Talks and Events List


All talks are in the Ramsay Lecture Theatre at 6.00 pm unless otherwise advertsed. They are preceded by tea and doughnuts at 5.45 pm in the Nyholm Room and are followed by cheese and wine. The list below will be constantly updated so keep your eyes peeled!

Spring 2010

Dr. Yang-Hui He (Oxford) Evariste and the Invention of Group Theory
Tue 19th Jan
Prof. David Knight (Durham) Chemistry in the Age of Wonder: Davy on Laughing Gas, Manure, Potassium and Methane
Tue 26th Jan
Prof. Steve Bramwell (UCL) Magnetricity and Magnetic Monopoles
Prof. Graham Farmelo (Science Museum) Paul Dirac and the Religion of Mathematical Beauty
Fri 5th Feb CPS Social Event Pub Crawl II
Tue 9th Feb
Dr Tara Shears (Liverpool) Back to Big Bang: the Large Hadron Collider
Tue 16th Feb
Prof. Brian Butterworth (UCL) Unravelling the Mathematical Brain
Tue 23rd Feb Dr Rachel Turnbull (Sigma-Aldrich) Development Chemistry and SAFC
Tue 2nd Mar
Dr. Paul May (Bristol) Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names
Prof. Hasok Chang (UCL) It’s Electrochemistry, Daren, But Not As We Know It
Steve Mould (Blue Peter) Mixed Bag: My Favourite Science Demos
Fri 19th Mar CPS Social Karaoke at Bloomsbury Bowl!
Dr Susan Perkin (UCL) CPS Presidential Lecture

A PDF copy of the talk list is also available here. An archive of past talks can be found on the list of past presidents. Where available, click on the academic session for the talk programmes.

A special thanks goes to our sponsor, the SCI, for their contribution to these talks
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