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11 – 24 March 2013 Join the exploration www.cam.ac.uk/sciencefestival Welcome

Welcome to the Cambridge Science Highlights Festival, your opportunity to discover, question and take part in scientific Page 4 activity at the University of Cambridge and partner organisations. Explore Guest Director’s picks research that is leading the world at Check out Benedict Cumberbatch’s highlights hundreds of events discussing science in the Festival programme. and its place in our lives. Come to our family open days on 16, 17 and 23 March Page 22 and join in conversations throughout the The modern alchemist with entire Festival fortnight. Dr Peter Wothers

Highlights this year include Professor John Gurdon, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, science comedian Robin Ince, author Simon Mayo and up-and-coming BBC science presenter Helen Czerski. We’re excited to welcome Benedict Cumberbatch as our Guest Director, who searched for clues in our programme and outlines his top picks over the page. What will yours be?

We couldn’t run this Festival without the support of our researchers, volunteers Dr Wothers will be sharing some of the and sponsors. Hundreds of people from highlights from his Royal Institution Christmas the University of Cambridge, partner Lectures shown on the BBC. organisations and research institutes work Warning: Loud bangs and explosions! together to offer the Cambridge Science Festival and we hope you enjoy it. Pages 30 – 32 With so much on, there really is Science on Sunday something for everyone. Challenge your Building on the popularity of Science on mind, try something new and join us on a Saturday, a selection of favourites for all ages journey of discovery and excitement. will be on offer again, including hands on fun in the Biology Zone and Top Talks in the Babbage. Illustrations by Tim Parker: timparkerillustration.com

2 How to use this programme

The programme pages are colour-coded to help you plan your visit to Cambridge Science Festival. Events are listed chronologically and we have a new Science on Saturday pull-out section with map in the centre pages to help you navigate your way around our big family fun day. Our events are held in a large number of buildings around Cambridge; accessibility information for all these venues can be found on page 43.

11 – 24 March Throughout the Festival pages 5 – 12, 33 – 37

16 March Science on Saturday pages 13 – 29

17 March Science on Sunday pages 30 – 32

23 March Science on Saturday 2 pages 38 – 44

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Booking opens at 10am on 4 February and lines are open Monday – Friday, 10am – 4.30pm. Booking closes 24 hours before the event takes place. We’re a very small team so please keep trying if you can’t get through first time or book via our website.

Tips for attending the Festival • There is no need to book for events unless otherwise stated. • There may still be spaces available at events which are listed as ‘pre book’; you are welcome to turn up and enquire on the day, but we cannot guarantee entry. • Arrive on time for events; entry may be refused if the venue is full or if you are late. • All events are free-of-charge unless otherwise stated. • Children should be accompanied at all times and observe the minimum age guide in the event description; those under the minimum age may not be admitted owing to the nature and content of the event. Please call ahead to check. • Your attendance at any Festival event signiﬁes your agreement to comply with the following guidelines for attendance: www.cam.ac.uk/sciencefestival/guidance

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3 A note from our Guest Director, Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm delighted to be the Guest Director of the We hope the programme entertains and 2013 Cambridge Science Festival. My link to inspires you to take a deeper look at our a science festival may seem a little tenuous extraordinary world and our existence in it at first glance. And yet as an actor who has and the universe. With Science on Saturday, researched playing Stephen Hawking, the whole family is encouraged to participate Joseph Hooker, Heisenburg and both in/with hands on scientific exhibits and Frankenstein and his creation I've long had a activities. You can try anything from passion for all fields of science. It really all dissecting owl pellets to extracting and began at school in the biology lab and taking home your DNA and finding out what keeping mice! But ever since then and partly makes you you! thanks to my ridiculously privileged existence as an actor, I have been able to Personally, as someone who has portrayed keep that amateur interest and investigation Sherlock Holmes, I'm of course particularly of science alive and build a very personal looking forward to Professor Jim relationship with some of my heroes from Woodhouse on 8 March talking about why that world like Professor Hawking. the violin is so hard to play, and also on 16 March testing my real-life deduction skills in I believe science and our engagement with the mock crime scene at the Central it has reached a crucial crossroads. Whether Science Library during Science on Saturday. it's fighting disease on a cellular scale, tackling climate change, solving food and I'm also a huge fan of last year’s Guest energy crises, exploring the outer regions of Director Robin Ince; his mixture of humour the universe or simply making it easier to and insight is as informative as it is shop online – science and technology play entertaining, so watch out for his 'The an increasingly integral part of our daily Importance of Being Interested' on Sunday lives. And yet to the layperson like me, the 17 March. Robin will bring science within intellectual and ethical complexities and the reach of all of us and dare us to become technical detail can often seem daunting engaged. This is surely the ambition of and distancing. Hence a festival of this range science at school as well as a way to and accessibility is a hugely important reignite adult interest. bridge between the public and science. While it has been an exciting time for Have a wonderful Festival and hopefully I'll science, with the work at CERN producing see you there! incredible results in the search for the Higgs- Boson particle, it's vital for us to look beyond Live long and think hard! the headlines. And as while there is much to marvel at, scientific discovery is a step-by- Benedict Cumberbatch step, day-by-day process that involves incredible hard work and devotion. Those aspects can be related to so many of our lives and other non-scientific pursuits.

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Welcome to the ﬁrst week of events at the Science Festival, a time to t immerse yourself in talks, tours and discussions on a range of topics from u o

infectious diseases and conservation, to how our polar regions enable us to h study space technologies close to home. g u o Events in these pages are listed r h chronologically by time and date T and show the type of activity, the appropriate age and whether you need to pre-book. Access information for all venues is provided at the end of this programme and there are maps in the centre pages to help you navigate your way around Cambridge.

We have over 200 events on oﬀer at the Science Festival this year, with something for everyone, whatever your age and interests.

Highlights

Page 7 Page 10 Page 12 Caught on camera: The future of energy Cell replacement in age engineering in action Join a panel of experts as and disease: what are A stunning selection of they explore the the prospects? entries from the possibilities for finding a Nobel Prize winner photography competition sustainable future. Professor John Gurdon at the Department of outlines his work and looks Engineering are on display towards the future for cell during the Festival at the replacement. Michaelhouse Café. 6.30pm – 9pm, 4, 11, 18 March 12.30pm – 1pm, 9 March Reproduction on film: Grafton Shopping Centre l making babies 8pm – 9pm, 16 March a Cambridge Arts Picturehouse , Gala Performance, Sir Humphrey Cripps v i 38-39 St Andrew’s Street, CB2 3AR Auditorium, Magdalene College, CB3 0AG t s The sometimes-winding road to parenthood can Inside an unquiet mind e be a source of great joy and much anguish. This Inside an Unquiet Mind (IAUM3) is a powerful F

third series of ‘Reproduction on Film’ charts changes musical theatre project taking people and their e in cinematic representations of pregnancy, mental health experiences on tour in local h childbirth and babies from the community settings to explore perceptions and t

challenge stigma. A full-length gala performance will

t 1940s to the present day. It is be premiered as part of this year’s Science Festival. u shown by the Generation to Both the gala event and the staged ‘hit and run’ o Reproduction programme performance will bring together those that we label h with support from the service users, scientists, mental health professionals g Wellcome Trust. and professional musicians. Together they create u 6.30pm, 4 March pieces of original musical theatre containing o Miracle of Morgan’s Creek r collective emotive and interactive portrayals of 6.30pm, 11 March h personal experience.

