1st Mar 2014 10:00am-5:30pm
Sallis Benney Theatre
Brighton Science Festival Events
Programme
10:00am Hormones & The Mating Game All animals reproduce, but what drives this urge?
How do we choose a mate? Is libido treatable? Join the Society for Endocrinology and its panel of experts to discuss whether we are all slaves to our hormones, or whether there’s more to what makes us trust, lust, love and cheat.
11:30am Andrea Sella: Strange Ice
Go beyond the tip of the iceberg and discover about ice. Even though it resides in every freezer in the world, ice is a material so strange that it breaks almost every rule in our textbooks. Why do we take ice for granted? Take stock of the properties of ice and how it could be the herald of a future much less certain than we imagine with Dr Andrea Sella.
Professor Martin Birchall from UCL interviews three ‘Frankenstein’s monsters’ from the past, present and future and discover the challenges we face in realising regenerative medicine and its incredible potential to transform healthcare (and us).
3:15pm Dinosaur social behaviour: crests, colours and signalling
Reconstructing dinosaurs from their bones is one thing, but finding out how they actually behaved is much more challenging. Dr David Hone explains how studies have shed light on how they communicated and interacted – often with complex social behaviour.
4:30pm Hunting for the Higgs Boson
Forty years ago Peter Higgs made the spectacular breakthroughs that led to the world’s largest experiment, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Against a backdrop of high politics and billion dollar budgets, Frank Close tells the story of their work, the quest for the Higgs boson, and its eventual discovery.
The Little Eco Piggies Drop In Activity - all day
Use thermal imaging to reveal how energy is lost to the environment from heating and lighting – and discover how much energy can be saved by installing insulation. Join Cityzen LLP to find out which of the three little piggy’s house is the most eco-friendly.
Take a guided tour of the Waste House with University Of Brighton.
Breaking Out Of The Lab (Stall)
Your chance to hear what Brighton & Sussex Medical School researchers are up to. They aim to tackle questions such as: What are the main issues being tackled in research? Is it all in the labs? Who decides what is researched? What research is going on in Brighton? Who does it involve? How can I be involved?
