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100% Renewables - Future Challenges in Energy Systems
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100% renewable energy by 2050? This is an ambitious vision that will need significant change to our energy systems. It will require the development of an integrated power grid and continuous and steady transformation of the UK power system can only happen if fundamental interdisciplinary research...
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Thu 24 Jan 2019
2018 Christ’s College Climate Seminars: Thinking creatively about climate change
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The Centre for Science and Policy and Christ's College have worked with Professor Charles Kennel, Emeritus Director at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, to convene a series of seminars on thinking creatively about climate change. This series will address three questions: In what ways are...
Institution: Judge Business School
Created: Mon 22 Jan 2018
2023 Christ’s College Climate Seminars
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The tenth Christ's College Climate Seminar Series was held in collaboration with the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), Cambridge Zero, and Professor Charles Kennel, Director Emeritus at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego and Fellow-Commoner of Christ's...
Institution: Judge Business School
Created: Thu 9 Mar 2023
4-Dimensionalism in Large Scale Data Sharing and Integration
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Thursday 22nd April 2021
Background
In foundational ontology, 4-dimensionalism is shorthand for a mathematical-philosophical basis for a rigorous global identity criterion based upon composition. It acquired this name as a vital part of the approach is treating individuals as extended in time as...
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Tue 11 May 2021
About the Isaac Newton Institute
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We are a national and international visitor research centre and run research programmes on selected themes in mathematical sciences, with applications in a wide range of science and technology. www.newton.ac.uk
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Wed 22 Jun 2011
About the Newton Gateway to Mathematics
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The Newton Gateway to Mathematics acts as a knowledge intermediary for the mathematical sciences. It is the impact initiative of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI). Supported by INI and the University of Cambridge, the Newton Gateway to Mathematics reaches out to and engages...
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Thu 24 Jan 2019
Achieving Impact in Healthcare: From Mathematics to Clinical Support Systems and Devices
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Background
With a rapidly ageing global population and challenges such as the growth of antibiotic resistance, there has been significant growth in the global incidence of chronic and infectious health conditions. Furthermore, the number of people living with two or more chronic health conditions...
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Fri 12 Apr 2019
Adaptation to Climate Change
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From January to March 2014, CSaP's Inaugural Visiting Research Fellow Professor Charlie F Kennel delivered a series of seminars on adaptation to climate change, hosted by Christ's College, Cambridge.
Professor Kennel is Vice-Chancellor and Director emeritus at the Scripps Institution of...
Institution: Judge Business School
Created: Fri 31 Jan 2014
Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems
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In recent years there has been an explosion of complex data-sets in areas as diverse as Bioinformatics, Ecology, Epidemiology, Finance and Population genetics. In a wide variety of these applications, the stochastic models devised to realistically represent the data generating processes are very...
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Fri 25 Apr 2014
African Heritage Challenges: Development and Sustainability
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Conveners
Britt Baillie (University of Pretoria/University of Cambridge)
Chris Boonzaaier (University of Pretoria)
Leanne Philpot (University of Cambridge)
Marie Louise Stig Sørensen (University of Cambridge)
Dacia Viejo Rose (University of Cambridge)
Summary
This conference is the...
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Tue 16 Jun 2015
Ageing and the City
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Ageing and the City: Everyday Experiences of Older People in Urban Environments
What it means to grow older in cities is a question of increasing importance as world population ageing and urbanisation continue to accelerate. Older people and the cities within which they live, face numerous...
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Mon 23 Oct 2017
Algae Research at Cambridge
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There is increasing interest in the exploitation of microalgae as a sustainable feedstock for a variety of products (such as diesel, omega-3 oils, pigments, enzymes) to replace those currently sourced from fossil oil and gas, crop plants and animals.
The University has researchers from many...
Institution: Department of Plant Sciences
Created: Wed 24 Jun 2015
Algorithms and Software for Quantum Computers
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Next generation (Quantum) computers promise to speed up some mathematical processes by orders of magnitude, but new algorithms and software will need to be developed to exploit this power. Although general-purpose quantum computers are some years away, work should start on the software now. As...
