Fwd: Tours of the night sky, storytelling and Talking Science with Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Apologies for the slight delay in forwarding this. These online events may be of interest.
Chris
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| Subject: | Tours of the night sky, storytelling and Talking Science with Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
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| Date: | Wed, 19 Aug 2020 14:25:12 +0000 |
| From: | visitral@PROTECTED <visitral@PROTECTED> |
Good afternoon,
We hope that you’re all keeping safe and
well, and enjoying what passes for summer in this country!
We’re really excited to be able to share details of some of
our upcoming events. These include some family events in the
next couple of weeks and the start of our Talking Science
programme – we have some great speakers lined up for you,
including a speaker from University of Oxford talking about
the development of a COVID vaccine!
In the final few weeks of the summer
holidays, we have two events coming up:
·
Night Sky Encounter
(age 6+): Friday 21 August 14:30
o
Join our journey
through the night sky, looking at some of the constellations
and the stories behind them. We'll also take a look at how
big some stars are compared to our own sun.
o
To register (either to
attend live or to receive a link to the recording), please
visit
https://night-sky-encounter.eventbrite.co.uk
·
The Little Robot and
the Mars Mystery – a virtual storytelling session: Tuesday
25 August 10:30
o
How can we look for
life on other planets, explore strange planetary surfaces and
test robots for space by going deep below the Earth’s
surface? In this storytelling virtual workshop you will join
a little robot beginning a journey to Mars and learn more
about space research that takes place at the Boulby
Underground Laboratory, 1.1km below ground.
o
The event will contain
a story reading, time for questions and answers, and some
suggestions for extra activities for children to do at home
and is suitable for children in primary school and their
families.
o
To register (either to
attend live or to receive a link to the recording), please
visit
https://little-robot-storytelling.eventbrite.co.uk
We’re really pleased to be able to announce
our Talking Science programme for the next academic
year! We are planning on running these free and fascinating
talks online until the New Year. They will be held via Zoom,
at 19:00 on Friday evenings. We will assess the situation
later in the autumn to decide whether we will be able to
welcome you back to the lab for in-person Talking Science in
2021 – otherwise we will continue to hold these talks
virtually.
·
To register (either to
attend live or to receive a link to the recording), please
visit
https://talkingscience2020-21.eventbrite.co.uk
·
FRIDAY 18 SEPTEMBER,
19:00 - Engineering enzymes to digest our most polluting
plastics (16+), by Professor John McGeehan
o
John McGeehan is a
Professor of Structural Biology focused on the global
challenge of plastic pollution. His latest work is revealing
how an enzyme works to digest polyethylene terephthalate
(PET), the main plastic used in single-use drinks bottles. PET
can take hundreds of years to break down in the environment,
and together with other plastics, is causing a huge pollution
issue across the world. We are now engineering this enzyme to
work faster so that it can be used to recycle plastic back
into its original building blocks. This would allow proper
circular recycling and help to reduce the pollution in our
oceans.
·
FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER,
19:00 - Searching in the dark (12+), by Dr Xin Ran Liu
(University of Edinburgh)
o
What if everything you
could see, touch or feel was only the tip of an iceberg? Ever
since the late 1800s, starting with Lord Kelvin, people have
postulated that there’s more to the universe than that the
most powerful tools of science can detect. Over the last
hundred years, there has been a growing body of evidence to
strongly indicate that our universe and most of the matter in
it is indeed Dark. Come and explore what scientists know we
don’t know.
·
FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER,
19:00 - Crystals and the search for life (age?), by Dr Aaron
Celestian (Natural History Museum, Los Angeles)
o
Aaron has spent a great
deal of his career finding ways to safely separate toxic
elements from the environment, and securely store them for,
potentially, thousands of years. Being able to selectively
lock these elements inside tiny holes in crystals, and safely
store them in the crystals for the long-term, is a significant
advancement. This process can separate elemental waste and
keep them locked away from interacting with the environment or
living organisms. In this talk, Aaron will discuss his work
looking for new minerals that are selective for other toxic
elements, and how these minerals work.
·
FRIDAY 11 DECEMBER,
19:00 - Development of a vaccine against COVID-19 (15+), by
Professor Sarah Gilbert (Nuffield Department of Medicine,
Oxford University)
o
The first news of a
cluster of SARS-like pneumonia cases came on the last day of
2019. Since that time, as the outbreak turned into a pandemic,
vaccine developers began to activate plans for ‘Disease X’. In
Oxford, a vaccine was rapidly produced and prepared for
clinical trials. The original plans for a small study
developed into phase III trials involving thousands of
participants across a wide age range on multiple continents.
The ability to move quickly, as demonstrated by this vaccine
programme, will have lasting effects on the way we see vaccine
development in future.
There’s also still time to take part in our
Remote3 Coding Challenge.
·
As part of our Remote3
project with our sister site the Boulby Underground
Laboratory, we introduced to our Summer Challenge – to create
code that would allow a robot to explore another planet!
·
The deadline for
entries is midnight on Sunday 6 September. Everyone who sends
in their code will receive a certificate, and some prizes will
also be given. There will be a celebration event on 21
September, 16:30.
·
The challenge is aimed
at children aged 9-14, and can all be completed with free
online programming languages (such as
https://scratch.mit.edu/users/Remote3/).
·
To find out more,
please visit our website:
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/Remote3Online/
Finally, we just wanted to give you an
update on our work experience programme. Normally, we would
be opening online applications for work experience placements
for students in Years 10-13 soon – but owing to the current
uncertainty we are having to postpone this. Once the
situation becomes clearer we will let you know!
We do hope you’ll be able to join us for an
event soon. If you have any questions, please contact us at
visitral@PROTECTED.
Best wishes,
The Public Engagement Team at RAL
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