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| Speaker: | Roma Agrawal |
| Biography: | Senior Structural Engineer, WSP Group |
| Date: | 12/12/12 |
| Time: | 20:00 |
| Venue: | Main Theatre |
| Description: | The Shard comprises 26 storeys of offices, 13 of apartments, three of restaurants and a 19 storey hotel. A 65m spire, with a public viewing gallery, brings the height to 310m. The talk will concentrate on the Shard’s structural aspects: its design, construction and unusual features. |
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| Speaker: | Sir Paul Nurse PRS |
| Biography: | Nobel Laureate, President of the Royal Society, Director and CEO of The Francis Crick Institute |
| Date: | 13/11/12 |
| Time: | 19:30 |
| Venue: | Main Theatre |
| Description: | Three of these are the gene theory,evolution by natural selection, and the cell as the fundamental unit of all life. These ideas come together, because the special way cells reproduce provides the conditions for natural selection. |
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| Title: | ANNUAL DINNER: HISTORY OF BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL GARDENS |
| Speaker: | Simon Gulliver |
| Biography: | Plant Collections Manager, Birmingham Botanical Gardens and Glasshouses |
| Date: | 24/10/12 |
| Time: | 20:00 |
| Venue: | Aston Wood Golf Club |
| Description: | The history of the Birmingham Botanical Gardens. |
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| Speaker: | Professor Danny Dorling |
| Biography: | University of Sheffield |
| Date: | 11/10/12 |
| Time: | 20:00 |
| Venue: | Studio |
| Description: | Human Geography is not the same as Physical Geography. Different kinds of maps are needed to see where most people live and how they move about between and within cities, migrate and commute, move country or job. |
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| Speaker: | Dr John Lucas |
| Biography: | Rothamsted Research Station |
| Date: | 12/09/12 |
| Time: | 20:00 |
| Venue: | Studio |
| Description: | We face new gobal challenges to meet an increasing demand for food and renewable energy with limited land, water and other resources. Can advances in crop science deliver food and energy security? |
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| Speaker: | Professor Donald Singer and Dr Sorcha Gunne |
| Biography: | Both from Warwick University |
| Date: | 12/07/12 |
| Time: | 10:00 |
| Venue: | Main Theatre, LichfieldGarrick |
| Description: | Festival Lecture. Clinical Pharmacologist Prof Donald Singer and literary studies expert Dr Sorcha Gunne (both from the University Of Warwick) discuss where medicine and poetry meet. This initiative was the winner of the 2011 Times Higher Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts. |
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| Speaker: | Jim Dixon |
| Biography: | Chief Executive, Peak District National Park |
| Date: | 06/06/12 |
| Time: | 19:30 |
| Venue: | Mabel’s, Curborough Hall Farm, Lichfield |
| Description: | Social evening with a Cold Buffet and a talk by Jim Dixon, Chief Executive, Peak District National Park. Members and their guests only.
7.00 for 7.30 pm |
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| Speaker: | Sandy White & Richie Mason |
| Biography: | ALE, Hixon |
| Date: | 15/05/12 |
| Time: | 20:00 |
| Venue: | Studio Theatre, LichfieldGarrick |
| Description: | This meeting will be preceeded by the Society’s AGM at 19:30 |
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| Speaker: | Professor Sir John Pendry |
| Biography: | Professor of Theoretical Solid State Physics, University of London |
| Date: | 11/04/12 |
| Time: | 20:00 |
| Venue: | Studio Theatre, LichfieldGarrick |
| Description: | New materials create the possibility of lenses whose resolution is limited only by manufacturing precision and cloaks that hide objects within them, but remain completely invisible to external observers. |
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| Title: | THE TECHNICAL CHALLENGES OF CONSERVATION |
| Speaker: | Chris Collins |
| Biography: | Head of Conservation, Natural History Museum |
| Date: | 13/03/12 |
| Time: | 20:00 |
| Venue: | Studio Theatre, LichfieldGarrick |
| Description: | The technical challenges facing a conservator trying to preserve collections and modern methods of preserving objects ranging from Egyptian papyrus to dinosaurs, mummies to meteorites, taking in Homer on the way. |