Tuesday 17 February 2015 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - Title TBC
  Richard Greatbatch (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Friday 13 March 2015 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Reprogramming the genetic code: tissue specific proteomic labelling in D. melanogaster
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr. Ambra Bianco (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
  Visiting lectures in Chemistry

Tuesday 28 April 2015 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Large scale spatial statistics
  Finn Lindgren (University of Bath)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Thursday 30 April 2015 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Regret bounds for Narendra-Shapiro bandit algorithms
  Sebastian Gadat (Toulouse School of Economics)
  Statistics, Applied Probability & Operational Research Seminars

Friday 1 May 2015 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Towards an entirely virtual engineering design process: The challenge for turbulence modeling
  Dr Neil Ashton (University of Manchester), Dr Neil (Ashton)
• 14:00 - Towards an entirely virtual engineering design process: The challenge for turbulence modeling
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Neil Ashton (University of Manchester)

Thursday 7 May 2015 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Confidence intervals for high-dimensional Cox model
  Yi Yu (Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge)
  Statistics, Applied Probability & Operational Research Seminars

Tuesday 12 May 2015 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Large-scale vortices in rotating convection
  Chris Jones (University of Leeds)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Thursday 14 May 2015 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Unbiased computations for MCMC-based inference of Gaussian process covariance parameters
  Maurizio Filippone (School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow.)
  Statistics, Applied Probability & Operational Research Seminars

Friday 15 May 2015 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Mapping human brain connections with MRI
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Saad Jbadbi (University of Oxford)
• 14:00 - Mapping human brain connections with MRI
  Saad Jbadbi (University of Oxford)

Thursday 28 May 2015 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Feature Augmentation via Nonparametrics and Selection (FANS) in High Dimensional Classification
  Yang Feng (Department of Statistics, Columbia University)
  Statistics, Applied Probability & Operational Research Seminars

Friday 29 May 2015 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Impact physics and life on Earth
  Professor Neil Bourne (University of Manchester)
  General Talks

Wednesday 3 June 2015 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Natural capital – how to protect and enhance the natural environment
  Prof. Dieter Helm (University of Oxford)
  Biodiversity Institute talks
• 16:00 - Natural capital – how to protect and enhance the natural environment
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment

Thursday 4 June 2015 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Bayesian network model selection using integer programming
  Dr James Cussens (University of York)
  Statistics, Applied Probability & Operational Research Seminars

Tuesday 9 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Statistical mechanics applied to decaying two-dimensional turbulence
  Gavin Esler (University College London)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Wednesday 10 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:30 - Materiality of Colour - from Neolithic Earth Colours to Contemporary Interference Pigments
  Antoni Malinowski

Thursday 11 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Scaling Changepoint Detection to Big Data
  Paul Fearnhead (Department of Maths and Statistics, Lancaster University)
  Statistics, Applied Probability & Operational Research Seminars

Tuesday 16 June 2015 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The Gömböc, the Turtle and the Evolution of Shape
  Gábor Domokos (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)

Sunday 28 June 2015 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - The Water, Food and Energy Nexus: the 5th Oxford Water and Membranes Research Event
  TBA
  Oxford Water Network

Friday 31 July 2015 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Current expertise and future directions in drug discovery: an Oxford-Industry conversation
  This event is now fully subscribed. Please contact michael.ohagan@chembiohub.ox.ac.uk to join the waitlist.
  TBA
  ChemBio Hub Events

Friday 16 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Microbial Sulfur Cycling & The Impacts of Depositional Environment on δ34S Records: Rethinking Stratigraphic Trends and Biogeochemical Interpretations
  Prof David Fike (Washington University)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Friday 23 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Understanding sulfur isotopes in modern and ancient marine sediments: From the microbial to the global scale
  Prof Itay Halevy (Weizmann Institute of Science)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Tuesday 27 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - Dynamically consistent parameterization of mesoscale eddies
  Pavel Berloff (Imperial College London)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Thursday 29 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - Variance components and residual likelihood
  Prof Peter McCullagh (Department of Statistics, University of Chicago)
  Statistics, Applied Probability & Operational Research Seminars

Friday 30 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Geological cycles and a two-stage history of the Continental Crust
  Prof chris Hawkesworth (University of Bristol)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Thursday 5 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - Detecting (multiple) change-points in panel data
  Dr Haeron Cho (School of Mathematics, University of Bristol)
  Statistics, Applied Probability & Operational Research Seminars

Friday 6 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Precursors and properties of small earthquakes in California
  Jessica Hawthorne (University of Leeds)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Tuesday 10 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - The impact of coupled barotropic-baroclinic variability for annular mode persistence in the two-layer model
  Pablo Zurita Gotor (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Wednesday 11 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Exploiting Symmetries to Construct Efficient MCMC Algorithms With an Application to SLAM
  Prof Csaba Szepesvari (Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta)
  Statistics, Applied Probability & Operational Research Seminars

Friday 13 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Exploration of the Deep Hydrosphere and Subsurface Life in the Precambrian Continents’
  Prof Barbara Sherwood-Lollar (Univeristy of Toronto)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Thursday 19 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Crustal-scale degassing and igneous mush re-organisation: a generic concept applied to episodic volcanism at the Soufrière Hills Volcano Montserrat
  Prof Stephen Sparks (University of Bristol)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 14:15 - Bayesian nonparametric ordination for the analysis of microbial communities
  Dr Sergio Bacallado (Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge University)
  Statistics, Applied Probability & Operational Research Seminars
• 15:45 - t.b.c.
  Prof Martin Wainwright (University of California at Berkeley)
  Statistics, Applied Probability & Operational Research Seminars

Tuesday 24 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Friday 27 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - How seismic waves can be used to constrain landslide dynamics and rheology’
  Prof Anne Mangenay (Institut de Physique du globe de Partis )
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Monday 30 November 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - The Sci-Art Business: Some Reflections
  Martin Kemp

Friday 4 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The role of the mantle in oceanic transform fault deformation’
  Prof Jessica Warren (University of Delaware)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Wednesday 9 December 2015 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Ada Lovelace Symposium: Celebrating 200 years of a computer visionary
  TBA

Tuesday 12 January 2016 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:40 - The Science Behind The SME with Animal Dynamics
  Alex Caccia CEO (Animal Dynamics), Professor Adrian Thomas CSO (Animal Dynamics)
  The Science Behind The SME

Tuesday 19 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - Representing model uncertainty and subgrid-scale variability: Stochastic parametrizations in global ocean and sea ice models
  TBA
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Friday 22 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Radiocarbon as a carbon cycle tracer in the 21st century
  Dr Heather Graven (Imperial College London)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Friday 29 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Super volcanoes and their deposits: insights into the dynamics of large magma reservoirs
  TBA
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Tuesday 2 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - Plankton-climate Interactions
  Roger Cropp (Griffith University)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Friday 5 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Ecology, Extinction, and Development: Assessing the drivers of deep-time diversity dynamics with phenomics
  Dr Anjali Goswami (University College London)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Friday 12 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Using polarities, amplitudes and waveforms of seismic waves to understand mantle structure
  Prof Christine Thomas (University of Muenster)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Tuesday 16 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - The Local and Remote Influence of Southern Ocean Winds on the Carbon Cycle
  Ben Bronselaer (University of Oxford)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Thursday 18 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:40 - The Science Behind The SME with Oxford Genetics
  Dr Ryan Cawood CEO & Founder (Oxford Genetics)
  The Science Behind The SME

Friday 19 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - New insights into climate, carbon cycle and biological dynamics during the Paleocene-Eocene Greenhouse World
  Prof Appy Sluijs (University of Utrecht)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Friday 26 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - CANCELLED: Pulp Friction: How water weakens and destabilizes faults in the seismogenic zone (Replacement tba SOON!)
  Prof Chris Spiers (University of Utrecht)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Tuesday 1 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - Storm track shifts with climate change: a journey toward a mechanistic understanding
  Cheikh Mbengue (University of Oxford)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Friday 4 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Radiative-Convective Instability: Implications for Tropical Weather and Climate
  Note unusual time/day
  Professor Kerry Emanuel (MIT, Cambridge, Mass., USA)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars
• 12:00 - Expanding InSAR into new areas - from upstate New York to the Cascades
  Prof Rowena Lohman (Cornell Unversity)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 15:30 - Hurricanes and Climate Change
  For further information and to reserve a place go to: http://oxfordclimatenetwork2016.eventbrite.co.uk
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Kerry Emanuel (MIT, Cambridge, Mass., USA)

Tuesday 8 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - Resonant Amplification of Planetary Waves
  TBA
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Friday 11 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Sasha Turchyn (Unviersity of Cambridge)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Wednesday 16 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - Digital Health Biodesign Workshop
  Professor Sir Muir Gray (University of Oxford), Dr Max Little (MIT Media Lab and Associate Professor, Aston University), Professor James Wall (Stanford University), Dr Cosima Gretton (St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust), Professor Alison Noble (University of Oxford), Dr Richie Harrington (University of Oxford)

Monday 4 April 2016 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 08:00 - The Oxford Chemical Immunology Conference
  Last Booking Date for this Event 11th March 2016. Oral abstracts are being taken for each of the conference sessions. Please specify why your talk might be applicable to a particular session. Poster abstracts are also being considered and a prizes will be awarded for outstanding posters.
  TBA
  The Oxford Chemical Immunology Conference

Wednesday 6 April 2016 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Mathematics of Crime
  Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Tuesday 26 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - The sea ice floe size distribution: modeling, interaction with ocean eddies, and influence on sea ice melting
  Chris Horvat (Harvard University)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars
• 17:00 - Toy Models
  Tadashi Tokieda (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Thursday 28 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:40 - The Science Behind The Sme with Adaptix Imaging Ltd
  Dr Gil Travish CSO (Adaptix Imaging Ltd)
  The Science Behind The SME

Friday 29 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Noble gas geochronology: a tale of two triangles
  Dr Pieter Vermeesch (UCL)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Friday 6 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Multi-sensor geophysical constraints on crustal melt in the central Andes: the PLUTONS project
  Prof Matt Pritchard (Cornell University)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Tuesday 10 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Stochastic parameterisation models for GFD
  Darryl Holm (Imperial College London)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Thursday 12 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - What We Cannot Know
  Marcus du Sautoy (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 13 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Mixing it up in the Proterozoic: oxygen, animals and marine ventilation
  Prof Nick Butterfield (University of Cambridge)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Monday 16 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Do deep-convective aerosol effects resolve climate enigmas?
  Steve Sherwood (University of New South Wales)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Wednesday 18 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - The Statistical Crisis in Science
  Professor Andrew Gelman (Department of Statistics and Department of Political Science, Columbia University, New York)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Friday 20 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - The Rock-Atmosphere interface, the Critical Zone of the Earth
  Prof Jerome Gaillardet (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Tuesday 24 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Tools for identifying resolved-scale turbulence in convection simulations
  Bob Kerr (University of Warwick)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Friday 27 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The Origins and Evolution of Exoplanet Atmospheres and Oceans
  This also is a 3rd Annual Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture in Planetary Geology
  Prof Ray Pierrehumbert (AOPP)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Wednesday 1 June 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Magnetic microscopy of metallic meteorites: probing the magnetic state of the early solar system (PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN DATE!)
  Dr Richard Harrison (University of Oxford)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Friday 10 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Curiosity's geological exploration of Gale crater, Mars
  Prof Sanjeev Gupta (Imperial College London)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 15:30 - How to estimate the mean of a random variable?
  Professor Gabor Lugosi (Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Friday 17 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Freezing! Snowball-Earth events: Biologically induced initiation and ocean circulation
  Prof Eli Tziperman (Harvard Universtiy, USA)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Thursday 30 June 2016 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Modelling genes: the backwards and forwards of mathematical population genetics
  Professor Alison Etheridge (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Tuesday 20 September 2016 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - The Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Hydrothermohaline Circulation
  Kristofer Doos (Stockholm University)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Friday 30 September 2016 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Modelling ice shelf/ocean interaction with ROMS
  Dr David Gwyther (University of Tasmania)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Thursday 6 October 2016 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - The Chemistry Of Collaboration
  Various Speakers

Thursday 13 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  TBA
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 14 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Biotic and abiotic controls on the origin of a modern grassland ecosystem over the last five million years
  Prof David Fox (University of Minnesota)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 14:00 - Fusion, Plasma Turbulence and Computational Challenge
  Colin Roach (Culham Centre for Fusion Energy )
• 14:30 - "Come join the multiple testing party!"
  Professor Matthew Stephens (University of Chicago)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Thursday 20 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:00 - Designing the gearbox for the Pagani Huayra Hypercar
  Various Speakers

Friday 21 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - 'Blobs in the bowels of the Earth'
  Prof Jeroen Ritsema (University of Michigan)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Tuesday 25 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - How will the storm tracks change? High resolution studies of the future of extratropical storm tracks
  Walt Robinson (North Carolina State University)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Friday 28 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Reaction-induced cracking during mineral carbonation: Evidence from time-resolved microtomography
  Prof Wen-Lu Zhou (University of Maryland)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Wednesday 2 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The idea generator: creativity and evaluation for research and tech transfer.
  TBA

Thursday 3 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Red Bull Racing F1 Student Placement & Recruitment Programme
  TBA
• 17:00 - How can we understand our complex economy
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Prof. Doyne Farmer
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 4 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Space Instrumentation in Oxford Physics: To the Moon, Mars and beyond then back again’
  Dr Neil Bowles (Oxford University)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Monday 7 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Podcast your research
  Dr Michaela Livingston-Banks (Public Engagement Facilitator (Oxford Sparks), University of Oxford), Brian Mackenwells (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics), Stephen Eyre (IT Services, University of Oxford)

Thursday 10 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - BioEngenuity Keynotes
  Lunch Provided
  Dr. Brad Wood (NIH Center for Interventional Oncology), Prof. Daniel Bulte (Univeristy of Oxford), Prof. Robert Carlisle (Univeristy of Oxford)

Friday 11 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Modern-day uptake of CO2
  Prof Andrew Watson (University of Exeter)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Wednesday 16 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Developing your ideas: planning with room for opportunity.
  TBA

Friday 18 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - New insights into the (paleo)sulfur cycle’
  Although you can still find Guillaume on the Caltech webpage, he is now affiliated to the Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, CRPG, University Lorraine
  Dr Guillaume Paris (University of Lorraine)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Tuesday 22 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:15 - Intermittency in precipitation: duration, frequency, intensity and amounts of precipitation using hourly data.
  Kevin Trenberth (NCAR)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Wednesday 23 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Future proofing and performance optimisation of explicit finite difference solvers using the OpenSBLI framework. Satya Pramod Jammy. University of Southampton
  Seminar in the Many-core series. No Booking required. Open to all. Lunch provided
  Satya Pramod Jammy (University of Southampton)

Friday 25 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Of fossils and genes – amphibian evolution through deep time
  Dr Nadia Fröbisch (Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institut Berlin)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Wednesday 30 November 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Pictorial Planning - using the Lean Canvas for enterprising researchers
  TBA

Friday 2 December 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Reconstructing fracture opening histories and timing using structural diagenesis'
  Dr Stephen Laubach (University of Texas at Austin)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Tuesday 13 December 2016 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Protecting your Intellectual Property
  TBA

Thursday 15 December 2016 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:30 - Network-based Statistical Models and Methods for Identification of Cellular Mechanisms of Action
  Professor Eric Kolaczyk (Boston University)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar
• 17:00 - The Mathematics of Visual Illusions - SOLD OUT
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  TBA
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Wednesday 18 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Inaugural Roger Penrose Lecture - Stephen Hawking
  CANCELLED
  TBA
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 20 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Seconds after impact: Insights into the thermal history of tektites
  Prof Ed Stolper (California Institute of Technology)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 15:30 - Random cracks in space.
  Professor Wendelin Werner (ETH Zurich)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar
• 17:00 - The Materials Challenge for Advanced Nuclear Systems
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Steve Cowley FRS, FREng (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)

Friday 27 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - 'Greater than the sum of the parts: grain boundaries in the mantle’
  Prof David Dobson (University College London)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 15:30 - Machine learning for patient stratification from genomic data
  Professor Jean-Philippe Vert (Mines ParisTech)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Wednesday 1 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Being part of an effective and enterprising team
  TBA

Friday 3 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - ‘An astrophysicists’ view of the emergence of terrestrial vertebrates’
  TBA
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Wednesday 8 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Statistics: Why the Truth Matters
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Tim Harford
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Thursday 9 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:30 - Designing a 1000mph car - the use of CFD
  TBA
• 18:30 - The use of CFD in the design of a 1,000mph car - BLOODHOUND SSC, an engineering adventure
  Ben (Evans)

Friday 10 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Controls on the distribution of Phanerozoic tin and tungsten mineralization’
  Prof Rolf Romer (German Research Centre for Geosciences)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Wednesday 15 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Personal Pitching
  TBA

Friday 17 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Are the Zinc Isotopes Sensitive Tracers of the Mantle Differentiation Processes?’
  Prof Nadine Matielli (Université Libre de Bruxelles )
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Monday 20 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - Instabilities of Internal Gravity Wave Beams: insights from experimental and analytical approaches
  Thierry Dauxois (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Tuesday 21 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - From Researcher to Entrepreneur
  TBA

Wednesday 22 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - A Lightweight Approach to Performance Portability with targetDP - Alan Gray from EPCC
  TBA

Friday 24 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Magnetite pollution nanoparticles in the human brain: possible links with Alzheimer’s disease?’
  Prof Barbara Maher (University of Lancaster)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Wednesday 1 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Pitching for Funding
  TBA
• 13:00 - Lift: Future-Proofing High Performance Applications. Christophe Dubach, University of Edinburgh
  TBA

Friday 3 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘The mantle transition zone structure beneath Europe: from slab to plume and beyond’
  Dr Sanne Cottaar (University of Cambridge)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Monday 6 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - BioEngenuity Keynotes
  Professor Maarten De Vos (University of Oxford), Professor Robin Clevland (University of Oxford), Kristoffer Famm (Galvani Bioelectronics)

Wednesday 8 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Design Thinking: rapid prototyping for developing new research areas
  TBA
• 13:00 - Towards Achieving GPU-Native Adaptive Mesh Refinement - Ania Brown Oxford e-Research Centre
  TBA

Friday 10 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Evidence for an ancient redox-stratified lake in Gale crater, Mars’
  Dr Joel Hurowitz (Stony Brook University )
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 14:00 - Modelling Complex Negotiations: The Quill Project
  TBA
• 15:30 - A BPHZ theorem for stochastic PDEs
  Professor Martin Hairer (University of Warwick)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Friday 17 March 2017 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Caches all the way down: Infrastructure for Data Science - David Abramson, University of Queensland
  TBA

Monday 20 March 2017 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Enterprising Women
  TBA

Thursday 20 April 2017 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Oxford BioDesign Workshop 2017
  Professor Maarten De Vos (University of Oxford), Dr Jeroen Bergmann (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Sjoerd Hassl (School for Technology and Health - Unit for Health Innovation), Dr Paul Anglim (BioInnovate Ireland), Raquel Riera (Biocat), Martin Vesterby (INNO-X)

Monday 24 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - “Structure of the adenosine A2a receptor coupled to an engineered G protein”
  Dr Chris Tate (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)
  Department of Biochemistry Seminars

Tuesday 25 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Challenges in MedTech Innovation - A product designer’s viewpoint on developing medical innovations
  Pizza lunch will be provided. Please book via Eventbrite.
  Patrick Hall (Maddison Ltd)

Wednesday 26 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Promoting your Ideas for Collaboration and Investment
  Researchers from other divisions are also welcome to participate
  Dr Emma Williams
  Enterprising Researcher Development Programme

Monday 8 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - What is algebra?
  Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford)
  What do historians of mathematics do?

Tuesday 9 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Butterfly Effect - What Does it Really Signify?
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Professor Tim Palmer (Programme on Modelling and Predicting Climate, Oxford Martin School)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Thursday 11 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Sound of Symmetry and the Symmetry of Sound
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Marcus du Sautoy (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 12 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Cosmic dust - the fossil shooting stars
  Dr Matthew Genge (Imperial Colege London)
  Friday Seminars Earth Sciences

Monday 15 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Ars sine Scientia Nihil Est: Architecture and Mathematics through history
  Snezana Lawrence (Anglia Ruskin University)
  What do historians of mathematics do?

Friday 19 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Sea level on a deforming Earth
  Dr Jacky Austermann (Cambridge)

Monday 22 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Struggle for Algebra: English mathematics around 1660
  Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
  What do historians of mathematics do?

