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Discourses

Discourse: Christmas Lecturer 2025

Fri 28 Nov 2025

Join 2025 Christmas Lecturer Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock for the final Discourse of the year.

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Discourse: A New Quantum World: “spooky” physics to tech revolution

Fri 07 Nov 2025

Jim Al-Khalili explores emerging technologies powering the future of quantum, and looks at how we got here.

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Discourse: How mathematics shapes creativity

Fri 17 Oct 2025

Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy uncovers the deep connection between mathematics and the arts, featuring a live musical

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SOLD OUT IN PERSON Discourse: Digital intelligence vs biological intelligence

Fri 30 May 2025

2024 Nobel winner Geoffrey Hinton explains what AI has learned, and is still learning, from biological intelligence.

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Discourse: Celebrating 200 years of benzene - From whale oil to aromaticity

Fri 04 Jul 2025

Chemist Judy Wu explores the ongoing significance of a chemical compound first isolated at the Ri 200 years ago: benzene.

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Discourse: The future of engineering biology

Fri 25 Apr 2025

Join Dame Angela McLean, the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser, as she discusses the transformative potential of the field

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SELLING FAST Discourse: Thinking slowly about uncertainty

Thu 30 Jan 2025

Renowned statistician Sir David Spiegelhalter explores how we can better deal with risk, uncertainty, luck, chance and ignorance

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Discourse: Do we have a standard model of cosmology?

Fri 28 Feb 2025

Join renowned cosmologist George Efstathiou as he explores how cosmology has changed over recent decades, and what secrets are

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Discourse: A mathematician's journey for social justice

Fri 28 Mar 2025

Join mathematician Nira Chamberlain as he proposes how to better Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) as a pure science

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SOLD OUT Discourse: Christmas Lecturer 2024

Fri 22 Nov 2024

Join 2024 Christmas Lecturer Chris van Tulleken for the November Discourse

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