9– 22 March 2015 www.sciencefestival.cam.ac.uk Public engagement

The Cambridge Science Festival is co-ordinated by the Public Engagement team at the University of Cambridge. Look out for our other events during the year.

11 – 13 September 2015 Open Cambridge Open Cambridge is a weekend of tours, talks and walks which opens up the city to residents and visitors. The weekend culminates with a walk through the Colleges raising money for local charities. Visit: opencambridge.cam.ac.uk , twitter: @OpenCambridgeUK

19 October – 1 November 2015 Cambridge Festival of Ideas The Cambridge Festival of Ideas explores arts, humanities and social sciences research through talks, performances, film screenings, hands-on activities and workshops for all ages. Visit: festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk , facebook at: cambridgefestivalofideas , twitter: @camideasfest Throughout the year For details of public events throughout the year visit the What’s On guide at: cam.ac.uk/whatson For Museum and College opening times and charges visit: cam.ac.uk/visitors

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2 Pre-book* visit: www.sciencefestival.cam.ac.uk or tel: 01223 766766 Welcome

Welcome to the twenty-first Cambridge Science Festival. The year 2015 is the UNESCO International Year of Light and Light based Technologies and we have some fascinating light-themed talks and hands-on activities on offer during the Festival fortnight.

Events will be recreating famous experiments which led to our understanding of light and colour, showing how light technologies are changing our understanding of biological processes and looking in depth at LEDs and the science behind the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Wonderfully, there is a solar eclipse during the Science Festival and we will be looking at whether solar radiation management is one solution to climate change.

We acknowledge and thank the University of Cambridge and our sponsors for their support of the Cambridge Science Festival. We invite everyone to explore world-leading science and hope you find it enlightening. Bookings open Monday 9 February 2015 at 10.30am

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Throughout the Festival BEFORE THE FESTIVAL 1pm –5pm, Monday 9 – Friday 13, h Monday 16 – Friday 20 March

c 8pm –10pm, Friday 6 March r Cambridge Graduate Orchestra: 10am –5pm, Saturday 14 – Sunday 15, a Music, Mechanics and Machines Saturday 21 – Sunday 22 March Extreme engineering M West Road Concert Hall, West Road, CB3 9DP Cambridge Science Centre, Jesus Lane, CB5 8BQ

3 Cambridge Graduate Orchestra perform the Families! Engineering gets extreme at the 1 concert Music, Mechanics and Machines with a Cambridge Science Centre’s latest exhibition. Build

y pre-concert talk on the subject. and test your ideas as we celebrate engineering. a Event: 1, Map: 48, Performance, Get hands-on and build towers, find out how d All ages, Pre-book visit: i engines work and discover the secrets of circuits. r cambridgegraduateorchestra.com,

F £12, £8 concessions, £6 children Event: 5, Map: 7, Hands-on, All ages, ______Normal admission charges apply –

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9 12noon –3pm, Saturday 7 March Science café Market Square 2pm –5pm, Monday 9 March y African scientists’ research showcase a Café Mobile, Market Square, CB2 3PA Pavilion Room, Hughes Hall, Mortimer Road, d Join University of Cambridge scientists for a coffee CB1 2EW n break in the Market Square. Play spin the wheel of Cambridge-Africa Programme and Hughes Hall o science to find out why animals do what they do, how solar systems are formed, and the chemistry Presentations showcasing research conducted by M of what you’re made of. Our scientists will answer African researchers with Cambridge colleagues. Event: 6, Map: 25, Exhibition, Age 15+ your questions and tell you about research going ______on in Cambridge and beyond! Event: 2, Map: 40, Talk, All ages 5pm –6pm, Monday 9 March Cambridge shorts: premiere event Arts Picturehouse, St Andrews Street, CB2 3AR 9am –6pm, Monday 9 – Sunday 22 March Future reactive: children's visions Join us for the premiere of the second edition of of physical activity our Cambridge Shorts film series. These exciting films, produced in collaboration between University Art space in large corridor towards the of Cambridge researchers and filmmakers, focus on Concourse, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre, plant development, dementia, decision making and Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0SL ancient stories about the Buddha's past lives. The Cambridge Institute of Public Health has teamed Event: 7, Map: 2, Film, Age 12+, Pre-book tel: up with Addenbrooke’s Arts to ask Cambridge 087109025720 or visit: picturehouses.co.uk, children for their vision of an active future. This £1 booking fee playful exhibition explores the idea of physical ______activity and how we can support an active future. 5pm –7pm, Monday 9 March Event: 3, Map: 69, Exhibition, All ages ______Annual WiSETI lecture: the mobile revolution 11am –1pm, Monday 9 March Women in botany Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey’s Way, CB3 0DS Botanic Garden, Brookside, CB2 1JE Rachel McKendry, Professor of Biomedical Christine Bartram of the University of Cambridge Nanotechnology at UCL, speaks at this year’s herbarium will explore the role of women in 19th WiSETI’s flagship event about her life and work. One Century botany using historic sources from the of the aims of the lecture is to highlight the issues herbarium and rare books from the Cory Library. that particularly affect women in STEM and Event: 4, Map: 3, Talk, Adults, contribute to low retention rates in these subjects. Pre-book tel: 01223 331875, Event: 8, Map: 12, Talk, Age 15+, email: [email protected] Pre-book tel: 01223 765304, or visit: www.botanic.cam.ac.uk email: [email protected] Donations of £5, in aid of The Cambridge or visit: equality.admin.cam.ac.uk Women's Resources Centre are invited

6 Pre-book* visit: www.sciencefestival.cam.ac.uk or tel: 01223 766766 5pm –7pm, Monday 9 March, 7pm –10pm, Monday 9 March Wednesday 11 March FameLab Cambridge final Robogals: escape the zoo! Cambridge Junction, Clifton Way, CB1 7GX l Department of Engineering, Reception, Sponsored by TTP Group a v Trumpington Street, CB2 1PZ FameLab, the international science communication i t

Help your robot quickly escape from the zoo. Using competition, comes to Cambridge. Join our finalists s light sensors on Lego TM mindstorms robots to as they explain their research to a panel of judges: e F navigate, this workshop introduces programming no presentations, limited props and all in just three concepts and basic robotics without typing any minutes. Expect short snippets of fascinating e code. Hosted by Robogals Cambridge, this research with perhaps a few puns thrown in! h t workshop is aimed at girls, but all are welcome. Event: 13, Map: 6, Performance, Age 12+, t

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There’s no business like flow Judge Business School, Trumpington Street, u business CB2 1AG o r Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW Join artists Ackroyd & Harvey, commissioned to h

Increasingly cells are providing us with answers. work on the public art for the new Museum of T Scientists at the Babraham Institute carry out vital Zoology and Cambridge Conservation Initiative research on cells and cellular processes to learn building, in conversation with Professor how the body works and how it changes as we age. Bill Sutherland and Steve Broad, Director of TRAFFIC. Dr Rachael Walker and Becky Newman explain flow The discussion will follow the powerful cytometry and show how it takes us a step further conservation stories the artists have gathered and in understanding cells and cell populations. how this has shaped their work. Event: 10, Map: 30, Talk, Age 15+, Pre-book* Event: 14, Map: 26, Talk, Age 15+, Pre-book* ______6pm –7pm, Monday 9 March 7.45pm –9.15pm, Monday 9 March Animals in time and space Science meets faith Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW Nave, Wesley Methodist Church, Christ's Pieces Supported by Cambridge University Press (from Short Street), CB1 1LG Professor Wallace Arthur takes us on a trip starting In The Grand Design , Professor Stephen Hawking with familiar animals now to unfamiliar ones of the claims that the Universe needs ‘no God to light the past and possible ones on other planets. He'll ask: blue touch paper’. Professor Keith Ward discusses what is an animal? How did animals become more similarities between this book and Aquinas’ Five complex over time? Which animals have survived Ways of Demonstrating God in this Science meets space – not inside spacecraft but outside? Are there Faith talk at Wesley Methodist Church. animals on exoplanets? And how many animal Event: 15, Map: 47, Talk, Age 15+, Collection species are there on Earth? ______Event: 11, Map: 30, Talk, Age 12+, Pre-book* 10.30am –4.30pm, Tuesday 10 – Saturday 21 ______March (excluding Sunday 15 and Monday 16 7pm –8pm, Monday 9 March March), 12noon –4.30pm, Sunday 15 March Fluorescence imaging: Sounding out the Morning Star: seeing the light music in West Papua Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, As scientists search for answers to questions that Downing Street, CB2 3DZ have eluded generations, they hunt for vital An exploration of the social and political information that will take our knowledge further. significance of sound and music in West Papua Advances in science mean we can now shine a through objects collected in 1912-13 by light on the unknown; we can literally make Alexander FR Wollaston. The exhibition considers the invisible, visible. Dr Simon Walker and contemporary issues in West Papua through the Dr Fatima Santos tell us how. perspective of the Lani Singers. Event: 12, Map: 30, Talk, Age 15+, Pre-book* Event: 16, Map: 57, Exhibition, All ages

Limited tickets available on the day for all Pre-book* events 7 11am –12.30pm, Tuesday 10 March 6pm –7.30pm, Tuesday 10 March h Trap the light fantastic: plant to power Tales from the Poles: c

r Botanic Garden, Brookside, CB2 1JE women in Antarctica a Increasing demand for energy means that we need Scott Polar Research Institute, The Polar to invent new ways to generate power. Discover Museum, Lensfield Road, CB2 1ER M the emerging technologies behind Plant to Power, Antarctica is one of the last frontiers on Earth. Hear 3 a prototype solar hub at the Botanic Garden stories from women working on the ice for the 1 Event: 17, Map: 3, Talk, Adults, British Antarctic Survey. The panel discussion will y Pre-book tel: 01223 331875, end with a late-night opening of The Polar Museum a email: [email protected] until 9.30pm. Refreshments will be available. d i or visit: botanic.cam.ac.uk Event: 21, Map: 43, Talk, Adults, Pre-book visit: r ______

F spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/events 1.15pm –2pm, Tuesday 10 March ______– Of science and art: 6pm –7.30pm, Tuesday 10 March 9 the Breslau Psalter What is the point of playing? y The Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, a CB2 1RB 184 Hills Road, CB2 8PQ d Dr Deirdre Jackson and Dr Paola Ricciardi from the Is play a way of learning, or merely a way to release n Department of Manuscripts and Printed Books at excess energy? The Faculty of Education's o the Fitzwilliam Museum discuss how the cross- Psychology & Education group will shed light on M disciplinary study of a richly illuminated 13th the topic. Dr Sara Baker, Dr David Whitebread and Century Psalter produced a clearer picture about Dr Jenny Gibson, discuss types of play, purposes for the structure and authorship of the decoration. play, and what might happen if schools stop play. Event: 18, Map: 39, Talk, Adults, Entrance token Event: 22, Map: 19, Talk, All ages from the Courtyard foyer from 12:45pm ______6.30pm –7.30pm, Tuesday 10 March 5pm –6pm, Tuesday 10 March Molecules in solitary confinement Andrew Chamblin Memorial Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW Lecture: colour, new dimensions The environment has an impact on the behaviour and the geometry of physics of molecules as well as people. Professor Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, CB3 9DA Jonathan Nitschke designs nanometre-scale cages Professor Frank Wilczek from the Massachusetts that self-assemble from simple building blocks. See Institute of Technology is one of the leading how these molecular prisons trap guest molecules theoretical physicists of our time. Known for his and prevent or enhance chemical reaction. discovery of asymptotic freedom, for which he Event: 23, Map: 30, Talk, Age 12+, Pre-book* received the Nobel Prize in 2004, his research ______ranges across particle physics, astrophysics and 6.30pm –7.30pm, Tuesday 10 March condensed matter physics. Space on Earth Event: 19, Map: 28, Talk, Age 15+, Pre-book* Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW ______Supported by Cambridge University Press 5pm –8pm, Tuesday 10 March Professor Monica Grady discusses how meteorites, Sparkling science fragments of asteroids, show us the processes and Cambridge Regional College, Rooms C133 / C017, materials that shaped our solar system and planet. King’s Hedges Road, CB4 2QT Event: 24, Map: 30, Talk, Age 12+, Pre-book* Practical sessions in Physics and Chemistry focusing ______on light, followed by a talk. Physics: make a model 7pm –8pm, Tuesday 10 March spectroscope using a CD to investigate the Creating Science Worlds components of light and their wavelengths. Cambridge Junction, Clifton Way, CB1 7GX Chemistry: observe chemical reactions which How do you begin making plays about science and produce light and investigate the effect of why is theatre such an exciting medium for sharing temperature on light sticks. ideas of science? Find out from the artistic director Event: 20, Map: online, Hands-on, Talk, Age 8+, of theatre company Curious Directive. Pre-book tel: 01223 418580, email: Event: 25, Map: 6, Age 12+, [email protected] or visit: camre.ac.uk Pre-book visit: junction.co.uk

8 Pre-book* visit: www.sciencefestival.cam.ac.uk or tel: 01223 766766 7pm –10pm, Tuesday 10 March 1pm –2pm, Wednesday 11 March Is there a right diet for me? From the old Botanic Garden to the Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site New Museums Site: scientific l Sidgwick Avenue, CB3 9DA collections in Victorian Cambridge a v Join Tv presenter Dr Chris van Tulleken to talk Whipple Museum of the History of Science, i t

dieting with scientists from the recent BBC2 Free School Lane, CB2 3RH s documentary What’s The Right Diet For You? The New Museums Site is one of the University’s e F

A Horizon Special . Explore the factors leading to iconic locations, home to a fascinating variety of weight gain, discover how diets work (and why scientific work. In the 1860s the old Botanic Garden e they sometimes don’t), discuss how we can was transformed into the home of Cambridge's h t manage our own weight better, and ask how we scientific collections on display in Salvin’s Buildings. t

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Get a taste of their v most important collections of fragments from E experiences working in y medieval manuscripts in existence. A selection of the field and browse these are undergoing examination to identify the the museum after dark painting materials and techniques used by the with a glass of wine. illuminators. Dr Giulia Bertolotti discusses the Event: 27, Map: 43, Exhibition, Adults, challenges posed by these beautiful objects as Pre-book visit: spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/events well as some unexpected results. ______Event: 31, Map: 39, Talk, Adults, Entrance token 8pm –9pm, Tuesday 10 March from the Courtyard foyer from 12:45pm What your Facebook says about you ______Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW 3.30pm –4.30pm, Wednesday 11 March Discover from Dr Alex Kogan the insights that can Science based approaches to be gleaned about people's beliefs, values, and early education: the case of personalities from small bits of their Facebook data. rhythm and literacy Learn how these insights are beginning to Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, CB1 1PT transform the fundamental approach social Teaching programmes based on scientific research scientists take to understanding human nature are gaining popularity in primary school and societies. classrooms. In this talk, the experimental evidence Event: 28, Map: 30, Talk, Age 12+, Pre-book* underpinning the Tune Time programme will be ______outlined and wider implications in regards to the 1pm –1.45pm, Wednesday 11 March teaching of early literacy discussed. Sounding out the Morning Star: Event: 32, Map: 1, Adults, Talk, music in West Papua talk Pre-book tel: 0845 196 5060, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, email: [email protected] Downing Street, CB2 3DZ or visit: anglia.ac.uk/community A talk by Dr Elizabeth Blake on the temporary display, Sounding out the Morning Star: music in West Papua (see p7). Event: 29, Map: 57, Talk, Age 12+

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Z 6pm –7.30pm, Wednesday 11 March E M h I S Earth’s past, present, and L c A W r future climate

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F Event: 36, Map: 30, Talk, Age 12+, Pre-book* There is more to touch than meets ______

– the eye: the role of touch in consumer behaviour 8pm –9pm, Wednesday 11 March 9 Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, CB1 1PT The right to sustainable y People are often unaware of how their tactile sense development? a Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW

d can be used to manipulate their consumer related The Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the n behaviours and the evaluations that they make. Environment (CFSE) and the Humanitarian Centre o Touch has the capability to influence many different consumer aspects, the actual value of a product co-host this event focusing on the theme of a M and how attractive it is judged to be. This talk right to sustainable development and explains how our tactile sense contributes to how environmental protection. we perceive products and services. Event: 37, Map: 30, Talk, Age 12+, Pre-book* ______Event: 33, Map: 1, Adults, Pre-book tel: 0845 196 5060, 8pm –9pm, Wednesday 11 March email: [email protected] Engineering our climate or visit: anglia.ac.uk/community Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW ______What are we going to do if our CO 2 reduction 6pm –7pm, Wednesday 11 March efforts don't work? Do we just accept the climate Order out of chaos consequences of the CO 2 we generate – sea level Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW rise, desertification, ocean acidification, loss of Supported by Cambridge University Press habitat – or do we fix the damage we are causing? Suppose we have six people at a party. Any two are Dr Hugh Hunt looks at one geoengineering either friends or strangers. Can we always find three solution, solar radiation management, and of them who are either mutual friends or mutual discusses the engineering challenges involved. strangers? Professor Imre Leader introduces the Event: 38, Map: 30, Talk, Age 12+, Pre-book* ______mathematical theory of ‘order out of chaos’. Event: 34, Map: 30, Talk, Age 12+, Pre-book* 8pm –9pm, Wednesday 11 March ______How is the Universe like a lightbulb? 6pm–7pm, Wednesday 11 March CB2 Café, Norfolk Street, CB1 2LD The barometer of life ... and what does that tell us? Join Michael Conterio Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW (Robin Ince's Christmas Ghosts, The Cambridge Presented by the International Union for Impronauts) for an hour of comedy exploring how Conservation of Nature physics links space stations and roundabouts, street Join the IUCN in a discussion on the Red List of lamps and exoplanets, and ice-cream and jet engines. Threatened Species which is a health check for our you may know more physics than you thought! planet. The Red List categorises the global Event: 39, Map: 10, Performance, Age 15+, conservation status of animal, fungi and plant Pre-book visit: wegottickets.com/event/301242, species and their links to livelihoods. It is a powerful £3.30 tool to inform and catalyse action for biodiversity conservation and policy change, critical to protecting the natural resources we need to survive. Event: 35, Map: 30, Talk, Age 15+, Pre-book*

10 Pre-book* visit: www.sciencefestival.cam.ac.uk or tel: 01223 766766 2.30pm –4.30pm (Schools’ performance) 6pm –7pm, Thursday 12 March 7.30pm –9.30pm (Public performance) Melioidosis: biothreat infection and Thursday 12 March paddy-field disease l Let Newton Be! Strathaird Building, Lucy Cavendish College, a v Cambridge Junction, Clifton Way, CB1 7GX Lady Margaret Road, CB3 0BU i t

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Isaac Newton, a complex and controversial in the Department of Medicine, and works closely e F character who sought God in universal laws of light with Public Health England and the Wellcome Trust and motion, is brought to life. Explore the life and Sanger Institute. In this talk, Professor Peacock e thought of a genius whose scientific theories still shows how sequencing techniques can be applied h t provide the foundations for our understanding of to the study of Melioidosis, an infectious disease of t

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511511, email: [email protected] or visit: Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW o r www.junction.co.uk, £10, £6 concessions Royal Society Fellows are the most eminent ______h

scientists and engineers in the UK and T 5.30pm –6.30pm, Thursday 12 March Commonwealth. In 2014, 11 new Fellows were Obliterated: mapping the Great War elected from Cambridge. We welcome Milstein Seminar Rooms, Cambridge University Martin Johnson, Emeritus Professor of Reproductive Library, West Road, CB3 9DR Sciences; Dr Julian Parkhill, Wellcome Trust Sanger The maps of the Western Front in the Great War Institute; Richard Hills, Emeritus Professor of Radio depicting trench positions provide a fascinating Astronomy and Dr Karalyn Patterson, Clinical insight into the dramatic changes inflicted upon Neurosciences to introduce us to their research. the landscape. Explore these changes, the Event: 45, Map: 30, Talk, Age 12+, Pre-book* influences they had on those who were there and ______how they are reflected in the landscape today . 6pm –7.30pm, Thursday 12 March Event: 41, Map: 9, Talk, Age 12+ How many light bulbs does it take? ______The Open University, Cintra House, 5.30pm –6.30pm, Thursday 12 March 12 Hills Road, CB2 1PF Some essential links between This entertaining talk by Dr Stephen Peake of maths and the arts The Open University explores the history of lighting Centre for Mathematical Sciences, (from medieval candles to today’s advanced LEDs) Wilberforce Road, CB3 0WA as a way of framing a much bigger technological Professor John Barrow looks at links between maths and political question about sustainability. What and the creative arts and shows how smooth might a low-carbon low-energy society look like curves informed architecture and how text fonts and how do we get there? were created. Event: 46, Map: 41, Talk, Age 15+, Pre-book tel: Event: 42, Map: 62, Talk, Age 15+, Pre-book tel: 01223 584647, email: [email protected] 01223 766839 or visit: maths.org/events ______6pm –8.30pm, Thursday 12 March 6pm –7pm, Thursday 12 March Look what chemistry has done for me Vitamin D: to D or not to D? Thomas Graham House, The Royal Society of Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW Chemistry, Science Park, Milton Road, CB4 0WF We need sunlight to make vitamin D and people An informal and informative event from the Royal living in the UK generally have low vitamin D levels. Society of Chemistry showcasing the experiences Though vitamin D deficiency has been associated of chemists in academia and industry. This event with increased risk of heart, musculoskeletal and offers an excellent opportunity to learn more about lung diseases, optimal vitamin D levels are still possible career options in chemistry. controversial. Professor Kay-Tee Khaw discusses Event: 47, Map: online, Talk, Age 15+, Pre-book whether recent research sheds light on the tel: 01223 432159, email: [email protected] question vitamin D: to D or not to D? Event: 43, Map: 30, Talk, Age 15+, Pre-book*

