Ben Evans

London Lectures

Feed of lectures in London, UK sources from various academic institutions, particularly institutions with interests in Artificial Intelligence and Conservation.

Monday
Jul
28
00:00
Modern Approaches in SPDEs & Data Assimilation 2025
Imperial College London
10:00
Holiday workshops: Cosmetic chemistry (ages 9–11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Designing for plants (ages 7–8)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
12:00
Big Butterfly Count at Queen’s Lawn
Imperial College London
13:15
Holiday workshops: Designing for plants (ages 9–11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
18:30
Writing Creative Non-Fiction with Hannah Lowe
Brunel University London
Tuesday
Jul
29
10:00
Holiday workshops: Build like Bucky (ages 12-14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Cosmetic chemistry (ages 7–8)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:00
Holiday workshops: Build like Bucky (ages 15-18)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Wednesday
Jul
30
10:00
YSC Holiday workshops: Bacterial evolution (ages 15–18)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Fractal fun (ages 7–8)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: Interpreting games (ages 9–11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Thursday
Jul
31
10:00
Holiday workshops: Domino computing (ages 12–14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:00
Holiday workshops: Extract your own DNA (ages 12-14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Extract your own DNA (ages 9-11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: Maths in motion (ages 15-18)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Friday
Aug
1
10:00
Holiday workshops: Intro to the BBC Micro:bit (ages 7-8)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Extract your own DNA (ages 7–8)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: Intro to the BBC Micro:bit (ages 9–11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Aug
4
10:00
Holiday workshops: Forensics (ages 12–14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Intro to evolution (ages 7–8)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: Intro to evolution (ages 9–11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Aug
5
10:00
Holiday workshops: Forensics (ages 15–18)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Making music and sound with BBC Micro:bit (ages 12–14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Wednesday
Aug
6
10:00
Holiday workshops: Colour chemistry (ages 15–18)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
18:30
Writing Short Stories with Elaine Feeney
Brunel University London
Thursday
Aug
7
10:00
Holiday workshops: Colour chemistry (ages 12–14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Skateboards to starships (age 12–14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Friday
Aug
8
10:00
Holiday workshops: Skateboards to starships (age 15–18)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Aug
11
10:00
Holiday workshops: Maths maps and adventures AM (ages 7–8)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Crash testing (ages 9-11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: Where maths meets maps (ages 9-11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Aug
12
10:00
Holiday workshops: Stories from maths (ages 12–14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Crash testing (ages 12-14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
18:30
Kelly Weinersmith: To Boldly Go?
Royal Society
Wednesday
Aug
13
10:00
Holiday workshops: Exploring the solar system AM (ages 7–8)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: Exploring the solar system PM (ages 9-11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Thursday
Aug
14
09:00
Does the World Need a Government?
Birkbeck, University of London
10:00
Holiday workshops: A question of taste (ages 15–18)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: An introduction to space science (ages 12–14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Friday
Aug
15
10:00
Holiday workshops: An expanding universe of knowledge (ages 15–18)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Aug
18
10:00
Holiday workshops: STIXX Shelters – Build Big, Think Bigger! (ages 7–8)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: Engineering Meets Ingenuity (ages 9–11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Aug
19
10:00
Holiday workshops: Extract your own DNA (ages 7–8)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Where is engineering? (ages 12–14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:00
Holiday workshops: Extract your own DNA (ages 12-14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Wednesday
Aug
20
10:00
Holiday workshops: Extract your own DNA (ages 9-11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Digital Designs to Physical Products AM (ages 9–11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: Digital Designs to Physical Products (ages 12–14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Thursday
Aug
21
10:00
Holiday workshops: Forensics (ages 12–14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Electronic and Electrical Control AM: Mission buggy transport (ages 9-11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: Electronic and Electrical Control: Next level engineering PM (ages 12-14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Friday
Aug
22
10:00
Holiday workshops: Colour chemistry (ages 15–18)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Aug
26
10:00
Holiday workshops: The magic of computer science AM (ages 7–8)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Magnets and motors (ages 9–11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: The magic of computer science PM (ages 9-11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Wednesday
Aug
27
10:00
Holiday workshops: Magnets and motors (ages 12–14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Searching to speak AM (ages 7-8)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: Searching to speak PM (ages 9-11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Thursday
Aug
28
10:00
Holiday workshops: Cosmetic chemistry (ages 7–8)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Codes and ciphers (ages 7–8)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
13:15
Holiday workshops: Codes and ciphers (ages 9–11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Friday
Aug
29
10:00
Holiday workshops: Cosmetic chemistry (ages 9–11)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Holiday workshops: Patterns and predictions (ages 12–14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Sept
1
10:00
Holiday workshops: Forensics (ages 12–14)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Sept
2
10:00
Holiday workshops: Colour chemistry (ages 15–18)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Wednesday
Sept
3
12:00
Exploring Data Study Groups: Where Industry Challenges Meet Academic Innovation
The Alan Turing Institute
Monday
Sept
8
09:00
Data Study Group - September 2025
The Alan Turing Institute
Tuesday
Sept
9
18:00
Automation Anxiety
Gresham College
Thursday
Sept
11
18:00
Earth – Our Planetary Life Support System
Gresham College
Friday
Sept
12
18:00
WiFi Wars Debug XX
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Sept
15
09:00
SOLD OUT - Royal Institution Youth Summit 2025
The Royal Institution (Ri)
18:00
An introduction to artificial intelligence (short course)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Mathematics: The rise of the Machines?
