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| Speaker: | Professor Ian Crawford | View Flyer |
| Biography: | University of London | |
| Date: | Wednesday 14th September 2016 | |
| Time: | 8:00 pm | |
| Venue: | Studio Theatre | |
| Description: | Astrobiology is an interdisciplinary science concerned with the evolution of life on Earth, the possibility of life, or past life, elsewhere in our Solar System and the potential habitability of planets orbiting other stars. | |
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| Speaker: | Dr David Beeston |
| Biography: | Dudley Zoological Gardens |
| Date: | Tuesday, 4th October 2016 |
| Time: | 8:00 pm |
| Venue: | Aston Wood Golf Club |
| Description: | Since it opened in 1937 the vision and role of the Zoo and Zoological Society has changed in many ways. Exploring the changes we learn more about conserving both the living world and our architectural heritage. |
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| Speaker: | Professor C J Budd | View Flyer |
| Biography: | University of Bath | |
| Date: | Thursday, 13th October 2016 | |
| Time: | 8:00 pm | |
| Venue: | Studio Theatre | |
| Description: | Almost every aspect of life today is based on mathematics; computing, economics, weather forecasting, electronic communications, transport, industrial design, all rely on it to various degrees and in some form from simple arithmetic to pure maths. | |
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| Speaker: | Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell | View Flyer |
| Biography: | President and Vice Chancellor, the University of Manchester | |
| Date: | Tuesday 15th November 2016 | |
| Time: | 7:30 pm | |
| Venue: | Main Theatre | |
| Description: | Dame Nancy's current research is focussed on what causes strokes and what happens in a brain deprived of blood and oxygen, and on trying to find better treatments and preventions. This leads into how infection, obesity and atherosclerosis cause a stroke and stimulate inflammation. | |
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| Speaker: | Brigadier Timothy J Hodgetts | View Flyer |
| Biography: | Royal Centre for Defence Medicine | |
| Date: | Wednesday, 7th December 2016 | |
| Time: | 8:00 pm | |
| Venue: | Main Theatre | |
| Description: | The conditions for successful innovation in military medicine that have led to extraordinary contemporary clinical outcomes, and lessons for innovations at pace that are widely transferable. | |
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| Speaker: | Professor Paul Withey | View Flyer |
| Biography: | Rolls-Royce Engineering | |
| Date: | Wednesday, 11th January 2017 | |
| Time: | 8:00 pm | |
| Venue: | Studio Theatre | |
| Description: | The blades in a gas turbine are highly engineered components operating in an arduous environment. The talk will explain how they are made as single crystals in nickel based superalloys and look at the journey which has got us to today’s components and at the future challenges. | |
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| Speaker: | Dr Zsuzsanna Nagy | View Flyer |
| Biography: | University of Birmingham. President of Lichfield Science & Engineering Society | |
| Date: | Thursday, 16th February 2017 | |
| Time: | 8:00 pm | |
| Venue: | Studio Theatre | |
| Description: | Learning and memory have fascinated human kind for a long time. Understanding how we learn and remember, and how the brain can store so many memories to which we have such diverse reactions, is even more important now that dementia is becoming a silent epidemic of our times. Dr Nagy believes that understanding how our brain learns will enable us to protect our memories from dementia. | |
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| Speaker: | Dr Jonathan Williams | View Flyer |
| Biography: | National Physical Laboratory | |
| Date: | Tuesday, 14th March 2017 | |
| Time: | 8:00 pm | |
| Venue: | Studio Theatre | |
| Description: | How quantum physics will impact measurement and the planned changes to the SI system. | |
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| Speaker: | Lawrence Shackman | View Flyer |
| Biography: | Transport Scotland | |
| Date: | Tuesday, 4th April 2017 (Note change of date!) | |
| Time: | 8:00 pm | |
| Venue: | Studio Theatre | |
| Description: | Following the 2005 discovery of corrosion in the Forth Road Bridge, work has rapidly progressed to procure and construct a new crossing. It will be the longest three tower cable-stayed bridge in the world. Opening is scheduled for May 2017, some 11 years from inception to completion, a huge achievement for a huge project. | |
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| Speaker: | Professor Andrew Ellis | View Flyer |
| Biography: | University of Aston | |
| Date: | Wednesday, 10th May 2017 | |
| Time: | 8:00 pm. This meeting will be preceded at 7:30 by the Society’s AGM | |
| Venue: | Studio Theatre | |
| Description: | For centuries optics has underpinned our ability to communicate remotely. Today over 99.9% of all data traffic passes through at least one optical fibre and the internet they support increasingly penetrates our everyday life. This talk will review the history of optical communications, and address the question “Is the internet nearly full?” | |