Tuesday 23 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - The onset of turbulence in shear flows
  Matthew Chantry (University of Oxford)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

Wednesday 24 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - From Research to Patent: or I'm a researcher so what use is a Patent office to me?
  Researchers from other divisions also welcome at this event.
  Dr Vit Sipal (European Patent Office)
  Enterprising Researcher Development Programme

Thursday 25 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 08:30 - Marks & Clerk - Essential Patent Knowledge for Inventors and Start-Ups
  TBA

Friday 26 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs: Ecosystem Evolution in a Greenhouse World
  Dr Randall Irmis (NHM Utah)

Wednesday 31 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - BioEngenuity Keynotes: Fluid Flow and Chemokine Transport in the Lymphatic System
  Lunch & Interactive Poster Session Included
  Prof James E Moore (Imperial College London)

Friday 2 June 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Rift dynamics across the scales: From shear zones and rift basins to plate motions and paleo-climate
  Dr Sascha Brune (GFZ Germany )

Friday 9 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Past and future Pacific ocean upwelling
  Dr Chris Brierley (University College London)

Tuesday 13 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Enterprising Women
  Open to any interested budding entrepreneurs, from any division.
  Dr Denise Xifara (University of Oxford and Nupinion)
  Enterprising Researcher Development Programme

Friday 16 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Deciphering Earth History: Coupling sedimentological and geochemical insights to ancient and modern carbonates
  Dr Catherine Rose (Trinity College Dublin)
• 14:00 - Cooperating around a theory: the example of lattice theory in the 1930s
  Simon Decaens (Université Paris Diderot)
  History of Mathematics Seminar
• 15:30 - Adaptive FAB confidence intervals with constant coverage
  TBA
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Wednesday 28 June 2017 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Law of the Few
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Professor Sanjeev Goyal (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 13 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘What terminated the Boring Billion?’
  Prof Raymond Pierrehumbert (AOPP)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Prof Raymond Pierrehumbert (AOPP)
  Friday Seminars Earth Sciences

Wednesday 18 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:30 - An introduction to enterprise and the researcher: What is it and how does it fit with my research?
  Anne Miller (MPLS)
  Enterprising Researcher Development Programme
• 17:00 - Closing the Gap: the quest to understand prime numbers - Vicky Neale
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Dr Vicky Neale (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 20 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Two New Technologies for Optical Microscopy and Biochemical Research
  Robert Ishmukhametov (University of Oxford)
  Biological Physics Seminars
• 12:00 - ‘A path beyond plate tectonics?’
  Prof Nicolas Coltice (Université Claude Bernard,Lyon)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 12:00 - A path beyond plate tectonics
  Prof Nicolas Coltice (Université Claude Bernard,Lyon)
  Friday Seminars Earth Sciences

Tuesday 24 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - "Optimizing the efficacy of metal-based MRI probes at high magnetic fields"
  This seminar is part of the Chemistry series and is being co-hosted by the EPSRC and CRUK Cancer Imaging Centre in Oxford series
  Professor Mauro Botta (Università del Piemonte Orientale)
  CRUK & EPSRC Cancer Imaging Centre in Oxford

Wednesday 25 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - The Idea Generator: Creativity and Evaluation for Research and Technology Transfer
  Dr Emma Williams
  Enterprising Researcher Development Programme

Friday 27 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Sources and fluxes of carbon from arc volcanoes’
  Dr Marie Edmonds (University of Cambridge)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Tuesday 31 October 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Enterprising Women
  Elina Naydenova (University of Oxford)
  Enterprising Women

Wednesday 1 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Maths v Disease - Julia Gog
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Julia Gog (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Thursday 2 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - BioEngenuity Keynotes
  When booking on Eventbrite please use the code BioEng0211
  Professor Wladyslaw Gedroyc (Imperial College Healthcare)
• 11:00 - Doping Semiconductor Nanocrystals
  Free refreshments at 3:30pm. Talk begins at 4pm.
  Prof Narayan Pradhan (Indian Association of Soil Cultivation, Kolkata )

Friday 3 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Gianni Klesse - "Functional Annotation of Ion Channel Structures by Molecular Dynamics Simulation", AND, Viwan Jarerattanachat - "Asymmetric Mechanosensitivity in a Eukaryotic Ion Channel"
  Gianni Klesse (University of Oxford), Viwan Jarerattanachat (University of Oxford)
  Biological Physics Seminars
• 12:00 - ‘Geological emissions of methane to the atmosphere: an updated overview’
  Giuseppe Etiope (Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Monday 6 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Pop-up Business School Taster event
  Open to researchers from across the university
  Alan Donegan (Pop up Business school), Dr Anne Miller (University of Oxford, MPLS)
  Enterprising Researcher Development Programme
• 18:00 - Pop-up Business School Taster event
  Open to researchers from across the University
  Alan Donegan (Pop up Business school), Dr Anne Miller (University of Oxford, MPLS)
  Enterprising Researcher Development Programme

Thursday 9 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Understanding model diversity in CMIP5 projections of westerly winds over the Southern Ocean
  TBA

Friday 10 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Reef boom and doom in deep time: explaining the rise and fall of Phanerozoic reef systems’
  Prof Wolfgang Kiessling (Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany )
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 16:00 - Fourth QBIOX Colloquium
  Professor Paul Riley (DPAG, University of Oxford), Professor Eleanor Stride (Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford)

Monday 13 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Seduction of Curves: The Lines of Beauty That Connect Mathematics, Art and The Nude - Allan McRobie
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Allan McRobie (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Tuesday 14 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Spinning, stalling, and falling apart
  Tony Royle (The Open University)
  History of Mathematics Seminar

Wednesday 15 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Developing your ideas: planning with room for opportunity
  Dr Emma Williams
  Enterprising Researcher Development Programme

Friday 17 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Barak Gilboa - "Widefield tracking and FRET measurements of diffusing particles", AND, Maabur Sow - "Characterisation of Nanodiamonds for Single-Molecule Imaging"
  Various Speakers
  Biological Physics Seminars
• 12:00 - ‘Small things matter: nanoscale control of geological processes’
  Dr Oliver Plümper (Utrecht University)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Friday 24 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - ‘On the origins of recent intraplate volcanism in eastern Australia: Insights from seismic imaging and geodynamic modelling’
  Prof Nicholas Rawlinson (University of Cambridge)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Wednesday 29 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Protecting your intellectual property
  All DPhil students and All Research Staff of: MPLS Division; Doctoral Training Centre - MPLS
  Prof Pete Dobson (Queen's College)
  Enterprising Researcher Development Programme

Thursday 30 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Aviation in the Age of Revolution
  TBA

Friday 1 December 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - CryoEM snapshots of the spliceosome at work: towards understanding its catalytic mechanism
  Kiyoshi Nagai (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
  Biological Physics Seminars
• 12:00 - 'The obvious and the weaker aspects of the deep carbon cycle'
  Prof Pierre Cartigny (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Monday 4 December 2017 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Social enterprise: profits for a purpose - a pop-up business school *New*
  There are limited free tickets for this event. 30 Spaces are for free. Get in now before all the free tickets go.
  Alan Donegan (Pop up Business school)
  Enterprising Researcher Development Programme

Wednesday 6 December 2017 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Can Yule solve my problems? - Alex Bellos
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Alex Bellos (n/a)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Monday 18 December 2017 (11th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Summary overview of the entire CE Marking process
  This will be a presentation followed by coffee/tea and networking. Please join our LinkedIn group! https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8565590
  Richard Hall
  Oxford Medical CE Marking Forum (OxMCEF) seminar series

Friday 19 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Origin of water on the Moon’
  Evelyn Füri (Centre de Recherches Petrohraphiques et Gechimiques)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Wednesday 24 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 08:30 - Pictorial planning - using the lean canvas for enterprising researchers
  All DPhil students and All Research Staff of: MPLS Division; Doctoral Training Centre - MPLS
  Dr Emma Williams
  Enterprising Researcher Development Programme
• 18:30 - 'Damage-Tolerance in Engineering and Biological Materials'
  Free event, including the pre-lecture afternoon tea and the post-lecture buffet and drinks. Please reserve a place by emailing lorraine.laird@materials.ox.ac.uk.
  Professor Robert O. Ritchie (Lawrence Berkeley, University of California)
  Hume-Rothery Lecture

Thursday 25 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Was James Clerk Maxwell’s mathematics as good as his poetry?
  Mark McCartney (University of Ulster)
  History of Mathematics Seminar

Friday 26 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘A periscope to kaleidoscope view of earth processes from seismic imaging’
  Stéphane Rondenay (University of Bergen )
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Wednesday 31 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - From researcher to entrepreneur
  2nd year DPhil students, 3rd+ year DPhil students and All Masters students of: MPLS Division; Medical Sciences Division
  Dr Kevin Byron (University of Leicester )
  Enterprising Researcher Development Programme

Friday 2 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Sources and fluxes of carbon from arc volcanoes’
  Dr Marie Edmonds (University of Cambridge)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Tuesday 6 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - ECRs: The enterprising researcher *New*
  All Research Staff of: MPLS Division
  Dr Kevin Byron (University of Leicester )
  Enterprising Researcher Development Programme

Wednesday 7 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Developing Learning and Teaching (MPLS) Workshop 1
  Dr Delia O'Rourke ( University of Oxford )
  Developing Learning and Teaching (DLT) Programme (MPLS)
• 17:00 - Scaling the Maths of Life - Michael Bonsall
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register.
  Prof Michael Bonsall (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 9 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Energy and matter at the origin of life’
  Prof Nick Lane (University College London IRIS)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Wednesday 14 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 08:30 - Promoting your ideas for collaboration and investment
  3rd+ year DPhil students and All Research Staff of: Medical Sciences Division; Social Sciences Division; MPLS Division; Doctoral Training Centre - MPLS
  Emma Weisbord (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment)

Friday 16 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Dynamics of Aseismic Slip’
  Dr Hugo Perfettini (Joseph Fourier University Grenoble )
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Wednesday 21 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Developing Learning and Teaching (MPLS) Workshop 2
  Dr Delia O'Rourke ( University of Oxford )
  Developing Learning and Teaching (DLT) Programme (MPLS)

Friday 23 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Volatiles and Volcanic Vigor’
  Prof Terry Plank (Columbia University)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Tuesday 27 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Enterprising Women
  Dr. Cecilia Muldoon (University of Oxford/VeriVin)
  Enterprising Researcher Development Programme
• 13:00 - ACS on Campus
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 28 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 08:30 - Pitching for funding
  All DPhil students and All Research Staff of: Medical Sciences Division; MPLS Division; Doctoral Training Centre - MPLS
  Emma Weisbord (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment)
• 09:30 - Pitching for Funding
  Researchers from other divisions are also welcome to participate
  Dr Emma Williams
  Enterprising Researcher Development Programme
• 17:00 - Euler’s pioneering equation: ‘the most beautiful theorem in mathematics’ - Robin Wilson
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Robin Wilson (The Open University)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 2 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Latitudinal biodiversity gradients in deep time’
  Dr Susannah Maidment (University of Brighton )
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Wednesday 7 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Innovation & entrepreneurship – bringing Oxford ideas to life
  Researchers from all divisions welcome to attend
  Various Speakers
  Enterprising Researcher Development Programme
• 09:30 - Developing Learning and Teaching (MPLS) Workshop 3
  Dr Delia O'Rourke ( University of Oxford )
  Developing Learning and Teaching (DLT) Programme (MPLS)

Thursday 8 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Can Mathematics Understand the Brain? - Alain Goriely
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Alain Goriely (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 9 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Jungle Volcano: the descent into Nyiragongo’
  Prof Christopher Aiden-Lee Jackson (Imperial College London)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Friday 13 April 2018 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The statistical foundations of learning to control
  Professor Benjamin Recht (University of California at Berkeley)
  Control Seminar Series

Friday 20 April 2018 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - (Why) do functional sites induce long-range evolutionary constraints in enzymes?
  Julian Echave (Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Monday 23 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - On the number of arithmetic progressions in sparse random sets
  Christoph Koch (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 24 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Annual Charles Simonyi Lecture: 'The future of the planet: life, growth and death in organisms, cities and companies' - Geoffrey West
  No need to register
  Geoffrey West (Santa Fe Institute)

Wednesday 25 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Being part of an Effective and Enterprising Team
  other divisions are welcome to participate
  Dr Emma Williams
  Enterprising Researcher Development Programme
• 10:00 - Cardiovascular Clinicians & Academics Knowledge Exchange - Medical Image Anaylsis Network
  TBA
• 14:00 - Distributed control schemes for the smart grid: a Lyapunov approach
  Dr Antonio de Paola (Imperial College Oxford)
  Control Seminar Series

Thursday 26 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - What are Quantum Materials? - Physics Department Public Lecture
  Professor Andrew Boothroyd (University of Oxford)

Friday 27 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Algorithms and Algorithmic Obstacles in High-Dimensional Regression
  David Gamarnik (MIT Sloan School of Management, USA)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Saturday 28 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Wisdom of the Crowds
  Marcus du Sautoy (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Maths Festival

Monday 30 April 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Max-Average Games with Random Payoffs
  Rahul Santhanam (Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar
• 14:00 - Decentralization in Energy Systems: Absorbing Solar and Storage into Grids
  Professor Duncan Callaway (UC Berkeley)
  Control Seminar Series

Tuesday 1 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - “The World Is Round. Or, Is It, Really?” A Global History of Mathematics in the 17th Century
  Tomoko L. Kitagawa (UC Berkeley & Oxford Centre for Global History)
  What do historians of mathematics do?

Friday 4 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Protons to Planets: Materials Simulation as a Window into the Molten Earth
  Prof Lars Stixrude (University College )
  Friday Seminars Earth Sciences
• 16:00 - Oxford’s Zooniverse: Working with the Crowd
  Professor Chris Lintott (University of Oxford), Dr John Tweddle (Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity, Natural History Museum London)
  Oxford's Zooniverse; Working with the crowd

Tuesday 8 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - “Perseverance and intelligence, but no genius”: Mary Somerville's theory of differences
  Brigitte Stenhouse (The Open University)
  What do historians of mathematics do?

Wednesday 9 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Personal pitching
  Researchers from other divisions are also welcome to participate
  Dr Emma Williams
  Enterprising Researcher Development Programme
• 09:30 - Personal pitching
  All DPhil students and All Research Staff of: Medical Sciences Division; MPLS Division; Doctoral Training Centre - MPLS
  Dr Emma Williams
• 14:00 - Oxford’s Zooniverse Workshop 1: Working with the Crowd - Project design and deployment
  Dr Grant Miller (University of Oxford)
  Oxford's Zooniverse; Working with the crowd
• 14:00 - Convex relaxations in combinatorial optimization and robust control
  Prof George Halikias (City University, London)
  Control Seminar Series

Thursday 10 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - From maps to apps: the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence for regulators
  TBA

Friday 11 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Sink or stall: subduction-transition zone dynamics
  Prof Saskia Goes (Imperial College London )
  Friday Seminars Earth Sciences

Monday 14 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Four-dimensional loop-erased random walk and uniform spanning tree
  Wei Wu (Department of Statistics, University of Warwick)
  Probability seminar
• 14:00 - Data driven feedback control of nonlinear PDEs using the Koopman operator
  Dr Sebastian Peitz (University of Paderborn)
  Control Seminar Series

Tuesday 15 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Euclid's Elements of Geometry in Early Modern Britain
  Yelda Nasifoglu (University of Oxford)
  What do historians of mathematics do?

Thursday 17 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Michael Atiyah - Numbers are Serious but they are also Fun
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Michael Atiyah (University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 18 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Earth's Early Atmosphere and Biogeochemistry
  Prof David Catling (University of Washington )
  Friday Seminars Earth Sciences
• 15:30 - Patterns and surprises in rich but noisy network data
  Mark Newman (University of Michigan, USA)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Monday 21 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Limiting directions for random walks in affine Weyl groups
  Arvind Ayyer (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 22 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Oxford’s Zooniverse Workshop 2: Working with the Crowd - Sustainable communities
  Dr Grant Miller (University of Oxford)
  Oxford's Zooniverse; Working with the crowd

Friday 25 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Putting the Brakes on Climate Change: sub-Seafloo Carbon Storage and Enhanced Weathering
  Prof Rachael James (University of Southampton )
  Friday Seminars Earth Sciences

Thursday 31 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Oxford’s Zooniverse Workshop 3: Working with the Crowd - Data analysis
  Professor Chris Lintott (University of Oxford)
  Oxford's Zooniverse; Working with the crowd

Friday 1 June 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Systems Paleobiology
  Prof Andrew Knoll (Harvard University )
  Friday Seminars Earth Sciences
• 12:00 - High-density hard-core configurations on a triangular lattice
  Yuri Suhov (Penn State and Cambridge)
  Probability seminar

Monday 4 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Mermin-Wagner Theorem for vertex-reinforced jump process
  Roland Bauerschmidt (Statslab, University of Cambridge)
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 6 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Continuous-state branching process with dependent immigration
  Zenghu Li (Beijing Normal University)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 7 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - In Conversation with Caltech President Thomas Rosenbaum - Intimate Free Lunch Event
  Thomas Rosenbaum (California Institute of Technology)

Friday 8 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - On the origin(s) of the atmosphere and the oceans. Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture
  Prof. Bernard Marty (Université de Lorraine CRPG-CNRS )
  Friday Seminars Earth Sciences

Tuesday 12 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Discontinuous Galerkin methods on polygonal and polyhedral meshes
  Prof Emmanuil Georgoulis (University of Leicester & National Technical University of Athens)
  Control Seminar Series

Wednesday 13 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Applied mathematics in Czechoslovakia between the two world wars
  Jan Kotůlek (Technical University of Ostrava)
  History of Mathematics Seminar

Friday 15 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Variations and healing of the seismic velocity in Earth materials
  Prof Roel Snieder (Colorado School of Mines )
  Friday Seminars Earth Sciences

Monday 18 June 2018 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The stochastic shallow lake problem
  Prof Michail Loulakis (National Technical University of Athens)
  Control Seminar Series

Friday 22 June 2018 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - The Sample Complexity of Multi-Reference Alignment
  Philippe Rigollet, (MIT Mathematics, USA)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Tuesday 26 June 2018 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Richard James - Atomistically inspired origami
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Richard James (University of Minnesota)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Thursday 5 July 2018 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Shakespeare and technology: digital creativity at the Royal Shakespeare Company Sarah Ellis, Director of Digital Development, Royal Shakespeare Company
  TBA

Friday 27 July 2018 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Euler's research on curvature of spatial curves
  Xi Liu (Xi'an/Oxford)
  History of Mathematics Seminar
• 14:30 - About the nature of π: Proofs and conjectures in Lambert's Mémoire (1768)
  Eduardo Dorrego López (Seville)
  History of Mathematics Seminar
• 15:00 - Meeting under the integral sign? The 1936 Oslo International Congress of Mathematicians
  Christopher Hollings (University of Oxford)
  History of Mathematics Seminar
• 16:00 - William Burnside and the Mystery Letter
  Howard Emmens
  History of Mathematics Seminar
• 16:30 - How did Chinese deal with a scientific problem: Building the solar eclipse theory in ancient China (the 7th-10th century AD)
  Anjing Qu (Xi'an)
  History of Mathematics Seminar

Monday 30 July 2018 (15th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - 44th Annual Young Statisticians' Meeting (YSM) 2018
  Prof David Cox (University of Oxford), Professor Denise Lievesley (Professor of Social Statistics & Principal Green Templeton College, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 5 September 2018 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Persi Diaconis - Chance and Evidence
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register.
  Persi Diaconis (Stanford University)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Thursday 13 September 2018 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE: Earthquakes from Space
  This lecture is suitable for an audience of approx 16+, especially those with an interest in Physics, Geography, space technology and applied sciences.
  Prof Barry Parsons (Earth Sciences Department)

Monday 24 September 2018 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Roger Penrose - Eschermatics SOLD OUT
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register.
  Roger Penrose (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Wednesday 26 September 2018 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Alom Shaha Talk: How to be your child’s first science teacher
  Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/alom-shaha-how-to-be-your-childs-first-science-teacher-tickets-49386173374
  TBA

Monday 8 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Corals on Acid - Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Coral Reefs
  Prof Adina Paytan (University of California )
  Friday Seminars Earth Sciences
• 12:00 - Limits of (randomly) growing Schröder trees and exchangeability
  Julian Gerstenberg (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 9 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Information acquisition using multiple robots
  Astor Visiting Lecture
  Prof George Pappas (University of Pennsylvania)
  Control Seminar Series
• 19:30 - James Sparks and City of London Sinfonia - Bach and the Cosmos SOLD OUT
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  James Sparks (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Wednesday 10 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Scientific Entrepreneurship
  Note that there will be no class in week 2 (17th October) and the programme ends in week 9 (5th December)
  Dr Alan D Roth (University of Oxford)
  Enterprising Researcher Development Programme

Thursday 11 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Cloud based Control with Privacy
  Astor Visiting Lecture
  Prof George Pappas (University of Pennsylvania)
• 16:00 - Cloud based estimation and control with privacy
  Astor Visiting Lecture
  Prof George Pappas (University of Pennsylvania)
  Control Seminar Series

Friday 12 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Why Extensional Detachment Faults Are Still A Problem
  Prof Nick Christie-Blick (Columbia University )
  Friday Seminars Earth Sciences

Monday 15 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Dynamics of limit order books: queueing models, diffusion limits and stochastic PDEs
  Rama Cont (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 17 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Workshop 1- Developing Learning and Teaching (DLT) Programme (MPLS)
  Dr Delia O'Rourke ( University of Oxford )
  Developing Learning and Teaching (DLT) Programme (MPLS)

Friday 19 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Extra-solar planets: detection, population studies and atmospheric characterisation
  Prof Suzanne Aigrain (Oxford University )
  Friday Seminars Earth Sciences
• 13:30 - Dasturzada Dr Jal Pavry Memorial Lectures
  Professor Sadaf Farooqi PhD, FRCP, FMedSci (WT Senior Clinical Fellow and Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Cambridge), Professor Rebecca Surender (Oxford University, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Diversity and head of Oxford’s ‘Diversifying Portraiture’ campaign ), Professor Chas Bountra (SGC), Professor Francis Su (Harvey Mudd College ), Professor Niranjan Thatte (University of Oxford )

Monday 22 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Where do second class particles walk?
  Márton Balázs (University of Bristol)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 25 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Convergence of graphs: graphons and growth models
  We will have lunch together in the Maths Institute canteen afterwards. Everybody is welcome to join.
  Frederik Sørensen (University of Oxford)
  Junior Probability Seminar

Friday 26 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Tectonics, climate, and copper in the Central Andes: Insights from (U-Th)/He hematite geochronology
  Dr Frances Cooper (University of Bristol )
  Friday Seminars Earth Sciences

Monday 29 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Finding cliques using few probes
  Miklós Rácz (Princeton University)
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 31 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Workshop 2- Developing Learning and Teaching (DLT) Programme (MPLS)
  Dr Delia O'Rourke ( University of Oxford )
  Developing Learning and Teaching (DLT) Programme (MPLS)
• 15:00 - Play-testing an innovative game of the Red Cross to communicate climate risk
  Margot Curl (Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre )

