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General Information

 
Where :

The Raven, 6-7 Queen Street, Bath,  BA1 1HE (upstairs non-smoking bar) Tel: 01225 425045

When :

Second Monday of the month, 7:30 p.m. for 8:00 start

Contact:

Rod Scott or Melissa Spielman

LAUNCH CAFE - Monday 11th September 2006

Upcoming Events

Date:
 

Monday 11th September

Title:

The science of ID cards

Speaker:
 

Simon Davies, Department of Information Systems, London School of Economics; Director, Privacy International

Date:

Monday 9th October

Title:

Stem cells and regenerative medicine

Speaker:
 

Jonathan Slack, Department of Biology and Biochemistry and Director, Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Bath

Date:

Monday 13th November

Title:

Too much information? Is scientific openness fostering bioterror?

Speaker:
 

James Randerson, science correspondent, The Guardian

Date:

Monday 11th December

Title:

The science of football

Speaker:
 

Ken Bray, School of Health, University of Bath and author of How to score: science and the beautiful game

Date:

Monday 8th January 2007

Title:

Renewable energy and climate change

Speaker:
 

Geoffrey Hammond, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath and Director of the Bath International Centre for the Environment

Date:

Monday 12th February

Title:

Solar system discoveries - rocks, water but no life?

Speaker:
 

Philippe Blondel, Centre for Space, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Department of Physics, University of Bath

Date:

Monday 12th March

Title:

GM crops - chemicals vs genes

Speaker:
 

Rod Scott, Dept of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath

Date:

Tuesday 17th April - NOTE CHANGE OF DATE!!

Title:

Drugs and shocks - do they work?

Speaker:
 

George Lodge, former consultant psychiatrist, Green Lane Hospital

Date:

Monday 14th May

Title:

The precautionary principle: stop the world, we want to get off!

Speaker:
 

Dick Taverne, founder of 'Sense about Science', former government minister and now a life peer

Date:

Monday 11th June

Title:

Fusion: powering the future

Speaker:
 

Chris Warrick, Culham Science Centre

Date:

Monday 9th July

Title:

Power to the people: the molecular revolution in sustainable energy

Speaker:
 

Matthew Davidson, University of Bath

Date:

Monday 10th September

Title:

The nanoworld: benefit or danger?

Speaker:
 

Neil Champness, University of Nottingham

Date:

Monday 8 October

Title:

50 years since Sputnik

Speaker:
 

Piers Bizony, Space historian and science writer. Author of Space: 50 years of the space age

Date:

Monday 12 November

Title:

I'm an astronomer - ask me anything!

Speaker:
 

Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Department of Physics, University of Oxford

Date:

Monday 10 December

Title:

Immunisation: the most effective and least celebrated health intervention ever

Speaker:
 

Adam Finn, Consultant Paediatrician, Institute of Child Life & Health, University of Bristol

Date:

Monday 14 January

Title:

Can we build artificial  intelligence--and should we?

Speaker:
 

Joanna Bryson, Department of Computer Science, University of Bath, and The Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution & Cognition Research, Austria

Date:

Monday 11 February

Title:

Adaptation in the descent of humans: what our DNA sequence reveals about our evolutionary journey

Speaker:
 

Steve Dorus, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath

Date:

Monday 10 March

Title:

You think you can believe your eyes? Think again - an evening fooling the senses

Speaker:
 

Gemma Calvert, Warwick Manufacturing group, University of Warwick

Date:

Monday 14 April

Title:

Low-carbon housing - making the dream come true

Speaker:
 

Bill Gething, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

Date:

Monday 12 May

Title:

CO2 and cars: what's the problem?

Speaker:
 

Gary Hawley, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath

 

 

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