| Rethinking the epidemic of overdiagnosis |
Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of "disease" that will never cause symptoms or death during a patient's lifetime. Newer, more accurate technologies, and the desire to detect disease even earlier means Overdiagnosis is on the rise. |
Carl Heneghan |
27 January, 2017 |
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| Criminology |
Oxford graduate students discuss Criminology, and the societal affects of real-life crime documentaries. |
Aled Walker, Kate Evans, Liz Kullmann, Jess Jo |
20 January, 2017 |
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| Évariste Galois |
Oxford graduate students discuss the life and work of 19th century French mathematical prodigy Évariste Galois |
Aled Walker, Chris Nicholls, Benjamin Green. |
18 January, 2017 |
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| Resuscitating poor quality research |
Healthcare research is all too often plagued by biases that are rooted in poor methods, leading to the wrong result and conclusions and preventing uptake into practice. |
Carl Heneghan |
17 January, 2017 |
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| The Mathematics of Visual Illusions - Ian Stewart |
Puzzling things happen in human perception when ambiguous or incomplete information is presented to the eyes. |
Ian Stewart |
5 January, 2017 |
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| Militant Jihadi Culture: Poetry as a Weapon |
The power of poetry to move Arab listeners and readers emotionally, to infiltrate the psyche and to create an aura of authenticity around the ideologies it enshrines, make it a perfect weapon for militant jihadist causes. |
Elisabeth Kendall |
5 December, 2016 |
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| What we are missing about the Missing; searching for the disappeared victims of armed conflict |
One of the aspects of the changing character of war is an increased awareness of and attention to those who go missing due to armed conflict. |
Derek Congram |
5 December, 2016 |
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| Strategy Evolves from apes to Artificial Intelligence |
Kenneth Payne explores the evolutionary basis of strategic behaviour, and assesses the impact of non-biological intelligence on the future of warfare. From chimpanzees to computers, via a dose of Clausewitz: hopefully something for everyone. |
Kenneth Payne |
5 December, 2016 |
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| Astronomy at the Highest Energies: Exploring the Extreme Universe with Gamma Rays |
Physics Colloquium 25 November 2016 delivered by Dr Jamie Holder |
Jamie Holder |
30 November, 2016 |
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| Blogging and Social Media in Criminology |
Sarah Turnbull and Ines Hasselberg, Centre for Criminology, give a talk for the Centre for Criminology seminar series on 5th June 2015. |
Sarah Turnbull, Ines Hasselberg |
29 November, 2016 |
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| Doing Research with or without Impact: Policing Studies as a Global Field of Interest |
Ian Loader and Ben Bradford, Centre for Criminology, give a talk for the Centre for Criminology seminar series on 5th June 2015. |
Ian Loader, Ben Bradford |
29 November, 2016 |
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| Prisons and the problem of trust: contrasting approaches to risk, radicalisation and personal growth in two high security prisons |
Professor Alison Liebling, University of Cambridge, gives a talk for the Centre for Criminology on 5th June 2015. |
Alison Liebling |
25 November, 2016 |
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| Zaharoff Lecture 2016: Ecrire et ne pas écrire |
Ecrire et ne pas écrire. (This lecture is in French.) |
Marie Darrieussecq, Catriona Seth |
24 November, 2016 |
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| Writing the Enlightenment: Reflections on Work in Progress |
Professor Ritchie Robertson FBA, Taylor Professor of German at the University of Oxford, will speak on ‘Writing the Enlightenment: Reflections on Work in Progress’. |
Ritchie Robertson |
18 November, 2016 |
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| Autism and Minds Wired for Science |
Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Cambridge, and Director of the Autism Research Centre, gives the 2016 Charles Simonyi Lecture on new research into autism. |
Simon Baron-Cohen, Marcus du Sautoy |
18 November, 2016 |
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| Exotic combinations of quarks - A journey of fifty years |
Physics Colloquium 11 November 2016 delivered by Professor Jon Rosner |
Jon Rosner |
17 November, 2016 |
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| Our Simple but Strange Universe |
The 13th Hintze Biannual Lecture delivered by Professor David Spergel |
David Spergel |
17 November, 2016 |
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| Trials and Tribulations in Africa |
Dr Merlin Willcox gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series. |
Merlin Willcox |
15 November, 2016 |
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| Science and Politics |
Oxford DPhil students discuss the relationship between scientific advice and government policy |
