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TALKS & PRESENTATIONS Philip has given invited talks and lectures to the public and the scientific community worldwide. During 2007 and continuing in 2008/09 I have been aiming to reduce my travelling commitments for delivering talks, for family reasons. So please note that, while I am always happy to receive invitations, there is a stronger chance at present that I might have to decline them. Talks in 2010 9 February Royal Institution, London The Music Instinct 23 February Paracelsus: the Devil's Doctor The Last Tuesday, London 27 February Royal Institution, London The Music Instinct 28 February Brighton Science Festival Complexity symposium 3 March Bath Literary Festival The Music Instinct 8 March Aye Write Literary Festival, Glasgow The Music Instinct 9 March Words by the Water Literary Festival, Cumbria The Music Instinct 12 March Yorkshire Sculpture Park Nature's Patterns [talk in conjunction with an exhibition of sculptures by Peter Randall-Page] 20-28 March (day to be confirmed) Oxford Literary Festival The Music Instinct 8 April Topping and Company Bookshop, Ely The Music Instinct 19 October Durham University "Seeing Further": discussion with Bill Bryson and others to mark the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society. Talks in 2009 19 February Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution, London Utopia Theory: The Physics of Society 23 February Royal College of Physicians, London Why is Music Intelligible, and What Does it Communicate? 1 March Words by the Water Literary Festival, Cumbria Nature's Patterns 10 March Royal Institution, London Nature's Patterns 24 March Café Scientifique, Portsmouth Nature's Patterns 2 April Manchester University (The Complexity of the Crowd) 28 April Reform Club, London Utopia Theory: The Physics of Society 27 May EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Water as a Biomolecule 28 May CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (Utopia theory: the physics of society) 4 June Chelteham Science Festival (Nature's Patterns) Talks in 2008 19 February Museum History of Science, Oxford Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science 1 March Brighton Science Festival Pattern Formation in Nature 12 March Central St Martin’s College of Art & Design, London Utopia Theory: The Physics of Society 18 March Solway Arts Society, Cumbria Pattern Formation in Nature 29 April Bedales School, Petersfield Utopia Theory: The Physics of Society (Eckersley Lecture) 12 May King’s College, London The Future of Materials 27 May Hay Literary Festival, Hay-on-Wye Chartres Cathedral and the Origins of Order 16 June Royal Institution, London People in Space: The Big Debate 7 July University of Dortmund, Germany Water as a Biomolecule 10 July Royal Institution, London Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry (Dingle Prize award lecture) 22 September RSA, London In Conversation with Michael Braungart (London Design Festival) 27 September Lichfield Literary Festival Chartres Cathedral and the Origins of Order 2 October Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada The Invention of Colour (Colour in Art and Chemistry symposium) 15 October Cheltenham Literary Festival Chartres Cathedral and the Origins of Order 18 October Café Scientifique, Brighton Utopia Theory: The Physics of Society 25 October Café Scientifique, Croydon Utopia Theory: The Physics of Society 27 October Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China Water as a Biomolecule (Workshop on Water at Biological Interfaces) 11 December Cambridge University International Conference on Self-Assembly and Self-Organization at Surfaces Is Water Organized at Biological Surfaces? Talks pre 2007 'Water: life's matrix'. Opening address at the first international conference on astrobiology, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffat Field, California, April 2000. 'Bright Earth: the invention of colour'. Evening discourse at the Royal Institution, London, March 2001. Repeated at the RI for a public audience during Chemistry Week, November 2001. This talk provided the inspiration for a poem by Lavinia Greenlaw in the poetry collection 'Discourses' published by the RI (2002). Also available on CD. 'The age of molecular engineering.' Plenary talk at STM'01, international conference on microscopy and nanoscience, Vancouver, July 2001. 'The age of molecular engineering.' Plenary talk in Symposium X, 'Frontiers of Materials Science', at the Materials Research Society Fall annual meeting, Boston, December 2001. 'Bright Earth: the invention of colour'. Special public event at the Edinburgh Science Festival, April 2002. 'Colour: art and science'. Talk at the 'Colour Through Time' workshop, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, October 2002. 'Pattern formation in nature', talk presented in Limerick, Belfast and Dublin for the Irish branch of the Institute of Physics, February 2003. 'Utopia Theory: the search for a physics of society'. Presented at the Royal Institution, London, on 12 February 2004, and at the Cheltenham Science Festival on 13 June 2004. 'The history of social physics'. Plenary talk at the International Conference on Complexity Science, Boston, 16 May 2004. 'Nanotechnology in the Firing Line'. Special presentation at the International Conference on Nanomaterials and Nanomanufacturing, Royal Society, 15 December 2003. Available online at http://www.nanotechweb.org/articles/society/2/12/1/1 'Chemistry in 20th Century Literature'. Talk at Public Images of Chemistry in the Twentieth Century, Paris, 17-18 September 2004. See http://www.hyle.org/service/chmc2004/ 'How chemists invented colour.' Dove Memorial Lecture, University of Toronto, 14 October 2004. 'Colour through the eyes of a scientist', public lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 29 March 2005. 'Utopia theory: the search for a physics of society', Northwestern University, Illinois, 31 March 2005. 'Synthetic biology for nanotechnology', Northwestern University, Illinois, 1 April 2005. (Both given as part of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems Distinguished Lecturer series.)