Limited tickets available on the day for all Pre-book* events 11 6.30pm –8.30pm, Thursday 12 March 3pm –6pm, Friday 13 March h The Naked Scientists live on Through the eyes of scientists c

r BBC Radio Cambridgeshire PostDoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane, CB2 1SB a The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, CB2 1RP Photographs of scientists usually include white A live audience with the Naked Scientists: coats, small tubes of fancy blue liquid and puzzled M expand your mind and boost your brain power expressions! But is this what they do everyday? 3 on a wild ride around science on BBC Radio. This exhibition of photographs gives a fresh 1 Event: 48, Map: 42, Talk, Age 12+, Pre-book* perspective of what their working days are like. y ______Event: 53, Map: 34, Drop-in, Exhibition, All ages a 7pm –9pm, Thursday 12 March ______d i Weight versus experience: the 6pm –7pm, Friday 13 March r

F science of winning the boat race Searching for intelligence in the legs: Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, CB1 1PT robots that walk, run and dance – Sport and exercise scientists discuss the nutritional, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW 9 physiological, psychological and biomechanical Although there is enormous success in the use of y factors that contribute to the winning formula in robotic arms for the automation industry, robotic a a boat race crew. legs are very challenging to be engineered and d Event: 49, Map: 1, Talk, Adults, Pre-book tel: used in our daily lives. Dr Fumiya Iida discusses why n 0845 196 5060, email: [email protected] legs are so special, and whether we will see robots o or visit: anglia.ac.uk/community running around in the near future. M ______Event: 54, Map: 30, Talk, Age 15+, Pre-book* 8pm –9pm, Thursday 12 March ______The naked apes 6pm –7.30pm, Friday 13 March Basement, CB2 Café, Norfolk Street, CB1 2LD How does work make you A science comedy show that addresses what it healthier? really means to be human. With low, middle and Riley Auditorium, Clare College, high-brow jokes, dodgy props and a slideshow. Memorial Court, Queen’s Road, CB3 9AJ Featuring award-winning comedian Ben Clover Supported by RAND Europe and science presenter Geoff Marsh. Join Professor Dame Carol Black, Expert Adviser Event: 50, Map: 10, Performance, Adults, on Health and Work to the Department of Health, Pre-book tel: 07889 176050, Dr Steve Boorman, Chair of the Boorman review or visit: wegottickets.com/event/296821, £5.50 of health and wellbeing in the NHS and ______Dr Chris van Stolk of RAND Europe, to explore 8pm –9.30pm, Thursday 12 March how and to what extent the workplace can Get the best out of life: resilience improve our health and wellbeing. and stress management organiser Event: 55, Map: 13, Talk, Age 12+, Pre-book* Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW ______We are busy people living in a competitive stressful 7.30pm –9.30pm, Friday 13 March world. How do we remain optimistic and resilient? Climate engineering: Professor Barbara J Sahakian, Professor David Clarke who can we trust? and Allison Pearson show how to manage stress, Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, CB3 9DA get the most out of work and home-life and how Climate engineering is a contentious issue in part to overcome problems of anxiety or depression. owing to a perceived lack of progress on crucial Event: 51, Map: 30, Talk, Age 12+, Pre-book* emission reductions. Is it a dangerous distraction ______from the work needed to reduce emissions? 2pm –4pm, Friday 13 March Or could solar radiation management be a Insect pollinators straightforward way of mediating climate change? Botanic Garden, Brookside, CB2 1JE Join Oliver Morton and Professors Martin Rees, Join experts from the Zoology Museum and get a Amartya Sen, Onora O’Neill and David Keith to closer look at some of the insect pollinators that find out more. orchids are dependent on. Then visit the orchid Event: 56, Map: 28, Talk, Age 15+, Pre-book* display in the Botanic Garden glasshouses. Event: 52, Map: 3, Exhibition, Talk, Age 12+, Pre-book tel: 01223 331875, email: [email protected], £10

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Science on Saturday Plan your perfect Festival: Saturday events at a glance

9am 9.30am 10am 10.30am 11am 11.30am 12pm 12.3 Mill Lane Lecture Room 3 p16 57T Enigma* 58T Why Mill Lane Lecture Room1 p17 61T Light: with a twist* PostDoc Centre p17 The Pitt Building p17 65H Translational University Centre p17 Cambridge Corn Exchange p18/19 67H –82H The Guildhall p20 84H –95H CSF@the Guildhall & Department of Chemistry p21 98H Department of Chemistry p21 99T Chemistry of light # Department of Pathology p22 100H Cosmos of your body & Plant Sciences Marquee p22 Department of Geography p22 Department of Psychology p22 103H Seeing and interacting with our world 104H Bird brain never more Department of Psychology p23 Sedgwick Museum p23 McDonald Inst for Arch Research p23 Physiology Building p23 109T How the brain is built Anatomy Lecture Theatre p23 110T Perception of colour Department of Biochemistry p23 Museum of Arch and Anth p23 Museum of Arch and Anth p23 Downing Site p23 Department of Zoology p24 117T CHaOS Talks # (recommended age 8+) Department of Zoology p24 119W Robogals # Whipple Museum of the Hist of Sci p24 120H St Columba’s Hall p25 121H Spacecraft* 121H Spacecraft* Christ’s College p25 Grafton Shopping Centre p25 Museum of Classical Archaeology p25 124H Lighting up the ancient world # The Polar Museum p25 125H Cambridge Buddhist Centre p25 Tourist Information Centre p26 127GT Leading lights* Cambridge University Library p26 128T Seeing further than others Department of Pharmacology p26 Keynes Hall, King’s College p26 130T Ideas and lang Cambridge Union Society p26 Gurdon Institute p26 The Fitzwilliam Museum p27 Cambridge Science Centre p6 Cambridge Junction p27

All ages 8+ 12+ 15+

E Exhibition, F Film, GT Guided tour, H Hands on, P Performance, T Talk, W Workshop # Check event listing for booking information

Evening events: 83H Cambridge Corn Exchange: adults only* (p19) 137P Tangram Theatre Company: The Origin of Species # (p27) 138P Festival of the Spoken Nerd: talk nerdy to me # (p27)

14 Pre-book* visit: www.sciencefestival.cam.ac.uk or tel: 01223 766766

0pm 1pm 1.30pm 2pm 2.30pm 3pm 3.30pm 4pm 4.30pm After 5pm do things stick?* 59T Don’t believe this talk* 60T Fermat’s Last Theorem* 62T Brought to light* 63T Immunology* 64E Through the eyes of scientists medicine 66H Solar powered cars CSF@the Cambridge Corn Exchange 83H see p19 96P You decide* & 97H Journey to Mars Chemistry in action 99T Chemistry of light # 99T Chemistry of light # 101H Why snot & 102T Cambridge AWiSE 105H Enlightened plants 106H Splash and squelch 103H Seeing and interacting with our world 104H Bird brain never more 116T Ageing artists 107H Time truck 108H Science of archaeology

115T Unbelievable lightness of seeing 111H On the right wavelength 112H Life before artificial light 114T Printmaking under the southern Sun 113T Science café & 118H Crash, bang, squelch # 119W Robogals # The quest for the curator’s code* 121H Spacecraft* 121H Spacecraft* 122E Betwixt truth and truth 136T Debating science and religion 123H Science buskers

Look into the Polar light: family day 126T/GT When universes collide 127GT Leading lights*

129H Medicines under the microscope guages* 133W Language of light* 131T Sci Cam 135P Helen Arney* 138P see p27 132H One body 134H Conservation conversations 5H Extreme engineering 137P see p27

Limited tickets available on the day for all Pre-book* events 15 Top talks@Mill Lane Lecture Rooms Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW

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10.30am –11.30am Enigma and the secret world of code breaking For as long as we have had secrets we have had secret messages. Dr James Grime looks at the fascinating history and mathematics of codes and code breaking – from ancient Greece to the present day – including a demonstration of an original WWII Enigma machine! Event: 57, Age 8+ ______12.15pm –1.15pm Why do things stick? Stickiness is everywhere; from the glue that holds racing cars together to the jam in sandwiches. But have you ever wondered why things are sticky? With demonstrations of sticking to the ceiling and making glue from milk, Dr Ewen Kellar from TWI Ltd, unravels the mystery surrounding this really quite complex process. If you’ve ever wondered how geckos walk up glass walls, this talk is for you! Event: 58, Age 8+ ______2pm –3pm Don't believe this talk: maths that can’t be true! Some things are obvious, some complicated, and some are obvious until you speak to a mathematician. Steve Mould looks at maths that confounds expectations and laughs in the face of intuition. If you thought you knew the shape of a wheel or how to measure a coastline, think again. Find out how many numbers in the Universe start with 1, how to cheat on your homework and other mathematical surprises. Event: 59, Age 12+ ______3.30pm –4.30pm Happy birthday, Fermat's Last Theorem In association with Skeptics in the Pub Simon Singh, author of a book and director of a BBC documentary about Fermat’s Last Theorem , discusses the origin of the problem, describes the heroes and villains who tried and failed to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, and tells the story of Professor Andrew Wiles, who conquered Fermat's challenge after working in secret for seven years. This is possibly the greatest story in the history of mathematics. Event: 60, Age 12+

