Events All Around Oxford 18–28 October 2019

Events all around Oxford 18–28 October 2019

www.if-oxford.com Welcome to the science and ideas Festival

IF Oxford is 11 days of events for everyone to explore science, ideas and creativity. Come to shops, theatres and pubs across Oxford to experiment with hundreds of innovative ideas. Here are some of the Festival Director’s picks:

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IF Oxford uses Pay What You Decide (PWYD) ticketing so you can pre-book events without paying in advance. After the event, you decide to pay what you want, or can afford. Spaces may be available at the start of an event and tickets may be re-allocated if people are late. 16 32

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Events index/map of all venues 62–63 / 64–65 Get hands-on in the interactive zones 8, 12, 20, 31, 50, 54, 56 Jump into games and immersive challenges 15, 17, 22, 46, 58, 59 Meet authors, innovators and comedians 19, 24, 28, 32, 34, 35, 36, 39, 43, 45 Enjoy performance, film and art 5, 7, 16, 18, 23, 30, 32, 33, 41, 43, 60

For information about the Festival and general conditions for attendance, visit: www.if-oxford.com Artist: Claire Drinkwater Artist: Claire

Rhymetime: First Imprints

songs and rhymes Sat 19 October: 11am – 5pm for under-5s Mon 21 October: 4 – 8pm Tue 22 October: 11am – 6pm Various dates Wed 23 October: 6 – 8pm 11 – 11.30am Sat 26 October: 11am – 5pm Mon 28 October: 4 – 8pm Oxfordshire County Library, Queen Street, Westgate, OX1 1DJ Oxford Printmakers, Pre-book, Free The Christadelphian Church Hall, Tyndale Road, Oxford, OX4 1JL Family Unticketed, PWYD Storytelling Adults, Family Fri 18 October Exhibition Space: Travel into space with a cosmic theme View fine art prints demonstrating Mon 21 October the versatility of printmaking and Animals: Explore the animal the story of first animal evolution kingdom from the Cambrian Explosion (540 – 500 million years ago) Wed 23 October that produced the ancestors of Robots: Discover machines all animals alive today. and technology Fri 25 October Artists will be demonstrating Nature: Immerse yourself in the their techniques and answering natural world questions from 4 – 6pm on both Mondays and Tuesday, 6 – 8pm Mon 28 October Wednesday and 2 – 5pm on

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Only Expansion

Saturday 19 – Sunday 27 October Sat 19, Sat 26, Sun 27: 10.30am, 12pm, 1.30pm, 3pm, 4.30pm Mon – Fri: 11am, 1pm

Running time: 45 minutes Starts at Oxford Playhouse 11 – 12 Beaumont Street, OX1 2LW Pre-book, £5 via Oxford Playhouse Adults, Teenagers Audio Walk

Experience a unique audio-walk through Oxford. Remix the sounds of Oxford and experience how your own life might change in the future with a beautifully made guidebook prompting you to explore the city. Choose your own route, while headphones with customised electronics capture and manipulate the sounds around you. Voices of passers-by become a choir, bus brakes create pulsating rhythms, these might then be blended with desert winds from Tunisia or the crumbling coasts of Norfolk.

Presented in collaboration with Oxford Playhouse. Book events online www.if-oxford.com

Collect your guidebook and headset from Oxford Playhouse’s ticket office.

Present your ticket at the OP Café Bar for 20% off food and drink.

Also on Mon 28 Oct See page 59 for more information

5 Chelsea Haith DPhil Candidate in Contemporary Literature, Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford MEET THE RESEARCHER

I am interested in how My research examines people think about their architecture, inclusion and lives, and how their physical exclusion, and city spaces environments shape their in science fiction. I also sense of self and their sense explore, from a social science of their world. Growing up in perspective, how the future Johannesburg, a place of gross, might be enhanced or systemic inequality, I began to threatened by technologies like wonder how ideas can build AI and machine learning. Our communities and change Futures Thinking events at the how people see the world, Festival are an example of how and equally how a place, how Science and the Humanities infrastructure, can impact on a work hand-in-hand and I look person’s own sense of what’s forward to learning what you possible. think about how we can bring these two fields into closer Now I live in Oxford, a place of conversation. great enquiry, I see alternative sides to the city’s history that are less often heard or shared. During our new literary edition of Uncomfortable Oxford, we discuss unexpected and lesser- known literary facts that might Related events surprise visitors and locals, Uncomfortable Oxford tour including how science fiction See page 7 was influenced by scientific Sat 19, Sun 20, Sat 26, Sun 27 debates, with people like October Thomas and Aldous Huxley, happening here in this city. We Living Library also look at Oxford’s influence See page 10 Fri 18 October on writers like Virginia Woolf,

Lewis Carroll, Helen Fielding, The noise that keeps me awake

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I:DNA Uncomfortable inside the helix Oxford tour:

Fri 25 October: 2.30pm – 6pm literary edition Sat 26 October: 11am – 5pm Sat 19, Sun 20, Sat 26 and Sun 27 October: 11.30am – 5pm Sun 27 October Mon 28 October: 11am – 4pm 11.30am – 1pm Cowley Road Methodist Church, Christ Church Meadow Cowley Road, OX4 1BN (near College entrance) Book events online www.if-oxford.com Unticketed, PWYD St Aldate’s, OX1 4JF Adults, Teenagers Pre-book, PWYD Art installation Adults, Teenagers Walking tour An immersive experience combining sculpture, digital imagery and a sung and spoken This walking tour explores soundscape. Step though an imaginary maps of Oxford found airport scanner to hear and see in literature and discusses the the stories from inside a DNA tensions they bring to its modern double helix. The arms of the realities. Walk in the footsteps helix are de-naturing, weighed of JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis, down by baggage hung upon Salman Rushdie and Helen them. Map the journeys of those Fielding, and discover Oxford who have lived experience of as a setting, an inspiration and a an inherited genetic condition. site of contention. This event is Based on research by run by Uncomfortable Oxford, a Dr Felicity Boardman, student-led social enterprise that University of Warwick. facilitates discourse on difficult legacies in our lived environment. 7 Life Times: experiencing change through mind, body and place

Friday 18 October Exhibits at the 12 – 9.30pm Weston Library: Weston Library, Broad Street, OX1 3BG Daniel Meadows: Unticketed, Free Now and Then Hands-on, talks, Living Library Café and shop open Daniel Meadows’ photographs and audio recordings capture the life of Family, Teenagers, Adults England’s ‘great ordinary’. Each pair of photographs depicts the same How do our minds and bodies people separated by an interval of alter as we age? Can attitudes twenty-five years. Sixteen short films change from one generation open a window onto the lives of to the next? How have the those portrayed. built and natural environments This exhibition and the associated around us changed in the last book commemorate the Bodleian Library’s acquisition of the Daniel 200 years? What are our hopes Meadows archive and can be viewed and fears for the future and from 4 October – 24 November 2019. how different will it be? Join researchers at the Bodleian’s Weston Library to look into the PWYD is Pay What You Decide PWYD You is Pay What past, present and future. 8 Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Th Fri Sat Sun Mon 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

Mice, chicks, fish Stereoscopic Oxford and me! Photo historians from Dr Brian May’s Explore how babies develop in the London Stereoscopic Company womb by manipulating embryos in display a collection of vintage 3D virtual reality and observing them cameras and View-Masters, and under microscopes. See how the show you how to use a cheap, hearts of live zebrafish embyros user-friendly smartphone app to take grow and change shape as they stunning 3D photos. develop over the day. Denis Pellerin Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics Changing faces University of Oxford Memory in health Use simple widely-available technology to see what impact and disease our modern day lifestyles could have upon our future looks. See Try simple tasks that assess memory what effects smoking, drinking, and and motivation in people with and pollution might have on your face in without Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s decades to come. Diseases. Learn how NHS researchers Bodleian Digital Communications develop assessment and care procedures for patients. The noise that keeps Department of Experimental Psychology me awake

University of Oxford Book events online www.if-oxford.com Climate catastrophe, rogue robots, Futureyou2020 asteroids and pandemics. We are surrounded by nightmares that Think about your future self. Imagine could put an end to human life as what you might be like in the future we know it. What fears actually keep and explore how you might achieve you awake and how closely do your hopes. they match the real threats to our existence? School of Education Oxford Brookes University The Futures Thinking Network (12-5pm only) (TORCH) Remains II: Twenty Who writes the Future Fossils future?

Remains two is a sculpture Local young people have written comprised of twenty human milk short stories about their hopes and teeth reproduced at a giant scale fears for our computerised futures. using photogrammetry and 3D Meet them and pick up a copy of printing techniques. How do we their illustrated anthology. remember our previous selves? Bodleian Summer School students School of Arts (7-9.30pm only) Oxford Brookes University 9 Life Times

Living Library

6.30 – 9.30pm Choose a book from our shelf and borrow a real, live researcher for a ten-minute conversation. All of our ‘living books’ study aspects of change, whether it be changes to our bodies, minds, attitudes or the world around us. Take this opportunity to chat to friendly experts and maybe it will change the way you think.

