Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences at the Department for Continuing Education
A collection of audio and video resources of lectures, seminars and presentations from the Department's mathematical, physical and life sciences programmes.
Luc Steels delivers the 2012 Simonyi lecture and asks can machines be creative enough to invent their own language? Professor Steels talks about some of his recent breakthrough experiments which have seen robots programmed to play language games and come up with novel concepts, words and...
Published 10/18/12
Inspired by Évariste Galois's attempts to express symmetry using mathematical equations, Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores the inextricable link between the physical world and mathematics.
Published 11/25/10
"Mathematics: Navigating Nature's Dark Labyrinth" - the Inaugural Lecture of the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, 2009.
Published 11/30/09