| TALKS & PRESENTATIONS |
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. |
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) |
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? |
| '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.) |
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