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Catch up: A Mathematician’s View of Proof gres.hm/mathematician-… In her last lecture as Gresham Professor of Geometry, Sarah Hart explained what mathematicians really mean when they talk about 'proof' and showed us some of her favourites... Birkbeck, University of London @BirkbeckBEI

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Series Preview! The Prehistory of IT Worshipful Company of Information Technologists Prof Dr Victoria Baines FBCS explores the backstory of #IT - following threads woven through our industrial and social revolutions, exposing connections between ancient and modern technologies... Find out more: gres.hm/prehistory-it

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In-person tickets open: A Mirror in the Sky Book via: gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/mirro… Prof chrislintott kicks off his new series with a look at the Hubble Space Telescope - the most famous astronomical instrument of all time. Department of Physics at University of Oxford @dogstarspod #astronomy The Zooniverse

In-person tickets open: A Mirror in the Sky

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Prof <a href="/chrislintott/">chrislintott</a> kicks off his new series with a look at the Hubble Space Telescope - the most famous astronomical instrument of all time.

<a href="/OxfordPhysics/">Department of Physics at University of Oxford</a> @dogstarspod #astronomy <a href="/the_zooniverse/">The Zooniverse</a>
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In-person tickets open: Magical Mystery Tour: The Invention of The Beatles Book via: gres.hm/magical-myster… Prof Prof Milton Mermikides analyses the ‘psychedelic era’ of the #Beatles untangling the layers of harmony, melody, lyrics, structure and technology🎶🎸🎹 University of Surrey Surrey Music_Media

In-person tickets open: Magical Mystery Tour: The Invention of The Beatles

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Prof <a href="/miltonline/">Prof Milton Mermikides</a> analyses the ‘psychedelic era’ of the #Beatles untangling the layers of harmony, melody, lyrics, structure and technology🎶🎸🎹

<a href="/UniOfSurrey/">University of Surrey</a> <a href="/SurreyDMM/">Surrey Music_Media</a>
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Does #plato have lessons for tackling climate change? Prof Melissa Lane asks if by clinging to a fossil-fuel infrastructure, we are trapping ourselves in a modern version of 'Plato's cave' and if so, how do we escape? Watch more: gres.hm/platos-cave Princeton Politics

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Catch up: Immunotherapy: Cure for Metastatic Cancers? Watch more via: gres.hm/immunotherapy Join Prof James Larkin* to explore the advances in curing #cancer which has spread, using #immunotherapy * of The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust The ICR NIHR Royal Marsden BRC with @ICRLondon and CRF #medicine #health

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Catch up with our Annual Gray's Inn Reading: Charlie Falconer asks: considering the last decade, has the UK Constitution worked or does it need reform? Watch via: gres.hm/grays-inn-24 politics #governance #law #UKlaw Gray's Inn

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In-person tickets open: The Big Brain: Size and Intelligence Book via: gres.hm/big-brain In his first Gresham lecture, Prof Alain Goriely uses scaling laws and simple ideas from #statistics to study the brains of humans and animals, and asks is bigger better? Oxford Mathematics

In-person tickets open: The Big Brain: Size and Intelligence

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In his first Gresham lecture, Prof <a href="/AlainGoriely/">Alain Goriely</a> uses scaling laws and simple ideas from #statistics to study the brains of humans and animals, and asks is bigger better?

<a href="/OxUniMaths/">Oxford Mathematics</a>
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In-person tickets open: What is Modern Paganism? Book free via: gres.hm/modern-paganism Prof Ronald Hutton asks, what is modern #paganism, and how does it relate to witchcraft, #Druidry and other phenomena? Historians @ Bristol #paganism #folklore #history #belief #magic

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Prof Ronald Hutton asks, what is modern #paganism, and how does it relate to witchcraft, #Druidry and other phenomena?

<a href="/UoBrisHistory/">Historians @ Bristol</a> 
#paganism #folklore #history #belief #magic
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In-person tickets open: Human Rights Law: Bringing Power to the Powerless Book free via: gres.hm/human-rights-l… Prof Clive Stafford Smith Smith looks at the power given to advocates in a country with a constitutional structure like the US, Vs in those without constitutions like the UK

In-person tickets open: Human Rights Law: Bringing Power to the Powerless

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Prof <a href="/CliveSSmith/">Clive Stafford Smith</a> Smith looks at the power given to advocates in a country with a constitutional structure like the US, Vs in those without constitutions like the UK
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New series preview: How Net Zero? In his third Gresham series Professor Myles Allen asks, can we achieve #netzero by mid-century, and without exacerbating political divisions? Find out more: gres.hm/how-net-zero Oxford Net Zero Department of Physics at University of Oxford #globalwarming #climatechange

