| Thursday first week (May 1st) 9:00pm | The Bridge | Clubbing at The Bridge | |
| Wednesday second week (May 7th) 8:15pm | NAPL | Colin Jack (Author) | Smarter Ways to Space Travel |
| Wednesday third week (May 14th) 8:15pm | NAPL | Professor Chris Leaver (Head of the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford) | Food for Thought |
| Wednesday fourth week (May 21st) 8:15pm | ICL | Movie Night – X-Men (Members only) | |
| week (April 20th) TBC | The Eden Project | The Eden Project | |
| Hilary Term 2003 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday first week (January 22nd) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Tom Kirkwood (University of Newcastle) | Ageing, Sex and Death |
| Saturday second week (February 1st) 9:00am | Body Worlds Exhibition, London | Visit to Body Worlds Exhibition, London | |
| Wednesday third week (February 5th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr. Alan Penny (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) | Looking for Life on Extra-Solar Planets |
| Wednesday fourth week (February 12th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Sara Russell (Natural History Museum) | Meteorites |
| Wednesday fifth week (February 19th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Mark Rodger (University of Warwick) | Molecular Simulation |
| Wednesday seventh week (March 5th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Horace Barlow (University of Cambridge) | Seeing Motion |
| Wednesday eighth week (March 12th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Robert Donovan (University of Edinburgh) | Laser Spectroscopy |
| Friday eighth week (March 14th) 7:45pm | Martin Wood Lecture Theatre | Marc Abrahams (editor and co-founder of Annals of Improbable Research) | Ig Nobel Prize Tour |
| Michealmas Term 2002 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday first week (October 16th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Jim Horne (Sleep Research Laboratory, Loughborough University) | Why Sleep? |
| Wednesday second week (October 23rd) 8:15pm | ICL | Alex Griffiths (BBC Natural History Unit, Bristol) | Filming Mammals for the BBC Natural History Unit |
| Wednesday third week (October 30th) 8:15pm | Moser Lecture TheatreWadham | Dr Ian I. Kogan (Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford) | Modification of Gravity at large Scale: Telescope for the Microworld |
| Friday third week (November 1st) 13:30pm | Culham Science Centre, Oxfordshire | Trip to JET – Joint European Torus | |
| Wednesday fourth week (November 6th) 8:15pm | Moser Lecture TheatreWadham | Professor Chris Calladine (Structural Mechanics, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) | Construction and operation of bacterial flagella |
| Wednesday fifth week (November 13th) 8:15pm | Moser Lecture TheatreWadham | Professor William D.Grant (Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Leicester) | From Soda Lakes to Salt Mines |
| Wednesday sixth week (November 20th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Peter Andrews (Chairman, Dept. Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield) | From teratocarcinoma to embryonic stem cells: Tools for human embryology and re-generative medicine |
| Wednesday seventh week (November 27th) 8:15pm | (TBC) Old RefectoryWadham | Professor Peter Cargill (Space and Atmospheric Physics, The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College) | Cosmic Storms |
| Thursday seventh week (November 28th) 6:45 for 7:15pm | Old Library, Wadham College | Black Tie dinner | |
| Trinity Term 2002 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday first week (April 24th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Paul J. Davis (Visiting Professor of Applied Immunology, University of Kent at Canterbury) | Much ado about infection |
| Wednesday second week (May 1st) 8:15pm | ICL | Mr Doug Dadswell (Babtie Group, Allot and Lomax) | design and Construction of the London Eye |
| Wednesday third week (May 8th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Steven Jones (Professor of Genetics at University College London) | The Descent of man |
| Wednesday fourth week (May 15th) 8:15pm | Lindemann Lecture Theatre (Physics) | Professor Peter Lillford (Visiting Professor, University of Nottingham, Visiting Chair, University of York) | Don’t talk with your mouth full – The Physics of Eating |
