Public lectures this spring

Public lectures this spring A series of free public lectures taking place on campus during the spring term will showcase the University's current research expertise. The Sussex Lectures, which are put on throughout the year, will start again on 25 January with a Professorial lecture on 'Symmetries, scales and the origins of everything' by Philip Harris, Professor of Physics. There will be three other Professorial lectures - prestigious occasions marking the promotion of Sussex academics to the title of Professor. Abdulnaser Sayma, Professor of Computational Fluid Dynamics, will focus on the challenges of producing cleaner energy from gasified coal and solid waste (8 February); art historian Liz James will consider why it was so important to Byzantines that their art glittered and was gold (22 February); and economist Richard Dickens will address the question 'Can we really abolish child poverty in Britain?' (8 March). Prosecution, and how it will evolve in the future, will be discussed by Dominic Grieve QC MP, Attorney General, on 9 February in the first of two lectures on Issues in Criminal Justice. Keir Starmer QC, Director of Public Prosecutions, will lead the second on 2 March, when he will talk about his work on human rights and policing. 'A genome is not an iPhone, or is it? Reflections on the science and publics of personal genomics' is the topic of a Media Studies lecture on 15 February.