SPACE JUNK: THE CHALLENGES OF TRACKING
IN LOW EARTH ORBIT

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Speaker: Flight Lieutenant Dan Greenhalgh
Biography: No. 2 Space Warning Squadron - RAF Fylingdales
Date: Thursday, 8th May 2025
Time: 20:00
Venue: Studio Theatre of the Lichfield Garrick
Description: Space junk is more than just clutter—it's a growing threat to our satellites and space missions, posing risks of catastrophic collisions and mission failures. Hidden dangers lurk in the vast expanse of space and innovative solutions are being developed to manage and mitigate the debris orbiting Earth, ensuring the safety and sustainability of future space endeavours.

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2024 - 2025 Programme

VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY IN THE 21st CENTURY:
A CONTINUING HEALTH PROBLEM AROUND THE WORLD

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Speaker: Professor Martin Hewison View Flyer
Biography: University of Birmingham
Date: Tuesday, 10th June 2025
Time: 20:00
Venue: Studio Theatre of the Lichfield Garrick
Description: Vitamin D was discovered a hundred years ago as a cure for rickets. Our knowledge of vitamin D has since increased dramatically, as an environmental factor (our skin generates it on exposure to light), a component of food and a hormone. Despite this, many people across the globe are vitamin D-deficient and rickets continues to be an issue for some children in the UK. This talk will explore the causes of vitamin D-deficiency and the benefits of vitamin D to health, including possible effects beyond the skeleton.

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2024 - 2025 Programme

THE FUTURE OF HEATING AND COOLING IN BUILDINGS

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Speaker: Dr Jenny Crawley
Biography: UCL Energy Institute
Date: Wednesday 13th September 2023
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Venue: The Studio Theatre
Description: A shift away from burning fossil fuels for heating will have implications for many of us; the technologies we will have in our homes, how we will use and pay for our heating, how electricity grids will cope with the huge increase in demand and the role of energy storage.

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2023 - 2024 Programme

DEEP SCIENCE: THE SEARCH FOR DARK MATTER AND BEYOND

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Speaker: Professor Sean Paling. View Flyer
Biography: Boulby Deep Underground Facility
Date: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
Time: 8:00 p.m. n the iStudio Theatre.
Venue: .The Studio Theatre
Description: 85% of the mass of the universe appears to be missing. It is likely to be made up of sub-atomic particles, ‘Dark Matter, and there is a race on around the world to prove or disprove this theory. The search for these particles takes place in underground laboratories like the UK’s facility in NE England.

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2023 - 2024 Programme

The 33rd Erasmus Darwin Memorial Lecture. THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE: NEW LIGHT ON THE UNIVERSE

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Speaker: Dr Henrik Melin
Biography: University of Leicester
Date: Thursday 9th November 2023
Time: 7:30 p.m. in the Main House
Venue: The Main House
Description: Since its launch in 2021, the JWST has observed everything from planets within our own solar system to the earliest galaxies in our universe. The data it has returned have provided incredible new discoveries, which may ultimately re-write our textbooks about the Universe. Dr. Melin will highlight some of the extraordinary findings.

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2023 - 2024 Programme

PLASTIC POLLUTION: ARE ENZYMES THE ANSWER?

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Speaker: Professor Andy Pickford
Biography: University of Portsmouth
Date: Thursday 7th December 2023
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Venue: The Main House
Description: Waste plastics causes one of the most serious problems affecting the world today. Recycling is part of the answer but not enough. Enzymes that degrade challenging natural and man-made polymers may be part of the solution.

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2023 - 2024 Programme

OXYGEN: ESSENTIAL BUT DETRIMENTAL – A FINE BALANCE

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Speaker: Professor Corrine Spickett View Flyer
Biography: University of Aston
Date: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Venue: The Studio Theatre
Description: The reactivity of oxygen supports life by harvesting energy from fuel molecules, but can form reactive oxygen species that are damaging. Their roles in normal cell and tissue functions are vital but they contribute to mechanisms of inflammatory diseases.

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2023 - 2024 Programme

THE SCALE OF HUMAN IMPACT DURING THE ANTHROPOCENE

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Speaker: Professor Colin Waters View Flyer
Biography: University of Leicester
Date: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Venue: The Studio Theatre
Description: This talk will explore the evidence for a new Anthropocene epoch commencing in the mid-20th century, explaining how units of the geological time scale are formalized and the environmental markers that distinguish the Anthropocene from the Holocene Epoch of the last 11,700 years.

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2023 - 2024 Programme

CAN CANCER THERAPY REALLY GO VIRAL?

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Speaker: Professor Kevin Harrington View Flyer
Biography: Institute of Cancer Research
Date: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Time: 8:00 p.m. in the Studio Theatre
Venue: The Studio Theatre
Description: We are beginning to understand how to harness the power of viruses to turn them into exquisitely engineered anti-cancer therapies. Drawing on data from laboratory studies of two classes of viral agents, the clinical translation of these new forms of cancer treatment will be illustrated with specific focus on potential future developments.

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2023 - 2024 Programme

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