16 Pre-book* visit: www.sciencefestival.cam.ac.uk or tel: 01223 766766 Science shorts@the Mill Lane Around Mill Lane Lecture Rooms Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW 10am –5pm

Map: 30, Talk, Pre book* Through the eyes of scientists y PostDoc Centre, 16 Mill Lane, CB2 1SB a d

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our lives and enables us to see. But it can also do S some curious and unexpected things that are of what their working days are like. usually invisible. Join Rachel Hyman and Event: 64, Map: 34, Exhibition, All ages n ______o Philip Garsed as they make the invisible visible with some exciting demonstrations, and explain 10am –3pm e c how these effects are vital for modern Translational medicine: n

technology, from computer screens to 3D cinema. from bench to bedside e Event: 61, Age 8+ The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, CB2 1RP i c ______How do you turn basic scientific research into S 12.30pm –1.15pm, Saturday 14 March something useful for patients? How can you learn Brought to light: exploring the from Clinical Trial results to improve medical past and future of Earth’s treatments? Join the MPhil Clinical Science greatest resource Translational Medicine and Therapeutics and Mill Lane lecture rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW MPhil Rare Disease students on a journey from Light has fascinated scientists for hundreds of bench to bedside, and back. years but what is it and how do scientists use Event: 65, Map: 42, Hands-on, Age 12+ light today to study matter? Dr Michael Wharmby N A

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crucial to modern science and technology. Using L L simple experiments that you can try at home, y Michael explores the ways that light is used to study everything from cancer to jet engines and renewable energy. Event: 62, Age 12+ ______2pm –3pm What is immunology? your body defends itself against invaders (parasites, bacteria, viruses, cancers) all of the time. How does it know what to attack? How 10am –4pm does it do it? Find out from Amy MacQueen and Solar powered cars with the Saad Idris what diseases you get when your body Department of Engineering goes wrong. Audience participation during this Hicks and Cormack Rooms, University Centre, interactive talk will be greatly encouraged! Granta Place, Mill Lane, CB2 1RU Event: 63, Age 15+ Make a model car that harnesses the power of light and turns it into movement. Optimise your design to manage this limited energy source. Join University of Cambridge Engineers for a fun filled hands-on exploration of tomorrow’s technology. A limited number of car kits are available: one kit per group and when they’re gone, they’re gone! Event: 66, Map: 46, Hands-on, Age 8+

Limited tickets available on the day for all Pre-book* events 17 CSF@the Cambridge Corn Exchange Wheeler Street, CB2 3QB h 10am–4pm, Saturday 14 March c r 11am–4pm, Sunday 15 March a Map: 5, Hands-on, All ages M

4 Babraham Institute molecular Discover nutrition science 1 explorers Experience hands-on nutrition science activities at y Scientists at the Babraham Institute are trying to the MRC Human Nutrition Research Unit. Also, try a

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Have you ever wanted access to the Cambridge E Science Festival all year round, or take the hands-on activities into your classroom or community group? In sickness and in health: This new online library of available educational cells in the spotlight activities gives you all the information you need: Join our researchers from the Cambridge Institute Key-Stage and subject-specific information as well as for Medical Research to learn about the wondrous how to borrow these free resources. Find the library ways of cells and what goes wrong in disease and at: sciencefestival.cam.ac.uk infection. See how microscopes and movies allow Event: 68 us to watch cells in action, learn about a cell’s own ______transport system and look inside serial killer Discover DNA T-cells that protect us against infection. Explore the structure of DNA and how it makes us Event: 72 similar but also unique. Find out how computers ______and technology help us to understand genomes. Hands-on biology Join staff from the EMBL European Bioinformatics Can you identify biological specimens, smells and Institute and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute for creepy crawlies? Do you know which products plenty of hands-on activities, perfect for all ages. come from which plants? Have you tried mirror Event: 69 tracing? Would you like to find out what an owl had ______for dinner? Some of the great things on offer from The science of eating Hills Road Sixth Form College students. Join scientists from the University of Cambridge Event: 73 Metabolic Research Laboratories in activities and ______games to help explain why we eat what we do and Living and breathing with how we use the energy it provides. See if you can Papworth Hospital NHS identify which is the right diet for you. Foundation Trust Event: 70 Papworth Hospital is the largest specialist heart and ______lung hospital in the country. The hospital will be Fat, fitness and metabolism providing hands-on demonstrations on how to Help the NIHR/Wellcome Trust Clinical Research keep your heart and lungs healthy. Facility find out more about diabetes and obesity. Event: 74

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working in the field about the latest advances. SATURDAy ONLy S Adults can also win a tour of the Stem Cell Institute, Rising Stars led by one of our top researchers. Further Our Rising Stars training course gives researchers at information at: www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/public- the University of Cambridge the skills to develop engagement/sciencefestival2015 exciting interactive activities. Join our stars of the Event: 75 ______future as they introduce you to their research. Event: 81 See your cells ______Use microscopes to see your own cells and wonder SATURDAy EVENING AND SUNDAy at the hidden beauty of plants and insects with the Lighting the way to new drug help of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology’s therapy Microscopes4Schools team. Test your detective Join AstraZeneca’s scientists and learn how we use skills with our stereomicroscope challenge. light-based technologies to identify, develop and Event: 76 ______test the activity of our new medicines. Once an active drug is selected see how we use light to Illuminating statistics follow it as it travels through our body. Learn how the MRC Biostatistics Unit collects Event: 82 A

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how random you are, how good you are at learning G E the weight of sweets and whether you can count y ducks. See statistics shine a light on numbers. Event: 77 ______The wonderful world of blood vessels If the blood vessels in our body were laid end to end they would measure ~60,000 miles or 2.5 times SATURDAy ONLy around the Earth! Find out from scientists at the 6pm –8pm Division of Cardiovascular Medicine how CSF@Cambridge Corn Exchange: fascinating our blood vessels are. See how blood adults only! vessels change throughout the animal kingdom, Ever wanted to have a go at all the marvellous allowing large and small animals to survive, and hands-on activities at the Science Festival but felt discover how things go wrong and what we bad about jumping in front of a child? Now’s can do to fix them. your chance! For two hours, CSF@Cambridge Event: 78 Corn Exchange is open to adults only. Buy a drink and get investigating! Event: 83, Hands-on, Adults only, Pre-book*

Limited tickets available on the day for all Pre-book* events 19 Anglia Ruskin CSF@the Guildhall University Market Square, CB2 3QJ

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y Discover the amazing tricks your brain plays with Test how your brain works with our psychological a the eyes by journeying through a gallery of optical illusions and investigate the relationship between d illusions. Play with computerised equipment used your body and your brain. r to examine the eye and discover how good your Event: 91 u ______t 3D vision and colour perception is. a Event: 84 Seeing the world in a different light S ______Learn how we use light technology to diagnose pain, How stable are you? injury and emotional states in people and animals. How well can you balance? We’ll put you through a Event: 92 range of unstable situations to see what your ______balancing skills are really like. Solve the crime Event: 85, Age 8+ Get your hands dirty trying forensic techniques like ______finger printing and anthropology and find out what Infection control solving crimes and historical mysteries involves. How clean are your hands? Find out how bugs and Event: 93 germs can spread, and put your hand washing ______techniques to the test using our Uv hand gel and The genetics of the black squirrel lights. you’ll never skip the soap again! Black squirrels are common in parts of Britain. Learn Event: 86 about their genetics and make a model of the protein ______molecule responsible for their fur colour. Jumping for joy Event: 94 We know that impulses generated when you jump ______increase jump height and makes you stay in the air Institute of Engineering and for longer. We’ll show you how to maximise this Technology and turn yourself into a human pogo stick. Hands-on activities demonstrating the impact of Event: 87, Age 8+ everyday activity. ______Event: 95 Light up your blood See how infrared light can measure the amount of SATURDAy ONLy oxygen and carbon dioxide in your blood. Find out 1.30pm –2.15pm, 2.45 –3.30pm how these change with different exercise levels. You decide C

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Light up our house E S How much energy does it take to light our homes? Guildhall Council What effect is this having on the planet? Could we Chamber you get to light our homes differently? Take part in our challenge be the judge and the to generate the energy needed to light a house. jury! Get involved in Event: 89 this storytelling session ______with Marion Leeper, Light on your feet based on some of the How agile are you? Have a go at our test, designed oldest dilemmas of to assess agility in basketball players. all time. Event: 90, Age 8+ Event: 96, Performance, All ages, Pre-book*

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10am –4.30pm Chemistry in action visit the Department of Chemistry and try some hands-on chemistry experiments. Once kitted-out in lab coat and safety goggles you are ready to go! This year you can join the Royal Society of Chemistry to investigate the exciting properties of light. Or learn about weather, climate and air pollution with the Centre for Atmospheric Science and British Antarctic Survey. They will help explain how the ozone layer works to protect us from harmful Uv radiation and how scientists in Antarctica can help us understand Earth’s climate. you can also experiment with their state-of-the-art atmospheric sensors or test your knowledge in the atmospheric quiz. N A T

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millio n s o f proteins make your body function. researchers from the Department of Plant Sciences,

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miniature world that is your body. Event: 105, Map: 5 9, Hands-on, All ages

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Why do our noses make snot? It's part of our Department of Geography

body's defence against viruses and other bugs.

Do you have a feeling for mud? Have you ever seen

Make your own (fake!) snot and find out about a crayfish? Do you know your samphire from your

our bodies' amazing standing army. cordgrass? Explore the m agic of muddy and watery

Event: 101, Map: 54, Hands-on, All ages places and find out why we need them. Make some ______

waves and play the Delta Game. All this and more

Meet the women w ho do science, from the University of Cambridge Conservation technology, engineering and maths Research Institute, Coastal Research Unit and

Science can only be done by people and many Environmental Systems and Processes Group. scientists (arguably not enough) are women. Talk Event: 106, Map: 53, Hands-on, All ages

to Cambridge AWiSE about care ers in STEM.