T Junior Event: 3, Map: online, 42, Performance, All ages 6pm, 18 March Vicky Donor 6pm – 7pm, 11 March Event: 1, Map: 2, Film, The amazing world of cells, Adults, Pre book visit: molecules … and cancer www.picturehouses.co.uk/ Mill Lane Lecture Room 9, Mill Lane, CB2 1RX cinema/Arts_Picturehouse_ Dr Robin Hesketh looks at what makes us work and Cambridge, £8.50 how we develop diseases when bits of our body go wrong. We now understand how the code of 7.15pm – 9.30pm, 8 March DNA is transcribed and can reveal both Why is the violin so the stunning beauty of cellular life har d to play? and its staggering complexity. West Road Concert Hall, The essence of cellular life is West Road, CB3 9DP cell proliferation – making Professor Jim Woodhouse two cells from one – and it (Engineering) gives a pre-concert is abnormal cell talk with examples of how proliferation that gives computer modelling combined rise to cancers. Much with acoustical measurements can is known of the shed light on ‘playability’ of bowed- damage that string instruments. This talk is accumulates in followed by Magdalena Filipczak DNA to drive performing virtuoso works for violin cancer and including Beethoven’s Romance with great progress the Cambridge Graduate Orchestra. has been made The concert closes with Berlioz’s in treating Symphonie Fantastique . these diseases, Event: 2, Map: 70, Demonstration, particularly by Ages 12+, Pre book email: drugs. Even so, the [email protected] challenges remain or visit: cgowitchinghour-csf.eventbrite.co.uk immense but the prospects £12, £8 concessions, £5 student, special offer: are incredibly exciting. £15 family (one adult and one child aged 16 or Event: 4, Map: 44, Talk, Ages 14+ under). This ticket must be purchased in advance

6 *Pre book visit: www.cam.ac.uk/sciencefestival or tel: 01223 766766 7.45pm – 9.15pm, 11 March If science is the answer, what are the questions? Reflections on l science and faith a v Nave of Wesley Methodist Church, i t

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Professor Alister McGrath will give a talk covering e F the rich and complex relationship between

Christianity and the sciences. The talk will focus on e current debates raised by ‘New Atheists’ such as h t

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sciences are intrinsically atheistic. He will also o consider some of the important questions of ethics Discovering a Roman landscape h and spirituality that emerge from engagement with g the natural world. Free refreshments will be served 11am – 4pm, 11 – 15, 18 – 22 March u before the event. Discovering a Roman landscape o r Event: 5, Map: online, Talk, Adults North West Cambridge Development Site; access via track road off Huntingdon Road h T 8pm – 9pm, 11 March opposite Howes Place The cost of conservation Do not miss this opportunity for your class to see Mill Lane Lecture Room 9, Mill Lane, CB2 1RX and handle the newest archaeological discoveries Conservation costs money, but how do we put a in Cambridge. The Cambridge Archaeological Unit price on the very existence of a species or will be undertaking excavations at the North West ecosystem? By the services it provides humans? By Cambridge development site and are inviting the valuable genetic material it might contain? Is schools to visit. All ages and Key Stages can be putting a price on nature a necessary response or accommodated. should this be a case of values not value? Join a Event: 9, Map: online, Tour, School parties only, panel of experts to discuss this controversial and Pre book* increasingly relevant issue. Event: 6, Map: 44, Talk, Ages 14+ 10am – 4pm, 12 – 16, 19 – 23 March Frozen worlds 8am – 5pm, 11 – 16, 18 – 23 March Polar Museum, Lensfield Road, CB2 1ER Caught on camera: engineering in The Polar regions are a portal for exploring space. action This exhibition presents some extraordinary Michaelhouse Café, Trinity Street, CB2 1SU technology developed to probe the most Entries from the photography competition at the challenging places in the Universe. It examines how Department of Engineering, sponsored by Carl humans exist in harsh and otherwise inhospitable Zeiss, provide a stunning visual insight into the conditions such as the Poles and space. There will ways in which engineering makes a beautiful and be activity boxes for people to use during their visit. vital contribution to our lives. Event: 10, Map: 51, Exhibition, Drop in, All ages Event: 7, Map: 43, Exhibition, Drop in, All ages 11.30am – 5pm, 12 – 17, 19 – 24 March 9am – 9pm, 11 – 24 March Map it Photographs... developed in coffee Kettle’s Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 0AQ Grads Café, University Centre, Mill Lane, Pick up a free copy of our ne w ‘art meets science’ CB2 1RU mind-map, commissioned especially for the Discover a novel application for coffee: developing Cambridge Science Festival. Artist Anne-Mie Melis black and white photographs in it! Come and see a has transformed our ‘Idea Hunters’ workshop into a selection of photographs developed in caffenol, family-friendly photomontage of facts, ideas and together with an explanation of the science behind flights of fancy to encourage you to find your own this environmentally friendly alternative to links between art and science. commercial developers and instructions on how to Event: 11, Map: 36, Trail, Drop in, All ages have a go yourself. Event: 8, Map: 67, Exhibition, Drop in, All ages

*Pre book visit: www.cam.ac.uk/sciencefestival or tel: 01223 766766 7 6pm – 7pm, 12 March Molecular advances in the l diagnosis of infectious diseases a

v Mill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane, CB2 1RX i

t Sponsored by Cambridge University Press s Tim Wreghitt explores the recent development of e molecular techniques to diagnose infections in F humans. These techniques have been of significant e benefit to individuals and have had great impact on h Francesca Happé,

t how we detect and respond to epidemics of

WiSETI lecture: my t mum’s a scientist infectious diseases. u Event: 14, Map: 44, Talk, Ages 14+

o 5pm – 6pm, 12 March h WiSETI lecture: my mum’s a scientist 6pm – 7.30pm, 12 March g Peterhouse College, Trumpington St, CB2 1RD A portal to space: u Sponsored by Schlumberger Cambridge Research frozen worlds panel discussion o Professor Francesca Happé is a specialist in autism

r Polar Museum, Lensfield Road, CB2 1ER and Asperger syndrome research from the Institute h The Polar regions offer impressive opportunities to of Psychiatry. A mum of three, she has also T study space, as planetary analogues and a way of developed a set of children's books promoting exploring human endurance in difficult and female scientists and was a Royal Institution isolated conditions. The Polar Museum presents a ‘Scientists for the New Century’ Lecturer. panel discussion by leading experts on current Event: 12, Map: 49, Talk, Ages 16+, Pre book research in Antarctica. email: [email protected] Event: 15, Map: 51, Talk, Ages 14+, Pre book* N A S 5pm – 6pm, 6pm – 7pm, (Practical sessions) A 7pm – 8pm, (Talk) 12 March Accidental discoveries Cambridge Regional College, C019 Biology Lab, C133 Chemistry Lab, King’s Hedges Road, CB4 2QT Join in practical activities in biology and chemistry. The biology practical looks at the discoveries of penicillin and saccharin, viewing bacteria and food testing. Chemistry practicals will centre on the discovery of vulcanized rubber, Teflon and the Astronomy by microscope colour mauve. This will be followed by a talk by 6pm – 7.30pm, 12 March Lata Sahonta, of the University of Cambridge Astronomy by microscope Device Materials Group on ‘Matter in our Universe’. The Open University, 12 Hills Road, CB2 1PF Event: 13, Map: online, Talk/Hands on, Ages 10+, Traditionally, astronomers study stars and planets Pre book tel: 01223 418580 or email: by telescope. But we can also learn about them by [email protected] using a microscope – through studying meteorites. From meteorites, we can learn about the processes and materials that shaped the Solar System and our planet. Tiny grains within meteorites have come from other stars, giving information about the stellar neighbourhood in which the Sun was born. In her lecture, Professor Monica Grady will describe how the microscope is another tool that can be employed to trace stellar and planetary processes. Event: 16, Map: 63, Talk, Ages 16+, Pre book tel: 01223 584647 or email: [email protected] Accidental discoveries

