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Is the End in Sight for Theoretical Physics? - Graham Farmelo

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Date & Time

Thu, 15 Oct 2026

14:00

Venue

Lecture Room 1

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About this event

Graham Farmelo gives an Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture on theoretical physics.

Why you should come

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• Hear Graham Farmelo revisit Hawking's 1980 Lucasian inaugural lecture

• Hear Farmelo trace the talk's genesis, impact, and decades of shifting views

• Get Farmelo's present-day answer to 'Is the End in Sight?'

Event Highlights

  • •Title echoes Hawking's 1980 Lucasian Inaugural Lecture
  • •Explores the talk's genesis, impact, and how views changed over decades
  • •Graham Farmelo, biographer of Stephen Hawking and Paul Dirac
  • •Farmelo's authorized Stephen Hawking biography publishes late September
  • •YouTube broadcast on 5 Nov, 5-6 pm (no registration needed)

Speaker

Graham Farmelo

Biographer and science writer

What to bring / Requirements

  • •Email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register for in-person attendance
  • •No registration needed for the online broadcast

Organized by: Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Contact: external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk

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