Lecture Meetings will be held at The Crypt Room, St John's Church, Church Row, Hampstead, London NW3.
UNLESS otherwise notified.
All meetings are on THURSDAYS at 8:15pm. Coffee and biscuits will be available during the evening for a small charge.
Members of the public are invited.
| Date | Subject (Standard Info) | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
8:15 pm |
This lecture will explore the technologies that make tall buildings possible. With the current climate crisis in mind, what is the carbon footprint of a building, and how can it be reduced? Finally, the lecturer will present some recent projects by Foster + Partners, and set out his vision for the future of tall buildings, the new technologies that are improving them, and the benefits they offer to society. |
(Foster + Partners) |
8:15 pm |
This lecture will describe the science behind a new class of drugs that are undeniably having a huge impact on cancer treatment and are changing lives of patients with cancer. These drugs do not target the tumour directly but enable the patient's immune system to fight tumours. The discussion will include a review of relevant immunology and focus on the mechanisms of several types of immunotherapies. |
(University of Greenwich) |
8:15 pm |
On the 25th December 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope launched heading for an orbit four times further than the Moon. The largest and most advanced space telescope ever built, it intended to produce some of the most detailed and distant views of the Universe ever seen. In this talk, Dr Greg Brown of the Royal Observatory Greenwich will reveal some of Webb's most impressive images collected over the last two years and show how the telescope has exceeded all expectations. |
(Royal Museums Greenwich) |
8:15 pm |
(HSS and London Metropolitan University) | |
8:15 pm |
The Elysium planitia is a young region with very early active volcanism through fissures and volcanic vents. With surfaces being as young as 11Ma, the cratered region is a clear example of an early Amazonian lava flow. By observing and mapping each individual flow, this presentation will aim to highlight these flows around the cratered region and give a satisfying justification towards active volcanism. |
(Hampstead Scientific Society) |
8:15 pm |
London may lack Dark Satanic Mills but London's Industrial heritage precedes Henry VIII. The Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society has been studying and recording the Capital's Industry for over 50 years. That period saw the loss of the Docks, change to our Victorian railway infrastructure and gasworks but other sites have been preserved. This talk will dip into the archive and knowledge that GLIAS has accumulated. |
(The Association for Industrial Archaeology) |
8:15 pm |
This talk will focus on the process of obtaining UK Patents, together with the important issues facing someone considering filing a patent application. Database searching and problems with patenting software will be touched on. Frederick Lupton has wide experience in the Electronics, Comms and IT Industries, as well as working with firms of Solicitors and Patent Attorneys. |
(Hampstead Scientific Society) Replaced by Frederick Lupton (Chartered Patent Attorney) |
8:15 pm |
What are the mental processes that underlie human behaviour, and more interestingly (in this scientist's humble opinion!) how does the brain perform the necessary computations? This is what cognitive neuroscience is concerned with – explaining behaviour through the brain – but it's not an easy task. To help us, we have a variety of very sophisticated instruments, machines, analysis techniques, and so on. Dr Eva Feredoes will be introducing some of these, explaining how they work, and more interestingly, what they can and can't tell us about the brain and behaviour. |
(University of Reading) |
8:15 pm |
(University of Cambridge) | |
8:00 pm |
Last updated 15-Apr-2024