| Saturday fourth week (May 18th) 9:00am | TBC | Visit to the National Space Centre in Leicester, email for details | |
| Hilary Term 2002 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday third week (January 30th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Peter I. P. Kalmus (Emeritus Professor, Queen Mary’s College, University of London) | The Forces of Nature |
| Wednesday fourth week (February 6th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Richard Gardner (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford) | Harnessing Embryonic Stem Cells and Cloning: How and Why |
| Wednesday seventh week (February 27th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Lewis Wolpert (Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College London) | The Unnatural Nature of Science |
| Wednesday eighth week (March 6th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Elspeth Garman (University of Oxford) | Curing Mankind’s Biggest Killer – The Common Flu |
| Tuesday ninth week (March 12th) 7pm prompt | Blackwells Cafe | Simon Singh (Author and Journalist) | The Science of Secrecy a joint event with BlackwellsCafe Scientifique. |
| Michealmas Term 2001 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday first week (October 10th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Cyril Isenberg (Department of Physical Sciences, University of Kent at Canterbury) | The Magic of Soap Bubbles |
| Wednesday second week (October 17th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Tom Mullin (Manchester Center for Non-linear dynamics) | Patterns in the sand |
| Wednesday third week (October 24th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr. Alan Penny (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) | Signs of Life on Other Earths |
| Wednesday fourth week (October 31st) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Hugh Cartwright (Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Oxford) | Instinctive Science: Can Machines Out-Think Scientists? |
| Monday fifth week (November 5th) 7pm | Morris Room, Oxford Union | Dr Adam Baker (Space Department, QinetiQ) | Free QinetiQ Careers Presentation |
| Wednesday fifth week (November 7th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Roy Lehrle (School of Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham) | Forensics: Fakes and Failures |
| Wednesday sixth week (November 14th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor David Widdowson (Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London) | Chemistry Against The Clock: From Atom to Drug in Just One Hour |
| Wednesday seventh week (November 21st) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Alan Chapman (Department of Modern History, Oxford University) | The Canon, the Chemist and the Dinosaurs: Oxford and the Origins of Fossil Geology |
| Wednesday eighth week (November 28th) 8:15pm | ICL | Movie Night – Galaxy Quest (Members Only) | |
| Trinity Term 2001 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday first week (May 2nd) 8:15pm | ICL | Prof Kevin Warwick (Department of Cybernetics, University of Reading) | A Cyborg Life For Me! |
| Wednesday second week (May 9th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Mark S Leeson (School of Engineering, University of Warwick) | The Future of Optical and Wireless Communications |
| Wednesday third week (May 16th) 9:45am | Gloucester Green | Trip to Bletchley Park | |
| Wednesday third week (May 16th) 8:15pm | ICL | Prof Artur Ekert (Centre for Quantum Computation) | Quantum Cryptography |
| Wednesday fourth week (May 23rd) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Dick Parry (Dept of Engineering, Universityof Cambridge) | Pyramid Power and The Secrets Of Stonehenge |
| Hilary Term 2001 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday third week (January 31st) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr. Susan Blackmore (Department of Psychology, University of the West of England) | Memes and Minds |
| Wednesday fourth week (February 7th) 8:15pm | ICL | Major Jonathan Tate (Director of Spaceguard UK) | Cometary impacts – Can we protect our planet? |
| Wednesday fifth week (February 14th) 2:15pm | ICL | Dr. John Emsley (Department of Chemistry, Cambridge) | Perfumes, pampers, nicotine patches – is it really chemistry |
