Oxford University Engineering Society presents:

Roderick Lubbock, a post doctoral research assistant at the Osney Thermo-Fluids Lab, will be giving a talk on his research.

The Osney Thermo-Fluids Laboratory is located in a brand new facility opened by the Vice Chancellor in 2010. It is part of the University’s strategic investment in the nation’s science base.

The lab houses some of the most sophisticated turbine and high speed flow facilities in the UK, and the research group includes internationally recognised experts in CFD, flow and heat transfer experiments and instrumentation.

Complimentary food & drink will be provided after the talk.

Ashmolean Lunchtime Gallery Talk: Tools from the past

1.15–2pm every open weekday, Tuesday – Friday, Gallery 21
Places (maximum 15) allocated by tokens from the Information Desk 15 mins before the talk

January
Thu 16 Tools from the past
Fri 17 Mesopotamia: the cradle of civilisation
Tue 21 Japanese arts and crafts
Wed 22 Landscape paintings
Thu 23 The Textile Gallery
Fri 24 Venetian paintings
Tue 28 Turner and Leighton
Wed 29 Early Italian art
Thu 30 The Acanthus – a floral delight
Fri 31 Victorian painting and sculpture

http://www.ashmolean.org/events/Talks/?id=105

his book talk is hosted by the Oxford Martin School and the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology

Dr K. Eric Drexler, Academic Visitor at the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, will be giving a talk on the subject of his book Radical Abundance: How a revolution in nanotechnology will change civilization.

Eric will show how rapid progress in the molecular sciences will enable the development of high-throughput atomically precise manufacturing, a technology with the power to produce radically more of what people want, and at a radically lower cost. The result will shake the foundations of our economy and our relationship to Earth’s environment, enabling us to make products of all sorts cleanly, inexpensively, and on a global scale. Radical Abundance allows us to envision a world where high-performance solar arrays cost no more than cardboard and aluminum foil, and billion-processor tablet computers cost about the same. Radical Abundance describes a world on a path to an unexpected future, and raises key questions about implications for global problems and global governance.

This talk will be followed by a drinks reception, all welcome.

Visiting Fellows Lunchtime Seminar Series – Critical Social Innovation in the ‘Smart City’ era for a City-Regional European Horizon 2020

Igor Calzada (COMPAS)
Chair: Kalypso Nicolaïdis (St Antony’s College, Oxford)

creative workshop

Interested in social enterprise and development? A chance to contribute ideas on how to increase the social impact of a real business operating in Kampala. No expertise needed.

Think Week welcomes Anders Sandberg from the Future of Humanity Institute to discuss future discoveries.

We have good reasons to expect that in the future we will know vastly more than today about the world. Yet, can we say anything about *what* we will discover and how it will change our worldview? What technologies can we predict? Can we say anything about where the next Einstein will occur?

Anders Sandberg is a James Martin Research Fellow at the FHI, a science debater, futurist, transhumanist, computational neuroscientist and author. His research focusses on the societal and ethical issues surrounding human enhancement and new technology, as well as on assessing the capabilities and underlying science of future technologies. He has worked on cognitive enhancement, on a technical roadmap for whole brain emulation, on neuroethics; and on global catastrophic risks.

A self-experimentalist, he has admitted to using cognitive enhancers such as modafinil and to have carried out sequencing of his own genome, whose findings he is open to sharing.

National Science and Engineering Week Lecture at the Ashmolean Museum:

Scientific Analysis of Museum Objects
With Andrew Shortland from Cranfield University

Friday 14 March, 2–3pm
Ashmolean Museum Headley Lecture Theatre

Learn how forensic science helps us to uncover the histories of museum objects.

Free, no booking required.

National Science and Engineering Week Talk at the Ashmolean

Conservation Studio Visit
Meet the Ashmolean’s Conservators

Wendesday 19 March 11am–12pm & 2–3pm

A behind-the-scenes visit to the Ashmolean’s conservation studios where you can meet the conservators and see how art and science work together.

Free, but booking is essential – Click here to book online now
http://www.oxfordplayhouse.com/ticketsoxford/#search=conservation

National Science and Engineering Week Lecture

Science and the Violin
With Ben Hebbert, University of Oxford

Saturday 22 March 2–3pm
Ashmolean Headley Lecture Theatre

Violin expert, Ben Hebbert, talks about the instrument which has withstood five centuries of increasingly sophisticated use, without undergoing any significant changes to its design. He explores the advantages and drawbacks of the design and discusses how a scientifically optimal form came to exist in the absence of modern engineering and asks if the violin needs to change in the centuries to come.

Free, no booking required.

Dr Elizabeth Bruton will deliver a lecture on the vital role of wireless amateurs during World War One and their consequential influence on the development of broadcast radio in the early 1920s.

The Start-Up Chile programme is now ready to select, fund and host a new round of start-ups so they develop their global business ideas in Chile, the growing start-up ecosystem that has everyone talking.

**NO PREVIOUS CHILEAN CONNECTION NEEDED!**

Did you know.. that the Chilean Government set up the Start-Up Chile programme in order to attract world-class early stage entrepreneurs to start their businesses in Chile?