Talks in the lecture theatre

5 – 5.45pm 7 – 7.45pm Victorian Oxford Remains II: Twenty through the Future Fossils stereoscope Visual Artist Dr Clair Chinnery Between 1857 and 1860 the Oxford interprets the ‘shapeshifting’ firm Spiers and Son commissioned capabilities of human bodies as famous photographers to document they emerge, grow, mature and die, Oxford in 3D with a cutting-edge informed by the physical materials optical instrument, the stereoscope. left behind when such changes Using original negatives from the occur. With Digital Developer Gerard Bodleian Libraries’ archive and Helmich she has produced giant positive prints from Dr Brian May’s 3D printed sculptures of infant milk collection, photo historian Denis teeth and has also collaborated Pellerin takes you back in time with the Parkinson’s Brain Bank at through Oxford’s streets. Visit Oxford Imperial College London, working ‘in depth’ as it was then, meet one with microscopic images of of the very first photobombers, and diseased neurons. Discover how discover the city of ‘Spiers’ as you’ve this ‘autoethnographic’ project never seen it before. reaches forwards and backwards in time, considering the irretrievable pasts and unknowable futures of ‘intergenerational’ experiences.

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8 – 9pm Now and Then

Daniel Meadows is a pioneer of contemporary British documentary practice. His exhibition Daniel Meadows: Now and Then presents pairs of portraits taken in the 1970s and again in the 1990s, alongside short films explaining how the pictures came about and what happened next. In this talk, Daniel Meadows will shine a light onto the collection and reveal the ‘felt-life’ of his documentary practice. He will also explore the encounters he has had with strangers as he criss-crossed the country in a vintage double decker bus that was once his home, darkroom and gallery, and from where he made free portrait photographs for all-comers and listened to their stories.

Research in harmony Book events online www.if-oxford.com

Friday 18 October 7.30 – 8.30pm

Hertford College Chapel, Catte St, OX1 3BW Pre-book, PWYD Adults, Teenagers Performance, Talk Ever wondered what it’s like to be a biomedical research scientist? Join us for stories of science told through popular songs re-written by researchers from the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics and the Jenner Institute, accompanied by Oxford’s premier postgraduate mixed-voice vegetable-named a cappella group, The Beatroots. 11 Westgate Wonderlab

Sat 19 October Wander into Westgate Oxford 9 – 5pm to meet researchers working at the cutting-edge of science Westgate Oxford, right here in Oxford. Try hands- Queen Street, OX1 1TR on activities in Leiden Square Unticketed, PWYD (opposite John Lewis and Adults, Teenagers, Family Partners) to investigate the latest research on mind, body and Hands-on environment, or pop along to Westgate Social Street Food to see what’s hot in quantum computers, technology, physics and engineering.

Elsewhere in the shopping centre, look out for our science buskers with a giant periscope and peer at Oxford from a new perspective, or have dinner with

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Activities in Big data solving Leiden Square: big puzzles in human health

Use your superpowers How do scientists produce to fight cancer reliable information on the causes, treatment and prevention of Find out how new therapies boost diseases? Play games to find out your immune system to fight cancer how population health researchers with games for all ages. Become an collect and process data to improve immune cell and separate healthy our understanding of diseases and cells form cancer cells against the answer important questions about clock. Maybe you’ll win your own human health. Nobel Prize chocolate medal. Nuffield Department of Population MRC Weatherall Institute of Health Molecular Medicine University of Oxford University of Oxford Make your own Cutting edge ‘g’nome

Try your hand at surgery and perfect You may have heard of a ‘genome’, your surgical techniques with a but have you ever heard of a range of activities. Explore what ‘g’nome!? Meet researchers who goes on inside your body and find study the reasons why we should or out about how researchers discover shouldn’t manipulate our DNA. Have Book events online www.if-oxford.com new ways to effectively treat medical a go at making your own ‘g’nome conditions. and learn about what makes us each Nuffield Department of unique. Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Wellcome Centre for Ethics Musculoskeletal Sciences / Nuffield and Humanities Department of Surgical Sciences University of Oxford University of Oxford 3D shapes from The PsychScience crystals and X-rays booth Proteins in our bodies control our All is not what it seems! Enter the movement and metabolism at a fascinating world of psychological molecular level. Their 3D shapes research. Our visual illusions, writing determine how they do this correctly challenges, Stroop test and brain and occasionally go wrong. Discover quizzes may have you questioning how crystals and X-rays help visualise your perception, and challenging protein shape and function. mind myths. Department of Biochemistry Department of Psychology University of Oxford Oxford Brookes University

13 14 PWYD is Pay What You Decide University of Oxford Department of Physics technologies ineveryday life! transformative effect of quantum be hacked. Discover more aboutthe secure communications that cannot that could predict earthquakes and can developnewdrugs,sensors invisible, quantumcomputers that vehicles, camerasthat canseethe Imagine afuture citywithdriverless Quantum City Discover lifeina Energy Authority United KingdomAtomic us create theenergy of thefuture. the fourth state of matter, canhelp challenge, andfindouthowplasma, own fusiondevice, take arobotics Try yourhandat buildingyour hottest place inthesolarsystem! see what ittakes toworkat the Look insideafusionmachineand a sunonEarth Inside fusion:making Social StreetFood: Activities inWestgate Immunocore are developed. these therapiesworkandhowthey system. Playgamestofindouthow using thebody’sownimmune diseases andautoimmunediseases, therapy totreat cancer, infectious Experiment withanewtypeof new medicines of T-cells todevelop Harnessing thepower Westgate Wonderlab Magnet Technology Siemens Healthineers here inOxford. magnets across theglobeare made magnet, where oneinthree of these the MRImachine,asuperconducting tissue damage.Explore theheartof help diagnosetumours,clotsand In hospitalsworldwide,MRIscanners magnets inMRI Superconducting Royal Societyof Chemistry Environmental Group Chemistry high-powered magnifyingglasses! invading ourecosystem. Includes detective diggingupmicroplastics and become anenvironmental See acidification of asmokingocean and testhowradioactiveyouare! catch yourbreath onairmonitors, Identify mysteryriverwater samples, Earth, air, andoceans… onatable. Blue Skyresearch University of Oxford Department of Engineering Science of theirlatest research. providing handsondemonstrations from stroke. Meettheengineers to smartphoneappsaidingrecovery programming andorigamistructures wireless powertoysorpaper department. From robotics and leading EngineeringScience Discover research from theworld’s the world engineers reimagining Designing thefuture– Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Th Fri Sat Sun Mon 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

Science Oxford Immersed in RoboChallenge conservation

Saturday 19 October Saturday 19 October 10 – 11.30am, 12.30 – 2pm, 11 – 11.45am, 1 – 1.45pm, 2.30 – 4pm 3 – 3.45pm

Make Oxford, The Basement, Oxford Deaf and Hard of Oxford Centre for Innovation, Hearing Centre, 10 Littlegate St, New Road, OX1 1BY St Ebbes, OX1 1RL Book events online www.if-oxford.com Pre-book, £9.07 inc booking fee Pre-book, PWYD Family Adults, Teenagers Workshop Hands-on, escape room

Prepare for combat young Immerse yourself in an escape coders – the robot battle is game that empathises with about to begin! Join the Creative endangered species and finds Computing Club to program the ways to change their fate. motors of robots and learn how Experience conservation science to move them, before stepping in a fun and collaborative way (or wheeling) into the arena, and learn how your daily actions where they’ll take part in battles can affect species on the other and challenges to put your code side of the world. to the ultimate test! Suitable for age 13+. Please Suitable for 9-12 year olds - must arrive 15 minutes before start be accompanied by an adult. time. Unclaimed tickets will be re-allocated 5 minutes before the sessions start. 15 Iguanodon Lovelace’s restaurant labyrinth

Saturday 19 October Saturday 19 October 12 – 1pm, 2 – 3pm 12 – 4pm

Leiden Square, Westgate History of Science Museum, Oxford, Queen Street, OX1 1TR Broad Street, OX1 3AZ Unticketed, PWYD Unticketed, Free Family Family Performance Hands-on

Crystal Palace, New Year’s Join Ada Lovelace and friends Eve 1853. A sumptuous at the museum for a day of banquet is underway inside a mathematical puzzles, activities life-sized Iguanodon model. and problem-solving from Historical characters emerge; geometry to code-breaking. early ‘undergroundologists’ – England’s fossil finders. Suitable for ages 6 and above Dinosaurs are hot news; – must be accompanied by captivating everyone, but an adult. what do they mean? As new, unsettling ideas of extinction and evolution emerge, puddings spin and birds fly from pies!

