Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Marcus du Sautoy - The Num8er My5teries

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With topics ranging from prime numbers to the lottery, from lemmings to bending balls like Beckham, Professor Marcus du Sautoy provides an entertaining and, perhaps, unexpected approach to explain how mathematics can be used to predict the future.

We are very grateful to Solihull School for hosting this lecture.

The Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures are generously supported by XTX Markets

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The Secrets of Mathematics

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Department: Mathematical Institute

Date Added: 14/01/2019

Duration: 00:58:48

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Building a global beer brand from scratch: Boldness in Business

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On 22nd May 2018 we heard from Kellogg Bynum Tudor Fellow Lord Bilimoria CBE, the Founder and Chairman of Cobra Beer and Chancellor of the University of Birmingham who delivered the Bynum Tudor Lecture.

Lord Bilimoria CBE DL is the founder of Cobra Beer, Chairman of the Cobra Beer Partnership Limited, a Joint Venture with Molson Coors, and Chairman of Molson Coors Cobra India. In the Monde Selection, one of the most prestigious quality awards in the world for beer, the Cobra range have collectively been awarded a total of 94 Gold medals since 2001, making it one of the most awarded beers in the world.

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Department: Kellogg College

Date Added: 14/01/2019

Duration: 01:12:18

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Colombian Outcast Youths and the Broken Promises of Transformative Justice

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The peacebuilding literature has long emphasised that youth involvement is key to ensuring long-term peace. In the aftermath of the 'no' victory in the Colombian peace plebiscite, great emphasis has been placed on youth movements' push for peace.

However, statistics on violent groups in Latin America show that these groups are largely made of young people. The position of young people at the crux between peacebuilding and perpetuation of violence needs to be contextually unpacked. While studies have tended to focus on youth movements, the question of how non-organised, (self-)marginalised youths relate to peacebuilding is largely unaddressed. Based on 9 months of ethnographic fieldwork with outcast adolescents in the conflict-affected town of San Carlos and marginal neighbourhoods in the close-by city Medellín, this paper addresses this gap.

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Department: Faculty of Law

Date Added: 14/01/2019

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New Year, New Me

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Are some people taking the 'New Year, New Me' concept a little too far these days?

Welcome to Science in Ten, where we summarise the science in under ten minutes. In this second episode, Claire chats about genome editing and how it is sparking legal and ethical debates. Learn about how biohackers are taking their genomes into their own hands and hear about the research which shocked the world in November 2018 - the birth of the first-ever CRISPR gene edited babies. Music and Sound effects used in Science In Ten episodes: Waterfront by Lee Rosevere at Free Music Archive (FMA) under CC BY-NC 4.0 License. Waiting by David Szesztay at FMA under CC-BY 3.0 License. Going Home by Lee Rosevere at FMA under CC BY 4.0 License. Cha-ching by creek23 at Freesound.org under CC-BY 3.0 License. Nom Nom Nom by Iwan Gabovitch at Freesound.org under CC-BY 3.0 License.

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Department: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology

Date Added: 09/01/2019

Duration: 00:09:48

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Season Finale: AI selection box

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In the final episode of our series, we’re looking back at the themes we’ve discussed so far, and forward into the likely development of AI.

Professor Peter Millican will be joined by Professor Gil McVean, to further investigate how big data is transforming healthcare, by Dr Sandra Wachter, to discuss her recent work on the need for a legal framework around AI, and also by Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt on where the field of artificial intelligence research has come from, and where it’s going. To conclude, Peter will be sharing some of his views on where humanity is heading with AI, when you’ll also hear from his final guest, Azeem Azhar, host of the Exponential View podcast. Futuremakers will be taking a short break now, but we’ll be back with series two in the new year, when we’ll be taking on another of society’s grand challenges: building a sustainable future. Before then we’ll also be publishing a special one-off episode on Quantum Computing, and the global opportunities, and risks, it could present. To read more about some of the key themes in this episode, you can find Sandra Wachter’s recent papers -
1) A Right to Reasonable Inferences: Re-Thinking Data Protection Law in the Age of Big Data and AI - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3248829
2) Explaining Explanations in AI - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3278331
3) Counterfactual explanations without opening the black box: automated decisions and the GDPR - https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/assets/articlePDFs/v31/Counterfactual-Explanations-without-Opening-the-Black-Box-Sandra-Wachter-et-al.pdf

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Department: Oxford University Development Office

Date Added: 08/01/2019

Duration: 01:44:14

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Kellogg Urban Knowledge Exchange seminar: Healthy Cities

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Thursday 29th November saw the fifth in our Kellogg Urban Knowledge Exchange series of multidisciplinary seminars, Healthy Cities: 'Is designing healthy communities the right response to an overstretched NHS?'

