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MAIN DIARY ![]() Thu 26 May 2022 - 18:30 to 19:30 ONLINE AND IN-PERSON AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN, LONDON YOU'RE INVITED TO THE NEW UEA LASDUN LECTURE What is the intersection of medicine and the humanities? At our first London-based event in over two years, we will explore this emerging field of research with a very special panel event. On the surface of things, these two subjects might seem unrelated. Join us to hear three leading UEA academics – Professor (and author of The Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story) Christie Watson, Dr Harriet Cooper and Professor Sally Hardy – give their insights into how medicine and the humanities converge to create a more holistic approach to healthcare. REGISTER TO ATTEND IN-PERSON REGISTRATION LIVE-STREAM REGISTRATION Contact Details: University of East Anglia (Promoted by Bob Clifford, Basingstoke IVC Science Cafe) Shared From: Association of IVCs (AIVC) ![]() Fri 27 May 2022 to Mon 30 May Location visible to members I will be leading a return bird watching holiday weekend on the Norfolk coast for a North London ... ![]() Fri 27 May 2022 - 19:20 to 20:45 https://www.rigb.org/whats-on/ Tickets / Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modelling-the-incomprehensible-discourse-tickets-334 ... Basingstoke IVC Science Cafe invite you to this free Royal Institution talk titled "Modelling the incomprehensible (Discourse)" Discover how high-performance computing can help us comprehend the world around us. ADVANCE BOOKING IS REQUIRED FOR THIS TALK. Please register for the event via this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modelling-the-incomprehensible-discourse-tickets-334370971577 SUMMARY Scientists have always used models. Since the ancient Ptolemaic model of the universe through to renaissance astrolabes, models have mapped out the consequences of predictions. They allow scientists to explore indirectly worlds which they could never access. Join Sir Richard Catlow as he explores how high-performance computing has transformed the way comprehend our world. From testing hypotheses at planetary scale to developing a personalised approach to supercharging the fight against Covid. In the first Discourse since the pandemic interruption, Sir Richard explores systems beyond our imagination with specially developed demos and historical objects from our collection. This is a theatre event, where the speaker and audience in our theatre are joined by an online audience. For Theatre attendees, the address is 21 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BS. TIMING Latecomers will be admitted to the gallery. Contact Details: The Royal Institution (Promoted by Bob Clifford, Basingstoke IVC Science Cafe) Venue Website: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modelling-the-incomprehensible-discourse-tickets-334 ... Shared From: Association of IVCs (AIVC)
June 2022
![]() Mon 6 Jun 2022 - 18:30 to 19:30 https://royalsociety.org Tickets / Register: royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2022/06/wilkins-bernal-medawar ... Professor June Barrow-Green, winner of the 2021 Wilkins-Bernal Medawar Medal, joins us to explore the subject of "The historical representation of women in mathematics". PRIOR BOOKING IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND THIS ONLINE AND IN-THEATRE TALK: https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2022/06/wilkins-bernal-medawar/ SUMMARY From medieval times to the modern day, female mathematicians, real and fictional, have been represented in a variety of ways, both in pictures and in words. These depictions allow us to learn about the women portrayed and about the attitudes towards them prevailing at the time. Professor June Barrow-Green, winner of the 2021 Wilkins-Bernal Medawar Medal, joins us to explore this as well as the deeper questions, like what effect do these moments captured in time have on modern-day viewers and readers? How did these representations shape the types of mathematical knowledge women were able to claim? Do they continue to marginalise the mathematical expertise of women? And how can they be used to encourage the participation of women in the mathematical community today? This event is the 2021 Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Prize Lecture, which is awarded to recognise excellence in a subject relating to the history of science, philosophy of science or the social function of science. Professor June Barrow-Green was given the award for her research in 19th and 20th century mathematics, notably on historical roots of modern computing, dynamical systems and the three-body problem. Her work places special emphasis on the under-representation of women in historical narratives and in contemporary mathematics. Her recent work includes diversifying the mathematical curriculum. Attending the event
