London has some major disadvantages that would make any transport policy difficult. However, even given the constraints, the current policy mix is so far away from ideal that it could be costing each household about £1,000 more than it should if transport were to be organised rationally. The lecture will give some suggestions about what could be done.
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/sorting-out-transport-in-london
Panel discussion with: Ian Morison, Gresham Professor of Astronomy Neal Stephenson, author ‘Anathem’ Bob McDowall, Financial Journalist Chaired by Faisal Islam, Channel 4 News
Some of our hospitals - notably St Bartholomew’s - house unique museums including not only works of art and documents but surgical and medical equipment and fascinating anatomy collections.  Professor Ayliffe will tell us about some of the treasures to be found and discuss their value for teaching and research. This is the first in a series on Special Collections.  The other lectures in this series are on the following collections:   The Guildhall Library   British Architectural Library, RIBA   The Library and Archives of the Society of Friends   Lambeth Palace Library   Scotland Yard’s Crime Museum   The Royal Horticultural Society’s Lindley Library   St. Paul’s Cathedral
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/anatomy-museums-past-present-and-future
A lecture to mark the publication of Robin Wilson and Raymond Flood’s new book. Mathematics pervades our daily lives. Our credit cards and the nation’s defence are kept secure largely due to the properties of prime numbers, and mathematics is intimately involved whenever we fly in an aeroplane, predict the weather or analyse data. But what mathematics is involved, and who first introduced it? Raymond Flood and Robin Wilson describe some interesting mathematicians’ contributions.
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-great-mathematicians
Eighty years ago, three enterprising sons of Russian immigrants realised their ambition, to build a palace of dreams on the Old Kent Road. Three years later they followed their dream with another magnificent picture palace, the Troxy on Commercial Road, Stepney. On the way they collected Europe's largest Wurlitzer pipe organ and a virtuoso organist, a pupil of Max Reger, to play it. Today, with the Trocadero but a distant memory and its mightiest of Wurlitzers languishing in store, we follow the fascinating history of the brothers, their cinemas, and today's ambitious project to install the Trocadero organ in the Troxy, thereby helping to re-create a 1930's cultural icon of the East End. For more information about the organ, please click here. The other lectures in this series on London's Organs include the following:     How liturgy affected the development of the organ         (the George Pike organ at St. Margaret, Lothbury)     The German revolution in English organ technology         (the Mander Organs restored William Hill organ of St. Mary-at-Hill)
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/from-trocadero-to-troxy-a-tradition-returns
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This event marks the publication of John D Barrow’s latest book. 100 Essential Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know answers one hundred essential questions of existence. From winning the lottery, placing bets at the races and escaping from bears to sports, Shakespeare, Google, game theory, drunks, divorce settlements and dodgy accounting; from chaos to infinity and everything in between.
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Everything we buy, from books to baked beans, has a product code printed on it. More sophisticated check-digit codes exist on official documents, bank notes and air tickets. What are they for and what do they mean? We take a look at the mathematical structure of these codes and explain their purposes. And in this age of boundless surveillance, are there enough numbers for each of us to have a serial number of our own?
Talk given by Professor John D Barrow FRS
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Keeping secrets is one of the earliest inventions of civilisation, and has become the science of cryptography. The World War II Enigma machine was just lots of scrambling, done in ways that could be understood in principle by a school child though it took daring and powerful computing to crack it. This lecture introduces the key ideas behind conventional cryptography, and explains why it is not good enough for modern applications such as international commerce on the Internet.
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