London Events: 20 February 2008

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• 09:00 - 17:15

  Digital Geography in a Web 2.0 World

  Location:

  Barbican Cinema 2, ,

• 09:00 onwards
  (lasts 2 days)

  5th Annual Clinical Trial Performance Metrics (starts today)

  Location:

  Danubius Hotel Regents Park, ,

• 13:00 - 14:00

  Symmetry and the Monster

  Speaker:

  Professor Mark Ronan

  Location:

  Gresham College, ,

• 13:00 - 14:00

  Gender In Medicine Research Seminar: Scientific Facts, Women and the Problem of Sources: Gender at Work in the Laboratory

  Speaker:

  Dr Tilli Tansey

  Location:

  Wellcome Building, Wellcome Building, 5th Floor Lecture Room

• 13:00 - 14:30

  New-build Gentrification: its histories and trajectories

  Speaker:

  Dr Loretta Lees

  Location:

  University College London, Wates House, Room 401

• 13:15 - 14:15

  Real forms of complex higher-spin field equations and new exact solutions

  Speaker:

  Carlo Iazeolla

  Location:

  Kings College London, Department of Mathematics, Room 423

• 14:00 onwards
  (lasts 4 days)

  The Little Theatre of Disease & Desire: Make Your Own Scenes & Characters for a Paper theatre (starts today)

  Location:

  Old Operating Theatre, Museum & Herb Garret, ,

• 14:00 - 15:00

  Large Extremal Black Holes in AdS5

  Speaker:

  Sangmin Lee

  Location:

  Imperial College London, Huxley Building, Room 503

• 14:00 - 15:00

  PNA-peptide conjugates as RNA targeting therapeutics

  Speaker:

  Prof Mike Gait

  Location:

  University College London, Department of Chemistry, Ramsay Lecture Theatre

• 14:00 - 18:00

  Towards a seamless system: bridging the gaps between weather, climate and the development community

  Speaker:

  Prof Julia Slingo, Dr Francisco Doblas-Reyes, Dr James Murphy, Dr Richard Washington, Dr Mike Harrison, Dr Steve Jennings

  Location:

  Zoological Society (London Zoo), Meeting Rooms,

• 15:00 - 16:00

  Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Dynamic sliding friction between coaxial carbon nanotubes

  Speaker:

  Dr Paul Tangney

  Location:

  Imperial College London, Huxley Building, Lecture Theatre 140

• 16:00 - 17:00

  A faster algorithm for computing the principal sequence of partitions of a graph

  Speaker:

  Vladimir Kolmogorov

  Location:

  Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, Alexandra House, Seminar Room B10 (Basement)

• 16:00 - 17:00

  Cofilin actin' up: roles in growth cone guidance and synapse development

  Speaker:

  James Zheng

  Location:

  Kings College London, New Hunt’s House, Guy’s Hospital Campus, Lecture Theatre 2

• 16:00 - 17:00

  Understanding Biology Through the Correlation Between Structure and Thermodynamics

  Speaker:

  Prof John E. Ladbury

  Location:

  University College London, Main Building, N & S Junctions, Wilkins Garden Room

• 16:00 - 17:00

  Analysis of the cytoskeleton in squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) - the role of ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like modifications & Simulating crowded protein environments: from structure to kinectics

  Speaker:

  Shahid Chaudhry, Xiaofan Li

  Location:

  Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratories, Room 703A&B

• 16:00 - 17:00

  From Basic Constituents to Structure and Function: new modelling approaches for the biomechanics of the arterial wall

  Speaker:

  Professor Nikos Stergiopulos

  Location:

  Imperial College London, Mechanical Engineering Building, Room 664

• 16:00 - 17:00

  Turning the Pages 2.0: 3D digital audio-facsimile of manuscripts and rare books

  Speaker:

  Michael Stocking

  Location:

  Kings College London, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Seminar room, 2nd floor

• 16:00 - 17:00

  The relation of neural oscillations to behavioural performance

  Speaker:

  Joachim Gross

  Location:

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

• 16:30 - 17:30

  Sperm competition: the sordid truth

  Speaker:

  Tom Pizzari

  Location:

  University College London, Darwin Building, Darwin Lecture Theatre

• 17:15 - 18:00

  GlaxoSmithKline Advanced Lecture Series on Recent Advances in Neurological Therapies: Evolving techniques in interventional neuroradiology

  Speaker:

  Dr Stefan Brew

  Location:

  National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, Wolfson Lecture Theatre

• 17:30 - 18:30

  Foam, Froth and Flotation or...how bubbles buoy up the world economy

  Speaker:

  Prfoessor Jan Cilliers

  Location:

  Imperial College London, Huxley Building, Clore Lecture Theatre

• 18:00 - 20:30

  Dinner@Dana: Game of Love

  Location:

  Dana Centre, ,

• 18:00 - 19:00

  GlaxoSmithKline Advanced Lecture Series on Recent Advances in Neurological Therapies: New surgical techniques in vascular surgery

  Speaker:

  Mr Neil Kitchen

  Location:

  National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, Wolfson Lecture Theatre

• 18:30 - 20:00

  That Other John: The Rediscovery of John Parkinson

  Speaker:

  Anna Parkinson

  Location:

  The Gallery, ,

• 18:30 - 20:00

  Michael Oakeshott memorial lecture: The Ideas that are Changing Politics

  Speaker:

  David Willetts MP

  Location:

  London School of Economics, Clement House, Hong Kong Theatre