Contact Details: Royal Society (Promoted by Basingstoke IVC Science Cafe, Bob Clifford) Shared From: Association of IVCs (AIVC) ![]() Sat 11 Jun 2022 to Sat 18 Jun Location visible to members Berwick-upon-Tweed a week long holiday Saturday 11th June to Saturday 18th June ... ![]() Tue 14 Jun 2022 - 19:00 to 20:30 https://www.rigb.org/whats-on/ Tickets / Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/whyd-you-have-to-go-and-make-things-so-complicated-t ... Basingstoke IVC Science Cafe invite you to this free Royal Institution talk titled "Why’d you have to go and make things so complicated?" Discover how high-performance computing can help us comprehend the world around us. ADVANCE BOOKING IS REQUIRED FOR THIS TALK. Please register for the event via this link: SUMMARY But there is another route for life to evolve complexity. Rather than being fine-tuned creations of natural selection, complex features can arise simply because biology is messy and noisy. In this talk, Jonathan Pettitt will explain how living systems tend to make simple mechanisms more complicated than they need to be. He will show how such ‘unnecessary complexity’ can both restrict and expand an organism’s evolutionary potential. Jonathan is the 2020 Genetics Society JBS Haldane Lecturer. Join us live in the Ri Theatre and online when Jonathan will explain how living systems tend to make simple mechanisms more complicated than they need to be; demonstrating how such ‘unnecessary complexity’ can both restrict and expand an organism’s evolutionary potential. SPEAKER This is a theatre event, where the speaker and audience in our theatre are joined by an online audience. For Theatre attendees, the address is 21 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BS. TIMING Latecomers will be admitted to the gallery. Contact Details: The Royal Institution (Promoted by Bob Clifford, Basingstoke IVC Science Cafe) Venue Website: www.rigb.org/whats-on/whyd-you-have-go-and-make-things-so-complicated Shared From: Association of IVCs (AIVC) ![]() ![]() Mon 20 Jun 2022 to Fri 24 Jun Location visible to members Join Merseyside IVC in Tenby (South Wales) for the Summer Solstice. It is a low-stress mid-week ... ![]() Thu 23 Jun 2022 - 19:00 to 20:00 Register on Eventbrite Tickets / Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/satellite-navigation-registration-326432547537 Basingstoke IVC Science Cafe invite you to this free Royal Society talk titled "Satellite Navigation" ADVANCE BOOKING IS REQUIRED FOR THIS TALK. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/satellite-navigation-registration-326432547537 Cafe Scientifique is a national movement for science and technology in casual settings: each has its own character but all are fun, engaging, informal and explore fascinating ideas in science and technology. Cyber Cafe Sci is online - capturing the cafe experinece through the informal Gather platform that lets you watch, listen, and join in if you wish. SUMMARY At this event we join a conversation with Emanuele Ziglioli - a SatNav engineer who knows how GPS really works, why it doesn't, and how to fix it. We all know SatNav is awesome - but few of us know just how amazing it is that it works at all. Navigation quite literally not only at, but by, the speed of light: with your phone in your hand, swinging about like crazy as you walk or run or cycle, the GPS signals are jiggered and confused and confounded in ways that require us to know all about Einstein's Relativity, Doppler shifts, shadows, reflections, and bendy light paths. Small wonder it sometimes isn't perfect - and even greater wonder how engineers measure, calibrate, and compensate for so many complex and difficult perturbations to make it work as well as it does.