Friday 2 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Responsible Sourcing of Minerals
  Prof Frances Wall (Cambourne School of Mines )
  Friday Seminars Earth Sciences

Monday 5 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Branching Brownian motion with decay of mass and the non-local Fisher-KPP equation
  Julien Berestycki (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 8 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Introduction to local weak convergence of random graphs
  Roman Stasiński (University of Oxford)
  Junior Probability Seminar

Friday 9 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - 4D imaging of elastic properties and damage in crustal using laboratory-scale seismic tomography
  Dr Nicolas Brantut (University College)
  Friday Seminars Earth Sciences
• 15:00 - Formulating a theory - mathematics in Thomson and Rutherford's collaboration on x-ray ionisation
  Isobel Falconer (University of St Andrews)
  History of Mathematics Seminar

Monday 12 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Algorithmic Pirogov-Sinai Theory
  Tyler Helmuth (University of Bristol)
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 14 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Workshop 3- Developing Learning and Teaching (DLT) Programme (MPLS)
  Dr Delia O'Rourke ( University of Oxford )
  Developing Learning and Teaching (DLT) Programme (MPLS)

Thursday 15 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Michael Berry - Chasing the dragon: tidal bores in the UK and elsewhere 15 November 2018 - 5.15pm
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Michael Berry (University of Bristol)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 16 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Elucidation of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system of the oceanic mantle via broadband ocean bottom seismology
  Prof Hitoshi Kawakatsu (Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo )
  Friday Seminars Earth Sciences

Monday 19 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Polynomial mixing time for edge flips on quadrangulations
  Alessandra Caraceni (University of Bath)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 22 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - An Introduction to Stochastic Filtering
  Andrew Allan (University of Oxford)
  Junior Probability Seminar

Friday 23 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - How to measure 3 trillion tons of ice
  Prof Andrew Shepherd (University of Leeds )
  Friday Seminars Earth Sciences

Monday 26 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Metastable behaviour of the dilute Curie-Weiss model
  Martin Slowik (TU Berlin)
  Probability seminar

Friday 30 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The where, how and when of sulphate in carbonates
  Dr Catherine Rose (University of St Andrews )
  Friday Seminars Earth Sciences
• 15:30 - Individualizing Healthcare with Machine Learning
  Professor Suchi Saria (Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, USA)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Tuesday 4 December 2018 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics, 1944-1963
  Volker Remmert (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
  History of Mathematics Seminar

Thursday 6 December 2018 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Introduction to Lookdown Processes
  Jonathan Chetwynd-Diggle (University of Oxford)
  Junior Probability Seminar

Wednesday 12 December 2018 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Hannah Fry - Hello World
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Hannah Fry (UCL)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Monday 14 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Particle systems and systemic risk
  Ben Hambly (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Friday 18 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Impacts of flexible plankton stoichiometry on global ocean biogeochemistry’
  Prof Katsumi Matsumoto (University of Minnesota (visiting Professor @ University of Oxford) )
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Monday 21 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Orderings of Gibbs random samples
  Yuri Yakubovich (St Petersburg State University)
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 23 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Developing Learning and Teaching (MPLS) Workshop 1
  Dr Delia O'Rourke ( University of Oxford )
  Developing Learning and Teaching (DLT) Programme (MPLS)

Friday 25 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Toward monitoring the ocean activity from seismic signal’
  Prof Elenore Stutzmann, IPGP (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris )
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Monday 28 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Infinitely ramified point measure and branching Lévy process
  Bastien Mallein (Paris 13)
  Probability seminar

Friday 1 February 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Can the fossil record help to inform modern day conservation efforts?’
  Dr Tracy Aze (University of Leeds)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Tuesday 5 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - James Maynard - Prime Time: How simple questions about prime numbers affect us all
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register.
  James Maynard (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Wednesday 6 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Developing Learning and Teaching (MPLS) Workshop 2
  Dr Delia O'Rourke ( University of Oxford )
  Developing Learning and Teaching (DLT) Programme (MPLS)

Thursday 7 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:45 - A Special Linacre Talk: The Role of Scientific Expertise in Today's World
  Professor Harry Collins

Friday 8 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘The Ediacaran-Cambrian rise of early animals’ *** CANCELLED***
  ***PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SEMINAR IS CANCELLED***
  Prof Rachel Wood (Edinburgh University )
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Monday 11 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - U-statistics: some old and new results with applications to patterns in random strings and permutations
  Svante Janson (Uppsala University)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 14 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Introduction to mixing times
  James Ayre (University of Oxford)
  Junior Probability Seminar

Friday 15 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - 'Neogene Geochemical Proxy Records: Implications for Future Sea Level Change’
  Prof Carrie Lear (Cardiff Univeristy )
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Monday 18 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Branching Brownian motion with selection and a free boundary problem
  Sarah Penington (University of Bath)
  Probability seminar
• 17:00 - A Beautiful Game from the War: Piet Hein, John Nash, Martin Gardner and Hex
  Ryan Hayward (University of Alberta)
  History of Mathematics Seminar

Wednesday 20 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Developing Learning and Teaching (MPLS) Workshop 3
  Dr Delia O'Rourke ( University of Oxford )
  Developing Learning and Teaching (DLT) Programme (MPLS)

Friday 22 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - ‘Sinking slabs through time: connecting mantle potential temperature to oceanic lithosphere buoyancy'
  Dr Owen Weller (Cambridge Univeristy )
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Monday 25 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - The Wong-Zakai theorem for stochastic heat equation
  Yu Gu (Carnegie Mellon University)
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 27 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - What the Industrial Strategy means to the academic community
  Dr Ian Campbell (Innovate UK)

Friday 1 March 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture - Prof Alex Halliday of Columbia University NY ***CANCELLED***
  ***PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS LECTURE IS CANCELLED***
  Prof Alex Halliday (Columbia University NY )
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Monday 4 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - A (2+1)-dimensional Anisotropic KPZ growth model with a smooth phase
  Sunil Chhita (Durham University)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 7 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Convergence of graphs: graphons and growth models
  Frederik Sørensen (University of Oxford)
  Junior Probability Seminar

Friday 8 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - 'Climate and carbon-cycle change in the Paleocene-Eocene: what can the 'boring background' tell us?’
  Dr Kate Littler (Exeter University )
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Monday 11 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Marc Lackenby - Knotty Problems
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register.
  Marc Lackenby (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Tuesday 12 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Jacob Bernoulli’s role in the history of elasticity: From a discussion with a craftsman to the discovery of the elasticity rules
  Sepideh Alassi (University of Basel)
  History of Mathematics Seminar

Monday 29 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Universal vanishing corrections on the position of fronts in the Fisher-KPP class
  Éric Brunet (Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, ENS Paris)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 30 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Julia Wolf - The Power of Randomness
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Julia Wolf (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 3 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Biomechanics can provide a new perspective on microbiology
  Professor Takuji Ishikawa (Tohoku University)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Tuesday 7 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Anchored expansion in supercritical percolation on nonamenable graphs
  Jonathan Hermon (University of Cambridge)
  Probability seminar
• 17:30 - Communicating Science in the Age of Fake News
  Various Speakers
  2019- Grand Challenges in Science

Monday 13 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - The critical window for random transposition random walk
  Dominic Yeo (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 14 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Book launch: The Mathematical World of Charles L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) (edited by Robin Wilson and Amirouche Moktefi)
  Robin Wilson (The Open University)
• 17:30 - Sustainability in a Selfish World: Environmentalism vs Economics
  Various Speakers
  2019- Grand Challenges in Science

Thursday 16 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Graham Farmelo - The Universe Speaks in Numbers
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register.
  Graham Farmelo (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 17 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Combining computational modelling, structural biology and immunology to understand Antigen processing
  Prof Tim Elliott (University of Southampton)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 20 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Multiple merger coalescents: truncated offspring distributions, large sample sizes, and bottlenecks
  Jonathan Chetwynd-Diggle (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 21 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Natural Hazards: Preparing Today to Protect Tomorrow
  Various Speakers
  2019- Grand Challenges in Science

Wednesday 22 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Pitching yourself: How to get people interested in you and your research
  Dr Emma Williams
  Enterprising Researcher Development Programme
• 17:00 - Engineering at the crossroads: Lessons from History and a 21st-Century Vision from Across the Channel
  Dr Sophie Mougard (École nationale des ponts et chaussées), Professor Antoine Picon (École nationale des ponts et chaussées)

Friday 24 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Models for genetic perturbation screens of cellular traits
  Dr Leopold Parts (Wellcome Sanger Institute)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Tuesday 28 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Tales of Random Projections
  Kavita Ramanan (Brown University)
  Probability seminar
• 18:00 - Can we ever be 100% renewable? So near, yet so-lar…
  Various Speakers
  2019- Grand Challenges in Science

Wednesday 29 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Marcus du Sautoy - The Creativity Code: How AI is learning to write, paint and think
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register.
  Marcus du Sautoy (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Thursday 30 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Accelerating Impact Conferece
  Various Speakers
• 13:00 - A conversation about the intersection of of mathematics, finance, and sustainability.
  Dr Géraldine Bouveret (Smith School of Enterprise & the Environment)

Friday 31 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Algorithmic generation of physiologically realistic patterns of fibrosis in the heart
  Professor Kevin Burrage (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 3 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Large deviations of subgraph counts for sparse random graphs
  Amir Dembo (Stanford University)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 4 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - SETI Institute - An introduction to the research & education programs of SETI
  TBA
• 17:30 - Science, Ethics and Exploitation: the Things We Do in the Name of Science
  Various Speakers
  2019- Grand Challenges in Science

Thursday 6 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Finding Aliens - an update on the search for life in the Universe
  TBA

Friday 7 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Mechanobiology of cell migration: mathematical modelling and microfluidics-based experiments go hand-in-hand
  Dr Jose Manuel Garcia Aznar (University of Zaragoza)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 10 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Making an Impact: innovation, enterprise and developing your ideas for funding
  Dr Kevin Byron (University of Leicester ), Prof Pete Dobson (Queen's College), Dr Anne Miller (University of Oxford, MPLS), Various Speakers
  Enterprising Researcher Development Programme
• 12:00 - Simultaneous migration in the seed bank coalescent
  Maite Wilke Berenguer (TU Berlin)
  Probability seminar

Friday 14 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - From evolutionary trees to networks and back again
  Mike Steel (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar
• 14:00 - Reactions, diffusion and volume exclusion in a heterogeneous system of interacting particles
  Dr Maria Bruna (University of Oxford)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 15:30 - Scattered thoughts from applied probability: networks, security queues and prediction tournaments
  Prof David Aldous (University of California, Berkeley)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Monday 17 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Interacting reflected diffusions and their hydrodynamic limits
  Clayton Barnes (Université de Neuchâtel)
  Probability seminar

Friday 21 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Personalised predictive modelling for transcatheter mitral valve replacement
  Dr Adelaide De Vecchi (King’s College London)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 24 June 2019 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Near-critical percolation with heavy-tailed impurities
  Pierre Nolin (City University of Hong Kong)
  Probability seminar
• 14:00 - Generalized disconnection exponents for Brownian loop-soups
  Wei Qian (University of Cambridge)
  Probability seminar
• 17:00 - John Bush - Walking on water: from biolocomotion to quantum foundations
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  John Bush (MIT)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Tuesday 25 June 2019 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - On the circulation structures in traditional Chinese algorithms
  GUO Shirong (Institute for the History of Science and Technology，Inner Mongolia Normal University)
  History of Mathematics Seminar

Wednesday 10 July 2019 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Practical Nanoscience for Teachers
  TBA

Friday 12 July 2019 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - EU Medical Device Regulation and how to bring a medical device to the market
  TBA

Wednesday 18 September 2019 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - David Sumpter - Soccermatics: could a Premier League team one day be managed by a mathematician?
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  David Sumpter (University of Uppsala)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Tuesday 1 October 2019 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Novozymes Symposium: ‘A Celebration of Structural Biology’
  Professor Dame Carol Robinson (University of Oxford), Professor Hao Wu (Harvard Medical School), Professor Susan Lea (University of Oxford ), Dr Sjors Scheres (MRC Lab of Molecular Biology, Cambridge ), Professor Tanmay Bharat (University of Oxford), Associate Professor Denise Wootten (Monash University, Drug Discovery Biology), Professor Simon Newstead (University of Oxford,), Dr Lori Passmore (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge), Professor Nieng Yan (Princeton University, Molecular Biology)

Monday 14 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Hit and miss with the density of the (α,β)-superprocess
  Thomas Hughes (UBC)
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 16 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Research Computing on the Cloud: Workshop with Amazon Web Services
  TBA

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Simplicity and Complexity of Belief-Propagation
  Professor Elchanan Mossel (MIT Statistics + Data Center)
  Annual Joint Maths/Stats Colloquium
• 17:00 - Superconducting Technology for Fusion Energy
  Professor Joeseph V Minervini (MIT)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 18 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Climate science, the Met Office Hadley Centre perspective
  Prof Albert Klein Tank (Director of the the Met Office Hadley Centre)
• 14:00 - Cell polarity formation and the dynamics of small G proteins; or, why your Turing bifurcations should always be subcritical
  Alan Champneys (University of Bristol)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 21 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Keep the particles -- CANCELLED
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Tom Kurtz (Madison-Wisconsin)
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 23 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - ‘Superior: The Return of Race Science’ talk by Angela Saini
  TBA

Friday 25 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Embryogenesis: a cascade of dynamical systems
  Professor Stanislav Shavrtsman (Princeton University)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 17:30 - Jon Chapman - Waves and resonance: from musical instruments to vacuum cleaners, via metamaterials and invisibility cloaks
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Jon Chapman (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Monday 28 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Exceptional times of transience for a dynamical random walk
  Matthew Roberts (University of Bath)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 29 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Next Lunch and Learn: Part of the Enterprising Women Programme
  TBA

Friday 1 November 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Nucleosomal Elasticity as a Novel Axis of Epigenetic Regulation
  Professor Garegin Papoian (University of Maryland)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 4 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Asymptotics of discrete β-corners processes via discrete loop equations
  Alisa Knizel (Columbia University, New York)
  Probability seminar

Friday 8 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - An efficient approach to inverse sensitivity problems
  Professor Simon Tavener (Colorado State University)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 11 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Sparse graphs using exchangeable random measures: Models, properties and applications
  François Caron (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 12 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Re-Engineering History: A Playful Demonstration
  Tom Ritchie (University of Kent)
  History of Mathematics Seminar
• 15:30 - Re-engineering History: a playful demonstration
  Tom Ritchie (University of Kent)

Friday 15 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Emergent spatial patterning in engineered bacteria
  Dr Neil Dalchau (Microsoft Research Cambridge)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 18 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Order of the variance in the discrete Hammersley process
  Nicos Georgiou (University of Sussex)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 21 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - The depth first search exploration of a supercritical configuration model
  Laurent Ménard (Université Paris Nanterre)
  Probability seminar

Friday 22 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Uncovering the mechanisms of mutagenesis: from dry lab to wet lab and back again
  Miss Marketa Tomkova (University of Oxford)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 25 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Critical scaling limit of the random intersection graph -- POSTPONED TO NEXT TERM
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Lorenzo Federico (University of Warwick)
  Probability seminar
• 12:00 - Where are the faraway particles of the branching Brownian motion in dimension d?
  Roman Stasiński (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar
• 17:00 - Crossing the Pond: European Mathematicians in 1920s America
  Karen Hunger Parshall (University of Virginia)
  History of Mathematics Seminar

Friday 29 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Fluid mediated mechanical effects in biology of single cells: Hydrodynamics in strategies for early stage biofilm formation and DNA damage during migration in cancer cells
  Dr Rachel Bennett (University of Bristol)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 15:30 - Sensitivity Analysis in Observational Research: Introducing the E-Value
  Professor Tyler Vanderweele (Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Monday 2 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Carlo Rovelli - Spin networks: the quantum structure of spacetime from Penrose's intuition to Loop Quantum Gravity
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register.
  Carlo Rovelli (Aix-Marseille Université )
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Tuesday 3 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Babbage's mechanical notation
  Adrian Johnstone (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  History of Mathematics Seminar

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Looking below the surface: probing electrochemical and catalytic reactions under real-world conditions
  Professor Robert Weatherup (University of Oxford )
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 6 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SEMINAR IS CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES
  TBA
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Tuesday 10 December 2019 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Oxford Mathematics Christmas Public Lecture: Chris Budd - Why does Rudolf have a shiny nose?
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register.
  Chris Budd (University of Bath)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Tuesday 21 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - Women in STEM networking event
  To book your place please visit: https://cosy.ox.ac.uk/accessplan/clientinput/shoppingbasket3/basket/wizard/EditBasket
  TBA

Thursday 23 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Twenty five year risks of breast cancer mortality in 500,000 women
  Prof Sarah C. Darby (University of Oxford)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Friday 24 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Mathematical modelling as part of an HIV clinical trial in sub-Saharan Africa
  Dr Will Probert (University of Oxford)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Thursday 30 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Henry Segerman - Artistic Mathematics: truth and beauty
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register.
  Henry Segerman (Oklahoma State University)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 31 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Maths and Stats in Action – Real-time Analysis to Understand the Novel Coronavirus
  Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Dr Robin Thompson (Mathematic Institute)
• 14:00 - PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SEMINAR IS CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES
  TBA
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 3 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Critical scaling limit of the random intersection graph
  Lorenzo Federico (University of Warwick)
  Probability seminar

Friday 7 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Systems biology for single cell RNA-Seq data
  Dr Tom Thorne (University of Reading)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Next Enterprising Women Lunch and Learn with social entrepreneur
  Book here: https://cosy.ox.ac.uk/accessplan/clientinput/shoppingbasket3/basket/wizard/EditBasket
  TBA

Thursday 13 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Ian Griffiths - Cheerios, iPhones and Dysons: going backwards in time with fluid mechanics
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register.
  Ian Griffiths (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 14 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Application of artificial neural networks to infer pharmacological molecular-level mechanisms of drug evoked clinical responses
  Dr Jonathan Wagg (Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Saturday 15 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Oxfest's 9th Annual Conference: Building Bridges, Breaking Barriers
  Dr Deborah Spencer (University of Oxford), Dame Cilla Snowball, Professor Jackie Hunter, Professor Anne Trefethen (University of Oxford)

Monday 17 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Scaling limits of finitely specified permutation classes
  Mickaël Maazoun (ENS Lyon)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Rocking the Cradle: Radio Galaxies and Black Holes
  Dr James Allison (University of Oxford)

Friday 21 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Tensors in biological data and algebraic statistics
  Dr Anna Seigal (University of Oxford)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 24 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Household epidemic models and McKean-Vlasov Poisson driven SDEs
  Raphaël Forien (INRA, Avignon)
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 26 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Dr Rebecca Bowler on First Galaxies
  Dr Rebecca Bowler (University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - New talk series on computing - Visualisation and Numerics in Computing
  Professor Min Chen (University of Oxford), Dr Stef Salvini (University of Oxford)
• 16:30 - Hidden Histories: Oxford's female computing pioneers
  Professor Ursula Martin (University of Oxford)

Friday 28 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Diffusion tensor cardiac magnetic resonance imaging to measure myocardial disarray in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
  Dr Rina Ariga (University of Oxford)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 2 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Random linear extensions of posets
  Igor Pak (UCLA)
  Probability seminar
• 17:30 - Probing the Invisible: Weighing Supermassive Black Holes
  TBA

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Multiscale modelling of cell fate specification
  Dr Adriana Dawes (The Ohio State University)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 16:00 - Climate sciences to inform great choices: experiences with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  TBA

Wednesday 11 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Alan Champneys: Why pedestrian bridges wobble - synchronisation and the wisdom of the crowd
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Alan Champneys (University of Bristol)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Thursday 12 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Newton Abraham Lecture, followed by drinks and canapes in the North Court
  Professor Alan Garfinkel (University of California, Los Angeles)

Friday 13 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SEMINAR IS CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES
  TBA
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Wednesday 18 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Florence Nightingale and the politicians’ pigeon holes: using data for the good of society
  Prof Deborah Ashby (Imperial College London)
  Florence Nightingale Annual Lecture

Tuesday 24 March 2020 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - GDB and the Chemical Space
  Prof Jean-Louis Reymond (Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry University of Berne)
  Small Organic Molecules: Chemical Space, Reactions, Catalysis and Autocatalysis Workshop

Tuesday 28 April 2020 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Mathematics and Justice in ancient Egypt
  A joint History of Mathematics/Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies Seminar
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Annette Imhausen (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
  History of Mathematics Seminar

Friday 1 May 2020 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE WILL BE NO SEMINAR
  TBA
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Friday 8 May 2020 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE WILL BE NO SEMINAR
  TBA
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Wednesday 13 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Oxford Mathematics Online Public Lecture: Renaud Lambiotte - Smartphones vs COVID-19
  Online Lecture. No need to register. https://livestream.com/oxuni/lambiotte
  Renaud Lambiotte (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 15 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - To be announced
  TBA
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Friday 22 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - To be announced
  TBA
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Wednesday 27 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Philip Maini: Squirrels, Turing and Excitability - Mathematical Modelling in Biology, Ecology and Medicine ONLINE ONLY
  Online lecture - no need to register. https://livestream.com/oxuni/maini
  Philip Maini (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Thursday 28 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Cluster-Randomised Test Negative Designs: Inference and Application to Vector Trials to Eliminate Dengue
  Professor Nick Jewell (University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health)

Friday 29 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The importance of size in immune recognition
  Prof Anton van der Merwe (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Thursday 4 June 2020 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - The intersections between COVID-19 and `climate change
  Dr Andrew Gettelman (University of Oxford)

Friday 5 June 2020 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Teaching nonlinear dynamics to biologists
  Professor Alan Garfinkel (Newton-Abraham Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, 2019-2020, Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Friday 12 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Live-modelling the temporal regulation of mesoderm specification
  Dr Berta Verd (University of Cambridge)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Tuesday 16 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Economic inequality from a statistical point of view
  TBA

