Manchester and District
Branch Archive
2007
29 January
Professor Miles Padgett (University of Glasgow)
“Optical Tweasers: manipulating the small things in life”
Schuster Building - Manchester University
26 February
Professor Nial Tanvir (University of Cambridge)
“The Hubble Space Telescope”
Schuster Building - Manchester University
8 March
Professor Jocelyn Bell-Burnell (University of Oxford)
“Pulsars and Extreme Physics”
Joint with the Merseyside Branch
Daresbury Laboratory
26 March
Dr Peter Rowlands (Liverpool University)
“Solving the Dirac Code”
Schuster Building - Manchester University
11 April
Committee Meeting
Salford University
30 April
Professor Richard Palmer (University of Birmingham)
“Nanotechnology”
Schuster Building - Manchester University
15 May
Professor James MacDonald (University of Strathclyde)
“An Electricity Grid for the 21st Century”
Joint with Merseyside Branch and IEE
Daresbury Laboratory
4 June
Prof. Alan O'Neil (University of Reading)
“The Challenge of Climate Prediction”
Schuster Building - Manchester University
13 June
Committee Meeting
Salford University
23 October
Prof. Colin Cough (University of Birmingham)
"The Stradivarius Secret: Physics of the Violin"
Royal Northern College of Music
11 December 2007
Prof. Alan O'Neil (University of Reading)
"The Challenge of Climate Prediction"
MMU
2006
30 January
Astroseismology; the real music of the spheres
Professor Don Kurtz, UCLan
Schuster Building - Manchester University
27 February
Rainbows
Professor John Inglesfield, Cardiff
Schuster Building - Manchester University
27 March
Photovoltaics: prospects for solar electricity
Professor Nicola Pearsall, Northumbria Photovoltaics
Schuster Building - Manchester University
12 April
Committee Meeting
Salford University
23 May
The Fast Track to Fusion Power
Sir Christopher Llewellyn-Smith
Joint meeting with Merseyside
Daresbury Laboratory
29 May
Physics of the Stradivarius
Professor Colin Gough, Birmingham
Schuster Building - Manchester University
14 June
Committee Meeting
Salford University
20 September
Committee Meeting (Salford)
17 October
Dr Kevin Hesketh (Nexia Solutions)
“The Nuclear Debate”
Joint with Merseyside Branch and IEE
Daresbury Laboratory
20 November
Dr Steve Barrett (University of Livepool)
“The Eclipse of the Sun: a personal view”
Followed by AGM
Schuster Building - Manchester University
11 December
Professor Raymond Bishop (University of Manchester)
“E Pluribus Unum: Confronting the Quantum Many-Body Problem”
Followed by Committee Meeting and Dinner
Schuster Building - Manchester University
2005
Monday 7 February 2005
Jodrell Bank looks to a bright future
Dr Ian Morison
Monday 14 March 2005
Energy Futures: The Hydrogen Scenario
Prof D Keith Ross
Room 115 Maxwell Building
Salford
Thursday 21 April 2005
Protecting and exploiting intellectual property
Neil Parkinson and Keith Hodkinson
Merrison Lecture Theatre
Daresbury Laboratory
27 April 2005
Committee Meeting
Maxwell Building
Salford University
11 May 2005
The Einstein Year Event
Salford University
Further information
19 May 2005
Changing Student Ways of Knowing
Prof Joe Redish, University of Maryland
School of Chemistry
Lecture Theatre G53
Manchester University
Brunswick Street
21 September
Committee Meeting
Salford University
26 September
The New School of Physics and Astronomy
Professor John Durell, Manchester
Schuster Building - Manchester University
18 October
When the lights go out: Power to the people
Professor Maxwell Irvine, Manchester
Joint meeting with Merseyside and IEE
Daresbury Laboratory
28 November
Polymers
Professor Tom McLeish, Leeds
Schuster Building - Manchester University
(followed by the AGM)
14 December
Solar Physics
Professor J L Culhane, UCL, Mullard Space Science Labs
Schuster Building - Manchester University
(followed by Committee Meeting)
2004
Monday 29 November 2004
Gravitation - a Massive Problem
Professor Michael Cruise, Birmingham
Schuster Building - Manchester University
(followed by the AGM)
Tuesday 7 December 2004
The Hubble Space Telescope
Dr Griffin
The Museum of Science and Industry
Monday 13 December 2004
Radiation and Radiation Sickness
Dr Rick Wakeford
Schuster Building - Manchester University
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