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| IN THE NEWS: institution, the is rarely out of the local, national and international media. This is a selection of media appearances by members of the University and press cutting summaries which highlight the important work being done by the staff and students of the University. View all ‘In the news’ items at www.extra.reading.ac.uk/news/inthenews.asp

15 February 2007 Front cover: The front cover 17 January, Reading Chronicle 26 January, Reading Evening Post 1 February, Reading Chronicle | shows the Monkey King The University puts its name to the The University’s Walker Institute Feature on Olympic rowing fight against racism by signing the for System Research will hopeful and Reading Maths and his followers from The Bulletin Reading Declaration, a racial share a £5 million Government student Anna Bebington Adventures of the Monkey equality charter. grant. The money will be spent 1 February, Society for Experimental King, a Beijing Opera to be increasing links with fellow 21 January, Channel Four Biology Bulletin researchers in India to predict the performed by a Chinese Dr John Creighton, Department of Feature on the work of the impact global warming will have Archaeology, appeared on Time University of Reading Biomimetics theatre troupe in the on the country’s monsoon season. Myra McCulloch Theatre, Team, discussing social change in team, Professor George on the Early Roman period in 26 January, Farmers Guardian Jeronimidis, Dr Richard Bonser Somerset. Defra has been told to urgently and Dr Emma Johnson – the team Monday 19 February – the review its flagship environmental behind the discipline of looking to 23 January, The Times first day of the Chinese New scheme. Reading researchers nature for inspiration for new Article examining the health concluded that the Entry-Level technologies and designs. Year. See page 3 benefits contained in everyday Scheme would not deliver the spices. With expert comment from 1 February, Pulse The Bulletin can be found online at Government’s own targets for Dr Ann Walker (Food Biosciences). Dr Rachel Howard (Pharmacy) www.reading.ac.uk/bulletin biodiversity. comments on the new prescribing where you can read a pdf of this 25 January, Reading Chronicle 27 January, New Scientist alert system designed to cut drug- issue and access archived issues of Olympic rowing hero and Reading Name any academic discipline and related morbidity. past Bulletins and Campus Authors. alumnus James Cracknell is it will offer a career opportunity in returning to the University to The Bulletin is published in-house science. With open the new fitness facility on its fortnightly during term time. Items expert comment from Professor Whiteknights Campus. are welcomed from every member Keith Shine (). of the University and should be sent, marked ‘Bulletin’, to Carol Derham Communications Office Whiteknights Biomimetics award The University of Reading Reading RG6 6AH The career development of a adhesives, robots, medical email [email protected] promising biomimetics devices, pharmaceuticals and Please note that we reserve the researcher has just been self-healing materials have all right to edit items and not all material may be used. Free small boosted by the award of the recently been launched and ads from University members will first BIONIS Biomimetics Award. are being rapidly taken up by be included if space permits. consumers. Biomimetics – the discipline Copy date for the edition of looking to nature for Dr Carlo Menon was awarded published on 15 March is 1 March. inspiration for new the prize in the face of stiff – will be spent by Dr Menon to The Bulletin is typeset by technologies and designs – competition from a field of conduct visits to a number of Diana Arnold in the is rapidly yielding new high-quality applicants from Communications Office and is internationally-renowned commercially successful around the world. printed by Advent Colour, Andover research centres for technologies. The prize of £5,000 – sponsored biomimetics research in Self-cleaning paint, novel by Swedish Biomimetics 3000® North America and Europe.

Extended research

Molly Courtenay, Professor of professionals i.e. nurses, £200,000 from Galderma UK Prescribing and Medicines pharmacists, optometrists and to investigate the prescription Management, School of Health allied health professionals. of medicines by nurses for and Social Care, has received The aims of non-medical patients with dermatological two extended industrial grants prescribing are to make it conditions and £100,000 from in order to continue her easier for patients to access Sanofi-Aventis to explore the research in the area of non- their medicines, make better prescription of medicines by medical prescribing. use of health professionals’ nurses for patients with Government policy has skills and encourage more diabetes. Galderma UK have recently been introduced to flexible team working across granted further £200,000 and extend prescribing the NHS. Professor Courtenay Sanofi-Aventis a further responsibilities to non-medical has previously received £100,000.  461 Chinese theatre |

The Department of Film, Theatre & Television will play host to a Chinese theatre troupe from Beijing, who will 15 February 2007

perform Adventures of the Monkey King in | the Myra McCulloch Theatre on Monday 19 February – the first day of the Chinese Bulletin New Year.

