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Title	Description	People	Date	Captions
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
A Great Unrecorded History. LGBT Heritage and World Cultures	Professor Parkinson discusses how to mobilise historical research into sexuality for maximum impact and the institutional, cultural and political issues that can be at stake, and suggests some of the possible uses of LGBTQ history.	Richard Parkinson	25 February, 2016
The Travelling Santa Problem and Other Seasonal Challenges - Marcus du Sautoy	The Oxford Mathematics Christmas Public Lecture 2015 examined an aspect of Christmas not often considered: the mathematics.	Marcus du Sautoy	18 December, 2015
Symmetry, Spaces and Undecidability - Martin Bridson	The understanding of the possible geometries in dimension 3 is one of the triumphs of 20th century mathematics. In this talk Martin Bridson explains why such an understanding is impossible in higher dimensions.	Martin Bridson	7 December, 2015
Putting the Higgs Boson in its Place	Professor Melissa Franklin talks about her experiences working towards the discovery of the Higgs Boson and her work today at the Large Hadron Collider	Melissa Franklin, Marcus du Sautoy	16 November, 2015
M. C. Escher - Artist, Mathematician, Man	M.C. Escher is known as the mathematician's (and hippie's) favourite artist. But why? And was Escher, a man who claimed he knew no mathematics, really a mathematical genius?	Roger Penrose, Jon Chapman, Alain Goriely, Clem Hitchcock	28 October, 2015
The Gomboc, the Turtle and the Evolution of Shape - Gabor Domokos	Gabor Domokos gives a talk on his mathematical journey that led to the creation of the Gomboc, the shape which has just one stable and one unstable point of equilibrium.	Gábor Domokos	1 July, 2015
Love's Labour's Lost	Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on the play Love's Labour's Lost.	Emma Smith	27 May, 2015
Birth of an Idea: A Mathematical Adventure - Cedric Villani	What goes on inside the mind of a mathematician? Where does inspiration come from? Cedric Villani, winner of the most prestigious prize in mathematics, the Fields Medal, explains the process. Inaugural Titchmarsh Lecture 2015.	Cedric Villani	12 March, 2015
Why climate change action is difficult and how we can make a difference - David MacKay	2014 Charles Simonyi Lecture with David MacKay.	David MacKay	4 December, 2014
Forbidden Crystal Symmetry: Mathematics and architecture - Roger Penrose	World-renowned mathematician Sir Roger Penrose, Oxford University, describes how crystalline symmetries are necessarily 2-fold, 3-fold, 4-fold, or 6-fold.	Roger Penrose	4 December, 2014
What Maths Really Does: From modelling the brain to modelling the climate - Alain Goriely	How has mathematics emerged over recent decades as the engine behind 21st century science? Alain Goriely looks at this question and more.	Alain Goriely	4 December, 2014
The History of Mathematics in 300 Stamps - Robin Wilson	The entire history of mathematics in one hour, as illustrated by around 300 postage stamps featuring mathematics and mathematicians from across the world.	Robin Wilson	3 December, 2014
Big Data's Big Deal - Viktor Mayer-Schonberger	Big Data promises to change all sectors of our economy, and deeply affect our society.	Viktor Mayer-Schonberger	20 November, 2014
Medicine muddle - Encoding and Binary	Given four bottles with indistinguishable liquid, one of which is a vital medicine, two containers and a test that can be done only once, how can you determine which of the the bottles contain the medicine?	Thomas Woolley, William Binzi	24 October, 2014
Dim Sum - Coding efficiency	In a restaurant where you can order tasting plates of 10 items, what is the smallest number of plates you can order to identify all 10 items on a menu?	Thomas Woolley, William Binzi	24 October, 2014
Fix the Hotel Rooms - Topology	By drawing on a piece of paper, can you connect three houses to three utilities (gas, electricity, water) without any of the lines crossing?	Thomas Woolley, William Binzi	24 October, 2014
The Tiny Lift - Graphs	How can you get three people to the upper floor of the hotel if two of them can never be left alone?	Thomas Woolley, William Binzi	24 October, 2014
Hotel fire - Optimisation	What is the quickest route to get from where you are standing, collect some water from a river and get to the hotel?	Thomas Woolley, William Binzi	24 October, 2014
Bags mix-up- Logic and Decision Trees	Three bags contain 2 t-shirts or 2 hoodies or 1 hoodie and 1 t-shirt, and none are labelled correctly. Can you tell which back belongs to whom by only taking one (random) item from one bag?	Thomas Woolley, William Binzi	24 October, 2014
Late for the plane - Abstraction and Optimisation	What is the quickest route between two points, if you can only cross the runways at a perpendicular?	Thomas Woolley, William Binzi	24 October, 2014
Airport security - Trilinear Coordinates	How do we measure out 100ml of a liquid using only containers taking quantities of 75ml, 125ml and 200ml?	Thomas Woolley, William Binzi	24 October, 2014
