Event archive

Friends have a huge archive of past events. Shown below is a selection of past lectures and Fireside Chats from October 2020.

Many were recorded and are published on our YouTube channel here.

Scroll to the bottom of the page to see the most recent events.
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Coronavirus: The Analysis
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What gravitational waves are revealing
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Behind-the-Scenes @ Dept. of Earth Science and Engineering
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The second quantum revolution
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Behind-the-Scenes @ Grantham Institute for Climate Change
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Managing Black Swan Risks
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Detection of Dark Matter – the LZ Experiment
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Dark Data: Why What You Don’t Know Matters
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Tour of LEIR (Low Energy Ion Ring) at CERN
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Tour of the Antimatter factory at CERN
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Tour of ITER, the world’s largest tokamak project
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The History of Scientific Philanthropy
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Living with space weather: risks, challenges and solutions
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The James Webb Space Telescope

Behind-the-Scenes @ Centre for Transport Studies

  • Location:
    Centre for Transport Studies, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College, London
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Aurora: In Search of the Northern Lights
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Developing RNA vaccines for COVID-19 and future pandemics
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Dyson School of Design Engineering – Creative Design Tutorial
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Behind the new AI revolution
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Friends Annual General Meeting
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New Events and Updates for the New Year
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The GAIA satellite

Behind-the-scenes @ RAL Space & Satellite Applications Catapult

  • Location:
    The Satellite Applications Catapult, Oxfordshire OX11 0QR

Tour of the Royal Society – group 1

  • Location:
    The Royal Society, London SW1Y 5AG

Investigating the origin of life in the universe

  • Location:
    Sir Alexander Fleming lecture theatre, London

Tour of the Royal Society – group 2

  • Location:
    The Royal Society, London SW1Y 5AG

Behind-the-Scenes @ the UK’s fusion research centre UKAEA – Culham Science Centre

  • Location:
    Culham Science Centre, Oxfordshire OX14 3DB

Tour of the Royal Society – group 3

  • Location:
    The Royal Society, London SW1Y 5AG

Cosmology and Dark Energy

  • Location:
    Sir Alexander Fleming lecture theatre, London SW7 2BX

Behind-the-scenes @ the Quantum Metrology Institute, National Physical Laboratory

  • Location:
    National Physical Laboratory, Middlesex, TW11 0LW
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Our precarious, unsustainable truce with boosters
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Cities of the future

Behind-the-Scenes @ the National Oceanography Centre

  • Location:
    National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, SO14 3ZH

Treasures of the Linnean Society and Royal Astronomical Society – group 1

  • Location:
    Burlington House, London W1J 0BQ

Mathematical Finance: from model to data and back

  • Location:
    Sir Alexander Fleming lecture theatre, London SW7 2BX

Treasures of the Linnean Society and Royal Astronomical Society – group 2

  • Location:
    Burlington House, London W1J 0BQ

Tour of the Royal College of Physicians

  • Location:
    Royal College of Physicians, London NW1 4LE
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The Next Frontier of Blockchain

Science tour to the Netherlands

  • Location:
    Leiden
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Printing bridges

The Search for Exoplanets

  • Location:
    Sir Alexander Fleming lecture theatre, London SW7 2BX
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The Neanderthals and Us

View from the front in the war on COVID-19

  • Location:
    Imperial College, London SW7 2BX

Treasures of the Linnean Society and Royal Astronomical Society

  • Location:
    Burlington House, London W1J 0BQ

Restoring the atmosphere – Greenhouse gas removal

  • Location:
    Sir Alexander Fleming building, London SW7 2BX
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Imperial Tech Foresight and the 2041 Scenarios

Behind-the-scenes @ the Central Laser Facility at Harwell Campus

  • Location:
    Central Laser Facility, Didcot

Behind-the-scenes @ UCL’s Astronomical Observatory, Mill Hill

  • Location:
    553 Watford Way,, London, NW7 2QS
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The Exquisite Machine: The New Science of the Heart – with Professor Sian Harding
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Friends Annual General Meeting

The role of psychedelics in medicine and brain research – with Dr Rosas and Dr Timmermann