ABOUT CYBER SCIENCE CAFE These events will always remain free for as long as the Cyber Science Cafe run them. If you would like to support their efforts to build science conversation, please use the supporter's ticket options, or get in touch to talk to them about CyberCafeSci Ltd and other ways you can help and support our mission. Cyber Cafe Sci is an evolution of the local Woking (England) Cafe Sci - transferred online during the pandemic and continuing to encourage our international online guests and audience. Contact Details: Cyber Cafe Scientifique, (promoted by Bob Clifford, Basingstoke IVC Science Cafe; info@cafesci-basingstoke.org.uk) Venue Website: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/satellite-navigation-registration-326432547537 Shared From: Association of IVCs (AIVC) ![]() Thu 23 Jun 2022 - 19:00 to 20:30 https://www.rigb.org/whats-on/ Tickets / Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-understand-ourselves-and-other-beings-tickets ... Basingstoke IVC Science Cafe invite you to this free Royal Institution talk titled "How to understand ourselves and each other" Discover how high-performance computing can help us comprehend the world around us. ADVANCE BOOKING IS REQUIRED FOR THIS TALK. Please register for the event via this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-understand-ourselves-and-other-beings-tickets-325855130467 SUMMARY Join award-winning science writer Philip Ball as he argues that, to understand our own minds and imagine those of others, we need to stop considering the human mind as a standard against which all others should be measured. In this talk, discover what we have learned from the minds of other creatures, from octopuses to chimpanzees, and what we can say about the potential minds of computers and alien intelligences. SPEAKER Philip's book 'Critical Mass' won the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. He is also a presenter of Science Stories, the BBC Radio 4 series on the history of science. He trained as a chemist at the University of Oxford and as a physicist at the University of Bristol. He is the author of 'The Modern Myths' and lives in London. Philip's latest book The Book of Minds: How To Understand Ourselves and Other Beings is available to pre-order now. This is a theatre event, where the speaker and audience in our theatre are joined by an online audience. For Theatre attendees, the address is 21 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BS. TIMING Latecomers will be admitted to the gallery. Contact Details: The Royal Institution (Promoted by Bob Clifford, Basingstoke IVC Science Cafe) Venue Website: www.rigb.org/whats-on/how-understand-ourselves-and-other-beings Shared From: Association of IVCs (AIVC) ![]() Fri 24 Jun 2022 - 19:20 to 20:45 https://www.rigb.org/whats-on/ Tickets / Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creating-emotionally-intelligent-technology-discours ... Basingstoke IVC Science Cafe invite you to this free Royal Institution talk titled "Creating emotionally intelligent technology (Discourse)" Discover how high-performance computing can help us comprehend the world around us. ADVANCE BOOKING IS REQUIRED FOR THIS TALK. Please register for the event via this link: SUMMARY SPEAKER This is a theatre event, where the speaker and audience in our theatre are joined by an online audience. For Theatre attendees, the address is 21 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BS. TIMING Latecomers will be admitted to the gallery. Contact Details: The Royal Institution (Promoted by Bob Clifford, Basingstoke IVC Science Cafe) Venue Website: www.rigb.org/whats-on/creating-emotionally-intelligent-technology-discourse ... Shared From: Association of IVCs (AIVC)
July 2022
![]() Wed 6 Jul 2022 to Wed 13 Jul Location visible to members This is a holiday offered by Leena Rennie from Birmingham IVC. I have booked my flight from ... ![]() Sun 10 Jul 2022 - 14:00 to 17:30 Location visible to members On Sunday 10 July 2022 at 2.00 pm there will be an Online Zoom AGM (Annual General Meeting) to discuss the following main matters of business: 1. aIVC Officer reports 2. Minor Constitution change to allow AGMs to occur any time in ...
August 2022
![]() Mon 29 Aug 2022 to Fri 2 Sep Location visible to members Ride the Lights! In Blackpool. A 5 day holiday staying at St Annes on Sea The ride ...
September 2022
![]() Sun 18 Sep 2022 to Fri 23 Sep Location visible to members Holiday to Dubrovnik in September. Flying out of Bristol air port with easy jet, flight EZY6251, ... The content of this bulletin is copyright to Guildford and Surrey IVC (Formerly WSIVC) and may not be reproduced without the express permission of the copyright owner. |
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