Throughout the day, discover fossils and dinosaurs with the

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Photo: Hans Hillewaert

Vector Honouring the

Saturday 19 October herbalists 12 – 1.30pm, 2.30 – 4pm Saturday 19 October The Old Fire Station, 12 – 2pm 40 George Street, OX1 2AQ Oxfordshire County Library, Pre-book, PWYD Westgate Oxford, Queen Street, Adults, Teenagers OX1 1DJ

Immersive performance Pre-book, Free Book events online www.if-oxford.com Adults, Teenagers A new virus is ravaging the Workshop planet, infecting animals and humans at a worrying rate. Join Natty Mark Samuels from Welcome to BioLabs, a medical the African School for an research facility tasked with interactive workshop, exploring managing this crisis. Working the history of herbalism, with against rival laboratory teams, a focus on Africa and the our Artificial Intelligence System Caribbean. Celebrate Black will guide you to decide the herbalism, past and present, most effective and ethical and find out how herbal solution, but time is short and products have been made lives are on the line... This and used for centuries. interactive experience explores the ethics of using animals in medical research. Please arrive 15 minutes before start time. Unclaimed tickets will be re-allocated 5 minutes before sessions start. 17 CELL – exploring Storytime – natural the universe inside world

our bodies Saturday 19 October 3 – 4pm Saturday 19 October 1 – 2pm and 3 – 4pm Oxfordshire County Library, Westgate Oxford, Queen Street, St Michael’s Primary School, OX1 1DJ Marston Road, OX3 0EJ Unticketed, Free Pre-book, PWYD Family Family Storytelling Performance

Join storyteller Sarah Law to Join us amongst inflatable meet incredible animals from cells as they come alive with around the world and discover dance and make you marvel at the amazing places they live. the power, quirks and hidden Celebrate the natural world world of cells and DNA. Aimed through stories and rhymes and at primary school children and think about how we can all keep their families, but suitable for any our planet healthy. curious mind, the performance will include a short Q&A with Best suited to children aged scientists from the University 5 – 9 years. Children must be of Oxford. Take away your own accompanied by an adult. cell-themed comic book. PWYD is Pay What You Decide PWYD You is Pay What 18 Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Th Fri Sat Sun Mon 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

When children Brian Malow: became evil Just add gravity!

Saturday 19 October Saturday 19 October 6 – 7pm 7.30 – 8.30pm

Wig and Pen Wig and Pen 9 – 13 George Street, OX1 2AU 9 – 13 George Street, OX1 2AU Pre-book, Free Pre-book, PWYD

Adults, Teenagers Adults, Teenagers Book events online www.if-oxford.com Talk Talk

After WWII, portrayals of ‘evil Science comedian Brian Malow children’ proliferated in horror will make you laugh and think and science fiction films in as he wheels his comic vision both Britain and the US. But from the Big Bang to dinosaurs why were children suddenly to leaves of grass. Weaving being presented as dangerous thoughts on unity and division, threats rather than innocent Pangea and dark energy, Brian victims? And why was society so brings the universe down hungry to consume portrayals of to Earth. LOL at his cosmic disturbed and abnormal young musings but, by the end of people after 1945? the hour, you’ll have a new appreciation for gravity. You’ll This talk by Laura Tisdall was understand why Brian says your awarded the annual Jacob voice is sunshine. And you’ll Bronowski Award Lecture for never look at birds in the same Science and the Arts by the way again. British Science Association. 19 Explorazone

Sun 20 October See some of the most exciting 12 – 5pm science in town for free! Visit Oxford Town Hall to try out Oxford Town Hall, dozens of interactive exhibits St Aldate’s, OX1 1BX suitable for all ages. Unticketed, PWYD Adults, Teenagers, Family Hands-on

Discover life in a Epigenetics: how do Quantum City identical twins differ?

Imagine a future city with driverless Environmental factors alter how vehicles, cameras that can see the we develop and age. Find out how invisible, quantum computers that chemistry influences which of our can develop new drugs, sensors genes are activated and inactivated. that could predict earthquakes and This allows caterpillars to transform secure communications that cannot to butterflies, explains why identical be hacked. Discover more about the twins look increasingly different as transformative effect of quantum they age, and impacts upon our technologies in everyday life! health and well-being. Department of Physics Department of Chemistry University of Oxford University of Oxford PWYD is Pay What You Decide PWYD You is Pay What 20 Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Th Fri Sat Sun Mon 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

Designing malaria How do babies vaccines feel pain?

Malaria is one of the deadliest Discover how baby brains develop, human diseases, killing a child in and how they differ from fully Africa every few minutes. A vaccine grown adult brains. Learn how the is urgently needed, but the parasite is Paediatric Neuroimaging Group a master at evading detection. Join uses these findings to investigate us to learn about the breakthrough how infants feel pain, and how more that could help humanity fight back. effective analgesics are developed Department of Biochemistry for very young people. University of Oxford Department of Paediatrics University of Oxford Worm superheroes: regenerative animals Does it work? Proving that bring light to some ideas bring real stem cells research patient benefit

The idea of regenerating lost How do we know that a treatment body parts has captured human works? There are lots of great ideas imagination for centuries. out there, but how can we be Understanding how animals confident that an idea delivers real replace missing structures has benefit? Explore how to make the huge implications for human fairest possible tests of ideas for new cancer treatments. regenerative medicine. Meet the Book events online www.if-oxford.com worm superheroes with regenerative Department of Oncology powers and learn how stem cells are University of Oxford involved in the process. Department of Biological and Augmented reality for Medical Sciences STEAM education Oxford Brookes University Imagine turning a room into a scale Cutting edge model of the Universe with just a pair of glasses! Augmented Reality Try your hand at surgery and perfect is bringing the school environment your surgical techniques with a into the 21st century, with a huge range of activities. Explore what variety of learning opportunities goes on inside your body and find for students. Try out a range of out about how researchers discover applications and discover how AR new ways to effectively treat medical can unfold its magic. conditions. Performance Augmentation Lab Nuffield Department of Oxford Brookes University Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences / Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences University of Oxford 21 Explorazone

Blue Sky research Diamond: an engineering gem Earth, air, and oceans… on a table. Identify mystery river water samples, Diamond is an amazing material, catch your breath on air monitors, however most people think only of and test how radioactive you are! diamond as a gemstone. Diamond See acidification of a smoking ocean actually has an impact on your and become an environmental everyday life in shaping the things detective digging up microplastics around you, from being used to invading our ecosystem. Includes engineer your smart phone to use in high-powered magnifying glasses! lasers that cut sheet metal for cars. Environmental Chemistry Group Element Six Royal Society of Chemistry Superconducting What do you know magnets in MRI about nanomaterials? Nanomaterials are microscopic In hospitals worldwide, MRI scanners particles that can occur naturally help diagnose tumours, clots and or be man-made. They have many tissue damage. Explore the heart of useful applications in biomedical, the MRI machine, a superconducting optical and electronic research, but magnet, where one in three of these can they be harmful to our health magnets across the globe are made or the environment? Discover the here in Oxford. properties of nanomaterials and Siemens Healthineers learn how they can affect biological Magnet Technology and environmental systems. Public Health England Inside fusion: making a sun on earth Gaming zone

Look inside a fusion machine and Can playing computer games help see what it takes to work at the us learn new skills? How do sensory hottest place in the solar system! stimuli in game play affect how Try your hand at building your own we feel? What does our choice fusion device, take up our robotics of avatar reflect about us? Do we challenge, and find out how plasma, play differently against friends than the fourth state of matter, can help strangers? Play a variety of computer us create the energy of the future. games and maybe learn something United Kingdom Atomic about yourself. Energy Authority Games Development Students City of Oxford College Pop-up book stall

Your one-stop-shop to buy Festival- related books for children and adults, plus science-themed games and kits. PWYD is Pay What You Decide PWYD You is Pay What Waterstones 22 Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Th Fri Sat Sun Mon 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

Gravestone Poetry of science geology Sunday 20 October 12.30 – 1.30pm Sunday 20 October Oxford Town Hall, 11.30 – 12.30pm St Aldate’s, OX1 1BX Holywell Cemetery, Longwall St, OX1 3TP Pre-book, PWYD All ages 2.30 – 3.30pm Talk, Performance St Sepulchre’s Cemetery Book events online www.if-oxford.com Walton St, OX1 2HD From acrostic and shape poems Pre-book, PWYD to sonnets and free verse, there Adults, teenagers are endless forms of poetry Walk to suit the myriad topics in science. Join local poet Kelley The wide range of rock types Swain and Niall Munro from The used for gravestones means that Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre cemeteries can be geological and several young finalists from treasure-troves. They are also the IF Oxford Poetry of Science great places to study local history Competition to hear their and environmental science. winning poems. Join geologists Nina Morgan and Philip Powell on a guided geological cemetery walk. Be prepared to walk on rough ground so please wear comfortable walking shoes. May not be suitable for wheelchair users. 23 Evil cyborg sea Capozzola’s monsters cartoon creatures

Sunday 20 October Sunday 20 October 2 – 3pm 3.30 – 4.30pm

Oxford Town Hall, Oxford Town Hall, St Aldate’s, OX1 1BX St Aldate’s, OX1 1BX Pre-book, PWYD Pre-book, PWYD Teenagers, Adults Family Talk Workshop