8 *Pre book visit: www.cam.ac.uk/sciencefestival or tel: 01223 766766 1pm – 5pm, 12 – 15, 19 – 22 March 10am – 5pm, 16, 17, 23, 24 March Cambridge Science Centre: hands l on science a v Cambridge Science Centre, 18 Jesus Lane, i t

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Come along and discover the brand new public e F

hands on science centre in the middle of

Cambridge. This new venue has interactive e Genomes on a grand scale exhibits, workshops and demos running h t

7pm – 9pm, 12 March throughout the Festival for all the family. See t

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Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Event: 20, Map: 8, Exhibition/Hands on, o

CB10 1SA Drop in, Ages 5+, £3.50, £2.50 concessions and h How are the latest tools in genetics enabling children, under 5s free, family pass £10 g scientists to discover the secrets held within the u o

human genome? Find out how scientists are r

comparing thousands of human genomes and h epigenomes to understand human variation and T the genetics behind human disease. Dr Matt Hurles and Dr Paul Flicek from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute will discuss their involvement in global collaborations in an evening of ground-breaking genome science. Event: 17, Map: online, Talk, Ages 16+, Science and the Renaissance Pre book tel: 01223 496995, email: printing press: a fruitful encounter [email protected] or visit: gogs.eventbrite.co.uk 5pm – 6pm, 13 March Science and the Renaissance 7.30pm – 8.30pm, 12 March printing press: a fruitful encounter How to spot a shabby statistic Cambridge University Library, Morison Room, Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, West Road, CB3 9DR CB2 3QH A chance to view some of the earliest scientific 2013 is the International Year of Statistics, and as incunabula, early printed material, from Cambridge data gets more open we can expect to be University Library’s collections. Medical, bombarded with bucket-loads of numbers, often astronomical, astrological and mathematical being used to try to impress and influence us. But treatises and books were illuminated by hand, can we trust all these stats? Professor David decorated with woodcut illustrations and diagrams, Spiegelhalter suggests some ways to help detect or supplemented with engraved instruments. the naughty numbers in the news. Event: 21, Map: 10, Talk, Ages 16+, Pre book* Event: 18, Map: 4, Talk, Ages 14+, Pre book*

8pm – 9.30pm, 12 March How curiosity turned into science Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road, CB2 1PD Sponsored by Bird and Bird Award-winning author Dr Philip Ball will examine how our inquisitive impulse first became sanctioned – when it changed from a vice to a virtue, and when it became permissible to ask any and every question about the world. Event: 19, Map: 22, Talk, Ages 10+, Pre book visit: www.scisoc.com/booking *Pre book visit: www.cam.ac.uk/sciencefestival or tel: 01223 766766 9 6pm – 7.30pm, 7pm – 8.30pm, 13 March 7.30pm – 8.45pm, 13 March Laboratory tour and introduction The future of energy l to the world of doping control Riley Auditorium, Clare College, Queen’s Road a The HFL Sport Science Laboratory, CB3 9AJ v i Newmarket Road, Fordham, CB7 5WW Sponsored by Science AAAS t s Join a tour around the modern laboratories at HFL Across the boundaries of academic disciplines, e Sports Science. Take a look at a real forensic energy researchers are working toward a more F

laboratory and see how we compare to the TV sustainable future. But what does that future look e world of CSI. Our expert scientists will be on hand like, and what possibilities exist for reaching that h to answer questions and demonstrate the goal? Tim Radford, former Science Editor at The t

t techniques and equipment we use in our Guardian , will chair this panel discussion with

u medication and doping control work, including Cambridge researchers Richard McMahon, Julian

o undertaking all of the equine testing for the Allwood, Emily Shuckburgh and Tony Roulstone

h London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. around challenges in sustainability – technical, g Event: 22, Map: online, Tour, Arrive on time, intellectual, behavioural and political – and recent u Ages 16+, Pre book* developments in energy research toward meeting o these challenges. r 6pm – 8.30pm, 13 March Event: 25, Map: 73, Talk, Ages 14+, Pre book* h

T A window on the brain Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, MRC, 1.30pm – 2.30pm, 13, 20 March 15 Chaucer Road, CB2 7EF 10.30am – 11.30am, 12.30pm – 1.30pm, Come for an hour of hands-on practical 22 March demonstrations followed by a series of short talks. For Sedgwick storytime: the first hour, there will be practical demonstrations tall tales from the Broomsquire of experiments for you to try out and informative Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, posters to view, with lots of our scientists on hand to Downing Street, CB2 3EQ explain their work. At 7pm three different talks begin Take a magical journey with the Broomsquire. in the Lecture Theatre. Each talk will be 20 – 25 Discover his fossils and the stories he tells about minutes followed by questions. Light refreshments them. Can you spot which of them are true, and (tea/sandwiches) will be served. which are tall tales? With Cambridge storyteller Event: 23, Map: online, Talk, Ages 14 Marion Leeper. Children must be accompanied by a S I

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5.30pm – 7pm, 14 March Focusing on ADHD Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, CB2 3QH Supported by The Wellcome Trust and the British Association of Psychopharmacology Biological design: the history Poor concentration, hyperactivity and impulsivity and future of plant architecture are common in people with ADHD. These 7.30pm – 8.30pm, 13 March symptoms may be distressing and cause difficulties Biological design: the history and in daily life, but what causes them? How can they future of plant architecture best be treated? This Brain Awareness Week Sainsbury Laboratory Auditorium, discussion panel includes Professor Barbara Sahakian, 47 Bateman Street, CB2 1LR Dr Ulrich Mu ̈ller and Dr Sam Chamberlain. Dr Siobhan Braybrook gives a talk about the history Event: 27, Map: 4, Talk, Ages 14+, Pre book* of plant architecture at the Stirling Award-winning Sainsbury Laboratory. How and why do plants have the shapes they have, how has domestication influenced this and how can we use plants as inspiration for new materials and design principles? Event: 24, Map: online, Talk, Ages 16+, Pre book*

10 *Pre book visit: www.cam.ac.uk/sciencefestival or tel: 01223 766766 6pm – 7pm, 14 March 6.30pm – 8.30pm, 14 March Roger go to yellow three: Look what chemistry has done for me the sense of hearing Royal Society of Chemistry, Thomas Graham l Whipple Museum of the History of Science, House, Cambridge Science Park, CB4 0WF a v Free School Lane, CB2 3RH An informal and informative event showcasing the i t

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party problem’ is explored through music and more from real chemists about possible career

