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Watson Lecture - David Conlon: Mathematics and combinatorics
California Institute of Technology · Beckman Auditorium, Caltech, Pasadena
Discover how the world is full of beautiful mathematical patterns that most of us don't even know are there with David Conlon.

6:00 PM in the UKIn person
How to Draw a Straight Line? The Mathematics of Linkages
Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall
A central problem of designing machine is to control the motion of some parts. For instance: how can a machine draw a perfect straight line using only rigid bars and rotating joints?Beginning with…

7:30 PM-8:30 PM in PasadenaIn person
Watson Lecture - Lulu Qian: Synthetic biology and molecular machines
California Institute of Technology · Beckman Auditorium, Caltech, Pasadena
Discover molecular machines built from DNA—and how scientists are working to equip them with rudimentary forms of intelligence with Lulu Qian.

4:00 PM-5:30 PM in ViennaIn person
Departmental Colloquium: Eye-tracking expectations about the physical and social world in dogs and great apes
Central European University · Quellenstrasse 51 · Room Auditorium, Vienna
Christoph Völter is a Senior scientist at the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
7:00 PM in the UKIn person
Cosmic Collisions
Gresham College · Conway Hall
Across more than thirteen billion years of cosmic history, interacting galaxies act out a glorious ballet. On these timescales, these vast systems interact and influence each other.Using beautiful…

6:00 PM in the UKIn person
Managed by Microbes: Our World’s Dependence on Invisible Life
Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall
The mass of all the microbes on Earth is around 40 times the mass of all the animals. They are everywhere: in our bodies, in the soil, air and water, and in some of the most extreme environments on…

7:30 PM-8:30 PM in PasadenaIn person
Watson Lecture - Sujit Datta: Microbial behavior and biophysics
California Institute of Technology · Beckman Auditorium, Caltech, Pasadena
Spy on microbes as they move and grow in hidden worlds, including the ground beneath our feet with Sujit Datta

6:00 PM in the UKIn person
New Molecules on an Old Planet: How Pollution Clashes with the Earth System
Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall
Discussions about chemical pollution often begin at the human source and end at the damage they cause to humans or the environment. But there are hundreds of different molecules circulating around…

7:00 PM in the UKIn person
What's New in Space?
Gresham College · Conway Hall
In this concluding lecture, we consider the nature of astronomy. With so many pressing problems here on Earth, why spend our time looking up?Connecting the latest results with the simple act of…

6:00 PM in the UKIn person
A Balancing Act: Dice, Dominos, Turtles and the Gömböc
Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall
The shape of an object determines whether it stands, topples, or rights itself. Starting from familiar examples such as dice and dominos, this lecture introduces the idea of stable and unstable…