{"title": "Physics Colloquium: From Curiosity to Breakthrough: Unlocking the nano world of colloidal quantum dots", "start": "2026-11-12T16:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T18:00:00Z", "place": "Imperial College London", "address": "Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/physics"], "description": "A Department of Physics colloquium entitled \"From Curiosity to Breakthrough: Unlocking the nano world of colloidal quantum dots\", open to all. The speaker is Professor Moungi Bawendi of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize for chemistry for his work on quantum dots, tiny particles whose unusual quantum properties depend on their size. He revolutionized the chemical production of quantum dots in 1993, and they now light up computer monitors and TV screens and help doctors map biological tissue. The lecture is followed by refreshments in the Level 8 Common Room of the Blackett Building.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/physics-colloquium-from-curiosity-to-breakthrough-unlocking-122184/", "official_url": "https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/216254/physics-colloquium-from-curiosity-to-breakthrough-unlocking-the-nano-world-of-colloidal-quantum-dots/", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T16:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T18:00:00Z", "place": "Imperial College London", "address": "Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Lecture 2026 – Towards Solar Fuels and Fertilisers", "start": "2026-11-18T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-18T19:30:00Z", "place": "Imperial College London", "address": "Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/chemistry"], "description": "The Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Lecture 2026 – Towards Solar Fuels and Fertilisers is an open lecture at Imperial College London. It is given by Professor Jonas Peters of the California Institute of Technology, who directs the Resnick Sustainability Institute there. He explains how chemists can use electricity and light to steer protons and electrons toward making fuels, fertilisers and other useful molecules, with a focus on converting nitrogen from the air into ammonia. His laboratory develops catalysts to control this molecular currency for renewable solar fuel technologies.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sir-geoffrey-wilkinson-lecture-2026-towards-solar-fuels-and-74085/", "official_url": "https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/212275/sir-geoffrey-wilkinson-lecture-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7a7b41ee60984b698e4d918c306685cb3463c145003b17ea0ea1e80450708e1e-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": "6-9 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AG London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "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": ""}, {"title": "The Dennis Gabor Lecture 2026: A collectivist, economic perspective on AI – with Professor Michael I Jordan", "start": "2026-11-18T16:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-18T17:45:00Z", "place": "Imperial College London", "address": "Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/ai"], "description": "The Dennis Gabor Lecture 2026 is a lecture titled \"A collectivist, economic perspective on AI\", held at Imperial College London's South Kensington Campus. It is the flagship event of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, honouring Dennis Gabor, the inventor of holography, with a series focusing on the impact of science and engineering on society. The speaker is Professor Michael I. Jordan of Inria Paris and the University of California, Berkeley, a leading researcher in computer science and statistics for over four decades, who will argue that intelligence lies as much in overall systems of cooperating humans and computers as in individual agents, and will discuss bringing microeconomic concepts into contact with computing, statistics and decision-making. The lecture is followed by a question and answer session, with a research poster session and refreshments around it, and is open to all on a first come first served basis.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-dennis-gabor-lecture-2026-a-collectivist-economic-perspe-74084/", "official_url": "https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/214455/gabor2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/23511872fc30e2d9238c2304fedf99a54ffbe1dbb36b9699cfce207e030ee334-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Stochastic Analysis Seminar – Guillaume Barraquand (École normale supérieure)", "start": "2026-11-17T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-17T16:00:00Z", "place": "Imperial College London", "address": "Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/mathematics"], "description": "A seminar in Imperial College London's Stochastic Analysis Seminar series, open to all. Guillaume Barraquand of the École normale supérieure speaks on 'Random unitary dynamics and the KPZ equation', discussing stochastic processes on the unitary group that arise in the study of random quantum systems and relate them to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class. The talk takes place in room 410 of the Huxley Building on the South Kensington Campus in London. 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