• Type: Seminar Series

Tuesday 26 May 2015

• 17:00 - Pulitzer Prize Poet Vijay Seshadri: How English Is It?: The Making of Migrant Poetry
  Vijay Seshadri (Sarah Lawrence College, New York)

Wednesday 27 May 2015

• 11:30 - Europe’s Emission Trading System
  Peter Vis (St Antony’s College, Oxford)

Friday 29 May 2015

• 14:00 - Impact physics and life on Earth
  Professor Neil Bourne (University of Manchester)

Wednesday 3 June 2015

• 11:30 - The future of Russian oil production and exports
  James Hendeson

Monday 8 June 2015

• 09:00 - African Dreams: Imaginations of Urban Life and Infrastructure in the African Metropolis
  Miles Larmer (University of Oxford), Ilda Lorenço-Lindell (University of Stockholm), Steve Rayner (University of Oxford), Claudio Sopranzetti (University of Oxford), Idalina Baptista (University of Oxford), Neil Carrier (University of Oxford), Claire Mercer (LSE), Garth Myers (Trinity College, USA), Susan Parnell (University of Cape Town), Michael Keith (COMPAS, University of Oxford), William Beinart (University of Oxford), Julie Archambault (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 10 June 2015

• 11:30 - “Energiewende” in Germany – Status and Issues in Market Design
  Felix Muesgens
• 17:00 - Natural capital - sustaining economic growth
  TBA

Friday 12 June 2015

• 14:00 - From coincidence to purposeful flow? Properties of transcendental information cascades
  Markus Luczak-Roesch (University of Southampton)

Wednesday 17 June 2015

• 09:00 - The Magna Carta Conference
  TBA
• 11:30 - Flexibility-enabling contracts in electricity markets
  Rahmat Poudineh

Friday 19 June 2015

• 09:00 - Engaging ethics in healthcare: the ethics of markets and markets for ethics
  TBA

Friday 31 July 2015

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Dr. Sarah Shammas (Senior Research Associate, Chemistry Department, Cambridge University)

Thursday 15 October 2015

• 11:00 - Getting better protein models from given diffraction data set: moving beyond conventional practices
  TBA

Thursday 22 October 2015

• 14:00 - Solution: a novel synthetic biology approach hijacking E. coli secretion pathways to export biofilm-disrupting and antimicrobial proteins
  Oxford iGEM 2015

Tuesday 27 October 2015

• 10:30 - "Modeling the Control of Quiescence Heterogeneity by an RB-E2F Network Switch"
  Dr. Guang Yao (Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA)
• 17:00 - Infectious disease: are we in control?
  Professor Jeffrey Almond (Oxford Martin Programme on Vaccines )

Thursday 29 October 2015

• 18:00 - The role of emotion in disease: historical perspectives
  Professor Mark Jackson (Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter)

Friday 30 October 2015

• 11:30 - Postsynaptic regulation of synapse function and plasticity
  Associate Professor Johanna Montgomery (Dept of Physiology and Centre for Brain Research, University of Auckland, New Zealand)
• 14:00 - Oxford India Health Research Network (OIHRN) Symposium
  TBA

Wednesday 4 November 2015

• 11:00 - Spatial epidemiology: the importance of mapping in infectious disease research
  Dr Jane Messina (University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 November 2015

• 10:00 - Is Scrupulosity a Mental Illness?
  Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics, Duke University)

Tuesday 1 December 2015

• 13:00 - Floor meeting - 2 groups will give an update on the research work in their laboratory
  TBA