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The Portland Arms, 129 Chesterton Road, T CB4 3BA The thinking person’s variety night, with a special guest on stage alongside fellows and researchers giving stand-up comedy a go for the first time. Join academics from Cambridge and beyond for a Challenging the price of drugs lighthearted look at their research. It’s a comedy 6.30pm – 8pm, 14 March night with a difference and has some special guests Challenging the price of drugs on the bill not to be missed. Department of Chemical Engineering and Event: 32, Map: online, Performance, Ages 18+, Biotechnology, New Museums Site, CB2 3RA Pre book email: [email protected] Why does developing drugs cost so much? Why or visit: cambridge.brightclub.org £8 does it take so long? What’s the difference between branded drugs and a generic? In a panel discussion 2pm – 4pm, 15 March with Professor Gerard Evan and Sir Gregory Winter The science behind conservation: amongst others, these dilemmas can be pondered caring for museum collections and a fundamental understanding of drug Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, development can be gained. CB2 1RB Event: 29, Map: 16, Talk, Ages 16+ Take a rare peek behind the scenes of the Fitzwilliam Museum with a conservator and find 6.30pm – 8.15pm, 14 March out about the methods used to tackle damaging Travelling Salesman effects of everyday life, from sunlight to pests. Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Event: 33, Map: 60, Talk and Tour, Ages 14+, Wilberforce Road, CB3 0WA Pre-book tel: 01223 332904, email: Award-winning indie film Travelling Salesman is an [email protected] intellectual thriller which imagines that four brilliant or visit: www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk mathematicians discover a solution to a major unsolved mathematical problem, P vs NP, with profound implications for computer science and cryptography. Offered $10 million by the US government for exclusive access to their work, they must grapple with the practical and moral consequences as they make a life-changing decision. Event: 30, Map: 12, Film, Ages 16+, Pre book visit: plus.maths.org/PvsNP £5.50

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7pm – 8.30pm, 15 March C A M The science and science fiction of l immortality: can we and should a we live forever? v i Department of Biochemistry, Sanger Building, t s Tennis Court Road, CB2 1QW e Death is in decline: average human lifespan F

continues to increase at the startling rate of five e Andrew Chamblin MemorialLecture: hours per day. Are we on the threshold of h immortality or infinite ageing? What is ageing and t the infinity puzzle – from Higgs Bosun to the LHC

t can it be defeated? Is immortality desirable? These

u crucial issues will be discussed by immortalist 5pm – 6pm, 15 March o Andrew Chamblin Memorial Aubrey de Grey, philosopher Stephen Cave, h Lecture: the infinity puzzle – biochemist Guy Brown, and the audience. Come g from the Higgs Boson to the LHC and find out what the future has in store for you! u Event: 36, Map: 15, Talk, Ages 16+ Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, o r CB2 3QH 7.30pm – 8.30pm, 15 March h Professor Frank Close takes you on a journey from

T Cell replacement in age and when Rutherford and Bohr discovered the nuclear disease: what are the atom 100 years ago to the present day. The work of prospects? Peter Higgs and others around 50 years ago Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, inspired the theory of this basic structure of matter. CB2 3QH In July 2012, discovery of what is probably the Sponsored by TTP Group Higg's Boson and experimental proof of the theory In this talk, Nobel Prize winner Professor John was announced, and speculations about Nobel Gurdon will discuss recent developments in the prizes mushroomed. This talk reviews the ideas and field of nuclear reprogramming by which new the history, and assesses how the credits should be embryonic cells can be derived from adult cells. shared. As for recommendations to the Nobel The lecture will cover ethical and legal concerns Committee: these might not be what you expect. in this field. Event: 34, Map: 4, Talk, Ages 14+, Pre book* Event: 37, Map: 4, Talk, Ages 14+, Pre book* 7pm – 8pm, 15 March 10am – 4pm 16, 17, 23, 24 March Think you can handle outer space? Inventions and discoveries that help Institute of Astronomy, Sackler Lecture Theatre, us understand the natural world Hoyle Building, Madingley Road, CB3 0HA Shepreth Wildlife Park, Station Road, Shepreth, Discover the extremes of the Universe! Join us as SG8 6PZ we find out what it’s like on other planets and in We offer 'Muybridge to Madagascar' – a look at outer space! See what happens to everyday things how the evolution of animation has brought the as they go from the burning hot to the freezing natural world into our living rooms, with Lainie cold and up to extreme pressures. Get ready for Bazzoni and Pete Skinner. Find out how some loud bangs and mess! An explosive talk palaeontology, genetics and advancements in about space. technologies improves our understanding of the Event: 35, Map: 34, Talk, Ages 8+ inter-relationship of species at 'Re-gene-eration' with Dan Raven. Hands-on animal handling sessions will also occur throughout the day. Event: 38, Map: 56, Hands on, Drop in, Ages 5+, Admission charges apply

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Events run from 10am to 4pm and we’ve got lots on oﬀer, from hands on activities to talks and demonstrations from students, staﬀ and volunteers from across the University and beyond.

Don’t forget to collect your ‘bug battles’ cards as well. These are available at various locations around the Festival and help you discover the wonderful world of microorganisms.

Can’t get round everything in just the one day? Why not come back tomorrow! Highlights

Page 14 Page 16 Page 29 Itch Rocks The secret of the ThinkCon BBC Radio 2 Drivetime host sinister scientist Something for an older and children’s author Simon It looks like a crime has audience and back for 2013, Mayo joins us to talk about been committed at the ThinkCon is a day of short the new adventures of Itch, Festival. Can you help talks on everything you a 14 year old element Sherlock crack the case? could possibly imagine! hunter.

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S Join author and BBC Radio 2 Drivetime host Simon Mayo as he talks about his children’s books Itch and Itch Rocks. Itch is a 14-year old, accident-prone hero whose habit of collecting all the elements in the periodic table gets him in some seriously dangerous situations. When he discovers a new and very powerful element, terrorists and governments will stop at nothing to track Itch down. Itch is forced to pit his brain against them using science as his weapon and elements as his gadgets. With the element safely disposed of, Itch returns to school – with a sizeable security detail in tow – and life looks as if it’s back to normal…. With live experiments from chemist Andrea Sella it’s guaranteed to be an effervescent event! Event: 39 Simon Mayo

11.45am – 12.45pm Strange ice Though you will find it in every refrigerator in the world, ice is a material so strange that it breaks almost every rule in our textbooks. Yet its very familiarity makes us take it and its properties completely for granted. In this demonstration lecture, coinciding with the centenary of X-ray diffraction, Professor Andrea Sella will explore how we know about its properties, how it compares with other ices, and the way in which ice may be the canary warning us that our futures may be much less certain than we imagine. Andrea Sella Event: 40

1.30pm – 2.30pm Science pranks BBC 1’s Britain’s Brightest saw unsuspecting members of the public confounded by Steve Mould's mind- bending experiments. Discover other psychological tricks and hair-raising practical jokes with a scientific twist at his prank-filled show. Event: 41

3.30pm – 4.30pm Anturus – survival science An interactive adventure show designed by Anturus and Scintillate. In this hour-long show, get lost high in the mountains and deep in the forests as we make our own compasses harnessing the Earth’s magnetic field, look at the principles of being rescued and learn why you should never drink wild water unless you know a bit about microbiology. Being caught out in the wind, the nutrition of bugs and outdoor clothing are just a few of the ideas we’ll look at in this exciting science show and perhaps you too will become a survival scientist! Event: 42, Ages 12+

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11.15am – 12noon Cracking the code: the genetics of superheroes The comic books are filled with mutants; heroes and villains whose special abilities are genetic in their origin. But what are real mutants like, and could we one day use genetics to make us superhuman? Join Simon Watt to find out. Event: 44, Ages 12+

