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'Vitruvian man inside the Buckyball'
design by Sir Harry Kroto
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Arts-Science Encounters
The Arts meet the Sciences and Social Sciences in a series of talks and performances where anything could happen.
The Arts-Science Encounters are a series of talks bringing together researchers from across the University's five faculties and recognised external speakers. The topics are broad ranging, including speakers from more than twenty disciplines, ranging from History, English, Music, Geography and Politics, to Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics, Medicine, Neuroscience and Psychology. We will be hosting visiting academics and performers from Aberdeen, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Oxford and elsewhere. The talks are free and open to the general public and are pitched at non-specialists.
The final Encounter for 2010...
THE SECRET MATHEMATICIANS
21 June – Marcus du Sautoy
If the arts have their sciences, the sciences have their arts. To round off our 2010 Encounters with the second annual Art-Science Public Lecture, we heard from Oxford University Professor Marcus du Sautoy as he discussed how some of the most famous artists and writers of our time are actually mathematicians in disguise...
Marcus du Sautoy is the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, and in this talk his aim was to reveal some aspects of the beauty of the art of mathematics.
Along with other recent books such as The Music of the Primes and Finding Moonshine, Marcus du Sautoy's newest book, Number Mysteries, was available for purchase at the event, in advance of its official publication date.
Entrance was free and open to the general public, but by ticket only, in St George´s Church.
You can find a recording of this event, and some selections from other events, by clicking on the sidebar to the left.
Please watch this space for more free Arts-Science Events coming up in 2011...
A big thank you to all our enthusiastic audiences during the 2010 season, and au revoir from Rachel.
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