Friday 19 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Multi-scale modelling to predict strain in the femoral neck during level walking
  Dr Xinshan Li (University of Sheffield)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Tuesday 21 July 2020 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Oxford Sparks Live: Drug Discovery in Dementia
  Dr (Pavandeep Rai)

Tuesday 8 September 2020 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Joshua Bull - Can maths tell us how to win at Fantasy Football?
  Online lecture only. No need to register.
  Mr Joshua Bull (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 2 October 2020 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - 1st annual Regulatory Science Conference
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 6 October 2020 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - (POSTPONED) Exploring the Data Visualizations of W.E.B. Du Bois
  This talk is part of Black History Month and will be hosted on Zoom.
  Jason Forrest (McKinsey & Co, New York)

Thursday 8 October 2020 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Tim Harford - How to Make the World Add up
  Online Event - no need to register
  Tim Harford
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Thursday 15 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Scientific Entrepreneurship
  Dr Alan D Roth (University of Oxford)
  Enterprising Researcher Development Programme

Friday 16 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Podcast Your Science
  Emily Elias (Podcast Producer)
• 14:00 - Stochastic modeling of reaction-diffusion processes in biology
  Prof Hye-Won Kang (University of Maryland)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Tuesday 20 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Visualizing Electron-Pair Crystals in a Conducting Quantum Spin Liquid
  J.C. Séamus Davis (University of Oxford Department of Physics)

Friday 23 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - MultiMAP: dimensionality reduction of multiple datasets by manifold approximation and projection
  Dr Sarah Teichmann (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute )
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 14:00 - New Perspectives on Phonons
  Dr Bartomeu Monserrat (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network
• 15:30 - Exploring the Data Visualizations of W.E.B. Du Bois
  This is a special virtual Lecture organised as part of Black History Month. It will be hosted on Zoom.
  Jason Forrest (McKinsey & Co, New York)

Wednesday 28 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Pitching yourself: How to get people interested in you and your research
  Dr Emma Williams
  Enterprising Researcher Development Programme
• 09:30 - Introduction to Public Engagement with Research
  Dr Michaela Livingston-Banks (Public Engagement Facilitator (Oxford Sparks), University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Oxford Mathematics Online Public Lecture: David Sumpter - How Learning Ten Equations Can Improve Your Life
  Online only - no need to registerr
  David Sumpter (University of Uppsala)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 30 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Harnessing experimentally-validated mathematical models to forecast influenza-mediated pathology
  Professor Amber Smith (Department of Pediatrics University of Tennessee Health Science Center)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Tuesday 3 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Trinity: the treachery and pursuit of the most dangerous spy in history
  Professor Frank Close (Exeter College)

Friday 6 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Telling stories that matter: Communicating your research through story
  Robert Holtom (Narrative Coach)
• 14:00 - Infection, inflammation, and intervention: mechanistic modelling of epithelial cells in COVID-19
  Various Speakers
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Wednesday 11 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Pitching for Funding
  Dr Emma Williams
  Enterprising Researcher Development Programme

Thursday 12 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Beyond communication: Effective two-way engagement
  Bridget Holligan (Science Oxford, Director of Education and Engagement)
• 15:00 - Strong Acid
  Prof Jennifer Macalady (Penn State)
  Earth2Earth geoscience seminar series

Friday 13 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Algebraic systems biology
  Heather Harrington (University of Oxford)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 14:00 - Exciton Diffusion in Organic Crystals from First Principles Many-Body Perturbation Theory
  Jonah Haber (University of California)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Saturday 14 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Watching the (rapidly) evolving Universe
  Professor Katherine Blundell (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 18 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Pitcture-perfect planet: observing the Earth from hundreds of satellites
  Dr Will Marshall (Planet)

Thursday 19 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Oxford Mathematics Online Public Lecture: Anna Seigal - Ideas for a Complex World
  Online: no need to register
  Dr Anna Seigal (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 20 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Volatile recycling at the Lesser Antilles subduction zone
  Professor Jenny Collier (Imperial College)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Digging genomes and structuromes: towards “ab initio” computational biology
  Prof Aleksandr Sahakya (University of Oxford)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Tuesday 24 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Podcast Your Science
  Emily Elias (Podcast Producer)

Thursday 26 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Atmospheres of Earth and Icy Planets
  Dr Craig Poku (Leeds), Naomi Rowe-Gurney (Leicester)
  Earth2Earth geoscience seminar series

Friday 27 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Plant puzzle cell shape is an adaptation to a developmental constraint based on mechanical stress and isotropic growth
  Dr Richard Smith (John Innes Centre)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 14:00 - Simulating OLEDs using Wavelet-Based Density Functional Theory: From Core Spectroscopy to Large Systems
  Dr Laura Ratcliff (Imperial College London)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Tuesday 1 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Introduction to Public Engagement with Research
  Dr Michaela Livingston-Banks (Public Engagement Facilitator (Oxford Sparks), University of Oxford)
• 15:00 - Florence Nightingale and the politicians’ pigeon holes: using data for the good of society
  This lecture is part of the Florence Nightingale Bicentenary celebrations and will be followed by a special panel session with Professor Deborah Ashby, Professor David Spiegelhalter and Professor David Cox about the role of statistics in society. Both events will run as a Zoom Webinar.
  Professor Deborah Ashby (Royal Statistical Society)

Friday 4 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Does the Antarctic Ice Sheet care about Earth Rheology?
  Dr. Pippa Whitehouse (Durham University)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Unveiling Pressure-Induced Transitions in Bulk MoTe2 and SnSe2
  Dr Roxana Margine (SUNY Binghampton)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network
• 14:00 - Family analysis with mendelian Imputations
  Professor Austin Kong (University of Oxford)

Friday 11 December 2020 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - From climate to energy: physics is key to the world's most pressing issues
  Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-climate-to-energy-physics-is-key-to-the-worlds-most-pressing-issues-tickets-128998093771
  Prof Henry Snaith (Co-Director of the Programme on Solar Energy), Professor Myles Allen (Environmental Change Institute, University Of Oxford), Prof Ian Shipsey (Head, Dept Physics, University of Oxford)

Thursday 14 January 2021 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Geological Controls on Storage of CO2 In Sedimentary Basins
  TBA
  Earth2Earth geoscience seminar series

Friday 15 January 2021 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:30 - Hume-Rothery biennial Materials Science lecture
  Please email communications@materials.ox.ac.uk to register (the Teams Live joining link will then be emailed to you).
  Professor Amanda Petford-Long FREng (Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory)

Thursday 21 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - (Not) Aggregating Data
  This Lecture will hosted on Zoom. Please complete the short registration form on our website to receive the joining instructions.
  Professor Kerrie Mengersen (Queensland University of Technology in the Science and Engineering Faculty)

Friday 22 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Pseudofossils and the search for life on Mars
  Dr Sean McMahon (Edinburgh)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Paradigms for data-driven discovery and control in biological systems
  Professor Nathan Kutz (Dept of Applied Mathematics University of Washington)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Thursday 28 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Psyche: Journey to a Metallic World
  Prof Lindy Elkins-Tanton (ASU)
  Earth2Earth geoscience seminar series

Friday 29 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Exploring Composition–Structure–Property Relationships in Battery Materials: Solid Electrolytes, Li-Rich Cathodes, and Grain Boundaries
  There will be an informal discussion via gather.town following the seminar. You will be able to join this discussion immediately after the seminar via the following link: https://gather.town/app/WoMDHKOV2Oxlj3mY/MMLSeminars – this link is password protected and the password will be given out during the seminar. We hope you will join us for an interesting and lively discussion.
  Dr Ben Morgan (University of Bath)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network
• 14:00 - Emergent robustness of bacterial quorum sensing in fluid flow
  Mohit Dalwadi (University of Oxford)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 1 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - MPLS Welcome to Women in STEM Networking Event
  TBA

Wednesday 3 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Introduction to Public Engagement with Research
  TBA

Friday 5 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - How does ice flow and crack in a warming climate
  Dr Ching-Yao Lai (Princeton)
• 14:00 - Evolutionary therapy
  Professor Alexander Andersonon (Moffitt Cancer Centre)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Wednesday 10 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Telling Stories That Matter: Communicating Your Research Through Story
  Robert Holtom (Narrative Coach)

Thursday 11 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - The Hidden Hydrogeosphere: Implications for deep subsurface microbiology and the search for life
  Prof. Barbara Sherwood Lollar (University of Toronto)
  Earth2Earth geoscience seminar series

Friday 12 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Geroprotectors, multimorbidity and frailty: why we need AI approaches in the quest to extend healthspan
  Professor Ilaria Bellantuono (The Medical School Sheffield)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Tuesday 16 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Oxford Mathematics Online Public Lecture in Partnership with Wadham College Celebrating Roger Penrose's Nobel Prize: Spacetime Singularities - Roger Penrose, Dennis Lehmkuhl and Melvyn Bragg
  This is an online lecture will be available afterwards
  Roger Penrose (University of Oxford), Dennis Lehmkuhl (University of Bonn), Melvyn Bragg (n/a)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Thursday 18 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Veridical Data Science for biomedical discovery: detecting epistatic interactions with epiTree
  Please note this event will be hosted on Zoom.
  Professor Bin Yu (UC Berkeley)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Friday 19 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Rheological heterogeneity on the deep subduction interface: implications for short-term seismic style and long-term subduction dynamics
  Prof Whitney Behr (ETH Zurich)
• 14:00 - Mathematical models of targeted cancer therapies
  Professor Dominik Wodarz (University of California Irvine)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 16:00 - Energy transport in low-dimensional halide perovskites
  Dr Liang Tan (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Beyond communication: Effective two-way engagement with the public
  Bridget Holligan (Science Oxford, Director of Education and Engagement)
• 15:00 - Volatiles in Earth’s mantle: primordial or subducted? Insights from new generation nitrogen and sulfur isotope systematics
  Prof. Jabrane Labidi (Institut de physique du globe de Paris), Dr James Dottin (UMd)
  Earth2Earth geoscience seminar series
• 15:30 - Finding Today’s Slaves: Lessons Learned From Over A Decade of Measurement in Modern Slavery
  Please note, this event will be hosted on Zoom.
  Professor Davina Durgana (American University, Washington, DC)
  Royal Statistical Society - Oxford local group
• 15:30 - Finding Today’s Slaves: Lessons Learned From Over A Decade of Measurement in Modern Slavery
  Please note, this event will be hosted on Zoom.
  Professor Davina Durgana (American University, Washington, DC)
• 18:00 - The 2021 Quantum Materials Public Lecture - "From Rust to Riches"
  The zoom link for the meeting will be sent out on the day of the lecture to everyone who has registered
  Prof Paolo Radaelli (Dept of Physics)

Friday 26 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The Wadsley-Roth niobates for stable, fast lithium-ion diffusion battery anodes: first principles modelling combined with experiment
  Andrew Morris
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network
• 14:00 - PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THERE WILL BE NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK. PLEASE ACCEPT OUR APOLOGIES FOR THE INCONVENIENCE CAUSED.
  TBA
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Tuesday 2 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Podcast Your Science
  You will need a laptop with Audacity installed and headphones for this session
  Emily Elias (Podcast Producer)

Friday 5 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Three Minute Thesis - Training Workshop
  For DPhil students only. By registering for this training please note that you are also registering to take part in the competition - please let us know if you do not wish to participate in the competition.
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
• 14:00 - A mathematical model of reward-mediated learning in drug addiction
  Professor Maria D'Orsogna (Dept of Mathematics California State University Northridge)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Thursday 11 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - How are geochemical reactions in aquifers connected to climate change mitigation?
  Prof Chen Zhu (Bloomington, Indiana)
  Earth2Earth geoscience seminar series

Friday 12 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Deep learning for molecular physics
  Dr Frank Noe (Freie Universitat, Berlin)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 14:00 - Atomistic Spin Dynamics for Quantitative Modelling of Magnetic Materials
  Dr Joe Barker (University of Leeds)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network
• 15:00 - A Matter of Time: The Coupled Role of Host Star Age, Radiogenic Heat Budgets and the Lifetime of Habitable Climates on Rocky Exoplanets
  Dr Cayman Unterborn (Arizona State University)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars

Tuesday 16 March 2021 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Jon Keating - From one extreme to another: the statistics of extreme events
  Prof. Jon Keating (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Wednesday 24 March 2021 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Racism and its effects on academia
  Dr Jason Arday (Durham University)
  Challenges & Changes in Physics

Thursday 29 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - On classification with small Bayes error and the max-margin classifier
  PLEASE NOTE: This event will be hosted on Zoom. In order to receive the joining instructions, registration is required for this event.
  Professor Sara Van de Geer (ETH Zurich)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar
• 17:00 - Cosmic Knowledge and the Long-term Strategy of the Human Race
  Professor Sandra Faber (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Friday 30 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Oscillatory timeseries data sheds light on mechanisms underlying circadian timekeeping
  Professor Jae Kyoung Kim (KAIST)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 15:30 - Calibrating changes across the Precambrian-Cambrian transition
  Dr Emmy Smith (Johns Hopkins University)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars

Friday 7 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:30 - The State of Tech Innovation in Canada by Patrick Pichette
  Patrick Pichette (Inovia Capital)
• 14:00 - Thermodynamic properties by on-the-fly machine-learned interatomic potentials: thermal transport and phase transitions
  Dr Carla Verdi (University of Vienna)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network
• 14:00 - Phase separation in active Brownian particles
  Dr Maria Bruna (University of Cambridge)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Thursday 13 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Introduction to Public Engagement with Research
  TBA

Friday 14 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Reducing the Earth to Simple Physical Models: From Ice Sheets to Earthquakes
  Dr Victor Tsai (Brown University)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - The role of geometry in medicine
  Dr Jessica Williams (Edelman Lab Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering Centre)

Monday 17 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Telling Stories That Matter: Communicating Your Research Through Story
  Robert Holtom (Narrative Coach)

Thursday 20 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - 61st Cherwell Simon Memorial Lecture - Scientific Research (and much more ...) at CERN
  Professor Fabiola Giannotti (CERN)

Friday 21 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - The interplay between thymine dimers and supercoiled DNA
  Wilber Lim (Ard Louis Group, Oxford Physics)
  Biological Physics Seminars
• 14:00 - Orbital-free density functional theory: Background, challenges, and application to crystal structure prediction
  Dr Chuck Witt (University of Cambridge)
• 14:00 - Designing molecular models by machine learning and experimental data
  Professor Cecilia Clementi (Freie Universität Berlin)

Tuesday 25 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - I is a Strange Loop - Written and performed by Marcus du Sautoy and Victoria Gould
  Online lecture/performance
  Marcus du Sautoy (University of Oxford), Victoria Gould
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Wednesday 26 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Minerva's Laboratory: Laura Bassi and the Pursuit of Science in Eighteenth-Century Italy
  Hosted in collaboration with the Italian Embassy in London and the Association of Italian Scientists in the UK
  Professor Paula Findlen (Stanford University)

Friday 28 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Local and global diffusion maps and the sampling of biomolecular systems
  Professor Benedict Leimkuhler (School of Mathematical Sciences University of Edinburgh)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Friday 4 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Active nematics, as a model for describing biological systems
  Mehrana Raesian Nejad (Julia Yeomans Group, Oxford Physics)
  Biological Physics Seminars
• 14:00 - Machine learning and the protein folding problem
  Professor David Jones (Dept of Computer Science UCL)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 14:00 - A first principles perspective on metal halide perovskites: Challenges, results, and surprises
  Dr Linn Leppert (University of Twente)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Tuesday 8 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Podcast Your Science
  Emily Elias (Podcast Producer)

Friday 11 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Biomineralisation and boron proxies: how do shells record archives of seawater carbon chemistry?
  Dr Oscar Branson (Cambridge)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Control and optimization of Natural Killer Cell activation using mathematical models
  Professor Stacey Finley (Department of Computer Science The University of Sheffield)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 18:30 - 90 degrees south
  Professor Daniela Bortoletto (Oxford Dept of Physics), Subir Sarkar (University of Oxford), Josh Veitch-Michaelis (Icecube South Pole Neutrino Observatory), Martin Wolf (Icecube South Pole Neutrino Observatory), Dr Jim Madsen (Exec Director Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center), Gwenhael de Wasseige (Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie)

Tuesday 15 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - AerOx presents 'Future of Civil Aviation'
  Please register and reserve your tickets via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-of-civil-aviation-tickets-154384896381
  Various Speakers

Thursday 17 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 19:50 - 46th Maurice Lubbock Memorial Lecture - Energy, Climate and Sustainability: The Defining Issue of the 21st Century
  Various Speakers

Friday 18 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - High throughput super resolution microscopy, modelling and simulations of filamentous viruses
  Andrew McMahon (Achillefs Kapanidis Group, Oxford Physics)
  Biological Physics Seminars
• 14:00 - Analysis of temporal event sequences: challenges and opportunities in healthcare
  Dr Maria-Cruz Uriol (Department of Computer Science The University of Sheffiled)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 14:00 - Massively parallel atomistic simulations of complex magnets
  Dr Richard Evans (University of York)
• 15:30 - Assessing Personalization in Digital Health
  Please note, this Seminar will be hosted on Zoom. Please register to receive the joining instructions.
  Professor Susan Murphy (Harvard University)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Tuesday 22 June 2021 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - PODCASTING ONE-TO-ONE COACHING SESSIONS
  Emily Elias (Podcast Producer)

Friday 25 June 2021 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Dynamics of the bacterial flagellar motor
  Ashley Nord (Center for Structural Biology (Montepllier, France) & French National Centre for Scientific Research)
  Biological Physics Seminars

Tuesday 6 July 2021 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Ingrid Daubechies - Mathemalchemy: a mathematical and artistic adventure
  Online Public Lecture
  Professor Ingrid Daubechies (Duke University)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Wednesday 14 July 2021 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Frontiers of astrophysics at Oxford
  Everyone is free to join us for this public talk. Registration in advance is required.
  Prof Rob Fender (Head of Astrophysics Oxford), Prof Pedro Ferreira (University of Oxford), Prof Suzanne Aigrain (University of Oxford)

Thursday 30 September 2021 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Oxford Regulatory Science Conference
  Professor I. Glenn Cohen (Deputy Dean and James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics), Prof. Sir Gordon Duff (St Hilda's College, Oxford)

Friday 15 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Modeling and topological data analysis for biological ring channels
  Prof Veronica Ciocanel (Duke University)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Tuesday 19 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Open event: Race Equality Task Force consultation launch
  TBA

Wednesday 20 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - MPLS consultation on Race Equality Task Force recommendations
  TBA

Friday 22 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Segmentation of subducting oceanic plates by brittle-ductile damage
  Prof. Taras Gerya (ETH Zurich)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Programmable genome regulation for studying quantitative genomics and developing high-precision therapy
  Prof Stanley Qi (Stanford University)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 25 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Seminar 1: Peter Stone - "Machine Learning for Robot Locomotion: Grounded Simulation Learning and Adaptive Planner Parameter Learning"
  All are welcome to attend! Follow updates @OxfordRobots Please register to receive the link to join virtual seminar
  Dr Peter Stone (University of Texas)
  ORI Anniversary Seminar Series

Thursday 28 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
  Please note this is an online event only via Zoom.
  Dr John Jumper (DeepMind)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Friday 29 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Silicic magmatism: granite pluton growth, magma chamber formation and volcanism
  Prof. Steve Sparks (University of Bristol)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Design and control of biochemical reaction networks
  Dr Tomislav Plesa (Imperial College London)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 15:00 - Modeling linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopy in complex environments
  Assistant Professor Tim Zuehlsdorff (Oregon State University)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Monday 1 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Large degrees yield short trees
  Serte Donderwinkel (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Friday 5 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The dynamics of volcanic conduits: views from the inside and the outside
  Dr Diana Roman (Carnegie), Prof. Kathy Cashman (Bristol)
• 14:00 - Ensuring chemical safety using maths not rats
  Dr Andrew Worth (European Commission)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Friday 12 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Direct and indirect contributions of ocean warming to the last interglacial sea-level highstand: insights and nuances for future predictions
  Dr. Sarah Shackleton (Princeton University)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Tools and approaches to build and analyze multiscale computational models in biology -TB as a case study
  Prof Denise Kirschner (University of Michigan Medical School)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 15 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Hybrid zones and the effect of barriers
  Ian Letter (Department of Statistics)
  Probability seminar

Friday 19 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Mantle controls over the evolution of oceanic basalts
  Dr David Neave (University of Manchester)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - High-throughput discovery of superconductors
  Michael Hutcheon (University of Nottingham)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network
• 14:00 - Predicting atrial fbrillation treatment outcomes through mathematical modelling, signal processing and machine learning
  Dr Caroline Roney (Kings’ College London)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 22 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Statistics in the Humanitarian Sector: Disasters
  Justin Ginnetti (International Federation of the Red Cross), Luke Caley (International Federation of the Red Cross), Leonardo Milano (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA)), Simon Levine (Overseas Development Institute), Rebecca Firth (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)), Andrew Schroeder (Crisis Ready), Nicki McGoh (Caribou Digital), Chiara Proietti (Global Disaster Alert & Coordination System (GDACS)), Clionadh Raleigh (Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)), Eugenia Giraudy (Facebook Data for Good), Andy Tatem (WorldPop, Flowminder), Daniela Paolotti (ISI Foundation), Alvina Elisabeth Erman (World Bank), Roberto Rudari (CIMA Foundation), Khaled Gaafar (Copernicos Groep), Dr. Hamish Patten (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 24 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Anti-racist allyship workshop
  Priority will be given to members of the BIPOC STEM Network and their Allies
  TBA
• 18:00 - 22nd Hintze Lecture - The legacy from Planck: do we have a standard model of cosmology?
  Professor George Efstathiou (University of Cambridge)

