Fwd: Events with the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory: from the James Webb Space Telescope to Coding Workshops
News of forthcoming online events at RAL, Daresbury and ROE.
Chris H
| Subject: | Events with the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory: from the James Webb Space Telescope to Coding Workshops |
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| Date: | Fri, 17 Sep 2021 16:46:22 +0000 |
We hope
that you are all keeping safe and well, and that you had a
wonderful summer. We are planning an exciting series of
events over the autumn, and we do hope you’ll be able to join
us for some of them! You can find details of all of
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory’s events (including our events
aimed at schools) on our main Eventbrite page:
https://stfc-ral.eventbrite.co.uk.
If you
cannot make any of our events live but would like to receive a
recording of them, please register at the links below.
Coming up
we have a fascinating series of Talking Science, a special set
of talks about the James Webb Space Telescope (due to launch
in December), coding workshops with our friends at IF Oxford
and virtual open days at our sister site, the Royal
Observatory Edinburgh. First, we have a fascinating panel
discussion on a really important topic:
·
The journey of clean
energy - from production to storage; Saturday 18 September
11:00
o
Join our friends at
SCIO to find out how scientists are helping develop clean
technology, and how it could help change things for the
better. During the event you’ll hear from a panel of
scientists on the incredible story of how a photon, generated
in the sun, is converted to electrical energy when it reaches
Earth using new photovoltaic technologies. The journey
continues through the electrical grid, which distributes it to
our homes in an optimal manner and where it is finally
converted into energy, or stored in our phones’ batteries.
Science can also help in this last step to increase the amount
of energy we can store for later use, and allow technologies
such as electric vehicles.
o
To register, please
visit
https://scio-sep2021.eventbrite.co.uk
Our
popular Talking Science series starts this month:
·
Talking Science – A
glowing report, Microbes & space radiation; Friday 24
September 19:00, by Dr Jennifer Wadsworth (Lucerne
University of Applied Sciences and Arts)
o
Join Dr Jennifer Wadsworth, an
astrobiologist specialising in examining microbes under
extreme radiation and gravity conditions, to learn about the
limits of life in off-world environments. Jennifer has
worked all over the world, looking at developing new
spacecraft sterilisation techniques (to protect other
planets), supporting experiments flown to the International
Space Station, investigating bacterial evolution and
mutation rates and studying microbial reactions to a
simulated lunar surface environment, in preparation for the
return of humans to the Moon.
o
To register, please
visit
https://talkingscience2021-22.eventbrite.co.uk
·
Talking Science –
Maths’ Greatest Unsolved Puzzles (age 12+); Tuesday 28
September 18:00, by Dr Katie Steckles
o
Our sister site,
Daresbury Laboratory, will be hosting this fascinating talk.
o
While mathematicians
are undoubtedly brilliant, and their work is used in all kinds
of amazing discoveries, there are still questions they can't
answer. Every mathematical question is a puzzle to be solved,
and while there'll be plenty of puzzles for you to chew on,
we'll also discuss some of the questions that still leave
mathematicians stumped - from simple-sounding number and shape
problems to some truly mind-bending fundamental questions.
o
To register, please
visit
https://ukri.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QQmMvVvJR5mftOnZnCLMIQ
·
Talking Science –
Vaccines by numbers (age 11+); Friday 22 October 19:00, by
Dr Sean Elias (The Jenner Institute, University of Oxford)
o
In the UK we are getting close to fully
vaccinating 70% of the population. But what of the remaining
30%? In this talk, we will consider who they are and why
they aren't yet vaccinated. Of that 30%, around 20% are
children under 18 – many of whom will be fully vaccinated in
the near future, or are deemed low enough risk to not
require vaccination. The remaining 10% are a varied group,
from those who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons to
those who are vaccine hesitant or actively against
vaccination. The question is how can we, the scientific
community, reach out to these individuals to maximise
vaccine uptake, and, ultimately, does it really matter?
o
We particularly encourage young people,
in the 12-18 age bracket, to attend, and will hold a special
Q&A session for them.
