Events

Improvements in nutrition, health and disease prevention and treatment mean that the UK’s population is living to be older.

Many of us will take sleep for granted but there are also many people who struggle with their sleep.

Join us at our “school of rock” - explaining the universe with rock guitar.

A day of AQA AS level Economics Revision lectures 

Space is one of the UK’s success stories. 

Cryptography has been around for thousands of years but the new Public-Key Cryptography is the foundation of secure internet communication and you use it every time you access a secure website. This talk will give a brief history and explain how public-key cryptography is so extraordinary and how it works using surprisingly simple mathematics (prime numbers, multiplication and powers), how you can construct your own public-key system, and how it is used in the real world across a wide range of applications.

In this talk, Dr Bailey will explain how ion beams can be used to fight crime and cancer. An ion beam is a beam of charged particles which are accelerated to speeds approaching the speed of light. Dr Bailey is currently working with the police to use ion beams in forensic science, for the analysis of trace evidence such as gunshot residue, soils and fingerprints. Ion beams are also being used by her team to make new advances in treating cancer patients.

Mr Cameron’s veto of the new EU Treaty has meant the UK’s relationship with the EU has reached a new low. In this talk we will look at the UK-EU relationship as if it were a marriage. Starting with how the couple got together, we look at how they have arrived at their stormy relationship today, when talk of separation or even divorce is quite frequent. Should they stay together? Or, is this just a bad romance that both parties would be happier without?

Technical wizardry in TV production

Dr Graham Thomas - Section Lead (Production Magic), BBC Research & Development

This talk will show things that engineers at the BBC’s R&D department have been working on to make TV more exciting, by harnessing the power of computers to analyse images and create new forms of graphics. Some of this has been in use for some time, such as the football analysis graphics on Match of the Day, whilst other ideas are still being developed. The talk will show how aspects of physics, maths and computing are key to this work.

A talk exploring the complex, fascinating issues of mental health and mental illness and the ways in which Mental Health Nursing offers a career that is challenging, satisfying and exciting. We will explore psychological, sociological, political and ideological aspects of contemporary mental health care and the many ways in which undertaking a Degree in Mental Health Nursing at the University of Surrey can be the start of an exciting, meaningful and rewarding career.

Over the last few decades astronomers have made enormous leaps in charting the Universe around us. Now, with accurate positions for millions of galaxies, we are finally able to trace the Cosmic Web in which we live. But these cosmic maps do far more than simply catalogue the contents of our Universe ­ they can help us to understand its origin and evolution as well as its ultimate fate. Cosmologist Dr Rita Tojeiro takes us on a voyage to the furthest reaches of space and explains how astronomers are unlocking some of the fundamental secrets of the Universe.

After the large scale Olympics in Beijing 2008, the London Olympics in 2012 aims to be a more sustainable kind of Olympics. Is ‘sustainability’ being used as marketing rhetoric, or do the actions being taken bring real benefit? Has the events industry developed an attention to sustainability in the same way as the tourism or other industries have? With sustainability comprising environmental, social as well as economic and political dimensions, this presentation will question how sustainable the Games can be.

This is a revision day for AS students studying AQA Psychology. The lectures will be given by Mike Cardwell and Cara Flanagan, authors of the Complete Companion series of psychology textbooks.

Our study days are aimed at AS and A2 students and offer an invaluable supplement for students and in particular those studying Edexcel’s Government and Politics AS or A2 course in the run up to exams. 

The worlds of the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are full of superlatives. Apart from the Sun they are the largest and most massive objects in our solar system and their influence is felt over enormous distances. The stunning rings around Saturn, and the large number of moons around most of the giant planets lead some people to think of them as miniature solar systems in their own right. Although often grouped together as “Gas Giants”, many planetary scientists make a further distinction and describe Jupiter and Saturn as Gas Giants, and Uranus and Neptune as Ice Giants, reflecting the importance of volatiles (such as water, methane, and ammonia) in the interiors and atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune. The interiors of the giant planets are also important natural laboratories for studying materials under high pressure and for studying the generation of global magnetic fields. The magnetic field of Jupiter is reasonably well understood, but the almost axisymmetrical field of Saturn, and the highly asymmetrical fields of Neptune and Uranus are much less well understood. Global planetary magnetic fields provide the cores for giant planetary magnetospheres with very different mass and energy sources compared to the Earth’s magnetosphere. 

This talk will describe recent results from missions to the giant planets of our solar system and ground/space-based observatories at 1 AU, looking at their interiors, magnetic fields, magnetospheres, and natural satellites. It will conclude with a discussion about current and future missions, focusing on missions to the poorly studied and understood Ice Giant, Uranus.

Noel Fitzpatrick - The Bionic Vet will give an inspiring talk on thinking out side of the box and realise your dreams and aspirations, even if this means following a totally different path to the one you are currently on. Reflecting on his own career when he had to make the decision of whether to pursue a career in acting or as a vet, he will provide advice and insight into how he made these big decisions and how he as ended up today as a neuro-orthopaedic veterinary surgeon and a pioneer of bionic development in animals, currently operating a multi-million pound practice and how he became know as The Bionic Vet!

August 2009 to July 2010, Racing Green Endurance and Radical Sportscars worked closely to produce the stunning SRZero electric sportscar.