Aled Walker, Kathryn Boast, Rob Shalloo |
4 November, 2016 |
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| Searching for - and finding! Gravitational Waves |
Physics Colloquium 27th October 2016 delivered by Professor Gabriela Gonzalez |
Gabriela Gonzalez |
1 November, 2016 |
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| Visualizing Quantum Matter |
Physics Colloquium 28 October 2016 delivered by Professor Séamus Davis |
Séamus Davis |
1 November, 2016 |
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| Atmospheric Circulation and Climate Change |
Physics Colloquium 21st October 2016 delivered by Professor Theodore (Ted) Shepherd |
Theodore (Ted) Shepherd |
1 November, 2016 |
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| Better evidence for better health care |
Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care programme. |
Carl Heneghan |
31 October, 2016 |
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| Autism and Minds Wired for Science |
Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Cambridge, and Director of the Autism Research Centre, gives the 2016 Charles Simonyi Lecture on new research into autism. |
Simon Baron-Cohen, Marcus du Sautoy |
31 October, 2016 |
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| The explosion mechanism of massive stars |
Physics Colloquium 14th October 2016 delivered by Professor Thierry Foglizzo |
Thierry Foglizzo |
27 October, 2016 |
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| The American election of 1896 |
Host Aled Walker is joined by DPhil students Nonie Kubie and Daniel Rowe to discuss the American presidential election of 1896, a fascinating and pivotal moment in American history. |
Aled Walker, Nonie Kubie, Dan Rowe |
21 October, 2016 |
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| As he retires from the the Savilian Chair of Geometry, Oxford Mathematician Nigel Hitchin reflects |
From early mathematical inspiration at school in Duffield, Derbyshire, Nigel recalls his often unplanned progress via Jesus College, Oxford, Princeton, Cambridge and Warwick, before his final return to Oxford. |
Nigel Hitching, Martin Bridson |
19 October, 2016 |
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| Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe - Roger Penrose |
What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, scientists are immune to trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? |
Roger Penrose |
19 October, 2016 |
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| PDEs (5.6) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses Fourier, Laurent, and Chebyshev. Then, Chebyshev series and interpolants |
Nick Trefethen |
17 October, 2016 |
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| PDEs (5.5) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses Fourier spectral discretization and Fourier spectral discretization via FFT. |
Nick Trefethen |
17 October, 2016 |
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| PDEs (5.4) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses finite differencing in general grids and multiple space dimensions. |
Nick Trefethen |
17 October, 2016 |
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| PDEs (5.3) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses order of accuracy and reaction-diffusion equations and other stiff PDEs. |
Nick Trefethen |
17 October, 2016 |
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| PDEs (5.2) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses numerical instability and implicit 1D finite differences. |
Nick Trefethen |
17 October, 2016 |
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| PDEs (5.1) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses PDEs in science and engineering, and explicit 1D finite differences. |
Nick Trefethen |
17 October, 2016 |
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| ODEs and Nonlinear Dynamics (4.4) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses stability regions, stiffness, and looks at BVPs in Chebfun. |
Nick Trefethen |
17 October, 2016 |
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| ODEs and Nonlinear Dynamics (4.3) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses planetary motions, chaos and Lyapunov exponents, the Lorenz equations, and lastly Sinai billiards and the SIAM 100-digit challenge. |
Nick Trefethen |
17 October, 2016 |
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| ODEs and Nonlinear Dynamics (4.2) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses order of accuracy, convergence and stability, and adaptive ODE codes. |
Nick Trefethen |
17 October, 2016 |
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| ODEs and Nonlinear Dynamics (4.1) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses ODEs and IVPs, Runge-Kutta and multistep formulas, IVP codes in MATLAB and Simulink, and in the end reviews IVP solutions in Chebfun. |
Nick Trefethen |
17 October, 2016 |
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| PDEs (5.8) |
In this concluding lecture, Professor Nick Trefethen discusses the question Who invented the great numerical algorithms? |
Nick Trefethen |
17 October, 2016 |
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| PDEs (5.7) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses Chebyshev spectral discretization. |
