Cambridge Science Festival


2007-03-14 19:30: The Importance of Being Peripheral (Professor John Barrow)

2007-03-15 19:30: Science in the Real World and Stem Cell Science (Professor Colin Blakemore and Professor Austin Smith)

2007-03-16 19:30: The Silent Aircraft Initiative (Dr Tom Hynes)

2007-03-17 17:00: The Truth About Food (Panel of Speakers)

2007-03-17 19:00: Science and Religion (Panel of Speakers)

2007-03-18 19:45: Cabaret: Science of Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll (Dr Harry Witchel, Dr Graeme Jones and Dr Mark Lewney)

2007-03-19 19:00: It's a Gas! (Dr Peter Wothers)

2007-03-19 19:30: Who Do You Think You Are? (Dr Wolf Reik)

2007-03-22 19:30: The Scale of Science Panel Discussion (Panel of Speakers)

2007-03-23 19:30: The 27km machine and the building blocks of the Universe (Dr Brian Cox)

2008-03-10 18:00: The big experiment (Dr Peter Wothers, Department of Chemistry)

2008-03-10 19:30: Do hormones in the womb affect how your brain develops? (Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Autism Research Centre)

2008-03-11 18:00: Preserve the old, but know the new (Dr Ann Prentice, Medical Research Council)

2008-03-11 20:00: The early human occupation of Europe and Britain (Prof Jim Rose, Royal Holloway)

2008-03-12 18:00: Acoustics and architecture (Professor Deborah Howard, Department of History of Art)

2008-03-12 20:00: Sustainable energy - without the hot air (Professor David MacKay, Department of Physics)

2008-03-13 18:30: Memories are made of this (Prof Steven Rose, Open University)

2008-03-13 20:00: Holidays beyond earth, the future of space tourism (Will Whitehorn, Virgin Galactic; Duncan Law-Green, National Space Centre)

2008-03-14 18:00: Hidden in rock and frozen in time (Dr Eric Wolff, BAS; Dr Aradhna Tripati, Dept of Earth Sciences)

2008-03-14 19:30: Smart drugs? (Professor Barbara Sahakian, Department of Psychiatry)

2008-03-15 11:00: It’s about time (Andrew Pontzen)

2008-03-15 11:00: The science of Doctor Who (Dr Paul Parsons)

2008-03-15 12:00: The secret life of your brain (Andrew Morris)

2008-03-15 12:15: Working at the speed of light: modern high power laser beams (Dr Bill O'Neill)

2008-03-15 13:00: Hyenas and minervas: women, science and history (Dr Patricia Fara)

2008-03-15 13:15: Learning from nature (Dr Jonathan wood)

2008-03-15 14:00: The aviation heritage of East Anglia (Terry Holloway - Marshall's of Cambridge)

2008-03-15 14:15: Extreme Science (Dr Basil Singer)

2008-03-15 15:00: Sex, drugs and rock & roll – life in forensic science (Speaker to be confirmed)

2008-03-18 18:00: Happiness and heartbreak (Dr Nick Baylis; Professor Martin Cowie)

2008-03-18 20:00: Quirkology: weird psychology (Professor Richard Wiseman)

2008-03-19 19:30: Science and technology in international development (Professor David King, Tim Radford, Peter Head)

2008-03-20 18:30: Wicken Fen: the science behind the vision (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-03-09 18:00: Why do we like to eat? (Dr Sadaf Farooqi, Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow at Addenbrookes)

2009-03-09 19:00: 'Orphan diseases' and research collaborations in global health innovation (Dr Monica Konrad, Director of PLACEB-O)

2009-03-09 20:00: Can science beat terrorism? (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-03-10 20:00: Darwin in a global context (Professor Jim Secord and Professor John Parker)

2009-03-10 20:00: EESCN question time - stem cell special (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-03-11 18:00: Marshall - one hundred years in Cambridge (Terry Holloway)

2009-03-11 19:30: Making the most of our minds (Sponsored by Science AAAS)

2009-03-12 18:00: How your mobile phone works (Chris Cox)

2009-03-12 18:00: A function of the time: the Cavendish Society and its postprandial proceedings (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-03-12 18:00: A taste of teaching:  D&T and Sciences (Elaine Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Science Education and Raza Shah, Subject Lecturer in Design and Technology Education)

2009-03-13 19:30: Sustainable energy - without the hot air (Professor David Mackay)

2009-03-16 18:00: It is rocket science! (Helen Keen)

2009-03-17 18:00: Darwin's Islands:  In Darwin's footsteps to the Galapagos (Dr David Robinson)

2009-03-17 18:00: Carbon neutral communities (Gerard Evenden, Senior Partner, Foster and Partners)

2009-03-17 19:30: Statistics are either dull or wrong:discuss (Professor David Spiegelhalter)

2009-03-18 17:00: Entering the ecological age (Peter Head, Director of Planning and Integrated Urbanism)

2009-03-18 18:00: Quantum anomalies and the origin of time (Professor Shahn Majid)

2009-03-18 18:00: Chemistry saves lives (Dr Tony Wood, Vice President and Worldwide Head of Medicinal Chemistry at Pfizer)

2009-03-19 16:00: Small and beautiful:  Alex Hopkins lecture (Professor Brian Johnson)

2009-03-19 18:00: What is consciousness for? (Chris Frith, Professor in Neuropsychology)

2009-03-19 18:00: The cosmic century; a history of astrophysics and cosmology (Professor Malcolm Longair)

2009-03-19 19:30: Cafe Scientifique: can we read minds? (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-03-20 18:00: Quantum (Manjit Kumar)

2009-03-20 18:00: Animals and ourselves (Professor Aubrey Manning)

2009-03-20 20:00: The nature of life - a scientific debate (Professor Lewis Wolpert and Dr Rupert Sheldrake)

2011-03-22 18:00: Challenged by carbon: the oil industry and climate change (Dr Bryan Lovell)

2011-03-23 18:00: Is evolution predictable? (Professor Simon Conway Morris, Department of Earth Sciences)

2011-03-23 19:30: The hidden mysteries within the DNA of cancers (Professor Mike Stratton, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)

2011-03-24 18:00: Changing nature: a view of Britain and Cambridge (Norman Maclean, Brian Eversham)

2011-03-25 18:00: You are what you hear: music and the brain (Dr Harry Witchel, University of Bristol)

2011-03-27 15:00: Bird tango (Professor Nicky Clayton, Department of Experimental Psychology)