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What is your favourite Beatles song? Ahead of our lecture Magical Mystery Tour: The Invention of The #Beatles by Prof Prof Milton Mermikides, take our short survey: gres.hm/beatles-survey [Register to watch: gres.hm/magical-myster…] International Beatleweek The Cavern Club The Beatles #beatlesweek

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In-person tickets open: The Ancient History of Computers and Code Book free via: gres.hm/history-comput… Find out what links an ancient shipwreck and the textile mills of Northern England to computing, with Gresham Worshipful Company of Information Technologists Professor, Dr Victoria Baines FBCS #IT #computing #history

In-person tickets open: The Ancient History of Computers and Code

Book free via: gres.hm/history-comput…

Find out what links an ancient shipwreck and the textile mills of Northern England to computing, with Gresham <a href="/WCITLivery/">Worshipful Company of Information Technologists</a> Professor, <a href="/cyberbaines/">Dr Victoria Baines FBCS</a>

#IT #computing #history
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Happy #Beatlesweek! From our lecture Musical Openings by Prof Jeremy Summerly; Watch more - including insights into #classical intros by Beethoven, Wagner, Debussy and Monteverdi - at gres.hm/musical-openin… International Beatleweek The Cavern Club #IBW2024 #beatlesweek

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In-person tickets open: Singing the Laws: Ancient Greek Lawgivers in History and Legend Book via: gres.hm/singing-laws Prof Melissa Lane explores the specific roles attributed to Greek lawgivers in fact and legend, revealing how some even set #laws to #music Princeton Politics

In-person tickets open: Singing the Laws: Ancient Greek Lawgivers in History and Legend

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Prof <a href="/Melissa_S_Lane/">Melissa Lane</a> explores the specific roles attributed to Greek lawgivers in fact and legend, revealing how some even set #laws to #music

<a href="/PUPolitics/">Princeton Politics</a>
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In this entertaining lecture, professor of astrophysics Chris Lintott explores what we can make of our first confirmed interstellar visitor seven years later Gresham College chrislintott aeon.co/videos/seven-y…

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Happy birthday Mary Shelley! Clip from our lecture, Women in Science Fiction by Prof Jim Endersby*. Watch more: gres.hm/scifi-women *also of School of Media, Arts and Humanities #sciencefiction #scifi #cultutre #maryshelley #frankenstein #greshamcollege

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In-person tickets open: Raising the Net Zero Conversation Book via: gres.hm/net-zero-conve… Professor Myles Allen asks how we can debate and tackle #climatechange without it becoming a wedge political issue... Oxford Net Zero Department of Physics at University of Oxford #globalwarming #netzero

In-person tickets open: Raising the Net Zero Conversation

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Professor Myles Allen asks how we can debate and tackle #climatechange without it becoming a wedge political issue...
 
<a href="/OxfordNetZero/">Oxford Net Zero</a> <a href="/OxfordPhysics/">Department of Physics at University of Oxford</a> #globalwarming #netzero
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In-person tickets open: Do Microbes Have Immune Systems? Book free via: gres.hm/microbes-immune Prof Robin May lifts the lid on the astonishingly diverse immune mechanisms used by bacteria, amoebae, nematodes and many other microbial forms of life... IMIBirmingham #immunity

In-person tickets open: Do Microbes Have Immune Systems?

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Prof <a href="/RobinMay9/">Robin May</a> lifts the lid on the astonishingly diverse immune mechanisms used by bacteria, amoebae, nematodes and many other microbial forms of life...

<a href="/IMIBirmingham/">IMIBirmingham</a> #immunity
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In-person tickets open: Charismatic Leadership: Nature, Causes, and Consequences Book via: gres.hm/charismatic-le… Professor Matt Qvortrup, Political Neuroscientist asks, how did politicians as diverse as #Thatcher, de Gaulle, #Stalin & #Obama all inspire such mass followings? CTPSR Coventry University #Trump

In-person tickets open: Charismatic Leadership: Nature, Causes, and Consequences

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<a href="/drqvortrup/">Professor Matt Qvortrup, Political Neuroscientist</a> asks, how did politicians as diverse as #Thatcher, de Gaulle, #Stalin &amp; #Obama all inspire such mass followings? 
 
<a href="/CTPSR_Coventry/">CTPSR</a> <a href="/covcampus/">Coventry University</a> #Trump