Nick Trefethen |
17 October, 2016 |
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| On Criminal Strategy |
Do criminal groups use 'strategy'? Are crime wars really wars? This talk will reveal criminal groups using force and other means to determine political outcomes to suit their own agendas and competing with states in a common 'market for government'. |
James Cockayne |
14 October, 2016 |
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| Optimization (3.3) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses NEOS and COIN-OR, constraints and linear programming, and quadratic programming and linear constraints. |
Nick Trefethen |
3 October, 2016 |
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| Optimization (3.2) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses Newton's methods for minimizing a function of several variables. He then moves on from Newton's method to practical optimization. |
Nick Trefethen |
3 October, 2016 |
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| Optimization (3.1) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses Newton's methods for 1) a single equation, 2) a system of equations, and 3) minimizing a function of 1 variable. |
Nick Trefethen |
3 October, 2016 |
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| Dense Linear Algebra (2.5) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen provides a demonstration of Chebfun. |
Nick Trefethen |
3 October, 2016 |
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| Dense Linear Algebra (2.4) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses matrix factorizations and SVD. |
Nick Trefethen |
3 October, 2016 |
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| Dense Linear Algebra (2.3) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses floating point arithmetic and backward error analysis. |
Nick Trefethen |
3 October, 2016 |
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| Dense Linear Algebra (2.2) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses QR factorization, the computation of the QR factorization, and linear least-squares. |
Nick Trefethen |
3 October, 2016 |
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| Dense Linear Algebra (2.1) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses matrices, vectors and expansions, including orthogonal vectors and matrices. |
Nick Trefethen |
3 October, 2016 |
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| Sparse Matrices and Iterative Methods (1.4) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethon provides a definition of numerical analysis and provides an overview of matrix iterations, including a discussion on the Lanczos iteration. He also reviews various numerical software tools and information sources. |
Nick Trefethen |
3 October, 2016 |
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| Sparse Matrices and Iterative Methods (1.3) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses preconditioned CG and also provides examples of preconditioners |
Nick Trefethen |
3 October, 2016 |
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| Sparse Matrices and Iterative Methods (1.2) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses the topic of conjugate gradients and the convergence of CG. |
Nick Trefethen |
3 October, 2016 |
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| Sparse Matrices and Iterative Methods (1.1) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen first provides an overview of the field of linear algebra and optimization. Secondly, he discusses the question of how fast we can solve Ax=3Db? Thirdly, he discusses sparse matrices |
Nick Trefethen |
3 October, 2016 |
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| Roger Heath-Brown a Life in Mathematics |
Roger Heath-Brown is one of Oxford's foremost mathematicians. |
Roger Heath-Brown, Ben Green |
17 September, 2016 |
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| Jan Brueghel and his Views of Italian Ruins |
This lecture forms part of a series entitled "Antiquity After Antiquity" and is for first year Undergraduate History of Art students. It was delivered at the University of Oxford History of Art Department. |
An Van Camp |
11 July, 2016 |
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| Environment, Energy and Economics and the Structure of our Geo-Political Future |
Steven Jermy gives a talk for the Changing Character of War Programme seminar series. |
Steven Jermy |
8 July, 2016 |
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| Clan and Conflict: The Intersection between State Violence and Societal Violence in Somalia |
Mohamed Haji Ingiriis gives a talk for the Changing Character of War Programme seminar series. |
Mohamed Haji Ingiriis |
8 July, 2016 |
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| Children and War: Victims, Villains, and the United Nations |
Discussing the issues involved in using children in conflict, assesses the changing characteristics of security and war, and explains the complex international system and interwoven constraints and opportunities on government policy in this field. |
Robert Jackson |
6 July, 2016 |
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| Strategy and War in the Modern Age: CCW Annual Lecture 2016 |
