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Programme 2011

Visit to Newark Aircraft Museum

Photographs by Grenville Morgan

PROGRAMME 2011

NB: All talks are on Monday morning at 10.00 am

Class

Date

Title

Speaker

 

Me

10 Jan

The immune system

Dr Rosie McNaught

Sheffield University

E

14 Feb

A robot swarm for assisting human fire-fighters

Dr Jacques Penders

Sheffield Hallam University

Me

14 Mar

People who didn’t get credit for work done

Dr Milton Wainwright

 

Ph, Ch

11 Apr

Shapes & patterns: crystals, leaves, leopards & zebras

Prof. Gillian Gehring

University of Sheffield

Ph, E

9 May

The future of Solar Power

By a member of

Sheffield University Solar Research Team

V

Thursday

30 Jun

All day: U3A Jubilee at Wortley Hall

   

V

11 Jul

ALL DAY VISIT:

Cheshire

AM: The Anderton Boat Lift & lunch

PM: The Salt Museum

 

G

8 Aug

Black holes et alia

Professor Elizabeth Winstanley

University of Sheffield

E

12 Sept

Aircraft lighter than air

Michael Bagley
 

 

G

10 Oct

The technology of modern time keeping

Dr Tim Treffry

 

B

14 Nov

The nature of colour and the colour of nature

Hilary Hutson

member

V

12 Dec

Local visit :

Polestar printing works.

Christmas lunch

 

Classification of talks

A: Archaeology                     B: Biology/botany     C: Chemistry             E: Engineering

G: General topic                   Ma: Mathematics      Me: Medical               Ph: Physics

Po: Power generation         V: Visit                        W: Weather/environment

 

 

 

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