Events Calendar

• Tuesday 15 January 2013
• 11am-12pm
• 1pm-2pm - Fully booked

• Schools event: The Need for Speed

• Dr Suzie Sheehy

Join Dr Suzie Sheehy as she pushes and pulls at the very limits of science to find out how to make things go really fast. Explore different forces with the help of an egg, an explosion and some e...   Read more >>

• Tuesday 15 January 2013
• 7.00pm to 8.30pm

• The particle at the end of the Universe

• Sean Carroll

It was the universe's most elusive particle, the linchpin for everything scientists dreamed up to explain how stuff works. It had to be found. But projects as big as CERN's Large Hadron Collid...   Read more >>

• Wednesday 23 January 2013
• 7.00pm to 8.30pm

• A down to Earth guide to the cosmos

• Mark Thompson

To the untrained eye, the star-filled sky at night can seem as mysterious and unfathomable as it was to our distant ancestors. Learning about the Universe requires two distinct areas of focus: underst...   Read more >>

• Thursday 24 January 2013
• 1pm-2pm - Fully booked
• 11am-12pm - Fully booked

• CANCELLED Schools event: Rock in 11 dimensions: where physics and guitars collide!

• Dr Mark Lewney

***This event has been cancelled. If you have not been issued a refund yet, please contact Katherine McAlpine on schools@ri.ac.uk*** Led by science presenter and rock guitarist Dr Mark Lewney, th...   Read more >>

• Friday 25 January 2013
• 8.00pm to 9.15pm

• Quantum life: how physics can revolutionise biology

• Prof Jim Al-Khalili

Although many examples can be found in the literature dating back half a century, there is still no widespread acceptance that quantum mechanics, that baffling yet powerful theory of the subatomic wor...   Read more >>

• Wednesday 30 January 2013
• 11am-12pm - Fully booked
• 1pm-2pm - Fully booked

• Schools event: What do humans taste of? And other such conundrums

• Greg Foot

***I regret to inform you that this event has been cancelled. If you have bought a tciket and have not been issued a refund please contact Katherine McAlpine on 020 7670 2982***Greg Foot will return i...   Read more >>

• Thursday 31 January 2013
• 7.00pm to 8.30pm

• The Universe within

• Prof Neil Shubin

During the past 13.7 billion years (or so) since the Big Bang, our universe has evolved, stars have formed and died and our planet congealed from the matter in space. For aeons, the earth has circled ...   Read more >>