{"title": "Michael Faraday Prize Lecture: Life in the fast lane — What the past tells us about evolution under pressure", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Royal Society", "address": "Carlton House Terrace, London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/michael-faraday-prize-lecture-life-in-the-fast-lane-tickets-2001043861055?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/biology/evolution"], "description": "The Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize Lecture, given by the 2026 winner Professor Anjali Goswami FRS, explores what the past reveals about evolution under pressure. The evolutionary biologist examines why some species survive rapid environmental change while others vanish, drawing on examples from single-celled organisms to dinosaurs. Her lab uses new technologies, especially imaging and AI, to trace the pace of evolutionary change and understand which species can keep up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/michael-faraday-prize-lecture-life-in-the-fast-lane-what-the-76892/", "official_url": "https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2026/11/faraday-prize-lecture/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/91947c4d975283af1ce93a615e1504132c3089bc49a984ba27fd38a99494341d-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Royal Society", "address": "Carlton House Terrace, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Croonian Prize Lecture: Advances in computational protein design", "start": "2026-11-03T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Royal Society", "address": "Carlton House Terrace, London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/croonian-prize-lecture-by-dr-david-baker-tickets-1991361527936?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/biology"], "description": "The Croonian Prize Lecture is an awards talk hosted at the Royal Society in London. Dr David Baker, a Nobel laureate and Director of the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington, receives the 2026 Croonian Medal for pioneering the design of completely new proteins. His lab uses deep learning to design new proteins from scratch to address problems not faced during evolution. In the talk he will describe designing proteins to address current challenges in health, technology, and sustainability.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/croonian-prize-lecture-advances-in-computational-protein-des-76891/", "official_url": "https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2026/11/croonian-prize-lecture/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/51dff68708da6a8cbbb7d5c7ddff1b7d65f0427bd66c322427b237253126a268-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Biomathematics Seminar – David Rand (Warwick) – Dynamic Landscape Analysis of Cell Fate Decisions", "start": "2026-11-02T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Imperial College London", "address": "Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/biology"], "description": "A seminar in the Biomathematics Seminar series at Imperial College London, open to all and free with first-come-first-served entry. The speaker is David Rand from Warwick, whose talk is titled 'Dynamic Landscape Analysis of Cell Fate Decisions'. It takes place in room 140 of the Huxley Building on the South Kensington Campus. Omer Karin is the contact for further details.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/biomathematics-seminar-david-rand-warwick-dynamic-landscape-74025/", "official_url": "https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/215786/biomathematics-seminar-david-rand-warwick-dynamic-landscape-analysis-of-cell-fate-decisions/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Metabolism across scales: AI and the future of global health", "start": "2026-11-10T09:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Imperial College London", "address": "Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/ai"], "description": "A day-long launch of the CNRS-Imperial \"Antoine Lavoisier\" International Research Lab on Multiscale Metabolism, at Imperial College London's South Kensington Campus. It is hosted by Imperial, whose President Professor Hugh Brady joins Professor Thierry Dauxois, Chairman and CEO of CNRS, to open the third International Research Lab, part of the CNRS-Imperial International Research Centre for Transformational Science and Technology. The day begins with a scientific workshop, followed by a launch event with remarks from M. Sébastien Bidaud, Chargé d'Affaires at the French Embassy, and a panel discussion on the future of AI-driven health research and innovation in the UK and France. Guests may register for the workshop, the launch event and reception, or both.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/metabolism-across-scales-ai-and-the-future-of-global-health-74059/", "official_url": "https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/215954/metabolism-across-scales-ai-and-the-future-of-global-health/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/acab7a3d1901a80a8e321e0668af6b70c46e6612c5ffab08009fe2cf3b9a718e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Dig Deeper", "start": "2026-11-03T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T20:30:00Z", "place": "Natural History Museum", "address": "Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD London", "price": "£25, Members: £15", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticketing.nhm.ac.uk/events/VISEV-DIGDG", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/documentary", "nature/animals"], "description": "Dig Deeper is a talk evening in the Flett Events Theatre of the Natural History Museum, this time titled Dig Deeper: Behind the Lens of Wild London. It is led by the museum's scientists, joined by filmmakers from Passion Planet who made the documentary Wild London, which features Sir David Attenborough and the museum's gardens. They share behind-the-scenes stories about bringing London's lesser-spotted wildlife to the screen and discuss why urban wildlife matters, followed by a live question-and-answer session. 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It is hosted by the Centre for Excellence in AI in Education, Queen Mary Academy. Through sharing innovative practice, critical perspectives and collaborative discussion, the symposium offers a chance to reflect on the affordances and challenges AI presents for higher education. 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The speaker is Gabriele Albertini, Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham, who studies friction and fracture mechanics using computational, experimental and data-driven approaches. His talk, 'HOW GEOMETRY CONTROLS FAILURE DYNAMICS', looks at insights from fracture (stick–break) and friction (stick–slip), focusing on cracks and slip pulses under high-strain-rate and non-equilibrium dynamics.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/department-of-mechanical-engineering-seminar-series-gabriele-74036/", "official_url": "https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/215139/department-of-mechanical-engineering-seminar-series_gabriele_albertini/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/93e9f485b16c04fab70e9c86dd0cbadd315bd0c278df4f12ded37acd33d930bb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Co-opting Cells for Mechanosensation", "start": "2026-11-04T13:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T14:00:00Z", "place": "New Hunt’s House", "address": "Great Maze Pond, London, SE1 9RT", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/biology"], "description": "An in-person science seminar titled \"Co-opting Cells for Mechanosensation\", taking place in room G8 at New Hunt's House. It is a Randall Seminar in the Randall Centre for Cell & Molecular Biophysics Seminar Series, hosted by King's College London's Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine. Speaker Dr Federica Mangione of King's College London will discuss her research on mechanosensation — how touch, pressure and vibration become electrical signals — presenting recent findings that support a new, multicellular model of mechanosensation at the body surface, based on her work establishing the Drosophila epidermis as a system for studying this sense.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/co-opting-cells-for-mechanosensation-39310/", "official_url": "https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/co-opting-cells-for-mechanosensation", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c4dc8a9ee1420e12126238a8dcc7aee3518f869ba0f305e73a239f9729d1aec8-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Milner Prize Lecture: Highlights from 40 years of complexity theory", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Royal Society", "address": "Carlton House Terrace, London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/royal-society-milner-award-and-lecture-by-professor-johan-hastad-tickets-1980643001535?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/computer-science"], "description": "The Milner Prize Lecture is a free talk on complexity theory, the study of efficient computation, delivered at the Royal Society. It is given by Professor Johan Håstad, who receives the Royal Society Milner Award for his transformational impact on circuit complexity, cryptography, parallel computing and approximate optimisation. He will present classical results and highlights from 40 years of the field, covering topics such as multiplying and factorizing large integers, problems from logic and graph theory, links to cryptography, and how quantum computers might change what can be solved efficiently. The lecture can be attended in person or watched online, with live subtitles available.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/milner-prize-lecture-highlights-from-40-years-of-complexity-76893/", "official_url": "https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2026/11/milner-prize-lecture/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c0c7b27ae26817d82272f6cdbeb8a3d6a57e4867f56012181ee6ec24c52b3ee7-1200.webp"}]}