Fwd: Upcoming events with the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
These online events at RAL, Darebury and ROE may be of interest
to you or to people you know.
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| Subject: | Upcoming events with the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
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| Date: | Thu, 11 Feb 2021 09:16:03 +0000 |
| From: | Visit RAL |
Good morning,
We hope that you are all keeping
safe and well. We have some fantastic events coming up, but
sadly we won’t be able to welcome you to the lab in person for
some time to come: for the foreseeable future, our programme
of events will be virtual – we do hope you’ll be able to join
us though! You can find details of all of Rutherford Appleton
Laboratory’s events on our main Eventbrite page:
https://stfc-ral.eventbrite.co.uk.
We are also pleased to be able to announce that applications
for our online work experience programme are now open!
STFC Work Experience programme
2020-21
·
Work experience at STFC is for students in Year 10 – 13
(age 14-18) and usually takes place between April and August.
Due to the uncertainties over the COVID situation, our work
experience programme for 2021 will be entirely online.
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Over summer 2020, RAL and our sister lab Daresbury
Laboratory joined together to provide students with online
webinar sessions and for summer 2021, we will be offering a
similar series of
online webinar sessions for students to attend. In
addition to this, we will be organising a small number of more
intensive
one-week virtual project placements (dates TBC).
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Please find more details on the programme and how to
apply on our website:
https://stfc.ukri.org/about-us/work-with-us/work-experience/workexperienceral/
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Please do pass this information on to any young people
you know who are the right age – this programme may also be
suitable for students with a non-STEM focus (e.g.
communications, art).
This week it is National
Apprenticeship Week, and our Apprentice Team are celebrating
by holding a virtual
Apprenticeship Open Evening on Thursday 11 February
at 18:00. This is a great chance for you to learn about
the wide range of apprenticeship opportunities available at
the lab – not just engineering and computing, but
apprenticeships for lab technicians, business administration
and more. There’ll be time for you to discuss our
apprenticeship opportunities with the apprenticeship team and
current apprentices.
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To register to attend, please visit
https://ral-apprenticeships2021.eventbrite.co.uk
As you may know, this Thursday it
is also International Day of Women and Girls in STEM (https://www.womeninscienceday.org/).
We’ve created an online resource celebrating some of the
amazing women in STEM – you can find this here:
https://www.isis.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/Schools-women-in-STEM.aspx
We have several school events
coming up, but as these are webinars members of the public are
welcome to attend as well!
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Illuminating Careers; Monday 1 – Friday 5 March, Age
11-19
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In celebration of National Careers Week, the STEM
Ambassador programme is running an online virtual careers
fair. Working with our sister site, Daresbury Laboratory, we
will be one of the 25 national employers present and this is a
fantastic opportunity for you and your students to meet us and
ask questions (virtually!). More information is available in
the attached PDF.
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To register your interest, please visit
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeHNHNn9acQKcKrrvXhTAZqMyo6n0qngQMqCFMIJjpt_aIh5g/viewform
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Particle Physics Masterclass; Thursday 4 March
09:30-16:30, Age 16+
o
Our particle physics masterclass includes a series of
lectures from our particle physicists, a tour of one of our
particle accelerators, Diamond or ISIS, and a computer
workshop using real LHC data. These will all be virtual, and
we are developing the computer workshop so you can take part
from your school.
o
Registration of interest for the masterclass is now
closed, but if you would like to receive a recording of the
sessions, please visit
https://ppm2021.eventbrite.co.uk
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How to get a job in the space industry; Tuesday 9
March 10:30-11:30, Key Stage 3 / Age 11-14
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The space industry is not just for astronauts - it
takes a wide variety of people and skills to make space
missions and projects successful. During this webinar,
designed for Key Stage 3 students, teachers and
parents/guardians, you will learn about some of the careers
available to young people in the space industry, what people
do in their jobs day-to-day, what skills they use and their
journey from school to their current job. You will also have
the opportunity to ask your own questions to our space team.
Speakers from RAL Space will share stories of their different
career paths and explain their projects which involve
innovating for the future
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To register, please visit:
https://ks3_space_careers_ral_space.eventbrite.co.uk/
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Science in Your Future; Tuesday 16 March 09:30 –
14:15, Key Stage 4 / Age 14-16
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Science in Your Future is a careers event designed to
give female GCSE students the opportunity find out more about
different careers available to them if they choose to progress
with work or study in the field of science.
o
It is co-hosted by Diamond Light Source, and there will
be an exciting tour of Diamond during the day for all students
and teachers. In addition to the tour, we’ll also be running
a virtual careers fair and an interactive workshop, with
support from our external partners – including Professor Phil
Manning, one of Diamond’s user scientists who spends much of
his time discovering dinosaurs in America.
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To register please visit
https://siyf2021.eventbrite.co.uk
Our friends at SunSpaceArt are holding a
half-term STEAM (STEM + Arts) Festival on
Monday 15th February. There will be fun and
educational activities, talks, chats presented by scientists,
artists, musicians and teachers. The daytime activities,
starting at 11:00, will be aimed at primary school children,
families, teachers and parents. The evening activities will be
aimed at an older audience.
