Talks of interest to MPLS Division
Talks:

Friday 13 June 2025

Cell-bulk compartmental reaction-diffusion systems: symmetry-breaking patterns with equal diffusivities and diffusion-Induced synchrony.
Date: 13 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Michael Ward (Professor Michael Ward Dept)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organisers: TBA
Host: Prof Philip Maini (University of Oxford)

Terrestrial carbon cycle feedbacks in a warmer world – new insights from ancient climates
Date: 13 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Gordon Inglis (Southampton)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Maximising Impact: Professor Sir Tony Kouzarides’ Lessons from a Career in Research and Start-ups
Date: 13 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Sir Tony Kouzarides (Co-founder of the Milner Therapeutics Institute | University of Cambridge)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Goss Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Voices from North Korea
Date: 13 June 2025, 13:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Yuna Jung (Freedom Speakers International), Riha Kim (Freedom Speakers International), Sujin Kim (Freedom Speakers International), Eunkoo Lee (Freedom Speakers International), Casey Lartigue Jr. (Freedom Speakers International)
Venue: Wolfson Building, Parks Road OX1 3QD
Venue Details: Bill Roscoe Lecture Theatre (Lecture Theatre B) in the Wolfson Building (Department of Computer Science)
Organiser: Hayoun Noh (University of Oxford)
Host: Hayoun Noh (University of Oxford)

Monday 16 June 2025

The Blair black hole in global climate policy: international trade of zero-carbon goods
Date: 16 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Professor Ross Garnaut (University of Melbourne)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Fragmentation Process derived from $\alpha$-stable Galton-Watson trees
Date: 16 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Gabriel Berzunza Ojeda (University of Liverpool)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The transcriptional architecture of developing schistosomes
Date: 16 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Matt Berriman (University of Glasgow)
Venue: Biology Mansfield Road, 11a Mansfield Road OX1 3SZ
Venue Details: Biology building 11a Mansfield Road, OX1 3SZ, Seminar room
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Gabriel Rinaldi (University of Oxford)

Bayesian Probabilistic Subnational Population Projections
Date: 16 June 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor Adrian Raftery (University of Washington, Seattle)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Department of Earth Sciences
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Book talk - 'How To Think About AI: A Guide For The Perplexed'
Date: 16 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker : Professor Richard Susskind (Society for Computers and Law)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 June 2025

Trusted Research Briefing at MPLS
Date: 17 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker s: Professor Patrick Grant (Chair) (University of Oxford (Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research)), Dr Jenny Gladstone (University of Oxford)
Venue: Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road OX1 3PU
Venue Details: The Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Department of Physics
Organiser: Stephanie Mathyssek (Trusted Research)
Host: Stephanie Mathyssek (Research Services)

Exploding binaries: stars and gender
Date: 17 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Clarendon Laboratory - Townsend, Parks Road OX1 3PU
Venue Details: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Helen Smith (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

How children, scientists, and AI systems learn
Date: 17 June 2025, 18:00 - 19:15
Speaker : Professor Alison Gopnik (University of California, Berkeley)
Venue: University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road OX1 3PW
Organiser: Tanya Gujral (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 18 June 2025

Networking: A strategic approach (in-person)
Date: 18 June 2025, 9:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Structures and Stability: Battling Beams, Kirigami Computing, and Eye Morphogenesis
Date: 18 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L3
Organiser: Alain Goriely (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 June 2025

Getting Started with Public Engagement with Research (online)
Date: 19 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: ONLINE
Organiser: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

iSkills: Managing research data and Data Management Planning (DMPs)
Date: 19 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 June 2025

Nonlinear dynamics of passive and active particles in channel flows
Date: 20 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Rahil Valani (University of Oxford)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organiser: Sara Jolliffe (University of Oxford)
Host: Mohit Dalwadi (University of Oxford)

Airborne dissemination of antimicrobial resistance: a multi-national microbiological and genomic study
Date: 20 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Xiangdong Li (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: Seminar Room, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RE
Organisers: Avni Gupta (University of Oxford), Andrea Kastner (Department of Biology)
Host: Prof Timothy Walsh (University of Oxford)

Resolving the Boundary Layer Paradox: Seismic Clues to the Origin of Lithosphere Discontinuities
Date: 20 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Totulope Olugboji (University of Rochester)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

OXFORD ENERGY LUNCH, by the ZERO Institute & Oxford Energy Network
Date: 20 June 2025, 12:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Tina Fawcett (ECI, Oxford), Prof Paul Shearing (ZERO Institute)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: East Lab, School of Geography and the Environment, OX1 3QY
Organiser: Gian Melloni (ZERO Institute, Engineering Science, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 25 June 2025

Choosing open access for books: An author journey
Date: 25 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Judith Fathallah (Lancaster University, Coventry University, Open Book Collective)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: Jacqueline Thompson (Bodleian Libraries), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries), Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Jacqueline Thompson (Bodleian Libraries), Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)

Open Scholarship: Copyright the card game
Date: 25 June 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 1 July 2025

Open Scholarship: Logistics of open scholarship
Date: 1 July 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 7 July 2025

Open Scholarship: Forum of open scholarship
Date: 7 July 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 24 July 2025

Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
Date: 24 July 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 21 October 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 21 October 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Rafail Ostrovsky (UCLA)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
BIPOC STEM Network's Allies Book Club
Building a Business
HAPP: St Cross Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics
Open Scholarship
Oxford Energy Network Seminar Series 2024-25
Oxford Energy Seminars 2023-24
Oxford Energy Seminar Series 2022-2023
Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar
Postdoc Power Hour (PoPoH)
Sustainable Digital Scholarship (SDS) service