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Sept
16
09:30
International Conference on Trustworthy Digital Infrastructure 2025
The Alan Turing Institute
17:30
Professor Jaime Delgadillo - Inaugural Lecture
King's College London
18:00
The Shape of Hands: Symmetry, Chirality and Handedness
Gresham College
Wednesday
Sept
17
09:30
AI and Defence for Maritime: Breakfast Briefing
The Alan Turing Institute
12:00
Workshop 2: Impact of Fertility Treatment on Birkbeck Staff - A Discussion
Birkbeck, University of London
18:00
Authoritarian Legacies and Popular Support for State Violence: A Multi-Method Analysis of the Philippine Case
Birkbeck, University of London
The Great God Pan: Lord of the Wild
Gresham College
Thursday
Sept
18
18:00
Lessons from Guantánamo Bay
Gresham College
18:30
Ecologies of Violence: A Conversation
Birkbeck, University of London
Friday
Sept
19
15:30
Global inequality in historical and comparative perspective
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Saturday
Sept
20
18:00
Ri Demo Team extravaganza
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Sept
22
18:00
The beautiful world of electric current – A spark-tacular experience!
The Royal Institution (Ri)
18:30
Investing in our future: COP30 and the sustainable growth agenda
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
19:00
Shakespeare’s Musical Fairies
Gresham College
Tuesday
Sept
23
13:00
Current understanding of visual snow syndrome
King's College London
16:00
Bernal Lecture 2025: The Harvest of an eclectic Mind: Alan Mackay and the Rewriting of the Book of Crystallography
Birkbeck, University of London
18:00
AI Will Be Your Overlord: Faster, Brighter, Better Than You?
Gresham College
18:30
Valuing nature in a changing climate: rethinking natural capital
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Wednesday
Sept
24
18:30
Climate finance and investment in low-income countries
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
19:00
How It Ends: What We Know about the Fate of the Universe
Gresham College
Thursday
Sept
25
08:30
'Breakfast with Birkbeck' Environment & Sustainability Webinar #8
Birkbeck, University of London
18:00
Professor Hammond's Inaugural Lecture - From the Seychelles to North Korea: Imaging the Earth One Piece at a Time
Birkbeck, University of London
Saturday
Sept
27
18:00
The scientific mind of Leonardo Da Vinci
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Sept
29
18:00
The science of serendipity: How innovation really works
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Sept
30
18:00
Hitler, Jesus & How to Win a Culture War
Gresham College
18:30
How AI is helping - and harming - animals
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Wednesday
Oct
1
18:00
Why Do We Fear?
Gresham College
Thursday
Oct
2
18:00
Evoking Empathy through Animal Portraiture
Gresham College
Case teaching in the era of AI
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Friday
Oct
3
12:00
Judges in Dialogue: Intellectual Property Law
King's College London
Saturday
Oct
4
13:30
The great alien hunt (family)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
18:00
Searching for the invisible universe
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Oct
6
18:00
Young Lungs: Could childhood asthma be cured?