The troupe, which has toured internationally to the USA, Malaysia and Singapore, was invited to perform at Reading by Dr Ashley Thorpe, who teaches a critical option on traditional and modern Chinese theatre. Dr Thorpe met the leaders of the troupe in Beijing, when he was studying Beijing Opera at the Zhongguo Xiqu Xueyuan (Chinese Traditional Theatre Academy) in 2001, and has maintained contact ever since. The Princess from the Adventures of the Monkey King When he heard that they were touring havoc in heaven. The performance is troupe. The troupe will also perform the UK, he invited them to perform here. innovative in that it remains close to the classic scenes from the traditional The troupe, The International Center traditional style of performing, but will Beijing Opera repertoire in Chinese. for Beijing Opera, is on a UK tour to utilise English alongside Chinese. This Date: Monday 19 February 2007 at 7.30pm coincide with the arrival of the Chinese development is largely due to Ghaffar Place: Myra McCulloch Theatre New Year – a time when traditional Pourazar, a British performer who (Bulmershe Court) drama is staged more often. They became one of the first Westerners to will perform Adventures of the Monkey complete the rigorous course of training Tickets: £10, £7 conc. King, which follows the exploits of the at the National Academy for Traditional To reserve tickets: Liz ext. 8878 mischievous monkey god who wreaks Chinese Opera, and who leads the

UN climate change report

Fellow, and Professor Brian Hoskins, a Experts from various University Olympic gold medallist and former Royal Society Research Professor and departments have contributed to a global University of Reading student James Professor of Meteorology – were in Paris UN report on climate change. Cracknell MBE opened the new fitness for the IPCC meeting to help with the The latest report on climate change facility on the Whiteknights Campus on 15 wording of the report. The scientists by the UN Intergovernmental Panel February. involved are from the National Centre on Climate Change (IPCC) was made for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), the James, who graduated from Reading public on 2 February in Paris, after being University’s Department of Meteorology with a BSc in Human Geography in 1993, scrutinised in a four-day meeting by and the Environmental Systems Science officially opened the new £2.23million delegates from 113 countries around the Centre – all components of the new Walker Vo2 fitness centre – previously known as world. It presents stronger evidence than Institute for Climate System Research. the Wolfenden Sports Centre but ever that climate change is happening renamed SportPark. and that it will worsen this century. Professor Julia Slingo, Acting Director of the Walker Institute said: “This latest Our scientists – working under the newly- IPCC report shifts the debate firmly from formed Walker Institute at the University doubt to certainty about climate change, – helped to write the report, contributing and hence the need for action. What particularly on how much greenhouse businesses and governments require gases warm the climate, how ice sheets are more confident forecasts of local contribute to sea level rise, how El Nino and regional changes in climate and and monsoons might change, and on extremes, not just for 2050, but for 2010 important feedbacks within the or 2015. The report adds yet more weight system which can act to amplify warming. to the urgent need for well-informed Two of our scientists – Professor responses to adapt to and mitigate the Jonathan Gregory, a Principal Research effects of climate change”. Ice sheets contribute to rising sea levels  quality, accommodation, bursaries on Our survey says... offer and graduate employment figures – all contributing to an overall positive A University of Reading survey has image of the University. shown that a good ‘gut feeling’ about the Carey Singleton, Director of Student University was one of the most influential Recruitment and the organiser of the factors when choosing to study here. survey, said: “Student feedback is really Ninety percent of undergraduates important to us and we take it very polled in an undergraduate Freshers’ seriously. Running annual surveys Survey said Reading “just felt right”, and such as the Freshers’ Survey helps us More than 500 Freshers were polled. that this was either important or very to understand better our prospective Key factors in choosing Reading over important when making their choice students and their needs and to address others were the availability of halls to – and a similar percentage chose Reading them, where possible. They also first year students, quality assessments, because of its good departmental provide valuable market data as to why reputation and league table rankings, reputation in their particular subject. candidates chose Reading over another the University’s physical environment They were also impressed with teaching university as their place to study.” and facilities, and welfare provision.