Friday 26 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Paleoclimate in the IPCC; Climate and ocean circulation in the Phanerozoic
  Dr Dan Lunt (University of Bristol)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - New insights into cancer metastasis and evolution from combined experimental, clinical, and modelling analysis
  Dr Erik Sahai (The Francis Crick Institute)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Friday 3 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Element selection for crystalline inorganic solid discovery guided by unsupervised machine learning of experimentally explored chemistry
  Dr Andrij Vasylenko (University of Liverpool)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network
• 14:00 - When cardiac imaging meets computational modeling
  Dr Vicky Wang (Stanford University)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Friday 14 January 2022 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Hirsch Lecture 2022
  'From Batteries to Solar Cells: Exploring Energy Materials on the Atomic Scale'
  Professor Saiful Islam (University of Oxford)

Friday 21 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Going platinum: PGE and chalcophile elements from the mantle to mineral deposits
  Dr Hannah Hughes (Exeter)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - A mechanochemical instability drives vertebrate gastrulation
  Prof Mattia Serra (University of California, San Diego)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Wednesday 26 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Random walk on the simple symmetric exclusion process
  Daniel Kious (University of Bath)
  Probability seminar

Friday 28 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Multiscaling the CRISPR-cas revolution from gene editing to viral detection
  Prof Giulia Palermo (Department of Bioengineering University of California Riverside)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Sunday 30 January 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Oxford Mathematics in partnership with Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment: Tim Harford - Schooled by Randomness
  Tim Harford

Thursday 3 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Design of nanoparticle-bio- interactions towards cancer therapy
  The MS Teams Joining Link is: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZjRmYzg5YWMtNTE0OS00NjViLWI5Y2EtYTg4YWEyZTZlOTVm%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228f227e88-f60a-4b15-a7f5-e88462d8dc82%22%7d.
  Prof Dr Lutz Maedler (Leibniz Institute for Materials Engineering, University of Bremen)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 4 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - CANCELLED We are surprised to present evidence for a magmatic source for nitrogen in Earth’s crust
  Dr Sami Mikhail (School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, St Andrews)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Navigating the Ti-C-O and Al-C-O ternary systems through theory-driven discovery
  Dr Joseph Nelson (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network
• 14:00 - A unifying theory of branching morphogenesis
  Prof Ben Simons (University of Cambridge)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Tuesday 8 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - 'Picture a Scientist' free film streaming and online discussion
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 9 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Exchangeability, mixtures and continuum random trees
  Minmin Wang (University of Sussex)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 10 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Ethics from the perspective of an applied statistician
  This event will be held in-person at the Department of Statistics and online. In-person places are restricted to 23 people.
  Professor Denise Lievesley (Honorary Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Friday 11 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Deep life, bio-energetics and biogeochemical cycling in subseafloor sediments
  TBA
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Data science topics related to neurogenomics
  Prof Mark Gerstein (Yale University)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Wednesday 16 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Scaling limits of multi-type Markov Branching Trees
  Robin Stephenson (University of Sheffield)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 17 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 19:30 - The Axiom of Choice - a new play by Marcus du Sautoy
  Marcus du Sautoy (University of Oxford)

Friday 18 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - The deep biosphere: What lies beneath and why we should care
  Dr Sophie Nixon (Manchester)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Cells in tissue can communicate long-range via diffusive signals
  Prof Jun Allard (UCI)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Wednesday 23 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Local and global behavior of the subcritical contact process
  Dr Leonardo Rolla (University of Warwick)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 24 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Modelling infectious diseases: what can branching processes tell us?
  This is a collaborative talk organised by the Department of Statistics, the Department of Computer Science and the BDI. The talk will be held on Zoom.
  Samir Bhatt, Professor of Machine Learning and Public Health (University of Copenhagen and Professor of Statistics and Public Health, Imperial College London)

Friday 25 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold, and AI for quantum chemistry
  Tim Green (DeepMind)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network
• 14:00 - Dead shells speak: detecting unsuspected ecosystem change on continental shelves
  Prof Susan Kidwell (Chicago)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Navigating through a noisy world
  Prof Kevin Painter (Politecnico di Torino)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 28 February 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Mixing times for the TASEP on the circle
  Note unusual time!
  Dominik Schmid (Bonn / Princeton)
  Probability seminar

Friday 4 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Limit distributions of branching Markov chains
  Vadim Kaimanovich (Ottawa)
  Probability seminar
• 12:00 - Earth Sciences Departmental research seminar with Prof Andreas Fichtner
  Prof Andreas Fichtner (ETHZürich)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Do we understand Fibonacci numbers in plants?
  Dr Jonathan Swinton (Swinton.Net)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 15:00 - Statistics and the fight against modern slavery
  Please note this event is kindly being hosted by the ICMS (International Centre for Mathematical Sciences) on Zoom. The Florence Nightingale Lecture Series is generously sponsored by XTX Markets. The Lecture will be followed by a Panel Session with Dame Sara Thornton DBE QPM, Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, Professor Todd Landman FRSA, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Professor of Political Science at the University of Nottingham and Dr Davina Durgana, Walk Free.
  Professor Sir Bernard Silverman (University of Nottingham and University of Oxford)
  Florence Nightingale Annual Lecture

Thursday 10 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Towards sustainable materials - a systems approach
  Cancelled due to illness. We hope to reschedule for a date during Trinity Term 2022.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Mark Miodownik (University College London)

Friday 11 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Fantastic Electrides and Where to Find Them
  Chengcheng Xiao (Imperial College London)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network
• 14:00 - Examples of artificial intelligence uses in target identification and drug discovery
  Dr Ramneek Gupta (University of Oxford)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Thursday 17 March 2022 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Loading the weather dice: quantifying human influence on climate extremes and their impacts
  In memoriam: Prof Geert Jan van Oldenborgh followed by a drinks reception
  Prof Myles Allen (School of Geography and the Environment), Dr Friederike Otto (University of Oxford Environmental Change Institute), Prof Robert Vautard (LSCE)
• 17:00 - Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Deep Maths - machine learning and mathematics
  Online only - https://www.youtube.com/c/OxfordMathematics
  Alex Davies (DeepMind), Andras Juhasz (University of Oxford), Marc Lackenby (University of Oxford), Geordie Williamson (University of Sydney)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Sunday 20 March 2022 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Bach, the Universe & Everything - The Mathematics of Decisions
  Sam Cohen (University of Oxford)
  Bach, the Universe and Eveything

Wednesday 6 April 2022 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - 18th European Mechanics of Materials Conference
  Chiara Daraio (Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics California Institute of Technology), Samuel Forest (Centre des Matériaux MINES Paristech PSL University), Thao Nguyen (Professor Marlin U. Zimmerman Jr. Faculty Scholar The Johns Hopkins University Department of Mechanical Engineering)

Friday 8 April 2022 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Non-destructive 3D pathology and machine-learning analysis for precision medicine
  Professor Jonathan T. C. Liu (University of Washington)

Thursday 28 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - 'Towards sustainable materials - a systems approach'
  Online link: https://ox.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=925726a0-3065-4513-8223-ae75008265c7 .
  Professor Mark Miodownik (University College London)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 29 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Iron-Sulfur Chemistry on Earth, Mars and Venus: Implications for the origins and evolution of life in alien environments
  Dr. Paul Rimmer (Cambridge)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Spreading mechanics and differentiation of astrocytes during retinal development
  Prof Tracy Stepien (University of Florida)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Friday 6 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Earth Sciences research seminar with Dr Ricardo Ramalho
  Dr Ricardo Ramalho (Cardiff)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Moiré materials and flat bands: the case of twisted transition metal dichalcogenides bilayers
  Dr Valerio Vitale (Imperial College London)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network
• 14:00 - Intrinsic instability of the dysbiotic microbiome revealed through dynamical systems inference at ecosystem-scale
  Prof Travis Gibson (Harvard Medical School)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 9 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Metastability for loss networks
  Sam Olesker-Taylor (University of Bath)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 10 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - The Threat of a Post-Antibiotic Era: The Next Global Pandemic?
  Dame Sally Davies (UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance), Dr Tina Joshi (University of Plymouth), Professor Mark Holmes (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 11 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Questions of collaboration and credit in D’Arcy Thompson’s 'On Growth and Form'
  Deborah Kent (University of St Andrews)
  History of Mathematics Seminar

Thursday 12 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Communicating Complex Statistical Ideas to the Public: Lessons from the Pandemic - David Spiegelhalter
  Professor David Spiegelhalter (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 13 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Earth Sciences Departmental research seminar with Prof . Paul Wessel (UHM)
  Prof. Paul Wessel (UHM)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Integrative analytics connecting genotype and phenotype for precision oncology
  Dr Ian Overton (Queens University Belfast)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Saturday 14 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Covid-19: the beginning, the journey, and the future - Sruk
  This event will bring together leading experts encompassing several aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic to search for a deeper understanding of the latter.
  Various (See programme)

Monday 16 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - On the contact process in an evolving random environment
  Anja Sturm (University of Göttingen)
  Probability seminar

Friday 20 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Causal inference, big data and public health: estimating effectiveness and quantifying waning effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines
  Prof Jonathan Sterne (University of Bristol)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 15:00 - VESIcal: An open-source thermodynamic model engine for mixed volatile (H2O-CO2) solubility in silicate melts
  Dr Kayla Iacovino (NASA)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars

Monday 23 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Characterising the Gaussian free field
  Ellen Powell (Durham University)
  Probability seminar

Friday 27 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - The deep biosphere: What lies beneath and why we should care
  Dr Sophie Nixon (Manchester)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Coping with mechanical stress: tissue dynamics in development and repair
  Prof Yanlan Mao (UCL)

Monday 30 May 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - A guide to growing random geometries: making trees blossom and triangulations flip
  Alessandra Caraceni (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 31 May 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - 'My avid fellow feeling' and 'Fleas': Playing with words on the computer
  Troy Astarte (Swansea University)
  History of Mathematics Seminar

Friday 3 June 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK
  TBA
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 6 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Scaling limit of a branching process in a varying environment
  Guillaume Conchon-Kerjan (University of Bath)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 7 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Explore Science Together
  The Museum of Natural History is wheelchair accessible and a hearing loop is available. A quiet space will be available if anyone feels overwhelmed. The daytime sessions run by KEEN and Daybreak, in particular, have been developed around the needs of disabled people.
  Various Speakers
• 19:00 - Science on the Sofa
  The Museum of Natural History is wheelchair accessible and a hearing loop is available. A quiet space will be available if anyone feels overwhelmed. There will be BSL interpreters and the event will be livestreamed to maximise accessibility. There is a space reserved outside the museum for safe drop-off/collection by car, and details of Blue Badge parking nearby can be found at BlueBadgeParking.com.
  Various Speakers

Thursday 9 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - “So Fair a Subterraneous City”: Mining, Maps, and the Politics of Geometry in the Seventeenth Century
  Thomas Morel (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
  History of Mathematics Seminar

Friday 10 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Modeling ice stream dynamics: a tale of theory, numerical models, and observations
  Dr Elisa Mantelli (University of Tasmania)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Accessing polyanionic redox in high voltage Li-rich thiophosphates
  Dr Pezhman Zarabadi-Poor (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network
• 14:00 - Systems-mechanobiology of health and disease
  Dr Fabian Spill (University of Birmingham)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 13 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Universality in random growth processes
  Sourav Sarkar (University of Cambridge)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 14 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Innovation Festival - Begbroke Science Park
  For more information and to register please go here: https://www.begbroke.ox.ac.uk/events/
  Various Speakers

Friday 17 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Google presentation: Next generation web apps with Machine Learning using TensorFlow.js
  This is an in-person event for University of Oxford staff and students. Details of the venue will be provided upon registration, which is on a first come first served basis.
  Jason Mayes (Google)
• 12:00 - Earth Sciences Departmental research seminar with Dr Dan Frost
  Dr Dan Frost (University of Bayreuth)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Ab initio calculation of the magnetic Gibbs free energy using magnetically constrained supercells: electronic and magnetoelastic mechanisms of first-order transitions
  Dr Eduardo Mendive Tapia (Max-Planck-Institut fur Eisenforshcung, Dusseldorf)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network
• 14:00 - Data-driven early detection of potential high risk SARS-CoV-2 variants
  Dr Marcin J. Skwark (InstaDeep)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 19:00 - Maths vs COVID-19
  Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Prof Lisa White (University of Oxford)

Monday 20 June 2022 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Dynamically resampling random trees
  Edward Crane (University of Bristol)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 23 June 2022 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Alan Turing at 110: current questions and issues
  Please note, this is a special Lecture for Pride Month and registration is required for both in person and online attendance.
  Professor Andrew Hodges (University of Oxford)

Friday 24 June 2022 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - 47th Maurice Lubbock Memorial Lecture: The Future of Transportation
  Dr Anita Sengupta (University of Southern California), Professor Martin Davey (University of Oxford), Professor Peter Ireland (University of Oxford), Professor Kostas Margellos (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - 47th Maurice Lubbock Memorial Lecture: The Future of Transportation
  Dr Anita Sengupta (University of Southern California), Professor Peter Ireland (University of Oxford), Professor Kostas Margellos (University of Oxford), Professor Martin Davy (University of Oxford)

Thursday 7 July 2022 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:40 - In the Flame of a Proper Lamp: Glass and Glassblowing in Making Modern Chemistry
  Dr Catherine Jackson (University of Oxford), Terri Adams (Master Glassblower)

Tuesday 26 July 2022 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Coexistence in the chase-escape process: first passage percolation with two competing types
  Chris Dean (Oxford / Bath)
  Junior Probability Seminar

Wednesday 3 August 2022 (15th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:30 - Startups​ as career opportunity for scientists and students - lessons learned from Senorics
  The talk will be hybrid, to join via zoom use: https://zoom.us/j/91056855653?pwd=eG5tTU1LOVB5dm5RRWpLQ1ExKy9Mdz09
  Dr Ronny Timmreck (Senorics)

Thursday 18 August 2022 (17th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Perfect Sampling of Distributions and Random Permutations
  James Ayre (University of Oxford)
  Junior Probability Seminar

Wednesday 31 August 2022 (19th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Using Technology for Wildlife Applications
  Dr Kayleigh Fawcett Williams (WildlifeTek)

Tuesday 6 September 2022 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - UK Biodiverse Habitats What Where When WHY?
  Mike Cunningham (9Trees)

Friday 9 September 2022 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Imagining AI: A view from the archives
  TBA

Thursday 15 September 2022 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - A mathematical journey through scales - Martin Hairer
  Martin Hairer (Imperial College London)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Thursday 22 September 2022 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:30 - Quantum Materials Annual Public Lecture: Universal Quantum Matter
  Professor Séamus Davis (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 5 October 2022 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Gametes to zygotes to self-cloning plants: the importance of being egg-centric
  Venkatesan Sundaresan (UC Davis)
• 17:00 - The million-dollar shuffle: symmetry and complexity - Colva Roney-Dougal
  Colva Roney-Dougal (University of St Andrews)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Monday 10 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Transitive closure in a polluted environment
  Brett Kolesnik (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 13 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Root dynamics
  Philip Benfey (Duke)

Friday 14 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The uneven ice loss from the Greenland ice sheet: a study of fjord-scale fluxes
  Dr Nanna B. Karlsson (GEUS)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Stochastic dynamics of cell fate decisions and the gene regulatory networks that underlie them
  Prof Adam MacLean (USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences University of Southern California)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 17 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Weaves, webs and flows
  Nic Freeman (University of Sheffield)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 20 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - AI in the UK: engaging Parliament
  Professor Michael Wooldridge (University of Oxford), Philippa Tudor (House of Lords)

Friday 21 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Mechanical Systems from DNA: From Manufacturing to Machinery
  Prof. Jong Hyun Choi (Purdue University)
  Biological Physics Seminar
• 12:00 - Tracking variations in volcano construction and lithospheric flexure along the Hawaiian-Emperor Seamount Chain
  Prof Robert A. Dunn (University of Hawaii)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Systematic elucidation of genetic mechanisms underlying cholesterol uptake
  Prof Richard Sherwood (Harvard Medical School)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 14:00 - Creating self-driving materials modelling laboratory using AiiDA
  Dr Pezhman Zarabadi-Poor (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network
• 15:30 - A path to personalised disease prevention: using genomics to predict risk for common diseases
  A drinks reception will be held after the lecture.
  Peter Donnelly (CEO of Genomics PLC and Professor of Statistical Science at University of Oxford)
  Annual: The David Blackwell Lectures

Monday 24 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Going All Round the Houses: Mathematics, Horoscopes and History before 1600
  Stephen Johnston (History of Science Museum)
  History of Mathematics Seminar

Thursday 27 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Making the most of your mutualistic partner
  Guillaume Chomicki (University of Sheffield)
• 16:00 - Small-scale mechanical testing: from micro- to meso- scale
  Refreshments for speakers are available outside the lecture theatre from 3:30pm. This colloquium will be live-streamed, and available afterwards online:
  Dr Jicheng Gong (University of Oxford)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 28 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - How do parasites interact with their human hosts?
  Prof Matt Higgins (University of Oxford)
  Biological Physics Seminar
• 12:00 - The operation of the terrestrial methane cycle during the Cenozoic and Mesozoic, including hyperthermals such as the PETM and T-OAE
  Dr David Naafs (Bristol)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Emergent digital biocomputation through spatial diffusion and engineered bacteria
  Prof Chris Barnes (UCL)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 31 October 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Convergence of genealogies through spinal decomposition
  Félix Foutel-Rodier (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar
• 16:00 - The power of real-time observations in understanding cellular decision making: Jenkinson Memorial Lecture 2022
  Nancy Papalopulu (Faculity of Life Sciences, University of Manchester)

Wednesday 2 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Signatures of Streams - Professor Terry Lyons
  Terry Lyons (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Thursday 3 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - 2D-materials and van der Waals metasurfaces
  Hybrid. In-person or streamed for University members using Panopto (which will automatically convert into a recording afterwards). https://ox.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=cbe9c6d0-e80f-4cdd-a21b-af3e016157e7
  Professor Cheng-Wei Qiu (National University of Singapore)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 4 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The Moon as an archive of collisional processes in the Solar System: New Views from Apollo samples and lunar meteorites
  Prof Katie Joy (Manchester)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Using a symmetry-based approach to identify structural prototypes from first principles
  Dr Michele Kotiuga (THEOS, EPFL)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network
• 14:00 - A multiscale model of complex endothelial cell dynamics in early angiogenesis
  Prof Tomas Alarcon (Centre de Recerca Matematica (Centre for Mathematical Research, Barcelona)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 7 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Scaling limit of high-dimensional uniform spanning trees
  Eleanor Archer (Paris Nanterre)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 10 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - The Centre for Statistical Methodology Symposium, A celebration of 50 Years of the Cox model in memory of Sir David Cox
  This event is co-hosted by the Royal Statistical Society, The Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford, and the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College. The symposium will take place at LSHTM, in the building where David Cox read his paper to the Royal Statistical Society in 1972. Refreshments and lunch will be served, and the day will be followed by an evening reception. The event is free and open to all, and registration is required.
  Professor Nancy Reid (University of Toronto), Professor Per kragh Anderson (University of Copenhagen), Dr Heather Battey (Imperial College London), Professor Rhian Daniel (University of Cardiff), Professor Bhramar Mukherjee (University of Michigan)
• 14:00 - The Power of Inclusion: Designing equitable energy systems across social divisions
  Makena Ireri (Head of Energy at CLASP), Alexander Haack (Programme Director of Energising Development (EnDev), GIZ), Samantha Stratton-Short (Head of Strategic Initiatives, Infrastructure & Project Management at UNOPS), Elizabeth Wangeci Chege (Energy Efficiency & Cooling Specialist at Sustainable Energy for All), Edwin Obiero (Regional Director for West Africa at Practical Action)

Friday 11 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - ‘Moon Meeting at Oxford’
  Various Speakers
• 10:00 - Targeting proton coupled transporters in health and disease
  Professor Simon Newstead (University of Oxford,), Mirjam Kümmerli (University of Oxford)
  Biological Physics Seminar
• 12:00 - Plan A+: How stratospheric aerosol geoengineering could play a role in climate policy
  Dr Peter Irvine (UCL)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Identifying cell-to-cell variability using mathematical and statistical modelling
  Dr Alex Browning (Dept of Mathematics, University of Oxford)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 14 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Heat kernel fluctuations for the three-dimensional uniform spanning tree
  Satomi Watanabe (Kyoto)
  Probability seminar
• 16:00 - Modelling the Covid-19 Pandemic in the UK: The Weldon Memorial Prize Lecture 2022
  Professor Graham Medley (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Professor Julia Gog (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 16 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Re-connect people and nature through compelling animated stories
  Giuseppe Forestieri (Motion Aptitude)

Thursday 17 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - GroWISE event series from MPLS Enterprising Women for women* working in STEM *anyone identifying as a woman and allies
  Booking link: https://www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/training/enterprise/enterprising-women/enterprising-women-podcasts/enterprising-women-growise-event
  Natacha Wilson (Director Cambridge Insights)
• 16:00 - 'Supercharged - using oxygen redox to store more energy in rechargeable batteries'
  Available online for Oxford SSO accounts: https://ox.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=cc66303b-14aa-4802-9842-af4f00ddf048
  Dr Robert House (University of Oxford)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 18 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Down to the deep – ocean biology’s role in the carbon cycle
  Prof Stephanie Henson (National Oceanography Centre)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Materials informatics: Moving beyond screening via generative machine learning models
  Professor Taylor Sparks (The University of Utah)
• 14:00 - Beyond DNA damage
  Prof Hooshang Nikjoo (Department of Physiology Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 21 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Branching annihilating random walks with local self-regulations
  Alice Callegaro (Mainz)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 24 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Revolving Doors
  Various Speakers
  MPLS Enterprise and Innovation Fellows events

