LORNA CASSELTON MEMORIAL LECTURE 2024

Published on March 18, 2024

The 2024 Lorna Casselton Memorial Lecture, entitled "AI and the Challenge of Human Cooperation", will be given by Professor Matthew Botvinick (Director of Neuroscience Research, DeepMind), at 5 pm on Thursday 16th May in the Mathematical Institute Lecture Theatres 1 and 2, Woodstock Road, Oxford. The Lecture will also be livestreamed.

 

Admission is free, but booking is required via the website:

 

https://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/event/lorna-casselton-memorial-lecture-2024

 

Professor Lorna Casselton was an 1851 Research Fellow 1963-1965. During her fellowship she was based at UCL and researched Fungal Genetics-the genetics of diploid strains of Coprinus Iagopus. She went on to be a fungal geneticist of world renown, professor at Oxford University and Vice-President and Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society. From 2001-2013 she was a very active member of the Commission's Science & Engineering Fellowship Committee. She was a regular attender at Commission events and many of our alumni, commissioners and staff remember her with great affection.

 

 

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