12 January
"The Invention of Colour"
International conference "Définition de la couleur", 16.30
Université Paris Diderot, 75004 Paris
Details here.
6 February
"Pattern formation and emergence: from nature to society"
Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
Barcelona, Spain
25 February
"Nature's patterns"
2 pm, So Beautiful or So What? Nature at the Crossroads of Art, Science and Evolution
An All-Day Wonder Cabinet, Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th St, New York
Free and open to the public
2 April
"Curiosity"
The School of Life, 70 Marchmont St, London, 7 pm
Details here.
27 April
"Water as a Biomolecule"
Baker Symposium, "Water: an Active Player in Bulk and Interfacial Chemistry", 4.40 pm
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
10 May
"Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything"
6.30 pm, Waterstone's, Gower St, London
Details here.
17 May
"Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything"
Rye Books, 45 Upland Road, East Dulwich, London SE22 [my local!], 7 pm
Details here.
28 May
"2011 and all that: the case for treating society as a complex system"
Institute of Physics Nonlinear and Complex Physics Group, IoP, 76 Portland Place, London, 6 pm
7 June
"Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything"
4 pm, Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye, Wales
Details here.
16 June
"Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything"
2.30 pm, Times Cheltenham Science Festival
Cheltenham
16 June
"Humans in Space": a panel discussion
6.30 pm, Times Cheltenham Science Festival
Cheltenham
25 June
"Is Synthetic Biology Unnatural?"
EnGENEious: Evolving Life for Future Technologies, after dinner talk
Christ Church College, Oxford
Details here.
5 September
Concluding remarks at RSC Faraday Discussion Meeting "Ion Specific Hofmeister Effects"
Queens College, Oxford
Details here.
13 September
"The Music Instinct"
Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution
11 South Grove, Highgate, London N6
23 September
"Newton and Religion"
Gravity Fields Festival, 12.15 pm
Angel and Royal Hotel, Grantham, Lincs.
Details here.
23 September
"Isaac Newton: An Outsider in the Age of Curiosity"
Gravity Fields Festival, 3 pm
Masonic Hall, Grantham, Lincs.
Details here.
24 September
"2011 and All That: The Case for Treating Society as a Complex System"
Complexity and Social Science at the Interface to the Real World, 3 pm
Chicheley Hall, Newport Pagnell
Details here.
27 September
"Pattern Formation in Nature"
Advances in Architectural Geometry 2012 conference, 2 pm
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Details here.
22 October
"Curiosity"
Life Centre, 6 pm
Times Square, Newcastle upon Tyne
Details here.
1 November
"How Curiosity Turned into Science"
University of Sheffield, 5.15 pm
ICoSS, Portobello St, Sheffield
Details here.
23 November
"Water as a Biomolecule"
King's College London, St Thomas's Hospital, 3 pm
Westminster Bridge Rd, London SE1
29 November
"Unnatural"
King's College London, 4 pm
Guy's Hospital, London Bridge, London SE1
Details here.
5 December
"Curiosity"
Perimeter Institute, 7 pm
Waterloo, Canada
Details here.
