Putting the Higgs Boson in its Place

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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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The Secrets of Mathematics

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Department: Mathematical Institute

Date Added: 16/11/2015

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What is e-Research? Introducing the Wolfson College Digital Research Cluster

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Introducing a new strategic collaboration between Wolfson College and the Oxford e-Research Centre.

A series of short informal talks to introduce members of the College to the range of work across the disciplines at the OeRC, with Acting President of Wolfson College, Christina Redfield
The Wolfson Digital Research Cluster (Donna Kurtz, Director, Digital Research Cluster)
The Oxford e-Research Centre (David De Roure, Director of the OeRC)
Signing of the Memorandum of Agreement on Collaboration by the Acting President and David De Roure
Self-Introductions: three OeRC Associate Directors who have recently joined the College will talk briefly about their work
Andrew Richards: e-Infrastruture, High Performance Computing, Supercomputing for Research
Wesley Armour: Novel Architectures, Scientific Computing, Models and Simulation
Susanna-Assunta Sansone: Data Curation, Management and Publication More current research at the OeRC
Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller: Linked Data for Musicology
Sarah Sparrow: Volunteer Computing to Simulate Climate and Extreme Weather

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Wolfson College Podcasts

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Susanna-Assunta Sansone

Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller

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Department: Wolfson College

Date Added: 16/11/2015

Duration: 00:43:56

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'Clues' part 2 - Watching penguins

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

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How do you understand how large populations of penguins on Antarctica change? And how can you use this information to protect penguins?

Dr Tom Hart runs the 'Penguin Watch' project that gives people from all over the world the chance to help researchers keep tabs on what penguins on Antarctica are up to. This gives researchers a good understanding of how well penguins are doing. They can also use other techniques to fully understand what sorts of things affect penguin populations. In this podcast Tom Hart discusses how all this information can be pieced together, and ultimately might help inform policies to help protect penguin populations.

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

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Tom Hart

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Department: Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS)

Date Added: 16/11/2015

Duration: 00:10:45

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A Fascination with Vision: What nature can teach us

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St Hugh's College

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Professor Anthony Watts, C W Maplethorpe Fellow in Biological Sciences delivers a very interesting lecture entitled 'A Fascination with Vision: What nature can teach us'.

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Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK (BY-NC-SA): England & Wales; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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Department: St Hugh's College

Date Added: 12/11/2015

Duration: 00:50:14

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How well are children in Sudan taught to read compared to other countries in the Middle East and North Africa? Results of a National Learning Assessment.

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Department of Education Public Seminars

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Seminar looking at education in Sudan and other North African countries.

This seminar examines the development of a National Learning Assessment in Sudan and reports on the findings of its first study. We know that National Learning Assessments can play an important role in demonstrating the efficiency of investments in education, help governments to monitor the effectiveness of educational interventions and policies, and address issues related to equity and to provision. It is largely through frequently repeated assessments of learning achievement that policy makers can tell the extent to which investments in education do in fact result in educational progress. Without such repeated measures there can be little understanding of trends in student learning outcomes and as such, robust evidence to guide policy and investment in education will remain elusive.
The first study sought to establish how well students had been taught to read and to carry out basic mathematical operations in the early years of schooling in Sudan. The achievements of Grade 3 students in Sudan are compared with children of a similar age and stage of schooling in 5 other Arabic speaking countries. The findings point to deep and worrying learning deficits across the region.