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22 Pre-book* visit: www.scien cefestival.cam.ac.uk or tel: 01223 766766

10.30am –3.30pm 11am –4pm Time Truck Life before artificial light Watson Gallery, Sedgwick Museum of Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Earth Sciences Pick up a Time Traveller’s Passport and step back in Travel in time with Time Truck! Investigate rocks and time with the Museum of Archaeology and y a minerals, discover dinosaurs and explore earthquakes. Anthropology and Cambridge Spanish Centre. d

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Event: 108, Map: 56, Hands-on, All ages, scientists will answer your questions and tell you c ______about research going on in Cambridge and beyond! S 11am –12noon Event: 113, Map: 58, Drop-in, All ages Looking into how the brain is built ______Main Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building, 2pm –3pm Physiology, Development and Neuroscience Printmaking under the southern Sun There are those who say that to fully understand Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology how a machine works, you have to know how it is A demonstration of the traditional art of fine art built. But how to build something as complicated etching and relief printing by Anne virgo, Director as the brain is a most challenging problem in itself. and Martin King, printer from Australian Print Professor Bill Harris and Professor Christine Holt Workshop. Anne and Martin will talk about their show you some steps to build a brain and discuss extensive projects working with indigenous artists how new technologies help us investigate the in remote communities across Australia. underlying molecular and cellular mechanisms. Event: 114, Map: 57, Talk, Age 12+ Event: 109, Map: 58, Talk, Age 12+ ______2pm –3pm 11am –12noon Unbelievable lightness of seeing Perception of colour Anatomy Lecture Theatre Anatomy Lecture Theatre As visual animals we depend on light. yet when we Most mammals have limited colour vision, due to see, light is not what we perceive. Rather the brain their nocturnal ancestry, but colour perception like adroitly infers the complex and intertwined physical ours evolved in the primates, perhaps due to fruit causes of our sensations. Dr Andrew Welchman eating. Professor John Mollon shows that there are uses illusions and demonstrations that catch our many forms of colour vision and a minority of women brains in the act of seeing. are tetrachromatic – able to make discriminations Event: 115, Map: 50, Talk, Age 15+ that are impossible for all men and most women. ______Event: 110, Map: 50, Talk, Age 15+ 2.30pm-3.30pm ______Ageing artists and creativity 11am –3pm Psychology Lecture Theatre On the right wave length The common view of ageing is of decline and Hopkins Building, Department of Biochemistry dysfunction. What’s missing is a depiction of Light is one of our favourite research tools. Its abilities which are preserved or enhanced with age. remarkable properties allow us to visualise Creativity increases in the late work of some artists, biological structures such as tissues, cells, structures writers and composers, but what are the cognitive within cells and even things as small as individual and neural underpinnings of this renewal? molecules! Join the Department of Biochemistry as Dr Charlotte Lee and Dr Karen Campbell discuss we explore the power and versatility of light. ageing artists and the science behind their art. Event: 111, Map: 51, Hands-on, All ages Event: 116, Map: 55, Talk, Age 15+

Limited tickets available on the day for all Pre-book* events 23 10am –5pm CSF@the New Crash, Bang, Squelch! Department of Zoology Museums Site Get to grips with exciting, fascinating and just plain h weird science that shows you how the world c Downing Street, CB2 2EJ around us works. Enthusiastic students from CHaOS r

a will show you what goes on in our experiments, looking at lots of science that goes ‘crash’, ‘bang’ and

M 9.45am –4:30pm CHaOS talks: from the makers of ‘squelch’! Timed tickets will be available online in 4 advance for guaranteed entry, but you can still

1 Crash, Bang, Squelch! come along for drop-in entry. Department of Zoology y Event: 118, Map: 18, Hands-on, All ages,

a CHaOS student volunteers are running a series Pre-book visit: eventbrite.co.uk/e/crash-bang- d of talks filled with exciting demonstrations. r squelch-tickets-14409827181 you will find crashes, bangs, and squelches u N I C t here if our hands-on events are full, or if you

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24 Pre-book* visit: www.sciencefestival.cam.ac.uk or tel: 01223 766766 10.30am –12noon CSF in the city Lighting up the ancient world Museum of Classical Archaeology, 9.30am –10.45am, 11am –12.15pm, Sidgwick Avenue, CB3 9DA 1pm –2.15pm, 2.30pm –3.45pm Get your hands on 2000-year-old lamps to learn y a about how the Romans used to light up their Spacecraft and solar panels d

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Limited tickets available on the day for all Pre-book* events 25 10.30am –12.30pm, 2.30pm –4.30pm 12noon –1pm Leading lights Ideas and languages: six more Meet outside the Tourist Information Centre, languages that changed the world Peas Hill, Cambridge CB2 3AD Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW

h Join Cambridge Science Guides on a walking tour Languages shape human culture and human c to find out about our leading lights. Learn about thought. Some languages have shaped our world r

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4 behaviour of light and identified the structure of Event: 130, Map: 27, Talk, Age 8+, Pre-book*

1 ______matter. Accompanied children and wheelchair y users are welcome. 1pm –2pm a Event: 127, Map: 45, Tour, All ages, Pre-book* Sci Cam: the science magazine show d C r

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C E 12.45pm –1.45pm N T R The weird and wonderful world E of really really long molecules Polymers are amazing molecules that are used in loads of clever ways. Steve Mould reveals the strange workings of well known polymers such as polystyrene and weird ones you’ve never heard of, like the high tech molecules that are shaping the modern world. A show full of 10am –5pm interactive demos and experiments. Science Sunday Event: 141 Cambridge Science Centre, Jesus Lane, CB5 8BQ ______The Cambridge Science Centre goes all out science 2.15pm –3pm crazy for the Cambridge Science Festival, with a Spirals in time: 200,000 reasons fun-filled day of non-stop hands-on workshops for why molluscs are marvellous all the family including slime making! Join us to From shell-stealing octopuses to snails that suck make and take away some amazing bits of science sharks’ blood, molluscs are a weird bunch. Join and engineering. marine biologist Dr Helen Scales to find out Event: 145, Map: 7, Hands-on, All ages, Normal admission charges apply how hermit crabs like to party and butterflies ______learnt to swim. This interactive talk dives into the spiralling world of seashells and the bizarre 11am –1pm animals that make them. Children Maths SciScreen Event: 142 Arts Picturehouse Cambridge, ______St Andrew’s Street, CB2 3AR 3.45pm –4.45pm In association with Arts Picturehouse Cambridge Everest Lab and the British Science Association Cambridgeshire What happens to your body when you push it branch, Dr James Grime explores the amazing somewhere it’s not built to go, say to the top of applications of mathematics using a selection of the world? With summit kit, interactive engaging film shorts for children. experiments and stunning videos from their trek Event: 146, Map: 2, Film, Age 8+, to the highest lab in the world at Everest Base Pre-book visit: picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/ Camp, join Greg Foot and Nick Insley to find out. Arts_Picturehouse_Cambridge/ Event: 143

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a CB2 3QB d Join CSF@the Cambridge Corn Exchange for n another fun packed day of hands-on activities. See u Saturday’s entry for all the events taking place. S Event: 148, Map: 5, Hands-on, All ages 4.15pm –5.15pm ______Shaping the darkness: how light 3pm –4pm helped build the Universe Naked Scientists live Institute of Continuing Education, Institute of Continuing Education, Madingley Hall, Madingley, CB23 8AQ Madingley Hall, Madingley, CB23 8AQ Light allows us to decipher the mysteries of the Expand your mind – ask any question on anything night sky, but it also helped to create them. In this scientific, with Dr Chris Smith and the award talk with Dr Judith Croston, find out how light is a winning Naked Scientists BBC broadcast science vital actor in the way stars and galaxies work, team. Clothes will be kept on, but science will be and in how they evolved to make up the stripped bare... present-day Universe. Event: 149, Map: online, Talk, Age 12+, Event: 151, Map: online, Talk, Age 12+, Pre-book email: [email protected] Pre-book email: [email protected] S S I I R R

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4.15pm –5.15pm 5.30pm –6.30pm Springwatch Madingley Festival choral evensong Institute of Continuing Education, University Church, Great St Mary's, Madingley Hall, Madingley, CB23 8AQ Senate House Hill, CB2 3PQ Join Dr Ed Turner for a tour of the Madingley Hall A traditional choral service according to the grounds to see some of the plants and animals that Book of Common Prayer (1662) to celebrate the call Madingley their home. Take a look at some of Science Festival with visiting preacher Professor the signs of spring and investigate the ways that Russell Cowburn FRS, Department of Physics. animals and plants respond to longer and Event: 152, Map: 23, Service, All ages warmer days. Event: 150, Map: online, Tour, All ages, Pre-book email: [email protected]

30 Pre-book* visit: www.sciencefestival.cam.ac.uk or tel: 01223 766766 5pm –7pm, Monday 16 March Throughout the The roles and responsibilities of universities in relation to planetary l sustainability a

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Ages 9-11, Pre-book tel: 01223 244240, h email: [email protected] science. Dr Nicholas Denyer discusses light in Plato, T ______followed by a wine reception in the Cast Gallery. 10.30am –12.30pm, Monday 16 March Event: 157, Map: 33, Talk, Adults, 10.30am –12.30pm, Wednesday 18 March Pre-book tel: 01223 330402, email: 10.30am –12.30pm, Friday 20 March [email protected] or visit: platolightknowledge.eventbrite.co.uk 10.30am –12.30pm, 2.30pm-4.30pm, ______Saturday 21 March Leading lights walking tour 6pm –7pm, Monday 16 March Meet outside the Tourist Information Centre, Stamping through mathematics Peas Hill, Cambridge CB2 3AD Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW Join Cambridge Science Guides and learn about Supported by Cambridge University Press revolutionary reflections on the nature of light – from Professor Robin Wilson presents the entire history of Newton to stargazers Eddington and Bell-Burnell. See mathematics illustrated by around 300 postage where scientists observed the behaviour of light and stamps featuring mathematics and mathematicians identified the structure of matter. One 10.30am tour from across the world. From Euclid to Euler, on 21 March will be in Spanish. Accompanied Pythagoras to Poincaré, from Fibonacci to the Fields children and wheelchair users are welcome. Medals, all are featured. No particular knowledge of Event: 154, Map: 45, Tour, All ages, Pre-book* mathematics or philately required. ______Event: 158, Map: 30, Talk, Age 12+, Pre-book* ______1pm –2pm, Monday 16 March The Cavendish and Victorian 6.30pm –7.30pm, Monday 16 March Cambridge: founding a laboratory, Using embryonic stem cells to finding a role understand early development Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Free School Lane, CB2 3RH CB3 0DF The New Museums Site is one of the University’s Embryonic stem cells derived from early mouse iconic locations, home to a fascinating variety of embryos can turn into any bodily tissue. They can be scientific work. The Cavendish Laboratory, set up in cultured and placed in a host embryo to make a Free School Lane in the 1870s, became one of the chimaera. This technology is used to investigate how world's leading physics institutions. Its site, staff and ES cells differentiate into specific lineages. It also aims were controversial; Professor Simon Schaffer provides surprising insights, as Dr Jenny Nichols links these debates with questions about scientific shows, into how the embryo responds and regulates sites, audiences and functions. its development to accommodate these cells. Event: 155, Map: 49, Talk, Age 12+, Pre-book tel: Event: 159, Map: 32, Talk, Adults, Pre-book visit: 01223 330906, email: [email protected] jenny-nichols-talk.eventbrite.co.uk