Friday 25 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Replicating RNA with RNA
  This seminar will be rescheduled in early 2023.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof. Philipp Holliger (University of Cambridge), Dr. Seham Helmi (University of Oxford)
  Biological Physics Seminar
• 14:00 - PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SEMINAR IS CANCELLED AND WILL BE RE-SCHEDULED FOR NEXT TERM
  TBA
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 28 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Scaling limit of an adaptive contact process
  Daniel Valesin (University of Warwick)
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 30 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Postponed will be rescheduled for Hilary Term 2023: Building a Thriving Research Culture - Wednesday 30th November 2022 in person
  For more information: https://www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/training/enterprise/mpls-innovation-leadership-programme#selected-content-accordion--mpls-innovation-leadership-masterclass-in-responsible-innovation
  Natacha Wilson (Director Cambridge Insights)

Thursday 1 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - From population to person: Counterfactual risk prediction
  The Lecture will be held at the Department of Statistics and on Zoom.
  Professor Ruth Keogh (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
  Annual: Corcoran Memorial Lecture
• 16:00 - Functional Materials based on Magnetic Metal Complexes and Metal Oxides and Materials for Green Transformation (GX)
  Hot drinks and biscuits will be available from 3:30pm (Hume-Rothery Meeting Room) Hybrid: Panopto link: https://ox.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=7b93f1c6-1887-4056-b578-af5b006d715f .
  Professor Shin-ichi (Ohkoshi)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 2 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Battery metals: Formation and the race to Net Zero
  Dr Nick Gardiner (St Andrew’s)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Modelling spin-control by ferroelectric switching
  Professor Katherine Inzani (University of Nottingham)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network
• 14:00 - Understanding differential cell dynamics during collective migration using integrated simulations and experiments
  Prof Katie Bentley (The Francis Crick Institute)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Tuesday 6 December 2022 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - I’m a Post-Doc... How Do I Engage with Industry?!
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 13 December 2022 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Anyone for a mince pi? Mathematical modelling of festive foods - Helen Wilson
  Helen Wilson (UCL)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Monday 16 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Best response dynamics in random graphs
  Nikolaos Fountoulakis (University of Birmingham)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 19 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Perovskite-inspired Materials for Energy Conversion - from Defects to Devices
  Professor Robert Hoye (University of Oxford)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 20 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Talk 1 Does evolution have an inbuilt Occam's razor? Talk 2 Quantifying mechanoelectrical coupling in individual neurons: Insights into neuronal firing, anesthesia, and ultrasound neuromodulation
  Prof. Ard Louis (University of Oxford), Dr Casey Adam (University of Oxford)
  Biological Physics Seminar
• 14:00 - The inevitable emergence of density-dependent diffusion in expanding phage populations
  Dr Diana Fusco (Dept of Physics, University of Cambridge)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 23 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Topics on random trees and spatial branching processes
  Matthew Buckland (University of Oxford)
  Junior Probability Seminar
• 14:00 - Pattern Occurrence Counts in Random Planar Maps
  Michael Drmota (TU Wien)
  Probability seminar

Friday 27 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Earth-Life coevolution: trace elements at the interface between geosphere and biosphere through time
  Prof Donato Giovannelli (University of Naples “Federico II”)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Digital twin models for the precision diagnosis and therapy of cancer
  Prof Walter Kolch (School of Medicine, University College Dublin)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 30 January 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Lambda Fleming Viot processes with varying population size
  Bastian Wiederhold (University of Oxford)
  Junior Probability Seminar
• 14:00 - Sub-diffusive scaling regimes for one-dimensional Mott variable-range hopping
  David Croydon (RIMS, Kyoto University)
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 1 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - MPLS Enterprising Women GroWISE lunchtime masterclass: Managing Transitions to new Roles and Projects
  Booking needed: https://www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/managing-transitions
  TBA

Friday 3 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Talk 1 Deep screening of biomolecular repertoires Talk 2 DNA-templated conjugation and assembly of molecular components
  Prof. Philipp Holliger (University of Cambridge), Dr. Seham Helmi (University of Oxford)
  Biological Physics Seminar
• 12:00 - Filling in the Map: The space-time geography of Arctic Ocean mixing and why it matters
  Prof Stephanie Waterman (University of British Columbia, Canada)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Challenges in modeling the transmission dynamics of childhood diseases
  Prof Felicia Magpantay (Dept of Math and Stats Queen’s University Kingston)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 15:30 - Causal learning from observational data
  This talk will be held both in person and online.
  Professor Marloes Maathuis (ETH, Zurich)
  Florence Nightingale Annual Lecture

Monday 6 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Title TBC
  Rivka Mitchell (University of Oxford)
  Junior Probability Seminar
• 14:00 - The expected degree distribution in transient duplication divergence models
  Tiffany Lo (Uppsala University)
  Probability seminar

Friday 10 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Theory and Simulation of Cation Solvation and Ionic Aggregation in Concentrated Non-Aqueous Electrolytes
  Dr Zachary Goodwin (Harvard University)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network
• 14:00 - Inference of stem cell and tissue dynamics in development and regeneration
  Dr Linus Schumacher (University of Edinburgh)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 13 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - A SYSTEM OF INTERACTING BOUCHAUD TRAP MODELS
  Simone Floreani (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 15 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - On Green’s theorem: a visual history through textbooks and other printed matter
  Rogério Monteiro de Siqueira (Universidade de São Paolo)
  History of Mathematics Seminar

Thursday 16 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Molten Metal Droplet Processes - what can we learn from single droplets?
  Joining Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YjUwYjRmZjktNDhiOS00NGQzLWJmZmMtN2JjNDIxMTc0NmE3%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228f227e88-f60a-4b15-a7f5-e88462d8dc82%22%7d
  Dr-Ing (Nils Ellendt)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 17 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Talk 1 Learning how biological systems create their shapes - Measuring nanoscale viscoelasticity with an AFM. Talk 2 Bacterial ribosome phenotypes as a rapid antibiotic susceptibility test
  Prof Sonia Contera (University of Oxford), Alison Farrar (University of Oxford)
  Biological Physics Seminar
• 14:00 - Understanding Turing patterns in heterogeneous reaction-diffusion systems
  Prof Robert A. Van Gorder (Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Otago)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 20 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Junior Probability Seminar
• 14:00 - Disorder relevance and the continuum random field Ising model
  Adam Bowditch (University College Dublin)
  Probability seminar
• 16:00 - The Hox timer: Evolution, Function and Mechanism: Jenkinson Memorial Lecture
  Professor Denis Duboule (Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL))

Wednesday 22 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Compositional data analysis: A fresh approach
  This talk will be held both in person and online.
  Professor David Firth (University of Warwick)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar
• 17:00 - On the uses and abuses of the history of mathematics
  Nicolas Michel (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)
  History of Mathematics Seminar

Thursday 23 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Cascading Principles - Conrad Shawcross, Martin Bridson and James Sparks with Fatos Ustek
  Conrad Shawcross (Artist), Martin Bridson (Oxford), James Sparks (University of Oxford), Fatos Ustek (Curator)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 24 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Towards an understanding of the earthquake process for natural and induced seismicity
  Prof Daniel Faulkner (University of Liverpool)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Chlorine: the magic ingredient in CdTe solar cell production
  Dr Pooja Goddard (Loughborough University)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network
• 14:00 - Decoding nanopore signals
  Prof David Page (Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 27 February 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Understanding age and society using natural populations
  Please note this is a Royal Society (not Oxford University) event, organised in part by members of the Department of Biology. Please refer to the Royal Society link for up-to-date information.
  TBA
• 11:00 - Title TBC
  Félix Foutel-Rodier (University of Oxford)
  Junior Probability Seminar
• 14:00 - Non-commutative probability and fermionic stochastic quantisation
  Ajay Chandra (Imperial)
  Probability seminar

Friday 3 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Talk 1 Ultraresolution Picotensiometry of Kinesin Motors Talk 2 Optical detection of hemozoin: towards novel malaria diagnostics
  Dr Erik Schäffer (University of Tübingen), Dr Robert Ishmukametov (University of Oxford)
  Biological Physics Seminar
• 12:00 - The origin of water in chondritic meteorites and the Earth
  Dr. Conel Alexander (Carnegie Institution of Washington)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - An agent-based model of the tumour microenvironment
  Dr Cicely Macnamara (School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Glasgow)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 6 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Title TBC
  Gabriel Flath (University of Oxford)
  Junior Probability Seminar
• 14:00 - Stochastic quantisation of the fractional \Phi^4_3 model in the full subcritical regime.
  Massimiliano Gubinelli (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 8 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Hype and Conspiracy: can we engage with conspiracy theorists?
  Dr Stephen Hughes (UCL)
• 13:30 - Workshop "Between Hype and Conspiracy: Can We Engage with Conspiracy Theorists?" - Dr Stephen Hughes (UCL)
  Dr Stephen Hughes (UCL)
• 16:30 - "Technoscientific Conspiracies: From Chemtrails to Transhumanism" - Dr Stephen Hughes (UCL)
  Dr Stephen Hughes (UCL)
• 16:30 - Technoscientific Conspiracies: from chemtrails to transhumanism
  Dr Stephen Hughes (UCL)

Friday 10 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Earth formation in the laboratory: core-mantle differentiation after giant impacts
  Dr Maylis Landeau (IPGP & Université Paris Cité)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - CRISPR-based decoding of disease-associated genomic variants
  Prof Richard Sherwood (Harvard Medical School)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 14:00 - Modelling Ultralong Phosphorescence in Molecular Crystals
  Dr Rachel Crespo-Otero (Queen Mary University, London)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network

Wednesday 15 March 2023 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Building a Thriving Research Culture
  Natacha Wilson (Director Cambridge Insights)
  MPLS Innovation Leadership Programme

Monday 27 March 2023 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Oxford Battery Modelling Symposium 27-28 March 2023
  Various Speakers

Friday 21 April 2023 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Multicomponent High-Entropy Cantor Alloys
  Professor Brian Cantor (University of Oxford and Brunel University)
  Hume-Rothery Lecture

Thursday 27 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Creep Cavitation: an old problem with solution thoughts on new characterisation approaches
  Free refreshments will be available from 3:30pm. Panopto will be enabled (SSO required): https://ox.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=03458e5b-8160-46cc-b85a-afe800fe51b0.
  Professor Peter Flewitt (Bristol and Oxford)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 28 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Stochastic modeling of neurotransmission dynamics
  Dr Stefanie Winkelmann (Zuse Institute Berlin)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 16:00 - Climate Crisis: Bridging the gap between science and policy
  TBA

Wednesday 3 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - From the Pain in the Torus to a Repulsion-Diffusion Equation
  Peter Koepernik (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar
• 17:30 - GenSTEM - a new Gender Equity in STEM event
  Various Speakers

Thursday 4 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - 'Induction and dynamics of metastable phases of matter'
  Professor Aaron Lindenberg (Stanford University)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 5 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Carbon Cycling at the Dawn of the Cenozoic
  Dr Michael Henehan (Bristol)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Data-driven protein design and molecular latent space simulators
  Prof Andrew Ferguson (University of Chicago)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 15:30 - Understanding neural networks and quantification of their uncertainty via exactly solvable models
  This talk is the annual Oxford Maths & Stats Colloquium. There will be a Drinks Reception after the talk in the ground floor social area.
  Professor Lenka Lenka Zdeborová (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Wednesday 10 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Counting graphic sequences
  Serte Donderwinkel (McGill University)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 11 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Advanced Heterogeneous Integration – Ionics Meets Semiconductors from Solar Cells to Bioelectronics and Machine Vision
  *** This lecture is now offered as in-person only *** Hot drinks and biscuits for the in-person attendees will be available from 3:30pm.
  Professor Paul Meredith (University of Swansea)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 12 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Plume-related diamond formation in the central Kaapvaal craton
  Dr Karen Smit (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Simple maths to individual-based simulations - providing modelling for public health policy in infectious diseases
  Prof Deirdre Hollingsworth (University of Oxford)

Monday 15 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Branching random walk with non-local competition
  Sarah Penington (University of Bath)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 16 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Unseen Workers: the essential role of microbes
  TBA

Thursday 18 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Molecular Design of Colour Centres
  Professor Danna Freedman (MIT)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 19 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Skeletons in the closet: ethics, law, and politics in palaeontology
  Dr Nussaibah Raja Schoob (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany))
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Mapping and navigating biology and chemistry with genome-scale imaging
  Dr Imran Haque (Recursion Pharmaceuticals)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 22 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Metastability of the Potts ferromagnet on the random regular graph
  Andreas Galanis (University of Oxford, Department of Computer Science)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 23 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Nuclear Risk - and how we can work to reduce it
  Peter Collecott, David A Ellwood

Thursday 25 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Autodifferentiation in atomistic simulations: interatomic potentials for battery materials, uncertainty-based active learning and rare-event sampling
  Refreshments are available from 3:30pm in the Hume-Rothery Meeting Room
  Associate Professor Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli (MIT)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 26 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Understanding the mechanisms behind global temperature change and oxygen rise over Earth history
  Dr Ben Mills (Leeds)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Modelling the viral dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta and Omicron variants in different cell types
  Dr Ada Yan (Imperial College London)

Tuesday 30 May 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Quantum Theory of Imperfect Crystals
  Professor Aron Walsh (Imperial College London)
  Materials Modelling Seminars

Wednesday 31 May 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Directed Spatial Permutations on Asymmetric Tori
  Tyler Helmuth (Durham University)
  Probability seminar
• 16:00 - Mathematics and its history, through literature
  Please note change of time
  Sarah Hart (Birkbeck, University of London)
  History of Mathematics Seminar
• 17:00 - A world from a sheet of paper - Tadashi Tokieda
  Tadashi Tokieda (Stanford University)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 2 June 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Can geodesy shed light on the interplay between hydrology and the solid Earth?
  Dr Kristel Chanard (IPGP, Paris)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Symbolic regression for explainable predictions in medicine: From patient stratification to antibody development
  Dr Samuel Demharter (Genmab)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Wednesday 7 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - A new front in branching Brownian motion
  Yujin Kim (Courant Institute, NYU)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 8 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Fortifying vitamins in tomato using genome editing (Mary Snow Lecture)
  Cathie Martin (John Innes Centre)

Friday 9 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Recent and past results on stochastically-modelled biochemical reaction networks
  Professor Jinsu Kim (POSTECH)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Saturday 10 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - The wisdom of the swarm: physics and behaviour
  Professor L. Mahadevan (Harvard University)

Monday 12 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Technical Talks: Morphogenesis: geometry, physics and biology
  Professor L. Mahadevan (Harvard University)
• 14:00 - The critical 2d stochastic heat flow
  Francesco Caravenna (Milano-Bicocca)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 13 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Mapping and exploiting stochastic explorations of material space
  Professor Chris Pickard (University of Cambridge)
  Materials Modelling Seminars
• 14:00 - Technical Talks: Morphogramming: geometry, physics and technology
  Professor L. Mahadevan (Harvard University)

Wednesday 14 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - ALL researchers and DPhil students GroWISE: Curious about Consultancy?
  Various Speakers

Thursday 15 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Robotic Exploration of our Solar System
  Professor Emma Bunce (University of Leicester)

Friday 16 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Active Rifting in the East African Rift System and Challenges in Disaster Risk Management
  Prof Atalay Ayele (University of Addis Ababa)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Positional information theory
  Prof Karen Page (University College London)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 19 June 2023 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Experiment with Science Communication: Tips and Tales from the Pros
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 27 June 2023 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - ALL researchers and DPhil students GroWISE: Nimble Accelerator Series
  TBA

Monday 3 July 2023 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Topics on Neuroscience, Collective Migration and Parameter Estimation
  Various Speakers
  Topics on Neuroscience, Collective Migration and Parameter Estimation

Tuesday 4 July 2023 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - ALL researchers and DPhil students GroWISE: Nimble Accelerator Series
  TBA

Thursday 6 July 2023 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Dr Jim Green lecture: “Commercial space and science: can they co-exist?”
  Dr Jim Green (NASA)

Tuesday 11 July 2023 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:35 - ALL researchers and DPhil students GroWISE: Nimble Accelerator Series
  TBA

Tuesday 18 July 2023 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - ALL researchers and DPhil students GroWISE: Nimble Accelerator Series
  TBA

Thursday 27 July 2023 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Envisioning Imagination - Roger Penrose, Carlo Rovelli and Conrad Shawcross with Fatos Ustek - SOLD OUT
  Roger Penrose (University of Oxford), Carlo Rovelli (Aix-Marseille Université ), Conrad Shawcross (Artist), Fatos Ustek (Curator)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Thursday 7 September 2023 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Plastid Preview 2023
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 13 September 2023 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Four Ways of Thinking: Statistical, Interactive, Chaotic and Complex - David Sumpter
  David Sumpter (University of Uppsala)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Thursday 28 September 2023 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Patterns in Science and Art - Liliane Lijn, Marcus du Sautoy and Fatos Ustek with Conrad Shawcross
  Liliane Lijn (Artist), Marcus du Sautoy (University of Oxford), Fatos Ustek (Curator), Conrad Shawcross (Artist)

Tuesday 3 October 2023 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Around the World in 80 Games - Marcus du Sautoy
  Marcus du Sautoy (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Monday 9 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The Scaling limit of the minimal spanning trees on the PWIT.
  Omer Angel (UBC)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 10 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Launch of WISOx - Women in Stats Oxford
  WISOx is an inclusive community designed to connect self-identifying women passionate about Statistics across departments and divisions. Whether you're a postgraduate student, a dedicated postdoc, or a research professional, WISOx offers you opportunities for personal and professional development. Mark your calendar and please, RSVP - we can't wait to welcome you on board! Got questions or want to know more? Reach out to us via email. Our contact details are conveniently located in the People section of the Department of Statistics website.
  TBA

Friday 13 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Ready to Fail: The 2023 Turkiye earthquake disaster - Research seminar with Dr Ekbal Hussain
  Dr Ekbal Hussain (British Geological Survey)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Agent-based, vertex-based, and continuum modeling of cell behavior in biological patterns
  Prof Alexandria Volkening (Department of Mathematics Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 16 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Weyl law in Liouville quantum gravity
  Nathanaël Berestycki (University of Vienna)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 19 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Expanding Boundaries in Layered Solids: New Materials, Structures and Properties
  Free refreshments for attendees are available from 3:30pm.
  Professor Scott Warren (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 20 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Rocky planets as the Lavosier-Lomonosov Bridge from the non-living to the living world - Research seminar with Prof Stephen Mojzsis
  Prof Stephen Mojzsis (University of Colorado Boulder)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 15:00 - Machine learning for identifying translatable biomarkers and targets
  Professor Daphne Koller (Department of Computer Science Stanford University)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 23 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Generalised convexity with respect to families of affine maps
  Oleksandr Marynych (National University of Kyiv)
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 25 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Thermodynamics of Cr-Zr-X systems towards design of new accident tolerant fuel systems
  Free refreshements for attendees are available from 3:30pm in the Hume-Rothery Meeting Room
  Professor Theresa Davey (University of Bangor)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia
• 17:00 - Does Life know about quantum mechanics? - Jim Al-Khalili
  Jim Al-Khalili (University of Surrey)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Thursday 26 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Introducing the Forster-Warmuth Nonparametric Counterfactual Regression
  Please register your place to attend this event. A drinks reception will follow the Lecture in the ground floor social area.
  Professor Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen (University of Pennsylvania)
  Annual: The David Blackwell Lectures

Friday 27 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Atmospheric loss in giant impacts: The effect of pre-impact surface conditions; Research seminar with Dr Simon Lock
  Dr Simon Lock (University of Bristol)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Mathematical modelling throughout infectious disease outbreaks
  Dr Robin Thompson (Mathematic Institute)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 30 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Modelling populations expanding in a spatial continuum
  Apolline Louvet (University of Bath)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 31 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Simulation, Synchrotron Radiation and Neutron Scattering Studies of Catalytic and Energy Materials
  Professor Sir Richard Catlow (University College London)
  Materials Modelling Seminars

Thursday 2 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - AsP ribbons: Quasi-1D nanomaterials with an element of danger
  In-person and online (remote attendance is through Panopto: https://ox.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=a0fe7e0e-d334-4724-bfa7-b09f00e88683). Free refreshments for attendees are available from 3:30pm in the Hume-Rothery Meeting Room
  Dr Adam Clancy (University College, London)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 3 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Does the silicate Earth have a leaky bottom? - Research seminar with Prof Tim Elliott
  Prof Tim Elliott (University of Bristol)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Leader, follower, and cheater in collective cancer invasion
  Professor Yi Jiang (College of Arts and Science Georgia State University)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Thursday 9 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Pitching for funding
  Dr Emma Williams (EJW Solutions Ltd.)
• 17:30 - Forming a Thought into Form - Jon Keating, Maya B. Kronic, Emma Ridgway, and Conrad Shawcross with Fatos Ustek
  Various (See programme)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 10 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Towards a new understanding of the inorganic carbon budget in the Arctic - Research seminar with Dr Emily Stevenson
  Dr Emily Stevenson (University of Cambridge)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Mathematical modelling identifies serum hepatitis B RNA as an informative biomarker of anti-viral treatment efficacy
  Dr Tyler Cassidy (School of Mathematics University of Leeds)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 13 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - A BRANCHING PARTICLE SYSTEM AS A MODEL OF PUSHED FRONTS
  Julie Tourniaire (IST Austria)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 14 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Stress Reduction Techniques in Research (online)
  This online workshop is open to all individuals seeking to enhance their stress management and self-care skills in the research context.
  Catriona Ryan (Senior Fellow HEA)

Wednesday 15 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Academia of the future: unlocking the power of enterprise
  TBA

