| Date | Subject (Standard Info) | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
2014 8:15 pm |
Measuring Colour Consumer judgements – overtly and subliminally – are influenced by colour. Colour represents information which can be safety critical. People want colours of things to match whether they are clothes, car re-sprays, adjacent pages in magazines, or computer-scanned items reproduced on computer monitors and print outs. This is a tall order given that we are involving a human perception (like smell) with confounding complexities and variabilities. The National Physical Laboratory is the custodian of measurements for the UK and has done its best to contribute to a long history of colour measurement, specification and standards. Andrew Hanson worked in the measurement of the optical properties of materials (including colour) for 20 years, has been the Chairman of the Colour Group of Great Britain and is now the NPL Outreach Manager charged with making science exciting to the public, so his talk should be good for a wide audience. |
(National Physical Laboratory) |
8:15 pm |
(University of Leicester) | |
8:15 pm |
(The British Postal Museum & Archive) | |
8:15 pm |
(The Zoological Society of London) | |
8:15 pm |
(Imperial College, London) | |
8:15 pm |
(University College, London) | |
8:15 pm |
the Science and the Experience Cochlear implants are the first device to successfully restore neural function. They have instigated a popular but controversial revolution in the treatment of deafness, and they serve as a model for research in neuroscience and biomedical engineering. After a visual tour of the physiology of natural hearing the function of cochlear implants will be described in the context of electrical engineering, psychophysics, clinical evaluation, and my own personal experience. The audience will have the opportunity to experience speech and music heard through a cochlear implant. The social implications of cochlear implantation and the future outlook for auditory prostheses will also be discussed. About the speaker: Ian Shipsey is a particle physicist, and a Professor of Physics at Oxford University. He has been profoundly deaf since 1989. In 2002 he heard the voice of his daughter for the first time, and his wife's voice for the first time in thirteen years thanks to a cochlear implant. The presentation will be at the level of Scientific American. |
(CERN) |
8:15 pm |
The origins of asymmetry in brains, bodies, atoms and cultures Ninety percent of people are right-handed and ten percent are left-handed. This talk will look at why that might be, and will also explore a range of other asymmetries in the social, biological and physical worlds, looking for common underlying themes. |
(UCL) |
8:15 pm |
After ten years cruising through the Solar System, with two asteroid encounters, one flyby of Mars and several past the Earth, Rosetta reached Comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko a year ago. The comet is shaped like a rubber duck! Rosetta watches it carefully and dropped Philae to land on its surface. That surface is dramatic with chasms, cliffs, boulders, smooth flat areas and circular features that probably aren't craters. Rosetta has poured cold water on the idea that Earth's water came from comets. Philae lies in the dark, now, but 67P's summer Sun may rise high enough to revive it. |
(The Open University & Hampstead Scientific Society) |
8:00 pm |
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