March 6, 2008
Empire of the Stars: Friendship, Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes
8 pm
Old combination room
Trinity College, University of Cambridge
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March 20, 2008
Empire of the Stars: Friendship, Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes
Keynote lecture at the 12th Panhellenic conference of the Greek Physics Society, 20-23 March 2008, Kavala, Greece.

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May 13, 2008
What did Albert Einstein Learn from Henri Poincare’s book, Science and Hypothesis
University of Aix en Provence, France.

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September 26, 2008
Visualising Science: Drawing the Unseen
The Big Draw, University College London.

Can there be a relationship between art and science? Do they have anything in common and if so, what? Have they got anything to contribute to each other? What do artists have to say about science? What do scientists have to say about art?

What happens when art and science come together?

I often disagree with what is passed off as Art/Science. Certainly it will be a combination of art and science with the goal of telling us something about a world beyond our perceptions. Has this not always been the goal of artists and scientists such as Dürer, Leonardo da Vinci, Picasso, Galileo and Einstein? The bringing together of art and science will have to be accomplished by artists with more than a passing knowledge of science - and vice versa. In the end, I think it will combine incredible advances in computer technology with science, and artistic concepts such as beauty - so that artists might be able to manipulate visual images as if they were … equations! Surely all this touches on fundamental issues in art, science, technology and education in the 21st century.