Join New York-raised, Cartoonist Mike Capozzola London-based comedian and needs your help to create some cartoonist Mike Capozzola for cartoon creatures! Brainstorm a multimedia comedy show your ideas of what the most about superheroes, sci-fi, and wonderful, whimsical or just monsters. If you’re a fan of plain weird creatures might look Star Trek, Star Wars, Batman, like and Mike will bring them to Spiderman and time travel, then life before your eyes in cartoon fly, beam or conjure yourself form. It’s part imagination to this show! Mike has been exercise and part cartoon lesson. featured at theatres, comic cons, science museums and comedy Suitable for children aged festivals around the globe. 5 – 9 years, who must be “Brilliant… with a dry sense accompanied by an adult. of humor” San Francisco SketchFest PWYD is Pay What You Decide PWYD You is Pay What Suitable for age 12+ 24 Book events online www.if-oxford.com 25 28 Mon 27 Sun

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Choral Contemplation Sunday 20 October – 6.30pm 5.30 Chapel, Somerville College 6HD Rd, OX2 Woodstock Free Unticketed, Teenagers Adults, Performance two spiritual of The second this IF Oxford events for Hear the Somerville Sunday. College Choir alongside an thought- ‘undenominational’ in the Chapel service provoking House of described as ‘A Choral all People.’ Prayer for place takes Contemplation and this special year-round event highlights themes and the science connecting to music emotional response with philosophy and reflection. 23 Wed

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18 Fri Sunday 20 October – 4.30pm 3.30 University Church, 4BJ OX1 High Street, Free Unticketed, Teenagers Adults, Performance events of two spiritual The first St this Sunday. IF Oxford for Mary’s, or the University Church, best-known Oxford’s is one of reflective a offers landmarks that music, readings of service and and prayers on weekdays is welcome Sundays. Everyone this to join and experience by short Christian event inspired traditional worship of centuries and affairs alongside current inclusive values. This service a Festival address will feature Professor by Alister McGrath, the at and Religion Science of Oxford. University of Choral Evensong Brain diaries

Sunday 20 October “This festival is 7 – 8pm the best thing to do in Oxford. Wig and Pen, Your brain lights 9-13 George St, OX1 2AU up for the whole Pre-book, PWYD evening” Adults, Teenagers Talk Festival visitor 2018 Richard Raynor’s world was turned upside down at the age of 31, when a massive stroke left an enormous chunk of his speech, language and memory missing. In this vibrant, colourful and entertaining talk, Richard describes the day of his stroke, his recovery, intensive rehabilitation, and involvement in world-leading neuropsychology research. Associate Professor of Experimental Psychology, Nele Demeyere, explains how thousands of people have been studied by scientists, and the breakthroughs achieved through neuropsychological studies. PWYD is Pay What You Decide PWYD You is Pay What 26 Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Th Fri Sat Sun Mon 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

Maths: Gene therapy for It’s all Greek to me! rare diseases

Monday 21 October Monday 21 October 6 – 7pm 6.30 – 7.30pm

New Road Baptist Church, Oxford Deaf and Hard of Bonn Square, OX1 1LQ Hearing Centre, 10 Littlegate St, Pre-book, PWYD St Ebbes, OX1 1RL

Adults, Teenagers Pre-book, PWYD Book events online www.if-oxford.com Talk Adults, Teenagers Talk You’ve heard of Pythagoras, Archimedes and Plato, but Breakthroughs using gene do you know the sins behind therapy and gene editing are their stories? From murder regularly in the news, but in and deceit to running naked reality how close are we to down the street, the Ancient them being used to treat actual Greek mathematicians were patients? Professor of Gene anything but boring. The Medicine, Deborah Gill sorts ‘Naked Mathematician’ Dr Tom the fact from the fiction as Crawford tells you all about she discusses how viruses are their mischief – mathematical being re-purposed to treat rare or otherwise – as he brings the diseases such as leukaemia, history of maths to life (with live blindness and haemophilia. experiments).

Suitable for age 12+

27 28 PWYD is Pay What You Decide do aboutit. most importantly, what wecan is, where it’scoming from and, to discover what airpollution story of airpollution.JoinTim politicians todiscover thefull interviewing scientistsand Delhi, BeijingandParis, pollution problems including cities dealingwithsevere air travelled theworldtomajor journalist TimSmedleyhas Award-winning sustainability Talk Adults, Teenagers Pre-book, PWYD Broad Street, OX1 3AF Waterstones Bookshop, 7 –8pm Monday 21October Clearing theAir Information, Universityof Oxford. of PhilosophyandEthics of Luciano Floridi,Professor Bishop of Oxford, andProfessor the RtRevd StevenCroft, the Join thisconversation between experience? integrated withinourhuman bring astheyare more deeply autonomous systemsmay the challengesandopportunities supermarket nearyou.What are mobile phone,hospitalora intelligence iscoming toa The bravenewworldof artificial Talk Adults, Teenagers Pre-book, PWYD Church, HighStreet, OX1 4BJ Clore OldLibrary, University 7.30 –9pm Monday 21October artificial intelligence The ethicsof Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Th Fri Sat Sun Mon 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

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Who cares about Are my immune old pictures? cells giving me

Monday 21 October heart disease? 7.30 – 8.30pm Monday 21 October Wig and Pen, 9 – 13 George 8 – 9pm Street, OX1 2AU Oxford Deaf and Hard of Pre-book, PWYD Hearing Centre, 10 Littlegate St,

Adults, Teenagers St Ebbes, OX1 1RL Book events online www.if-oxford.com Talk Pre-book, PWYD Adults, Teenagers What happens when you Talk excavate the image archives of the Institute of Archaeology Jump into the world of veins and other departments of and arteries with Dr Naveed the University of Oxford? The Akbar to map out how your answer: you find amazing immune system might combat pictures that tell unexpected or cause illness. Did you know stories. Most of the pictures that our immune system causes are black and white and 70 or further damage following a more years old. Discover Oxford heart attack or stroke? Take on through a new lens with Janice the roles of a doctor diagnosing Kinory to explore the Historic a patient, or the body’s Environment Image Resource messengers that communicate Project digital image archive, between your cells during the where the images are stored, process of healing in this light- and how you can access them. hearted, interactive talk. 29 Music and the mind Jurassic

Tuesday 22 October brain-teasers 5.30 – 7pm Tuesday 22 October Somerville College, 6.30 – 7.30pm Woodstock Rd, OX2 6HD Oxford University Museum of Pre-book, PWYD Natural History, Parks Road, Adults, Teenagers OX1 3PW Performance Pre-book, Free Adults, Teenagers What makes a simple tune Talk become an anthem that causes skin to tingle, makes hearts beat Palaeontology was once faster, or brings some people considered dry and dusty, but close to tears? Join Professor of recent advances in computer Experimental Neuropathology, technology have transformed Daniel Anthony and a host of how fossils are studied. music and experiments that Integration with virtual reality, highlight the power that music digital reconstruction and has over mood, physiology and computer simulations brings the mind. huge potential for reconstructing fossil organisms and ecosystems Attendees are welcome to stay including dinosaur brains. for a drinks reception following Stephan Lautenschlager, the the Q&A. 2018-19 Palaeontological Association exceptional lecturer, shows how new techniques are

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Physics: Lab to life Physics is changing your life. At the University of Oxford’s Tuesday 22 October Department of Physics, our 6.30 – 9pm research spans everything from the tiniest particles to the Clarendon Laboratory, entire cosmos, but we don’t Parks Road, OX1 3PU just leave the ideas scrawled Pre-book, PWYD on blackboards, hidden on Adults, Teenagers hard drives or tucked into unfathomable scientific papers. Tour, Talk, Hands-on We take our research and make Book events online www.if-oxford.com it work for you.

Tonight’s event includes lab tours, talks and demonstrations featuring next-generation solar cells, quantum computers and BBSRC’s 2019 Innovator of the Year, Professor Achillefs Kapanidis.

31 Let There be Light Out of this world -

Tuesday 22 October science cabaret 6.30 – 8.30pm Tuesday 22 October Ultimate Picture Palace, 7.30 – 9.30pm Jeune St, Cowley Rd, OX4 1BN Wig and Pen Pre-book: £9.50 adults / 9-13 George St, OX1 2AU £8.50 seniors / £8 students Pre-book, PWYD and claimants Adults Adults, Teenagers (Rated 15) Performance Film Screening Grab a pint and join Science This is the 100-year journey Oxford for a cabaret with a to fusion: an award-winning difference as six stellar acts take documentary that follows you out of this world with their the story of dedicated fusion entertaining riffs on life at the scientists working to build edge of existence. From outer a small sun on Earth, which space to the dinosaurs, we’ll be would unleash perpetual, cheap, rocketing through a medley of clean energy for mankind. The music, comedy and creativity screening will be followed by that’ll keep you weightless with a Q&A session featuring fusion laughter all night. If you love researchers. science, solar systems and stand up, this cabaret should be right UPP Members receive a further up your Milky Way. Featuring £2 off listed prices. Chris Lintott (BBC Sky at Night) and Lucy Rogers (Robot Wars). PWYD is Pay What You Decide PWYD You is Pay What 32 Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Th Fri Sat Sun Mon 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

111 – one hundred and eleven

“one of the 12 best Tuesday 22 October shows at Edinburgh 7 – 9pm fringe 2019” The Old Fire Station The Guardian 40 George Street, OX1 2AQ Pre-book: £12 “Visually striking Adults, Teenagers Book events online www.if-oxford.com ★★★★★” Performance The Herald A powerful duet between two exceptional “Poignant, moving dancers – Joel Brown, Candoco Dance and forward-facing Company, and Eve Mutso, former choreography” Principal Dancer of Scottish Ballet – as they explore their different strengths Fjord Review and vulnerabilities. 111 is the imaginary number of vertebrae that Joel and Eve have between them: Eve “moves like she has a hundred”; Joel’s spine is fused and he jokes he only has 11.