  • Location:
    South Kensington Campus,, London SW7 2BX

Behind-the-scenes @ Dyson School of Design Engineering

  • Location:
    South Kensington Campus,, London SW7 2BX

The Universe, neutrinos, matter and antimatter – with Dr Patrick Dunne

  • Location:
    South Kensington Campus,, London SW7 2BX
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Global security threats beyond conflict and war – with Professor Deeph Chana
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The James Webb Space Telescope, the first stunning images – with Dr Olivia Jones

Juice, the mission to Jupiter’s icy moons – with Professor Michele Dougherty

  • Location:
    South Kensington Campus,, London SW7 2BX
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The Stegosaurian Dinosaurs – with Dr Susannah Maidment

Tour of the Royal Society

  • Location:
    The Royal Society, London SW1Y 5AG

Tour of the Royal Institution

  • Location:
    The Royal Institution, London W1S 4BS
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Life as a Guide to the Origin of Life – with Professor Nick Lane

The Story of AI (So Far) – with Professor Murray Shanahan

  • Location:
    South Kensington Campus,, London SW7 2BX

Behind-the-Scenes @ the Wellcome Sanger Institute

  • Location:
    Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA

Behind-the-scenes @ Turbo Group at Imperial

  • Location:
    South Kensington Campus,, London SW7 2BX
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mRNA vaccines, where next? – with Professor Robin Shattock
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Are Black Holes the source of Dark Energy? – with Dr Chris Pearson
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PragmatIC, Journey to Manufacturing – with Dr Catherine Ramsdale

Keynote address from the head of NASA science missions – Dr Nicky Fox

  • Location:
    South Kensington Campus,, London SW7 2BX

International science tour to Darmstadt

  • Location:
    Darmstadt

LHCb at CERN: challenging all we know – with Professor Mitesh Patel

  • Location:
    South Kensington Campus,, London SW7 2BX
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The MRI success story, could it happen again? – with Sir Peter Williams

Can small-modular nuclear reactors solve our energy problems? – with Dr Michael Bluck

  • Location:
    South Kensington Campus,, London SW7 2BX
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A Woman in a Man’s Field – with Professor Averil Mansfield

Behind-the-scenes @ Molecular Sciences Research Hub, White City Campus

  • Location:
    MSRH, White City Campus, London, W12 OBZ

Chemicals in the urban water cycle: a One Health issue – with Dr Leon Barron

  • Location:
    South Kensington Campus,, London SW7 2BX

Secrets of the Natural History Museum Tour

  • Location:
    Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD

Quantum Entanglement and Reality – with Professor Vlatko Vedral

  • Location:
    South Kensington Campus,, London SW7 2BX
Virtual Event

Gene drive – innatural selection for vector control – with Professor Crisanti

Secrets of the Universe – hiding in plain sight? – with Professor Neil Turok

  • Location:
    South Kensington Campus,, London SW7 2BX

Secrets of the Natural History Museum Tour

  • Location:
    Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD

Behind-the-scenes @ Centre of Excellence, Infrastructure Robotics Ecosystems

  • Location:
    Dept. of Aeronautics, Faculty of Engineering, London, SW7 2AZ

ESA’s Comet Interceptor Mission – with Professor Geraint Jones

  • Location:
    South Kensington Campus,, London SW7 2BX
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Friends Annual General Meeting 23-24
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Mars Missions – with experts who have landed on Mars!

Behind-the-scenes @ RAL Space, Harwell

  • Location:
    STFC RAL Space, Harwell Campus, OX11 0QX

Treasures and Tour of the British Library

  • Location:
    British Library, London SW7 5BD
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Teaching mathematics to computers – with Professor Kevin Buzzard

The Secret Body – with Professor Daniel M. Davis

  • Location:
    South Kensington Campus,, London SW7 2BX

Behind-the-scenes @ Silwood Park Campus

  • Location:
    Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, SL5 7PY
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Transforming to a Green Economy – is it really possible? – with Alyssa Gilbert
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History of the Antarctic Ice Sheets: FIRESIDE CHAT CANX FOR FRIDAY 14 JUNE

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