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y latest title. This will be followed by questions and a a reception with the authors. d Event: 163, Map: 30, Age 12+, Talk, i r Pre-book email: [email protected],

F 6.30pm –8.30pm, Monday 16 – Tuesday 17 March, £3 suggested donation Thursday 19 – Friday 20 March

– ______2pm –6pm, Saturday 21 March 6 LENS 7.30pm –9.30pm, Monday 16 March 1 This Room Solar Physics building, Institute of Astronomy, y Howard Theatre, Downing College, Madingley Road, CB3 0HA a Regent Street, CB2 1DQ A joint exhibition by the glass artist Livvy Fink and the d Supported by the Wellcome Trust poet Ezra Rubenstein which draws on the n This Room , a new performance by Laura Jane Dean

o connections between oncology and astronomy. draws on personal experience of living with OCD Discover unfamiliar worlds inspired by the most

M and reveals the actualities and artefacts of a distant galaxies and the cells within us, frozen therapeutic process. In collaboration with Professor moments occurring somewhere between liquid and Trevor Robbins, Director of the Behavioural and solid states, where light is diffused through a myriad Clinical Neuroscience Institute, and a Cognitive of intricate surfaces, suspended within glass. Behavioural Therapist, Laura attempts to Event: 160, Map: 66, Exhibition, Age 12+ ______understand what it means to be ill and what it might mean to get better. 6.30pm –9pm, Monday 16 March SciScreen: Jurassic Park Event: 164, Map: 20, Performance, Age 15+, Pre-book*

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pterodactyl flight, to discuss dinosaur locomotion S and the science in the film classic Jurassic Park. Event: 161, Map: 2, Film, Age 12+, Pre-book visit: www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Arts_ Picturehouse_Cambridge/, Normal admission charges apply ______7pm –8pm, Monday 16 March 8pm –9pm, Monday 16 March Shining light through rocks: Out of the red and into the blue: magma down the microscope making the LED revolution Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, cost-effective CB2 3EQ Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW What makes volcanoes erupt? What controls how Gallium nitride is probably the most important explosive and dangerous those eruptions are? semiconductor material since silicon. It emits brilliant Professor Marian Holness investigates these questions light as well as being a key material for next- and explores the physical properties of molten rock generation transistors. From efficient lighting and (or magma). She shows how microscopes using water purification to biomedicine and power polarised light allow geologists to determine the electronics, Professor Sir Colin Humphreys introduces composition of the rock and help us understand the us to his research into this remarkable material. behaviour of volcanoes. Event: 165, Map: 30, Talk, Age 12+, Pre-book* Event: 162, Map: 52, Talk, Adults, Pre-book*

32 Pre-book* visit: www.sciencefestival.cam.ac.uk or tel: 01223 766766 1.15pm –2pm, Tuesday 17 March 6pm –7.30pm, Tuesday 17 March Of science and art: the Grand Heures Dementia research in Cambridge: of Philip the Bold from bench to bedside l The Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, a v CB2 1RB Tennis Court Road, CB2 1GA i t

Grandes Heures , one of the most richly illuminated Sponsored by Alzheimer’s Research UK s and complex manuscripts in the library of the Dementia affects over 8,000 people in e F

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1376, is the focus of this talk by Dr Paola Ricciardi who Hear short talks from researchers using different h t will discuss how analysis of the materials and techniques from stem cells to brain scans to t

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Museum Escape: the polar domes T B R I Scott Polar Research Institute, The Polar Museum, D G Lensfield Road, CB2 1ER E your mission should you choose to accept it, is to escape the museum…The Polar Museum brings you Museum Escape , an interactive live escape game designed for groups of 3 to 8 people. Find hints and clues, solve puzzles, and crack codes as you race against time in order to escape from a room you are 6pm –8pm, Tuesday 17 March locked in. The Polar Museum will be open to the How to grow orchids public to browse from 5pm–8.30pm. Botanic Garden, Brookside, CB2 1JE Event: 167, Map: 43, Hands-on, Adults, Pre-book If you have an orchid languishing on a windowsill email: [email protected] or visit: and need advice on how to look after it join spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/events, £30 per team of Alex Summers, Head of the Botanic Garden’s up to 8 players Glasshouse Range, for this practical session behind ______the scenes at the Botanic Garden’s Orchid Festival. 6pm–7.30pm, Tuesday 17 March Event: 170, Map: 3, Workshop, Adults, Carrying the hopes of millions… Pre-book tel: 01223 331875, Judge Business School, Trumpington Street, email: [email protected] CB2 1AG or visit: botanic.cam.ac.uk This year the UN will implement the Sustainable ______Development Goals, which will determine the 6.30pm –7.30pm, Tuesday 17 March direction of the global agenda on international Too much information: how stem development for the next 15 years. What are they cells cope with information overload and what do they actually mean? Dr Bhaskar vira Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, and a panel of experts drill down in to the detail of CB3 0DF these Goals, and the role that biodiversity and Embryonic stem cells can either make more copies of natural capital will play in their delivery. themselves or differentiate to form any cell type in the Event: 168, Map: 26, Talk, Age 15+, Pre-book* body. How cells make the decision to differentiate, ______and which cell type to differentiate into, is controlled by which genes they turn on, and which they turn off. Dr Brian Hendrich’s lab studies how precise control of gene expression allows cells to make these decisions. Event: 171, Map: 32, Talk, Adults, Pre-book or visit: brian-hendrich-talk.eventbrite.co.uk

Limited tickets available on the day for all Pre-book* events 33 7pm –8pm, Tuesday 17 March 1pm –2pm, Wednesday 18 March h

c Giant tsunamis of the Cloud chambers: tracking the history r Mediterranean: what lifted Rhodes of particle physics in Cambridge a and Crete out of the sea? Whipple Museum of the History of Science, M

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Free School Lane, CB2 3RH

0 Sciences, Downing Street, CB2 3EQ The New Museums Site is one of the University’s

2 The ancient Mediterranean world experienced iconic locations, home to a fascinating variety of

y several catastrophic tsunamis, the most famous scientific work. Dr Richard Staley explores the social a destroying Alexandria and the Nile delta in AD 365 environment of the Cavendish Laboratory from the d and 1303. Using clues left on islands and beaches, 1890s to the 1940s and shows how CTR Wilson’s i r Professor James Jackson investigates the possible cloud chamber helped explore meteorology and F causes and impacts of ancient tsunamis. This opened up research on cosmic rays. –

detective work could help us understand the Event: 176, Map: 49, Talk, Age 12+, Pre-book tel:

6 implications of these events on the modern world. 01223 330906, email: [email protected] ______1 Event: 172, Map: 52, Talk, Adults, Pre-book* ______

y 1pm –3pm, Wednesday 18 March a 7.30pm-9.30pm, Tuesday 17 March Life sciences poster exhibition d Sustainable food in the spotlight University Centre, Granta Place, Mill Lane CB2 1RU n Aldren Wright Room, Friends’ Meeting House, Sponsored by Linguamatics o Jesus Lane, CB5 8AB If you’ve ever wondered what early-career scientists

M Can you lower your carbon footprint by changing at the University of Cambridge work on, come along what food you eat? Join Cambridge Carbon Footprint and meet them and see posters about their research. and consider the factors which determine the impact Event: 177, Map: 46, Exhibition, Ages 15+ ______of our food on the environment. Event: 173, Map: 21, Workshop, Age 15+, 1.15pm –2pm, Wednesday 18 March Pre book tel: 01223 301842, or email: Brand new old masters [email protected] The Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, ______CB2 1RB 7.30pm –8.30pm, Tuesday 17 March A talk by Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute. Illuminating life at the single cell level Event: 178, Map: 39, Talk, Adults, Entrance by Auditorium, Sainsbury Laboratory, token from the Courtyard foyer from 12.45pm ______47 Bateman Street, CB2 1LR Advances in microscopy reveal a rich variety in cell 2pm –6pm, Wednesday 18 March behaviour even in genetically identical cells in Machines that reconstruct the world identical environments. Dr James Locke explores this Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW new research which could affect our understanding vision capabilities are indispensable for intelligent of antibiotic resistance, cancer and plant development. machines. Whilst visual understanding, navigation, Event: 174, Map: 35, Talk, Age 15+, Pre-book* recognising objects and inferring relationships are ______trivial tasks for humans, giving a machine these 7.30pm –9pm, Tuesday 17 March capabilities is a big challenge. Find out how we give Preventing the rise of antibiotic machines the ability to capture the 3D world. Event: 179, Map: 30, Exhibition, All ages resistance? ______Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW 6pm –7pm, Wednesday 18 March Antibiotics are estimated to add 20 years to all of our Light and colour: lives. But in the 80 years since the discovery of experiments and theory penicillin, overuse of antibiotics has led to untreatable Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, superbugs. Join Professors Clare Bryant, Andres Floto, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE Dame Athene Donald, and Dr Mark Holmes as they In the 2015 year of Light, this interactive talk discuss how to prevent the rise of antibiotic resistance. celebrates the great experiments which led to our Event: 175, Map: 30, Talk, Age 15+, Pre-book* understanding of the nature of light and colour. Join Professor Malcolm Longair as he repeats many of these great experiments and explains the theory behind them. The lecture will include numerous simulations and animations. Event: 180, Map: 61, Talk, Age 8+, Pre-book* 34 Pre-book* visit: www.sciencefestival.cam.ac.uk or tel: 01223 766766 6pm –8pm, Wednesday 18 March 7.30pm –8.30pm, Wednesday 18 March Connectivity and flow in future cities Sex by numbers: Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW statistics of our intimate lives l Today, more people live in cities than in rural areas Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site a v and, by 2050, this ratio is predicted to rise to 7 out of Sidgwick Avenue, CB3 9DA i t

every 10 people. Such rapid growth and urbanisation The latest survey of British sexual behaviour s creates tremendous opportunities and also suggests that we are becoming more experimental in e F tremendous social and environmental challenges. our sex lives, but there is less of it going on. Professor

