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.