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SUMMARY:The 2010 CU Canon Foundation Lecture : Creative tensions between s
 cience and technology - Prof Sir Richard Friend\, The Cavendish Labortory
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CONTACT:Leona Hope-Coles
DESCRIPTION:CREATIVE TENSIONS BETWEEN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY\nMany of the 
 big discoveries in science have come about after a breakthrough in technol
 ogy (Galileo needed lens-making technology before he could construct his t
 elescope). However\, current popular perceptions of the scientific method 
 are different – too often science is presented as a series of ‘grand c
 hallenges’ where we all know where the important next problem lies. The 
 Large Hadron Collider at CERN is thus presented as the machine to find the
  Higgs boson. Long-range research is now the preserve of the universities 
 in much of the industrialized world. The relationship between university r
 esearchers and the generators of new technology in industrial and commerci
 al organizations is not always valued appropriately\, but can provide real
  value in both directions. Sir Richard will draw on local examples of univ
 ersity - industrial cooperation\, drawing attention both to interactions w
 ith smaller companies and also larger organizations\, such as the Japanese
  companies that have played a strong role in this. \n\nProfessor Sir Richa
 rd Friend is the Cavendish Professor at the University of Cambridge where 
 he leads the Optoelectronics Group in the Cavendish Laboratory. He has bee
 n involved in the scientific discoveries underlying the emergence of plast
 ic electronics and in its commercial development. Professor Friend has ove
 r 600 publications and more than 60 patents. He was knighted for "Services
  to Physics" in the Queen's Birthday Honours List\, 2003.\n\nThe Canon Fou
 ndation in Europe is a philanthropic\, grant-making institution\, active i
 n the promotion of international cultural and scientific relations between
  Europe and Japan. The objective of the Canon Foundation in Europe is the 
 promotion of science\, culture\, know-how and mutual understanding between
  Europe and Japan. This aim should be reached by annually providing up to 
 15 Canon Foundation Research Fellowships to postgraduate students and rese
 archers. Europeans receive the Fellowship for long term periods of researc
 h in Japan and\, similarly\, Japanese to undertake research in Europe.\n\n
 The first Global Citizenship Invited Lecture was held in 2007 in Brussels 
 to mark the 20th anniversary of the Canon Foundation in Europe. In 2008\, 
 the Lecture on Intercultural Dialogue between Germany and Japan took place
  in Berlin. And in 2009\, the Lecture on European and Asian approaches to 
 a global currency was given in Madrid.\n
LOCATION:Pippard Lecture Theatre\, Cavendish Laboratory
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