A panel will discuss sustainable cities and how David Spiegelhalter will look at sex statistics going e increased connectivity and the flow of resources, back to 1580, show that more boys are born at the h t people and energy could help to shape them. end of wars, and argue that this means sexual activity t

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______v E N P 6.30pm –7.30pm, Wednesday 18 March O R Blood and leukaemia stem cells: T the root of all (evil) Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, CB3 0DF 7.30pm –9pm, Wednesday 18 – Thursday 19 March Dr Brian Huntly’s lab studies leukaemia development, Pioneer in particular acute myeloid leukaemia. They are Cambridge Junction, Clifton Way, CB1 7GX interested in how normal blood stem cell function is Curious Directive return to Cambridge with their subverted by mutations during leukaemia multimedia sci-fi thriller, Pioneer, a poignant tale of development and how these mutations alter the the first humans on Mars. Millions of kilometres expression of genes. Their work aims to improve from Earth, a young couple slowly uncover the true leukaemia treatment outcomes through the nature of their mission. The first night will be identification of critical molecules and therapies followed by a post-show discussion with the that target them. scientific collaborator, Dr Lewis Dartnell. Event: 183, Map: 32, Talk, Adults, Pre-book visit: Event:186, Map: 6, Performance, Age 12+, brian-huntly-talk.eventbrite.co.uk Pre-book tel: 01223 511511, ______email: [email protected] 7pm –8pm, Wednesday 18 March or visit: junction.co.uk, £12, £8 concessions Light in rocks: in paintings ______Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth 8.15am –10.15am, Thursday 19 March Sciences, Downing Street, CB2 3EQ Solar eclipse viewing We usually think of rock as definitively solid and Sackler Lecture Theatre & Observatory Lawns, impenetrable to light. But light does penetrate rock. Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, CB3 0HA In fact, if it didn't, rocks would all look rather boring. Come and observe a solar eclipse as it happens! Dr Spike Bucklow discusses the wide range of colours A partial solar eclipse will be visible from Cambridge, offered by rocks that were used by historic artists as with over 85% of the Sun’s surface obscured by the ingredients in the creation of great paintings. Moon at 9.33am. Live images will be relayed to our Event: 184, Map: 52, Talk, Adults, Pre-book* lecture theatre with expert commentary – and if it's clear weather we'll also open up the telescopes for safe public viewing of the partial eclipse. Event: 187, Map: 66, Drop-in, Age 8+

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c 1.15pm –2.30pm, Thursday 19 March Fred Sanger: sequencer and double r Science of sport for schools Nobel laureate a (ages 8-12) Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW M

Sports Hall, University of Cambridge Sports Supported by Cambridge University Press

0 Centre, Philippa Fawcett Drive, CB3 0AS Fred Sanger (1918 –2013) was one of Cambridge’s

2 Test your strength, fitness and agility using our fun, most illustrious scientists. Professor George Brownlee

y interactive challenges. Have you got quicker reaction shows how this modest man used his persistence a times than your teacher? Activities include B ATAK and imagination to solve two problems in molecular d wall, target practice, vertical jumps and a speed test. biology, sequencing proteins and sequencing RNA i r Event: 188, Map: 68, Hands-on, Ages 8-12, and DNA. For this he was awarded two Nobel Prizes; F Pre-book tel: 01223 762096, the only British scientist to achieve this. –

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y 1pm –5pm, Thursday 19 – Friday 20 March Synchronised fireflies and balancing a 10am –5pm, Saturday 21 – Sunday 22 March broomsticks: or why bridges wobble! d Wellcome Image Awards 2015 Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, n Cambridge Science Centre, Jesus Lane, CB5 8BQ JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE o Experience a world of extraordinary scientific imagery. Supporting a traffic jam in the sky is easy, things

M These award winning images created using cutting become trickier when wind blows and if designers edge imaging bring to life the vibrancy of science get it wrong the consequences are terrible. Find out normally hidden to the naked eye. how engineers get it right. Cambridge Physics Centre Event: 189, Map: 7, Exhibition, All ages, presents a public lecture by Dr Allan McRobie. This Normal admission charges apply lecture is aimed at School years 12 and 13. ______Event: 193, Map: 61, Talk, Age 15+ 5.30pm –6.30pm, Thursday 19 March ______El Nino: what on earth will 6pm –7.30pm, Thursday 19 March happen next? Cambridge stars: big ideas 2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, CB2 1RW Wilberforce Road, CB3 0WA Royal Society Fellows are the most eminent scientists El Niño events are the largest causes of year-to-year and engineers in the UK and Commonwealth. In climate variability on a global scale, bringing floods to 2014, 11 new Fellows were elected from Cambridge. some regions and droughts to others. Using maths, We welcome David Ron, Professor of Cellular Dr Michael Davey explains the phenomenon and Pathophysiology; Randy Read, Professor of Protein describes how El Niño events occur and evolve. Crystallography and Paul Midgley, Professor of Event: 190, Map: 62, Talk, Age 15+, Pre-book tel: Materials Science to introduce us to their research. 01223 766839 or visit: maths.org/events Event: 194, Map: 30, Talk, Age 12+, Pre-book* ______6pm –7pm, Thursday 19 March 6.30pm –7.30pm, Thursday 19 March Jess Thom: laughter as a catalyst Stem cells: unravelling brain disease for change Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Palmerston Room, St John’s College, CB3 0DF St John’s Street, CB2 1TP Brains are composed equally of grey and white Writer, artist and part-time super-hero Jess Thom is matter. White matter provides a data superhighway ‘changing the world one tic at a time’. In this 12th linking ~100 billion neurons in the grey matter, the Annual Disability Lecture, Jess talks about Tourette’s, brain’s computational area. White matter damage can which causes her to say ‘biscuit’ up to 16,000 times a cause disability; but, unlike grey matter, it can be day. She discusses the power of humour and art to repaired. Dr Thóra Káradóttir explores the brain’s create change, experiences at university and the superhighways and how they might be repaired importance of the Access to Work and Disabled when diseased. Students’ Allowances schemes. Event: 195, Map: 32, Talk, Adults, Pre-book visit: Event: 191, Map: 38, Talk, All ages, Pre-book* thora-karadottir-talk.eventbrite.co.uk

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Page39 Maths open day From the Big Bang to climate change, how mathematics is used every day

Page 40 Schools Zone Exciting demonstrations from our next generation of scientists and engineers

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10.30am –4.30pm 11.30am –12.30pm, 2pm –3pm Drop-in table tennis Ten things you didn't know University of Cambridge Sports Centre, about ice cream Philippa Fawcett Drive, CB3 0AS Sports Hall, University of Cambridge Sports The University of Cambridge Sports Centre will Centre, Philippa Fawcett Drive, CB3 0AS be offering free drop-in sports sessions. Try one and Did you know that ice cream, as well as being the then refresh yourself at the cafe afterwards! world's coolest dessert, is a fascinating material Event: 208, Map: 68, Hands-on, Age 8+ with amazing properties? In this talk we explore the ______history of ice cream, the science behind why ice 11am –3pm cream tastes so good, and we'll make gallons of ice Schools Zone cream for the audience using the ultra-fast cooling Hauser Forum, Charles Babbage Road, CB3 0GT power of liquid nitrogen. Sponsored by BlueBridge Education Event: 210, Map: 68, Talk, Age 8+, Pre-book* ______Teams of students from schools and sixth form colleges are the experts today, showing what is 12pm –4pm happening in schools either as part of their Rise to the James Dyson curriculum or in after-school clubs. Don’t miss these Foundation Challenge exciting demonstrations from the next generation University of Cambridge Sports Centre, of scientists, engineers and mathematicians. Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge, CB3 0AS Event: 209, Map: 64, Hands-on, All ages Presented with the James Dyson Foundation Join engineers from Dyson and the Department of Engineering to reconstruct a Dyson vacuum machine head and take part in other short engineering challenges. Event: 211, Map: 68, Hands-on, Age 8+ 40 Pre-book* visit: www.sciencefestival.cam.ac.uk or tel: 01223 766766 CSF@Materials and Metallurgy o

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S Exciting practical demonstrations of diverse physics, Sponsored by the East Anglia Branch of the which reveal the beauty and surprise of scientific Institute of Physics understanding with its relevance to everyday life. Age 15+ Event: 219 ______Pippard Lecture Theatre Astronomy road show planetarium 1pm –1.45pm Structure and Patterns: how they influence Sponsored by the East Anglian Branch of the our perception of the world around us Institute of Physics with Dr Mete Atature Explore the night sky. Learn abut space, stars and Age 12+ the solar system in an interactive show. 2.30pm–3pm Event: 220 ______Tripping the light fantastic with Dave Ansell Light: invisibility and confusion 3.45pm–4.15pm, 4.30pm–5pm Vacuum bazookas and custard fireballs Can you trust what your eyes see? And how do you with Dave Ansell cope when you can’t? Come and see a working invisibility cloak, amazing vanishing marbles and try Event: 222, Age 8+ (unless otherwise stated) your luck at day to day tasks when you can't see Pre-book visit: tinyurl.com/cavendish-sw anything. With the Optical Society of America. 2pm –4pm Event: 221 isaacphysics.org: try the new online learning tool for A-level Physics Solve questions based on the Rosetta mission to Comet 67P, explain why a chain being pulled out of a beaker seems to leap out of it, or just revise some A-level topics. Event: 223, Hands-on, Age 15+ CSF@the Institute of Astronomy N A

