IAS workshops are typically one day in length and topics should be cross-disciplinary, bringing together expertise from across the breadth of our University.
Below are details of our upcoming workshops which aim to explore cutting-edge issues in research through cross-departmental collaboration.
If you are interested in attending any of the below events, please contact ias@contacts.bham.ac.uk.
More information on proposing an IAS workshop can be found at Propose an IAS Workshop.
- Date
- Monday 18th March 2019
- Location:
- Haworth Lecture Theatre Room 101
- Description
- Professor Lehn will discuss how Molecular chemistry has developed a wide range of very powerful procedures for building ever more complicated molecules from atoms linked by covalent bonds.
- Date
- Monday 18th March 2019
- Location:
- Sir Alan Walters Harvard Lecture Theatre
- Description
- Pioneer of environmental economics, Sir Partha Dasgupta, will develop a theory that has radical implications for the way national accounts are prepared and interpreted.
- Date
- Tuesday 19th - Wednesday 27th March 2019
- Location:
- University of Birmingham
- Description
- The ICA aims to transform approaches to research, enhance awareness of the work, relevance and potential impact of other disciplines, and to inspire and facilitate new collaborations across disciplines.
- Date
- Wednesday 20th March 2019
- Location:
- Arts Lecture Room 6
- Description
- Professor Geary will discuss current research paleogenomics in the early medieval West.
- Date
- Wednesday 20th March 2019
- Location:
- Physics West 117
- Description
- Eliezer Rabinovici is Professor of Physics, the Leon H. and Ada G. Miller Chair of Science at the Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is Vice President CERN Council.
- Date
- Wednesday 20th March 2019
- Location:
- Poynting Large Lecture Theatre S02
- Description
- Prof. Gross is Permanent Member and holder of the Chancellor's Chair Professor of Theoretical Physics, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics; Professor of Physics, University of California; USA 2004 Nobel Prize Winner.
- Date
- Thursday 21st March 2019
- Location:
- Biosciences Room 301
- Description
- Atul N. Parikh, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis and Materials Science & Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
- Date
- Thursday 21st March 2019
- Location:
- Physics West 117
- Description
- Former Nobel committee member and Chair Lars Brink talks about Alfred Nobel's life, inventions and how the Nobel Foundation was set up. Professor Brink then will discuss the Nobel Prizes and how the committee works.
- Date
- Thursday 21st March 2019
- Location:
- Muirhead Tower Room 122
- Description
- One of our most eminent Political Scientists, Bo Rothstein discusses his book 'Making Sense of Corruption'.
- Date
- Thursday 21st March 2019
- Location:
- Haworth Large Lecture Theatre 101
- Description
- Nobel Laureate Professor Ada Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel gives the Inaugural Grace Frankland Memorial Lecture.
- Date
- Thursday 21st March 2019
- Location:
- Birmingham Law School Lecture Theatre 2
- Description
- Birmingham Law School's Inaugural 'Race and the Law' Lecture
- Date
- Tuesday 26th March 2019
- Location:
- Aston Webb Room G33
- Description
- Professor Spiro presents an illumination of an exceptional collective adventure, with resources and expertise drawn from across the globe, run by treaty and convention.
- Date
- Thursday 16th May 2019
- Location:
- Alan Walters Building: 223 Harvard Theatre
- Description
- Since 9/11 we appear to have entered an almost Hobbesian world of violence and chaos in parts of the Muslim world like Syria and Yemen. In addition, some 60,000 people have been killed in the so-called 'War on Terror' in Pakistan alone.
- Date
- Wednesday 26th June 2019
- Location:
- Edgbaston Park Hotel and Conference Centre
- Description
- Our increased understanding of animals comes at a time when we are now in a race to preserve the ever-increasing numbers of threatened species and their habitats. With every discovery, there is more urgency for us reassess the longstanding relationships between humans and other species in the world.