Madeleine Mary Walker::Lectures

Madeleine Mary Walker Science and Education Lectures

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2011 lecture - Date to be confirmed

Subject: A tunnel to the beginning of time
Presented by: Dr Pete Edwards, Science and Society Officer, Durham University.
Content: Travel back to the Big Bang, create mini black holes, and reveal the nature of the dark side of the universe.

Past Lectures

2010 lecture

Subject: Global warming and a cold winter: the science of climate change
Presented by: Dr Stephan Harrison, Associate Professor of Quaternary Science at the University of Exeter

2009 lecture presented by Dr Richard Kilcoyne and Jeff Teasdale (Brainiacs)

Subject: Chemistry with a Bang!
Content: Demonstrations stimulating discussions around:

Size and shape of individual molecules
Oxidation reactions and their importance in providing energy – good and fuel
Chemistry in nature – the Bombardier Beetle
Liquid Nitrogen – changes of state and temperature

2008 lecture presented by Dr Richard Kilcoyne and Jeff Teasdale (Brainiacs)

Subject: Chemistry with a Bang!
Content: Demonstrations stimulating discussions around:

Size and shape of individual molecules
Oxidation reactions and their importance in providing energy – good and fuel
Chemistry in nature – the Bombardier Beetle
Liquid Nitrogen – changes of state and temperature

2007 lecture presented by Dr Richard Spencer, Bede Sixth Form College, Billingham

Subject: Genetics – History and Mystery
Content: How we inherit two special parts of the human genome – the ‘Y’ chromosome which is passed on from Father to Son, and Mitochondrial DNA passed from Mother to Daughter.

The lecture looked at how DNA analysis has provided evidence which has been used to map the migration of human beings across the globe over tens of thousands of years. He also looks at how, in modern times. DNA tests have been used in Forensics and Paternity cases to prove, disprove and sometimes confuse family relationships.

2005 lecture presented by Professor Bernard Taylor, Prior Pursglove College

Subject: Physics can set your mind on fire
Content: An exploration of a variety of physics concepts using a series of novel and exciting experiments. Demonstrations include the incredible string radio, ultrasound: cats and bats, cycle helmets: porridge and brains, a laser spying system, spark plugs and the exploding film canister, using sliced cheese to determine the speed of light, the Boom Bat loudspeaker, home experiments in the infra-red, how I electrocuted an Ofsted inspector and much more …

2004 lecture presented by Professor Mike Smith, University of Teesside

Subject: Medical imaging – Looking inside the Human Body
Content: Scientific and technological breakthroughs over the last twenty years allow us to take pictures inside the human body of everything, from the workings of the brain to the beating of the heart. Techniques using sound, magnetism, light, radio waves and radiation will be described along with many examples of pictures that have been taken of people when they are ill from all areas of the human body.

2003 lecture presented by Dr Russell Cowburn, University of Durham

Subject: Nanotechnology
Content: The groundbreaking development of nanotechnology to build minute computers that don’t use electricity, to make the world’s smallest compass and to make credit cards that are impossible to forge or to copy.

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