The 24 Hour Inspire 2014!
5 pm Thursday 27 March – 5 pm Friday 28 March
Firth Hall, University of Sheffield
24 hours of lectures on life, the universe and everything, in honour and celebration of Dr Tim Richardson (1964-2013), and in support of local cancer charities
Programme – Thursday 27 March | |
17.00 | Professor David Mowbray, Inspiration for Life – Introduction and Welcome |
17.05 | Professor Elena Rodriguez Falcon, Mechanical Engineering – Making a difference through learning |
17.30 | Professor Claire McGourlay, Chris Musgrave and Elizabeth Adams, Law – The Sheffield School of Law Innocence Project – the case of Susan May |
18.00 | Dr Catherine Fletcher, History – Our men in Rome: spies, lies and secrets in the sixteenth century |
18.30 | Professor Rod Nicolson, Psychology – Positive dyslexia |
19.00 | Dr Susan Cartwright, Physics & Astronomy – Footprints of the Big Bang |
19.30 | Dr Tony Prescott, Psychology – Robot selves/human selves |
20.00 | Professor Brendan Stone, English – Narrative, illness and the importance of uncertainty: a personal account |
20.30 | Dr Jenny Freeman, University of Leeds – Life’s a risky business: why we all need to think like a statistician |
21.00 | Dr Amanda Crawley Jackson, French – Poems on walls |
21.30 | Professor Carsten van de Bruck, Mathematics & Statistics – Fundamental physics and the dimensionality of space |
22.00 | Dr Richard Steadman-Jones, English – What language is like |
22.30 | Dr Matt Mears, Physics & Astronomy – Spinny science: physics, feminism and pole dancing |
23.00 | Dr Aneurin Kennerley, Psychology – Is mind reading with MRI possible? |
23.30 | Professor Simon Keefe, Music – Mozart’s Requiem: facts, legends and ghosts |
Programme – Friday 28 March | |
00.00 | Dr Lisa Clark and the Sheffield Solar Team – How much electricity do solar panels really generate across the UK? |
00.30 | Dr Megan Freeth, Psychology – Reality is in the eye of the beholder: using eye-tracking to understand how we see the world |
01.00 | Professor Mike Siva-Jothy, Animal & Plant Sciences – The X lecture: the ‘love’ life of insects |
01.30 | Professor Nigel Clarke, Physics & Astronomy – Physics on my iPod |
02.00 | Dr Ed Daw, Physics & Astronomy – The music of a physicist |
02.30 | Dr Alan Dunbar, Chemical & Biological Engineering – Who were Langmuir & Blodgett, and what did they ever do for us? |
03.00 | Professor Tony Ryan, Faculty of Science – CatClo in China |
03.30 | Dr Allan Pacey, Medical School – Sperm you can bank on |
04.00 | Dr Ashley Cadby, Physics & Astronomy – One of our scientists is missing |
04.30 | Dr Nate Adams, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology – Throwing spanners at nanobots |
05.00 | Dr James Mullaney, Physics & Astronomy – A brief history of the telescope: from Galileo to Gaia |
05.30 | Dr Sean Paling, Boulby Deep Underground Science Facility – Deep Underground Science at Boulby Mine: Subterranean studies – from Dark Matter to Dark Life |
06.00 | Dr Davide Costanzo, Physics & Astronomy – Big science at the Large Hadron Collider |
06.30 | Dr Rhoda Hawkins, Physics & Astronomy – AIMS (African Institute for Mathematical Sciences) & the Next Einstein Initiative |
07.00 | Dr Clare Howarth, Psychology – Controlling blood flow in the brain: understanding the BOLD signal |
07.30 | Dr Angela Wright, English – Women and the Gothic |
08.00 | Dr Russell Buchan, Law – Securing security in cyberspace: the role of international law |
08.30 | Professor Vanessa Toulmin – No fixed abode: celebrating twenty years of the National Fairground Archive (NFA) at the University of Sheffield Library |
09.00 | Dr Ingunn Holen, Medical School – Cancer research: are we getting anywhere? |
09.30 | Dr Chris Holland, Materials Engineering – The science behind spider silk |
10.00 | Professor David Mowbray, Physics & Astronomy and Dr Marieke Navin, Museum of Science & Industry – Sound and fury |
11.00 | Professor Mike Braddick, History – Citizens of the world? Towards a new political history for the global age |
11.30 | Dr Paul Mitchener, Mathematics & Statistics – Complexity, paradox and incompleteness |
12.00 | Dr Marek Szablewski, University of Durham – Surviving Warsaw |
12.30 | Dr Susan Molyneux-Hodgson, Sociology – Understanding science as a culture |
13.00 | Professor Peter Bath, Information School – “Trust me, I’m a web-site”: problems and pitfalls of patients using health information from the Web |
13.30 | Marie Kinsey, Journalism – The art of getting things spectacularly wrong |
14.00 | Professor Paul White, Pro Vice Chancellor – Sheffield: city of immigration |
14.30 | Dr Kamal Birdi, Management School – Is artistic creativity the same as scientific creativity? |
15.00 | Dr Amber Regis – Voices from World War One |
15.30 | Dr Simon Goodwin, Physics & Astronomy – Are we living in a computer simulation? |
16.00 | Dr Eran Elhaik, Animal & Plant Sciences – The holy grail of biogeographic analysis – from DNA to home village |
16.30 | Professor Richard Jones, Physics & Astronomy – The singularity may be slightly delayed … |
17.00 | Closing words from Catherine Annabel, Chair of Inspiration for Life |
Inspiration for Life is fundraising for Weston Park Hospital Cancer Charity and Impact Young Heroes
Inspiration for Life is grateful for sponsorship and support from:
UoS Accommodation & Campus Services
UoS Corporate Information and Computing Services
UoS Print & Design Solutions
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