UCL Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2011
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http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lhlhttp://www.youtube.com/ucllhlRunning at UCL since 1942, Lunch Hour Lectures are an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work currently being undertaken at the university. Speakers are drawn from UCL's wide-ranging academic departments and lectures frequently showcase new research and recent academic publications.
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The price of the pouch: the evolutionary ramifications of mammalian reproductive strategies
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: The price of the pouch: the evolutionary ramifications of mammalian reproductive strategies Dr Anjali Goswami (UCL Genetics, Evolution and Environment) Date: 8th December 2011 Mammals are characterized by lengthy maternal care, and this has been linked to manifold…
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Designing for students
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: Designing for students Professor Sir Peter Cook (UCL Bartlett School of Architecture) Date: 6th December 2011 Sir Peter Cook and his CRAB STUDIO have two new University buildings under construction : in Austria and Australia. He designs from the experience of more than 40...
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From pathogen to ally: engineering viruses to treat disease
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: From pathogen to ally: engineering viruses to treat disease Professor Mary Collins (UCL Immunology) Recombinant DNA technology has been in widespread use since the 1980s. It has allowed the engineering of viral genomes to produce a number of safe and useful medicines. To...
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The highs and lows of our nearest star, the Sun
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: The highs and lows of our nearest star, the Sun Dr Lucie Green (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory) Date: 29th November 2011 There is more to the Sun than meets the eye. Observations from spacecraft have, over the last 50 years, revealed a dynamic and active behaviour to...
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Did Democracy Cause the American Civil War?
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: Did Democracy Cause the American Civil War? Dr Adam Smith (UCL History) Date: 24th November 2011 A hundred and fifty years ago the first shots of the American Civil War were fired. It was a war that was to result in the deaths of perhaps three quarters of a million people....
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Child development in developing countries
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: Child development in developing countries Professor Orazio Attanasio (UCL Economics) Date: 22nd November 2011 In this lecture Professor Attanasio talks about the recent interest in child development in developing countries, through intervention in early years, and…
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Against nature? Homosexuality and evolution
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: Against nature? Homosexuality and evolution Professor Volker Sommer (UCL Anthropology) Date: 17th November 2011 Same-sex sexual behaviour is often condemned on the grounds that it is "against nature". Indeed, biology tells us that selection favours those who leave more...
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Prometheus and I: building new body parts from stem cells
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: Prometheus and I: building new body parts from stem cells Professor Martin Birchall (UCL Ear Institute) Date: 15th November 2011 Prometheus created life from clay, and within many biologists and surgeons there is a primal desire to do the same from the materials at hand…
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When technology design provokes errors
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: When technology design provokes errors Professor Ann Blandford (UCL Interaction Centre) Date: 3rd November 2011 Did you ever forget your chip & pin card in a card reader? Leave the original on a photocopier? Send an email to the wrong person from your address book? The way...
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London the divorce capital of the world: 'Big money' divorce cases
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: London the divorce capital of the world. 'Big money' divorce cases: fairness, gender and judicial discretion Professor Alison Diduck (UCL Laws) Date: 1st Nov 2011 The law gives the courts very broad discretion to determine 'fair' property and financial awards when couples...
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Photons, spacecraft, atomic clocks and Einstein - fundamental physics in the space environment
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: Photons, spacecraft, atomic clocks and Einstein -- fundamental physics in the space environment Professor Marek Ziebart (UCL Space Geodesy and Navigation) Date: 27th October 2011 Satellites designed, built and launched by humans orbit the earth to carry out a myriad of...
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What has 'The King's Speech' done to improve public awareness about stuttering?
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: What has the King's Speech done to improve public awareness about stuttering? Professor Peter Howell (UCL Psychology and Language Sciences) Date: 25th October 2011 The King's Speech provides a backdrop against which to review our current understanding of stuttering, also...
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Osteoporosis: Bouncing babies to crumbling wrinklies - the need to own our bones
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: Osteoporosis: Bouncing babies to crumbling wrinklies - the need to own our bones Professor Allen Goodship (UCL Institute of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Science) Date: 20th October 2011 The skeleton is key to our ability to undertake everyday movements and activities...
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Voicing Slavery: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Mary Prince
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: Voicing Slavery: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Mary Prince Professor Catherine Hall (UCL History) Date: 18th October 2011 Women's voices were central to the struggle against slavery in the early 19th century. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, one of Britain's greatest poets…
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The Perfect Storm: Can disaster reduction occur in the face of climate change and population growth?
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: The perfect storm: Can disaster reduction occur in the face of climate change and population growth? Professor Mark Maslin (UCL Geography) Date: 13th October 2011 In the near future we face the perfect storm; where the combination of climate change and population growth is...
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