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The STEAM festival will be live streamed via AstroTVEarth YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/c/AstroTVEarth
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You can find the full schedule for the day available on
the website:
https://www.sunspaceart.org/school-workshops/sunspaceart-steam-festival/
Finally, our programme of Talking
Science has been continuing online – we have had some
brilliant speakers and more are coming up! These are a series
of free, online talks about a wide variety of topics, run by
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and our sister labs in
Cheshire, the Daresbury Laboratory and the Royal Observatory
Edinburgh. Coming up, we have:
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Reaching for the stars – women in astronomy;
Friday 19 February 17:30-18:30, Key Stage 3-5: to register
please visit
https://www.roe.ac.uk/vc/public/special-events.html
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Hear stories of intelligent, ingenious and often
audacious women who have lived and worked at the Royal
Observatory Edinburgh over the years. As “Lady Computers”,
astronomers, engineers and professional staff these women have
often done things first and best, reaching for the stars but
not always given the chance to shine the brightest.
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Jurassic-sized headaches in the field; Friday 19
February 19:00-20:00, Key Stage 3-5 /Ages 8+: to register
please visit
https://talkingscience2020-21.eventbrite.co.uk
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You are in the middle of nowhere. It is 40 degrees
Celsius. A dust storm has sprung out of nowhere…and you have
6000 kg of precious dinosaur bones suspended in mid-air. Join
Prof. Phil Manning on a journey
from the 'fun' of excavating dinosaurs in the field to the
excitement of studying them at the synchrotron.
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What does the future of our Universe entail?;
Monday 22 February 19:00-20:00: to register please visit
https://www.roe.ac.uk/vc/public/astronomy-talks/index.html
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Although we still have several open questions, decades
of observations and theoretical modelling have allowed us to
reconstruct the past of our Universe. But what will our
Universe look like way after the Earth and the Sun will cease
to exist, and may intelligent life still develop in the far
future?
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Growing supermassive black holes; Monday 8 March
19:00-20:00: to register please visit
https://www.roe.ac.uk/vc/public/astronomy-talks/index.html
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We now know that supermassive black holes, with masses
of millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun, are
found at the centres of most galaxies (including our own
galaxy, the Milky Way). This talk will describe how
astronomers are able to see growing black holes and why we
think they play a key role in shaping the Universe.
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One tough cookie; Friday 12 March
19:00-20:00, all ages: to register please visit
https://talkingscience2020-21.eventbrite.co.uk
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What can a biscuit tell us about engineering and the
strength of the materials around us? It turns out quite a lot!
Join engineer Amanda Brummitt as she uses cookie dough, oven
temperatures and a recipe for disaster to explain engineering
materials.
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The life cycle of galaxies; Monday 22 March
19:00-20:00: to register please visit
https://www.roe.ac.uk/vc/public/astronomy-talks/index.html
o
Our most powerful telescopes reveal a universe filled
with galaxies that come in a dizzying range of shapes, sizes,
colours, and environments. In this talk, you’ll hear the life
story of galaxies as we now understand it, by combining
multi-wavelength galaxy surveys and state of the art
supercomputer simulations.
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The discovery of gravitational waves;
Monday 12 April 19:00-20:00: to register please visit
https://www.roe.ac.uk/vc/public/astronomy-talks/index.html
o
The detection of gravitational waves some years ago,
opened a new window to the Universe, created a media fuss and
gave a Nobel Prize for Physics! But what is the story behind
this discovery? In this talk, we'll try to answer these
questions (and maybe some more) concerning the discovery of
these mysterious waves.
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Spotting clouds from space with CloudCatcher; Friday 16 April
19:00-20:00, Key Stage 2-5: to register please visit
https://talkingscience2020-21.eventbrite.co.uk
o
Clouds, although very beautiful, can be
problematic for many satellite missions interested in making
observations of the Earth’s surface. This talk will introduce
you to “CloudCatcher”: a Citizen
Science project that asks people to help us spot the clouds in
satellite images in order to check automated cloud detection.
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Light and dark – a story of the cosmos; Monday
10 May 19:00-20:00: to register please visit
https://www.roe.ac.uk/vc/public/astronomy-talks/index.html
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Light is the main observable in cosmology, but most of
what we "see" with this light is how the dark universe
behaves. We will explore how the light from millions of
distant galaxies are used to shed light on the nature of dark
matter and dark energy.
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Atmospheric Science – a high flying career;
Friday 14 May 19:00-20:00, Key Stage 3-5: to register please
visit
https://talkingscience2020-21.eventbrite.co.uk
o
As an atmospheric scientist Andrew was lucky enough to
spend nearly 10 years of his career as a Civilian Flight Test
Observer with the Royal Air Force, managing access to the Met.
Office C-130 flying laboratory. Experiments ranged from Cloud
Physics through Atmospheric Chemistry to remote sensing.
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Countdown to launch; Monday 24 May 19:00-20:00:
to register please visit
https://www.roe.ac.uk/vc/public/astronomy-talks/index.html
o
2021 is an exciting year for astronomy, with the launch
of the highly anticipated James Webb Space Telescope (Webb).
Webb, NASA’s and ESA’s flagship mission, will revolutionise
astronomy. This talk will discuss the engineering of Webb and
its key science objectives as we look forward to its
significant astronomy discoveries.
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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