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Weighing the Universe

This lecture will explain the physics of the cosmic microwave background and the challenges in understanding where our universe came from.

Frozen in Time?

This talk will review the dramatic consequences on what we observe in the night sky that arise purely from the consequences of light-travel time effects.

Black Tudors: Three Untold Stories

Dr Kaufmann tells the intriguing tales of three Africans living in Tudor England.

This talk will explain how the speed of light was first measured, and how an obscure but brilliant patent clerk in Bern, Switzerland by the name of Albert Einstein deduced that the speed of light is the upper speed limit for everything in the Universe.

Sir Thomas Gresham 1519–2019

Dr John Guy presents a special illustrated lecture to commemorate the 500th Anniversary of the birth of the College’s founder and benefactor Sir Thomas Gresham.

The Limits of Our Knowledge

There is much in the universe we will never know, and it is equally certain that we will never know all that we do not know.

Exploring Earth from Space

Today the earth is opening up its secrets as never before.

Gresham's Exchange

Why did Gresham finance and build it? What did Londoners (and others) do there? And what does the Exchange tell us about Gresham's ambitions both for himself and for London?

500 Years of Mathematics: Are We Living in a New Golden Age?

The last 500 years of progress in maths will be reviewed, to see where it is going next and ask whether we are truly living in a mathematical Golden Age.

The Natural Environment of Tudor London

Drawing on evidence from contemporary maps, paintings and writings, and modern environmental science, the lecture will offer a 'virtual' walk around the City with Sir Thomas Gresham.

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