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Fri 16 Mar 2018
Analysis on Graphs and its Applications
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Analysis on graphs and other discrete structures has been developing for quite some time, in particular due to applications to number theory, algebra, probability theory, spectral geometry, as well as to its usefulness in many practical problems. This area, however, has experienced recently a...
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Mon 3 Sep 2007
Applicable resurgent asymptotics: towards a universal theory
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Programme Theme
Asymptotic analysis and perturbation methods can provide approximate solutions and analytical properties to a broad range of problems where an exact solution cannot be found. They are therefore some of the most critically important tools in mathematics and theoretical physics....
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Fri 19 Mar 2021
Approximation, sampling and compression in data science
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Programme Theme
Approximation theory is the study of simulating potentially extremely complicated functions, called target functions, with simpler, more easily computable functions called approximants. The purpose of the simulation could be to approximate values of the target function with...
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Tue 12 Feb 2019
Approximation, sampling, and compression in high dimensional problems
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In a number of problems, both in theory and applications, one faces a situation when the ambient dimension is extremely high. Such problems often include approximating, sampling, or compressing functions on high-dimensional domains. Classical methods fail to be effective in this case due to the...
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Tue 18 Jun 2019
Archives of the Disappeared: Discipline and Method Amidst Ruin
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Archives of the Disappeared is an interdisciplinary research initiative for the study and documentation of communities, social movements, spaces, lifeworlds, literatures and cultures that have been destroyed through acts of political repression and mass violence. Through a reading group, seminars...
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Fri 15 May 2020
Auralities
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The ‘Auralities’ research network is concerned with investigating, debating and understanding practices of audition, broadly conceived. Our heading is necessarily in the plural: practices of audition are shaped by wider cultural practices that shift across different times and places; differences...
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Mon 6 Jan 2020
Behaviour and Policy During Pandemics: Models and Methods
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Background
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, modelling has taken centre stage both in forecasting, policy formulation and in informing the public, featuring prominently in the advice given to government in the UK and beyond. The pandemic has had profound influence on social and economic...
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Mon 28 Feb 2022
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01 - John Stevens Henslow, Teaching sheet with Arum maculatum (Lords and Ladies)
John Stevens Henslow, Teaching sheet with Arum maculatum (Lords and Ladies), undated (paper watermarked 1836), collage, pen and ink and watercolour. Department of Plant Sciences,...
Collection: Endless Forms Audio Guide
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 9 Jun 2009
#06 Mathematikum: an interview with Professor Martin Buhmann
In episode #6 we welcome Professor Martin Buhmann (Giessen) of the "Approximation, sampling and compression in data science" programme to speak about the Giessen-based...
Collection: Living Proof - the Isaac Newton Institute podcast
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Tue 23 Apr 2019
#09 “The beauty of results”: an interview with Professor Svitlana Mayboroda
Episode #9 welcomes Professor Svitlana Mayboroda to the podcast. The Kirk Distinguished Visiting Fellow (https://www.newton.ac.uk/about/fellowships/kirk) for the "Approximation,...
Collection: Living Proof - the Isaac Newton Institute podcast
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Mon 24 Jun 2019
0 - Welcome and Opening - Victoria Avery
Welcome and Opening
Victoria Avery (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Co-curator of Feast & Fast exhibition)
Summary
The pineapple is an emblem of power, promise and...
Collection: Power, Promise, Politics: The Pineapple from Columbus to Del Monte
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Fri 6 Mar 2020
#10 “Bringing the changes we want in Africa”: an interview with Dr Bubacarr Bah
In episode #10 Dr Bubacarr Bah of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cape Town (https://aims.ac.za/) shares with us his thoughts on compressive sampling and its...
