The Film Society invites you to its next screening: Talk to Her (2002), an Oscar-winning movie by Pedro Almodóvar about the unusual friendship between two men while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

Artist-researcher Susan Schuppli will discuss her work, which explores the ways in which non-human witnesses such as materials and objects can enter public discourse and testify to historical events, especially those involving political violence, ethnic conflict and war crimes. Schuppli’s work assumes many different modes of communication, from legal analysis and public advocacy to theoretical reflection and creative exploration. Her current artistic projects expand these legal investigations to examine how environmental systems and transformations due to global warming are also generating new forms of evidence, creating, in effect, a planetary archive of material witnesses.

Susan Schuppli is Director of the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, and is Board Chair of Forensic Architecture. Her artistic work has been exhibited at galleries and museums internationally. Schuppli’s monograph Material Witness: Media, Forensics, Evidence was published by MIT Press, 2020. https://susanschuppli.com

Carey Young is a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson and was Wolfson’s Creative Arts Fellow 2018 – 21. She will have a solo exhibition at Modern Art Oxford in 2023. www.careyyoung.com

To register please contact Luisa Summers, Arts Administrator at luisa.summers@wolfson.ox.ac.uk by 12noon on Thursday 3 March 2022. Details to join the event on Zoom will be sent to you by email.
 

The Wolfson Film Society invites you to its next screening: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) by Mike Nichols, adapted from Edward Albee’s award-winning play of the same name and starring Elizabeth Taylor (who won the Academy Awards in Best Leading Actress). The movie explores the marriage of a middle-aged couple, Martha and George, on a college campus in New England.

I am a Stephen Hawking Fellow in Theoretical Physics. I studied Physics in Bremen and received an MSc in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics from LMU Munich. I did my doctoral studies in Oxford, followed by two postdocs, one in Oxford and one in Uppsala. My research lies at the interface of string theory, algebraic geometry, and machine learning and focuses on developing mathematical and computational tools to investigate string theory and its implications for particle physics, cosmology and quantum gravity. One of the central drives of my research is to construct models of particle physics from string theory. My current work is related to the study of vector bundle cohomology and its applications to string model building. Computing cohomology is a crucial and time consuming step in the derivation of the spectrum of low-energy particles resulting from string compactifications. I have shown that in many cases of interest in string theory topological formulae for cohomology exist. These mathematical shortcuts can reduce the time needed for deciding the physical viability of a string compactification from several months of computer algebra to a split of a second. I am also working on adapting, refining and applying machine learning techniques to problems in string theory and mathematics. I am using these to generate new conjectures about Calabi-Yau manifolds, vector bundles and cohomology, as well as to probe the landscape of string theory solutions relevant for particle physics.

The Wolfson diversity representatives and welfare officers are inviting you to the LGBTQ+ and Allies Social. Join us for this casual meeting in College and get to know other Wolfson members and the student welfare team. Free drinks and snacks will be provided. Please RSVP and don’t forget to let us know your drink preference (alcohol or juice) and any allergies by sending an email to welfare@wolfson.ox.ac.uk by Feb 21st.
 

A film screening and panel discussion with the artist Emma Critchley. Panel: Mekhala Dave, Ocean Law & Policy Analyst and Prof James Crabbe, Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College; Panel chair: Dr Kevin Grecksch, Junior Research Fellow and Departmental Lecturer and Course Director in the School of Geography and the Environment.

Emma Critchley is an artist who uses a combination of photography, film, sound and installation to continually explore the human relationship with the underwater environment as a political, philosophical and environmental space. Her film ‘Witness’ premiered at the Venice Biennale 2021. After the screening, we will explore and discuss the issues raised in a panel discussion where Emma is joined by Mekhala Dave, an ocean law & policy analyst based at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Foundation in Vienna, Austria and James Crabbe, supernumerary fellow of Wolfson College and formerly professor of Biochemistry.

‘Witness’ was commissioned by the Earth Water Sky Residency programme. Funded by Fondation Didier et Martine Primat at Ca' Foscari University of Venice as part of the Science Gallery Network. 

‘Common Heritage’ was funded by The Jerwood Charitable Foundation

If you cannot attend in person, this event is also being live-streamed on Wolfson's YouTube Channel here.

Wolfson Arts Society invites you to a Life Drawing Class: Drawing in charcoal from the figure with Stacey Gledhill (& model)

To register, please email buki.fatona@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

The class is restricted to members of Wolfson College and there is no cost to attend, however, spaces are limited. Late cancellations or no shows will affect admittance to future classes.
 

https://www.staceygledhill.com/

Konstantinos Kamnitsas is Associate Professor of Engineering Science (Biomedical Imaging) at the Department of Engineering Science, and a Non-Tutorial Fellow at Wolfson College. His research focuses on machine-learning (ML) and primarily deep neural networks for medical image analysis. His work has two main goals: a) Empower researchers and clinicians with ML methods and tools to better address their clinical research questions and needs of clinical workflows; b) Develop more reliable, transparent and accountable models for safer use in real-world clinical applications. Konstantinos completed his PhD in 2019 at Imperial College London, where he developed some of the first 3-dimensional neural networks for processing volumetric medical data, such as MRI and CT, and methods for improving generalization to heterogeneous data. His work has won various awards, among which two international competitions for brain cancer and ischemic stroke lesion segmentation. He also obtained an MSc in Computing Science in 2013, also from Imperial College, and the diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2010 from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He has also spent time conducting research in industry, such as at the Healthcare Intelligence team of Microsoft Research and Kheiron Medical Technologies. He became a Lecturer in 2021 at the School of Computer Science of the University of Birmingham, where he retains a position as an Honorary Research Fellow since 2022, when he joined the University of Oxford as an Associate Professor.