12.45pm – 1.30pm Sciencelele singalong with Helen Arney Bring your ukulele or just your singing voice to a fun family show that mixes singalong songs with science experiments. Join geek songstress Helen Arney and her trusty scientist side-kick, Michael Contario, as they explain how hot you'd get by ‘Walking on Sunshine’, which genes make up a ‘Brown Eyed Girl’, when is the next ‘Blue Moon’ and why do we ‘Dream a Little Dream’ at night? Don't forget, you're part of the show too! There'll be chords to play along and words to sing too, so get ready to take part in the first ever Sciencelele singalong! Event: 45, All ages, Pre book*

2pm – 2.45pm The evolutionary Olympics We spend a large part of our waking lives moving from place to place, but how we do so rarely gets a second thought. It is all too easy to miss the fact that we are locomotory machines of dazzling sophistication. But that's not all. We are the way we are thanks to our long evolutionary history, and if we look at this history closely enough, we see that the need to move around (and get better at it) has been life's guiding light almost from its origin roughly 3.5 billion years ago. From photosynthesis to sex, our brains to our breathing, we owe it all to life's Olympic spirit. Join zoologist Matt Wilkinson on an unusual tour of the living world, and find out why learning to move was one of the most important things that life ever did. Event: 46, Ages 12+

3.15pm – 4pm Not-so-scary skulls Do you think skulls are creepy objects only to be seen at Hallowe’en? Think again. The skull is the most complicated part of the skeleton, and has to perform an astonishing range of functions such as protecting the brain, eating food and housing the ears, eyes and nose. Join Phil Cox to be introduced to some of the weird and wonderful skulls of other animals, and discover what you look like underneath your skin. Event: 47, Ages 8+

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S With Nunu Tao and Raghd Rostom Babbage steps 11.45am – 12.15pm Visit the Cambridge BioResource Health Research ‘Please don’t eat me!’ Unit, a custom-built mobile unit, complete with With Sonja Dunbar clinic and waiting area. This Unit is often out in 1pm – 1.30pm the community to make research participation ‘Parasites: unwelcome visitors in your body’ even more accessible to local people. Come on With Lia Chappell board and make some health awareness 2pm – 2.30pm measurements like BMI, percentage body fat and ‘Sending signals and making messages’ blood pressure and find out more about the With Philip Garsed and Lia Chappell research that Cambridge BioResource is 3pm – 3.30pm supporting in the local area. ‘Big things, small things and everything in Event: 51, Map: 4, Hands on, Drop in, All ages between’ With Will Benfold 4pm – 4.30pm ‘Are we alone?’ 10am – 4pm With Catherine Hog Bug battles For the latest details of what each talk covers, Café check out our website Start collecting bug battles cards, and www.chaosscience.org.uk find out about the weird and Event: 48, Map: 24, Talk, Ages 8+ wonderful world of microorganisms. Take the opportunity to sort the 10am – 5pm goodies from the baddies, and pit the Crash, bang, squelch! bugs against each other. From the Department of Zoology most villainous viruses to the wiggliest Get to grips with exciting, fascinating and just plain of worms, collect the cards and find weird experiments that show how some of the out who is the biggest bug in the world around us works. Enthusiastic students from bunch? Who is the deadliest? Who the CHaOS Science Roadshow are on hand to show delivers the biggest ouch? Playing you what’s going on in each of our many cards are available to collect from interactive and fun experiments, covering lots of various points all over the Festival. science that goes ‘crash’, ‘bang’ and ‘squelch’! During Download a collection card from the busy periods we’ll be issuing timed tickets for later Festival website, or pick up one from in the day – these ran out very early in 2012, so our bug battles hub. There are 33 cards come early to avoid disappointment! to collect – can you get them all?! Event: 49, Map: 24, Hands on, Drop in, All ages Event: 52, Map: 3, Hands on, Drop in, Ages 8+

16 *Pre book visit: www.cam.ac.uk/sciencefestival or tel: 01223 766766 11am – 12noon, 2pm – 3pm Department of Materials Science GetSET and Metallurgy Information Marquee Map: 20, Talk, Ages 12+ (unless otherwise stated) Find out what it is like to study science, engineering y

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2pm – 3pm Steel: probably the best material in the world Lords and ladies of the flies Now taken for granted, steel is probably the most 11am – 12noon, 12noon – 1pm, 1 – 2pm, important material ever discovered. It is used to 2 – 3pm, 3 – 4pm build our machines, vehicles and buildings, it is Lords and ladies of the flies worshipped in some cultures, and it was the heart Department of Zoology, Basement of the industrial revolution. This talk explores why Descend into the basement of the Department of steel is such an incredible material and how it will Zoology to see how scientists are using the brains, become even more vital to us in the future. guts and kidneys of fruit flies to learn more about Event: 58 how the human body works. The lords and ladies of the flies will show you what these organs look like, 3pm – 4pm and how we measure and control their function. Biomimetics: mimicking nature’s Discover what we can learn by watching flies mate materials or by collecting their droppings! Why do animals’ and plants’ bodies have such Event: 54, Map: 24, Hands on, Ages 8+, Pre book* remarkable properties, and what can we humans learn from them? From ants’ feet and spider silk to 11am – 4pm carnivorous plants, can we mimic them? Nature Where the wild things are kept had a two-billion year head start – can we catch up? Museum of Zoology Event: 59 The Museum of Zoology is home to a fabulous collection of wild things. From new fossil finds 4pm – 5pm helping us to understand the evolution of land- Magnetism and superconductivity living vertebrates, to live butterflies and their What happens when you cool materials to close to genetics, the Museum is alive with scientific absolute zero? We explore the weird behaviour of discoveries. With live insects and hands on superconductors, the ultra-cold materials which activities, join scientists and staff of the Museum drive the Large Hadron Collider and could be the to explore the science behind the collections. future of electricity transport. Event: 55, Map: 47, Hands on, Drop in, All ages Event: 60

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10.30am – 3.30pm Time Truck at the Sedgwick Museum Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Travel in time with Time Truck! Investigate rocks The cosmos of your body and minerals, discover dinosaurs and explore earthquake science with hands on activities 10am – 3pm and demonstrations. The cosmos of your body Event: 66, Map: 18, Hands on, Drop in, All ages Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road, CB2 1QP Did you know your body hosts millions of microbes? Did you know that millions of proteins make your body function? Come to the Department of Pathology to see the miniature world that is your body. Event: 63, Map: 21, Hands on, Drop in, All ages

20 *Pre book visit: www.cam.ac.uk/sciencefestival or tel: 01223 766766 10.30am – 4pm 2pm – 3pm Archaeological science Healthy ageing and the brain: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research the good news If you thought archaeology was just a load of Anatomy Lecture Theatre y

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23 Plan your perfect Festival: Saturday events at a glance

9am 9.30am 10am 10.30am 11am 11.30am 12pm 12.30pm New Museums Site (p14 – 19) Babbage Lecture Theatre 39T Itch Rocks* 40T Strange ice * Arts School Room A 43T Dinibores: why 44T Cracking the code: the mamals are way cool genetics of superheroes Zoology 48T CHaOS talks 48T CHaOS talks 48T CHaOS talks