The Royal Institution (Ri)
18:30
Depopulation: an ethical perspective
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Ferrier Prize Lecture: Unravelling the molecular basis of Huntington's disease
Royal Society
Wednesday
Oct
8
18:00
How Does Mathematics Last? Heritage and Heritage-making in Mathematics
Gresham College
18:30
The promise and peril of Trump's America first
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Friday
Oct
10
18:30
Francis Crick Prize Lecture: Unravelling the origins of childhood cancer
Royal Society
Saturday
Oct
11
18:00
Decoding ageing
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Oct
13
18:00
The Afterlife of Atoms: Saving Lives and Exploring Space with Nuclear Waste
The Royal Institution (Ri)
18:30
Why we're getting poorer
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Tuesday
Oct
14
18:00
War's Toxic Legacy
Gresham College
Wednesday
Oct
15
13:00
China and Chineseness: Lessons from the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan
Gresham College
Thursday
Oct
16
18:00
Direct Effect in EU Law
King's College London
From Tyranny to Athenian Democracy
Gresham College
Friday
Oct
17
18:20
Discourse: How mathematics shapes creativity
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Saturday
Oct
18
13:00
AI – Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Idiocy? (family)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Oct
20
18:00
The invisible evidence: Chemistry’s role in solving crimes
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Oct
21
18:00
Whither War; Whither the Law of War
Gresham College
Saturday
Oct
25
10:00
Family Fun Day: Magic and Illusions
The Royal Institution (Ri)
18:00
Responsible innovation in a digital world
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Oct
27
19:00
The quest for life beyond the solar system
The Royal Institution (Ri)
The Economics of Work and Technology
Gresham College
Wednesday
Oct
29
19:00
Music of Animals
Gresham College
Thursday
Oct
30
19:00
Ocean: The Liquid Engine That Dominates Our Planet
Gresham College
Friday
Oct
31
19:00
Ig Nobels Face-to-face
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Nov
3
19:00
An introduction to quantum theory (short course)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
The science of synaesthesia: Understanding our senses
The Royal Institution (Ri)
China’s Economic Prospects on the Cusp
Gresham College
Tuesday
Nov
4
19:00
Minor Criminal: The Trial of the Man Who Murdered My Grandmother
Gresham College
Wednesday
Nov
5
14:00
Do Not Resuscitate Forms - Who’d Have One?
Gresham College
19:00
Limitarianism and Capitalism
Gresham College
Thursday
Nov
6
14:00
How Women Made the Global Economy
Gresham College
Friday
Nov
7
19:20
Discourse: A New Quantum World: “spooky” physics to tech revolution
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Saturday
Nov
8
14:00
Things scientists don't know yet (family)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Nov
11
19:00
The Shape of Plants: Why Plants Love Mathematics and Mathematicians Love Plants
Gresham College
Wednesday
Nov
12
19:00
Why Do We Laugh?
Gresham College
Saturday
Nov
15
14:00
How to survive in a cartoon universe (family)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
19:00
Seeing sound
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Nov
17
18:00
Inaugural Lecture with Professor James Lee
King's College London
18:30
Royal Society Milner Award Lecture 2025 delivered by Professor Iryna Gurevych
Royal Society
19:00
An Infinite Alphabet: The Laws of Knowledge
The Royal Institution (Ri)
The Later Years: Organisation, Independence and Peace of Mind
Gresham College
Wednesday
Nov
19
18:00
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences Annual Graduate Lecture 2025 - Stories at the Edge of Empire: Newfoundland, 1763-1829
Birkbeck, University of London
Monday
Nov
24
19:00
Thought experiments powering future physics
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Nov
25
19:00
Becoming AI – Your Journey to Assimilation?
Gresham College
Wednesday
Nov
26
19:00
Hecate: Mistress of Magic
Gresham College
Thursday
Nov
27
14:00
Where Is China Heading under Xi Jinping?
Gresham College
19:00
Society and Survival During the Holocaust
Gresham College
Friday
Nov
28
18:00
Centre of European Law 51st Annual Lecture
King's College London
19:20
Discourse: Christmas Lecturer 2025
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Monday
Dec
1
19:00
Photobiography
Gresham College
Wednesday
Dec
3
13:00
MAC 2025: Advances in Mitochondrial Mechanisms and Therapy
Queen Mary University of London
20:00
From Mars with Love: Postcards from 50 Years of Exploring The Red Planet
Gresham College
Thursday
Dec
4
19:00
Donald Trump and the Death Penalty
Gresham College
Wednesday
Dec
10
14:00
Doing Social Justice Research Now
Birkbeck, University of London
19:00
Life, Death and Judgement in the Art and Times of Hieronymus Bosch (d. 1516)
Gresham College
Monday
Dec
15
20:00
The Nutcracker’s Musical Magic
Gresham College
Saturday
Dec
20
14:00
There's no business like snow business (family)
The Royal Institution (Ri)
Tuesday
Jan
13
19:00
Economics and Artificial Intelligence
Gresham College
Wednesday
Jan
14
19:00
Music of Light and Colour
Gresham College
Tuesday
Jan
20
19:00
Constable's "The Cornfield": A Bicentenary Harvesting
Gresham College
Wednesday
Jan
21
19:00
Why Do We Grieve?
