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Viaduct Cafe, Dean Clough, Halifax HX3
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Free parking. Open from 7.00pm. Drinks
and light
refreshments available (Full meals available next door in the
Design House Restaurant: booking on 01422 383242). |
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Dean Clough reception 01422 250250
Vic Allen 01422 254054
galleries@deanclough.com |
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Date: |
Wednesday November 25th, 7.30pm |
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Title: |
Exactly what is
sleep? |
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Speaker: |
Jim Horne, Professor of
Psychophysiology, Sleep Research Centre, Loughborough |
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Date: |
Tuesday December 8th, 7.30pm |
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Title: |
Why does e=mc2? |
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Speaker: |
Jeff Forshaw, Professor of Particle
Physics,
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester |
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24th February 2010 |
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Title: |
How I Wonder What You Are: The Birth, Life and Death of Stars. |
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Paul Ruffle
Using
many fascinating images Dr Ruffle will explain; how stars form in clouds
of molecular gas and dust scattered about in the interstellar medium
(ISM) of our Milky Way galaxy; how they then evolve and synthesise the
elements that make life possible; how at the end of their lives, they
return this material to the ISM for the next generation of stars, either
as red giants and planetary nebulae or more catastrophically as
exploding supernovae. Paul will also provide a feel for the sheer number
of stars in the Milky Way, the enormous distance scales in our Galaxy
and the range of densities encountered, from the most tenuous parts of
the ISM to the compact cores of the most massive stars.
Paul
is a visiting research fellow in the Jodrell Bank Centre for
Astrophysics at The University of Manchester and the Astrophysics
Research Centre at Queen's University Belfast. Prior to this he worked
in the USA for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) as a
support scientist on the Green Bank Telescope (GBT). His research
interests include planetary nebulae (PNe) and the chemistry of low
metallicity environments such as molecular clouds at the edge of our
Galaxy or molecular gas in dwarf irregular galaxies. He is also
interested in the role of dust in the interstellar medium (ISM) and how
it relates to the formation of molecular clouds and subsequent star
formation, especially in the early Universe. He is currently
investigating the different modes of star formation in the most distant
low metallicity molecular cloud in the Milky Way, as well as developing
the Xgear project for astrochemical modelling. He is also a collaborator
on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) Spectral Legacy Survey.
Paul
started his career in the late sixties, working as a graphic artist in
design studios and advertising agencies in London. In the mid-eighties
he got involved with computers and the electronic publishing revolution.
This led to working for a large corporation producing multilingual
publications and multimedia. He also ran his own company providing
consultancy services and building internet web sites. Despite his
creative abilities he always had a strong interest in physics and
astronomy, so in 1989 he started studying in his spare time for a
physics degree with the Open University and completed his BSc in 2002.
After that he took up a full time PhD research studentship in
astrophysics at The University of Manchester, which he completed in
2006. He has been an Associate Lecturer for the Open University, and
currently does some teaching at The University of Manchester. See www.paulruffle.com for
more details.
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April 28th 2010 at
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THE
FUTURE: A USER’S GUIDE |
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Adrian
Nixon |
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Personal computers, the
web, digital cameras, mobile phones… for most of us the future has
arrived. But was it what we expected? And who decided it?
Adrian
Nixon is a scientist who advises businesses on the future; yet he is
keenly aware that the 'future' which interests corporations usually
equates to the average tenure of their chief executives.
Which is to say little
more than around five years.
Drawing on a vast range
of informed sources, Adrian's illustrated talk considers the nature of
change and evolves a method for understanding future trends. It takes in
cuckoos and butterflies, Khabarovsk and Doncaster, and the next Bill
Gates.
Discover the
technologies that will really influence our children's lives and what
they'll be worrying about after we've stopped worrying about climate
change...
Adrian began his career
as a scientist and is a Chartered Chemist and Member of The Royal
Society of Chemistry. Working in R&D for
an international chemicals company he created two patents.
He
moved in to management after an MBA at the University of Bradford then
changed career to work for one of the leading global consulting
companies.
In 2002 Adrian
established Nixor Limited; a consulting company that works with
international clients and specialises in Horizon Scanning, Strategy &
Business Planning. Details on
www.nixor.co.uk
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