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Where : |
The Raven, 6-7 Queen Street, Bath, BA1 1HE
(upstairs non-smoking bar) Tel: 01225 425045 |
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When : |
Second Monday of the month, 7:30
p.m. for 8:00 start |
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Rod Scott or
Melissa Spielman |
LAUNCH CAFE - Monday 11th September 2006
Upcoming Events
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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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