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== Next meeting: Tuesday, 7th May, [[Dmitry Kaminskiy]], ''Advances in extending human longevity''. ==
== COVID-19 Outbreak: all meetings are cancelled until further notice. ==


= 2019 Programme =
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Dates for our meetings in 2019 are as follows (future dates are always provisional)


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= 2020 Programme =
| February || 12th || [[Alan Costley]] || ''Small-scale Nuclear Fusion''.
Dates for our meetings in 2020 are as follows (future dates are always provisional):
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| March || 12th || [[Kevlin Henney]] || ''When Software Fails and What It Means for the Rest of Us''
 
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{{2020 Programme}}
| April || 2nd ||  [[Robert Plomin]] || [[''Blueprint'': How DNA makes us who we are]]
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| May || 7th || [[Dmitry Kaminskiy]] || ''Longevity''
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| June || 4th || [[Emrah Düzel]] || ''Memories are made of this''
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| September || 11th || [[Nessa Carey]] || ''Hacking the Genetic Code - How Gene Editing Will Rewrite Our Futures''
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| October || 1st || [[Sheena Cruickshank]]  ||  ''Immunology''
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| November || 5th || Joint meeting with Economics Group [TBC] || ''Big Data - the rise of the the Tech Giants and the consequences of their ownership of our personal data''
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We hope to have meetings on a range of topics including Immunology, the Dark Net, Big Data (including the Chinese Social Credit system), and Dark Matter but final speakers and dates have yet to be confirmed.
We hope to have meetings on a range of topics including Immunology, the Dark Net, Big Data (including the Chinese Social Credit system), and Dark Matter but final speakers and dates have yet to be confirmed.


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Revision as of 06:52, 28 March 2020

COVID-19 Outbreak: all meetings are cancelled until further notice.

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2020 Programme

Dates for our meetings in 2020 are as follows (future dates are always provisional):


Month Day of Month Speaker Title
February 20th Nick Burton Epigenetics.
March 19th Leah Grolman How self-driving cars can navigate legislative obstacles CANCELLED
April 23rd CANCELLED CANCELLED
The following meetings had been scheduled, but were cancelled because of the Covid-19 pandemic
May 14th Adrian Smith and ... II Big Data: how corporations exploit our private data
June 18th Prof Yorick Wilks Weapons, War and Ethics
September 16th Dr Robert Flack Dark Matter
October 22nd Gary McLean Understanding Coronaviruses
November 19th Gp. Capt. Andrew Green Fighting Coronavirus

For the very latest updates, see the trello card.

We hope to have meetings on a range of topics including Immunology, the Dark Net, Big Data (including the Chinese Social Credit system), and Dark Matter but final speakers and dates have yet to be confirmed.

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