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  1. Making Software Correct by Construction (2017)

    Subject
    Information technology

    Public lecture by Professor Martyn Thomas, expert in software engineering and cybersecurity and IT Livery Company Professor of Information Technology at Gresham College. Thomas discusses whether it is...

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  2. Shostakovich on Trial: From Lady Macbeth to the Fifth Symphony (2022 Video)

    Recording of an illustrated lecture by Professor Marina Frolova-Walker FBA (Clare College, Cambridge) on the the censure of Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and...

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  3. How Fast Can Usain Bolt Run? (2011)

    Subject
    Mathematics; Sports science

    A lecture given by Professor John D. Barrow for the Gresham College ‘Maths in Sport’ series on 15 November 2011. How can Usain Bolt improve his world 100 metres sprint record significantly without...

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  4. What Really Happened in Y2k? (2017)

    Subject
    Information technology; Technology

    Grehsam College lecture by Professor Martyn Thomas. As the year 2000 approached, many people feared that computer programmes storing year values as two-digit figures (such as 99) would cause problems. There...

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  5. Policy Responses, The (2017)

    Subject
    Economics

    Public lecture. Professor Jagjit Chadha explains the need to think of economic policy as a path co-ordinating monetary, financial and fiscal policy. The economic landscape that he outlines imply some new...

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  6. Mathematical Skyline, The (2017)

    Subject
    Mathematics

    Talk by Simon Salamon, Professor in Geometry at Kings College, London. The study of perspective in art has led to a branch of mathematics called projective geometry, which addresses the relationship between...

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  7. Shakespeare’s Stages: In Little Place a Million (2018 Video)

    Video of a lecture from the Museum of London, originally streamed live. Actor and Shakespeare scholar Michael Pennington discusses the direct effect on the dramatist’s writing of the theatres he wrote for.

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  8. Will There Be a Shortage of Spending Power? (2013)

    Subject
    Business studies; Economics

    This lecture looks at the world surplus of savings as incomes gradually shift proportionally towards those who traditionally save a high proportion of their earnings and away from those who traditionally...

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  9. London’s Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital (2012)

    Subject
    History; Social welfare

    Video recording of a lecture held on 7 March 2012 in the series ‘The Lost Hospitals of London’ organised by Gresham College. (53 minutes) In 1739, Captain Thomas Coram was dismayed at the sight of...

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  10. Leonardo, Rapunzel and the Mathematics of Big Hair (2016)

    Subject
    Mathematics; Physics

    A talk by Professor Raymond E. Goldstein which discusses the maths behind the physical properties of hair. Can the macroscopic properties of hair - its texture, body, volume and other qualities such as...

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