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OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE
2018-2019
Programme of events
friendsofimperial.org.uk
“Come and hear and meet
world-class scientists unveil
brilliant discoveries and
developments in science,
medicine and technology.
People from all ages and
backgrounds are welcome to
join in and discover thought-
provoking, remarkable things
amongst Friends.”
Roderick Rhys Jones, Chairman
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OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE
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Friends 2018 – 2019 Programme of events Membership
Our aim is to inform the public of the great scientific advances in Friends is a registered charity that organises public lectures and a
a way that the non-specialist can understand. Our lectures programme of Members-only visits and social events at Imperial
receive praise for their clarity and interest - and the socialising is College London. Join Friends to take advantage of lower ticket prices
fun too. and special Members-only events. To book an event, register for
regular information or to become a Member visit our website.
SATELLITE: SCIENCE VISIT MEMBERS HEALTHCARE: BEHIND-THE-SCENES MEMBERS
WEDNESDAY 19 SEPTEMBER 2018, 13.00 ONLY ONLY
TUESDAY 16 OCTOBER 2018, TIME TBC
Friends science visit @ Surrey Satellite Technology Behind-the-scenes @ Hamlyn Centre
Luis Gomes, Chief Technical Officer Professor Guang Zhong Yang
The Hamlyn Centre was established for
Imperial College London
The world’s leading small satellite company,
delivering operational space missions for a developing safe, effective and accessible
range of applications including Earth technologies to reshape the future of
observation, science, communications, health care through the use of imaging,
navigation, in-orbit servicing and beyond sensing and robotics in the developing
SSTL
Earth infrastructure. and developed world.
RESEARCH SHOWCASE SPACE EXPLORATION
WEDNESDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 2018, 9.30 MONDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2018, 19.00
Faculty of Science Research Showcase Cassini, JUICE and beyond
Showcasing Imperial's innovative research from Michele Dougherty FRS CBE FRAS, Professor of Space Physics,
across the sciences, join us for a full day of Head of Department of Physics, Imperial College London
presentations and stimulating discussions with The Cassini mission to the moons of Saturn lead
academics and prize-winning PhD students from to the discovery of water and hydrocarbons
the Faculty of Natural Sciences. around Enceladus. Now Prof Dougherty is
planning a visit to the icy moons of Jupiter
NASA
TUSCANY: SCIENCE TOUR MEMBERS opening up new possibilities in the search for life.
ONLY
TUESDAY 2 OCTOBER – SUNDAY 7 OCTOBER 2018
ENERGY: SOIRÉE MEMBERS
Science in Tuscany: ancient THURSDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2018, 18.15
ONLY
and modern
Democratic energy systems
Prof John Burland, Prof Francesco Fidecaro and
more Dr Cathy McClay, Head of
Commercial Operations, National
We are organising guided tours of interesting science
Grid, Alumnus
Run By The Sun Ltd
sites in Tuscany including the Leaning Tower of Pisa;
the European Gravitational Observatory; European Accelerating the UK transition to a
Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, Florence decarbonised, decentralised and
University; Galileo Museum. democratic energy system will have
implications for all.
ASTROPHYSICS
TUESDAY 9 OCTOBER 2018, 19.00 QUANTUM BIOLOGY
THURSDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2018, 18.00 AGM, 19.00 LECTURE
First stars in the Universe
Dr Emma Chapman Royal Astronomical Society Life on the edge: quantum biology
Fellow, Imperial College London Johnjoe McFadden, Professor of Molecular
“In February 2018 we got the first glimpse of the Genetics, Surrey University, Alumnus
NR Fuller, NSF
creation of the first stars using radio telescopes and Even in this age of cloning and synthetic biology,
were blown away with what we saw. I will introduce the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever
what we think we know about the era of the first stars, made anything living entirely out of dead material.
why we already seem to have been proved wrong in a very exciting way What is missing?
with the first detection.”
PLEASE CONFIRM TIMES, DATES AND VENUES OF EVENTS WHEN BOOKING ONLINE AT FRIENDSOFIMPERIAL.OSupport Welcome
Friends of Imperial College is very grateful to all those who have If you would like to meet a lively-minded friendly group of people
joined as members and particularly those who have made donations interested in all aspects of science, then Friends of Imperial College
particularly Azad Ayub for his great generosity in continuing to support is for you. You will be very welcome.
our mission of taking science to the public.
Roderick Rhys Jones, Chairman
AERONAUTICS: BEHIND-THE-SCENES MEMBERS QUANTUM PHYSICS
ONLY
TUESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2018, 16.00 WEDNESDAY 6 FEBRUARY 2019, 19.00
Behind-the-scenes @ Department of Aeronautics Welcome to the quantum world
Dr Nigel MacCarthy Experimental Services and Wind Tunnel Manager Dr Simon Foster and students from the
Visit the wind tunnel facilities, flight simulator, fluid mechanics and drone Controlled Quantum Dynamics Group
testing areas Post Graduate students will be presenting their take
on the next big challenge of the quantum world:
Russell Kightley developing real world technologies from research. It
is just starting to happen. In the next five years
technologies will be leaping out of the lab.
COMPUTING: BEHIND-THE-SCENES MEMBERS
ONLY
WEDNESDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2019 18.15 TBC
CLIMATE CHANGE
THURSDAY 6 DECEMBER 2018, 19.00 Behind-the-scenes @ Alan Turing Institute
Meeting the challenge of climate change Professor Mark Girolami FRSE
Professor Sir Brian Hoskins CBE FRS The last decade has seen a dramatic rise in
Imperial College London
Chair of the Grantham Institute - computer power, an explosion in data and
Climate Change & the Environment scientific break-through, as in deep learning
and neural networks. Together, these
Distinguished climate warrior Sir Brian
advances have led to the emergence of
spells out the challenges and proposes
data science and the resurgence of artificial
technological and political solutions.
intelligence – as imagined in Alan Turing’s landmark research paper
BIOLOGY: SCIENCE VISIT MEMBERS published in 1950, Computing Machinery and Intelligence.
