Mathematics in War and Peace - Euler's Work on Ballistics As a commemoration of the end of the First World War, the event will focus on the theme of mathematics in war and peacetime.
Heading for Trouble: The perils of navigation This lecture was a part of the SeaBritrain2005 series of...
Ancient Greek Ideas of Equality under the Law The Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen has posed the question...
Experts in politics: Lessons from Socrates and Aristotle Socrates sought to test the expertise of everyone around him...
Rare and Endangered Languages: Language Documentation and Revitalisation Professor Peter Austin outlines a number of projects aimed at...
The Meaning of Everything: The history of the Oxford English Dictionary The legendary Oxford English Dictionary today contains over 600,000 words...
London - The Forgotten Hanseatic City: The Material Culture The second part of the symposium included the following talks...
Humanity and a Million Years of Sea Level Change Homo sapiens evolved over the last million years during which...
The Economics of the Very Long Run: From Fire to Finance in Two Million Years An economist's view of two million years of human history...