Central Science Library 50H The sinister scientist* 50H The sinister scientist* 50H The sinister scientist* 50H The sinister s Babbage Steps 51 Café Information Marquee 53E Get SET Museum of Zoology Materials Science and Metalurgy 56T Ten things you didn’t know 56T Ten things you didn’t know about ice cream* about ice cream* Arts School Downing Site (p20 – 21) Psychology 62H The science of your mind Pathology 63H The cosmos of you Pharmacology 64H Why snot? Plant Sciences Marquee 65H Plant re Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences 66H Tine t McDonald Institute Anatomy Lecture Theatre 68T Imagination: a door to identity Biochemistry Museum of Arch and Anth Physiological Laboratory In and around the city (p22, 27 – 29) Chemistry 74T The modern alchemist* The Guildhall 75H Hand on act St Columba Hall 76H Living with robots* 76H Living with robots* St Catharine’s College 77H Translational medicine and Whipple Museum 78H Objects The Pitt Building 79 80H What goes The Cambridge Buddhist Centre 81T Buddhism and science Tourist Information Centre 82GT Inventions and discoveries – a walking tour* St John’s College McCrum Lecture Theatre Gurdon Institute Mill Lane Lecture Rooms

D Demonstration, E Exhibition, F Film, GT Guided tour, H Hands on, P Performance, T Talk * Check event listing for booking information

Evening events: 84T ThinkCon* (p29), 87HTF Expedition to Mars* (p29), 88P Festival of the spoken nerd* (p29)

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41T Science pranks* 42T Anturus – survival science* 45T Sciencelele singalong 46T The evolutionary 47T Not-so-scary skulls with Helen Arney* Olympics 48T CHaOS talks 48T CHaOS talks 48T CHaOS talks 48T CHaOS talks 49H Crash, bang, squelch! 54H Lords and ladies of the ﬂies* cientist* 50H The sinister scientist* 50H The sinister scientist* 50H The sinister scientist* 50H The sinister scientist* H Health research unit 52H Bug battles 53E Get SET 55H Where the wild things are kept 57T Polymers: the world’s 58T Steels: probably the best 59T Biomimetics: mimicking 60T Magnetism and weirdest materials material in the world nature’s materials superconductivity 61H Biology zone

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Visit a set of crime scenes and collect evidence for analysis in order to solve the crime. e c

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Ages 8+ c S What are you really looking at? See what you’re looking at with eye-motion tracking glasses. Ages 8+

Power your way through the Tour de France Experience what it is like to ride at the relative power output maintained by champions of this prestigious race. Ages 8+

Let’s face it! Activities using eye tracking and galvanic skin response measurements will explore how we see faces.

Discover your eyes and ears Discover the amazing tricks your brain plays with the eyes by journeying through a gallery of optical illusions. Take a peek into the ear and learn how it works. Discover how good your 3-D vision and colour perception is.

Arts and crafts corner Younger scientists can personalise their own spectacle frames. Enjoy a range of hands on activities designed to help you discover how amazing your eyes and ears are.

Meet the creepy crawlies You can meet the giant African land snails, giant African millipedes as well as the Madagascan hissing cockroaches! They're safe and fine to handle for all ages.

How does it work? Presented by the IET The Institution of Engineering and Technology in Cambridge will have gadgets and gizmos, computer internals (from chips to disk drives) and other technology, and will explain how everything works together.

*Pre book visit: www.cam.ac.uk/sciencefestival or tel: 01223 766766 27 10am – 4pm In the city What’s the latest in computer science? 9.30am – 10.45am, 11am – 12.15pm, The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, CB2 1RP y 1pm – 2.15pm, 2.30pm – 3.45pm

a Prepare to be surprised! Computing is not just Living with robots d about spread sheets and presentation slides; it’s r St Columba’s Church Hall, Downing Street, used to do many more amazing things that you u CB2 3EL

t might not expect. Come and see some exciting Join STEM Team East to build, design and create a Microsoft Research projects, meet our researchers your own moving model robot. Find out how S and get hands-on with computer science. important robots are to all our lives and discover

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i 38 Newmarket Road, CB5 8DT therapeutics c Join Dr Bronwen Rees (Buddhist name: Sinhagupta)

S St Catharine’s College, Ramsden Room, for a talk on the radical findings in physics, Trumpington Street, CB21TQ molecular biology, and neuroscience to show how MPhil students will demonstrate how new they have resonance with the practices and medicines are discovered and translated from principles of different spiritual traditions, including the laboratory. Tibetan Buddhism, alchemy and Taoism. Event: 77, Map: 57, Hands on, Drop in, All ages Event: 81, Map: online, Talk, Adults

10am – 4pm 10.30am – 12.30pm, 2.30pm – 4.30pm, Objects of science – 16, 17, 23 March Saturday opening 10.30am – 12.30pm, 18, 20, 22 March Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Inventions and discoveries – Free School Lane, CB2 3RH a walking tour Explore the Whipple Museum’s collections and Tourist Information Centre, Peas Hill, CB2 3AD investigate how some of our objects work using Come on a walk with the science guides and find the handling trolleys. The Whipple Museum holds a out how Cambridge scientists have changed the unique collection of scientific instruments and face of the world with their discoveries from models ranging from the purely functional to the Newton’s laws of motion to sequencing the human beautiful and ornate. Visit our new Globes Gallery, genome. Along the way you will hear about investigate our Discover Gallery and remember to Cambridge inspired inventions including the first call in to our hands on Victorian Parlour. Short tours flushing toilet, the computer and the jet engine. will also be available throughout the day. The afternoon tour on the 23 March will be in Spanish. Event: 78, Map: 71, Hands on, Drop in, All ages Event: 82, Map: 66, Tour, All ages, Pre book*

10am – 4pm 11am – 4.30pm Helicopter heaven St John’s College and the The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, CB2 1RP physical sciences Helicopters use an unbalanced force to accelerate St John’s College, St John’s Street, CB2 1TP upwards but they need balanced sideways forces From compasses to digital computers, a journey for stable flight. A bigger body is more stable but through the contributions members of St John’s will the elastic band store enough energy to lift a College have made to modern day science. Come chunky helicopter? Join the Department of and see where a science degree can take you! Engineering to investigate what makes the “best” This exhibition showcases a wide range of material helicopter design – by making and testing your from early printed works to personal papers, letters own model! and photographs. The event is held in the Event: 79, Map: 64, Hands on, Drop in, Ages 8+ atmospheric surroundings of our 17th century Old Library, one of Cambridge’s hidden treasures. Event: 83, Map: 59, Exhibition, Ages 12+, Pre book*

28 *Pre book visit: www.cam.ac.uk/sciencefestival or tel: 01223 766766 McCrum Lecture Theatre 2.30pm – 4pm St Bene’t Street, CB2 1RH Other worlds: exoplanets and Event: 84, Map: 40, Talk, Ages 16+, Pre book tel: discovering life beyond Earth Mill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane, CB2 1RW