Professor Jeremy Black from the University of Exeter delivers the CCW Annual Lecture on the theme of "Strategy and War in the Modern Age". |
Jeremy Black |
6 July, 2016 |
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| Mare Liberum and Mare Clausum: Maritime sovereignty, emerging countries and war |
Rodrigo Fracalossi de Moraes gives a talk for the Changing Character of War programme seminar series. |
Rodrigo Fracalossi de Moraes |
6 July, 2016 |
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| Responsibility to Protect on its Tenth Anniversary: Point of Collapse or Resurgence? |
Joanne Neenan gives a talk for the Changing Character of War Programme seminar series. |
Joanne Neenan |
6 July, 2016 |
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| Strategy and Democracy |
Sir Hew Strachan gives a valedictory lecture for the Changing Character of War upon stepping down as Chichele Professor of the History of War. |
Hew Strachan |
6 July, 2016 |
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| The Utility of Force in Cities: Calibrating Security and Development Tools for Urban Stability |
Rapid and unmanaged urbanisation is leading to protracted armed violence in key cities of the developing world. This seminar analyses the conduct of recent stabilisation operations within large and mega-cities. |
Antonio Sampaio |
6 July, 2016 |
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| Prisoners of the Past, Preparing for the Future: The Influence of Institutions, Experience, and Culture on Military Adaptability |
Jason Clark gives a talk for the Changing Character of War Programme seminar series. |
Jason Clark |
5 July, 2016 |
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| The Morality of Unconventional Force |
Tom Simpson gives a talk for the Changing Character of War programme seminar series. |
Tom Simpson |
5 July, 2016 |
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| Concentration and Asymmetry in Air Combat |
Historical Lessons for the Defensive Employment of Air Power |
Niall Mackay |
5 July, 2016 |
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| Diplomacy: The First Line of Defence |
James Kidner gives a talk for the Changing Character of War programme seminar series. |
James Kidner |
5 July, 2016 |
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| Towards Mobilization? The Evolution of Russian Grand Strategy |
This talk will explores the various aspects of Russian strategic thinking and planning, the conducting of the orchestra and what appears to be a move towards mobilisation measures. |
Andrew Monaghan |
5 July, 2016 |
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| Arrangements of Convenience Among Violent Non-state Actors |
This talk will discuss how rebels, paramilitaries and criminals cooperate in borderland areas, and what this means for security. |
Annette Idler |
5 July, 2016 |
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| The Evolution of Grand Strategy in Theory and Practice |
Lucas Milevski gives a talk for the Changing Character of War programme seminar series. |
Lucas Milevski |
5 July, 2016 |
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| War in the Time of Terror |
This talk attempts to set out what IS aims are, whether there are negotiating possibilities and what the West's response to this new phenomenon should be. |
Ivor Roberts |
5 July, 2016 |
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| Cybersecurity and the Age of Privateering: An Historical Analogy |
DPhil research using a historical analogy to mercantile companies, privateers, and pirates to shed light onto the blurred boundaries between state and private interests. |
Florian Egloffs |
5 July, 2016 |
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| Authenticity |
Three speakers examine Authenticity in the 8th Unconscious Memory seminar. |
Andrew Parker, Hannah Drayson, Matthew Reynolds |
4 July, 2016 |
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| And all this time it dwells behind the door |
Annie Freud, the award-winning poet and artist, will talk about where her poems come from, her development as an artist and writer, and the relationship between her poems and paintings. |
Annie Freud, Sowon Park |
4 July, 2016 |
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| The point of qualitative research |
Prof Aksel Tjora, Professor of Sociology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, gives a talk for the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care programme. |
Aksel Tjora |
23 June, 2016 |
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| Quantum Sensors sans Frontier |
Physics Colloquium 10th June 2016 delivered by Professor Swapan Chattopadhyay |
Swapan Chattopadhyay |
16 June, 2016 |
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| The Origins and Evolution of Exoplanet Atmospheres and Oceans |
3rd Annual Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture in Planetary Geology delivered by Professor Raymond T Pierrehumbert. |
Raymond T Pierrehumbert |
15 June, 2016 |
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| The Prime Number Theorem |
Oxford Students discuss the Prime Number Theorem. |
Aled Walker, Simon Myerson, Sofia Lindqvist, Jamie Beacom |
