Fwd: Online events with the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
These RAL and Royal Observatory Edinburgh online talks and
activities may be of interest.
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| Subject: | Online events with the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
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| Date: | Thu, 4 Jun 2020 13:56:06 +0000 |
We hope that you are all keeping
safe and well. Thank you to those of you who have joined us
for some of our virtual events – we hope you enjoyed them!
We’ve got some new events coming up, including a virtual tour
of our Scientific Computing facility, a talk by one of our
particle physicists and some exciting interactive online
workshops for younger children.
Since we know it’s sometimes
difficult to attend a virtual event ‘live’, you can also
register to receive a link to a recording of the talk. These
recordings do take a short while to publish, as we have to
correct the audio transcript (which is not always very
accurate!), but do allow you to participate after the event.
The registration links are below.
Coming up over the next few weeks
we have:
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Online workshops for
younger children
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Comet Catching (age
5-12): Tuesday 9 June 10:30
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In this session we will
explore comets, nicknamed dirty snowballs! We will look at
what makes up a comet, the Rosetta space mission and try to
answer any questions about comets that you might have!
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To register for places,
please visit
https://cometcatching.eventbrite.co.uk
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Time Travelling with
Telescopes (age 8-12): Tuesday 23 June 10:30
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We’re going to talk
about space, stars, galaxies and light. And time travel. Sort
of…. Join our journey through the history (and future) of
telescopes to see the first galaxies that formed after the Big
Bang.
o
To register for places,
please visit
https://time-travelling-telescopes.eventbrite.co.uk
·
Public Talk (all
ages): Friday 12 June, 18:00 – Saving the Mary Rose’s
cannonballs by Hayley Simon
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When Henry VIII’s
flagship, the Mary Rose, sunk off the coast of Portsmouth on
19th July 1545, she took over 1,200 cast iron cannonballs with
her into the depths of the Solent. Since excavation in the
1980s, the cannonball collection has begun to rust and
degrade, despite conservation efforts to minimise loss. This
talk shows how cutting-edge scientific analysis performed at
Diamond Light Source – the UK’s national synchrotron facility
– has enabled us to begin to understand how this unique Tudor
collection corrodes and why different preservation treatments
have either failed or succeeded to conserve the artefacts.
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To register, please
visit:
https://talkingscience2019-20.eventbrite.co.uk
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Public and Schools
Talk (15+): Thursday 25 June, 14:00 –
Exploring inside atoms to understand the universe -
Particle physics with Dr Ben Smart
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What's inside atoms?
How do the smallest things that make up the universe work? How
do we learn new things about them? Come find out the answers,
and explore the world of particle physics, with physicist Dr
Ben Smart.
o
To register, please
visit:
https://talkingscience2019-20.eventbrite.co.uk
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Public and Schools
Talk, Tour and Activity (12+): Scientific Computing at
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory; Friday 26 June 14:00
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Join us for a virtual
tour around our Scientific Computing facility and hear about
some of the fascinating work we do – working with experiments
and organisations around the world including the Large Hadron
Collider and the Met Office.
o
We will also introduce
a challenge for under-18s based on the flexipede – one of the
first computer animations in the world, which was created at
RAL in 1967. We’ll ask young people to send us their code,
and one entrant will receive a prize of an Arduino Starter
Kit.
o
This is also a great
opportunity for young people to find out what it’s like to
study and work in computing – one of the key skills employers
are looking for at the moment!
o
To register, please
visit:
https://scientificcomputing-jun2020.eventbrite.co.uk
·
Remote3
Coding Challenges (ages 9-14)
o
Every Monday at 11:00
we’re going to be holding a short webinar and introducing a
new computing challenge, linked to our sister site the Boulby
Underground Laboratory as part of the Remote3
project.
o
Each week will include
a short talk, an introduction to this week’s challenge, and
highlighting some of the projects completed as part of the
previous week’s challenges. Last week we were very excited to
have a guest speaker from the IceCube experiment at the South
Pole
o
The challenges will be
aimed at students aged 9-14, and can all be completed with the
free online programming languages (https://scratch.mit.edu/users/Remote3/).
o
To sign up (either to
attend the webinars or to receive videos of them), please
visit our website:
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/Remote3Online/
·
Public talks: Royal
Observatory Edinburgh
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Our sister lab, at the
Royal Observatory Edinburgh, is running a series of weekly
astronomy talks. The next talk, on Monday 8 June at 19:00, is
entitled “What keeps astronomers up at night?”
o
You can find more
information, and a link to register, online:
https://www.roe.ac.uk/vc/public/astronomy-talks/index.html
Finally, if you’d like to do some science
at home, we have an exciting home research project for
young people aged 14-18, based on the Spitzer Space Telescope
and the James Webb Space Telescope:
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This home research
project has been developed by our sister lab, the Royal
Observatory Edinburgh, with the Institute for Research in
Schools to find interesting objects from Spitzer to study with
the James Webb Space Telescope. This home project uses
Spitzer data from the Magellanic Clouds and has students
trying to identify old and young stars.
·
The project will take
around 10 hours to complete in total: students receive a
certificate when they finish the activity, as well as feedback
on their results.
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You can find more
information here:
http://www.researchinschools.org/, or download the
booklet and activity directly:
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Booklet
http://www.researchinschools.org/files/home/Booklet_Research_in_Schools_At_Home_project.pdf?v=1
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Activity
http://www.researchinschools.org/files/home/Activity_2_Research_in_Schools_At_Home_project.xlsx?v=1
We do hope you’ll be able to join
us online soon! If you have any questions or requests, please
do let us know at this address.
Take care,
The Public Engagement Team at RAL
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