ONLY
WEDNESDAY 16 JANUARY 2019, 18.00
NEUROSCIENCE
Flies and mosquitos @ Natural TUESDAY 5 MARCH 2019, 19.00
History Museum Eye catching: light and biological time
Dr Tim Littlewood Head Russell Foster CBE FRS Professor of Circadian
Department Life Sciences, Dr Erica Natural Neuroscience, Oxford University
McAlister Senior Curator Diptera History
Museum Embedded within our genes, and almost all life on
A visit behind-the-scenes to the flies and Earth, are the instructions for a biological clock that
mosquito collections and an insight into the research work being done. marks the passage of approximately 24 hours. A third
FIRE kind of photoreceptor in the eye reacting to light and
WEDNESDAY 23 JANUARY 2019, 19.00 dark help us synchronize this inner clock with the outside world.
Fire: its secret life SOIRÉE: MEDICAL PRACTICE MEMBERS
ONLY
WEDNESDAY 20 MARCH 2019, 18.15
Guillermo Rein Professor of Fire Science
Fire is a good servant but a bad master. What Fragile Lives: a heart surgeon reflects
can be done to mitigate the risks of fire in an Professor Stephen Westaby FRCS, Alumnus
ever more crowded world where its effects on
Author and surgeon reflection on his work as a heart
the natural and built environment are
surgeon who has helped to develop and refine the
increasing.
use of heart pumps, artificial hearts and circulatory
support technology. His book Fragile Lives will be on sale.
ORG.UK. ALL LECTURES ARE HELD AT IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON, SOUTH KENSINGTON CAMPUS, SW7 2AZ.FLIGHT CERN: SCIENCE TOUR MEMBERS
ONLY
THURSDAY 4 APRIL 2019, 19.00 THURSDAY 16 MAY – SATURDAY18 MAY 2019
Aircraft Electric Propulsion: Visit to CERN
Volting into the air Professor Sir Tejinder Virdee FRS
Ric Parker, previously Director of A visit to see the experiments at the Large
Technology, Rolls Royce, Alumnus Hadron Collider, CERN including the
In the last two years over one hundred Compact Muon Solenoid whilst they are
credible electric and hybrid-electric down for maintenance The tour includes
aircraft projects have been launched. Two-seater electric aircraft are already visits to the Science History Museum on the
Rhysjones
flying. This is to ignore the multitude of small drones and electric toys which banks of Lake Geneva and scientific sites in
proliferate. The speaker will examine the possibilities for large, passenger the Old City.
aircraft, electric propulsion, considering more electric, hybrid-electric and fully
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING: BEHIND-THE-SCENES MEMBERS
electric options. He will explore the challenges, which are technological, ONLY
TUESDAY 22 MAY 2019, TIME TBC
safety-related and legislative. Fasten your seat belts for an electrifying ride!
Behind-the-scenes @ London DNA Foundry
HEART RESEARCH: BEHIND-THE-SCENES MEMBERS
Richard Kitney, OBE FREng FRSE Professor of BioMedical Systems
WEDNESDAY 10 APRIL 2019, 18.00 ONLY
Engineering, Co-Director
Behind-the-scenes @ British Heart Foundation A core facility at Imperial College, which
Michael Schneider British Heart specialises in the design, assembly,
Foundation Simon Marks verification and functional
Imperial College London
Professor of Regenerative characterisation of synthetic DNA for
Medicine, Director of BHF academic and industrial clients.
Centre for Research SPACE EXPLORATION
Excellence THURSDAY 13 JUNE 2019, 19.00
“There has never been a better
time to study the roots of cardiovascular disease or to pursue Life on Mars
transformative new game-changing therapies” Sanjeev Gupta Professor of Earth Sciences
Evidence of organic matter on Mars, changing
PUBLIC HEALTH concentrations of methane, lakes beneath the
THURSDAY 25 APRIL 2019, 19.00 ice are all indicators that life could have been
NASA
Fighting epidemics present on Mars – and may be still.
Stephen Riley, Professor of Infectious SOCIAL MEMBERS
ONLY
Disease Dynamics, School of Public JUNE 2019, DATE TBC
Health
Friends Summer Party
Otis Archives NMHM
After the 2014 Ebola outbreak and in the
President of Imperial College London Alice Gast and
centenary year of the influenza pandemic
Chair of Friends Roderick Rhys Jones
of 1918, understanding how infectious
diseases spread and developing Music, fizz, wine, bites and conversation at 58 Prince’s
strategies to contain them is crucial. Gate an impressive Edwardian Townhouse with
wonderful terrace overlooking Prince’s Gardens. Join senior members of
STEM CELLS College, our speakers past and future, and other members.
TUESDAY 14 MAY 2019, 19.00
SCIENCE FESTIVAL
A life in bioscience research SATURDAY 29 AND SUNDAY 30 JUNE 2019
Professor Melanie Welham, CEO
Meet the science authors at Imperial
Imperial College London
Biotechnology and Biological Science
Research Council, Imperial Alumnus Festival
Science is fun at the Imperial Festival. Come and
Research into molecular signalling and
John Cairns
celebrate the livelier side of sciences. Listen to stories,
stem cells has led Prof Welham into to
hear music, watch dance and join Friends to Meet the
science policy and beyond.
science authors.
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