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Is Learning Like Crossing A Desert?

Prof. Tadashi Tokieda provides a fun analogy to explain the...

Computers and the Future

What can we learn from the first seven decades of our cyber enabled world that will help us to design the best future for ourselves and our children?

Computers and Warfare

We shall investigate the implications for the future of international conflict and of national defence. If preparations for the next war have already started, can we tell who is winning?

Media Reporting of Medical Advances: Helpful or Misleading?

The media and medicine have different perspectives. This lecture will use examples of how the public may be misled and consider the implications of such misunderstanding.

Mathematical Research from Toy Models

The lecture will consist of tabletop demos of such toys, together with simple, robust modelling of what is going on. The theme that emerges is singularity.

Air Pollution: Its Impact on Health and Possible Solutions

This lecture will consider the evidence for different forms of air pollution causing diseases, and outline some of the potential solutions.

Can You Do Mathematics In A Crowd?

In this lecture I will explain the mathematics behind herding and flocking and will use this to shed some insight into how crowds of people behave.

The Quantum Mathematician

Quantum science has been one of the most successful and useful theories ever invented. Indeed quantum technology was added as the ninth of the original eight great technologies.

Asthma and Chronic Airways Disease

Asthma, an intermittent disease, is the commonest lung disease in the UK. The second is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This lecture will consider trends and advances in these two diseases, and the chronic genetic lung disease cystic fibrosis.

Euler's Equation: 'The Most Beautiful Theorem in Mathematics'

Euler’s pioneering equation, the ‘most beautiful equation in mathematics’, links the five most important constants in the subject: 1, 0, π, e and i. So what is this equation – and why is it pioneering?

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