Tribute bands are ten a penny, but parody bands, where the songs are imitative but original, are rarer and none reached the brilliance of Neils Innes' Beatles parody, the Rutles. So good in fact that the Beatles themselves loved them (Beatle George Harrison funded the documentary) and the songs are now widely recognised on their own merits. Let's be natural.

The School runs regular termly events on various topics including over the next few weeks:

'Science and politics', 'Towards re-decentralising the Web' & 'The billionaire tax'.

Full details and booking

New Whitehead Library books in February 2025 include the titles below.

Full list

Celebrate Green Action Week (10–14 February)

Bring your own cup or container and enjoy 50p off any hot drink or meal. This offer is valid all week (10–14 February). 

And try our freshly baked Lemon Drizzle Cake, made using surplus lemons and milk. It's a delicious way to enjoy a sustainable treat while supporting our efforts to reduce food waste. Available during Green Action Week.

Shafi Goldwasser (Berkeley (USA), MIT (USA), Weizmann (Israel)) - Privacy, Verification, Robustness: A Cryptographer's perspective on ML

4 March, 11:00 am, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW

The Strachey Lectures are a series of termly computer science lectures named after Christopher Strachey, the first Professor of Computation at the University of Oxford.

Glen Callater Room, H B Allen Centre, Keble College, Wednesday, 12 February 2025. All welcome. Coffee from 4.10 pm.

Public Lecture: Helge Holden (Chair of the Abel Prize Committee) - The Abel Prize 

Workshops: Jose Carrillo - Aggregation-Diffusion Equations for Collective Behaviour in the Sciences;

François Caron - Frequentist, Assisted by Bayes, Prediction-Powered Inference;

Andras Juhasz - The Unknotting Number, Hard Unknot Diagrams, and Reinforcement Learning