The performance will begin with a new piece created by Parasol Dance Group and will be followed by a Q&A with the performers, a medical researcher and inclusive youth project workers.

33 Learning languages Making faces

is fun! Wednesday 23 October 6.15 – 7.45pm Wednesday 23 October 5.30 – 7pm The Place to Eat John Lewis and Partners Oxfordshire County Library, Westgate Oxford, Queen Street, Westgate Oxford, Queen Street, OX1 1PB OX1 1DJ Pre-book, PWYD Unticketed, Free Adults, Teenagers Adults, Teenagers Talk, Performance Workshop Your appearance depends on Cześć! 你好 Bonjour! Olá! ,who’s viewing. Contouring ہیلو volumised lashes and a smokey Explore ideas about language eye change a look, but can it learning and taste some different trick facial recognition software? languages from around the Explore makeup artistry from world at this interactive session. Charlotte Tilbury and City of Oxford College to see how much faces can change. People are more than just selfie, so join Niki Trigoni from the University of Oxford Cyber Physical System Group for the latest in multimodal recognition that can combines faces with voice and walking gait to help spot the PWYD is Pay What You Decide PWYD You is Pay What whole person. 34 Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Th Fri Sat Sun Mon 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

In our blood The Dinosaurs

Wednesday 23 October Rediscovered 6.30 – 8pm Wednesday 23 October New Road Baptist Church 7 – 8pm Bonn Square, OX1 1LQ Waterstones Bookshop Pre-book, PWYD Broad Street, OX1 3AF Adults, Teenagers Pre-book, PWYD

Talk Adults, Teenagers Book events online www.if-oxford.com Talk Is it our social responsibility to vaccinate? Vaccination has In this fascinating overview, eradicated deadly diseases from renowned paleontologist our world and saved millions Michael J. Benton reveals how of lives; but why do some our understanding of dinosaurs people refuse to vaccinate? This is being transformed by recent event, presented in partnership fossil finds and new technology. with the Wellcome Centre Secrets locked in prehistoric for Ethics and Humanities will bones including the colour of explore how medicine, ethics, dinosaurs, the force of their bite, history and social science can their top speeds, and even how encourage wider debate and a they cared for their young have better understanding of the role now been revealed. vaccination plays in improving Will we ever be able to bring global human health. them back to life? Although extinct, dinosaurs are still very much a part of our world.

35 The Breakup Monologues with Rosie Wilby

Wednesday 23 October This Festival 7 – 8pm is for you: The Bullingdon, share your 162 Cowley Road, OX4 1UE thoughts Pre-book, PWYD @Oxford_IF Adults #IFOx2019 Talk Join the audience for a chat show and podcast recording hosted by award-winning comedian and author Rosie Wilby. With evolutionary anthropologist, Anna Machin, historian Sally Holloway and science communicator Charvy Narain, Rosie unpicks the neuroscientific and cultural implications of heartbreak, divorce and ghosting. Seasons 1 and 2 of The Breakup Monologues are available on all good podcast platforms.

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Heroes and The maths Villains: changing of tattoos perceptions of Wednesday 23 October military veterans 8.30 – 9.30pm through poetry The Bullingdon, 162 Cowley Road, OX4 1UE Wednesday 23 October 8 – 9pm Pre-book, PWYD

Adults Book events online www.if-oxford.com The Old Fire Station Café Talk 40 George Street, OX1 2AQ Pre-book, PWYD Do you like maths? Do you like Adults, Teenagers maths so much that you would get a maths-themed tattoo? Talk, Performance How about 6? Come and hear For many people, veterans are from the ‘Naked Mathematician’ either heroes – overcoming Dr Tom Crawford as he explains great odds and traumatic the meaning behind his many experiences in the service of maths-themed tattoos. Topics their country – or villains, killing covered include the most others to advance foreign policy beautiful equation in maths, goals. This event, hosted by one-sided bridges that never Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre, end, Plato’s explanation of the challenges these simplistic universe, and a question with an perceptions by presenting answer worth $1 million… writing by US and UK veterans and exploring how and why the work was written. 37 38 PWYD is Pay What You Decide by anadult. Children mustbeaccompanied adults andchildren over8years. Bring yourownlaptop.For have somedigitalfun. a micro:bit orRaspberryPiand Find outhowtogetgoingwith but don’tknowwhere tostart? Want tolearncomputer coding Workshop Adults, Teenagers Pre-book, Free OX1 1DJ Street, Westgate Oxford,Queen Oxfordshire County Library, 6 –8pm Thursday 24 October coding Introduction to

with yoursociallife. favourites, andhowthislinks tastes, hobbiesandleisure-time inspiration from yourmusical of curating alook,drawing Stylists. Explore techniques Lewis andPartnersPersonal pick upsometipsfrom theJohn Oxford Brookes University, and Lonsdale, SeniorLecturer at psychology of musicfrom Adam Get insightsonthesocial and represent whoyouare? music andfashioninfluence How doyourchoices in Talk Adults, Teenagers Pre-book, PWYD OX1 1PB Street, Westgate Queen Oxford, John Lewis andPartners, The PlacetoEat, 6.15 –7.45pm Thursday 24 October Who areyou? Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Th Fri Sat Sun Mon 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

Big data, big ideas Speed dating

Thursday 24 October with ideas 6.30 – 8pm Thursday 24 October New Road Baptist Church, 7 – 9pm Bonn Square, OX1 1LQ Waterstones Bookshop, Pre-book, PWYD Broad Street, OX1 3AF Adults, Teenagers Pre-book, PWYD

Talk Adults, Teenagers Book events online www.if-oxford.com Talk Big data and AI are starting to feature in cancer research today, Join Oxford University Press and will play an even greater role for a special science-themed in the future. Join researchers “speed dating” event. Mingle from Cancer Research UK to with a range of topics, discover the technologies and including reptiles, psychopathy, methods they use to help find, environmental law, synaesthesia prevent and treat cancer, and and circadian rhythms with what big ideas they have for the expert authors from the Very future. Short Introductions series. Make an impression and get your questions in before the bell rings!

39 Dr Cedric Tan Lecturer in Conservation Biology, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), Department of Zoology, University of Oxford MEET THE SCIENTIST

I have always been in tune with processes to individual animals nature, although growing up in and populations and how they the densely-populated Singapore interact, through to whole meant spending time in the ecosystems, are all interrelated. natural world wasn’t a prominent One example from my research part of my childhood. As an is the way sibling relationships undergraduate student, I spent affect aggression in male more time in forests and felt the animals when competing importance of preserving and for mates. Both fruit flies and protecting the environment, and chickens are less aggressive spreading the word too. Both towards a brother compared things are very important to me. with strangers and we know similarities in genetics are The diversity and dynamism influencing this behaviour. of biology is fascinating: the animal kingdom and the way Education is a very powerful tool different species interact with in conservation and I enjoy using one another, and the spaces innovative ways of teaching and they live in, are always changing. exploring people’s attitudes to For me, it’s bigger and more ultimately help save the world! interesting than purely lab-based I’m running an escape room science. The incredible intricacy in the Festival this year with a and complexity from molecular creative instructional designer, Ran Peleg. Here, small teams solve puzzles related to food purchases in a supermarket, facing problems of palm oil and illegal animal transportation before winning back their freedom. It’s a fun, immersive experience that gives players an insight into the problems confronted by consumers, animals and researchers along PWYD is Pay What You Decide PWYD You is Pay What the way. 40 Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Th Fri Sat Sun Mon 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

Another game, called Global Carnivore Conservation, is a board game developed by my colleague, Jennifer Spencer, and I that challenges players to travel the world gathering resources to solve real-life scenarios for conservationists, the animals themselves, or the indigenous people who live with them. The goal is to save six species, including the Asian clouded leopard, the African lion, the South American spectacled bear and the UK’s The relentless water vole, before climate approach of change and other challenges to their natural habitats drive them better times to the extinction. These are all Thursday 24 October endangered animals that we 7 – 8.30pm research at WildCRU and we are seeking ways to prevent their Oxford Deaf and Hard of populations further diminishing. Hearing Centre, 10 Littlegate St,

St Ebbes, OX1 1RL Book events online www.if-oxford.com Related events Pre-book, PWYD Immersed in conservation Adults, Teenagers See page 15 Performance Sat 19 October Join musician and Oxford Storytime – natural world Contemporary Music Boom See page 18 Artist Emma Smith for a Sat 19 October multimedia live performance.

