Inhouse Talks - The Adstock Science Club
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| Past talks at The Adstock Science Club | ||||
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Description |
| Year 2010 | ||||
| 9th Nov | Michael Heason | Ex army | The Rifle | The history and workings of the modern day automatic rifle including that of the infamous AK47 |
| Year 2011 | ||||
| 11th Jan | Tony Bates | TASC | Jet Engines | History and workings of the jet engine. |
| 8th Feb | Alex Moss & Joe Braithwaite | Students at The Royal Latin School | How the sun, moon and planets were formed. | |
| 26th Apr | Steve Cumbach | TASC | Fuel Cells | An introduction to the Hydrogen Fuel Cell |
| 17th May | Steve Cumbach | TASC | Gravity explained | Why apples fall, Sir Issac Newton's Laws of Gravity, why satellites stay in orbit & the difference between mass and weight. |
| 14th Jun | Marius Stuart | TASC | The Origin of Man part I | From the Big Bang to the first vertebrate Fish |
| 19th Jul | Marius Stuart | TASC | Inside a PC | Taking a look at what goes to make up a personal computer. |
| 11th Oct | Tony Bates | TASC | The Origin of Man part II | From the first fish to the advent of Man. |
| 29th Nov | Dr Suzie Sheehy | Science and Technology Facilities Council | Accelerated Dreams | Particle accelerators and some of their uses. |
| Year 2012 | ||||
| 10th Jan | Mark Hempsell | Reaction Engines Ltd. | Space Shuttle RIP | Skype talk & discussion about Skylon & SABRE engine. |
| 17th Apr | Dr Harin Sellahewa | Buckingham University | Biometrics: from Hollywood to your palm | The science and technology behind biometrics |
| 21st Jun | Tony Bates & Marius Stuart | TASC | Recent visits | Highlights of visit to RAL & Cheltenham Science Festival |
| 10th Jul | Parvarthy Harikumar | PhD student at Buckingham University | Skin cancer | In particular Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (LCH) |
| 14th Aug | Ron Dudley-Smith | The British Society of Dowsers | Water divining & dowsing | Talk and dowsing demonstration, great fun. |
| 11th Sep | Dr Ellie Dommett | The Open University | Brain Science in the Real World | How neuroscience is impacting on different stages of our lives. |
| 16th Oct | Paul Radcliffe | U3A | History of Philosophy | The beginnings of philosophy and some of the main ideas. |
| 13th Nov | Dr Mark Nightingale | The Culham Centre for Fusion Energy | Why Fusion? | An introduction into fusion concepts and other related areas including JET. |
| Year 2013 | ||||
| 14th Mar | John Foggitt | TASC | The Ubiquitous Chip | Click here for notes Click here for PP slides |
| 18th Apr | Mike Glazer, Emeritus Professor of Physics | Oxford University | Crystal World | Introduction to the science of crystallography and x-ray defraction |
| 9th May | Dr Harin Sellahewa | Buckingham University | Using digital images to identify Smartphone models. | Click here for write up |
| 13th Jun | Dr John Bond | Leicester University | Fingerprints Forever | Click here for PP slides |
| 15th Aug | Marius Stuart | TASC | Data Security | "If you've done nothing wrong..." Can you trust Contactless cards? Click here for PP show download |
| 10th Oct | Marius Stuart | TASC | Life on Mars | Click here for talk notes |
| 14th Nov | John Foggitt | TASC | The Golden Ratio | Click here for PP show download |
| Year 2014 | ||||
| 13th Feb | Demetri Petrou | TASC | Jupiter | Click here for PP show download |
| 20th Mar | Mark Beach | TASC | Computer Games | Click here for talk notes |
| 8th May | Marius Stuart John Foggitt | TASC | Sound, the good the bad & the strange. A Sound Idea | A couple of talks taking a close look at sound, how we hear, it's uses and some of the science behind it. |
| 12th Jun | Marius Stuart | TASC | How Clocks Work Cheltenham Science Festival | A brief look at how clocks work plus heighlights of the recent CSF. |
| 10th Jul | Dr Andrew Smith | The Open University | Linux | Click here for PP show download |
| 21st Oct | Marius Stuart | TASC | America in space, a personal voyage of discovery | Click here for PP show download |
| 23rd Oct | Gordon Rogers | Crendon Observatory | Winston Churchill's Toy Shop | Click here for related information |
| 13th Nov | Simon Braithwaite | TASC | Flying from London to Phoenix | Typical 747 flight sequence from the pilot's eye view. |
| Year 2015 | ||||
| 8th Jan | Marius Stuart | TASC | The Dark Web | Click here for the PP Slide Show download Notes on The Dark Web |
| 19th Mar | Darren Jeacock | Beekeeper | Bees and Beekeeping | Click here for notes on Darren's talk. |