Thursday 16 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Pitching Yourself - How to get people interested in you and your research (in-person)
  This interactive workshop is designed to help you master the art of crafting and delivering impactful pitches.
  Dr Emma Williams (EJW Solutions Ltd.)
• 16:00 - Advanced passivating contacts for silicon photovoltaics and their application to pervoskite/silicon monolithic tandem architectures
  Free refreshments for attendees from 3:30pm
  Dr Takuya Matsui (Renewable Energy Research Centre, AIST, Japan)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 17 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Volatile metals in volcanic systems - Research seminar with Prof Marie Edmonds
  Prof Marie Edmonds (Cambridge)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - The generalist medical AI will see you now
  Professor Pranav Rajpurkar (Department of Biomedical Informatics Harvard Medical School, Boston)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 20 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Innovation Leadership Programme (ILP)
  This is a five session blended learning course - starting 20th November at 10.00 - 13.00 (in-person), then takes place 22nd (online, 10.00 - 14.00), 24th (online, 10.00 - 13.00), 27th (TBC) until the final session on 29th November (in-person 10.00 - 16.00).
  Henley Business School (Henley Business School)
• 14:00 - Competing growth with reinforcement
  Daniel Ahlberg (Stockholm University)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 21 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - The battle of the sexes is highly polygenic
  Professor Mark Kirkpatrick (University of Texas)
• 17:00 - Advances in Advancing Interfaces: The Mathematics of Manufacturing of Industrial Foams, Fluidic Devices, and Automobile Painting: The Sixteenth Brooke Benjamin Lecture 2023
  Professor James Sethian (University of California at Berkeley)

Wednesday 22 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Oxide Spintronics and Ethics in Scientific Research
  Refreshments will be available from 3:30pm.
  Professor DrTamalika Banerjee (University of Groningen)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia
• 17:15 - Mathematising certainty in the 18th century. Jacob Bernoulli’s and Thomas Bayes’ redefinition of “absolute” and “moral” certainty through probability calculus
  Dinh-Vinh Columban (Université Paris Nanterre)
  History of Mathematics Seminar

Thursday 23 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - A Mathematical Journey through Literature - Sarah Hart
  Sarah Hart (Birkbeck, University of London)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 24 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Exploring and overcoming Imposter Phenomenon (in-person)
  Ever felt like you’re not as capable as others believe? Struggling with self-doubt despite your achievements? Join us for a transformative workshop led by the coaching expert Dr. Tracy Bussoli. Designed to help you conquer Impostor Phenomenon and harness your full potential.
  Dr Tracy Bussoli (Association for Coaching)
• 12:00 - Mapping mantle flow with seismic anisotropy: a seismo-geodynamics approach
  Prof Ana Ferreira (UCL)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Using virtual clinical trials to improve our understanding of diseases
  Professor Adrianne Jenner (Queensland University of Technology)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 27 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Selection principles for the N-BBM and the Fleming-Viot particle system
  Oliver Tough (University of Bath)
  Probability seminar

Friday 1 December 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Landscape evolution and the early Mars hydroclimate: constraints from paleolake and valley morphologies
  Dr Gaia Stucky de Quay (MIT/Harvard)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Sequence models in biomedicine: from predicting disease progression to genome editing outcomes
  Professor Michael Krauthammer (Department of Quantitative Biomedicine University of Zurich)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Wednesday 6 December 2023 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Squiggly Careers: navigating the roads less travelled
  Join Dr. Sheen Gurrib for an enlightening online session, designed for DPhil students, research staff, and those interested in embracing the concept of squiggly careers!
  TBA

Tuesday 12 December 2023 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - 'Exploring the free energy surface of proteins using CEST NMR experiments
  Pramodh Vallurupalli (TIFR Hyderabad)
  Seminar
• 18:00 - A Quantum Christmas Robin - Public Christmas Lecture, Prof Peter Hore
  Prof Peter Hore (University of Oxford)

Friday 12 January 2024 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Neofossils: bio-based plastics to sequester CO2
  Drinks reception and nibbles in Holder Common Room (5:30-7pm). Booking deadline: 5pm, Friday 15 December 2023.
  Professor Anthony J Ryan (University of Sheffield)
  Hirsch Lecture

Monday 15 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Phase transition for the late points of random walk
  Perla Sousi (University of Cambridge)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 16 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Connecting with Industry
  A dynamic and interactive 2 day in-person event aimed at giving researchers a working knowledge of critical business issues that impact commercial organisations. It’s designed to provide them with a set of tools and skills to help them be immediately more effective working in, and with, industry.
  Skillfluence (Skillfluence)

Thursday 18 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Engineering porous nitrides via defect-related channels
  TBA
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 19 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - A cobra effect in a greening world: can Earth scientists find the antivenin?
  Prof Cyril Chelle-Michou, (ETH Zurich)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Modelling cells in one-dimension: diverse migration modes, emergent oscillations on junctions and multicellular "trains"
  Professor Nir Gov (Department of Chemical and Biological Physics Weizmann Institute of Science)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 22 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Top eigenvalues of random trees
  Louigi Addario-Berry (McGill)
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 24 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Futureproofing Your Career: become irreplaceable in the age of AI
  Are you fascinated by how swiftly the world of work and research is changing in the face of AI and automation? Do you want to ensure you build a futureproof skillset in the face of emerging technologies? Then join us for our in-person GroWISE workshop with speaker Nikita Khandwala, and equip yourself with the durable mindset and skills you need to thrive in a rapidly changing future of work.
  Nikita Khandwala
• 17:30 - Diversifying STEM Curriculum Event: Discussing Fisher
  Various (See programme)
• 17:30 - Diversifying STEM Curriculum Event: Discussing Fisher
  Alex Aylward (Oxford), Maria Christodoulou (Oxford), Alan Grafen (Oxford)

Thursday 25 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Research ideas with enterprise tools: creative thinking
  Where do you get your research ideas from? How can you generate new experiments or outlooks?
  Dr Emma Williams (EJW Solutions Ltd.)

Friday 26 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - The fastest and furthest-travelling flows on Earth: New insights from direct monitoring of deep-sea hazards
  Dr Mike Clare (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - The hitchhiker's guide to complex models of intracellular signalling
  Professor Fabian Frohlich (The Francis Crick Institute)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 29 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Coupling from the past for the null recurrent Markov Chain
  Sayeh Khaniha (INRIA, Paris)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 30 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Resilience at Work - Being for beginners
  This course will be delivered over 6 one-hour sessions online, from 11.00-12.00 on the following dates: 30th January 2024 | 11.00 - 12.00 1st February 2024 | 11.00 - 12.00 6th February 2024 | 11.00 - 12.00 8th February 2024 | 11.00 - 12.00 13th February 2024 | 11.00 - 12.00 15th February 2024 | 11.00 - 12.00
  Roddy Bray (Roddy Bray)
  Resilience at Work - Being for beginners

Thursday 1 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Open Science
  Stay at the forefront of scientific advancements by integrating Open Science practices into your research projects.
  Nick De Vito (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences)
• 16:00 - 'Microstructure Evolution Studies: ceramics for extreme conditions'
  The format is in-person only.
  Professor Katharina Marquardt (University of Oxford)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 2 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Completing Your DPhil
  Join Dr. Justin Hutchence for the Completing Your DPhil course. Master thesis structuring, effective writing, and viva preparation.
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
• 12:00 - Exploring the stability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
  Dr Ronja Reese (Northumbria)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars

Monday 5 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Recurrent extensions and Stochastic Differential equations
  Victor Rivero (CIMAT, Guanajuato)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 6 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Research ideas with enterprise tools: evaluating your ideas
  We will explore enterprise tools for evaluating ideas that can be used in research settings. We will also look at tools which can capture feedback from others in constructive ways that enhance our proposals.
  Dr Emma Williams (EJW Solutions Ltd.)
• 18:00 - Grace in Simplicity - book launch
  To purchase a signed copy of the book to collect at the lecture: https://paypal.me/PegasusBooks
  Chris Quigg (Fermi Lab)

Wednesday 7 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Coaching Skills for Leaders
  Join our exclusive Coaching Skills for Leaders course and embark on a transformative journey led by our expert coach Anna Sanders.
  Anna Sanders (Oxford Cultural Leaders)

Thursday 8 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Get that grant
  Learn the art of writing compelling research proposals, uncover potential pitfalls to avoid, and discover what reviewers look for in a proposal.
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
• 16:00 - A Century of Noether's Theorem
  Chris Quigg (Fermi Lab)

Friday 9 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Harnessing Earth's Vibrations and Leading Open Science Initiatives in Earth Sciences
  TBA
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Designing Artificial Metalloenzymes for Sustainable Energy Conversion: Beyond the Primary Coordination Sphere
  Prof Patricia Rodriguez-Macia
  International Day of Women in Research
• 14:30 - From solar energy conversion using hen’s eggs to photoelectrochemical oxygen and hydrogen production in space: becoming a professor in artificial photosynthesis research
  Prof Katherine Brinket
  International Day of Women in Research
• 15:00 - Becoming a chemist: a career path in chemistry
  Professor Claire Vallance (Department of Chemistry)
  International Day of Women in Research

Monday 12 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Interface evolution in bistable spatial population models: a global approach
  Thomas Hughes (Bath)
  Probability seminar
• 16:30 - From individual-based models to continuum descriptions: Modelling and analysis of interactions between different populations.
  Dr Mariya Ptashnyk (Dept of Maths Herriot Watt University)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Wednesday 14 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Shaping Research Culture - Combining openness, collaboration, and innovation to thrive in research.
  This workshop offers a unique opportunity to invest in personal and professional development. Participants will gain insights, build connections, and leave empowered to shape the future of research.
  Natacha Wilson (Director Cambridge Insights)
• 17:00 - Logging the World - Oliver Johnson
  Oliver Johnson (University of Bristol)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Thursday 15 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Podcast Your Science
  From inception to publication this practical session delivered by Emily Elias, journalist and producer of the Oxford Sparks podcast series, is a whirlwind tour through the basics of how to share your research in an engaging manner through podcasting.
  Emily Elias (Podcast Producer)

Friday 16 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Oceanic transform faults revisited
  Prof. Dr. Ingo Grevemeyer (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Active surfaces in biology
  Professor Alex Mietke (Dept of Physics, University of Oxford)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 19 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Exploring Digital Twins for the Oxford to Cambridge Region
  Various Speakers
• 14:00 - Branching systems with noisy selection
  Emmanuel Schertzer (Vienna)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 20 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Weird Galaxies and Wonderful Animals: Why big data needs crowdsourcing to find the unusual in the Universe
  TBA
• 17:30 - Weird Galaxies and Wonderful Animals: Why big data needs crowdsourcing to find the unusual in the Universe
  Dr. Lucy Fortson (Keble Visiting Fellow and Leverhulme Visiting Professor)

Thursday 22 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Get that job
  An interactive workshop for researchers on making successful job applications.
  Dr Emma Williams (EJW Solutions Ltd.)
• 12:00 - Structural identifiability analysis: An important tool in systems modelling
  Professor Michael Chappell (University of Warwick)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 13:30 - Research ideas with enterprise tools: Research Project Planning
  Learn to bring all aspects of your research project together for presentation, dissemination and funding applications.
  Dr Emma Williams (EJW Solutions Ltd.)

Friday 23 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Searching for habitability on Venus and exoplanets
  TBA
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 15:30 - Statistics, nursing, and social reform: Following in the footsteps of Florence Nightingale
  Professor Barbara Engelhardt (Senior Investigator at Gladstone Institutes and Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Biomedical Data Science)
  Florence Nightingale Annual Lecture

Monday 26 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Interviewing for podcasts
  You are behind the mic, ready to record your first podcast ... but wait! What do you ask? This hands-on training session helps you navigate the world of podcast interviews.
  Emily Elias (Podcast Producer)
• 13:00 - Engaging with controversial and sensitive topics
  Engaging with sensitive or controversial topics in research requires a thoughtful and strategic approach, especially when communicating with diverse audience groups.
  Hana Ayoob (Hana Ayoob)
• 14:00 - An Additive-Noise Approximation to Keller–Segel–Dean–Kawasaki Dynamics
  Adrian Martini (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 27 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Symmetry, negative thermal expansion and superconductivity in layered perovskite oxides
  Professor Arash Mostofi (Imperial College, London)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Thursday 29 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Mobilizing Mathematics for the Fight Against Cancer - Trachette Jackson
  Trachette Jackson (University of Michigan)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 1 March 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Mineralogical controls on climate and oxygenation
  Prof Caroline Peacock (University of Leeds)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Extreme pushed and pulled fronts
  Professor John King (School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 4 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Size-biased diffusion limits and the inclusion process
  Stefan Grosskinsky (Augsburg)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 5 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - You and your Supervisor
  This course provides information and introduces strategies to enable DPhil students to develop an effective working relationship with their supervisor.
  Dr Molly Grace (University of Oxford)
• 14:30 - Darwinism without Mendelism: W F R Weldon's vision for biology, at Oxford and beyond
  Professor Gregory Radick (University of Leeds)

Wednesday 6 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - "It can't be done!" - Lessons from operando X-ray studies of real-format pouch cells without windows or synchrotrons
  Professor Louis Piper (University of Warwick/FutureCAT)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia
• 17:00 - The Conceptualization of Mathematics in Pharaonic Egypt
  A joint History of Mathematics/Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies Seminar
  Annette Imhausen (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
  History of Mathematics Seminar

Thursday 7 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - 'It can't be done!' - lessons from operando X-ray studies of real-format pouch cells without windows or Synchrotron
  Profefessor Louis Piper (University of Warwick/The Faraday Institution)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 8 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Salty waters: Life’s origins and biological habitability on Earth and Mars
  Dr Benjamin Tutolo (University of Calgary)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Modeling multiscale systems in bone mechanobiology
  Professor Esther Reina Romo (Department of Mechanical Engineering ETSI, University of Seville)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 11 March 2024 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Applying for UKRI Funding
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 20 March 2024 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - How to peer review journal papers
  In this interactive session, participants will delve into the intricate world of manuscript review, honing their abilities to assess scientific papers quickly and effectively. Dr. Jones will guide you through exercises and discussions, ensuring you leave with practical insights and newfound confidence in the peer review process.
  Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)

Friday 22 March 2024 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Copper the chameleon - earth processes generating critical copper
  Prof John Thompson (Bristol)

Wednesday 10 April 2024 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Oxford Schmidt AI in Science Annual Lecture - AI as the main driver for future science
  Prof. Charlotte Deane (University of Oxford), Prof Louise Slater (SoGE, University of Oxford), Prof. Neil Lawrence (University of Cambridge), Prof. Stephen Roberts (University of Oxford)

Monday 15 April 2024 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Oxford Battery Modelling Symposium 15-16 April 2024
  Registration closes on the 29th of March 2024.
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 17 April 2024 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 19:00 - Spotl:ght: Illuminating Engineering
  Joram Van Rheede (University of Oxford), Veerle Brans (University of Oxford), Shreyank Narayana Gowda (University of Oxford), Christopher Campbell (University of Oxford), Jingyi Yang (University of Oxford), Philipp Grunewald (University of Oxford), Pranav Thoutam (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 23 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The Evolution of Monotremes: New Fossils, New Insights
  TBA

Wednesday 24 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - The Lycurgus Cup: new data from rediscovered samples and modern analytical techniques, sheds further light on the Dichroic nature of the 1,600 year old Roman glass of the Lycurgus Cup
  Neil Wilkinson (Natural History Museum/Brunel University)

Thursday 25 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Conflict Resolution & Problem-Solving Fundamentals
  Develop strategies for managing and avoiding conflicts, and learn how to have difficult conversations and solve problems.
  Catherine Gray (CREO Incubator)
• 16:00 - Innovative pathways to accelerate the solar energy revolution: an Australian perspective
  Dr David Payne (Macquarie University)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia
• 17:00 - The Ubiquity of Braids - Tara Brendle
  Tara Brendle (University of Glasgow)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 26 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - To Bennu and Back: First Results from the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission
  Dr Ashley King (Natural History Museum)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Polynomial dynamical systems and reaction networks: persistence and global attractors
  Professor Gheorghe Craciun (Department of Mathematics and Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 14:00 - Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Training Session (in-person)
  A 50,000 word thesis would take 7 hours to present; how about in just 3 minutes with the aid of a single slide?
  Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
• 15:30 - Tackling the hidden costs of computational science: GREENER principles for environmentally sustainable research
  There will be a Drinks Reception after the Lecture in the ground floor social area.
  Dr Loïc Lannelongue (Heart and Lung Research Institute, University of Cambridge and the Cambridge-Baker Systems Genomics Initiative)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Monday 29 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - CLTs for Poisson Functionals via the Malliavin-Stein Method
  Tara Trauthwein (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Thursday 2 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Ideas to Action: Effective Public Engagement with Research (online)
  Ready to bring your engagement idea to life?
  Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Grand Environmental Challenges: Exploring the Interplay Between Global Dynamics and Local Realities
  Professor Michael Obersteiner (Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford), Dr Bronwyn Wake (Nature Climate Change), Dr Rhain Rees-Owen (DESNZ), Dr Stephanie Brittain (Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science)
  DTP Grand Challenges Seminar Series
• 18:00 - The Challenge of Emissions - ZERO Institute keynote invited talk from Breakthrough Energy's Dr Eric Toone
  Doors open at 6:00pm for 6:30pm start
  Dr Eric Toone (Breakthrough Energy)

Friday 3 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Map of the Arctic indicating samples collected during the CAO ARISE project
  Prof Claire Mahaffey (Liverpool)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Epidemiological modelling with behavioural considerations and to inform policy making
  Dr Edward Hill (Dept of Mathematics, University of Warwick)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 14:30 - 2024 Maurice Lubbock Memorial Lecture
  Prof. James T Collins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Prof. Harrison Steele (University of Oxford), Professor Malavika Nair (University of Oxford), Professor Antonis Papachristodoulou (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 7 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Scientific writing: core skills (in-person)
  This one day course provides a sound grounding in the core skills needed to produce accurate and effective scientific writing.
  John Dixon (Libra Scientific Communications Ltd.)
• 15:30 - Approximate gradients for inference of partially-observed stochastic processes
  There will be a drinks reception after the seminar in the ground floor social area.
  Professor Marc Suchard (David Geffen School of Medicine and Department of Biostatistics at UCLA)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Get that fellowship (in-person)
  This session will help you to understand the do's and don'ts of application. It will guide you through the process and explain the support that is available. A holder of a research fellowship will discuss their application experience.
  Dr Emma Williams (EJW Solutions Ltd.)
• 13:00 - Getting Started with Public Engagement with Research (online)
  This session provides an introduction to public engagement for anyone interested in getting started or looking for a bit of inspiration.
  Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
• 16:00 - 101 Things to Do with an Energetic Electron
  Refreshments for attendees will be available in the Hume-Rothery reception foyer from 3:30pm
  TBA
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 10 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Telling stories that matter: Communicating your research through story (in-person)
  Discover more about how to craft and apply storytelling skills to communicate your research.
  Robert Holtom (Narrative Coach)
• 12:00 - Tracing the fossil, genomic and mineral footprints of Earth’s microbial past
  Prof Tanja Bosak (MIT)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - The determining role of cell adhesions for force transmission, mechanical activity and stiffness sensing in cells and tissues
  Dr Carina Edwards (School of Mathematics & Physics, University of Surrey)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 13 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Matthew Buckland (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 14 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Innovation Leadership Programme (ILP) - core programme (in-person & online)
  This is a five session blended learning course - starting 14th May 2024 | 10:00-13:00 (in-person), then takes place 15th May 2024 | 10:00-14:00 (online), 17th May 2024 | 10:00-13:00 (online), 20th May 2024 | Left free for group meetings at a mutually agreed time, until the final session on 22nd May 2024 |10:00-16:00 (in-person). The Innovation Leadership Programme (ILP) is designed for Associate Professors/Senior Independent Research Fellows (e.g. Royal Society and UKRI funded Fellows)/Lecturers in scientific disciplines at the University of Oxford.
  Henley Business School (Henley Business School), Various Speakers
  Innovation Leadership Programme (ILP) - core programme (in-person & online)

Wednesday 15 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Mental Health and the Thriving Research Group: A discussion by Outstanding Supervisor Award Winners & Group Members.
  Join winners and nominators of MPLS’ Outstanding Supervisor Awards to discuss the importance of understanding and supporting a mental health aware research group.
  Various Speakers

Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Highly efficient monolithic tandem solar cells with metal-halide perovskites
  Prof Dr Steve Albrecht (KAUST Research Centre)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 17 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Peering beneath the ice: observing the ocean under Antarctica’s floating ice shelves
  Dr Peter Davis (British Antarctic Survey (BAS))
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Some consequences of phenotypic heterogeneity in living active matter
  Dr Philip Pearce (Dept of Mathematics, UCL)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 20 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Time Management (online)
  This online workshop will delve into various aspects of time management, including work-life balance, planning, prioritising, and differentiating between importance and urgency.
  Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford), James Cunning (University of Oxford)
• 14:00 - Sharpness for the speed of the random walk on the simple exclusion process
  Guillaume Conchon-Kerjan (King College London)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 21 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Spintronics-Based Neuromorphic and Ising Computing
  Associate Professor Debanjan Bhowmik (Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)
• 14:30 - "The pre-animal origins of gene regulatory pathways, from DNA methylation to pluripotency"
  Dr Alex de Mendoza (Queen Mary University of London)

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Climate Catalysts: Insights from policy, research and innovation
  Join us for an engaging lunchtime discussion featuring three RisingWISE alumnae at the forefront of climate research, policy and impact.
  Dr. Anna Jungbluth (Research Fellow at European Space Agency), Dr. Katherine Collett (Associate, DeepScience Ventures), Dr. Roxana Shafiee (Energy and Climate Change Policy Researcher, Harvard)

