Category: Salisbury Café Scientifique events
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From Lodestone to Hard-drives: an insight into magnetism
The November talk will be given by Dr Chris Bell of the School of Physics, University of Bristol. Magnets have been known to humans for thousands of years, but still evoke confusion and fascination in equal measure. Do we understand magnets? Can they influence biological processes? How much control over them do we have for…
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From heliographs to the Internet: celebrating Light
The October talk will be given by Matthew Posner, University of Southampton, who will be talking about his research in optoelectronics. 2015 has been declared by the United Nations as the International Year of Light. Matthew’s talk will explore how light is used to bring us the internet that we know today and discuss the…
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Close Encounters of The Ebola Kind
The September talk will be given by Dr Christopher Logue and Dr Suzanna Hawkey who will be talking about their work with the Ebola virus for Public Health England. Christopher will introduce Ebola virus and the disease it causes and give his experiences of working in a field diagnostic lab during the peak of the…
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Attend a Cafe Sci event
Each month, we get a number of requests for booking places at our events. In most cases, there is no need; our events are free to attend and booking is not required. The venue is spacious and can accommodate large audiences and thanks to the generosity of our speakers and organisers, there is no need…
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Attention, distraction and mind wandering
The May talk will be given by Dr Sophie Forster, a lecturer in Psychology at Sussex University. Her research addresses questions such as: What makes certain people particularly vulnerable to distraction? What makes certain things particularly likely to catch our attention and distract us? How is mind wandering related to external distraction?
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Galapagos and Evolution: Inspiring Future Conservationists through Art
The April talk will be given by Charlotte Moreton talking about her work in the Galapagos. The talk will provide an introduction to the work of the Galapagos Conservation Trust and how it supports scientific, educational and social issues in the Islands. This will include the use of art to learn about anatomy and evolution…
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Quantitative Bioimaging: Looking Beyond the Image
The March talk will be given by Dr Ed Cohen on the subject of quantitative bioimaging. Ed Cohen is a Lecturer in Statistics at Imperial College London, where his research interests include quantitative bioimaging, a scientific discipline that uses mathematics and statistics to analyse biological images. Super-resolution microscopy is a collection of imaging techniques allowing…
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Shifting seasons and event times; an apology…
Apologies if you have been confused by the apparent time shift for events from April onwards; the website has been showing these events starting and finishing an hour later than usual. This was due to a quirk in the calendar time zone settings, daylight saving, GMT and the like. On the website that is not…
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Dangerous Business: Space Ethics and Risk
The July talk will be given by Dr. Tony Milligan, lecturer in philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire and writer on applied issues in ethics. His recent book, Nobody Owns the Moon: The Ethics of Space Exploitation, explores some of the ethical dilemmas which are raised by human activity off-world. Human activity in space promises…