Fwd: Upcoming Events at RAL
These online and hybrid RAL events may be of interest.
Chris H
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| Subject: | Upcoming Events at RAL |
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| Date: | Fri, 6 May 2022 10:03:43 +0000 |
Good Morning,
We hope you all had a good and relaxing Easter break! We have
lots of interesting events coming up over the next few months:
including our first in-person Talking Science event since the
pandemic, in June! We do hope you’ll be able to join us!
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TALKING SCIENCE: Mad, bad and dangerous to know, Friday
13 May 19:00 (online event, ages 8+)
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Scientists sometimes get stereotyped. Why are scientists
depicted as chronically shy, slightly odd and carrying out
crazy experiments to try and take over the world? Of
course, it’s only Bond villains who are plotting to take
over the world and most scientists are lovely, sociable
people. But the stereotype has to come from somewhere…
This talk looks at a selection of scientists who have gone
the extra mile to discover incredible things. They did
disgusting experiments and faced personal danger and
ridicule to give us brilliant scientific insights. Their
eccentricities may have even helped them in their work.
There are sword fights, electrocuted frogs and buckets and
buckets of wee!
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To book places for this online talk, please visit:
https://talkingscience2021-22.eventbrite.co.uk
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SCIO: How fusion could change the world, Monday 16 May
18:00 (online event, ages 12+)
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The climate crisis is real, and scientists are working on
ways to generate the energy that powers modern technology
and keeps us warm. Nuclear fusion is one option that could
help take us away from unsustainable fossil fuels, and
towards a future of cheap, sustainable energy. But what
is nuclear fusion? How does it work? Is it dangerous? What
fuel does it burn, and how could we get our hands on it?
And what kind of technology – or technologies – could we
develop to harness it?
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This talk and panel discussion will take place online. To
book places for this online talk, please visit:
https://scio-fusion_may2022.eventbrite.co.uk
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UK Catalysis Hub’s Public Talk: Taking Diamond Light
Source to a new level of brilliance, Monday 20 June 17:20
(hybrid event, adults only: 18+)
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The UK Catalysis Hub would be pleased if you could join
them for their Summer Conference public talk, by Professor
Andrew Harrison, followed (for those attending in-person)
by drinks and an exhibition. Catalysis - the process of
making reactions faster, cheaper and more feasible, by
adding an additional substance - is used in over 80% of
the products most of us use everyday, and the UK Catalysis
Hub, working with Diamond Light Source and other
organisations around the world, is dedicated to using
catalysis to improve all of our lives and help our society
achieve Net Zero.
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The talk, by Professor Andrew Harrison (Chief Executive
Officer, Diamond Light Source) will cover how Diamond
produces brilliant beams of light that are used by a set
of instruments that act like a set of exceptionally
powerful microscopes. Recent work conducted at Diamond
includes ways to improve lithium batteries, harness the
ability of some bacteria to treat plastic waste, and
produce new drugs to tackle Covid-19. Andrew will also
cover how Diamond plans to adopt new technology as part of
a major upgrade – ‘Diamond-II’ –that will give new
scientific insights and enable us to meet some of most
pressing societal challenges yet more effectively.
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To book places for this talk, either online or in-person,
please visit
https://diamond-catalysis.eventbrite.co.uk
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TALKING SCIENCE: Jurassic Pompeii, Friday 24 June 19:00
(hybrid event, all ages)
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A new site in Wiltshire has revealed one of the most
important Jurassic localities in the world that contains
exquisitely preserved remains of sea lilies (crinoids) sea
urchins, and starfish. The site has produced thousands of
exceptionally preserved complete specimens including at
least 18 species, some of which are new to science. The
fossils are so well preserved that they even have their
original pigment! This is the story of life in the
Jurassic sea 167 million years ago, a story of tranquil
seafloor meadows carpeted by sea lilies and other marine
life, a story of how researchers, using state of the art
imaging techniques, uncovered the secrets of a site, a
story of tropical seas, storms and a calamity that’s
written in the rocks!
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There will be places available both in-person and online
to join this talk.
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To book places for this talk, please visit:
https://talkingscience2021-22.eventbrite.co.uk
We do hope to see you soon! If you have
any questions, please do email us at
visitral@PROTECTED.
Best wishes,
The RAL Public Engagement Team
STFC
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell
Campus
Didcot
Oxfordshire
OX11
0QX
01235
446263
https://stfc.ukri.org/public-engagement/
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