London Events: 24 October 2007

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• 08:00 onwards
  (lasts 3 days)

  X|Media|Lab London "Virtual Worlds" (starts today)

  Speaker:

  Robert Gehorsam, Robert Lai, Frank Campbell, Justin Bovington, Meg Pickard, Thomas Bidaux, Nic Brisbourne, Lizzie Jackson, Steve Prentice, Ferhan Cook, Assia Grazioli-Venier, Jason Stoddard

  Location:

  Canvas Buildings, Kings Cross Freight Depot, ,

• 08:30 onwards
  (lasts 2 days)

  Virtual Worlds Forum Europe 2007 (starts today)

  Location:

  Canvas Buildings, ,

• 08:30 onwards
  (lasts 2 days)

  Virtual Discovery - Computer-Aided Drug Design and Screening (starts today)

  Speaker:

  Prof J.P.G. Malthouse, Martin Harrison, Hugo Kubinyi, Malcolm Walkinshaw

  Location:

  Centre Point Tower, ,

• 13:00 - 14:00

  UCLIC seminar: Supporting user interactions in multi-display environments

  Speaker:

  Sriram Subramanian

  Location:

  University College London, Remax House, Interaction Room (4.01), 4th Floor

• 13:30 - 17:30

  Pregnancy and the lung

  Location:

  Royal Society of Medicine, ,

• 14:00 - 15:00

  Witchy Wednesday: Halloween Pills, Potions, Poisons

  Location:

  Old Operating Theatre, Museum & Herb Garret, ,

• 15:30 - 16:30

  Asynchronous games: Innocence without alternation

  Speaker:

  Samuel Mimram

  Location:

  Queen Mary, University of London, Department of Computer Science, Room CS/446

• 16:00 - 17:00

  Whitehead Lecture: Scientific Art or Artistic Science?

  Speaker:

  Nicolas Wade

  Location:

  Goldsmiths, University of London, Ben Pimlott Building, Pimlott Lecture Theatre

• 17:00 - 18:00

  CASA Research Seminar: The Dynamics of Town Centre Retail: 1971 – 2003

  Speaker:

  Miles Davis, Vassilis Zachariadis

  Location:

  University College London, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Basement Lecture Theatre

• 17:30 - 19:30

  Presidential Address and Annual Dinner: Getting by with a little help from my friends

  Location:

  Royal Society of Medicine, ,

• 17:30 - 20:15

  21st century working - the portable office (from airport lounge to park bench!)

  Location:

  Royal Society of Medicine, ,

• 18:30 - 20:30

  Three Ways to Mars

  Speaker:

  Bob Parkinson, Alan Bond, Mark Hempsell

  Location:

  British Interplanetary Society, ,

• 18:30 - 19:30

  Thinking like a vegetable: how plants decide what to do

  Speaker:

  Professor Ottoline Leyser

  Location:

  The Royal Society, ,

• 19:00 - 20:30

  BIOS public debate: Beyond the Genome: the challenge of synthetic biology

  Speaker:

  Professor Sarah Franklin, Professor Peter Lipton, Professor Chris Mason, Dr J Craig Venter

  Location:

  London School of Economics, Old Building, Old Theatre

• 19:00 - 20:30

  Computational Brain

  Speaker:

  Karl Friston, Leslie Smith, Francisco Sepulveda, Gaetan Lee

  Location:

  Dana Centre, ,