Presentations by David MacKay

2016

[February 11th, 2016]
Renewables for 4M15, CUED: Renewables
[January 22nd, 2016]
Cambridge Post-Paris meeting: Seven Elephants in the Room

2015

[December 2nd, 2015]
House of Lords / Sense about Science: Why Making Good Energy Policy is Difficult - reflections on 5 years in Whitehall ; and How to improve the International Negotiations
October 2015
Why climate change action is difficult
– and how we can make a difference
- BP International Centre for Advanced Materials Annual Conference – 20 October 2015
July 2015
Why climate change action is difficult
– and how we can make a difference
- UAI 2015, Amsterdam
June 2015
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air - a lecture at the Royal Institution in London
April 2015
Climate Change Action and Climate Science - slides for David Howarth's course.
30 April 2015
Why 'Good Energy Policy' is difficult - reflections on five years in DECC - talk for HMTreasury

2014

November 14 2014
Simonyi lecture, Oxford [see also audience discussion page on my blog]
November 3 2014
IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report Discussion Meeting
October 2014
Sustainable Engineering - Why climate change action is difficult, and how engineers can help - CUED - Engineering Tripos
October 2014
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air [Nachhaltige Energie - ohne den heißen Luft] - Göttingen Literary festival, Germany
September 2014
The Global Calculator (globalcalculator.org)
September 2014
Sustainable Energy - from academia to Whitehall - talk for IMAGES Energy Storage research consortium, Loughborough.
June 2014
Shale Gas - The Issues
May 2014
British Energy Challenge at Hay festival
March 2014
The Lunar Society in Birmingham — Sustainable Energy - from Academia to Whitehall (for the organizers: download all slides - Lunar.zip)
March 2014
The IET's Clerk-Maxwell LectureClimate, Energy Arithmetic, and 2050 Pathways (for teachers: download all slides - 2050.zip)

2013

November 2013
DECC - Energy Entrepreneurs Scheme: Energy Plans - and the crucial role of innovation
October 2013
4th World Materials Summit, Strasbourg: 2050 Pathways - energy arithmetic and climate change action
June 2013
Melchett Lecture - Energy Institute - Sustainable Energy - from academia to Whitehall
April 2013
Talk for Bioenergy workshop
January 2013
Climate Science and Climate Change Policy - talk for David Howarth's Environmental Policy class at Cambridge University
January 2013:
CSAR, Cambridge Keeping the Lights on in 2050: how can we do it and how much will it cost?

2012

Thursday 29 November 2012
Blackett Memorial Lecture of the Operational Research Society - at The Royal Society - 2050 Pathways
September 2012: EPFL Lausanne
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air
September 2012
Swiss Energy and Climate Symposium, Bern
July 2012
DECC's ambitions for the energy system, and some questions about our lead scenarios - talk for Energy Research Partnership
July 2012
Information Theory and Sustainable Energy - talk for International Conference on Machine Learning, Edinburgh
March 2012
Does storage have a significant role in the UK's future generation mix? - talk for IMechEng Conference
March 2012
People, Power, Area - how the laws of physics constrain our sustainable energy options - talk for TEDx Warwick
January 2012
Climate Science and Climate Change Policy - talk for David Howarth's Environmental Policy class at Cambridge University
January 2012
Could energy-intensive industries be powered by carbon-free electricity? - talk for Royal Society meeting on Material Efficiency
January 2012
Sustainable Shipping - presentation for Royal Academy of Engineering working group on marine propulsion

2011

December 2011
Climate Science and implications for UK/International policy - presentation for Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology and Westminster Energy Forum
November 2011
Energy Arithmetic for the UK and for the world / Solar energy in the context of energy use, energy transportation, and energy storage - Slides for Royal Society on "Can Solar Deliver?" [ PDF (large file!)]
September 2011
Physics of sustainability - a UK perspective - Slides for Winton International Advisory Board Meeting [ PDF (large file!)]
September 2011
Heat Pump Installation Standards Talk at DECC, launching the new Microgeneration Certification Standards for Heat Pumps
January 2011
The Future Energy Landscape in the UK - 2050 Scenarios with and without storage. Talk for Royal Academy of Engineering / Chinese Academy of Sciences meeting on Energy Storage

2010

May 2010
'Sustainable Energy - without the hot air' - Oxford Engineering edition [html slides]
April 2010
'Sustainable Energy - without the hot air' - Google/Stanford edition [html slides]
April 2010
'Sustainable Energy - without the hot air' - Caltech/UCSB/JPL edition [html slides]
April 2010
'Sustainable Energy - without the hot air' - MIT/Harvard edition [html slides]
February 2010
'Sustainable Energy - without the hot air' [html slides]
February 2010
'The Scale of the Decarbonization Challenge' - for Royal Society meeting on greenhouse gases in the earth system [html slides]
January 2010
'Roadmaps to 2050' [html slides]
January 2010
'100 days in government' [html slides only]