| 16th Apr | Jennifer Stuart & Mark Beach | TASC | Autism | PP Show download on Autism PP Notes on Autism |
| 21st May | Hilary Audus | TASC | The Botanist's War | Hilary gve a talk about her father who used his botanical knowledge to keep POWs in WWII alive. |
| 18th Jun | Demetri Petrou | TASC | Einstein's Theory of General Relativity | Demetri takes us through the Looking glass. |
| 16th Jul | Prof. Andrew Norton | The Open University | Exoplanets and how to find them | Click here for talk summary |
| 17th Sep | Dr Ihsan Lami | Buckingham University | Blame it on Hertz, Tesla & Frankenstein | Talk and discussion on mobile phone technology. |
| 15th Oct | Prof. Nigel Mason | The Open University | Astrochemistry, the cradle of life | Prof. Mason explores possible ways that life came to exist. Click here for talk write up. |
| 19th Nov | Peter Birkett | TASC | Time | A personal view on "what is Time" Notes for a pub discussion following the talk |
| Year 2016 | ||||
| 21st Jan | Prof. John Clapham | Buckingham University | Gunpowder, waistlines & Richard III: the adventures of mitochondria | Click here for talk write up Click here for PP show download |
| 18th Feb | Dr Duncan Pullar | DairyCo | The Future Cow | Summary Presentation slides PDF |
| 17th Mar | Mr Ian Waller | Retired Genealogist | Victorian Medicine | Summary |
| 21st Apr | Milton Keynes Museum | Victorian Optical Illusions | Summary | |
| 16th Jun | Dr Stephen Lewis | The Open University | Landing a spacecraft on Mars (or on Venus), Earth's unlucky twin | Summary Post talk write up |
| 21st Jul | Dr Matthew Balme | The Open University | Water on Mars | Summary |
15th Sep | The Open University | Radiating Health: an alpha, Beta and Gamma of radionuclide imaging | Summary | |
| 20th Oct | Prof. Andrew Norton | The Open University | The New Cosmology | Summary |
| 17th Nov | Dr Hisham Al-Assam | Buckingham University | Computers in Medicine | Summary |
Year 2017 | ||||
| 19th Jan | Marius Stuart | TASC | The Singularity | Summary PP Slides PP presentation notes |
| 16th Feb | Dr Harin Sellahewa | Buckingham University | Touch Gesture Based Authentication on Smart Devices: how secure is Pattern Unlock | Summary |
| 16th Mar | Dr Andrew Smith | The Open University | History of the Internet | Summary |
| 20th Apr | Adam Watts | Moog UK Westcott Ltd | British Rockets for Satellites | Summary |
| 15th Jun | Marius Stuart | TASC | Rise of the Robots | Summary PP Slides |
| 20th Jul | Tony Bates | TASC | John Harrison: Clock Maker Extraordinaire | Summary |
| 21st Sep | John Foggitt | TASC | Number, Shapes, Colours & Sounds | Summary Notes PP Slides |
| 19th Oct | Prof. William Murray | Warwick Uni & LHC | The Discovery of the Higgs Boson | Summary |
| 16th Nov | Prof. Andrew Norton | The Open University | Gia Mapping the Galaxy | Summary |
Year 2018 | ||||
| 18th Jan | Nasiru Ibrahim | Buckingham University | Biometric Authentication - an update | Summary |
| 15th Feb | Marius Stuart | TASC | The Gene Genie | Summary PP Slides |
| 15th Mar | Dr Simon Waddington | Institute for Women's Health at University College London | Gene Therapy | Summary |
| 19th Apr | Mr Phil Neal | SIMS Capita | A Successful IT Start-up | Summary |
| 20th Sep | Mr Alan Daglish | Retired Metallurgical Engineer & Science Teacher | Cryptography Past, Present & Future | Pressentation Slides |
| 18th Oct | Prof. Andrew Norton | The Open University | Variable Star Research with SuperWASP | Summary |
| 15th Nov | Clare & Mark Beach | TASC | Living with Misophonia | Summary |
Year 2019 | ||||
| 17th Jan | Dr Felix Flicker | Astor Junior Research Fellow of Physics, New College, Oxford | Paradoxes, Jokes, riddles, Zen Buddhist Koans, & some ideas in modern physics | Summary Link to Felixflicker.com |
28th Feb | Marius Stuart | TASC | Engineer Through the Looking Glass | Summary |
21st Mar | Mr Pierre Girard | Milton Keynes Astronomical Society | French Astronomy | Summary |
18th Apr | Tony Bates | TASC | IKB, Britain's Greatest Engineer | Summary |
| 19th Sep | John Foggitt | TASC | 8 Bit Ecstasy | Summary |
| 17th Oct | Dr Harin Sellahewa | Buckingham University | AI & the 4th Industrial Revolution | Summary |
| 21st Nov | Beth & Mark Baker | TASC | Using VR in Medical Research | Summary |
Year 2020 | ||||
| 16th Jan | Marius Stuart | TASC | AI vs The Human Brain | Summary Slides |
| 20th Feb | Demetri Petrou | TASC | The Big Lie | Summary |
| Unfortunately due to the Covid19 pandemic we have had to suspend all talks for the time being | ||||
Year 2022 | ||||
| 22nd Sep | Phil Ealey | TASC | 3D Printers and Printing | Summary |