Urban carnivores

Dr Phil Baker, Lecturer in Vertebrate way to study this problem is to ask cat Conservation, Environmental Biology, owners to record the animals their pets School of Biological Sciences has carried bring home as ‘presents’. In combination out research into the behaviour and with estimates of cat numbers, it is then structure of fox populations and the possible to begin to estimate the total possible impact of domestic cats on birds number of prey animals kill each year. Are in urban environments. you a cat owner? Would you be prepared to keep a diary of your pet’s activities? Few animal species stir people’s passions more than carnivores, the wily red fox and the humble domestic cat being very difficult as most of the habitat is Help two such species. Study of these species private gardens, making foxes difficult Dr Baker requires help and cooperation poses its own particular problems as, to survey. These problems can be to enable him to expand his research. To though they are viewed as charismatic overcome by asking residents to report help you can: animals by some, others see them as sightings of fox cubs in spring and by • Immediately report sightings of pests that cause untold damage. the post mortem examination of foxes any dead foxes within the Reading/ found dead on roads and in gardens to Wokingham area help establish age, body condition, cause The red fox • Report sightings of litters of fox cubs of death and genetic relatedness. The red fox is unusual amongst – these will be visible during April–June carnivores, in that it frequently forms • Keep a diary of your cat’s predatory social groups but with no obvious Cat diary activities. benefits to the individuals within Recent attention has focussed on the the group. Determining the size and possible impact of the domestic cat on For more information contact Dr Baker, structure of urban fox populations is urban bird populations in the UK. One [email protected], 0118 378 4566

Vice-Chancellor’s Bursary awards

The Vice-Chancellor recently hosted a lunch Office under the Government’s for first year undergraduates who had been Aimhigher Scheme. awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Bursary and The Vice-Chancellor’s Bursary fund was presented them each with a certificate in founded by staff of the University in recognition of their achievement. honour of Professor Sir Roger Williams The Vice-Chancellor’s Bursary is awarded on his retirement and is supported by to undergraduates who have been the Annual Fund. Professor Williams nominated by their former teachers was particularly keen to assist local in schools and colleges. students in achieving their higher The award is made in recognition of education ambitions at Reading, and to outstanding personal achievement in support the University’s commitment to education and of their contribution to widening participation. the life of the school or college they The generosity demonstrated by Alumni Pictured receiving his certificate from Vice-Chancellor, attended. Priority is given to students in response to the Annual Fund Appeal Professor Gordon Marshall, is BSc Information who have participated in projects run by enabled five bursaries, each worth Technology student Bruce Simpson, who attended the University’s Widening Participation £2,000, to be awarded this year. Prospect College in Reading  461

Samovar Theatre Fresh Thoughts |

Four of Them (Ich Czworo) Commercial Services are pleased to A comedy by Gabriela Zapolska announce the introduction of their new hospitality menu Fresh Thoughts. Four of Them was written by Polish

playwright Gabriela Zapolska in 1907. It Many of you will have been to the tasting 15 February 2007 is a fast-paced, carefully observed and last month and Commercial Services thank | extremely witty play about family life. It you for your comments. Fresh Thoughts features a warring husband and wife, incorporates many new and exciting Bulletin their long-suffering young daughter, an ideas which it is hoped you will enjoy. interfering seamstress, a lonely widow Please note that all previous buffet menus and the extremely dashing Mr Fedycki. have now been superseded by Fresh Thoughts. This is the first UK performance ofFour To obtain your copy of Fresh Thoughts, the of Them and the play’s first English brand new menu full of new ideas and translation. The show was staged in offers, please email c.bookings@reading. Reading in December 2006 and will also be ac.uk or phone extension 8427. staged, by special invitation, at the Łódź The menu can also be viewed at www. Theatre Festival in Poland, in April 2007. fmd.reading.ac.uk/rcsCatering The play’s director and translator is Teresa Murjas, a Lecturer in Theatre at Thursday 15 and Friday 16 February 7.30pm gala concert TO CELEBRATE THE the University, whose introduction to £10/£7 concessions FOUNDING OF THE FRIENDS OF THE Zapolska and new translation of The Box Office: 020 8741 0398 / 1887 UNIVERSITY OF READING Morality of Mrs Dulska is being published Reception: 020 8741 1940 this year by Intellect Books. Polski Ośrodek Społeczno-Kulturalny (POSK) University of Reading Chorus and Symphony Orchestra Proceeds from the performance will be Polish Cultural Centre donated to the Polska Macierz Szkolna, the 238–246 King Street, Hammersmith, Saturday 17 March 2007, 7.30pm organisation supporting Polish schools London W6 ORF Pre-concert reception, 6pm throughout the UK. (Not recommended for children under 12) Great Hall, London Road Gershwin: Porgy and Bess Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture Tickets £12/£6 concessions available in Campus authors advance from: Acquisition Strategies in European Emerging Economies Alex Richardson, on 0118 378 5256 or at Professor Klaus E. Meyer, University of Reading This study investigates mergers and [email protected] Business School and Saul Estrin, eds., acquisitions in emerging economies by Brenda Morris, on 0118 378 8006 or at combining a questionnaire survey with eleven Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007 [email protected] case studies in Poland, Hungary and Lithuania. ISBN 1-4039-9854-X or on the door

