Fwd: British Science Week, Work Experience and other upcoming events Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
These online events from RAL, Daresbury and ROE may be of
interest.
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| Subject: | British Science Week, Work Experience and other upcoming events Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
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| Date: | Mon, 8 Mar 2021 17:10:12 +0000 |
| From: | Visit RAL |
Good afternoon,
We hope that you are all keeping safe and
well. In celebration of British Science Week, we have some
fantastic opportunities coming up, including a virtual visit
to the Boulby Underground Laboratory and a conversation with
four amazing scientists. You can find details of these, and
all of Rutherford Appleton Laboratory’s events on our main
Eventbrite page:
https://stfc-ral.eventbrite.co.uk.
Applications for our work experience programme will be closing
at the end of this week, so if you know anyone in Years 10-13
(age 14-18), please do encourage them to apply!
If you cannot make any of our events live
but would like to receive a recording of them, please register
at the links below.
Celebrating British Science Week, we have:
·
Smashing Stereotypes
with Boulby Underground Laboratory; Thursday 11 March
10:30-11:30, Age 11-14
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Join us for a virtual
visit to one of the world's most unusual laboratories. The
Boulby Underground Laboratory is a deep underground science
facility in the UK, situated in the Boulby Mine 1,100 m
underground. From deep in the mine, the Boulby team are
taking part in a wide variety of science: from searching for
dark matter and testing robotics for future space exploration,
to studying different materials and investigating the
possibility of alien life. This event will include an
introduction to the work done at the lab, and a virtual tour
of the facility, and Boulby's fantastic team will share their
own career paths and stories. There will also be plenty of
opportunities to ask questions.
o
To register please
visit:
https://boulbyks3-mar21.eventbrite.co.uk
·
Science in remote
places – A conversation with four physicists; Saturday
13 March 11:30-12:30, Age 10+
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How cold does it get in
the South Pole science station? What’s it like to be stuck
in Antarctica for months at a time? How deep is Britain’s
deepest flushing toilet? How do you use a particle physics
detector to find the age of wine? For the answers to these
and indeed any science questions you have ever wanted to
know, or if you are just curious what it’s like being a
physicist, come and chat with us!
o
The Universe is
considered quite big by quite a few people. So it takes a
lot of travelling to study something so big. Journey with
our amazing panel of physicists to see some of the
spectacular places scientists work in and hear their journey
of how they got there.
o
To register, please
visit:
https://remote3-bsw2021.eventbrite.co.uk
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.
·
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).
·
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/
·
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).
We have several school events coming up,
but as these are webinars, members of the public are welcome
to attend as well!
·
How to get a job in
the space industry; Tuesday 9 March 10:30-11:30, Age 11-14
o
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.
o
To register, please
visit:
https://ks3_space_careers_ral_space.eventbrite.co.uk/
·
Science in Your
Future; Tuesday 16 March 09:30 – 14:15, Key Stage 4 / Age
14-16
o
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.
o
To register please
visit
https://siyf2021.eventbrite.co.uk
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. We’re also pleased to say that one of our computer
scientists, Dr Simone Sturniole, will be giving a webinar with
the Institute of Physics in April – do register to attend if
you can (details below)! Coming up, we have:
·
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
o
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.
·
One tough
cookie; Friday 12 March 19:00-20:00, all ages: to
register please visit
https://talkingscience2020-21.eventbrite.co.uk
o
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.
·
The life cycle of
galaxies; Monday 22 March 19:00-20:00, age 14+: 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.
·
Protecting the
planet: myths and facts; Tuesday 23 March 18:00-19:00:
to register please visit
https://ukri.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aHzvDBLNRlWUwbjlhl4HLw
o
Protecting the planet:
myths and facts. Whether it's the David Attenborough effect or
seeing the impacts of climate change, so many of us are keen
to do our bit to protect the planet. However sometimes it's
not easy to work out what to do for the best. This talk will
test your knowledge of what the real issues are, identify the
myths and the facts - ranging from banning plastic to buying
electric cars - and work out what you could or should not do
to make a difference.
·
How to see atoms
with a computer!; Wednesday 7 April 18:00-19:00: to
register please visit
https://events.iop.org/how-see-atoms-computer-0
o
In this talk, you will
have a chance to learn about some of the ways in which
computer simulations can allow us to model matter from the
fundamental laws of physics, help us understand experiments,
make predictions, and even discover new materials from
scratch.
·
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.
·
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.
·
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
o
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.
·
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.
·
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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