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The Ockham Lecture - The Merton College Physics Lecture

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The Ockham Lecture - The Merton College Physics Lecture
The Merton College Physics Lecture (the Ockham, or Occam, Lecture, so named in honour of one of the greatest alumni of the College and of his philosophical principle of intellectual discipline) started in 2009 and is held once a term. It is organised by the physics tutors of the College to promote both intellectual curiosity and social cohesion of the Merton Physics community.

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Peter D McDonald in conversation with Derek Attridge

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Writers in Dialogue
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Peter D. McDonald and Derek Attridge reflect on their different approaches to the questions of literature and public value, and on the bearing this has for teaching and research today.

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Writers in Dialogue
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Peter McDonald
Derek Attridge
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literature
poetry
Derek Attridge
south africa
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 04/06/2013
Duration: 00:33:12

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Peter D McDonald in conversation with Antjie Krog

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Writers in Dialogue
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Peter D. McDonald talks to Antjie Krog about her relationship to Afrikaans, English and African languages, about the promise and perils of translation, and about the challenges of and for writing in a multilingual democracy.

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Writers in Dialogue
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Peter McDonald
Antjie Krog
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Antjie Krog
literature
poetry
south africa
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 04/06/2013
Duration: 01:06:09

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Reporting the UK to Germany

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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
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John F Jungclaussen, Die Zeit, UK Correspondent, gives a talk for the RISJ seminar series on reporting UK news to the German news media.
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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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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
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John F Jungclaussen
Keywords
die ziet
media
journalism
reuters
Germany
politics
Department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)
Date Added: 04/06/2013
Duration: 00:18:03

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'A walk on the Dark Side': the changing face of corporate communications

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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
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Tim Burt, former media editor at the FT and author of 'Dark Art: the changing face of public relations' gives a talk for the RISJ seminar series on Public Relations and the media.
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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
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Tim Burt
Keywords
oil
deep water horizon
public relations
media
journalism
reuters
BP
corporations
politics
Department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)
Date Added: 04/06/2013
Duration: 00:41:56

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How to find a Higgs boson

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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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The discovery of the Higgs boson last summer is widely regarded as one of the most important scientific discoveries of our time.
This talk will take you on a quick journey describing why we were searching for this elusive particle, and the experimental challenges involved in finding it.

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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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David Hall
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CERN
Physics
particle
boson
higgs
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 04/06/2013
Duration: 00:11:52

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What is a Quantum Computer?

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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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How does a quantum computer work? Why is a quantum computer so much better than a traditional computer? This talk will give you an insight into the strange features of the quantum world that we can exploit to develop a super fast quantum computer.

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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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Michael Peterer
Keywords
quantum
oxford
engineering
computer
Physics
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 04/06/2013
Duration: 00:13:23

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Dealing with Frustration - Order in Disorder

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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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Magnetic particles can get frustrated in their interactions with other particles because of lattice geometry. Lots of new and exciting physics is involved in understanding how they deal with their frustration.

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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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Zhiming Darren Tan
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oxford
geometry
particles
Physics
theory
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 04/06/2013
Duration: 00:09:34

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Masters of Nature? - The physics of trying to control the climate

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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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The Earth's climate is changing; but what are we doing about it? The frustration felt all around the world at the inability to agree a meaningful deal on global carbon dioxide emission leaves people looking for alternatives.
Do we have the ability to manipulate our planet's climate to prevent the effects of global warming? If so how? What would be the consequences of attempting to do so? Understanding the physics of the Earth's climate is essential to answering these questions. Using the state-of-the-art computing power we are improving our knowledge of how the Earth works and of what any attempts to manipulate our climate would mean for the world we live in today...

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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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Richard Millar
Keywords
atmosphere
co2
nature
climate change
global warming
weather
carbon dioxide
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 04/06/2013
Duration: 00:12:46

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Light Fantastic: X-ray Laser Research in Oxford

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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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David LLoyd describes how x-rays can be used for far more than identifying broken bones.
From tracking the motion of electron to imaging the structure of viruses, he illustrates some examples of how researchers are using new x-ray sources to explore the microscopic world.

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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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David Lloyd
Keywords
laser
microscope
imaging
oxford
Physics
x-ray
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 04/06/2013
Duration: 00:12:45

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