Theatre at the Museum of English Rural Life

The Museum of English Rural Life is It will be held on 22 March at 7pm at hosting an Oxford Touring Theatre The Museum of English Rural Life, Company (OTTC) production of The Falling Redlands Road, Reading, RG1 5EX. Sky, a compelling new play about the Tickets can be bought at £8 and £5 realities of life in the countryside by (concessions) in advance at the Museum. Brendan Murray. Alternatively, call MERL on 0118 378 8660 or email [email protected] The Falling Sky charts the stories of five Please book in advance to avoid people over the course of a year. The disappointment as ticket numbers are production mixes music, humour, strong limited. The University managed bar, emotions and an outstanding cast and The Cotton Club, next door to the promises to be an evening of thoroughly Museum will be open from 5pm for entertaining live theatre guaranteed to pre-theatre refreshments. make the audience smile, wonder and wipe away a tear. The Museum doors will open at 6.15pm. Brendan Murray will be attending the Tickets include a complimentary production at MERL to introduce the interval drink and the audience is play and to lead a discussion with the invited to stay for a post-production audience afterwards. discussion with the playwright.  461

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15 February 2007 You can do this by: and the new entrants are enrolled, I Whiteknights to update the arrangement | am writing to let you know the final of printed journals (also called • Supporting someone in need through numbers for the recruitment round of periodicals). direct contact with them Bulletin 06-07, and to thank you formally for the One consolidated open-access sequence • Supporting an organisation that helps tremendous effort which has led to this will be created for each title on the people in need. good outcome for the University. I also subject floors. The latest issues will no For example, The Duchess of Kent House want to provide some information about longer be separated off to the Ground in Liebenrood Road provides palliative current recruitment for the coming year. Floor ‘Current Periodicals’ area – a care in a hospice setting, offering a We set ourselves a target for 06-07 system developed in the 1970s when service not currently provided by the of recruiting all the second round the main current awareness option was NHS. As well as needing volunteers to additional home (including EU) student frequent library visits to read journal visit patients, they are also running a numbers (ASNs) that had been allocated contents pages. Now you can search training course for people willing to to us by HEFCE. At the census date online databases for new material, or make telephone contact with bereaved for 06-07 (1 December 2006), we had get on with other work and let alerting relatives or see them at Duchess of Kent recruited 2,988 Home undergraduates, services email you the latest information House to offer support. The training which exceeded our target of 2,962 by a about issue contents. Many journals are course begins 23 April, 7–9.30pm. reasonable margin. A very low number available online to your own PC too. Volunteers who have been recently of new students (especially amongst Initially, unbound issues will be boxed bereaved are advised to wait two years those paying variable fees) withdrew at the end of each title run. Space will before applying. before the census date – a fact that also be made to allow for future growth. And a Day Nursery in New Town, reflects very well on the welcome and To make room for the newer issues, Reading seeks volunteers with some support that we give our new arrivals. any volumes up to 1959 will move to knowledge of early years/child care to As regards international students, the a ‘closed access’ sequence. Library users become a member of the management University set itself a target of reaching will still be able to see them the next, or group for the Nursery, which is run as a a total of 1,660 full-fee paying FTEs, in even same day, by request. Some are also company limited by guarantee. Financial what was expected to be a difficult year available as electronic journals. and management skills and knowledge for international recruitment generally. This ambitious project is due for of committee work desirable. References With the January entry now included completion by the end of the Summer and Police checks are required. our total is 1,696 – so here too we have Term. Library staff will keep noise If you are interested or would like to achieved a significant positive result. and disruption to a minimum. They find out about the wide range of other Unfortunately, we have seen a 5 per cent will give every assistance in finding volunteering vacancies in Reading, drop in full-time Home Postgraduate journals during the transition. For please get in touch with Clare Bonney: Taught (PGT) numbers this year compared information on online journal alerts and email: [email protected] other current awareness services, ask to last, but perhaps surprisingly there was Clare runs the University’s Employee at a Library Information Desk or see: an increase in overseas full-time PGT Volunteering Project (HEACF funded) recruitment of 4 per cent. www.reading.ac.uk/library/resources/ and can meet up on campus with curraware.html Last year, at the outset, we saw a any member of staff interested in significant drop in applications to More information from Celia Ayres, volunteering, for an exploratory session. Head of Services and Systems, Reading. This year, at the point when c.a.ayres@ New general volunteering vacancies we have received approximately 85 reading.ac.uk in the Reading area are posted each per cent of applicants at the UG level, week on the Reading Voluntary Action our applications have increased by an website: www.r-v-a.org encouraging 3 per cent overall – though they have not yet returned to the 04- 05 levels. Some Schools are showing significant rises. Legal speak: how laws are made None of this could have been achieved RCJA speaker reveals the process and pitfalls! without a huge and concerted effort by The Reading Criminal Justice Association This was a well-attended meeting with colleagues in Schools, Faculty Offices, (previously known as the ‘Romilly’) held many wide-ranging questions focussing and in central administration and its first meeting of 2007 on 15 January at on government procedure. support. It was a marvellous collective the University. effort for which I am very grateful. New members are welcome. For Dr Francoise Richardson welcomed further information, see www.reading. Thank you. Christina Hughes, a Government Lawyer ac.uk/romilly or contact the Secretary, Kind regards, who spoke of the many dynamics facing the Tim Stannard [email protected]; Gordon Marshall creation and implementation of new law. telephone: 0118 979 2005.