The program provides US$40,000 of equity-free seed capital, and a temporary 1-year visa to develop your project for six months, along with access to the strongest social and capital networks in the country.

Click ‘join’ to come to the Meetup, and learn how you can be one of the chosen ones!

Please also share this opportunity with your network and encourage them to join in too.

Nuffield bike ride, in association with Oxford Bike Week
Time: 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm, 17th June
Location: Tourist Information Centre, 15 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3AS
Description:
Join us on a gentle, scenic, two-hour ride to sites around Oxford connected with Lord Nuffield and Morris cars. Regular stops and information included!

RANDY RETTBERG, President of iGEM
Randy Rettberg is the man behind iGEM, the global competition for undergraduates and high school students in designing brand new biological parts, or “genetically engineered machines”. An engineer by trade he is the President of the iGEM Foundation, which operates the Registry of Standard Biological Parts, a continuously growing library of genetic parts that can be mixed and matched to enable easier construction of synthetic biology devices.

Dr. RICHARD KELWICK, Researcher at CSynBI, Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation (Imperial College)
Richard has been scientific advisor and project manager of three successful iGEM teams, 2011-2013. Most recently, he was the lead advisor for the iGEM team Plasticity, at Imperial College London, which came third out of over 200 teams at the world final, held at MIT.

Dr. JAREK BRYK, National Centre for Biotechnology Education University of Reading
Jarek works at the National Centre for Biotechnology Education on a project to facilitate teaching of synthetic biology on an undergraduate level. He develops experimental kits that will be incorporated in synthetic biology curricula.He currently mentors the iGEM Reading team.

The Colloquium is a seminar series at Kellogg College, Oxford.

Ian Berryman is currently reading for a DPhil in Engineering Science. His thesis builds on work to bring a cheap solar powered oven to the world’s masses. He is also the President of the Oxford Energy Society.

In the past 5 years there has been an explosion of interest in a new way to raise capital for projects for entrepreneurs and start-ups: Crowdfunding. It has seen projects as diverse as video games consoles, television series and even breweries opening around the world, and allows the general public the chance to become intimately involved with the projects that they back.

‘Cosy’ is a home environment-control product developed by Green Energy Options (GEO) that was successfully launched on Kickstarter in 2013, raising over £20,000. Since then Cosy has been going from strength to strength, even with tough competition from the likes of Nest and Tado.

Simon Anderson, the Chief Strategy Officer of GEO, will coming to discuss how Crowdfunding is allowing for a fundamental shift in how small companies and start-ups can launch their products. He will discuss the unique challenges that Crowdfunding creates, the many advantages, and ultimately how it is allowing rapid technological change across a range of industries.

Interested in nano research combining physics, chemistry, engineering and materials science? The following talk may be of interest:

Nanoscience is the science of the very small. But why is that interesting? Alexandra Grigore and Tarun Vemulkar, both PhD students at ‘the other place’, will talk about their experience working in this multidisciplinary field and what the future could hold for someone working in the area. Things that they will talk about will include DNA origami and nanopores for faster genetic sequencing, nanomagnetic devices, photonic structures in butterfly wings, latest solar cell technologies, 3D metamaterials and more. If you are considering a PhD, this is also a chance to ask them questions about their interdisciplinary 4 year MRes + PhD programme at the Nano Doctoral Training Centre (NanoDTC) in Cambridge, in addition to your other questions about nanotechnology.

21CC is a multidisciplinary conference, which unites leading minds to explore the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century. Led by Oxford students it is partnered with the Oxford Martin School, which pioneers research, policy and debate on global issues.

What: Our 2015 conference will cover some of the most pressing global challenges and opportunities of the 21st century including cybersecurity, geoengineering, inequality and arms trafficking.

Who: Speakers include the Director of Privacy International, the UK Parliamentary Cyber Adviser, previous Director of the Special Forces, the ex-VP of the World Bank, Head of Arms Control at Amnesty International, Directors from the Institute for New Economic Thinking, leading climate change scientists, UN and NATO experts and many more!

When: 7th Feb, Saturday of 3rd Week, at the Mathematics Institute.

Visit: www.21cc-oxford.com for tickets and more info!

Sustainable water resources development remains a key and complex challenge in programmes that promote economic growth; reduce poverty and increase equity; maintain aquatic ecosystem services; and address climate change at the global, regional, national and local level. The presentation will review experiences, discuss challenges and highlight emerging issues at the policy, strategy, programme and project level, drawing on experience from multilateral development banks and bilateral donor organisations. It will examine issues related to the assessment of trade-offs, the decision-making process, and actions and results on the ground in both developed and developing countries.

Stephen F. Lintner is Visiting Professor of Geography at King’s College London and has over 35 years of worldwide experience in environment, infrastructure and water resources management. At King’s he focuses on three complementary themes: policies and procedures for management of environmental and social impacts and risks; assessment and management of transboundary freshwater, coastal and marine resources; and evaluation of historical processes of human modification of environmental systems. Lintner previously held leadership roles at the World Bank; his most recent position, from 2000 to 2014, was as Senior Technical Adviser, with global responsibilities. Prior to joining the World Bank, Lintner served in the United States Agency for International Development, United States Geological Survey and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography and Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University (USA).