Category: Events
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Colour Perception
The March talk will be given by Dr Christopher Witzel who will be talking about his research into colour perception. Is our perception and understanding of the world determined through genetically fixed and preprogramed mechanisms? Or, are they shaped through learning and experience with the physical and social environment? The answers to these questions are…
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Chemistry: Solving the World’s Problems
Humankind faces many challenges including the climate crisis, plastic pollution and healthcare among others. Chemistry lies at the heart of many potential solutions, but only in partnership with a wide range of other disciplines. Chemists need to collaborate with others, including biologists, engineers, politicians and economists, to implement these solutions at scale and in short…
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The First Supermassive Black Holes in the Universe
Although supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are found at the centers ofmost massive galaxies today, over 200 quasars (actively accretingSMBHs) have now been discovered at redshifts z > 6, less than abillion years after the big bang. Their discovery beginning in 2003posed serious challenges to paradigms of cosmic structure formationbecause it was not understood how such…
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Biodiversity Game Show
Biodiversity is critical to human well-being yet we are rapidly driving it to destruction as we continue to monopolise and change the planet for our own ends. In this interactive show the audience will watch and take part in a series of games based on popular TV quiz shows: Tenable, Pointless, Only Connect, Family Fortunes,…
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Where wild flowers lead, wildlife follows
The March talk will be given by Sue Southway from Plantlife who will be talking about her work as an ecologist. Plantlife is a Salisbury-based British conservation charity that works nationally and internationally to save threatened wild flowers, plants and fungi. Sue will look at their work and in particular take a closer look at…
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Vaccine Basics: from Development to Denial
In a last minute change to the calendar, the advertised February talk has had to be postponed and Michael Hudson will now be giving the February talk on the topic of vaccines.Â
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Can you believe your eyes?
The December talk will be given by Dr Lauren Barr who will be talking about the peculiarities of light: The nature of light and its interaction with matter dictates how we see the world, but is all as it seems?
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Everything you wanted to know about chemistry, but were too scared to ask…
The January talk will be given by Prof. David Read of the University of Southampton who will be shedding light on the complex world of chemistry. If I had a pound for every time some said ‘I hated chemistry at school’, I’d be a very rich man! Chemistry teachers have the unenviable task of trying…
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The Mary Rose
The April talk will be given by Dr Philip Roberts of the Mary Rose Trust who will be talking about this famous warship of Henry VIII’s Royal Navy. In 1545, during a battle with an invading French fleet in the Solent, the Mary Rose capsized and tragically sank, killing about 500 of its crew. As…
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Microbes In The Gut: A Primer
The November talk will be given by Michael Hudson who will be talking about his research into gut microbes.