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Next meeting: Tuesday, 7th May, Dmitry Kaminskiy, Scientific advances in Human Longevity.

2019 Programme

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

Month Day of Month Speaker Title
February 12th Alan Costley Small-scale Nuclear Fusion.
March 12th Kevlin Henney When Software Fails and What It Means for the Rest of Us
April 2nd Robert Plomin ''Blueprint'': How DNA makes us who we are
May 7th Dmitry Kaminskiy Longevity
June 4th Emrah Düzel Memories are made of this
September 11th Nessa Carey Hacking the Genetic Code - How Gene Editing Will Rewrite Our Futures
October 1st Sheena Cruickshank Immunology
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

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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