| Wednesday sixth week (February 21st) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr. John Tippetts (Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Sheffield) | Watts, Bits and Fluid Mechanics |
| Wednesday seventh week (February 28th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr. Vlatko Vedral (Centre for Quantum Computation, Imperial College, University of London) | Heat and Computation – The Science of Forgetting |
| Wednesday eighth week (March 7th) 2pm | ICL | Tour of the Oxford Museum of the History of Science | |
| Wednesday eighth week (March 7th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr. Sarah Rowland-Jones (Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford) | Towards and HIV vaccine, Lessons from Africa |
| Michealmas Term 2000 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday second week (October 18th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr. P Barham (Department of Physics, Bristol University) | The Physics of Ice Cream |
| Wednesday fourth week (November 1st) 8:15pm | ICL | Prof. R Eccles (Common Cold Centre, Cardiff University) | The common cold – some unexplained mysteries |
| Thursday third week (October 26th) 2:15pm | ICL | Bodleian Tour | |
| Wednesday fifth week (November 8th) 8:15pm | ICL | A. Hart-Davis (BBC TV presenter and author) | Local Heroes |
| Wednesday sixth week (November 15th) 8:15pm | ICL | Video Night – Contact starring Jodie Foster | |
| Wednesday seventh week (November 22nd) 8:15pm | ICL | Video Night or Quiz ight, TBA | |
| Wednesday eighth week (November 29th) 8:15pm | ICL | Prof C. Wickramasinghe (Department of Mathematics, Cardiff University) | Evidence that life is a cosmic phenomenon |
| Trinity Term 2000 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday second week (May 10th) 8:15pm | ICL | Prof Colin Blakemore FRS (Oxford University) | Nature and nurture in the building of the brain |
| Friday third week (May 19th) 8:15pm | ICL | Alexsander | How to build a mind – the Hype and the Reality |
| Tuesday fourth week (May 23rd) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Vernon Reynolds (Oxford University) | Clever but nasty: Chimpanzees and Human Evolution |
| Wednesday fifth week (May 31st) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Frank Close (Professor of Particle Physics) | Lucifer’s Legacy – the meaning of assymmetry |
| Hilary Term 2000 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday second week (January 26th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Matt Ridley () | Genome: Autobiography of a Species |
| Wednesday third week (February 2nd) 8:15pm | ICL | Prof J.M.R. Graham () | Alternative Energies: Wind and Wave |
| Friday fourth week (February 11th) 2:15pm | Divinity Schools | Guided tour of the Bodleian | |
| Wednesday fifth week (February 16th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Monica Grady (Natural History Museum) | Can Meteorites Show there was Life on Mars? |
| Wednesday sixth week (February 23rd) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Sunil Shaunak () | Why and how does HIV continue to replicate despite HAART |
| Wednesday seventh week (March 1st) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr David Deutsch(http://www.qubit.org/people/david/David.html) | The Multiverse and Quantum Computers |
| Wednesday eighth week (March 8th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr. J Young (Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine – Imperial College, London) | Children and Television Advertising |
| Michealmas Term 1999 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday third week (October 27th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor Tom Mullin (Manchester Center for Non-linear dynamics) | From Chaos to the Indian Rope Trick |
| Wednesday fifth week (November 10th) 8:15pm | ICL | Revd Ron Lancaster (Kimbolton Fireworks) | Fireworks! |
| Wednesday sixth week (November 17th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Leo Kinlen (Childhood Cancer Research Group, Oxford University) | Population Mixing, Infection & Childhood Leukaemia |
| Wednesday seventh week (November 24th) 8:15pm | ICL | Prof Douglas Gough (Institute of Astrophysics, Cambridge University) | Listen to the Sun Shine |