Board game café Using double bass, loops See page 59 and visuals, she’ll explore the Mon 28 October geopolitical landscape in which we find ourselves and ways to connect and feel grounded in times of trauma, chaos and mass migration.

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Photo: Oxford University Images / Joby Sessions wonder of science. public intheexcitement and programme toengagethe of the Universityof Oxford’s the lecture isthehighlight Aimed at the generalpublic, for this year’s Simonyilecture. specially invitedguestlecturer Join Marcus duSautoyanda Talk Adults, Teenagers Pre-book, £7 OX1 2LW 11-12 Beaumont Street, Oxford Playhouse, 5 –6pm Friday 25October Simonyi Lecture The AnnualCharles age? You decide! wins thisbattle of thenewiron iron isthemostimportant.Who persuade youthat theiruseof humanities (Fe)rociously tryto from across thesciences and fun eveningwhere researchers most important?Joinusfor a But whichof iron’s roles isthe important partinbeinghuman. survive everyday, iron playsan tools orhelpingyourbody to changinghowwemade of a life-supporting planet, From thegeologicalcomponent Talk Adults, Teenagers Pre-book, PWYD Bonn Square, OX1 1LQ New RoadBaptistChurch, 6.30 –8pm Friday 25October for theironcrown Fe FiFoFum: battle Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Th Fri Sat Sun Mon 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

Superheavy The Most Unknown

Friday 25 October Friday 25 October 7 – 8pm 7 – 9pm

Waterstones Bookshop, Science Oxford Centre Theatre Broad Street, OX1 3AF Stansfeld Park, Quarry Road Pre-book, PWYD Headington, OX3 8SB Adults, Teenagers Pre-book, PWYD Adults, Teenagers (Rated 13) Talk Book events online www.if-oxford.com Film screening Marking the 150th anniversary of the periodic table, Kit Chapman This mesmerising and reveals the incredible and often entertaining film reveals the true surprising stories behind the potential of interdisciplinary discovery of the superheavy collaboration, pushing the elements; how they have boundaries of science shaped the world today and storytelling. Nine scientists visit where they will take us in the extraordinary places to uncover future. Be introduced to the unexpected answers to some of amazing people whose tireless humanity’s biggest questions. quest to drive the periodic How did life begin? What is table forwards has led to time? What is consciousness? scientists rewriting the laws of How much do we really know? atomic structure. By introducing researchers from diverse backgrounds for the first time, this deeply human trip to the foundations of discovery reminds us that the unanswered questions are the most crucial. 43 44 PWYD is Pay What You Decide and itscommunication. The approach towards science highlighting differences in international collaboration, has shownmethevalueof Straddling twocountries lecturing role. comedy techniqueshelpinmy communication; andstand-up useful for supportingresearch other: ascientificbackground is two jobscomplement each University of Reading. These lecturing inzoology at the University, nowcombined with my firstpermanentjob at Oxford What usedtobeahobbyled broad portfolio career. stand-up comedy –forming a and TV, andevendoingscience science articles,talkingonradio collaborations –writingpopular country, whichledtonew contest inPoland, myhome called FameLab. Iwonthe communication competition in theinternational science people andin2014, tookpart research toawiderangeof doctorate, Ilearnedtoexplain researchers. Duringmyzoology do?” isatypicalquestionto “So what isitthat youACTUALLY MEET THE SCIENCE COMMUNICATOR or simplytosayhello! stop bytoexplore theresearch, Hall toTemplars Square –please geographically, from theTown both demographicallyand different parts of Oxford, IF isthat itreaches outto One of thegreat thingsabout in culturalandscientificareas. to arichexchange of know-how Polish cityof Wrocław willlead twinning of Oxford andthe initiatives. Ihopetherecent creative andinspiringgrassroots and places like Poland have science engagementlandscape UK hasawell-established

Sat 26October Build yourmedicinecatapult Tue 22October How dobabiesfeelpain? Related events Out ofthisworld–sciencecabaret Sun 20October

See page51 See page8 See page21 of Oxford Paediatrics, University Officer, Department of Public Engagement Communications and Bagniewska Dr Joanna Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Th Fri Sat Sun Mon 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

The Crowd and the Cosmos

Friday 25 October 6.30 – 8pm

Wig and Pen 9 – 13 George Street, OX1 2AU Pre-book, PWYD

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Scientists need your help! As we get more information about the Universe, we risk becoming overwhelmed but – as Oxford astronomer Chris Lintott explains in his new book – you can help. Hear from Oxford scientists who have worked with volunteers to find planets, count penguins and even hunt aliens.

45 Science Oxford – The brain escape

geology rocks Saturday 26 October 10.30am, 11.30am, 12.30pm, Saturday 26 October 1.30pm, 2.30pm, 3.30pm, 10 – 11.30am, 12.30 – 2pm, 4.30pm, 5.30pm 2.30 – 4pm The Old Fire Station, Science Oxford Centre, 40 George Street, OX1 2AQ Stansfeld Park, Quarry Road, Headington, OX3 8SB Pre-book, PWYD Pre-book, £9.07 inc booking fee Adults, Teenagers Family Hands-on, Escape room Workshop Can you find the key to break Young geologists, grab your out of this escape room? Along trowel and head out for this the way you will solve a series rock-themed workshop. We’ll of brain-related puzzles and crack open history and learn learn about magnetic resonance about some of the great imaging (MRI) – a technique scientific explorers through we use to look inside the geo-challenges like panning for brain. But watch out: only by gold, studying real moon rocks understanding the secrets of the and making fossils. brain will you escape!

Suitable for ages 5-9. Must be Suitable for age 11+. Maximum accompanied by an adult. 7 participants per 45 minute session. Please arrive 15 minutes before start time. Unclaimed tickets will be re-allocated 5 PWYD is Pay What You Decide PWYD You is Pay What minutes before sessions start. 46 Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Th Fri Sat Sun Mon 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

Incredible you Fake new world

Saturday 26 October Saturday 26 October 12 – 4pm 2 – 4pm

Oxfordshire County Library, Café Rouge Westgate Oxford, Queen Street, 11 Little Clarendon Street, OX1 1DJ OX1 2HP Unticketed, Free Pre-book; PWYD Adults, Family Adults, Teenagers Book events online www.if-oxford.com Hands-on Talk

Discover the surprising beauty of A practical guide for the your body at a tiny scale and get enquiring mind. Fake is creative! Science-based artist, real: from the Chernobyl Dr Lizzie Burns shares her apocalypse to cancer cures; drawings inspired by biology how to know the truth behind under the microscope. Either the headlines? Join medical produce your own drawings, or science communicator Catarina bring Lizzie’s to life by adding Amorim and mathematician colour whilst you find out how Joana Andrade from the pathologists help diagnose and Storytelling Science Project for treat disease. All creations can a fun afternoon on how to be be taken home. Funded by the a curious and critical thinker. Royal College of Pathologists. We can’t promise you’ll never be tricked again but we can try. Alternatively, come for the bingo...

Suitable for age 15+ 47 Sophie Batin Education and Outreach manager, Science Oxford MEET THE EDUCATOR

As a former primary school lunar geologists risked their lives teacher, I’m always finding new collecting nearly 400kg of moon ways to engage young people rock in the pursuit of knowledge. with the amazing science of our planet and the world around Geology plays a part in Science them. I now work with children, Oxford’s own story. Our new their teachers and families in so Science Oxford Centre in many different settings, where Headington Quarry is the UK’s I see the eureka discovery first indoor-outdoor science moment more than ever. education centre for primary- aged children and their families. Stories and hands-on activities The old clay quarry provided are great ways to inspire brick-making materials in Oxford individual discovery, giving for at least a hundred years. people of all ages freedom to Some of the pits are still visible play, explore and test things for but most have been transformed themselves. The Geology Rocks into ponds full of plants and workshop involves panning wildlife in a 15-acre woodland for gold, making fossils and, for visitors to explore. through story-telling, meeting scientific explorers of the past Related events two centuries. The Most Unknown There’s something about See page 43 handling a rock, grains of sand Fri 25 October or even a crystal that grounds us in the history of our planet. In Geology Rocks See page 46 this 50th anniversary year of the Sat 26 October moon landings, I also wanted to include real moon rocks in Brick by brick our Festival workshop, not just See page 58 so children can see what an off- Mon 28 October planet rock looks like, but also to

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Storytime – Gravestone geology exploration Sunday 27 October

Saturday 26 October 11.30 – 12.30pm 3 – 4pm Headington Municipal Cemetery, Dunstan Rd, OX3 9BY Oxfordshire County Library, Westgate Oxford, Queen Street, 2.30 – 3.30pm OX1 1DJ St Mary and St John Churchyard,

Unticketed, Free Cowley Rd, OX4 1UR Book events online www.if-oxford.com Family Pre-book, PWYD Storytelling Adults, Teenagers Walk There are so many places to explore, close to home, in The wide range of rock types other countries and even out used for gravestones means that in space. Join storyteller Sarah cemeteries can be geological Law for a journey of discovery, treasure-troves. They are also visiting familiar locations, exotic great places to study local destinations and places beyond history and environmental your wildest imagination! science. Join geologists Nina Morgan and Philip Powell on Best suited to children aged a guided geological cemetery 5 – 9 years. Children must be walk. Be prepared to walk on accompanied by an adult. rough ground so please wear comfortable walking shoes.