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With James Grime Prepare yourself for space exploration at the Poles! c 10.30am – 11am During one evening you will ‘train’ for your space S ‘Diffusion of the dead’ expedition at the Poles and go on to conquer space! With Thomas Woolley A film screening of the 1950s classic space adventure 11am – 12noon ‘Conquest of Space’, with hands on activities and an ‘I’m a ghost hunter, get me out of here!’ introductory talk. With Hayley Stevens Event: 87, Map: 51, Hands on, Talk/Film, 1pm – 2pm Ages 16+, Pre book* ‘Ocean’s got talent – or why we should love fish as much as we love whales’ 8pm – 10pm (doors open 7.30pm) With Dr Helen Scales Festival of the spoken nerd 2pm – 3pm presents: full frontal nerdity ‘Disconnected; how not to do the Internet’ Cambridge Union, Bridge Street, CB2 1ER With Kate Russell The Spoken Nerds return to Cambridge Science 3.30pm – 4.30pm Festival with a new night of comedy, science and ‘Sex and the media’ special guests at the Union Society. Fresh back from With Feona Attwood their first UK tour, stand-up mathematician Matt 4.30pm – 5.30pm Parker, geek songstress Helen Arney and BBC1 ‘A world of science toys’ experiments guy Steve Mould have created a show- With Helen Czerski and-tell night out of all their favourite things. If you 6pm – 7.30pm enjoy comedy at the geeky end of the spectrum, join ‘The Pod Delusion live!’ Spoken Nerd for an evening of laughter, wonder – With James O'Malley and full frontal nerdity! Event: 88, Map: 9, Performance, Adults, 1.30pm – 4pm Pre book visit: All you want to know about cloning wegottickets.com/festivalofthespokennerd £6, Gurdon Institute, The Henry Wellcome Building, £4 concessions, unsold tickets available on the Tennis Court Road, CB2 1QN door for cash Sir John Gurdon was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his pioneering work on animal cloning. Come along to better understand what cloning is about and to discover and practice some techniques that the Gurdon Laboratory is using. Event: 85, Map: 28, Hands on, Drop in, Ages 8+

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contributes to a carbon footprint! Come along Wellcome Trust; Neil Hammond, CUP and Professor e and try out some hands on activities with our John Naughton for a panel discussion and Q&A. h experienced facilitators. Event: 119, Map: 44, Ages 16+, Pre-book* t

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T planet, unchanged for millions of years, until plate maintained throughout life. Stem cell research can tectonics showed continents drifting 25cm each provoke exaggerated claims of miracle cures on the year. Mapping continental velocities using the one hand and moral outrage over use of human Global Positioning System makes land look more embryos on the other. So what makes a cell a stem like a glacier than a rigid plate. See how the Earth’s cell, and can they really be used to treat disease? vigorous movements in the mantle that maintain Event: 120, Map: 53, Film, Talk, Ages 14+, Pre these motions show us 50 years on that the book email: [email protected] Earth is a fluid, not a solid, sphere. With Professor Dan McKenzie. 6.30pm – 7.30pm, 21 March Event: 116, Map: 44, Talk, 14+, Pre book* My life as a dinosaur fanatic Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, 2pm – 4pm, 21 March Downing Street, CB2 3EQ Dinosaurs from the inside out World renowned palaeoartist Bob Nicholls talks Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, about his life as a professional dinosaur fanatic. Like Downing Street, CB2 3EQ many children Bob developed an interest in World-renowned palaeoartist Bob Nicholls will take drawing dinosaurs at a very young age and now you through the creative process of reconstructing has over 13 years of experience as a professional anatomically accurate dinosaurs. Starting with palaeoartist. He talks about some of his projects fragments of fossilised bone, you will bring the and shares advice on the techniques he uses to dinosaur back to life by adding organs, muscles, bring dinosaurs back to life. The Museum will be covering it with skin, scales and feathers and finally open from 6pm for a private view of the new deciding what colour it was. No previous interpretation panels that feature Bob’s work. experience required. Event: 121, Map: 18, Talk, Adults, Pre book* Event: 117, Map: 18, Workshop, Adults, Pre book tel: 01223 333456, £6 8pm – 9pm, 21 March Open your mind with the 6pm – 7pm, 21 March Naked Scientists MRC Centenary lecture: 100 years Mill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane, CB2 1RX of TB – poets, sanatoriums The Naked Scientists take you on an interactive and the MRC journey through the workings of the nervous Mill Lane Lecture Room 9, Mill Lane, CB2 1RX system. If you're brave enough, they'll read your Presented by the MRC brainwaves, reveal how your nerves send and receive Science writer and broadcaster Vivienne Parry OBE information, activate your muscles electrically, fool presents a fascinating insight into science through your senses into seeing and feeling things that aren't the ages to celebrate 100 years of the Medical really there and even spot when you are lying. Research Council. Event: 122, Map: 44, Talk, Ages 14+ Event: 118, Map: 44, Talk, Ages 14+, Pre book*

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Discovering the amazing inner workings of the Discover how artist Deborah Robinson is exploring s human body. From the skin, bones and brain, what the world of malaria research at the Wellcome Trust e F happens inside our body in an ordinary day? What Sanger Institute to create a new piece of art. happens when we breathe, eat, run or sing? With A fascinating line up of speakers from the arts, e animations, indoor pictures with miniature and genetics research and medical history will discuss h t

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Opus Anglicanum use music and texts chosen Residents facing noise from wind turbines, and T by John Allen, Emeritus Professor of Physics, environmental organisations interested in 'green St Andrews University, to chart the changing chemistry' are among those who have teamed up perceptions of the nature of light through history. with researchers and students to co-create John Allen has chosen Zarathustra, Parmenides, knowledge, without financial barriers, through Democritus, Alhazen, Newton, Young and Einstein science shops. Charities in the Cambridge area have to be performed along with first performances of also had research projects carried out for them by new works by Dobrinka Tabakova to a text by students using science shop principles. Join us to Einstein; and by Gordon Crosse to a text by Hafiz. learn more with Dr Henk Mulder, University of With Judith Bingham ‘Breguswith’s Dream’ from Groningen and Dr Emma McKenna, Queen’s ‘Necklace of Light’; John Dunstable ‘Veni Sancte University Belfast. Spiritus’; Josquin ‘In principio erat verbum’; Event: 127, Map: 64, Talk/Workshop, Adults, Tallis ‘O Nata Lux de Lumine’; and other works. Pre book* Event: 124, Map: 71, Performance, Adults, Pre book* 6pm – 7pm, 26 March Design principles for 7pm – 8pm, 22 March neuroprosthetics Beyond the Higgs Boson: Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, antimatter, spacetime and CB2 3QH supersymmetry The Cambridge Neuroscience Public Lecture Mill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane, CB2 1RX A brain-machine interface (BMI) enables users to The recent discovery of a Higgs-like boson at the interact with computers and with physical devices Large Hadron Collider opens a new chapter in through the voluntary modulation of their brain particle physics. In this talk, Andy Parker and activity. The central challenge of a BMI is to Val Gibson will discuss some of the open questions distinguish different patterns of brain activity, with to be investigated in the next phase, each associated with a particular intention or including why the Universe is not mental task. This is a long way from being solved! made of antimatter, whether What are the principles for operating complex there are more than three brain-controlled robots over long periods of time? space dimensions and if Event: 128, Map: 4, Talk, Ages 14+ supersymmetric particles exist. Event: 125, Map: 44, Talk, Ages 14+, Pre book*

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Science on Saturday 2 1.30pm – 3pm In and around the city Science in the city Meet outside Great St Mary’s Church, 2

