Our scientists, trustees and governors are often invited to speak on podcasts, give lectures and take part in public events. When these relate to their research or their work for us, we collect them here, along with recordings of interviews with notable visitors and other events.
Interview20 Nov
Meet Stephen Wolfram
Theoretical physicist and innovator Stephen Wolfram discusses the big questions facing science with the London Institute and its guests.
Innovation6 Nov
How innovation works
In the Royal Institution’s lecture theatre, Martin Reeves reveals the startling truth about how innovation happens in science and technology.
AI-assisted maths7 Oct
Maths in the age of AI
In the Royal Institution’s lecture theatre, Prof. Yang-Hui He reflects on how growing AI-human collaboration is shaping the future of maths.
Artificial Intelligence23 Sep
Decoding life with AI
Mikhail Burtsev explains how artificial intelligence is helping to decipher genomes in the Royal Institution’s iconic lecture theatre.
AI-assisted maths21 May
Talking murmurations
Prof. Yang-Hui He discusses AI breakthroughs in mathematics with podcaster Curt Jaimungal–including his work on the murmuration conjecture.
Physics16 May
The shape of physics
Prof. Yang-Hui He explores geometry’s surprising impact on physics and their interplay through the ages on Quanta’s The Joy of Why podcast.
AI-assisted maths2 Jan
The AI mathematician
On the Theories of Everything podcast, Prof. Yang-Hui He explains how machine learning is helping to revolutionise mathematical discovery.
Creativity18 Mar 2024
Creative convergence
The advertising guru Graham Fink waxes lyrical about equations and working with the London Institute on the How Do You Feel Today? podcast.
Cell programming23 Jun 2023
The OS of life
Breakthroughs in cell programming are kicking off a biological analogue of the silicon revolution, allowing us to predictably engineer life.
Creativity10 Apr 2023
Imagination machine
Our Trustee Martin Reeves explores imagination at its core, rethinking previous romantic notions, asking if we can harness it systematically.
Physics24 Feb 2023
The geometry revolution
At the Royal Institution's Friday Evening Discourse, Yang-Hui He recounts the creation of modern physics at the hands of geometry.
Physics & maths1 Dec 2021
Theory of Everything
Professor Yang-Hui He tells the captivating story of the holy grail of science: the mathematical quest for a unifying theory of everything.
Interview26 Oct 2021
Talking to Penrose
Sir Roger Penrose talks about physics, philosophy and art in a conversation with Thomas Fink and Yang-Hui He in the Faraday lecture theatre.