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Lunch Hour Lectures
Lunch Hour Lectures are an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work taking place at UCL, in bite sized chunks. Speakers are drawn from across the university, and lectures frequently showcase new research and recent academic publications.
Lunch Hour Lectures take place 13:15 – 13:55, are free, require no pre-booking, and are open to anyone on a first-come, first-served basis.
All lectures are streamed live online and can be watched by clicking on the Watch Lunch Hour Lectures online link above. Lectures can also be watched from 2 weeks after the event either on this website or via our YouTube channel where all lectures will be subtitled. Alternatively, lectures can also be downloaded from iTunes U.
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Tuesday 21 February 2012
Lunch Hour Lecture: The Metaphysics of Concrete
13:15 — 13:55
Almost three tons of concrete are produced every year for each man, woman and child on the planet. It is now second only to water in terms of human consumption. Yet how has the…
Thursday 23 February 2012
Lunch Hour Lecture: Prevention is better than cure; investing in your arteries
13:15 — 13:55
Although clinical complications of arterial disease usually occur from middle age, the underlying pathology begins many years earlier with signs of arterial wall thickening becoming…
Tuesday 28 February 2012
Lunch Hour Lecture: From Euclid to modern geometry: Do the angles of a triangle really add up to 180??
13:15 — 13:55
More than two thousand years ago, Euclid of Alexandria wrote the most successful textbook of all time. Starting with a few simple assumptions (often called axioms), he proved one…
Thursday 1 March 2012
Lunch Hour Lecture: The Great American Novel: How and Why
13:15 — 13:55
Parodied almost as soon as it was announced, and generally regarded as a topic beneath the remit of serious literary criticism, the Great American Novel enterprise has proved more…
Tuesday 6 March 2012
Lunch Hour Lecture: Patents stop people doing things. So why are they a good thing?
13:15 — 13:55
The public debate about patents is old and never stops. Here is what Jeremy Bentham said: “So long as men are governed by unexamined prejudices and led away by sounds, it is…
Thursday 8 March 2012
Lunch Hour Lecture: Having it all - dispelling the myths about work and motherhood
13:15 — 13:55
We hear a lot about the stresses of juggling motherhood with paid work, and the subsequent harm this might cause children. However, this lecture to mark International Women’s Day…
Tuesday 13 March 2012
Lunch Hour Lecture: The Search for Genius and Einstein’s Brain
13:15 — 13:55
To mark Brain Awareness Week, Dr Mark Lythgoe will take audiences on a journey in search of the greatest brain of the 20th century, a brain which was removed during the autopsy of…
Thursday 15 March 2012
Lunch Hour Lecture: 3D imaging: nanotechnology and the quest for better medical sensors
13:15 — 13:55
The smaller the scales we want to look at, the bigger the tools we need to use, and with complex equipment of this magnitude, it is becoming more and more common for research groups to…
