Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lectures Spring 2012

Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lectures are a great way to find out what UCL's early-career researchers are up to.  In just one lunch-hour, two speakers from across UCL will give a short talk about the area of study that they love.

     Time: Friday lunchtimes from 20 January -  23 March 2012, 13:10 - 13:55
     Place: Mully's, UCL Lewis's Building, Gower Street (map)
     Nearest tube: Euston Square

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20 January 2012
Optical illusions, mental illness and a unifying theory of the brain?
Harriet Brown, UCL Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging

When and where are we happiest?
George MacKerron, UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis

27 January 2012
Body clocks in constant darkness
Andrew Beale, UCL Department of Cell & Developmental Biology

Talk of the City: Our Tweets, Our Community Happiness
Daniele Quercia, UCL Department of Computer Science

3 February 2012
This is not graffiti
Sabina Andron, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture

A red traffic light on aging eyes
Ioannis Kokkinopoulos, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology

10 February 2012
The wind-lens: a less disruptive wind turbine?
Alessio Balleri, UCL Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering

The problem with searching for new things at the Large Hadron Collider
Stephen Bieniek, UCL Department of Physics & Astronomy

17 February 2012
New York City: Cultural autopsy and collage art
Rona Cran, UCL Department of English

Second speaker to be confirmed...

24 February 2012
Dutch Football between 1910 and 1920: values, power and finance
Nicholas Piercey, Department of Dutch, UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society

How safe is car travel for children in wheelchairs?
Dinos Visvikis, UCL Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering

2 March 2012
The play’s the thing: taking the drama out of translating for the theatre
Geraldine Brodie, UCL Centre for Intercultural Studies

Guilty silence: Is the presumption of innocence being undermined in the police station?
Abenaa Owusu-Bempah, UCL Laws

9 March 2012
Swipe I like - the like button in real life
Moritz Behrens, UCL Bartlett School of Graduate Studies

Being resilient to human error: Don’t end up with pie on your face!
Dominic Furniss, UCL Interaction Centre

16 March 2012
The life of Francis Crick: a lesson in bridging disciplines
Christine Aicardi, UCL Science and Technology Studies

After the earthquake: a proposal for rebuilding historic villages
Bernadette Devilat, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture

23 March 2012
Shedding light on body clocks and brains
Helen Moore, UCL Department of Cell & Developmental Biology

Talking to the soul: the mystical experience in Sufi poetry and music
Sara Vaghefian, Department of French, UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society

Any questions?  Email Hilary Jackson at hilary.jackson@ucl.ac.uk or call her on 020 7679 2489.

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