Cambridge Science Festival


2010-02-23 20:00: The master pupeteer: how the barin controls the body (Speaker to be confirmed)

2010-03-08 16:00: What will a nanobot look like? (Professor Tony Ryan, University of Sheffield)

2010-03-08 19:30: Invisible dust - art and science ventures in air pollution, health and climate change (Professor Peter Brimblecombe, Environmental Sciences, UEA and Alice Sharp, Invisible Dust Curator.)

2010-03-09 17:00: Tarner Lecture: a world elsewhere (Professor Simon Shaffer)

2010-03-09 18:00: The Arctic Survival Show (Helen Keen)

2010-03-10 18:00: Fragile Web: what next for nature? (Professor Jonathan Silvertown, The Open University)

2010-03-10 19:00: The price of extinction: what losing biodiversity costs (William Kendall (Green and Black's), Professor Bill Adams (Department of Geography), Pamela Abbott (Cambridge Conservation Forum), Dr Hazell Thompson (BirdLife International), Dr Ruth Swetnam (Department of Zoology))

2010-03-10 20:00: Rosie Wilby: the science of sex at CB2 (Rosie Wilby)

2010-03-11 18:00: One hundred years of rehabilitation: how far have we come and how far still to go? (Professor Barbara Wilson)

2010-03-12 19:30: What's the risk of getting out of bed? (Professor David Spiegelhalter)

2010-03-15 18:00: Secrets of the Universe (Paul Murdin)

2010-03-15 18:00: Secrets of the Universe (Paul Murdin)

2010-03-15 19:30: From the Blitz to Bin Laden: how Londoners respond to adversity (Professor Simon Wessely)

2010-03-16 20:00: Technology is what makes us human (Tim Hunkin)

2010-03-17 18:00: Science and Islam (Ehsan Masood)

2010-03-18 18:00: Fred Hoyle: Cosmology and controversy (Dr Simon Mitton)

2010-03-18 20:00: LaughLab (Professor Richard Wiseman)

2010-03-19 18:00: The master puppeteer: how the brain controls the body (Professor Daniel Wolpert)

2010-03-19 19:30: Science of personality research (Dr Jason Rentfrow)

2010-04-17 14:00: Power for the People: how materials science can save the world (Rob Wallach, Director of Science and Engineering Experiments for Kids (SEEK), Senior Lecturer in Materials Science, and Fellow of King's College)