Imperial Lates: About Time
Thursday 20 November | 18.00–21.00
Talks and performances
10 Quantum versus classical computers: speed, efficiency and other tales
18.45–19.10 and 19.35–20.00
12 Lightning talks
18.35–18.55: How London’s air today shapes our health tomorrow (Seyi Arowosegbe)
19.15–19.35: Shapeshifting, time-saving tech for the visually impaired (Ad Spiers)
19.55–20.15: The women reading the rhythms of Earth’s living landscapes (Giulia Bernardini)
20.35–20.55: Would you notice if time went backwards? (Mike Tarbutt)
21 What happened in the first second of the universe?
18.40-19.30
22 Prep time for the next giant solar storm
20.00–20.40
DJ The Rhythm Studio
Workshops and quiz
5 Twisted time Christmas decorations
6 Take your time: dance class
18.20–19.00, 19.20–20.00 and 20.20–21.00
13 Clockwork craftwork
14 Tick-tock-trivia quiz
18.45–19.20 and 20.00–20.35
Exhibits and installations
1 Faster drug discovery with robotic cell painting
2 Brain rhythms and how to get to sleep quicker
3 Faster healing
4 Ageing hearts
7 Step inside quantum time
8 Electron clocks and dark matter
9 The world’s most accurate clocks
11 Resonating possibilities
15 Music of the Earth: the tempo of biodiversity loss
16 Women scientists of (our) time
17 Glancing the future through our digital twins
18 Graphene sensors for faster disease detection
19 Real-time misinformation checker
20 Meteorites: a journey to a time before Earth
Timed events
6 Take your time: dance class
18.20–19.00, 19.20–20.00 and 20.20–21.00
10 Quantum versus classical computers: speed, efficiency and other tales
18.45–19.10 and 19.35–20.00
12 Lightning talks
18.35–18.55: How London’s air today shapes our health tomorrow (Seyi Arowosegbe)
19.15–19.35: Shapeshifting, time-saving tech for the visually impaired (Ad Spiers)
19.55–20.15: The women reading the rhythms of Earth’s living landscapes (Giulia Bernardini)
20.35–20.55: Would you notice if time went backwards? (Mike Tarbutt)
14 Tick-tock-trivia quiz
18.45–19.20 and 20.00–20.35
21 What happened in the first second of the universe?
18.40–19.30
22 Prep time for the next giant solar storm
20.00–20.40





