Title: Optimising Performance: Success for our athletes, health for our nation

Date: Tuesday, 10 July, 2012

This event explores how to optimise elite performance in sport and how medical research can translate to both the critically ill and those in high level sport. It will also look at how exercise can maintain health, prevent disease and limit the impact of chronic conditions.

Chaired by Professors Fares Haddad and Monty Mythen, this panel discussion includes Sir Clive Woodward (Director of Elite Performance, British Olympic Association), Dr Mike Loosemore (Team doctor, Great Britain Olympic boxing) and UCL's Professor Hugh Montgomery and Professor Mike Grocott.

UCL's Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health has been set up through collaboration between UCL, University College Hospital (UCH), The British Olympic Association and the English Institute of Sport.

To mark the Olympics and Paralympics, UCL has developed an exciting programme of events and exhibitions highlighting some of the world-leading research taking place at the university relevant to London in 2012. To find out more about the complete programme please visit: www.ucl.ac.uk/london/olympics

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at www.ucl.ac.uk.

Title: The pursuit of Olympic ideals - physical, neural and aesthetic

Date: Thursday, 28th June 2012

This event will explore how ancient Greek ideals of beauty, achievement and politics shaped the original Olympic games. Professor Chris Carey (UCL Greek and Latin) and Professor Semir Zeki (UCL Neuroesthetics) will discuss what constitutes ideals in neural terms and how they are formed and transformed in the brain.

To mark the Olympics and Paralympics, UCL has developed an exciting programme of events and exhibitions highlighting some of the world-leading research taking place at the university relevant to London in 2012. To find out more about the complete programme please visit: www.ucl.ac.uk/london/olympics

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at www.ucl.ac.uk.

Title: Optimising Performance: Success for our athletes, health for our nation

Date: Tuesday, 10 July, 2012

This event explores how to optimise elite performance in sport and how medical research can translate to both the critically ill and those in high level sport. It will also look at how exercise can maintain health, prevent disease and limit the impact of chronic conditions.

Chaired by Professors Fares Haddad and Monty Mythen, this panel discussion includes Sir Clive Woodward (Director of Elite Performance, British Olympic Association), Dr Mike Loosemore (Team doctor, Great Britain Olympic boxing) and UCL's Professor Hugh Montgomery and Professor Mike Grocott.

UCL's Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health has been set up through collaboration between UCL, University College Hospital (UCH), The British Olympic Association and the English Institute of Sport.

To mark the Olympics and Paralympics, UCL has developed an exciting programme of events and exhibitions highlighting some of the world-leading research taking place at the university relevant to London in 2012. To find out more about the complete programme please visit: www.ucl.ac.uk/london/olympics

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at www.ucl.ac.uk.

Title: Olympian minds: can we train our brain for success in sports and other fields?

Date: Wednesday, 18th July 2012

Our brains have an element of plasticity and are able to change as a result of influences from the environment. But how can training--in sports and other areas--regulate this ability to change? Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg (University of Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain) will be discussing brain plasticity, its importance and its limitations with Professor Semir Zeki (UCL Neuroesthetics) and other academics from UCL.

Speakers:

Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg, University of Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain

Professor Semir Zeki, UCL Neuroesthetics

To mark the Olympics and Paralympics, UCL has developed an exciting programme of events and exhibitions highlighting some of the world-leading research taking place at the university relevant to London in 2012. To find out more about the complete programme please visit: www.ucl.ac.uk/london/olympics

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at www.ucl.ac.uk.

Max Dickins is a stand-up comedian, writer, radio presenter, member of the sketch duo Dregs and blogger. In his interview with Sara Shulman of Comedy Blogedy, Max discusses student radio and uni life, advice to performers taking a show up to the Edinburgh Festival, the art form of stand-up comedy and much more!

Sara Shulman is the Founder and Editor of Comedy Blogedy, former Head of Comedy at UCLU Rare FM and produces the Humour Me Comedy Podcast. Sara is also a Classics Undergraduate at UCL.

www.maxdickins.co.uk

www.twitter.com/maxdickins

www.thecreativityguy.blogspot.co.uk

www.dregscomedy.co.uk (Podcast available from iTunes)

Edinburgh Show - Max Dickins: This Will Only Take A Moment...

http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/comedy/max-dickins-this-will-only-take-a-moment

www.comedyblogedy.com

www.twitter.com/comedyblog

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at www.ucl.ac.uk.

Max Dickins is a stand-up comedian, writer, radio presenter, member of the sketch duo Dregs and blogger. In his interview with Sara Shulman of Comedy Blogedy, Max discusses student radio and uni life, advice to performers taking a show up to the Edinburgh Festival, the art form of stand-up comedy and much more!

Sara Shulman is the Founder and Editor of Comedy Blogedy, former Head of Comedy at UCLU Rare FM and produces the Humour Me Comedy Podcast. Sara is also a Classics Undergraduate at UCL.

www.maxdickins.co.uk

www.twitter.com/maxdickins

www.thecreativityguy.blogspot.co.uk

www.dregscomedy.co.uk (Podcast available from iTunes)

Edinburgh Show - Max Dickins: This Will Only Take A Moment...

http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/comedy/max-dickins-this-will-only-take-a-moment

www.comedyblogedy.com

www.twitter.com/comedyblog

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at www.ucl.ac.uk.

Three UCL students are carrying the Olympic torch on Sunday, 22 July. This special edition of the UCL Student Podcast, presented by medical student Dan Grant, brings all three torchbearers together.

Here are the details:

Dan Grant – 8.33am (leg 17) from Incknield Drive along Cranbrook Rd (A123) finishing at Shere Rd

Tom Traill - 14.33 (leg 104) in Havering

James Xu -18:14 (leg 152) from Pole No.42 in Road A220 (also known as Gravel Hill) until the crossing between Latham Road and Gravel Hill

If you can't make it along, watch it online:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/torchrelay

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at www.ucl.ac.uk.

Three UCL students are carrying the Olympic torch on Sunday, 22 July. This special edition of the UCL Student Podcast, presented by medical student Dan Grant, brings all three torchbearers together.

Here are the details:

Dan Grant – 8.33am (leg 17) from Incknield Drive along Cranbrook Rd (A123) finishing at Shere Rd

Tom Traill - 14.33 (leg 104) in Havering

James Xu -18:14 (leg 152) from Pole No.42 in Road A220 (also known as Gravel Hill) until the crossing between Latham Road and Gravel Hill

If you can't make it along, watch it online:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/torchrelay

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at www.ucl.ac.uk.

Professor Sophie Scott (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) studies how and why we laugh but also likes to make people laugh. In this podcast her explanation of how we learn to laugh is inter-cut with her performance at a comedy night and a trip with her son to the playground. This research is at the centre of her contribution to the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition.

Further information:

Professor Sophie Scott: https://sites.google.com/site/speechskscott

Royal Society: http://sse.royalsociety.org/2012/exhibits/laughing-brains

Video of this podcast: http://youtu.be/wD3TcORDs3I

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at www.ucl.ac.uk.

Professor Sophie Scott (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) studies how and why we laugh but also likes to make people laugh. In this podcast her explanation of how we learn to laugh is inter-cut with her performance at a comedy night and a trip with her son to the playground. This research is at the centre of her contribution to the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition.

Further information:

Professor Sophie Scott: https://sites.google.com/site/speechskscott

Royal Society: http://sse.royalsociety.org/2012/exhibits/laughing-brains

Video of this podcast: http://youtu.be/wD3TcORDs3I

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at www.ucl.ac.uk.