Science
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Level 5 Function Room
Open Science
Wednesday 8 June 2011
Wednesday 8 June 2011
21076
Best Available
No Fee
Science thrives on the free and open exchange of ideas and data.
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Purcell Room
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Tuesday 12 July 2011
Tuesday 12 July 2011
Literature | Science | Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | Great Thinkers | London Literature Festival 11
20486
Jocelyn Bell Burnell is one of the leading scientists of her generation.
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Royal Festival Hall
Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
Sunday 11 December 2011
Sunday 11 December 2011
Science | Talks & Debate | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | Literature | Talks | Literature Sept to Dec 11 | Winter at Southbank Centre
21369
Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw set out to explain the deepest questions in science with their new book, The Quantum Universe, which they present at this live event.
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Purcell Room
Jim al-Khalili and Robert Winston
Tuesday 31 January 2012
Tuesday 31 January 2012
Science | Talks | Talks & Debate | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | Talks & Debate | Literature Jan - March 2012
22902
Two of science's most prominent writers unlock the forgotten history of Arabic science.
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Level 5 Function Room
Tali Sharot
Wednesday 15 February 2012
Wednesday 15 February 2012
Literature | Literature & Spoken Word | Science | Talks | Talks & Debate | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | Literature | Talks | Talks & Debate | Literature Jan - March 2012
22951
Best Available
Tali Sharot takes an in-depth look at how the brain generates hope and what happens when it fails.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Robert Winston
Thursday 16 February 2012
Thursday 16 February 2012
Children & Family | Learning & Participation | Science | Talks | Learning & Participation | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Imagine
23160
Professor Robert Winston is famous for his work on science.
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Hayward Gallery Lecture Theatre
Theoretical and practical explorations of space
Tuesday 12 June 2012
Thursday 14 June 2012
Science | Workshops | Visual Arts | Talks | Wide Open School
25346
Best Available
In these one-day intensive courses, you can explore the history of Western scientific thinking about space from Descartes to string theory, asking how do mathematicians and physicists conceive of space?
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Hayward Lecture Theatre
Jane and Louise Wilson in conversation with Caroline Wilkinson
Wednesday 13 June 2012
Wednesday 13 June 2012
Science | Workshops | Visual Arts | Talks | Wide Open School
26593
Best Available
Jane and Louise Wilson join Caroline Wilkinson, Professor of Craniofacial Identification at the University of Dundee, in a conversation about the forensic sciences and forensic tendencies in art.
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Hayward Lecture Theatre
Smells like Teen Spirit - CANCELLED
Thursday 14 June 2012
Thursday 14 June 2012
Science | Workshops | Visual Arts | Talks | Wide Open School
26594
Best Available
Jeppe Hein discusses the topic of invisibility and sensory perception, with particular emphasis on smell.
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Hayward Gallery Room 3
Deep Space
Saturday 16 June 2012
Sunday 17 June 2012
26686
Best Available
three hours.
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Hayward Lecture Theatre
Untitled, class
Thursday 21 June 2012
Sunday 24 June 2012
Science | Workshops | Visual Arts | Talks | Wide Open School
26539
Best Available
Roger Hiorns imagines this class as a potential work of art.
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Hayward Gallery Room 1
Recruitment Plan
Tuesday 26 June 2012
Wednesday 27 June 2012
Science | Workshops | Visual Arts | Talks | Wide Open School
26638
Best Available
Joao Onofre leads a two-day workshop exploring both empirical sensory perception and intuition.
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Hayward Lecture Theatre
The Scientific Fundamentals of Photography Part 1: Optics and lenses
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Photography | Science | Workshops | Visual Arts | Talks | Wide Open School
26583
Best Available
Wolfgang Tillmans talks with Peter Török, Professor in optics at Imperial College, London, to introduce the technical workings of photography at a scientific level.
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Purcell Room
Africa Sci-Fi Screening
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Africa | Film | Science | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | London Lit Festival 12 | Africa Utopia
25953
This event explores the subject of genre in African writing, visual art and film.
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Hayward Lecture Theatre
The Scientific Fundamentals of Photography Part 2: Digital imaging
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Photography | Science | Workshops | Visual Arts | Talks | Wide Open School
26610
Best Available
The second of two discussions between Wolfgang Tillmans and Peter Török, Professor in Optics at Imperial College London, introducing the technical workings of photography at a scientific level.
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Hayward Gallery Room 1
Mind reading for the left and right brain
Friday 6 July 2012
Sunday 8 July 2012
Science | Workshops | Visual Arts | Talks | Wide Open School
25354
Best Available
Mark Allen leads an afternoon hands-on workshop in which you make your own lie-detector.
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Royal Festival Hall
BBC Worldwide presents Planet Earth in Concert
Sunday 16 September 2012
Sunday 16 September 2012
Electronic | Film | Film & Music | Orchestral | Science | Music
26321
Following its critically acclaimed UK premiere in London, Emmy award-winning British composer George Fenton conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra and special guest soloist Haley Glennie-Smith, in a breathtaking production of Planet Earth in Concert.
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Purcell Room
Ben Goldacre
Friday 7 December 2012
Friday 7 December 2012
28384
Ben Goldacre is a bestselling author, broadcaster, medical doctor and academic who specialises in analysing dodgy scientific claims by drug companies, newspapers, government reports, PR people and quacks.
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Hayward Gallery
Alternative Guide to the Universe Exhibition
Tuesday 11 June 2013
Monday 26 August 2013
31910
Best Available
<i>Alternative Guide to the Universe</i> explores the work of self-taught artists and architects, fringe physicists and visionary inventors, all of whom offer bracingly unorthodox perspectives on the world we live in
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Level 5 Function Room
George Widener
Wednesday 12 June 2013
Wednesday 12 June 2013
32722
A conversation with the artist George Widener <br/><br/>Widener employs a rich mix of numbers, calendars, numerology, historical data, population statistics and mathematical calculations in his art.