New year, new events: make dates in your diaries

Make a New Year's resolution to feed your brain with more science, and join in with some of the liveliest public science programming in London.

The new term’s packed programme of events has been published, and some of them are getting booked up quickly.

Talks from leading experts including Astronomer Royal Lord Martin Rees are programmed alongside the inaugural lectures of Imperial’s new professors, and interactive science-themed evenings such as Imperial Fringe events in February and March.

Keep up-to-date by subscring to our fortnightly events e-bulletin to get the latest events straight to your inbox, visit the Imperial What's On pages, or follow us on Twitter at @ImperialSpark.

Dates for your diary

19 January: Can we feed the world sustainably? Annual Schrodinger Lecture, by Professor Sir Gordon Conway (Centre for Environmental Policy)
Interact: #securefood
Fully-booked - live-stream link will be available shortly 

20 January: NHLI Athena Lecture, by Professor Fiona Watt (King’s College London)
Interact: #NHLIAthena

Professor Julian Jones (Materials)

20 January: Hi-tech glass: from smart phones to clever bones, by Professor Julian Jones (Materials)
Interact: #cleverbones

9 February: Can London survive? – the city’s dependence on its metro. Annual Paviors Lecture, by Miles Ashley, London Underground
Interact: #PaviorsLecture

24 February: From Mars to the multiverse: life, space and the cosmos – Peter Lindsay Memorial Lecture 2016, by Astronomer Royal Lord Martin Rees
Interact: #lindsaylecture

24 February: Trauma on the mind, by Professor David Sharp (Medicine)
Interact: #traumainsight

25 February: Imperial Fringe: Food for tomorrow
Interact: #impfringe

The popular Imperial Fringe series explores food and chemistry in the two events this spring

2 March: Cool plastics for a greener world, by Professor Natalie Stingelin (Materials)
Interact: #greenplastics

3 March: Could a machine ever argue? By Professor Francesca Toni (Computing)
Interact: #machineadvice

8-12 March: Women@Imperial
Interact: #imperialwomen

16 March: Imperial Fringe: Chemical attraction
Interact: #impfringe

24 March: Genomic dark matter, by Professor Jorge Ferrer (Medicine)
Interact: #darkgenome

Lectures live and online catch-up

You don't have to live in London to join us at our events, many of our lectures are live-streamed via our YouTube channel, and made available to watch in full within a couple of days of the event both on YouTube and our in-house iMedia player.

To catch up on some of the lectures and talks you may have missed from last term, visit the YouTube channel for specific playlists, including Inaugural Lectures 2015-2016, which includes Professor Paul Aylin (School of Public Health) discussing how data analysis can reduce catastrophic errors within the NHS and Professor Leroy Gardner (Civil and Environmental Engineering) explaining why stainless steel could, and should, be used more in the construction industry.