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Date:
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Monday 11th September |
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Title: |
The science of ID cards |
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Speaker:
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Simon Davies,
Department of Information Systems, London School of Economics; Director, Privacy
International |
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Date: |
Monday 9th October |
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Title: |
Stem cells and regenerative medicine |
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Speaker:
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Jonathan Slack, Department of Biology and
Biochemistry and Director, Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Bath |
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Date: |
Monday 13th November |
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Title: |
Too much information? Is
scientific openness fostering bioterror? |
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Speaker:
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James Randerson, science correspondent, The
Guardian |
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Date: |
Monday 11th December |
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Title: |
The science of football |
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Speaker:
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Ken Bray, School of Health, University of Bath and author of How to
score: science and the beautiful game |
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Date: |
Monday 8th January 2007 |
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Title: |
Renewable energy and climate
change |
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Speaker:
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Geoffrey Hammond, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath and
Director of the Bath International Centre for the Environment |
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Date: |
Monday 12th February |
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Title: |
Solar system discoveries -
rocks, water but no life? |
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Speaker:
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Philippe Blondel, Centre for Space, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences,
Department of Physics, University of Bath |
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Date: |
Monday 12th March |
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Title: |
GM crops - chemicals vs genes |
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Speaker:
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Rod Scott, Dept of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath |
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Date: |
Tuesday 17th April - NOTE CHANGE OF DATE!! |
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Title: |
Drugs and shocks - do they
work? |
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Speaker:
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George Lodge, former consultant
psychiatrist, Green Lane Hospital |
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Date: |
Monday 14th May |
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Title: |
The precautionary principle:
stop the world, we want to get off! |
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Speaker:
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Dick Taverne, founder of 'Sense about Science', former government minister
and now a life peer |
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Date: |
Monday 11th June |
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Title: |
Fusion: powering the future |
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Speaker:
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Chris Warrick, Culham Science Centre |
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Date: |
Monday 9th July |
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Title: |
Power to the people: the
molecular revolution in sustainable energy |
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Speaker:
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Matthew Davidson, University of Bath |
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Date: |
Monday 10th September |
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Title: |
The nanoworld: benefit or
danger? |
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Speaker:
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Neil Champness, University of Nottingham |
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Date: |
Monday 8 October |
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Title: |
50 years since Sputnik |
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Speaker:
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Piers Bizony, Space historian and science
writer. Author of Space: 50 years of the space age |
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Date: |
Monday 12 November |
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Title: |
I'm an astronomer - ask me
anything! |
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Speaker:
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Department of
Physics, University of Oxford |
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Date: |
Monday 10 December |
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Title: |
Immunisation: the most
effective and least celebrated health intervention ever |
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Speaker:
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Adam Finn, Consultant Paediatrician,
Institute of Child Life & Health, University of Bristol |
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Date: |
Monday 14 January |
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Title: |
Can we build artificial
intelligence--and should we? |
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Speaker:
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Joanna Bryson, Department of Computer
Science, University of Bath, and The Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution &
Cognition Research, Austria |
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Date: |
Monday 11 February |
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Title: |
Adaptation in the descent
of humans: what our DNA sequence reveals about our evolutionary journey |
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Speaker:
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Steve Dorus, Department of
Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath |
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Date: |
Monday 10 March |
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Title: |
You think you can believe
your eyes? Think again - an evening fooling the senses |
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Speaker:
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Gemma Calvert,
Warwick Manufacturing group, University of Warwick |
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Date: |
Monday 14 April |
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Title: |
Low-carbon housing - making
the dream come true |
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Speaker:
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Bill Gething, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios |
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Date: |
Monday 12 May |
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Title: |
CO2 and cars:
what's the problem? |
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Speaker:
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Gary Hawley,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath |
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Date: |
Monday 9 June |
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Title: |
The engineering of eating:
what happens from the mouth down |
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Speaker:
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Peter Fryer, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham |
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Date: |
Monday 14 July |
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Title: |
Extra-solar planets: can we
find another Earth? |
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Speaker:
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Christian Kaiser, School of Physics and
Astronomy, University of Southampton |
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Date: |
Monday 8 September |
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Title: |
Synthetic biology: from
engineering molecules to new forms of 'life' |
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Speaker:
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Dek Woolfson,
Department of Biochemistry, University of Bristol |
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Date: |
Monday 13th October |
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Title: |
Giant pterosaurs: nice
engineering |
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Speaker:
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David Martill, University of Portsmouth |
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Date: |
Monday 10th November |
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Title: |
GM plants as a sustainable
source of fish oils? |
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Speaker: |
Johnathan Napier, Rothamsted Research |
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Date: |
Monday 8th December |
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Title: |
After green chemistry comes
raspberry-flavoured chemistry: adventures in solar cell research? |
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Speaker: |
Laurie Peter, University of Bath |
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Date: |
Monday 9th February |
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Title: |
A birthday treat for Mr
Darwin: A walk through the Creation Museum, Kentucky, USA? |
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Speaker: |
John Troyer, Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath |
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Date: |
Monday 9th March |
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Title: |
Watts New in Clean Energy
Materials? Batteries Included |
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Speaker: |
M.