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Round Walk: Tidmarsh to Little Heath Wanted If you come along this month, you will A six mile walk to the west of Reading Cleaner to work approx 10 hours a week also be able to see our new exhibition through the scenic countryside of the (2 hours a day) Mon-Fri for £7 an hour in of watercolours – Rural Relics: Old farm Pang, with views towards the Thames, the Burghfield Road area of Reading. The buildings of Kent, Surrey and Sussex, painted passing through the historic village of role includes general cleaning and ironing. by Clifford Nickson. (see www.merl.org. To discuss the role further, please contact Sulham. Meet at 10am in the free public uk/news for more details) Matthew on 0771 777 4964 or email car park beside the ancient thatched [email protected] And for the children, there’s the ‘rat Greyhound Inn in Tidmarsh where a trail’ and ‘magic carpet’ activities, pub lunch is available. Telephone the For sale including puppets, jigsaws and seed Greyhound direct: 0118 984 3557 to book Gent’s road bike. Dropped handlebar. Very packet sorting. (All free!) your meal. Organiser: Trudi Rehman good condition £30. Contact p.c.patience@ reading.ac.uk Tel. ext 8523 Psychology We hope to see you soon! Email: [email protected] Home: 0118 926 2337 or mobile: 07788 Exercise equipment, Weider class 95 stair climber. Good working order. £25. Contact 773833 [email protected] Tel. ext 8523 Wednesday 7 March Psychology Wine tasting in Park House 5.30 pm Metal filing cabinet, 4-drawer, foolscap size. Cream paint, used condition. £10 ONO, buyer Details to come. Organisers: Demetris collects please. Viv Rimmer 0118 975 2709, Savva, ext: 8460 & Andrew Wilbey, ext. 8722 [email protected] Seat Ibiza, Silver, 1.2 R, 2004 (54). Still under warrantee (9 months remaining), only 12,000 miles and one owner. Must sell because postdoc here ending & starting new one Centre for Staff Training & Development abroad. £4,500 ono. Contact Ben: b.warren@ Programme 20 February–2 March To book please email [email protected] reading.ac.uk or 07891 597008. 20 February 9.30am–4pm ILM Accredited Introductory Certificate in Management (Day 2) Logs. Good prices, all sizes. Call 0776 705816 10am–12noon Digital Video Editing 2–4pm Purchase to Pay Training (Agriculture) 2–4pm E-Assessment the paul jackson law lecture 21 February 9.30–11.30am Dyspraxia and Dyscalculia 2–5pm Writing Successful Research Proposals The restriction of the death penalty 22 February 9.30am–4pm Working Effectively with your Boss and Colleagues and the protection of human rights 23 February 9.30–11.30am VAT in the University – The Caribbean experience and recent 12.30–1.45pm Moving Towards a Career in Industry developments in Africa. 27 February 9.30am–5pm Leadership Styles and Emotional Intelligence 23 February at 6.30pm in the Madejski 28 February 9.30–11.30am Buying in Services: Implications of Paying for Consultancy Theatre 9.30am–12noon European Funding, Co-ordination, Application and Contracts This year’s lecture will be given by 12noon–1pm Guides for Managers: Employment Law Update 2007 Reading law graduate Saul Lehrfreund 1–5pm Presentation Practice using CCTV Feedback 2–5pm Introduction to Learning Technologies It is thanks to the generosity of our sponsors LexisNexis Butterworths and 1 March 9.30am–1pm Know More About Yourself Through MBTI 2–5pm Mind Mapping the law firms Field Seymour Parkes (Reading) and Nabarro Nathanson 2 March 11am–12noon Getting the Small Print Right ‘Collection Texts’ on Forms 12.30–2pm Enterprise Lunch and Meeting (London) that we are able to host a reception after the lecture. For details of all these courses please see www.reading.ac.uk/cstd or ring ext. 7097

