Imperial Lates: About Time

Thursday 20 November | 18.0021.00

Three people engaging with an exhibit at Imperial Lates
A map of the Imperial Lates event

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

A man DJing at Imperial Lates
Two women smiling as they work on a craft project

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

A woman wearing a VR headset and smiling softly
A group of people smiling in a dance class

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

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