Bristol & Bath Branch

 

Forthcoming events...

(PDF version of the paper programme)

• Science Café
• Understanding pain without injury: a clinical analysis
• Date: Monday 8^th March 2010
• Time: 7:30pm for 8pm
• Venue: The Raven, Queen Street, Bath, BA1 1HE (Map)
• Cost: Free
• More info: Website
• Speaker: David Blake - Professor of Rheumatology, Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath

• Science Café
• Who would live in a house like this? Understanding social identities from the archaeological record
• Date: Tuesday 9^th March 2010
• Time: 7:30pm for 8pm
• Venue: Café-At-Bristol, Explore At-Bristol, Harbourside, Bristol (Map)
• Cost: Free
• More info: Website - In conjunction with the Wellcome Trust's Identity Project and the University of Bristol's biennial celebration of research - Discover
• Speaker: Dr Tamar Hodos - Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Bristol
• We might often think about our identities as social concepts in our minds, but we also project those identities through the objects we use throughout our lives, whether we realise it or not. Identity may be defined as the collective aspect of a set of characteristics by which something or someone is recognisable or known. This collective aspect also implies that the notion of identity depends upon contrast with something else.
  
  One of the challenges for archaeologists who explore the expression and projection of identities in the past is that all we have to rely on is, for the most part, the patterning of artefacts in the material record, a picture that is incomplete at best.
  
  Please bring with you one object from your home which you feel is significant to your social identity.
  
  Join Dr Hodos to explore the difficulties of understanding social identities within the archaeological record and consider how we project our own identities through the material artefacts we use in our own lives, and how these might be interpreted by archaeologists of the future.

• National Science & Engineering Week
• GeekPop 2010 - Launch Event in Bristol
• Date: Thursday 11^th March 2010
• Time: 7:00 pm
• Venue: Cube Microplex Cinema, Dove Street, Bristol (Map)
• Cost: £6 (Advance tickets only)
• More info: A British Science Association and Computer Geeks sponsored event.
• The biggest, best (and only) free online music festival featuring artists inspired by science.
  
  Find out more on GeekPop's web site.

• National Science & Engineering Week
• Bath Taps Into Science → ‘Meet A Medic’ stand
• Date: Friday 12^th & Saturday 13^th March 2010
• Time: Friday: 11:00 - 3:00    Saturday: 10:00 - 4:00
• Venue: Friday: Founders Sports Hall, University of Bath (Map) - Saturday: Green Park Station, Bath (Map)
• Cost: Free - All Welcome
• More info: In association with Clifton Scientific Trust and the University of Bath
• Medical fun at this hands-on science fair with the Galenicals - Bristol University Student Medics Society.
  
  Bath Taps was the winner of ‘BEST SCIENCE WEEK EVENT 2009’.

• National Science & Engineering Week
• Discover 2010 → ‘Meet A Medic’ stand
• Date: Thursday 11^th - Saturday 13^th March 2010
• Venue: Broadmead & Cabot Circus Shopping Centres, Bristol
• Cost: Free - All Welcome
• More info: In association with Clifton Scientific Trust and the University of Bristol
• Meet student Medics from the Galenicals Society at this biennial interactive showcase of University of Bristol research.

• National Science & Engineering Week
• Networks, Symmetries, and Darwin’s Finches
• Date: Wednesday 17^th March 2010
• Time: 7:00 pm
• Venue: St Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol (Map)
• Cost: £1 at the door - All Welcome
• More info: With St Mary Redcliffe ‘Journey into Science’
• Speaker: Professor Ian Stewart FRS, University of Warwick
• The co-author of the ‘Science of Discworld’ books talks about the mathematics of evolution. He will particularly be looking at Darwin's Finches - the genetics of which are not what you would expect - illustrated with phtographs from a recent trip to the Galapagos.

• The Science of Joint Replacement
• Date: Thursday 25^th March 2010
• Time: 7:00 pm
• Venue: Lecture Theatre 4, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol (Map)
• Cost: Free
• More info: With the RSC and SCI
• Speaker: David Johnson FRCS, MD, Bristol Orthopaedic & Sports Injury Clinic
• Discover more about the latest surgical advances in this common, yet complex, operation.

• Molecules of Murder
• Date: Thursday 29^th April 2010
• Time: 6:00 pm
• Venue: Lecture Theatre 1, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol (Map)
• Cost: Free
• More info: With the RSC and SCI
• Speaker: Dr John Emsley, Science Writer
• Discover the grisly world of dangerous poisons used in some notorious murder cases.
  
  There is no charge for entry but as this is likely to be a very popular lecture with school parties invited, please book in advance by contacting sue.williams@bristol.ac.uk.

• Science in Society; the Severn Barrage and Tidal Energy
• Date: Tuesday 4^th May 2010
• Time: 10:15 am
• Venue: Tyndale Baptist Church Hall, Whiteladies Road, Bristol (Map)
• Cost: 50p (includes coffee)
• More info: With the U3A
• Speaker: Dr Eric Albone, Clifton Scientific Trust
• What are the pros and cons of using tidal power to generate renewable energy from Severn Estuary?