| Wednesday eighth week (December 1st) 8:15pm | ICL | Rupert Sheldrake (Freelance Scientist) | Telepathy and Other Unexplained Powers of Animals |
| Trinity Term 1999 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday first week (April 28th) 8:15pm | ICL | Prof Colin Webb FRS (Professor of Laser Physics, University of Oxford) | Making Light Work: Application of High Powered Lasers |
| Wednesday second week (May 5th) 2:15pm | ICL | Guided tour of the Bodleian | |
| Wednesday second week (May 5th) 8:15pm | ICL | Professor W. Graham Richards (Chairman of Chemistry, University of Oxford) | The Creation of Oxford Molecular Group |
| Wednesday third week (May 12th) 8:15pm | ICL | Prof Susan Greenfield (Department of Pharmacology, Oxford University) | The Brain of the Future |
| Wednesday fourth week (May 19th) 8:15pm | ICL | Prof Brian Goodwin (Schumacher College, Devon) | From Control to Participation in Science |
| Wednesday fifth week (May 26th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Robert Sim (Dept of Biochemistry, University of Oxford) | Innate Immunity in the Lung |
| Hilary Term 1999 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday third week (February 3rd) 8:15pm | ICL | Prof Kevin Warwick (Department of Cybernetics, University of Reading) | Super Intelligent Machines or Cyborgs – Who will rule the world in the future…? |
| Wednesday fourth week (February 10th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Ian Saunders (Department of Physics, Lancaster University) | The Uncommon Sense of Relativity |
| Wednesday sixth week (February 24th) 8:15pm | ICL | Prof Robin Dunbar (Department of Psychology, Liverpool University) | The Evolution of the Social Brain – Why do we spend such a large part of our conversations on social gossip…? |
| Wednesday seventh week (March 3rd) 8:15pm | ICL | Prof Peter Atkins (Department of Chemistry, Oxford University) | The book, the disk and the future… – A speculation about the impact of multimedia on textbooks |
| Wednesday eighth week (March 10th) 8:15pm | ICL | Prof Andrew Mills & Dr Peter Douglas(Dept. Chemistry, University of Wales, Swansea) | Chemistry and Light – Photochemistry in Action: A Demonstration Lecture |
| Michealmas Term 1998 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday third week (October 28th) 8:15pm | ICL | Prof Herbert Huppert (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge) | Did the Earth Move for You? |
| Sunday fourth week (November 1st) 10:15am | North Lodge 2, Merton | ||
| Wednesday fourth week (November 4th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr John Salthouse (Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester) | Son et Lumiere |
| Wednesday fifth week (November 11th) 8:15pm | ICL | Prof Kay-Tee Khaw (Department of Clinical Gerontology, Addenbrookes’ Hospital, Cambridge) | Is There an Anti-Ageing Diet? |
| Wednesday sixth week (November 18th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Chris Solomon (Applied Optics Group, University of Kent at Canterbury) | My Face is My Password |
| Sunday seventh week (November 22nd) 2:00pm | North Lodge 2, Merton | ||
| Wednesday seventh week (November 25th) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Chris Howe (Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge) | Evolution – from Cells to Chaucer |
| Wednesday eighth week (December 2nd) 8:15pm | ICL | Dr Richard Wiseman (Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal) | Investigating Claims of the Paranormal |
| Trinity Term 1998 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday first week (April 29th) 8:20pm | ICL | Dr Kim Plunkett (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford) | Mechanisms of Word Learning |
| Wednesday second week (May 6th) 12:30pm | Guided tour of the Bodleian | ||
| Wednesday second week (May 6th) 8:20pm | ICL | Prof Edith Sim (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford) | Genes & Environment – Partners in Causing Disease? |
| Wednesday third week (May 13th) 8:20pm | ICL | Revd Ron Lancaster (Kimbolton Fireworks) | Fireworks: Principles and Practice |
| Wednesday fourth week (May 20th) 12:30pm | Sharp UK | ||
| Wednesday fifth week (May 27th) 8:20pm | ICL | Professor W. Graham Richards (Chairman of Chemistry, University of Oxford) | The Origins of Oxford Molecular Group |