Gresham College
Thursday
Jan
22
19:00
Oligarchs and Their Discontents
Gresham College
Monday
Jan
26
20:00
Alice’s Adventures in Musical Adaptation
Gresham College
Tuesday
Jan
27
19:00
The Shape of Shells: She Sells Self-Similar Spiral Seashells on the Seashore
Gresham College
Wednesday
Jan
28
19:00
Mithras: Master of Mystery
Gresham College
Thursday
Jan
29
19:00
An Ocean of Air
Gresham College
Tuesday
Feb
3
19:00
Will You Be AI’s Pet?
Gresham College
Wednesday
Feb
4
20:00
Alien Earths: What Makes Us Special?
Gresham College
Thursday
Feb
5
19:00
Death Investigation: What Do Coroners Do?
Gresham College
Tuesday
Feb
10
19:00
Lee Miller's Indelible Images
Gresham College
Tuesday
Feb
17
19:00
The Price of Pixels: Unmasking the Environmental Impact of Our Digital Lives
Gresham College
Thursday
Feb
19
19:00
The Ground We Stand On
Gresham College
Tuesday
Feb
24
19:00
Work, Out of Reach
Gresham College
Wednesday
Feb
25
19:00
Music of Earth and Space
Gresham College
Tuesday
Mar
3
19:00
The Shape of Gravity: Why On Earth Are Planets Spherical?
Gresham College
Wednesday
Mar
4
19:00
Why Do We Hate?
Gresham College
Tuesday
Mar
10
19:00
Bridget: Goddess and Saint
Gresham College
Thursday
Mar
12
19:00
The Death of Athenian Democracy?
Gresham College
Tuesday
Mar
17
19:00
Born Supremacy – AI as a Pale Shadow of Real Humanity
Gresham College
Wednesday
Mar
18
20:00
The Universe’s 100th Birthday: Galactic Fireworks and Little Red Dots
Gresham College
Monday
Mar
23
19:00
A Living Planet
Gresham College
Monday
Apr
13
18:00
The Annual Lady Mayor's Lecture
Gresham College
Tuesday
Apr
14
18:00
A World Without Work
Gresham College
Wednesday
Apr
15
18:00
Music of the Mind
Gresham College
Tuesday
Apr
21
18:00
Taming AI
Gresham College
Wednesday
Apr
22
18:00
Why Do We Love?
Gresham College
Tuesday
Apr
28
18:00
The Shape of Tiles: Regular and Irregular, Hard and Soft
Gresham College
Wednesday
Apr
29
19:00
The Sky at Night, Tonight: A New View of the Changing Sky
Gresham College
Tuesday
May
5
18:00
Music, Death and Afterlife
Gresham College
Wednesday
May
6
18:00
Dionysus: Lord of Misrule
Gresham College
Monday
May
11
18:00
The Annual LMS Lecture 2026
Gresham College
Tuesday
May
12
18:00
The Pill and the Planet: Can We Have Both a Healthy Aging Population and a Sustainable Future?
Gresham College
Wednesday
May
13
18:00
Music of the Body
Gresham College
Monday
May
18
19:00
Happily Ever After? Singing and Dancing Cinderella
Gresham College
Wednesday
May
20
18:00
Should We Manipulate People’s Emotions?
Gresham College
Thursday
May
21
18:00
The White Knight: Ice
Gresham College
Tuesday
May
26
18:00
Education – And Its Limits
Gresham College
Thursday
May
28
18:00
Plato to Polybius on Constitutional Change
Gresham College
Tuesday
Jun
2
18:00
Forging Better Futures for You and AI
Gresham College
Wednesday
Jun
3
19:00
Pluto Isn’t a Planet
Gresham College
Tuesday
Jun
9
18:00
The Shape of Knots: From DNA to Shoestrings and Solar Flares
Gresham College
Wednesday
Jun
10
18:00
Music of Sleep and Dreams
Gresham College
Thursday
Jun
11
18:00
Cicero In and On Political Crises
Gresham College
Monday
Jun
15
18:00
The Annual Gray's Inn Reading 2026
Gresham College
Wednesday
Jun
17
18:00
The Morrigan: The Nightmare Queen
Gresham College
Thursday
Jun
18
18:00
The Death of the Roman Republic?
Gresham College
Tuesday
Jun
23
18:00
The Annual Sir Thomas Gresham Lecture 2026
Gresham College

Data is sourced from following institutions:

Imperial College LondonThe Alan Turing InstituteThe Royal Institution (Ri)Brunel University LondonRoyal SocietyBirkbeck, University of LondonGresham CollegeKing's College LondonLondon School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)Queen Mary University of London