10.30am – 12noon, 1.30pm – 3pm Senate House Hill, CB2 3PG y A chemical trail around Cambridge Ever wondered what really goes on behind the a University Botanic Garden University’s doors? The city is bursting with exciting d Botanic Garden, 1 Brookside, CB2 1JE research and scientific history. Come and join this r A guided walk around the Chemicals from Plants walking tour led by a Cambridge academic for an u t trail. This trail highlights a few of the interesting insider’s view. You will learn where Cambridge’s a chemical compounds in some of the Garden’s most famous alumni liked to spend their down S plants. These include the molecules that give plants time as well as up to date information about the n their well-known properties as foodstuffs, state of the art research currently being o

supplements and drugs, as well as some other investigated. Almost every street in Cambridge is e compounds like melatonin which is useful across crammed with scientific history, but this can c the plant and animal kingdoms. It highlights some sometimes be easy to miss. This tour is led by n issues related to the use of plants such as how Hayley Frend, a PhD student in the Department e i knowledge of some detrimental components can of Pathology. c allow these to be eliminated and how plants can be Event: 156, Map: 29, Tour, Adults, Pre book tel: S harmed when they are found to be beneficial to us. 07875 279122 or email: [email protected]

Event: 154, Map: online, Tour, Ages 15+, S I R

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11am – 12noon, 12.30pm – 1.30pm, 2.30pm – 3.30pm, 4pm – 5pm Acts of kindness Robinson Theatre, Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge CB2 8PE An exciting and adventurous collaboration between theatre and science, centred around a The wonderful world of pollination new play, The Altruists , by Craig Baxter. 1.30pm – 4pm 11am – 12noon The wonderful world of pollination ‘Game theory in The Altruists ’ Botanic Garden, Classroom, 1 Brookside, CB2 1JE With Rufus Johnstone and Menagerie Theatre Discover how flowers send out secret signals to Ensemble attract animal pollinators like bees and butterflies 12.30pm – 1.30pm and create science inspired artworks. You’ll never ‘Highs and lows – the presentation of Bi-Polar look at flowers in the same way after this fun Disorder in The Altruists ’ afternoon workshop at the Botanic Garden. With Dr Belinda Lennox, Professor Emily Event: 157, Map: online, Ages 12+, Pre book tel: Holmes and Martina Cherubini di Simplicio 01223 331875 2.30pm – 3.30pm ‘Evolution and nature in The Altruists ’ 5pm – 7pm, 23 March With Dr Francis Neary and Innovation and development: Professor Steve Jones Hackathon finale 4pm – 5pm The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, CB2 1RP ‘Play science’ representing science and All are welcome to the finale event of a two-week scientists on stage collaboration or ‘hackathon’. Enterprising students Event: 155, Map: online, Performance, and professionals will present innovative Ages 16+, Pre book* approaches to real challenges faced by people living in poverty overseas, with a focus on food security and social enterprise. Awards will be presented to the team of innovators chosen by an expert panel – and by the crowd! Organised with the Humanitarian Centre and Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club. Event: 158, Map: 64, Talk, 16+, Pre book*

44 *Pre book visit: www.cam.ac.uk/sciencefestival or tel: 01223 766766 Public engagement

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13 – 15 September 2013 (Programme available from July) Open Cambridge Cambridge is home to spectacular architecture, art collections and gardens. Open Cambridge is an accessible weekend of tours and talks for residents and visitors to see beautiful spaces for free.

Sunday 15 September 2013 (registration open in June) Bridge the Gap charity walk This five-mile route through Colleges is a one-of a-kind day out that raises funds for local charities.

23 October – 3 November 2013 (Programme available from September) Festival of Ideas The University of Cambridge Festival of Ideas explores arts, humanities and social sciences. Take your pick from talks, performances and film screenings, or have a go with hands-on activities and workshops for all ages.

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Accessibility

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We are able to make some additional adjustments, for instance installing a temporary hearing loop or advising on parking, and our codes represent the minimum level of assessed accessibility. The full Cambridge University Disability Access Guide contains more comprehensive practical information across the University but please ask us if you have a speciﬁc question related to your own circumstances. Please contact us if you would like all or part of this publication in large font, audio or Braille.

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46 Science Festival accessibility guide We use the following codes: Toilet, wheelchair accessible T Level, ramped access L Partial access: phone or email to discuss your needs PA Lift to all ﬂoors Li Induction loop I

1 Anatomy Lecture Theatre T, L, Li, I 3 8 Lady Mitchell Hall T,L,Li 2 Arts Picturehouse T, L, PA, I 39 Madingley Hall T, L 3 Arts School/Central Science Library T, L, Li 40 McCrum Lecture Theatre T, Li, I 4 Babbage Lecture Theatre L, Li, I 41 McDonald Institute for L, T, I, Li, PA 5 Botanic Garden T, L Archaeological Research 6 Cambridge Buddhist Centre T, PA 42 Magdalene College T,L,Li,I 7 Cambridge Regional College T, L, Li 43 Michaelhouse Café T, L, Li 8 Cambridge Science Centre T, L 44 Mill Lane Lecture Rooms T, L, Li 9 Cambridge Union L 45 MRC Cognition and T, L, Li, I 10 Cambridge University Library T, L, I, PA Brain Sciences Unit 11 Cavendish Laboratory T, L, Li, I 46 Museum of Archaeology T, L, Li, I 12 Centre for Mathematical T, L, Li, I and Anthropology Sciences 47 Museum of Zoology T, L, Li 13 Clare College PA 48 North West Cambridge PA 14 Computer Laboratory L, Li, T Development Site 15 Department of Biochemistry T, Li, L, I, PA 49 Peterhouse T, L, Li, I 16 Department of Chemical T, L, Li, I 50 Physiological Laboratory T, L, Li, I Engineering and Biotechnology 51 Polar Museum T, L, Li, I 17 Department of Chemistry T, PA 52 Plant Sciences Marquee L 18 Department of Earth Sciences T, PA, Li 53 Robinson College T,L,I and Sedgwick Museum 54 Royal Society of Chemistry L, Li, T 19 Department of Engineering L, Li 55 Sainsbury Laboratory T, L, Li, I 20 Department of Materials T, L, Li, I 56 Shepreth Wildlife Park T, L Science and Metallurgy 57 St Catharine’s College L, PA 21 Department of Pathology T, L, Li, PA 58 St Columba’s Church Hall T, L, Li, I 22 Department of Pharmacology T, L, Li, I 59 St John’s College T, L, Li, I 23 Department of Psychology L, Li 60 The Fitzwilliam Museum T, L, Li, I 24 Department of Zoology L 61 The Guildhall T, L, Li 25 Friends Meeting House T, L, Li 62 The HFL Sport Science Laboratory T, L 26 Geological Conservation Unit PA 63 The Open University in the T, L, Li 27 Grafton Shopping Centre T,L,Li East of England 28 Gurdon Institute T,L,Li,I 64 The Pitt Building T, L, Li, I 29 Great St Mary’s Church T, L, I 65 The Portland Arms PA 30 Hauser Forum T, Li 66 Tourist Information Centre PA 31 Hills Road Sixth Form College T,L,Li,I 67 University Centre T,L,Li 32 Information Marquee L 68 Wellcome Trust T, L, Li, I 33 Institute for Manufacturing L, PA Genome Campus 34 Institute of Astronomy T, PA 69 Wesley Methodist Church L, I 35 Isaac Newton Institute for T, L, I, Li 70 West Road Concert Hall T, L, I Mathematical Sciences 71 Whipple Museum of the L, Li 36 Kettle’s Yard House and Gallery PA History of Science 37 La Dante in Cambridge PA *Pre book visit: www.cam.ac.uk/sciencefestival or tel: 01223 766766 47 Spotlight Sponsors

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