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Advanced presentation skills (online)
  This session is for people who have experience of presentations and want to hone their skills.
  Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
• 13:00 - Hands on science (in-person)
  Dive into the world of experiential learning with our immersive course, 'Hands-On Science.' This programme is designed to equip you with the practical skills and insights needed to effectively communicate your research through engaging desktop activities.
  TBA
• 17:00 - Infinite Jesters: what can philosophers learn from a puzzle involving infinitely many clowns? - Ofra Magidor and Alexander Kaiserman
  Ofra Magidor (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Friday 24 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Three Minute Thesis - The Oxford Final
  3MT is a competition which challenges doctoral students to explain their research in just 180 seconds.
  Various Speakers
• 12:00 - Volcanic whodunnit: new methods to unravel the source and climate impact of past eruptions
  Dr William Hutchison (St Andrews)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Open challenges at the intersection of Synthetic Biology and Mathematics
  Dr Harrison Steel (University of Oxford)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 27 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Jointly invariant measures for the KPZ equation with periodic noise
  Evan Sorensen
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 28 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Get that fellowship (in-person)
  This session will help you to understand the dos and don’ts of a fellowship application. It will guide you through the process and explain the support that is available. A holder of a research fellowship will discuss their application experience.
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
• 14:00 - Towards atomic scales analytical tomography - and the art of the possible today
  Professor Simon Ringer (Pro VC for Research and Infrastructure - University of Sydney)

Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - On the behavior of posterior probabilities with additional data: monotonicity and nonmonotonicity, asymptotic rates, log-concavity, and Turán’s inequality
  Yosi Rinott (The Hebrew University of jerusalem)
  Probability seminar
• 17:00 - More Pope-like than the Pope: modern mathematics movement in Czechoslovakia
  Helena Durnová (Masaryk University)
  History of Mathematics Seminar

Thursday 30 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Putting stories to work (online)
  This builds on the introductory workshop (Telling Stories that Matter) and introduces new elements of great storytelling including clarity, summary and message.
  Robert Holtom (Narrative Coach)
• 13:00 - Mary Snow Lecture: Harnessing plant metabolic diversity for food and health applications
  Professor Anne Osbourn (John Innes Centre, Norwich)
• 17:00 - Fake news gone viral: Countering the misinformation epidemic
  Dr James Painter (University of Oxford), Dr Ramit Debnath (University of Cambridge), Prof. Karen Douglas (University of Kent)

Friday 31 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Zircon and Plagioclase Chronicles of Volcano-Magmatic Evolution
  Prof Oleg Melnik (Oxford)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Cytoneme-mediated morphogenesis
  Prof Paul Bressloff (Dept of Mathematics, Imperial College, London)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Tuesday 4 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Completing Your DPhil (in-person)
  If you are nearing the end of your DPhil, this workshop will help you develop a plan for completing your DPhil and prepare for the viva.
  Professor Dimitra Rigopoulou (University of Oxford), Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)

Wednesday 5 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Networking: A systematic approach (in-person)
  Do you feel shy and uncomfortable at conferences? Do you feel networking is self-seeking and smacks of using people? On the contrary: “The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.” Keith Ferrazzi
  Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
• 16:00 - Playing with elements: focus on stability of high entropy alloys
  Professor Ying Chen (Tohoku University, Japan)

Thursday 6 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Podcast your science (in-person)
  From inception to publication this practical session delivered by Emily Elias, journalist and producer of the Oxford Sparks podcast series, is a whirlwind tour through the basics of how to share your research in an engaging manner through podcasting.
  Emily Elias (Podcast Producer)
• 16:00 - IMPACT BEYOND ACADEMIA: Connecting MPLS Researchers with Policy Makers
  Thank you for your interest in our event! However, as we have reached full capacity the registration form is now closed. We hope to see you next time.
  Prof Nicole Grobert (Chief Scientific Advisor to the EU), Prof Patrick Grant (Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Oxford), Wendy Middleton (Deputy Director for Science and Engineering at the Department of Business and Trade), Dr Mithila Manage (Head of Future Gas Systems and Storage - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero), Dr Laura Wheatley (International Atomic Energy Agency)

Friday 7 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Modeling the electromechanics of aerial electroreception
  Dr Isaac Vikram Chenchiah (School of Mathematics University of Bristol)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 10 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Sinai excursions
  Brett Kolesnik (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 12 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Project management: the essentials (in-person)
  The focus of this course is to provide a practical ‘project management toolbox’ that you can use in your daily work.
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
• 12:30 - Lunch & Learn: OPM CEO Mark Henstridge on how research can contribute to public policy
  TBA

Friday 14 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Risky Mountains in Paradise: Navigating the Volcanic Tapestry of Island Life
  Prof Richard Robertson (UWI)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 14:00 - Brain mechanics in the Data era
  Prof Antoine Jerusalem (University of Oxford)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 17 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Mathematical modelling to support New Zealand’s Covid-19 response
  Prof Mike Plank (University of Canterbury)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Wednesday 19 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Leadership in Action
  An in-person leadership programme for research staff. Leadership in Action is a 3-day participative leadership course that provides the opportunity to explore and develop your own leadership style. You will also be able to meet, work, and network with others. The course culminates in a celebratory dinner on the final evening.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Various Speakers
  Leadership in Action

Tuesday 25 June 2024 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - The Arrow of Time: Why is the Future Different from the Past?
  Professor David N Jamieson (University of Melbourne)
• 18:00 - Scientists First Mixer Oxford with Wilbe - Home for Scientist Leaders
  Assia Kasdi (Milvus Advanced), Adam Winnifrith (Ēvolvere Biosciences), Jonathan Bean (Materials Nexus)

Wednesday 26 June 2024 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - From Ronald Ross to ChatGPT: the birth and strange life of the random walk - Jordan Ellenberg
  Jordan Ellenberg (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Wednesday 3 July 2024 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - The Transformative Impact of Generative AI in 6G
  Professor Mischa Dohler (King's College, London/Ericsson Inc)

Friday 5 July 2024 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - POSTPONED TO OCTOBER: Oxford Energy Hackathon for Net-Zero - limited slots available!
  This event has been postponed to term time (around the end of October) to align with student availability.
  Various Speakers

Monday 8 July 2024 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Publishing with Joule: Editorial Insights from Cell Press
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 10 July 2024 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Counting Project - Tim Harford
  Tim Harford
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Tuesday 16 July 2024 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:45 - TWO TALKS: 1) Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition (SALD), 2) Unveiling the Potential of Transparent Conductive Materials
  Dr David Muñoz-Rojas (Université Grenoble Alpes - CNRS), Dr Abderrahime Sekkat (Université de Toulouse, CNRS, INPT)

Wednesday 4 September 2024 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Title TBC
  Altuna Alkalin (Berlin Institute of Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrück Center in Berlin)
  European Bioconductor Conference 2024
• 11:00 - European Bioconductor conference 2024
  Various Speakers
  European Bioconductor Conference 2024
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Laura Symul (Institute for Statistics, Biostatistics, and Actuarial Sciences at UCLouvain)
  European Bioconductor Conference 2024
• 15:00 - TBA
  Florian Markowetz (University Of Cambridge)
  European Bioconductor Conference 2024

Thursday 5 September 2024 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Agne Antanaviciute (Simmons Group, Koohy Group, University of Oxford)
  European Bioconductor Conference 2024
• 13:00 - TBA
  Virginie Uhlmann (EMBL-EBI)
  European Bioconductor Conference 2024

Friday 13 September 2024 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Self-driving laboratories: the revolution will not be televised
  Please contact the host, Dr Pranay Shrestha, with any queries: pranay.shrestha@materials.ox.ac.uk.
  Prof Alan Aspuru-Guzik (University of Toronto)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Wednesday 25 September 2024 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Royce Workshop: Commercialisation for Materials Scientists, Oxford
  Various (See programme)

Monday 30 September 2024 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Water user impacts in rivers in South Africa
  TBA

Wednesday 2 October 2024 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Understanding static and dynamic local structure: Metal Halide Perovskites
  Professor Michael F Toney (University of Colorado Boulder)

Monday 7 October 2024 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Biology Week: The quest to save the world’s largest flowers
  Chris Thorogood (Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum)

Tuesday 8 October 2024 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Biology Week: The greatest traders on Earth
  Lindsay Turnbull (University of Oxford)

Thursday 10 October 2024 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Biology Week: The science of why we exist
  Professor Tim Coulson (Department of Biology)

Monday 14 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Viet Chi Tran (Université Gustave Eiffel)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 15 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Evolutionary co-option of LINE-1s and endogenous retroviruses in immune regulation
  Dr Helen Rowe (Queen Mary University of London)

Thursday 17 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Podcast Your Science
  Emily Elias (Podcast Producer)
• 12:00 - Microswimmer motility and natural robustness in pattern formation: the emergence and explanation of non-standard multiscale phenomena
  Prof. Mohit Dalwadi (Mathematical Institute)
  Industrial & Applied Mathematics Seminar
• 14:00 - Scientific Entrepreneurship - Turning Research Into Innovation
  This course starts 17th October (week 1) at 14.00 - 16.15, then takes place every Thursday 14.00 -16.15 until 5th Dec (week 8).
  Dr Alan Roth (Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence, University of Oxford)

Friday 18 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Novel multi-omics approaches to understand immune cell biology in health and disease
  Prof Rachael Bashford-Rogers (University of Oxford)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 12:00 - Dynamics of natural landslides from numerical modelling and seismic inversion
  Prof Anne Mangeney (Université Paris Cité)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars

Monday 21 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Discrete Snakes with Globally Centered Displacements
  Rivka Mitchell (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Wednesday 23 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Getting started in policy engagement (in-person)
  In this session, you will benefit from a combination of presentations, short exercises, and opportunities to discuss with peer researchers your motivations, plans, and challenges when it comes to engaging with policymakers and the public policy world.
  Naomi Gibson (Medical Sciences Division), Jose Rojas Alvarado (Oxford Policy Engagement Team)
• 12:30 - GROW: Beyond RisingWise – showcasing STEM careers (online)
  Join us for Beyond RisingWISE, an exciting online session that brings together inspiring alumnae of the RisingWISE programme to share their diverse career journeys in STEM.
  Dr. Kärt Tomberg (ExpressionEdits), Dr. Selena Milanovic (Siemens Healthineers), Dr Julia Badger (Harris Manchester College, Oxford)

Thursday 24 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Effective elasticity and dynamics of helical filaments under distributed loads
  Dr. Michael Gomez (Kings College London)
  Industrial & Applied Mathematics Seminar
• 14:00 - Getting Started with Public Engagement with Research
  Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
• 15:30 - The trajectories of complex disease
  Professor Gil McVean (The Ellison Institute of Technology, Oxford)
  Annual: The David Blackwell Lectures

Friday 25 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Engineering Biology for Robust Turing Patterns
  Prof Robert Endres (Imperial College London)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 12:00 - Active plate tectonics in the Paleoarchean
  Dr Simon Lamb (Victoria University of Wellingon, New Zealand)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars

Monday 28 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - “A Fresh Water Perspective on Ecosystem Processes in a Changing World: Insights from field experiments”.
  Professor Mark Gessner (IGB)
• 17:00 - Some results on local limits for Galton-Watson trees
  Jean-François Delmas (École des Ponts ParisTech)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 29 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Introduction to Presentation Skills (in-person)
  The course will cover the key principles of planning and delivering a successful talk, and help to build your confidence. Each subject area in the MPLS Division has its own specific requirements for research presentations: please note that this course does not seek to address these.
  Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
• 14:00 - SeedWISE - Cultivating Women's Excellence in STEM
  This is a six week blended learning course taking place in Michaelmas Term from 29th October to 3rd December 2024, with a short online induction session on Wednesday 23rd October.
  Various Speakers

Thursday 31 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Volcanic fissure localisation and lava delta formation: Modelling of volcanic flows undergoing rheological evolution
  Dr. Jesse Taylor West (University of Bristol)
  Industrial & Applied Mathematics Seminar
• 13:00 - Ideas to Action: Effective Public Engagement with Research
  This 3-hour session is tailored to those looking to explore evidence-based strategies for designing activities/events, apply for Public Engagement with Research (PER) funding, or get practical tips for organising an activity.
  Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)

Friday 1 November 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Applications of extreme statistics to cellular decision making and signaling
  Prof Alan Lindsay (University of Notre Dame)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 12:00 - Utilising the potential of large-N seismology: Monitoring water in the critical zone
  Prof James Hammond (Birkbeck, University of London)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars

Monday 4 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - GROW: Understanding Oxford’s Innovation Ecosystem
  Thinking about turning your research into a start-up? Join experts Serena de Nahlik (OUI) and Sanne de Jongh (OSE) to learn how both organisations support researchers with their spinouts and ventures.
  Sanne de Jongh (Oxford Science Enterprises), Serena de Nahlik (Oxford University Innovation)
• 14:30 - History and highlights of the Kerala school of mathematics
  Aditya Kolachana (IIT Madras)
  History of Mathematics Seminar
• 17:00 - Large deviations for the giant in spatial random graphs
  Joost Jorritsma (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 5 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Get that grant
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)

Wednesday 6 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - How to do a Career Development Review, for reviewers (in-person)
  Regular meaningful Career Development Reviews are an important part of developing a positive research culture.
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
• 12:30 - Research Data Management (in-person)
  Research data is often at the heart of scientific projects, it’s what you spend hours in the lab generating or in the field collecting. It forms the basis of your analysis and underpins your arguments in papers and theses.
  Oliver Bridle (Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford)

Thursday 7 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Viva practice and preparation
  Tailored for third and fourth-year doctoral students, gain insights into viva rules, proactive preparation, and the examiner's perspective. Sharpen your skills through practical exercises for a confident viva experience.
  Dr Molly Grace (University of Oxford)
• 13:00 - Hands on Science
  Dive into the world of experiential learning with our immersive course, 'Hands-On Science.' This programme is designed to equip you with the practical skills and insights needed to effectively communicate your research through engaging desktop activities.
  Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
• 16:00 - Correlative microscopic analysis of nano-scale precipitate evolution and mechanical behaviour in Ni alloyed Fe-Mn-Al-C steel
  Online only (MS Teams)
  Associate Professor K. G Pradeep (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 8 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Functional, neutral and selected heterogeneity in multi-cellular populations and human tissues
  Dr David Tourigny (University of Birmingham)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 12:00 - Can we engineer our oceans to help deliver a safe, stable climate?
  CANCELLED
  Dr Paul Halloran (University of Exeter)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars

Monday 11 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Digestion of photosynthetic symbionts by reef corals helps to explain the "Darwin Paradox"
  Professor Joerg Wiedenmann (University of Southampton)
• 17:00 - Space-inhomogeneous branching Brownian motion
  David Geldbach (University of Oxford)
  Probability seminar
• 17:00 - The Seventeenth Brooke Benjamin Lecture 2024: The Elusive Singularity
  Professor Peter Constantin (Princeton University)

Tuesday 12 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Scientific writing: core skills
  This one day course provides a sound grounding in the core skills needed to produce accurate and effective scientific writing.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
• 14:00 - Tuning the Electronic Phases of Graphene Nanoribbons
  Michele Pizzochero (Harvard University)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network
• 15:00 - Dropletronics: Microscale Droplet Assembly Enables Multifunctional Modular Iontronics
  Yujia Zhang (Oxford)
  Soft Matter, Biomaterials and Interfaces

Wednesday 13 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Project management: the essentials
  The focus of this course is to provide a practical ‘project management toolbox’ that you can use in your daily work.
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
• 11:00 - Oxford Energy Lunch by the ZERO Institute
  TBA

Thursday 14 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Cutting Edge AI and Machine Learning – and How to Patent It
  Various Speakers
• 10:00 - Telling stories that matter: Communicating your research through story
  Discover more about how to craft and apply storytelling skills to communicate your research.
  Robert Holtom (Narrative Coach)

Friday 15 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Lane formation and aggregation spots in foraging ant
  Dr Maria Bruna (University of Oxford)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 12:00 - Vanadium isotopes: 15 years retrospective and future research prospects
  Prof Julia Pryulak (Durham University)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars

Monday 18 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Pushing and blocking interactions in a random growth process
  Will Fitzgerald (University of Manchester)
  Probability seminar
• 16:30 - Alan Tayler Lecture 2024: The Forwards and Backwards of Population Models
  Professor Alison Etheridge (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 19 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The New Age of Space Dirt: How Space Resources Power Humanity’s Green Future
  Having received an MSc at the ETH Zurich in Physics in 2006 and a PhD in Planetary Sciences at the University of Münster in collaboration with the European Space Agency and the German Aerospace Center in 2012 with a focus on interfaces between space sciences and geophysics, Dr Vlada Stamenković continued his research and career at MIT, Caltech, and the NASA Jet Propulsion laboratory before joining Blue Origin in 2020 to build the Space Resources Program. He is now the Senior Director of Space Resources at Blue Origin and leads the developments required to live off the land on the Moon and beyond and to use these new technologies to mine and process terrestrial resources sustainably whilst protecting our planet. He is particularly interested in connections between space resources, space exploration, terrestrial mining, green energies and brining more equity to the world.
  Dr Vlada Stamenkovic (Space Resources Programme, Blue Origin)
• 14:00 - How to prepare for a Career Development Review, for reviewees (in-person)
  A positive Career Development Review conversation can play a really positive role in your professional development.
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
• 15:00 - Strachey Lecture: From probabilistic bisimulation to representation learning via metrics
  Professor Prakash Panangaden (McGill University)

Wednesday 20 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Coaching Skills for Leaders
  This workshop will provide an introduction to key coaching concepts, approaches and skills. We will explore when and how coaching skills can be used to support effective leadership and management practice. Participants will take part in a practice coaching conversation using real-life examples, topics and challenges.
  Marc Adams (People and Organisational Development)
• 10:00 - Time Management
  Being able to manage time effectively will help you to be more successful in all aspects of your life.
  Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford), James Cunning (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Chance, luck, and ignorance: how to put our uncertainty into numbers - David Spiegelhalter
  Professor David Spiegelhalter (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Scientific Writing: Getting Your Paper Published (in-person)
  This course will look at the aspects you need to consider when constructing your paper; demystify peer reviewed journals by giving insider insights from science journal editors and show you what they really want.
  Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
• 16:00 - From Waste to Wealth: Upcycling into Functional Materials
  Dr Francesco D'Acierno (Imperial College, London)
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Friday 22 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Bifurcations, pattern formation and multi-stability in non-local models of interacting species
  Dr Valeria Giunta (Swansea University)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology

Monday 25 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Advances in Vaccines and Antibodies for Blood-Stage Malaria
  Prof Simon Draper (Department of Biochemistry)
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Cécile Mailler (University of Bath)
  Probability seminar
• 16:00 - Weldon Memorial Prize Lecture: Endless forms most beautiful: geometry, physics, and biology
  Professor L. Mahadevan (Harvard University)

Tuesday 26 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Thesis and report writing (in-person)
  The thesis and report writing course is relevant for research students at any stage.
  Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Christoph Schran (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Advanced Materials Network
• 15:00 - From suspensions to soils: an electrokinetic perspective
  Claire Chassagne (Delft)
  Soft Matter, Biomaterials and Interfaces

Wednesday 27 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Responsible Research and Innovation
  The aim of the course is to enable researchers to adopt a responsible approach when considering the positive and negative aspects of their research, including the moral, ethical and societal impacts of it. The course is a follow up to the online Research Integrity course developed by Research Services, which is a pre-requisite for this face to face course.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Josimar Mendes (University of Oxford), Sarah Callaghan (Research Practice Group, University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Truth Be Told: How To Interpret Past Mathematicians
  A. C. Paseau (University of Oxford), Fabian Pregel (University of Oxford)
  History of Mathematics Seminar

Thursday 28 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Putting stories to work
  This builds on the introductory workshop (Telling Stories that Matter) and introduces new elements of great storytelling including clarity, summary and message.
  Robert Holtom (Narrative Coach)
• 12:00 - OCIAM Speaker - Prof Anđela Šarić
  Prof Anđela Šarić (IST Austria)
  Industrial & Applied Mathematics Seminar
• 16:00 - Deep learning architectures for science and engineering
  J Nathan Kutz (University of Washington)

Friday 29 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Algebraic approaches in the study of chemical reaction networks
  Dr Murad Banaji (University of Oxford)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 12:00 - The Shuram anomaly: What caused the largest ever carbon isotope anomaly and what can it tell us?
  Prof Graham Shields (UCL)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars
• 13:00 - Unveiling Permeability Pathways in Ultramafic Rock: Potential for Natural Hydrogen Generation and CO₂ Mineralisation
  Arnaud Lager (Decahydron)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars

Monday 2 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Raphaël Forien (INRAE, Avignon)
  Probability seminar

Tuesday 3 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Conception X Cohort 8 Discovery Session – University of Oxford
  Conception X is a fully funded programme and platform that helps PhD students become Venture Scientists and commercialise their research in impactful ways. Join our discovery session to learn how Conception X can support you!
  Conception X (Conception X)
• 16:00 - Advances in Thermoplastic Elastomers: Bringing Self-Networking Polymers into the 21st Century
  TBA
  Materials Departmental Colloquia

Wednesday 4 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Leading Collaboration - bringing people together to achieve the extraordinary (in-person)
  This course forms part of the Innovation Leadership Programme Masterclass series as well as being a stand alone course. Lunch included.
  Kate Tapper (Your Research Matters)
• 12:30 - GROW: Meet the Science Founders with Wilbe (online)
  Discover how Wilbe is empowering scientists to launch successful ventures, learn about their initiatives, and get inspired by founders who are transforming science through entrepreneurship.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Devika Thapar (Wilbe), Anna Vildaus (Wilbe), Ali Farzanehfar (Wilbe)

Thursday 5 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Interviewing for podcasts (online)
  You are behind the mic, ready to record your first podcast ... but wait! What do you ask? This hands-on training session helps you navigate the world of podcast interviews.
  Emily Elias (Podcast Producer)
• 12:00 - Chaotic flows in polymer solutions: what’s new?
  Prof. Rich Kerswell (University of Cambridge)
  Industrial & Applied Mathematics Seminar

Friday 6 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Spatial mechano-transcriptomics of mouse embryogenesis
  Prof Adrien Hallou (University of Oxford)
• 12:00 - X-ray computed tomography: A modern Aladdin’s lamp to discover orogenic gold deposits
  Dr Muhammad Sayab (The Geological Survey of Finland GTK)
  Earth Sciences departmental seminars