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6 October 2008	Annual Statutory Meeting (Fellows only - password required)
2 October 2008	Presidential Address - Mind, Matter and Mathematics. Sir Michael Atiyah OM FRS HonFREng HonFMedSci HonFRSE PPRSE
22 September 2008	Challenges of Road Pricing. Professor Frank Kelly FRS, Master, Christ’s College, Cambridge
8 September 2008	Launch of Hill and Island Areas Inquiry Report. Professsor Gavin McCrone.
1 September 2008	Does God Play Dice? Professor Miles Padgett FRSE, University of Glasgow
30 June 2008	Structures and Granular Solids. Professor J. Michael Rotter, FREng, FRSE, FICE, FIStructE, FASCE, FIEAust (mp3)
26 June 2008	National Cultural Flagships. Film
23 June 2008	Maps, Mapping and Map History. Professor Charles W J Withers FBA FRSE, Professor of Historical Geography, University of Edinburgh (mp3)
16 June 2008	The Black Hole War: The War That Made the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics. Leonard Susskind, Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics at Stanford University (mp3)
12 May 2008	Exploring the Mysteries of the Universe with the Large Hadron Collider. Professor Fabiola Gianotti, Research Physicist, Deputy Spokesperson of the Atlas Experiment
28 April 2008	100 Years of Radio Astronomy: Past, Present and Future. Professor Michael Garrett, General Director, ASTRON. (mp3)
8 May 2008	The European Union: Does it have a Future?. Sir John D K Grant, KCMG Former UK Permanent Representative (Ambassador) to the EU (mp3)
21 April 2008	Architectural Politics in Renaissance Venice. Professor Deborah Howard, University of Cambridge
31 March 2008	Global Horizons for UK Universities
10 March 2008	Lecture - Optos: The Design Challenges and Business Tribulations. Mr Douglas Anderson, Executive Director, Optos plc (mp3 file)
3 March 2008	Gannochy Trust Innovation Award Prize Lecture - New Antibiotics from the Sea Bed to the Hospital Bed. Dr Andrew Mearns Spragg, CEO, Aquapharm Bio-Discovery Ltd
21 February 2008	National Cultural Flagships. Music and Opera. Speakers included; Mr Jonathan Mills, Festival Director and Chief Executive, Edinburgh International Festival and Mr Roy McEwan, Managing Director, Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
12 February 2008	Science, Innovation, Education: The Challenge to Society - ECRR Peter Wilson Lecture. Professor Geoffrey Boulton.
4 February 2008	Security, Insecurity, Paranoia and Quantum Mechanics. Professor Stephen Barnett. (video)
3 December 2007	Cellular Clocks. Professor Ole Laerum. (video)
19 November 2007.	Mock Trial. Are our Civil Liberties being eroded? (video)
12 November 2007	Classical Music and the Subject of Modernity. Professor John Butt, FRSE. (MP3)
1 November 2007	The Science of Improvement: Why Scotland Needs its Public Intellectuals. Professor C Duncan Rice FRSE, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Aberdeen. (MP3)
8 October 2007	A Discussion and Illustrated Lecture on the exhibition, "Plant Memory". Victoria Crowe.
1 October 2007	Annual Statutory Meeting.
1 October 2007	Reflections on the Amazing and Ubiquitous Cellphone. Dr Irwin Jacobs.
19 September 2007	Edinburgh Lecture.
3 September 2007	Henry Duncan Prize Lecture - The Highlands: Scotland’s Great Success Story. Professor James Hunter CBE FRSE, Director, UHI Centre for History. (MP3).
28 June 2007	Commissioner Jan Figel' - Reforming Europe's Universities: why and how? (MP3)
20 June 2007	Professor Sir Harry Kroto - Architecture in Nano-Space .
31 May 2007	Professor Paul Jowitt. Engineering Civilisation from the Shadows.
14 May 2007	Inquiry into the Future of Scotland's Hill and Island Areas. Press Conference.
1 May 2007	Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland Annual Forum. The Ageing Population
30 April 2007	The Unpredictability of Science. Sir John Meurig Thomas.
	Debating Scotland's Energy Choices
12 March 2007	Protein Coated Microcrystals: Drug Delivery of biologics. The Gannochy Trust Innovation Award Lecture. Dr Marie Clair Parker. Video playing audio with powerpoint.
8 March 2007	Philology in a New Key: Humane Studies in Digital Space. Professor Jerome McGann. (MP3 file)
13 February 2007	Does Science Matter. Professor Anne Glover. . (Video plays audio with powerpoint)
5 February 2007	Cultural Policy and National Identity in Post Devolution Scotland.
9 October 2006	RSE Annual Statutory Meeting. Fellows only. Password required
19 June 2006	Issues for Scotland's Energy Supply. Inquiry Report launch.
26 April 2006	Lloyds TSB Forum. Presentations on Ageing.
11 July 2005	John Mitchell, Chief Scientist, The Met Office, on climate change

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