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Daily until 18 March except Centre for Euro-Asian Studies Centre for Euro-Asian Studies University of Reading Public 15 February 2007 Mondays seminar, The Monetary Integration seminar, How to Run an Effective Lecture, Living under ‘totalitarianism’ | Rural Relics: Old Farm Buildings of Central and Eastern European Government, The Rt. Hon Lord the Italians and the Mussolini of Kent, Surrey and Sussex, Economies: Applied Econometric Analysis, Fraser of Carmalyllie, Q.C., dictatorship, Professor Richard Ms Alina Spiru, 127 HumSS, 5pm 127 HumSS, 5pm Bosworth, Palmer Theatre, 8pm

Bulletin painted by Clifford Nickson, an exhibition of rural watercolours Thursday 22 February The Reading Classical Association, Wednesday 7 March Museum of English Rural Life, Apuleius and the Art of Story-Telling, Redlands Road, 10am weekdays, Psychology seminar, Adult aging Science and Faith talks, Ways of Dr Stephen Harrison (Corpus 2pm weekends and emotions, Louise Phillips Knowing, Dr Alice Drewery, Christi, Oxford), 44 HumSS, 7.30pm (Aberdeen), GS05 Psychology, 4pm Palmer Building 108, 1pm Tuesday 20 February Thursday 1 March Holy Communion, Hosted by Ian Meteorology lunchtime seminar, Friday 23 February Psychology seminar, How do we James, GU06 Agriculture Building, Convectively-generated gravity Applied Mathematics & Numerical remember spatial sequences? New 1pm waves, Jeffrey Chagnon, Sutcliffe Analysis seminar, Scattering by answers to an old question, Fabrice Lecture Theatre (GU01) larged arrays: a new approach, Ian NanoScience Theme seminar, Parmentier (Plymouth), GS05 Meteorology, 1pm Thompson (Loughborough), 113 How well can we control protein Psychology, 4pm Mathematics, 3pm aggregation, Professor Athene Thames Valley Life Sciences ICMA Centre Research seminar, Donald (Cambridge), LT2 Network event, European Funding Saturday 24 February Domestic versus Foreign Investors’ Chemistry, 2.30pm for Life Sciences: FP7 Explained. Organ Concert, Christopher Transaction Execution Ability in the There is no charge to attend but ICMA Centre Research seminar, Cipkin, A rare opportunity to hear United States: An Analysis by registration is essential at www. Issues of Aggregation Over Time of the 3 manual Binns Organ in the Country of Origin, Jerry Parwada tvlsn.org , 100 Longwater Avenue, Conditional Heteroscedastic University’s Great Hall. The (University of New South Wales), Green Park, Reading, 1pm, Free to Volatility Models: What Kind of programme includes concert pieces G03/04 ICMA Centre, 4.30pm TVLSN Members and popular arrangements of music Diffusion Do We Recover? Amine Trifi (Paris 1 Sorbonne), Room Biomolecular Sciences seminar, by Handel, Guilmant, Sullivan, Sousa Friday 2 March G03/04 ICMA Centre, 4.30pm Direct observations of single and Spedding, Great Hall London Applied Mathematics & molecules of muscarinic Road, refreshments available. Numerical Analysis seminar, A Centre for Euro-Asian Studies acetylcholine receptors on living Admission free with a retiring Boundary Integral Equation Method seminar, Kyrgyzstan and Rose cells, Dr Nigel Birdsall (National collection. 