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• Written in the stars TV and radio science presenter Professor Jim AlKhalili to discuss the role of determinism in our universe

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/written-in-the-stars-tv-and-radio-science-presenter-professor-jim-al-khalili-to-discuss-the-role-of-determinism-in-our-universe

  Do you consider your actions the result of free will, or of a preordained path we are destined to follow? At the Institute of Physics 2018 Prestige Lecture, hosted at our University, physicist and presenter Professor Jim Al-Khalili OBE will lead a whistle-stop tour of modern...

• SEIS UK

  https://le.ac.uk/gge/research/solid-earth/geophysics/projects/seis-uk

  Find out more about SEIS-UK (Seismic Equipment Infra-Structure in the UK) at the University of Leicester.

• Leicester academic leads international research study into potential new biomarker for breast cancer

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/university-of-leicester-academic-joins-international-research-study-into-potential-new-biomarker-for-breast-cancer

  An academic from our University is leading an international collaborative research study, funded by Cancer Research UK, which uses recently launched technology to evaluate a potential new biomarker for prediction of disease progression in women with breast cancer.

• Seminar to explore research into images taken by Jewish photographers during the Holocaust

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/seminar-to-explore-research-into-images-taken-by-jewish-photographers-during-the-holocaust

  The University of Leicester’s Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies invites you to attend the research seminar ‘Photographs from the Lodz Ghetto during the Holocaust’, given by Tanja Kinzel from the Free University of Berlin on 7 December 2017.

• Former burial place of King Richard III given scheduled monument protection

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/former-burial-place-of-king-richard-iii-given-scheduled-monument-protection

  The remains of a 13th century monastic site, Greyfriars in Leicester, which was revealed as the burial place of King Richard III during the course of an excavation by Leicester archaeologists, has been granted protection by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport...

• Royal Astronomical Society recognises Leicester academics

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/royal-astronomical-society-recognises-leicester-academics

  Our University is associated with two prestigious prizes announced today by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS).

• Will AI ever understand human emotions

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/will-ai-ever-understand-human-emotions

  Dr Leandro Minku from the Department of Informatics has written an article for The Conversation discussing the growing data and processing power of technology and how AI may be able to recognise emotions in the next few decades.

• Leicester reaches three million readers on The Conversation

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/leicester-reaches-three-million-readers-on-the-conversation

  Academics from across our University have collectively captured the imagination of over three million readers through over 180 articles written for The Conversation, setting a new milestone for Leicester in delivering expert opinion in response to...

• Experts probe Mumbais history

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/experts-probe-mumbai2019s-history

  The history of India’s richest city, Mumbai, has been explored at an international conference co-convened by the University of Leicester.

• Leicester researchers work with dogs to sniff out chemicals that identify human remains

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/leicester-researchers-work-with-dogs-to-sniff-out-chemicals-that-identify-human-remains

  Researchers from our University are working with police forces in the UK to improve the accuracy of police dogs in identifying human remains in criminal investigations.