15 June, 2016 |
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| Time and Causation |
Both time and causation seems to have the same 'direction’ . Can we explain this? |
Marianne Talbot |
9 June, 2016 |
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| Mental Causation |
We do what we do because we believe what we believe. Or do we? How does mental causation work? |
Marianne Talbot |
9 June, 2016 |
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| The necessary connection analysis of causation |
The idea that there are real metaphysical necessities relating cause and effect. |
Marianne Talbot |
9 June, 2016 |
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| The singularist theory of causation |
The idea that causation is a relation science will one day discover. |
Marianne Talbot |
9 June, 2016 |
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| The regularity theory of causation |
Hume's famously influential account of causation |
Marianne Talbot |
9 June, 2016 |
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| The counterfactual theory of causation |
The idea that event c causes event e if and only if had c not had occurred e would not have occurred either. |
Marianne Talbot |
9 June, 2016 |
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| The Prime Number Theorem |
Oxford Students discuss the Prime Number Theorem. |
Aled Walker, Simon Myerson, Sofia Lindqvist, Jamie Beacom |
9 June, 2016 |
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| 2016 Disability Lecture: A Psychiatrist's Experience of Depression |
Professor Linda Gask had a successful career as psychiatrist and academic, despite living with depression and anxiety. She speaks with candour about her experiences of periods of mental ill-health. |
Linda Gask |
7 June, 2016 |
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| Evidence informed decision making? (Know your cognitive biases) |
Prof Neal Maskrey gives a talk for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine seminar series. |
Neal Maskrey |
1 June, 2016 |
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| Why on earth do we waste so much research? |
Dr Kamal Mahtani is an NHS GP, NIHR Clinical Lecturer and Deputy Director at the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine. His talk explores why so much research is wasted. |
Kamal Mahtani |
1 June, 2016 |
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| Bionic Hearing: the Science and the Experience |
Physics Colloquium 20th May 2016 delivered by Ian Shipsey |
Ian Shipsey |
24 May, 2016 |
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| Unveiling the Birth of Stars and Galaxies |
The 2016 Hintze Biannual Lecture delivered by Professor Robert Kennicutt |
Robert Kennicutt |
18 May, 2016 |
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| What We Cannot Know - Marcus du Sautoy |
Science is giving us unprecedented insight into the big questions that have challenged humanity. |
Marcus du Sautoy |
16 May, 2016 |
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| Medieval Song |
Oxford students discuss medieval songs. |
Aled Walker, Meghan Quinlan, Joseph Mason |
13 May, 2016 |
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| Cognitive approaches to treating psychosis |
Professor Daniel Freeman discusses his research into how psychosis can be treated through the use of cognitive behavioural techniques |
Daniel Freeman |
12 May, 2016 |
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| ECHO, ECHo, Echo, echo... When echoes overwhelm Landau damping |
Physics Colloquium 6th May 2016 delivered by Professor William Dorland |
William Dorland |
11 May, 2016 |
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| Overdiagnosis and Too Much Medicine How did we get here and how do we get out of the mess |
Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care programme |
Carl Heneghan |
3 May, 2016 |
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| Breathalysers, babies and bumps on the road: delving into diagnostic studies |
Talk by Dr Helen Ashdown regarding three rather different diagnostic studies People: Helen Ashdown |
Helen Ashdown |
3 May, 2016 |
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| Crime and Mental Health: Vulnerability and Resilience in the Face of Trauma (5) |
Plenary Session II: Vulnerable Adults and the Criminal Justice System |
Keith Hawton, Seena Fazel |
6 April, 2016 |
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| Crime and Mental Health: Vulnerability and Resilience in the Face of Trauma (4) |
Panel 2: (Re)shaping Vulnerabilities through Criminal Proceedings, Detention and Immigration detention of Adults |
Sarah Turnbull |
6 April, 2016 |
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| Crime and Mental Health: Vulnerability and Resilience in the Face of Trauma (3) |
Panel 2: (Re)shaping Vulnerabilities through Criminal Proceedings, Detention and Immigration detention of Adults |
Morwenna Bennallick |
6 April, 2016 |
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| Crime and Mental Health: Vulnerability and Resilience in the Face of Trauma (1) |
Plenary Session I: Vulnerable Young People and the Criminal Justice System |
Sarah Brennan |
6 April, 2016 |
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