o
To register, please
visit
https://talkingscience2021-22.eventbrite.co.uk
·
Talking Science –
Marvellous microbes for plastics pollution (age 12+); Friday
26 November 19:00, by Dr Joanna Sadler (University of
Edinburgh)
o
From the clothes we
wear, through to tiny components of a mobile phone, plastic is
present in almost every corner of our lives. Dependence on
these useful materials has led to a vast build-up of plastic
in natural environments, leading to a global plastic waste
crisis. Incredibly, nature has already responded with its own
solutions to tackle plastic waste. This talk will explore how
some microbes (microscopic living organisms) can ‘eat’
plastic, and how modern science can use this to design new
methods to break down plastic and even use it as a resource to
make useful new products.
o
To register, please
visit
https://talkingscience2021-22.eventbrite.co.uk
·
Talking Science –
The James Webb Space Telescope: Preparing for launch (age
10+); Friday 17 December 19:00, by Paul Eccleston (Chief
Engineer, RAL Space) and Dr Stephen Wilkins (University of
Sussex)
o
The James Webb Space
Telescope is the largest space telescope ever built and, after
years of designing, building, planning and testing, its launch
date has been announced as 18 December. Webb is the
scientific successor to the famous Hubble telescope, and will
learn even more about the Universe: from the first galaxies to
the air around alien worlds. This talk will cover both the
fascinating science Webb will undertake and the incredible
engineering that has made it possible – including the testing
for launch, some of which took place here at Rutherford
Appleton Laboratory.
o
To register, please
visit
https://talkingscience2021-22.eventbrite.co.uk
We’re also
really pleased to be working with our friends at IF Oxford
again this year:
·
Glow Your Own;
Tuesday 12 October 17:00 and the following five Tuesdays
o
Get ready for the
Oxford Christmas Light Festival by creating your very own
moving lantern. In this workshop series, you’ll learn how to
use computer coding and sensors in a circuit to control LEDs
and motors using Arduinos and Tinkercad, combining art and
engineering. Glow Your Own includes six live online sessions
with all workshops later available on-demand at www.if-oxford.com.
o
To register, please
visit
https://if-oxford.com/event/glow-your-own-weekly-coding-workshops-1-of-6/
·
IF Oxford, Oxford
Sciences + Ideas Festival; 9-26 October
o
IF Oxford are running over 100 science
and ideas events for adults, children and teenagers. Join in
activities hosted online and in venues across Oxford 9—26
October 2021.
o
You can browse the programme and book
now at
www.if-oxford.com
Booking is
now open for the
Royal Observatory Edinburgh’s Virtual Open Day weekend,
happening online on
Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 September. As well as
virtual tours, there will be planetarium shows, fascinating
talks and a chance to meet the Observatory’s scientists and
engineers. Do take the chance to visit our sister site – as
well as taking part in fascinating science, it’s also an
incredibly beautiful place!
·
To register, please
visit
https://www.roe.ac.uk/vdod2021/
The
launch of the James Webb Space Telescope is something
we’ve been looking forward to for a very long time –
especially since we shipped one of the four main instruments
off to NASA several years ago! In addition to our Talking
Science, on the eve of the launch, there will be a series of
fascinating talks over the autumn, starting in World Space
Week on 5 October and covering everything from exoplanets to
galaxies. You can find out more about the James Webb Space
Telescope at the UK’s Webb website
www.jwst.org.uk. Details of all of the talks in this
series will be released on the website next week.
Normally,
at this time of year, applications for our
work experience programme would be open, with
placements in the summer term 2022. With the still uncertain
national situation, we’re not quite sure how work experience
will work this academic year, so we have not yet opened
placements. We’ll have an update for you about the programme
by the end of the year!
Finally,
we have a date for your diary! This year we’re going to be
celebrating
Dark Matter Day on Thursday 28 October. As
well as another of our sister-sites, Boulby Underground
Laboratory, we’re really excited to be working with the
University of Edinburgh, and SNOLAB, Canada’s deep underground
research laboratory. We’ll share more details of this soon!
We do
hope you’ll be able to join us for an event soon. If you have
any questions or suggestions, please contact us at
visitral@PROTECTED.
Best
wishes,
The Public Engagement Team at RAL
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