Science Lectures for 6th Formers & Teachers
All are welcome, admission is free and no booking or tickets are required.
OCTOBER
7 October
Antimatter, Quarks, Higgs Boson and the
latest results from the Large Hadron Collider
at CERN
Professor Jon
Butterworth
UCL Department of
Physics & Astronomy
14 October
Why evolution is right and creationism is
wrong
Professor Steve Jones
UCL Biological Sciences
21 October
The formation and chemistry of the chemical
elements since the Big Bang- a
demonstration lecture
Dr Graeme Hoggarth
UCL Department of
Chemistry
28 October
No lectures (School half term)
Place
All talks are held in the Chemistry
Auditorium which is in the Christopher
Ingold Building (Chemistry), 20 Gordon
Street, WC1H 0AJ
The Lecture Theatre is close to Euston Rail &
Bus Stations, and convenient for the
Underground. The nearest Tube Stations
are Euston Square and Euston Station.
Parking facilities for school buses are available,
with prior arrangement.
Time
All talks are held on Fridays at 6.30 p.m. and last for approximately 1 hour, followed by a max. of 30 min. discussion. Tea and
Coffee are available free from 5.30 p.m. onwards.
Science Lectures for 6th Formers & Teachers
All are welcome, admission is free and no booking or tickets are required.
Autumn Term 2011
4 November
NOVEMBER
Magnetism in the solar system, plate tectonics
and journey into the centre of the Earth.
Professor David Price
UCL Department of
Earth Sciences
11 November
Visualising the dynamics of living bacterial
cell by microscopy and fluorescence
spectroscopy
Professor Conrad
Mullineaux
School of Biological and
Chemical Sciences
Queen Mary University
of London
18 November
Using quantum mechanics to discover new
crystal structures of pharmaceuticals
Professor Sally Price
UCL Department of
Chemistry
25 November
Sources of renewable energy: harnessing offshore wind, wave and tidal currents
Dr Kevin Drake
UCL Department of
Mechanical Engineering
Place
All talks are held in the Chemistry Auditorium which is in
the Christopher Ingold Building (Chemistry), 20
Gordon Street, WC1H 0AJ
The Lecture Theatre is close to Euston Rail & Bus Stations, and
convenient for the Underground. The nearest Tube Stations
are Euston Square and Euston Station. Parking facilities
for school buses are available, with prior arrangement.
Time
All talks are held on Fridays at 6.30 p.m. and last for approximately 1 hour, followed by a max. of 30 min. discussion. Tea and
Coffee are available free from 5.30 p.m. onwards.
Science Lectures for 6th Formers & Teachers
All are welcome, admission is free and no booking or tickets are required.
Autumn Term 2011
2 December
DECEMBER
Cooling or warming ? Climate prediction for
Europe for the next 40 years and implications
for Global Climate
Professor Alan Aylward
UCL Department of
Physics & Astronomy
9 December
Can you make yourself invisible?-The Science
and Engineering of invisibility
Dr Ackram Alomainy
Department of
Electronic Engineering
Queen Mary University
of London.
16 December
Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
Dr Christian Boehmer
UCL Department of
Mathematics
Place
All talks are held in the Chemistry
Auditorium which is in the Christopher
Ingold Building (Chemistry), 20 Gordon
Street, WC1H 0AJ
The Lecture Theatre is close to Euston Rail &
Bus Stations, and convenient for the
Underground. The nearest Tube Stations
are Euston Square and Euston Station.
Parking facilities for school buses are available,
with prior arrangement.
Time
All talks are held on Fridays at 6.30 p.m. and last for approximately 1 hour, followed by a max. of 30 min. discussion. Tea and
Coffee are available free from 5.30 p.m. onwards.