BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:"\;The Science of Risk"\; Panel Debate - Speaker to be con firmed DTSTART:20110120T193000Z DTEND:20110120T213000Z UID:TALK29209@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Tara Finegan DESCRIPTION:The Triple Helix Events presents\n\n"The Science of Risk" Pane l Debate\nThursday 20th January 2011\nMcCrum Lecture Theatre\, Ben'et Stre et\n7.30pm-9.30pm\n\nFree entry. Free refreshments provided.\n\n"Worldwide \, there were 79 unprovoked shark attacks in 2000\, compared with 58 in 19 99 and 54 the year before. Poorly wired Christmas tree lights claim more v ictims than sharks.\n\nIn 2003\, a Home Office report stated that 68 Briti sh children have been abducted that year by a stranger. With 11.4 million children under 16 living in the UK\, that works out to a risk of one in 16 7\,647.\n\n158 people in Britain have died from the human variation of mad cow disease yet 12\,000 Britons are killed each year by flu and related c omplications."\n\nDo you know your risk?\n\nJoin us for an evening panel d ebate exploring the concept of "risk".\nHow good is our perception of risk ?\nIn new science technologies\, who's responsibility is it to communicate risk? The media? Industry?\nWhether it be in mathematics\, industry\, res earch or marketing\, risk has evolved a language of its own.\n\nPanel to i nclude:\n\nProfessor David Spiegelhalter\nProfessor of Risk\nUniversity of Cambridge\n\nDr. Brooke Rogers\nLecturer in Risk and Terror in the King ’s Centre for Risk Management\nKing’s College London\n\nDr Tony Wilson \nEntrepreneur\n\nDr David Whitehouse\nScience Journalist and author\n(BBC Online Science Editor)\n\n LOCATION:McCrum Lecture Theatre\, Ben'et Street\, Next to the Eagle Pub END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR