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| Speaker: | Dr Alan Partridge | View Flyer |
| Biography: | Rolls-Royce, Derby | |
| Date: | Wednesday, 11th September 2019 | |
| Time: | 8:00 pm | |
| Venue: | Studio Theatre | |
| Description: | Increasingly stringent noise, emissions and customer performance expectations for aero-engines lead towards the development of radically different and cleaner architectures, new materials and manufacturing technologies. | |
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| Speaker: | Professor Mark Lorch | View Flyer |
| Biography: | University of Hull | |
| Date: | Tuesday, 8th October 2019 | |
| Time: | 8:00 pm | |
| Venue: | Studio Theatre | |
| Description: | 2019 is the International Year of the Periodic Table, 150 years since Dmitri Mendeleev created this iconic infographic. In celebration Professor Lorch will discuss the evolution of the table and select a few stories about the elements. | |
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| Speaker: | Professor Jonathan Van-Tam MBE | View Flyer |
| Biography: | University of Nottingham, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England | |
| Date: | Wednesday, 13th November 2019 | |
| Time: | 7:30 pm | |
| Venue: | Main Theatre | |
| Description: | Influenza pandemics occur unpredictably. But there have been four such events in the last 100 years, and experts agree another pandemic is inevitable. How can the population be defended from this major public health threat? | |
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| Speaker: | Professor Roger Barker | View Flyer |
| Biography: | Cambridge Clinical Science Centre for Brain Repair | |
| Date: | Wednesday, 4th December 2019 | |
| Time: | 8:00 pm | |
| Venue: | Main Theatre | |
| Description: | An approach to repairing the brain in Parkinson’s Disease, using cell transplants and growth factors for dopamine cells. | |
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| Speaker: | Dr John Halsted | View Flyer |
| Biography: | HS2 Ltd | |
| Date: | Thursday, 9th January 2020 | |
| Time: | 8:00 pm | |
| Venue: | Studio Theatre | |
| Description: | Before the engineering works start archaeological works are being undertaken across the route. This has involved geophysical survey, remote sensing and intrusive investigations. This talk will outline the methods of investigation along with some of the preliminary results. | |
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| Speaker: | Professor Sarah Hainsworth | View Flyer |
| Biography: | University of Aston | |
| Date: | Tuesday, 11th February 2020 | |
| Time: | 8:00 pm | |
| Venue: | Studio Theatre | |
| Description: | Stabbing is the most common method of violent death in the UK. Professor Hainsworth will discuss her research which aims to quantify the degree of force required to create a knife wound. | |
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| Speaker: | Dr Paul Taylor | View Flyer |
| Biography: | BT | |
| Date: | Tuesday, 10th March 2020 | |
| Time: | 8:00 pm | |
| Venue: | Studio Theatre | |
| Description: | AI is seemingly everywhere now, but what is it really? This talk will try to answer that question and illustrate how AI is used in industry with some current examples from BT. | |
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| Speaker: | Professor Kai Bongs | View Flyer |
| Biography: | University of Birmingham | |
| Date: | Rescheduled to 2020-2021 Programme owing to Covid-19 restrictions | |
| Time: | 8:00 pm | |
| Venue: | Studio Theatre | |
| Description: | 250 years after the Industrial Revolution, there is now a worldwide race towards the Quantum Technology revolution. The UK is a frontrunner in this area with a programme set to reach £1bn. Four national hubs have been established to drive forward quantum computing, communication, imaging and sensing. This talk will introduce the work of the Sensors and Timing Hub, take some of the “spookiness” out of quantum and illustrate how quantum sensors might change our lives in the future. | |
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| Speaker: | Rhys Phillips |
| Biography: | University of Cardiff |
| Date: | Rescheduled to 2020-2021 Programme owing to Covid-19 restrictions |
| Time: | 8:00 pm |
| Venue: | Studio Theatre |
| Description: | Paraphrasing a line from Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody the talk will discuss the phenomenon of lightning and its effect on aircraft and aircraft design. This meeting will be preceded at 7:30 by the Society’s AGM |
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| Speaker: | Dr Patricia Fara |
| Biography: | University of Cambridge |
| Date: | Rescheduled to 2020-2021 Programme owing to Covid-19 restrictions |
| Time: | 8:00 pm |
| Venue: | Studio Theatre |
| Description: | Instead of completing his education with a Grand Tour of Europe, Joseph Banks travelled around the world with James Cook. An expert on botany, he became President of London’s Royal Society for 42 years, where he exerted great influence on British scientific and imperial policy. This lecture supplements that conventional success story by discussing how he was satirised. |