Collection: Living Proof - the Isaac Newton Institute podcast
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Mon 24 Jun 2019
10. The Evolving Body: With Professor Randolph Nesse
Evolutionary physician Professor Randolph Nesse explores the idea of 'Darwin's eye', and discusses what evolution means for our bodies, our emotions and our behaviour - as well as...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 13 Jul 2009
11. Darwin, Design and Christianity: With Professor John Brooke
John Brooke, former Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at Oxford University, gives his take on the exhibition 'Endless Forms', and discusses the implications of...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 13 Jul 2009
12 Sermon: A tour of creation in the company of Job; towards a Theology of Science
Professor Tom McLeish, Professor of Physics, Durham University
Collection: Choral Evensong - 11 October 2015
Institution: St John's College
Created: Mon 7 Dec 2015
13. The Predatory Ape: Sex, Simians and Society in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Dr. Gowan Dawson discusses the intriguing representation - and sexualisation - of apes in the nineteenth century, from pickled specimens on display to an eager public to images of...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Wed 29 Jul 2009
#13 When mathematicians and environmental scientists meet: an interview with Professor Paula Harrison and Dr Martine...
An environmental sciences-themed discussion with Professor Paula Harrison (CEH) and Dr Martine Barons (Warwick).
Collection: Living Proof - the Isaac Newton Institute podcast
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Fri 16 Aug 2019
14. Evolving Images: Race and Popular Darwinism in Nineteenth-Century Photography
Professor Elizabeth Edwards explores how the emerging mass medium of photography engaged with popular Darwinian ideas in the nineteenth century, and how notions of race, 'type'...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 3 Aug 2009
15. Between Apes and Angels: Representing the Darker Implications of Darwinism
Science writer Dr. Marek Kohn discusses the various artistic reactions to the bleaker side of evolutionary thinking, as presented in the exhibition 'Endless Forms'. Is nature a...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Wed 2 Sep 2009
15th June 2020: 'Expansion Microscopy' - Ed Boyden, MIT Medialab & McGovern Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA
Ed Boyden, PhD is Professor of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT Media Lab and McGovern Institute’s Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology
His groups’...
Collection: Imaging ONE WORLD
Institution: Gurdon Institute
Created: Thu 25 Jun 2020
16. Struggle and Strikes: The 'Survival of the Fittest' in Art and Literature
Dame Gillian Beer discusses ideas of poverty, struggle and competition as explored in the painting 'On Strike' (1891), and examines how Darwinian notions of 'the survival of the...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 21 Sep 2009
16th June 2020 Press briefing on ONS COVID-19 data by Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter with the Science Media Centre
Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter of the Winton Centre for Risk & Evidence Communication gives a briefing to the press at the Science Media Centre's weekly digest of the ONS' COVID-19...
Collection: Press Briefings on Office of National Statistics COVID-19 statistics: Winton Centre and Science Media Centre
Institution: Department of Pure Maths and Mathematical Statistics
Created: Tue 16 Jun 2020
170. Exhibition of early science in China - Pottery and kilns - Beijing
Filmed by Alan Macfarlane and Sarah Harrison in August 2002. For the background please see the book by these authors, ‘China Travels 2002’
Collection: CHINA FILMS 2002
Institution: King's College
Created: Thu 10 Feb 2022
171. Exhibition of early science in China - Paper making - Beijing
Filmed by Alan Macfarlane and Sarah Harrison in August 2002. For the background please see the book by these authors, ‘China Travels 2002’
Collection: CHINA FILMS 2002
Institution: King's College
Created: Thu 10 Feb 2022
172. Exhibition of early science in China Progress of invention in China- Beijing
Filmed by Alan Macfarlane and Sarah Harrison in August 2002. For the background please see the book by these authors, ‘China Travels 2002’
Collection: CHINA FILMS 2002
Institution: King's College
Created: Thu 10 Feb 2022
173. Exhibition of early science in China Silk weaving loom - Beijing
Filmed by Alan Macfarlane and Sarah Harrison in August 2002. For the background please see the book by these authors, ‘China Travels 2002’
Collection: CHINA FILMS 2002
Institution: King's College
Created: Thu 10 Feb 2022
174. Exhibition of early science in China - Printing - Beijing
Filmed by Alan Macfarlane and Sarah Harrison in August 2002. For the background please see the book by these authors, ‘China Travels 2002’
Collection: CHINA FILMS 2002
Institution: King's College
Created: Thu 10 Feb 2022