Planning the tour - Abstraction and Graph Theory	How do you construct a tour travelling between a number of different cities, but never using the same transport method between two cities more than once?	Thomas Woolley, William Binzi	24 October, 2014
Love and Math	A public lecture given by Edward Frenkel, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, talking around his best-selling book "Love and Math" followed by a conversation with Marcus du Sautoy and Q&A.	Edward Frenkel, Marcus du Sautoy	12 July, 2014
Extra Time: Professor Sir Roger Penrose in conversation with Andrew Hodges - part one	These two video sessions explore the development of Sir Roger Penrose's thought over more than 60 years, ending with his most recent theories and predictions.	Roger Penrose, Andrew Hodges	18 June, 2014
Extra Time: Professor Sir Roger Penrose in conversation with Andrew Hodges - part two	These two video sessions explore the development of Sir Roger Penrose’s thought over more than 60 years, ending with his most recent theories and predictions.	Roger Penrose, Andrew Hodges	18 June, 2014
Sir Michael Atiyah, a Life in Mathematics	In conversation with Paul Tod on the occasion of Sir Michael's 85th birthday conference.	Paul, Tod, Michael Atiyah	12 May, 2014
James D Murray, reflections of a life in academia, in conversation with Phillip Maini	Jim Murray is one of the leading mathematical biologists of our times.	James D Murray, Phillip Maini	2 April, 2014
Why there are no three-headed monsters, resolving some problems with brain tumours, divorce prediction and how to save marriages - James D Murray	Professor James D Murray, Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford and Senior Scholar, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, gives the annual Hooke Lecture.	James D Murray	21 March, 2014
Bryce McLeod, a Life in Mathematics In conversation with John Ball	A portrait of the contribution that Bryce McLeod has made to mathematics over his career together with his recollections of formative people and events.	Bryce McLeod, John Ball	11 March, 2014
Partial Differential Equations: Origins, Developments and Roles in the Changing World - Gui-Qiang George Chen	Professor Gui-Qiang G. Chen presents in his inaugural lecture several examples to illustrate the origins, developments, and roles of partial differential equations in our changing world.	Gui-Qiang George Chen	15 January, 2014
Prime Numbers - Richard Earl	Dr Richard Earl of the Mathematical Institute, Oxford presents a talk about prime numbers. What they are and their role in internet security.	Richard Earl	15 January, 2014
Computation and the Future of Mathematics - Stephen Wolfram	Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha, gives a talk about the future of mathematics and computation.	Stephen Wolfram	15 January, 2014
The Irrational, the chaotic and incomplete: the mathematical limits of knowledge - Marcus du Sautoy	Professor Marcus du Sautoy (New College), Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, author and broadcaster gives a talk about how much we can understand of the world through maths	Marcus du Sautoy	15 January, 2014
The Secret Mathematicians: the connections between maths and the arts - Marcus du Sautoy	Professor Marcus du Sautoy (New College), Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, author and broadcaster gives a talk about the connections beween art and mathematics	Marcus du Sautoy	15 January, 2014
Symmetry: a talk based on his second book, Finding Moonshine - Marcus du Sautoy	Professor Marcus du Sautoy (New College), Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, author and broadcaster gives a talk about symmetry and how the rules of symmetry influences our lives and the choices we make.	Marcus du Sautoy	14 January, 2014
The Music of the Primes: a talk about the Riemann Hypothesis and primes - Marcus du Sautoy	Professor Marcus du Sautoy (New College), Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, author and broadcaster gives a talk on 5th September 2013.	Marcus du Sautoy	14 January, 2014
Maths in Music: The Secret Mathematicians - Marcus du Sautoy	Professor Marcus du Sautoy (New College), Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, author and broadcaster gives a talk for the 2013 Oxford Alumni Weekend.	Marcus du Sautoy	14 January, 2014
Love and Sex in Victorian Fiction	Victorian fiction is commonly thought of as treating love sentimentally and lacking all reference to sex. In this talk drawing on material from a book he is writing, Dr David Grylls, Fellow of Kellogg College, will contest such a view.	David Grylls	4 October, 2013
Computation and the Future of Mathematics	Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha, gives a talk about the future of mathematics and computation.	Stephen Wolfram	25 June, 2012
The Romance of the Middle Ages	Dr Nicholas Perkins talks about how romance functions as a genre in the middle ages, especially about how gifts and tokens were exchanged as signs of fidelity, specifically in Sir Orfeo, Sir Gawain, and King Horn.	Nicholas Perkins	21 June, 2012