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University of Sydney
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Hugh Durrant-Whyte | Melbourne | Jul. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2 In this Warren Centre Innovation Lecture 2010, Hugh Durrant-Whyte describes some of the great leaps forward that have occurred in the field of robotics in Australia over the past decade. Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte is recognised internationally as one of the most innovative research... » play video
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Per Pinstrup-Andersen | Sydney | Jul. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2Widespread hunger and malnutrition, rapidly increasing obesity and related chronic diseases and the recent food crisis call into question the ability and/or desire of the world’s governments to prioritise the goal of sustainable food security for all. As the world population continu... » play video
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Michael Oppenheimer | Sydney | May. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3Michael Oppenheimer was a Lead Author on the Third and Fourth Assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and is one of America's most highly credentialled scientists.In his detailed illustrated talk to Sydney Ideas, Oppenheimer reviews the... » play video
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Saul Griffith | Melbourne | Apr. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2Speaking at the University of Sydney, scientist, engineer and entrepeneur Saul Griffith lays out the energy requirements of a single person in a developed country - using his own behaviour as the model - using it as a basis for a discussion of the incredible challenges involved in rep... » play video
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Edward C. Holmes | Sydney | Apr. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2 How do epidemics start and spread in human populations? Can we predict what epidemics will occur next? In this lecture, Professor Edward Holmes addresses these fundamental questions by examining how evolving RNA viruses are able to jump species boundaries and emerge in humans, someti... » play video
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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3Compared with 30 years ago women are now better represented in politics but there is still more to be done. Hillary Clinton and Julia Gillard are examples of women gaining important leadership positions, but not the top job. So how far have women come in terms of political le... » play video
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Peter Katzenstein | Sydney | Apr. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2In his lecture at Sydney Ideas, Peter Katzenstein, one of America’s leading political scientists, offers a critique of the Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilization theory (the theory that conflict between distinct groups based on religion and cultural identities (eg Western, Isla... » play video
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James Hansen | Sydney | Mar. 2010
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 James Hansen is known as the 'grandfather of climate change' and is perhaps the world's leading authority on the science of climate change. He is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s E... » play video
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Sean Carroll | Sydney | Dec. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 Speaking at the University of Sydney, acclaimed physicist and cosmologist Sean Carroll gives an entertaining and thought-provoking talk about the nature of time, the origin of entropy and how what happened before the Big Bang might be responsible for the arrow of time we observe toda... » play video
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Mark Colyvan | Sydney | Nov. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 In this Key Thinkers (Sydney Ideas) presentation, Professor Mark Colyvan, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science, discusses the ideas of Kurt Gödel. Kurt Gödel was one of the foremost mathematicians and logicians of the 20th century... » play video
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Part 1 | Part 2 In this Warren Centre Innovation Lecture 2010, Hugh Durrant-Whyte describes some of the great leaps forward that have occurred in the field of robotics in Australia over the past decade. Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte is recognised internationally as one of the most innovative research... » play video
Part 1 | Part 2Widespread hunger and malnutrition, rapidly increasing obesity and related chronic diseases and the recent food crisis call into question the ability and/or desire of the world’s governments to prioritise the goal of sustainable food security for all. As the world population continu... » play video
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3Michael Oppenheimer was a Lead Author on the Third and Fourth Assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and is one of America's most highly credentialled scientists.In his detailed illustrated talk to Sydney Ideas, Oppenheimer reviews the... » play video
Part 1 | Part 2Speaking at the University of Sydney, scientist, engineer and entrepeneur Saul Griffith lays out the energy requirements of a single person in a developed country - using his own behaviour as the model - using it as a basis for a discussion of the incredible challenges involved in rep... » play video
Part 1 | Part 2 How do epidemics start and spread in human populations? Can we predict what epidemics will occur next? In this lecture, Professor Edward Holmes addresses these fundamental questions by examining how evolving RNA viruses are able to jump species boundaries and emerge in humans, someti... » play video
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3Compared with 30 years ago women are now better represented in politics but there is still more to be done. Hillary Clinton and Julia Gillard are examples of women gaining important leadership positions, but not the top job. So how far have women come in terms of political le... » play video
Part 1 | Part 2In his lecture at Sydney Ideas, Peter Katzenstein, one of America’s leading political scientists, offers a critique of the Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilization theory (the theory that conflict between distinct groups based on religion and cultural identities (eg Western, Isla... » play video
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 James Hansen is known as the 'grandfather of climate change' and is perhaps the world's leading authority on the science of climate change. He is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s E... » play video
Part 1 | Part 2 Speaking at the University of Sydney, acclaimed physicist and cosmologist Sean Carroll gives an entertaining and thought-provoking talk about the nature of time, the origin of entropy and how what happened before the Big Bang might be responsible for the arrow of time we observe toda... » play video
Part 1 | Part 2 In this Key Thinkers (Sydney Ideas) presentation, Professor Mark Colyvan, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science, discusses the ideas of Kurt Gödel. Kurt Gödel was one of the foremost mathematicians and logicians of the 20th century... » play video
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