| Hilary Term 1998 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday third week (February 4th) 8:20pm | ICL | Wilmut | Cloning Dolly the Sheep (cancelled) |
| Wednesday fourth week (February 11th) 12:30pm | Rutherford Appleton labs | ||
| Wednesday fourth week (February 11th) 8:20pm | ICL | Dr Hugh Cartwright (Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Oxford) | Artificial Intelligence |
| Wednesday fifth week (February 18th) 8:20pm | ICL | Irvine | Special Effects and Future Fantastic |
| Wednesday sixth week (February 25th) 8:20pm | ICL | Bagnall | The Physics of Skiing |
| Wednesday seventh week (March 4th) 8:20pm | ICL | Colin Jack (Author) | The Impossible Paradox – One World or Many? |
| Sunday eighth week (March 8th) 5:30pm | Gibbs Room, Keble | ||
| Wednesday eighth week (March 11th) 12:30pm | JET | ||
| Michealmas Term 1997 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Thursday sixth week (November 20th) 8:30pm | NAPL | O’Leary | The Paradigms of Science |
| Wednesday seventh week (November 26th) 8:30pm | ICL | Professor Sir Roger Penrose (Oxford University) | Science and the Mind |
| Sunday eighth week (November 30th) 2:00pm | Gibbs Room, Keble | ||
| Wednesday eighth week (December 3rd) 12:30pm | Outside Queens | Sharp Laboratories | |
| Wednesday eighth week (December 3rd) 8:00pm | King’s Arms | SciSoc end-of-term pub crawl | |
| Trinity Term 1997 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday second week (May 7th) 8:30pm | ICL | Prof Kevin Warwick (Department of Cybernetics, University of Reading) | March of the Machines |
| Wednesday third week (May 14th) 8:30pm | Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre | Kroto | C60 : Buckminsterfullerene |
| Wednesday third week (May 14th) 12:30pm | Gloucester Green | Rutherford Appleton laboratory | |
| Monday fourth week (May 19th) 7:30pm | Gibbs Room, Keble | ||
| Monday fourth week (May 19th) 8:30pm | NAPL | Dunkley | Sir Norman Lockyer, his life and works |
| Wednesday fourth week (May 21st) 4:00pm | Merton Punt House, in St Catherine’s | Punt Party | |
| Wednesday fifth week (May 28th) 8:30pm | ICL | Walton | The Paranormal – Science or Fiction |
| Wednesday fifth week (May 28th) 12:30pm | Gloucester Green | Oxford Instruments | |
| Wednesday sixth week (June 4th) 8:30pm | ICL | Professor Steven Jones (Professor of Genetics at University College London) | What Sex Really Means |
| Monday seventh week (June 9th) 7:30pm | Gibbs Room, Keble | ||
| Hilary Term 1997 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday second week (January 29th) 8:30pm | ICL | Say it with frozen flowers | |
| Wednesday third week (February 5th) 8:30pm | ICL | Dr John Salthouse (Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester) | Son et Lumiere |
| Monday fourth week (February 10th) 7:30pm | Gibbs Room, Keble | ||
| Wednesday fourth week (February 12th) 6:00pm | Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre | Foetal pain – does it exist? | |
| Wednesday fifth week (February 19th) 12:30pm | Gloucester Green, coach number 390 | JET | |
| Wednesday sixth week (February 26th) 8:30pm | ICL | DNA-based technology – a step too far? | |
| Wednesday seventh week (March 5th) 1:00pm | Wadham Porter’s Lodge | the Bodleian | |
| Thursday seventh week (March 6th) 7:30pm | Gibbs Room, Keble | ||
| Michealmas Term 1996 | |||
| When | Where | Who | What |
| Wednesday second week (October 23rd) 8:30pm | ICL | Lacey | The BSE Cover-up Uncovered |
| Wednesday third week (October 30th) 8:30pm | ICL | Nowak | The Evolution of Cooperation |
| Monday fourth week (November 4th) 8:00pm | Gibbs Room,Keble | ||
| Wednesday fourth week (November 6th) 12:00pm | Merton Lodge | The Pig Improvement Company | |
| Wednesday fourth week (November 6th) 8:30pm | ICL | Keeley | Forensic Science |
| Wednesday fifth week (November 13th) 8:30pm | ICL | Deliyanakis | Bringing Fusion Power Down to Earth |
| Thursday sixth week (November 21st) 8:30pm | ICL | Maynard-Smith | Animal Signals and Human Language |
| Saturday sixth week (November 23rd) 3:00pm | Outside Laser Quest | Battle with the Invariants | |
| Wednesday seventh week (November 27th) 1:00pm | Merton Lodge | The Rover Plant, Cowley | |
| Tuesday seventh week (November 26th) 8:00pm | Gibbs Room, Keble | ||
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