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Lecture: Robert G. Roeder, Regulation of transcription in animal cells: a 50-year journey revealing an expanding universe of factors and mechanisms

Public lecture by biochemist and molecular biologist Dr Robert G. Roeder, 2021 Kyoto Prize Laureate for Basic Sciences 

Robert G. Roeder has revealed the principle of the regulatory mechanism of transcription in eukaryotes through his over 50 years of transcriptional research, by identifying functions of a series of factors such as three distinct RNA polymerases, basic transcription factors, one of the first gene-specific factors, and regulators in transcription from chromatin. 

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Lecture: Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, A journey through computer science

Public lecture by computer scientist Dr Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, 2021 Kyoto Prize Laureate for Advanced Technology

Andrew Chi-Chih Yao created new trends in computer science and made a great contribution to cutting-edge research in various areas, especially in security, secure computing, and quantum computation through establishing innovative fundamental theories for computation and communication. 

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Writing in the new cosmology: A workshop with Bruno Latour

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As a preview of Bruno Latour’s Kyoto Prize Lecture, graduate students, early-career researchers, and all scholars are invited to join an informal workshop and discussion with Bruno Latour on writing and genres. Please register below to confirm your attendance.

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Lecture: Bruno Latour, How to react to a change in cosmology

Public lecture by philosopher Dr Bruno Latour, 2021 Kyoto Prize Laureate for Arts and Philosophy, followed by a discussion with Professor Erica Charters (Faculty of History, University of Oxford) and Dr Javier Lezaun, (Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Oxford). Bruno Latour will be giving the lecture remotely.

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Engineering concepts clarify physical law by engineer and applied physicist Carver Mead

Pioneer of modern microelectronics Carver Mead (2022 Kyoto Prize Laureate in Advanced Technology) whose technological innovations form the foundations of modern very-large-scale integration chip design gives the Kyoto Prize at Oxford public lecture remotely.

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Epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics of pathogens in time and space by Bryan T. Grenfell

Innovative population biologist Bryan T. Grenfell (2022 Kyoto Prize Laureate in Basic Sciences) whose methodology of analysis of pathogen evolution and epidemics has been instrumental in producing effective disease control measures gives a lecture for the Kyoto Prize at Oxford.

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Dr Elliott H Lieb: My Journey Through Physics and Mathematics

I present snapshots of my seventy-year journey through the world of science, first as a would-be engineer, then as a physicist and later as a mathematician and a mathematical physicist. In many encounters with colleagues in different areas of research I learned that mathematics and a mathematical perspective can be pivotal in developing our thinking about physics. This fundamental connection between mathematics and physics was not always accepted at the beginning of my career, and it was even vigorously denied by some mathematicians and physicists.

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Nalini Malani: My Reality is Different

My Reality is Different: for the majority of humankind the quotidian experience of reality in the past and in the present are different from those who dominate and manipulate world views in an oppressive manner, but the paradigm for a future could be Different. As an artist I believe my path of life in all humility, is to contribute to the advancement of society and humankind. Our future in the 21st century urgently needs not only a greater balance between technology and human spirit, as Kazuo Inamori envisioned, but also a much-needed re-balance within the human spirit.

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