We asked leading voices in the field to share their knowledge, research and pitch their views on the subject. The next seminar “Urban Planning” is on Wednesday 16th January 2019. With Carl Heneghan, Primary Healthcare
Danny McDonnell, NHS England, Sian Whyte, Design Council, Chris Naylor, The King’s Fund.

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Department: Kellogg College

Date Added: 08/01/2019

Duration: 00:42:05

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Modern Fairies

In Series One Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield introduce the themes of traditional British tales about fairies with some readings and songs, the inspiration for their new creative project ‘Modern Fairies and Loathly Ladies’. Tales about the Other World, fairy lovers, fairies and children and helpful fairies, along with the monstrous females who must be disenchanted by the hero are the themes of the five episodes. In Series Two Carolyne and Fay discuss the creative works that the project generated, exploring the themes that particularly inspired the artists and the new themes that they evolved for themselves. The five new episodes introduce the project and its artists, and then explore ideas of fairyland as an alternative time and space, fairies and children, fairies and the environment and fairy and other magical transformations.

Modern Fairies is a unique collaboration between leading songwriters, musicians, artists, poets, filmmakers and researchers to develop exciting new work, presenting fresh perspectives on what folklore means to us in the modern world.

Selection bias in cluster randomised controlled trials

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Professor David Torgerson, Director of the York Trials Unit, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare podcast series.

He has published widely with over 250 peer reviewed papers many of them on the design of randomised trials including a student text book 'Designing Randomised Trials in Health Education and the Social Sciences' (2008, Palgrave MacMillan). He has a particular interest in the design and conduct of cluster randomised trials.

Randomisation, if conducted properly, will abolish selection bias. Poor randomisation practice for individually randomised trials allows the allocation schedule to be predicted and can lead to subversion of the randomisation, which introduces selection bias. In cluster randomised controlled trials there is a particular problem with some trials in that cluster randomisation occurs before individual recruitment. When this occurs the allocation can become known to the potential participant and the recruiting clinician and research. This, then, allows selective recruitment to occur which means that selection bias is introduced at the level of the individual participant. In this talk the problem is illustrated in case studies and I discuss approaches to dealing with this potential source of selection bias.

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Department: Medical Sciences Division

Date Added: 07/01/2019

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Strachey Lecture: Steps Towards Super Intelligence

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Why has AI been so hard and what are the problems that we might work on in order to make real progress to human level intelligence, or even the super intelligence that many pundits believe is just around the corner?

In his 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" Alan Turing estimated that sixty people working for fifty years should be able to program a computer (running at 1950 speed) to have human level intelligence. AI researchers have spent orders of magnitude more effort than that and are still not close. Why has AI been so hard and what are the problems that we might work on in order to make real progress to human level intelligence, or even the super intelligence that many pundits believe is just around the corner? This talk will discuss those steps we can take, what aspects we really still do not have much of a clue about, what we might be currently getting completely wrong, and why it all could be centuries away. Importantly the talk will make distinctions between research questions and barriers to technology adoption from research results, with a little speculation on things that might go wrong (spoiler alert: it is the mundane that will have the big consequences, not the Hollywood scenarios that the press and some academics love to talk about).

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Department: Department of Computer Science

Date Added: 20/12/2018

Duration: 00:58:55

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Is China leading the way in AI?

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In the penultimate episode of series one of Futuremakers, we’re looking at the development of AI across the globe.

China has set itself the challenge of being the world’s primary innovation centre by 2030, a move forecast to generate a 26% boost in GDP from AI related benefits alone, and some claim they’re already leading the way in many areas. But how realistic is this aim when compared to AI research and development across the world? And if China could dominate this field, what are the best, and worse, case scenarios for both it, AI technology, and the rest of the planet? Join our host, philosopher Peter Millican, as he explores this topic with Mike Wooldridge, Head of Oxford’s Department of Computer Science; Xiaorong Ding, a post-doctoral researcher who’s studied and worked several of China’s leading universities and companies; and Sophie-Charlotte Fischer, a visiting researcher at the Future of Humanity Institute, and a PhD Candidate whose dissertation project focusses on the development of AI in China and the US.