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Talking Science lecture series at Daresbury Laboratory

Daresbury Laboratory's Talking Science lecture programme will be webcast live and archived for later viewing.

Admission to these events is by ticket only. Tickets are free but reservations must be made in advance from four weeks before the date of each lecture, either by phone on 01925 603040 or by e-mail.

STFC hopes to support the delivery of therse lectures with a webcast, further details will be made available on each event page close to the lecture date.

Public lectures 2011 to 2012

  • Who cares about glaciers anyway?  Impacts of climate change on cold region environments.
    Dr Zoe Robinson (30th September 2011)

  • Rutherford's Legacy: From the Nucleus to Superstrings.
    Dr. Glenn Patrick (28th October 2011)

  • Understanding Stem Cells: Benefits for all?
    Professor Melanie Welham (25th November 2011)

  • Ice, Fire and Water: The 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull volcano, Iceland
    Professor Nick Petford (9th December 2011)

  • Ancient Egypt under the Microscope: How Science is Revealing how the Egyptians really lived.
    Dr Karen Exell  (27th January 2012) 

  • Astrobiology - the hunt for alien life
    Dr Lewis Dartnell  (24th February 2012)

  • Carry on accelerating, 50 years of Daresbury laboratory
    Dr Neil Marks  (30th March 2012)

  • Super intense lasers - the bright approach for our future
    Ceri Brenner  (27th April 2012)

  • Mysterious Cases of Misbehaving Molecules
    Professor Chick Wilson  (25th May 2012)

  • EMMA at Daresbury: An accelerator to solve the problems of the 21st century
    Dr Peter Wilson  (29th June 2012)

Schools Lectures

  • Astrobiology - the hunt for alien life - KS3/4
    Dr Lewis Dartnell  (24thFebruary 2012 at 1.30pm)

  • You want me to shove this circuit where? - A Level
    Tony Palmer  (29th June 2012)

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