Public lecture podcasts

Joint William Herschel Society and University of Bath Lecture. Dr Marek Kukula of the Royal Observatory Greenwich speaks about the connections between Astrophysics and everyday life. Our familiar surroundings are full of profound astronomical connections. Astronomy has left its mark on our minds from high art to popular culture, and even the smartphone in your pocket owes a debt to astrophysical r...

This talk presents a history of the Bayesian inference and subjective probability, as viewed by a Bayesian Physicist. Dr Colin Fox is a leading international expert in large-scale Bayesian inverse problems and Professor of Physics at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

On the University of Bath Thought Train we sit down with an academic from the University to talk about their work and current events. In this week's show Dr Brett Edwards & Dr Mattia Cacciatori are in the studio to talk international law & order. They also discuss: - Donald Trump's approach to international diplomacy - The important questions about chemical weapons in Syria - Why individualism in...

On the University of Bath Thought Train we sit down with an academic from the University to talk about their work and current events. Naomi Deering is this week's guest and talks to us about how making fake poo can benefit some of the world's poorest people. We also talk about: - How proper sanitation can benefit society in a multitude of ways - What you can do to become become a 'toilet twin' - W...

In this special episode of the Thought Train we bring you three fascinating lectures from our most recent Discovery Series event held at the Royal Society in London. In this podcast Professor Keith Stokes, Dr Nick Longrich and Professor Carole Mundell are on hand to deliver 15 minute lectures rugby safety, mass extinctions and space-time.

In this IPR 'in conversation' event distinguished politician and peer Lord Blunkett discusses the changes that he has observed in Britain's political landscape during his eventful career, and shares some of the wisdom that has come with his experience. This IPR 'in conversation' event took place on 14 September 2017, as part of the symposium Politics, Fake News and the Post-Truth Era

On the University of Bath Thought Train we sit down with an academic from the University to talk about their work and current events. Professor Carole Mundell (Dept. of Physics)is this week's guest and joins us to talk about: - The intricacies of black holes - What gamma bursts can teach us about space - The likelihood of life on other worlds - Flat earth theory

On the University of Bath Thought Train we sit down with an academic from the University to talk about their work and current events. Dr Ben Bowman (Dept. of PoLIS)is this week's guest and joins us to talk about: - The aftermath of the 2017 General Election - A perceived liberal bias in the British education system - The power of the youth vote - Electoral reform

In this IPR 'in conversation' event BBC Director of Radio and Education James Purnell discusses the Corporation's mandate and how it will be fulfilled in a future of fake news, changing processes of democratic debate and an uncertain British identity. This IPR 'in conversation' event took place on 21 June 2017

In 1990, Harvard biologist Stephen Jay Gould posed an intriguing question. What would happen if we were able to re-run the Tape of Life? Would small perturbations to the starting conditions yield radically different outcomes, or would the course of evolution follow a familiar path, differing only in its details? The first worldview sees evolution as an essentially open-ended process of unlimited p...

How do you make materials that make themselves? Karen Edler's research looks at ways of getting molecules in solution to find the middle ground between completely dissolving and being totally insoluble, to persuade them to put themselves together into complex and intricate structures. This work looks at self-assembly in a range of different systems, from lipid nanodiscs through to porous oxides, f...

In this IPR Public Lecture Dame Fiona Reynolds - former Director-General of the National Trust and Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge - reflects on her efforts to protect natural beauty and sites of cultural heritage, as well as the efforts of conservationists and urban planners through history. This IPR Public Lecture took place on 27 March 2017

In this IPR Public Lecture Professor Janine Wedel - IPR Global Chair and Professor in the School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs at George Mason University - examines the rise of Donald Trump and his populist contemporaries, analysing their appeal and their precedents in post-Soviet Eastern Europe. This IPR Public Lecture took place on 15 March 2017

In this IPR Public Lecture, Astronomer Royal, life peer and Cambridge scholar Lord Rees surveys the century ahead and the prospects it offers mankind. From AI and robotics to climate change and mass extinction, he makes the case that this is a time of great potential - for success as well as catastrophe. This IPR Public Lecture took place on 9 February 2017.

In this IPR Public Lecture, veteran diplomat and author of Article 50 Lord Kerr of Kinlochard shares his insight into the negotiating process Britain will go through to leave the European Union. Examining Theresa May's strategy and the history of relations between Brussels and London, the life peer sets out five possible scenarios for the future of Brexit Britain. This IPR Public Lecture took plac...

In this IPR Public Lecture, eminent economist Professor Roger Farmer of UCLA takes a look at financial crises, and their fundamental causes. Drawing on a number of novel economic models, he makes his suggestions for monetary and fiscal policy. This IPR Public Lecture took place on 22 November 2016.

Andrew Hall compares the sounds of bells to the frequencies of chemicals captured by a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectrometer. http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/csct/2016/a-chemical-chorus/

Andrew Hall compares the sounds of bells to the frequencies of chemicals captured by a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectrometer. http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/csct/2016/a-chemical-chorus/

Andrew Hall compares the sounds of bells to the frequencies of chemicals captured by a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectrometer. http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/csct/2016/a-chemical-chorus/

Andrew Hall compares the sounds of bells to the frequencies of chemicals captured by a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectrometer. http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/csct/2016/a-chemical-chorus/

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In this inaugural lecture, Dean of the Faculty of Science, Professor Nick Brook, discusses some of the latest results from an experiment that uses the Large Hadron Collider. The Large Hadron Collider beauty (LCHb) experiment studies the decay and properties of particles containing heavy (charm and beauty) quarks, produced in the forward region from proton-proton collisions at the CERN Large Hadron...

Co-founder of Motivation, David Constantine MBE, delivers the 48th Annual Designability Lecture at the University of Bath, talking about his experiences as a wheelchair user and creating a charity / social enterprise to give disabled people in the developing world access to wheelchairs.

Aerospace Engineering students Sam, Nick and Elliot discuss their Lab2Moon project: LunaDome on BBC Radio Bristol. The team aims to win an international competition to design and develop an experiment to be sent to the moon in late 2017.