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| 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 Sweeny, 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 | 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. Sheldonian Theatre Please arrive by 18:30 to be seated. | 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 8.15pm Note: 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 Blackwells Cafe 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 | ||