Saiful Islam, University of Bath |
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Date: |
Monday 11th May |
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Title: |
Man v superbugs: who's winning? |
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Speaker: |
Ed
Feil |
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Date: |
Monday 8th June |
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Title: |
The patient, a changed life and
growing at 39! |
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Speaker: |
Victoria Wells
Hear Victoria's story; born with congenital hip
dysplasia, she has recently undergone hip reconstructive surgery that has
literally transformed her life.
Victoria will describe her childhood and early adult life coping with hip
dysplasia, her life-changing surgery and post-operative rehabilitation.
Tony Miles, Professor of Biomechanics at Bath University will contribute to
the discussion. |
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Date: |
Monday 13th July |
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Title: |
Food
security: ideologies or solutions? |
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Speaker: |
Andrew Bennett |
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Description: |
Current levels of hunger, malnutrition and obesity are unacceptable. The demands
for food, commodities and other goods and services derived from land- and water-scapes
will double over the next generation, driven by population and economic growth,
education and urbanization. However there is general concern that these
demands will have to be met in ways that avoids further environmental damage;
uses less water and energy; copes with climate change and greater uncertainties
caused by turbulence in global trade and financial markets.
Nobody should under-estimate these challenges and how little time we have to
find and implement solutions, but it seems to be so difficult to find the
leadership and build the partnerships and consensus that will be needed. We
will need to deploy combinations, not ideological debates, around technologies,
policies, investments, scales, markets and the roles of the public and private
sectors. Which technologies will we need and what are the trade-offs?
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Date: |
Monday 12th October 2009 |
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Title: |
Diamond sparkles through the
Dead Sea Scrolls - interrogating matter
using high intensity light |
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Speaker: |
Tim Wess |
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Description: |
Diamond is the £300M synchrotron source that sits
on the Ridgeway, it produces a wide spectrum of intense radiation to interrogate
the structure of matter from enzymes to semiconductors to novel new materials.
Synchrotron radiation has also been used to study some of the most important
historical documents such as the Dead Sea scrolls and the Domesday Book, where
the information from the writing material itself can reveal historical
information and help us to conserve documents for the future. The combination of
the high tech with the historical will be the focus of this discussion
Time Wess is a professor of Optometry and Vision
Sciences at Cardiff University. |
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Date: |
Monday 9th November 2009 |
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Title: |
Is there a conflict between
science and religion? Pagan attitudes to science |
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Speaker: |
Yvonne Aburrow, University of Bath |
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Description: |
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Date: |
Monday 14th December 2009 |
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Title: |
The evolution of disease |
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Speaker: |
Stuart Reynolds,
University of Bath |
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Description: |
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Date: |
Monday 8th February 2010 |
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Title: |
The science of cremation at the
Haycombe Cemetery and Crematorium |
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Speaker: |
Rosemary Tiley, Crematorium Manager |
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Description: |
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