This event may not be suitable for wheelchair users. 49 Science at the Shops

Saturday 26 October IF Oxford is taking over the Banks 9am – 5pm Court area of Templars Square shopping centre this weekend Sunday 27 October with an exciting selection of fun 10am – 4pm activities for all ages.

Templars Square On Saturday, look under your Shopping Centre, skin and discover the secrets Pound Way, Cowley, of the human body. Find out OX4 3XH how medicines and vaccines Unticketed, PWYD work, and explore how to keep Adults, Family, Teenagers yourself healthy. Hands-on On Sunday, discover the wonders of space, experience physics through computer games, explore digital technology, try some mathematical puzzles and find

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Saturday’s Take part in activities health research Even if you’re healthy, you Attack of the can take part in NHS research antibodies – vaccines studies, from drugs trials to filling out questionnaires to tests and and beyond scans. Guess which of our food examples has the most sugar, learn Delve into the immune system! about the human body with our Discover how vaccines work and interactive model and talk to health their importance to society. Play a professionals about taking part in Lego ‘herd immunity’ game, take the research. attack of the antibodies challenge, NIHR Clinical Research Network find out about HIV research and Thames Valley and South Midlands check your knowledge with a quiz! Department of Paediatrics University of Oxford The noise that keeps me awake Build your medicine catapult and decode From climate catastrophe to rogue robots, asteroids to pandemics, we your message are surrounded by nightmares that could end human life as we know it. How can we treat diseases that What are the fears that actually keep damage muscles and the brain? you awake? How closely do our Learn how researchers sneak fears match the real threats to our Book events online www.if-oxford.com genetic drugs into diseased cells so existence? they are efficient, safe to use, and The Futures Thinking Network not destroyed by the body’s own (TORCH) defence mechanisms. University of Oxford Department of Paediatrics University of Oxford Imaging brains, bones and body

Peer beneath your skin. Use a smartphone to explore human anatomy. Look through the eyes of an imaging scientist: why use X-rays to look at bones, but ultrasound to look at babies? Talk to our scientists and discover the wonders of imaging science. Oxford-Nottingham Biomedical Imaging Centre for Doctoral Training University of Oxford

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Sunday’s Maths carousel

activities Experiment with patterns, shapes and angles at a carousel of tabletop Apollo@50 maths challenges and games that’ll get your brain buzzing. Fun for all the family, these intriguing puzzles 50 years since people first walked will get you thinking, questioning, on the moon, we’re still discovering and hopefully smiling when you more about it. Hold meteorites and solve them! moonrock today, program small robots to navigate around our moon Science Oxford map and imagine living on the moon for yourself. Illuminating research STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Using X-rays 10 billion times brighter than the sun, Diamond is home Particle physics to world leading multi-discipline research right here in Oxfordshire; adventures with from plastic eating enzymes to Minecraft Moon rocks and jet engines. Come along and learn more with our Explore a virtual model of the CERN hands-on exhibits. laboratory and ATLAS experiment in Diamond Light Source the Minecraft computer game. Learn how we study the fundamental building blocks of the Universe using silicon particle detectors. Department of Physics University of Oxford

Managing your digital self

A visual exploration of the personal data routinely generated in daily life, through smart devices at home and various portable devices which surround every bit of your life on the go. Department of Computer Science University of Oxford PWYD is Pay What You Decide PWYD You is Pay What 52 Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Th Fri Sat Sun Mon 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

Stephen Turner Electrical & Electronic Engineer, ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory MEET THE ENGINEER

I work as an engineer for the ISIS graduated with a 2:1 Masters Neutron and Muon Source, a in Electrical & Electronic particle accelerator based at the Engineering. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory I really enjoy the job that I do, in Didcot. Scientists from the knowing that I play an indirect UK and all over the world visit role in enabling all kinds of the facility because of the wide important research, so I look range of experiments that they for opportunities to promote can perform on materials they engineering, especially to wish to study, from testing new children that might not know construction techniques to Book events online www.if-oxford.com exactly what it is about. I took make safer aircraft to studying part in the Black Panther materials that could make hip event in IF Oxford last year, replacement surgery more talking about my career path effective. I work in the controls and demonstrating magnetic group who design, maintain levitation technology, which and upgrade systems that keep appears in the film, and explaining temperatures, pressures and how it works in real life. other variables within certain limits to keep the facility working properly. Related events I was always interested in how Physics: Lab to life things worked, but I didn't see See page 31 how these interests linked with Tue 22 October engineering until after I took my GCSEs. I took A-Levels in The science of Black Panther See page 55 electronics, physics and maths Mon 28 October then studied at the University of Plymouth. I initially struggled, Engineering the future but became more confident See page 57 the more I worked at it and Mon 28 October 53 BLAST!

Monday 28 October Virtual reality and 11am – 4pm real-world health Blackbird Leys Community Virtual reality (VR) is often enjoyed Centre, Blackbird Leys Road, as an immersive gaming experience. OX4 6HW Find out how VR is also used in Unticketed, PWYD research to help build confidence and reduce stress in young people. Adults, Teenagers, Family Pop on a headset, test your Hands-on reactions and see how your body responds. BLAST! is the Blackbird Leys Department of Experimental Astronomy, Science and Psychology Technology zone, where University of Oxford you can see the stars in a Planetarium and get subatomic with Minecraft. Explore the mind with virtual reality and artificial intelligence or jump into the magic of movies and the wonder of science, with PWYD is Pay What You Decide PWYD You is Pay What examples from Black Panther. 54 Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Th Fri Sat Sun Mon 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

How our brain sees The science of what AI can’t (yet) Black Panther

Artificial intelligence (AI) can now Wakanda is an amazing place, solve problems, like recognising an with science and technology that animal or object in a photograph, looks like magic – but some of that almost as well as humans. Despite science and technology isn’t far these exciting advances, AI can still from becoming reality. Find out how be surprisingly stupid! See how easily we’re exploring our Universe, hold current AI is fooled, and what makes real meteorites and investigate how our brains special (for now)! we could create levitating vehicles Department of Experimental in real life! Psychology STFC Rutherford Appleton University of Oxford Laboratory Lights, camera, action! Particle physics adventures with Have you ever dreamed of being a film star, performing hair-raising Minecraft stunts? Step out of reality and straight into a movie with green screen Explore a virtual model of the CERN technology. Create your own action laboratory and ATLAS experiment in sequence and find out how visual the Minecraft computer game. Learn effects are used in movie-making. how we study the fundamental building blocks of the Universe using Film Oxford silicon particle detectors. Book events online www.if-oxford.com Department of Physics The next generation University of Oxford of spacecraft heat shields Planetarium dome

How do you safely get spacecraft Step into the Planetarium dome into space, on to planets and back and discover how to navigate the home when travelling at high speeds stars, find out how the movement through different atmospheres? of the Earth creates night and day Learn how scientists are building and and observe how the sky changes testing engines using wind tunnels, through the seasons. Hear stories liquid crystals and infra-red cameras our ancestors told about the cosmos with our Virtual Reality laboratory. and how these relate to what we Department of Engineering Science know today. University of Oxford STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Science Oxford

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Monday 28 October Drop into the College for 11am – 4pm this special half-term event where you can compare an City of Oxford College Iron Age furnace with up-to- Technology Campus the-minute technology and Cuddesdon Way, Blackbird Leys, have a go at maths challenges OX4 6HN in the family hands-on zone. Hands-on: Unticketed, PWYD Want to try something new? Workshops: Pre-book, PWYD Choose from workshops for adults and teenagers for a taster Adults, Family, Teenagers of electronics and circuits, Hands-on, Workshops carpentry, construction and forensic skills. PWYD is Pay What You Decide PWYD You is Pay What 56 Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Th Fri Sat Sun Mon 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

Drop-in activities For families 11am – 4pm Engineering the future

Discover the high performance computing involved in space technology, particle accelerators and helping us understand the Universe’s smallest building blocks. Today you can meet apprentices studying for a Digital and Technology Solutions Degree who are supporting the development of innovative new Crafty maths software and systems. STFC Rutherford Learn about fractals as you help Appleton Laboratory to build a Menger sponge entirely from business cards and make Maths carousel origami cubes to take home. Fun for all the family with a dose of maths thrown in! Experiment with patterns, shapes and angles at a carousel of tabletop Department of Mathematics maths challenges and games that’ll University of Oxford get your brain buzzing. Fun for all Book events online www.if-oxford.com the family, these intriguing puzzles Making metal will get you thinking, questioning, and hopefully smiling when you – performing solve them! production Science Oxford Experience the sounds, sights and smells of the furnace with this Diamond: an live demonstration of smelting. engineering gem In this celebration of the human relationship with minerals, fire Diamond is an amazing material, and metal, explore our ancient however most people only think of connection with copper, tin and iron. diamond as a gemstone. Diamond Speak to archaeological scientists actually has an impact on your and consider how the properties of everyday life in shaping the things these metals continue to shape our around you, from being used to society today. engineer your smart phone to use in Department of Archaeology lasers that cut sheet metal for cars. University of Oxford Element Six

