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Our Next Meeting

Our next meeting is Prof Martyn Thomas, on the 15th February who will give a talk entitled Cybersecurity: the scale of the threat and why we have made almost no progress towards a solution. This is a very current topic, with suggestions that Russia is now a cyber superpower, with the ability to influence the outcome of US presidential elections with its hacking, and reports coming out almost every week saying that UK businesses are not adequately equipped to deal with threat of hackers.

Prof Thomas is the first Gresham College Professor of Cybersecurity, and has extensive hands on experience in this field.

Read more about the meeting here.

If you are a member of the Reform Club Science Group and Technology Group, please contact a member of the committee for access to the rest of this site.

Joint Meeting With Cryptos: 27 February 2017

Following on from the very successful joint meeting with the Economics and Current Affairs Group in November, we invite you to a joint meeting with Cryptos, the Reform society Devoted to Military History and Intelligence.

Charlie Hall has won the inaugural MRD Foot Memorial Prize awardeb by Cryptos at the Reform. His essay, which will form the basis of his talk, is entitled British Exploitation of German Science and the Start of the Cold War.

Charlie Hall is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Kent who has won the prize for an essay in the general subject of "Science and Conflict in the 20th Century".

The prize will be presented by Professor Mirjam Foot who will preside at the meeting. Major-General Mungo Melvin CB, OBE will offer an appreciation

Reserving tickets

Please note the that we will follow the Cryptos meeting format. and not the normal Science Group one. The start time is 6.15 FOR 6.45pm, with the talk preceding an optional buffet supper.

Tickets may be reserved via the calendar in the members’ section of the website or by contacting:[email protected] or by telephoning 020 7747 4603.

Cryptos tickets are available for £15.00 per person. (this includes a reception drink on arrival). For convenience, please copy your e-mail to [email protected] and to [email protected].

A buffet supper at 8.00 p.m. is available at an additional cost of £33.00 which includes a drink. Please note this must be booked in advance along with any notice of any special dietary requirements no later than noon the day before the event.

Additional drinks may be purchased during the buffet. Digestifs are served in the Smoking Room after dinner.

Note that prices are subject to revision by the Club.