2009

December 09
'Sustainable Energy - without the hot air' (special edition) - for Shell, Runcorn [html slides] [huge pdf]
August 09
Information Theory - lecture 1 - Machine Learning Summer School, Cambridge
Information Theory - lecture 2 - Machine Learning Summer School, Cambridge
June 09
'Sustainable Energy - without the hot air' (short version) - for Department for Transport [html slides] [pdf]
May 09
Complete data on the power-per-unit-area of all UK windfarms with more than 7 turbines [html slides]
The Potential of Renewables - Especially Wind [html slides] [pdf]
March 09
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air [html slides] (Royal Holloway University of London)
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air [html slides] (Cambridge Science festival)
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air [html slides] | [pdf] (ARM, Cambridge)
January 09
How does work work? (talk for Theoretical Chemistry group, Cambridge) [html slides]

2008

December 08
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (book launch version!) [html slides] | [pdf]
December 08
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (short version, Prince's teaching inst., Royal Society) [html slides] | [pdf]
November 08
Energy plans that add up (a new talk, 'part II', for ELCF, CUED) [html slides] | [pdf]
Mon 13/10/08
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (EPRG) (a short talk on an example energy plan for 2050) [html slides] | [pdf]
7/08, 9/08
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (BRE edition) [html slides] | [pdf]
5/08
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (Culham edition) [html slides] | [pdf]
4/08
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (Edinburgh edition) [html slides]
Thu 20/3/08
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (special Boston edition) [html slides] | pdf file
Wed 19/3/08
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (short 2008 version) [html slides] | pdf file
18/3/08
The Thinking Machine? (closing remarks for meeting in Cambridge) [html slides] | pdf file
Fri 7/3/08
Carbon and Energy Numeracy [html slides]
18 Feb 2008
Infera - a Bayesian team-ranking program from 1996 [html slides]
Thu 28/2/08
Biofuels [html slides]
Fri 15/2/08
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (short 2008 version) [html slides] | pdf file
Wed 16/1/08
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (2008 version) [html slides]

2007

Wed 5/12/07
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (the long version) [html slides]
Thu 22/11/07
Error-correcting codes - tutorial, CUED [html slides] [pdf of slides]
Thu 6/9/07
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (the short version) [html slides] [pdf of slides (25M)] (20-minute talk for CETC, 25 October 2007)
Thu 6/9/07
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (the short version) [html slides] [pdf of slides (25M)] (20-minute talk for Pembroke College, 12 October 2007)
Thu 6/9/07
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (presentation at E-ON, Coventry)
Sun 29/7/07
Bliss-Dasher - efficient semantic writing with any muscle (presentation at Dundee Bliss Meeting 2007)
Tue 26/6/07
Sustainable Energy - without the BS (presentation at British Antarctic Survey)
Dasher - information-efficient text entry (19th April 2007)
Google tech talk (54 minute video)
Numbers not Adjectives - A Rough Guide to the Sustainable Energy Problem
(presentation to U3A, Cambridge: 15th Feb 2007) (also available in a single 22M pdf file)

2006

Gaussian Processes Basics (VIDEO, 1hr)
Gaussian Processes in Practice Workshop, Bletchley Park 2006.
(associated slides (pdf file))
Oct/November 2006 Nested sampling by John Skilling, David MacKay, and Iain Murray
Talk at Newton Institute
Oct 26
Sustainable Energy - without the bullshit
5 June 2006 Sleeping Beauty and the Armchair Cosmologist
Presentation at Bayesian Methods in Cosmology
3 May 2006 Capacity of the Deletion Channel
Presentation of work by Drinea and Mitzenmacher

2005

Oct 27 Fountain codes
Talk for Thames Valley IEE
May 2005 Nested sampling by John Skilling, David MacKay, and Iain Murray
Talk at Lancaster Statistics Department (see also Nested sampling 2006)
Apr 21 Tries and Bloom filters
For Inference group
Apr 20 Astronomical image recognition
with Sam Roweis; For Inference group, and Cosmology lunch
Feb 16 Taking Bigger Metropolis steps by Dragging fast variables
Slides for a journal club discussing a paper by Radford Neal
Feb 24 Nested sampling by John Skilling, David MacKay, and Iain Murray
Talk at TCM, Cavendish Laboratory (see also Nested sampling 2005 and Nested sampling 2006)
Dasher presentations
October 2005
Dasher for the blind and vision-impaired (html)
September 2005
Dasher - writing fast and free with any muscle - Closing The Gap 2005 (html) (includes slides used for presentation at Princeton University)
July 2005
Hands-free writing - banquet presentation for UAI 2005 (html)
July 2005 A neuron that communicates 10 words per minute (html)
a presentation about Dasher's new button modes.
July 2005 Korean in Dasher (html)
shows how to write Korean using a simple roughly-80-character alphabet.
May/June 2005 Dasher's new eyetracking mode
Cogain, Denmark
May/June 2005 All about Dasher
Cogain, Denmark

2004

Oct 28 Bayesian approximation theory
Oct 12 Fountain codes
Oct 1 Distributed Phase Codes
David MacKay and Seb Wills
Dasher presentations
Nov 16 Dasher: Writing efficiently with any muscle - AND FREE
St John's Innovation Centre
Oct 21 Dasher: Writing efficiently with any muscle
BECTA seminar
Sep 12 Information-efficient text entry
Sheffield machine learning workshop
Sep 2 Dasher for Cogain
Cogain Launch, Finland
Aug 10 Alternative Controls for Dasher
Includes figures from `Efficient communication with one or two buttons'
Jul 30 Text entry, Bayesian inference, and Universal prediction
Jul 24 Probability, information, and Hands-free writing
Maxent 2004

David MacKay
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