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Previous Events
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Monday 1st March 2010 |
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Sex, suits and
science |
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Description: |
Anne Glover
Is there a problem for
women in science? What's the scale of it? And what's more,
why should we care? Professor Anne Glover is the Chief
Scientific Advisor for Scotland and a familiar face at
Glasgow's Café Scientique. In her talk, she'll be exploring
the role of women scientists in our labs, companies and our
society at large. As science and technology play an
increasing part in all our lives, she'll examine whether we
can afford to remain ignorant about what's happening to
women in Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) as well
as analysing ideas such as positive discrimination,
affirmative action and mentoring - even who looks after the
kids!
Anne will be joined after her talk by Prof Mandy MacLean
and Dr Neil Metcalfe to answer questions.
Professor Anne Glover was appointed Chief Scientific Adviser
for Scotland on 1 August 2006. Her role is to further
enhance Scotland's reputation as a science nation. Anne
currently holds a Personal Chair of Molecular and Cell
Biology at the University of Aberdeen and has honorary
positions at the Rowett and Macaulay Institutes. She is an
elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a member
of the Natural Environment Research Council, a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the American Academy
of Microbiology. Anne was recognised in March 2008 as a
Woman of Outstanding Achievement by the UK Resource Centre
for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology and was
awarded a CBE for services to Environmental Science in the
Queen's New Years Honours list 2009. In June 2009 she was
appointed Chair of the UK Collaborative on Development
Sciences.
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Monday 12th April 2010 |
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The number matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. |
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Description: |
Matt Parker
You were forced to learn
maths at school, but where have all
of those numbers gone now? Matt Parker will show you the
matrix of numbers all around us that make our modern lives
possible. From rescuing your lost words in text messages to
protecting your Facebook profile, this highly engaging
session will open your eyes to the ubiquitous sea of numbers
we all live in.
Matt Parker, from
Queen Mary, University of London describes himself as a
stand-up mathematician and won the People’s Choice Award in
the final of the 2009 national Famelab competition. After
studying Mathematics and Physics in Australia, Matt headed
for the UK. He now combines teaching with entertaining
presentations around the UK. Matt’s favourite number is
currently 496. |
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Monday 10th May 2010 |
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Title: |
Life on a dynamic Earth can be dangerous |
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Description: |
Stuart K Monro,
Scientific Director, Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh
Think Haiti, the Indonesian Tsunami and the eruption of
Mount St Helens. We’re moving away from America at the rate
our fingernails grow but these large-scale movements of
slabs of the Earth can cause major hazards affecting people
locally AND globally. Earthquakes, tsunami, volcanic
eruptions have all happened in the past and will happen
again in the future – the past is the key to the future.
What
– if anything –can scientists do to help? We have a
responsibility to monitor, to understand the processes and
to mitigate the anticipated consequences. But what else?
Discussing and understanding the Big Science behind these
major natural hazards might stimulate some additional
ideas... |
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Monday 7th June 2010 |
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Caveworld: a new look at evolution |
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Description: |
Keith Skene
Keith presents a completely new way of understanding evolution.
He starts with energy, and explores how this offers a much
better way of approaching the questions of how and why life
came about than does the biology of Darwinism or the
chemistry of neo-Darwinism. Involving a giant
inflatable snow globe and a range of other props, this
promises to be a fun, but thought-provoking event.
Details of his new theory can be found on
www.ardmachapress.com.
A former Rhodes Scholar, evolutionary ecologist and lecturer
at the University of Dundee, Keith has worked in tropical
and
Mediterranean habitats
around the world. |
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