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Workshops Mobile robots Suitable for age 13+ 12 – 1pm, 1.30 – 2.30pm, Boxing clever 3 – 4pm See how fun and rewarding it can 11.15am – 12pm and be to experiment with and test 1 – 1.45pm your ideas as you build a robot that can follow a line. Working in Wooden boxes are a great project small groups, learn and apply some for new woodworkers. Simple, yet basic electronics and programming elegant, they are easily constructed, skills, giving you a taste for the and personalised, being either scope and versatility of robotics. No decorative or utilitarian. If you’re new prior electronics or programming to woodwork, you can learn how to experience required. start crafting a wooden nail box with Students for STEM Access our qualified carpentry teachers. University of Oxford City of Oxford College Technology Campus Brick by brick

Remains to be seen 12.30 – 1.15pm, 2.15 – 3pm

11.30am – 12.30pm, 1 – 2pm, Learn how to build a pyramid 2.30 – 3.30pm out of bricks, using accurate measurements, trowel techniques, Become a detective and find all cement mixing and presenting the the clues to reveal the culprit in final construction. this ‘who dunnit’ multi-scenario City of Oxford College mystery. In teams, participate in a Technology Campus series of challenges using specialised equipment and getting into the Light it up minds of the paramedics, nurses, forensic scientists and engineers. All might not be as it seems... 1.45 – 2.30pm, 3.15 – 4pm Oxford Brookes University Explore circuits and find out how to Outreach Team wire the lights in a house safely. This workshop covers the most popular Complete the circuit lighting circuits and how they work around your own home. Discover 12 – 12.45pm, 2 – 2.45pm more about electrical installation careers. This interactive workshop with City of Oxford College Arduino boards will give you the Technology Campus opportunity to experience an easy- to-use electronic coding device and an opportunity to learn about engineering jobs.

PWYD is Pay What You Decide PWYD You is Pay What City of Oxford College Technology Campus 58 Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Th Fri Sat Sun Mon 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

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Monday 28 October Monday 28 October 11am – 3.30pm 11am – 12pm, 12.30 – 1.30pm, 2 – 3pm, 3.30 – 4.30pm Old Fire Station Café 40 George St, OX1 2AQ City of Oxford College Unticketed, PWYD Technology Campus Cuddesdon Way, Blackbird Leys, Adults, Teenagers, Family OX4 6HN

Hands-on Book events online www.if-oxford.com Pre-book, PWYD Play a variety of science themed Adults, Teenagers board games and meet the Audio tour people who created them. Step Pick up your headphones into the shoes of researchers and guide from the College from different topics and reception. experience their challenges and adventures. Have fun tackling scientific concepts as See page 5 for more you pit your wits against family information members. From wildlife and environmental conservation to averting disaster in a nuclear power station or saving a life on the operating table, there are games for all ages.

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policy for children Monday 28 October and their families 4 – 5.30pm

Monday 28 October City of Oxford College 1.30 – 2.30pm Technology Campus Cuddesdon Way, Blackbird Leys, City of Oxford College OX4 6HN Technology Campus Pre-book, PWYD Cuddesdon Way, Blackbird Leys, OX4 6HN Adults, Teenagers Pre-book, PWYD Performance Adults How often do we really listen Talk to the voices of young people when change and development How do we make the best is organised by adults? In this policy choices for our families co-created music performance, when resources are stretched What IF… uses rap, spoken word to breaking point? Mary Daly and dance to tell you how it is and Aaron Reeves (University growing up in southeast Oxford of Oxford) and Sasha East and in 2019. Deborah McIlveen (Blackbird Leys CDI) explore how shifts in Audience response from What government policy create new IF 2018: “Inspiring and life- opportunities and challenges for affirming.” “It’s great to watch families. What lasting changes collaboration with young people might we make or consider as at a local level.” a community to help raise a PWYD is Pay What You Decide PWYD You is Pay What healthy child? 60 Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Th Fri Sat Sun Mon 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

Food for thought Monday 28 October Menu Drinks reception 7pm; Meal 7.45 – 10pm Pre-dinner reception Prosecco or sparkling Somerville College elderflower with Asian-inspired Woodstock Rd, Oxford canapés OX2 6HD Pre-book, £40 by Mon 21 Oct Starter Falafel with bulgur wheat salad, Book events online www.if-oxford.com Adults toasted pitta and tahini dressing Meal, Talks Main Join this gastronomic meat-free Avocado tempura taco with tour of the world whether you pickled cabbage, mango salsa have something to celebrate, and sour cream or just fancy a splendid meal in Somerville’s elegant dining hall. Dessert This delicious five course Lamington cake with fruit coulis dinner, paired with short talks and ice cream throughout, explores the future of farming and innovations for Cheese sustainable nutrition. Goat’s cheese & wild mushroom arancini with a rich tomato Wine / soft drinks included. ketchup and pickled beetroot No entrance exams, but dress to impress. Bring your thoughts Post-dinner talk to the table to tackle food Coffee or Rooibos tea security and take some culinary ideas home. 61 Events index

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Various Rhymetime 10 4 Various First Imprints 24 4 Various Only Expansion 4, 31 5, 59 25 - 28 I:DNA inside the helix 25 7 Various Uncomfortable Oxford 9 7 18 Life Times 16 8 - 11 18 Research in harmony 18 11 19 Westgate Wonderlab 11 12 - 14 19 Science Oxford RoboChallenge 6 15 19 Immersed in conservation 8 15 19 Iguanodon restaurant 11 16 19 Lovelace’s labyrinth 17 16 19 Vector 5 17 19 Honouring the herbalists 10 17 19 CELL 32 18 19, 26 Storytimes 10 18, 49 19 When children became evil 14 19 19 Just add gravity! 14 19 20 Explorazone 13 20 - 22 20, 27 Gravestone geology 23, 1, 33, 28 23, 49 20 Poetry of science 13 23 20 Evil cyborg sea monsters 13 24 20 Capozzola’s cartoon creatures 13 24 20 Choral Evensong 20 25 20 Choral Contemplation 2 25 20 Brain diaries 14 26 21 Maths: It’s all Greek to me! 12 27 21 Gene therapy for rare diseases 8 27 21 Clearing the Air 15 28 21 The ethics of AI 19 28 21 Who cares about old pictures? 14 29

PWYD is Pay What You Decide PWYD You is Pay What 21 Immune cells and heart disease 8 29 22 Music and the mind 2 30 62 Date(s) Event Map ref. Page

22 Jurassic brain-teasers 21 30 22 Physics: Lab to life 22 31 22 Let There be Light 26 32 22 Science cabaret 14 32 22 111 - One hundred and eleven 5 33 23 Learning languages is fun 10 34 23 Making faces 7 34 23 In our blood 12 35 23 The Dinosaurs Rediscovered 15 35 23 The Breakup Monologues 27 36 23 Heroes and villains 5 37 23 The maths of tattoos 27 37 24 Introduction to coding 10 38 24 Who are you? 7 38

24 Big data, big ideas 12 39 Book events online www.if-oxford.com 24 Speed dating with ideas 15 39 24 The relentless approach... 8 41 25 Charles Simonyi lecture 4 42 25 Fe Fi Fo Fum 12 42 25 Superheavy 15 43 25 The Most Unknown 34 43 25 The Crowd and the Cosmos 14 45 26 Science Oxford geology rocks 34 46 26 The brain escape 5 46 26 Incredible you 10 47 26 Fake new world 3 47 26, 27 Science at the Shops 29 50 - 52 28 BLAST! 30 54 - 55 28 Today’s Skills, Tomorrow’s Tech 31 56 - 58 28 Board game café 5 59 28 Making better policy 31 60 28 What IF…? 2019 31 60 28 Food for thought (meal) 2 61 63 Kingston Rd

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IF Oxford will return in PWYD is Pay What You Decide PWYD You is Pay What October 2020 66 Thank you The Festival sends huge thanks to its collaborators, supporters, and talented individuals who volunteer to make the Festival possible. It could not happen without their time, creativity and enthusiasm.

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IF Oxford 2019 is supported by Book events online www.if-oxford.com

IF Oxford is organised by Oxfordshire Science Festival (Charity 1151361), with Trustees and a small team that work year-round on the Festival. Festival Director: Dane Comerford Events Manager: Cathy Rose Trustees: Ian Thompson, Georgina Ferry, Tim Hart, Rory Campbell. Design: www.defynedesign.co.uk 67 The cover illustration this year represents the muscles in a face that create a smile, the digital connections surrounding us and the genetic code that makes you who you are.

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