7.30pm for a Boundary Value Problem arising Revolution, Mr Scott Newton Institute for Medical Research), in Water Wave Problems, Mark (Reading and Leeds), 127 HumSS, AMS Lecture Theatre, 1pm Monday 26 February Preston, 113 Mathematics, 3pm 5pm Reading Café Scientifique event, Music@Reading lunchtime Before CSI: Crime, medicine and Sunday 4 March Thursday 8 March concert, Brahms Trio Op 8, Epstein science in history, a discussion led SCR event, Round Walk, Tidmarsh Psychology seminar, How changes Piano Trio, Palmer Theatre, 1.10pm by Dr Cassie Watson, The Queen’s to Little Heath, 10am see page 7 in eye position affect stereopsis, Jenny Read (Newcastle), GS05 Geography seminar, Emplacement Head, Christchurch Road, 7.30pm Psychology, 4pm as a process of home-making: Monday 5 March refugee repatriation to Ethiopia, Tuesday 27 February Soil Science seminar, Alternate Laura Hammond, Sorby Room, Biomolecular Sciences seminar, methods of variogram analysis to Geoscience Building, 4pm The molecular basis of natural solve practical problems that arise selection: three short stories from with environmental data, Professor University of Reading Public insects, Dr Richard ffrench- Margaret Oliver, Soil Science Lecture, Early words, What do they Constant (Exeter), AMS Lecture Lecture Room 1, 1pm tell us? Dr Graham Schafer, Palmer Theatre, 1pm Lecture Theatre, 8pm Tuesday 6 March Meteorology lunchtime seminar, www.reading.ac.uk/publiclectureseries Biomolecular Sciences seminar, and Climate Modulation of presynaptic READING FILM THEATRE Sensitivity, Jonathan Gregory, Wednesday 21 February transmitter release and effects of Sutcliffe Lecture Theatre (GU01) Ash Wednesday Service, Hosted phosphorylation, Dr Talvinder Sihra, Palmer Theatre Meteorology, 1pm T by Mark Laynesmith and Sabine (UCL), AMS Lecture Theatre, 1pm Whiteknights Schwartz, Palmer 105, 1pm Music@Reading lunchtime Meteorology lunchtime seminar, concert, Settings of Auden, Eleanor NanoScience Theme seminar, Synergy of radar, lidar and February starting at 8pm Meynell and Christopher Glynn Electrodeposition through colloidal radiometer for observing ice clouds, 19 Mon Marie Antoinette (12A) (soprano and piano) , Palmer templates: fabrication of Julien Delanoe, Sutcliffe Lecture 22 Thur Gabrielle (15) nanostructures, photonic properties Theatre, 1.10pm Theatre (GU01) Meteorology, 1pm 27 Tues London to Brighton (18) and applications, Professor Philip Wednesday 28 February Music@Reading lunchtime N Bartlett (Southampton), March starting at 8pm Chemistry LT2, 2.30pm Holy Communion, Hosted by Rob concert, Bax Sonata, Bridge Duo Weston, Chaplaincy Centre, (viola and piano), Palmer Theatre, 1 Thur The Prestige (12A) Chemistry lecture, Cannabis as a Whiteknights, 1pm 1.10pm 5 Mon Twelve and Holding (15) Medicine, Professor Liz Williamson, 13 Tues The Page Turner (15) NanoScience Theme seminar, Geography seminar, “It’s been LTG Chemistry, 6.30 for 7pm 15 Thur Starter for Ten (12A) X-ray Nanoscience, Dr S Dhesi really hard, I get quite upset…” ICMA Centre research seminar, (Diamond Light Source), the gendered and emotional Seats: £3.50 for members and Global Portfolio Optimization Chemistry LT2, 2.30pm geographies of university students £4.50 for non-members. Revisited: A Least Discrimination with dependant children, Emma Further details: please phone Approach, Jacques Pezier, ICMA Wainwright, (Brunel), Sorby 0118 378 7151, (or ext. 7151). Centre, Room G03/04, 4.30pm Room, Geoscience Building, 4pm