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Ovarian metastases from gastrointestinal tract malignancy

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Surgical Grand Rounds Lectures
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Mr Brendan Moran discusses cancer metastases to the ovary. Mr Moran is a general and colorectal surgeon at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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Surgical Grand Rounds Lectures
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Brendan Moran
Keywords
surgery
cancer
cancer metastases
ovary
tumour
gastrointestinal tract
Department: Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences
Date Added: 18/11/2016
Duration: 01:04:35

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Women’s Studies and Gender Studies Roundtable

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Gender and Authority
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The Gender and Authority TORCH Network, in collaboration with the Centre for Gender, Identity, and Subjectivity, hosted a roundtable discussion at Balliol College on 2 November 2016.
It was on the continuities, differences, and comparative advantages of framing one's research in terms of 'Gender studies' or 'Women's studies’. The roundtable, featuring speakers from a range of University of Oxford faculties, programmes, and research networks, addresses a series of questions on the methodological continuities, divergences and complementarity of 'Gender Studies' and 'Women's Studies'.

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Gender and Authority
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Mara Keire
Maria Jaschok
Khin Mar Mar Kyi
Joana Serrado
Julia Mannherz
Alison Moulds
Adele Bardazzi
David Bowe
Natalya Din-Kariuki
Julia Caterina Hartley
Keywords
gender
women
humanities
gender studies
women's studies
feminism
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 18/11/2016
Duration: 01:35:44

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Mathematics: Navigating Nature's Dark Labyrinth

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Science in Society: The Simonyi Lectures
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The Inaugural Lecture of the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, 2009.

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Science in Society: The Simonyi Lectures
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Marcus du Sautoy
Keywords
maths
mathematics
public understanding
science
simonyi
Department: Department for Continuing Education
Date Added: 18/11/2016
Duration: 00:52:50

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Can robots be made creative enough to invent their own language?

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Science in Society: The Simonyi Lectures
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Luc Steels delivers the 2012 Simonyi lecture and asks can machines be creative enough to invent their own language?
Professor Steels talks about some of his recent breakthrough experiments which have seen robots programmed to play language games and come up with novel concepts, words and meanings. He discusses how this triggers a process of cultural evolution that leads to more complex forms of language and deliberate on what this tells us about the nature of our own intelligence and the future of artificial intelligence. Luc Steels is ICREA Research Professor at the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF) in Barcelona and Director of the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris. The Simonyi Lecture is funded by a generous gift from the Amalur Foundation.

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Science in Society: The Simonyi Lectures
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Luc Steels
Marcus du Sautoy
Keywords
ai
robotics
creativity
robot
simonyi
computer
maths
artificial intelligence
Department: Department for Continuing Education
Date Added: 18/11/2016
Duration: 01:22:43

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Writing the Enlightenment: Reflections on Work in Progress

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Voltaire Foundation
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Professor Ritchie Robertson FBA, Taylor Professor of German at the University of Oxford, will speak on ‘Writing the Enlightenment: Reflections on Work in Progress’.
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Voltaire Foundation
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Ritchie Robertson
Keywords
besterman
lecture
voltaire foundation
voltaire
writing
enlightenment
Department: Voltaire Foundation
Date Added: 18/11/2016
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Why climate change action is difficult and how we can make a difference

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Science in Society: The Simonyi Lectures
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2014 Charles Simonyi Lecture with David MacKay. David discusses how the laws of physics constrain our energy options, and describes what happened when his reflections on energy arithmetic propelled him into a senior civil service role.

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Science in Society: The Simonyi Lectures
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David MacKay
Keywords
climate
Energy
Physics
Department: Department for Continuing Education
Date Added: 18/11/2016
Duration: 01:00:49

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Putting the Higgs Boson in its Place

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Science in Society: The Simonyi Lectures
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Professor Melissa Franklin talks about her experiences working towards the discovery of the Higgs Boson and her work today at the Large Hadron Collider
This entertaining lecture by experimental particle physicist, Professor Melissa Franklin (the first woman to achieve tenure in the Harvard Physics Department), is the latest in the Charles Simonyi annual lecture series. This series was set up in 1999 in order to promote the public understanding of Science

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Science in Society: The Simonyi Lectures
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Melissa Franklin
Marcus du Sautoy
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Higgs Boson
simonyi
oxford playhouse
Physics
theoretical physics
Department: Department for Continuing Education
Date Added: 18/11/2016
Duration: 00:51:22

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Autism and Minds Wired for Science

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Science in Society: The Simonyi Lectures
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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.

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Science in Society: The Simonyi Lectures
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Simon Baron-Cohen
Marcus du Sautoy
Keywords
science
simonyi
maths
autism
psychology
development
Department: Department for Continuing Education
Date Added: 18/11/2016
Duration: 01:02:43

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Exotic combinations of quarks - A journey of fifty years

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Oxford Physics Public Lectures
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Physics Colloquium 11 November 2016 delivered by Professor Jon Rosner

The early 1960s witnessed a wealth of elementary particles described in terms of simple combinations of a few more elementary units, dubbed quarks. The known mesons and baryons could all be described as states of quark-antiquark or three quarks. However, it was not understood why certain more elaborate combinations, such as (two quarks + two antiquarks) or (four quarks + one antiquark) had not been observed. It has taken nearly half a century, but these “exotic” particles are now beginning to be seen and understood. This colloquium will trace their discovery and interpretation, with an eye to their future study.

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Oxford Physics Public Lectures
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Jon Rosner
Keywords
physics colloquia
elementary particles
quarks
mesons
baryons
antiquark
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 17/11/2016
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Our Simple but Strange Universe

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Oxford Physics Public Lectures
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The 13th Hintze Biannual Lecture delivered by Professor David Spergel

Observations of the microwave background, the left-over heat from the big bang, the large-scale distribution of galaxies and the properties of distant supernova have led to a remarkable simple model for our universe. With only five parameters (the density of atoms, the density of matter,
the age of the universe, the amplitude of fluctuations in the early universe and their scale dependance), this model can fit a host of astronomical observations. We have now determined these basic parameters at the few percent level or better. While simple, our universe is very strange. Atoms make up only 5% of the universe, most of the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy. We do not understand how the universe began or why there is more matter than anti-matter. I will review our current understanding and look forward to future measurements that can address these big open questions.

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Oxford Physics Public Lectures
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David Spergel
Keywords
hintze lecture
astro physics
microwave background
big bang
galaxies
supernova
universe
anti-matter
dark matter
dark energy
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 17/11/2016
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