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10am –3.30pm Around the City Wandlebury wildlife Stable Rooms, Wandlebury Country Park, 10am –1pm Gog Magog Hills, CB22 3AE The final frontier of fiction: space Join us for a day of guided tours, small mammal exploration in popular literature and moth live trapping, pond life investigations, Cambridge University Library, West Road, children’s craft activities, scavenger hunts and more. CB3 9DR Event: 234, Map: online, Hands-on, Tour, All ages, Parking charges apply An engaging display of science fiction books and ______magazines from the University Library's collections. Explore how the fears and fantasy of space travel 10.30am –11.45am, 1pm –2.15pm, 3pm –4.15pm have fuelled the imagination of writers throughout Trees: titans of the plant world the 20th Century and beyond. Botanic Garden, Brookside, CB2 1JE Event: 233, Map: 9, Exhibition, All ages Trees are not only some of our largest and longest- living neighbours but also some of the most useful. This walk looks at some of the trees in the Botanic Garden, covering their traditional, present day and possible future uses. Event: 235, Map: 3, Tour, Age 15+, Pre-book* Limited tickets available on the day for all Pre-book* events 43 Saturday 21 March 4 _ E 6 c _ o P _ E a E E i e r b W E s u f p a u w a e w R h s h P L T M P S E 1 W W J A D v D T A 2 5 n o o u e o f n n h l r o x t _ _ _ i v v v v e e n n . a 0 p . r y r l o

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Cambridge Science Festival in the Minding the gap: advancing i classroom: a library medicine through unifying care and c Have you ever wanted access to the Cambridge research using clinical informatics S Science Festival year round, or take the hands-on See how Addenbrooke’s and the University are activities into your classroom or community group? working together to advance medicine with This new online library of available educational electronic health information. Use our activities gives you all the information you need: anonymisation programme to see how you vanish Key-Stage and subject-specific information, as well into a crowd and become unidentifiable even to as how to borrow these free resources. Find the yourself! Play with computer applications used by library at: cam.ac.uk/science-festival. doctors and innovate and share your ideas for Event: 254, Adults advancing health; you might even make a ______medical breakthrough! Energy and oxygen radicals Event: 259, Age 12+ Using computer games, scientists from the ______MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit demonstrate Surgery simulation: conduct your how free radicals cause damage and reveal own operation how the cell fights back! Papworth Hospital will be showcasing exciting Event: 255 new ways of training doctors and nurses using ______simulation equipment. Hear from one of our Fantastic fat doctors about how they perform a surgical Why do we need fat? Have you ever wondered procedure and have the opportunity to take what fat does and where it comes from? Discover part in the simulation yourself. some fascinating facts about fat and why it is so Event: 260, Age 12+ important with the help of scientists from the ______Metabolic Research Laboratories. Shedding light on bioprocessing Event: 256 Join MedImmune scientists and conduct model ______experiments to show how we obtain our biologic Illuminating statistics medicines (antibodies and other therapeutic Learn how the MRC Biostatistics Unit collects proteins) from the cells that make them. Run tests medical data and analyses it using statistics to to find out how much biologics have been made improve public health. Test your reaction time, see and how good they are. how random you are, how good you are at learning Event: 261 the weight of sweets and whether you can count ______ducks. See statistics shine a light on numbers. Meet the scientists Event: 257 Find out more about our scientists, their career paths and why they love what they do. Event: 262, Age 12+

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M Are you ready to become a ‘lab rat’ for the day? Find out about the amazing world of stem cells. visit the Health Psychology Lab, run by the Watch short stem cell films, take part in hands-on 2 Behaviour and Health Research Unit team from activities, and talk to researchers working in the 2 the Institute of Public Health. Take part in a series field about the latest advances. Adults can also win y of mini-experiments to discover how our a tour of the Stem Cell Institute, led by one of our a

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S In sickness and in health: Event: 265, Age 8+ cells in the spotlight ______Join researchers from the Cambridge Institute for The giant nose and why snot? Medical Research to learn about the wondrous A ginormous nose that you can actually crawl into? ways of cells and what goes wrong in disease and yes, please! And another chance to make snot and infection. See how microscopes and movies allow talk about what it is and why we make it. Welcome us to watch cells in action. Learn about the cell's to the wonderful world of immunology! own transport system and look inside the serial Event: 266, All ages killer T-cells that protect us against infection. Event: 264, All ages CSF@CRUK Cambridge Institute Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Robinson Way, CB2 0RE 11am –4pm Map: 70 11am –4pm 1.30pm –2.30pm Discover more about cancer Hands-off my health records: why research sharing your health data matters Join researchers from the Cambridge Cancer Organised by Cambridge Institute of Public Health Centre to discover more about personalised The perils of data sharing have hit the headlines medicine, targeted therapies and research into but this panel discussion will explore how health early detection of cancer. Get hands on with records have the power to transform treatments games; make your own cell; put on a lab coat, when we are ill and boost research efforts to help prepare slide samples and view them on a us live longer with fewer health problems. microscope; find out if you are a super taster. Event: 269, Talk, Age 15+, Pre-book* Event: 267, Hands-on, All ages ______3pm –3.45pm 12.30pm –1.15pm What is cancer and what are we Today's match: cancer vs treatment doing about it? Mathematician Dr Florian Markowetz from Hear why Dr Alasdair Russell from Cancer Research Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute explains UK Cambridge Institute believes that in order to cancer evolution and diversity using football as break cancer, you must first be able to build it. an analogy. Alasdair uses a cell biology approach to Event: 268, Talk, Age 12+, Pre-book* understand how cancer forms and to find new ways to exploit any weaknesses he finds. Event: 270, Talk, Age 12+, Pre-book*

48 Pre-book* visit: www.sciencefestival.cam.ac.uk or tel: 01223 766766 11am –4pm Take a look behind the scenes and discover what makes CUH tick!

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Accessibility

The Festival takes place across dozens of locations, each with their own architectural style,

character and level of accessibility. We h ave indicated available fac ilities at our venues to help

you plan your visit. We can make arrangements by request.

For further information about accessibility, please contact the Festival by email:

[email protected]; or call: 01223 766766, Monday to Friday, 10.30am–4pm. The Cambridge

University Disability Access Guide, including maps, is available here: www.cam.ac.uk/disability

We use the following codes

Toilet, wheelchair accessible T Lift to all floors Li

Step free access S Induction loop for hearing aids I

Partial access, enquire for details PA

Cambridge city map 46 University Centre T, S, Li

1 Anglia Ruskin University Call: 0845 2713333 47 Wesley Methodist Church T, S, I

2 Arts Picturehouse T, S, PA, I 48 West Road Concert Hall T, S, I

3 Botanic Garden T, S 49 Whipple Museum of the History T, S, Li

4 Cambridge Buddhist Centre T, PA of Science

5 Cambridge Corn Exchange T, S, Li, I

6 Cambridge Junction T, S, I Downing Site p22

7 Cambridge Science Centre T, S 50 Anatomy Lecture Theatre T, S, Li

8 Cambridge Union Society T, PA 51 Department of Biochemistry (Hopkins) T, S

9 Cambridge University Library T, S, PA, I 52 Department of Earth Sciences T, PA

10 CB2 Cafe T, PA 53 Department of Geography T, S

11 Christ’s College T, S, PA 54 Department of Pathology T, S, Li, PA

12 Churchill College T, S, PA 55 Department of Psychology S, Li

13 Clare College (Memorial Court) T, S, Li 56 McDonald Institute for T, S, PA, I

14 Department of Biochemistry (Sanger) T, S Archaeological Research

15 Department of Chemistry T, PA 57 Museum of Archaeology and T, S, Li, I

16 Department of Engineering T, S, Li Anthropology

17 Department of Pharmacology T, S, Li, I 58 Physiology Building T, S, Li

18 Department of Zoology T, S 59 Plant Sciences Marquee S

19 Donald McIntyre Building T, S, Li 60 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences T, PA, Li

20 Downing College T, S, Li, I

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21 Friends Meeting House PA

61 Cavendish Laboratory T, S, Li, I

22 Grafton Shopping Centre T, S, Li

62 Centre for Mathematical Sciences T, S, Li, I

23 Great St Mary’s Church T, S, I

63 Department of Materials Sciences T, S, Li, I

24 Gurdon Institute T, S, Li, I

and Metallurgy 25 Hughes Hall T, S, Li 64 Hauser Forum T, S, Li

26 Judge Business School T, S, Li

65 Institute for Manufacturing T, S, Li, I

27 King’s College T, S, Li

66 Institute of Astronomy T, PA

28 Lady Mitchell Hall T, S, Li, I

67 Isaac Newton Institure for T, S, Li, I 29 Lucy Cavendish College T, S

Mathematical Sciences

30 Mill Lane Lecture Rooms T, S, Li

68 University of Cambridge Sports Centre T, S, Li

31 MRC Cognition and Brain T, S, Li, I

Sciences Unit

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32 Murray Edwards College T, S, Li, I

69 Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre T, S, Li

33 Museum of Classical Archaeology T, S, PA

70 Cancer Research UK Cambridge T, S, Li

34 PostDoc Centre PA

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35 Sainsbury Laboratory T, S, Li, I

71 Clinical School T, S, Li

36 St Catharine’s College, McGrath T, S, Li

72 Deakin Centre T, S, Li

Centre

73 University Technical College T, S, Li

37 St Columba’s Hall T, S, Li, I

38 St John’s College T, S, Li, I Venues not listed on map

39 The Fitzwilliam Museum T, S, I Cambridge Museum of Technology T, S

40 The Guildhall T, S, Li Cambridge Regional College T, S, Li

41 The Open University T, S, Li Institute of Continuing Education, T, S

42 The Pitt Building T, S, Li, I Madingley Hall

43 The Polar Museum T, S, Li Royal Society of Chemistry T, S, Li

44 The Portland Arms PA Shepreth Wildlife Park T, S

45 Tourist Information Centre S, I Wandlebury Country Park T, S, PA

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Spotlight Sponsors

Partner Sponsors Anglia Ruskin University

Associate Sponsors

Babraham Institute

Festival Partners

Cambridge Science Festival Patrons Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor John Barrow, Dr Claire Cockcroft, Dr Henry Gee, Lord Rees of Ludlow, Professor Malcolm Longair, Mr Tim Radford, Professor Barbara Sahakian, Professor Jeremy Sanders, Dr Andrew Sugden, Ms Carol Vorderman, Professor Jim Secord, Mr Ian Harvey, Professor Andrea Brand, Professor Ron Laskey, Professor Bill Sutherland, Professor John Naughton, Professor Alan Barrell