Make a new year's resolution to catch up with our lectures

Stay up to speed with research by catching up with last term’s online lectures from Imperial. You can download these talks and more through a number of routes, and catch up with our professors in your own time.

• Imperial media library
• YouTube
• iTunes U

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Lecture list

 
• The science of secrecy: Imperial's Institute for Security Science and Technology take you on a tour of cryptography through the ages, with guides Professor Richard Aldrich, Dr Martin Knight, Professor Sir Peter Knight and Dr Simon Singh.

 
• Present and future of nanotechnology - an IT industry perspective: Dr Stuart Parkin, IBM, gives an in depth view of the future of nanotechnology as part of the London Centre for Nanotechnology fifth anniversary celebrations.

 
• The nuclear fuel cycle - its vital role in the nuclear renaissance: Dr Noel Camarcat, EDF Generation, examines the importance of, and challenges in, closing the nuclear fuel cycle.

 
• A business and its ideas - shaping a company and a century: Samuel Palmisano, CEO of IBM, looks back over at the lessons from the past 100 years and applies them to a smarter future.

 
• How we perceive and live with risk and uncertainty: Professor Gudela Grote, ETH Zurich, talks about how we can communicate technological risks without frightening or belittling people.

 
• Living with limits: growth, resources and climate change: Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, Martin Wolf, asks whether the tension between human aspiration and natural resources can ever be resolved.
  

 
• Tropical tales from the front line: Professor Kath Maitland explains the importance of clinical trials in sub-Saharan Africa, and the unexpected results they can reveal.

 
• Hustling for health: Listen to Professor Helen Ward explain how her research has taken her to the sexual health clinics of London and encouraged her to smuggle more social science into a staunchly biomedical university.

 
• Fast and happy: Matt Britten, Vice President of Google Northern & Central Europe, explains how Google is speeding up the web and why it is looking for the right shade of blue.

 
• What is life? President of the Royal Society and Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse gives his thoughts on the definition of life, in the 2011 Schrodinger lecture.

 
• Spies, secrets and science: reflections from the history of MI6: Author of the official history of MI6, Professor Keith J effery, talks about the role of science in British intelligence operations.

 
• Exploring the deep: Join Dr Jenny Collier in an underwater voyage to the bottom of the ocean to see how life thrives on the products of seafloor volcanic eruptions, in the 2011 Children's Christmas lecture.