Autism and Minds Wired for Science

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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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The Secrets of Mathematics

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Department: Mathematical Institute

Date Added: 31/10/2016

Duration: 01:02:43

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Introducing Mesh: The Global Health Network's Community Engagement Webspace

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Global Health

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This webinar features introductions from Francois Van Loggerenberg, scientific lead at the Global Health Network, and community engagement consultant Georgia Bladon to the community engagement platform Mesh.

Learn how this platform might be useful to you, how it fits within the Global Health network and what we mean by good community engagement. Plus, take a tour and see examples of the content we create, host and share so that you can add to, use and navigate the site to get the most out of Mesh and your community engagement with health plans.

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Global Health

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Francois van Loggerenberg

Georgia Blazon

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Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

Date Added: 31/10/2016

Duration: 00:14:20

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Mobile in Museums

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Behind the Scenes at the Oxford University Museums

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Theodore Koterwas, Mobile Development Team Lead, IT Services, gives a short talk for Oxford University Museums Staff Conference

Based in IT Services, Ted and the Mobile Development Team have worked with the museums on half a dozen apps and mobile resources for the visiting public. Ted shares some of the innovative products developed, and share lessons learned.

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Behind the Scenes at the Oxford University Museums

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Department: Ashmolean Museum

Date Added: 31/10/2016

Duration: 00:12:38

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Celebrating Diversity: An LGBTQ+ Tour of Oxford University’s Museums and Collections

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Behind the Scenes at the Oxford University Museums

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Beth Asbury, Assistant to the Director and Administration Team, Pitt Rivers Museum, gives a short talk for Oxford University Museums Staff Conference.

Beth shares an Oxford University Museums Partnership Innovation Fund project to create a printed trail across the collections providing new perspectives on some of their objects written by volunteers from Oxford’s LGBTQ+ community. This is a response to a lecture by Professor Richard Parkinson of the Oriental Institute calling for more explicit, not implicit, representations of the LGBTQ+ experience in all museums.

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Behind the Scenes at the Oxford University Museums

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Department: Ashmolean Museum

Date Added: 31/10/2016

Duration: 00:05:22

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Quantifying and Mitigating Human Generated Vibration in Museum Exhibits

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Behind the Scenes at the Oxford University Museums

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Daniel Bone, Deputy Head of Conservation, Ashmolean Museum, gives a short talk for Oxford University Museums Staff Conference.

Daniel outlines the work of a recent Oxford University Museums Partnership Innovation Fund project setting up vibration monitoring in showcases at the Ashmolean. The project is in collaboration with Professor Manolis Chatzis, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.

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Behind the Scenes at the Oxford University Museums

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Department: Ashmolean Museum

Date Added: 31/10/2016

Duration: 00:10:14

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Interacting with Artefacts, Oxfordshire Collections Project

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Stephen Barker, Oxfordshire County Council Museums Service, gives a short talk for Oxford University Museums Staff Conference.

For the current Oxford University Museums Partnership funded 'Oxfordshire in 50 Objects' exhibition produced by Oxfordshire Museums Services, community partners were asked to choose the artefacts. This presentation highlights two chosen artefacts, why they were chosen and how visitors interact with them.

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Behind the Scenes at the Oxford University Museums

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Department: Ashmolean Museum

Date Added: 31/10/2016

Duration: 00:08:26

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Conversation with Wole Soyinka

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Exploring Humanities - The Ertegun Scholarship Programme

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A wide-ranging conversation between Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka and members of the Ertegun House community. Topics include the status of African literature, the relationship between creativity and ideology, Brexit, and Bob Dylan.

The Ertegun House Seminar in the Humanities is a termly series of conversations between members of the Ertegun House community and notable figures from the fields of culture, the arts, academia, journalism, and beyond. It is open to all members of the University, but advance registration is required for attendance; podcasts of each event will be made available for viewing or download. For more information, see www.ertegun.ox.ac.uk. The inaugural seminar took place on 20 October 2016, and involved the Nobel Literature Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka.

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Exploring Humanities - The Ertegun Scholarship Programme

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Department: Ertegun Graduate Scholarships Programme

Date Added: 27/10/2016

Duration: 01:09:39

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Human Trafficking: The Rise (and Fall?) of The Strasbourg Case

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Border Criminologies

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Marie-Benedicte Dembour, University of Brighton - 5/10/2016

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Border Criminologies

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Marie-Benedicte Dembour

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Department: Faculty of Law

Date Added: 27/10/2016

Duration: 00:45:00

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The explosion mechanism of massive stars

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Oxford Physics Public Lectures

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Physics Colloquium 14th October 2016 delivered by Professor Thierry Foglizzo

The supernova explosion of massive stars is primarily powered by the gravitational contraction of their core into a neutron star, before the formation of a black hole. Despite numerous observations of supernovae in distant galaxies, the underlying mechanism is still a major challenge to theorists. Prof Foglizzo will review the state of the art, with an emphasis on the multidimensional effects of hydro and MHD instabilities. Non axisymmetric one-armed instabilities known as the Standing Accretion Shock Instability and the corotation instability are able to redistribute angular momentum radially even for moderate rotation rates. Numerical simulations of simplified models are used to evaluate their effect on the explosion and the pulsar spin. Surprisingly, both instabilities can be illustrated with a simple hydraulic experiment based on a shallow water analogy. Results are analyzed in view of the constraints on the angular momentum budget set by stellar evolution on the one hand and by the spin properties of pulsars on the other hand.

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