Cambridge Society
for the
Application of Research
.
PROGRAMME FOR THE YEAR 1997-98
Interested individuals are welcome to attend; full membership is encouraged for those who wish to receive advance notice of events and invitation to our visits and social functions. For further details contact:-
Membership Secretary, SAR
University of Cambridge
Wolfson Industrial Liaison Office
20 Trumpington Street
Cambridge, CB2 1QA
Telephone: Cambridge (01223) 334756
Unless otherwise noted below, all events take place at 8.30pm at Churchill College, Cambridge. Members are welcome for coffee from 8.15pm.
Monday 20th October 1997
UNCOVERING THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TURIN SHROUD Dr Walter McCrone,
President of McCrone Research Institute, Chicago, 8.30 -10.00 pm
Wolfson, Theatre, Churchill College
Monday 3rd November 1997
GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS - WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? Professor Derek
Burke, CBE, Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Novel Foods
& Processes, Combined with SAR Annual General Meeting, 8.30
-10.00 pm Wolfson Theatre, Chuchill College
Monday 10th November 1997
STATISTICS & CONTROVERSIES IN FORENSIC DNA PROFILING
Professor Peter J Donnelly, Professor of Statistical Science,
University of Oxford Joint Meeting with the Cambridge
Philosophical Society, 8.30 -10.00 pm, Cockcroft Lecture Theatre,
Pembroke Street
Monday 17th November 1997
MAKING SCIENCE PAY Professor Madsen Pirie President of The Adam
Smith Institute 8.30 -10.00 pm, Wolfson Theatre, Churchill
College
Monday 1st December 1997
CYSTIC FIBROSIS GENE THERAPY: FROM MOUSE TO MAN, Dr W H Colledge,
Physiology Department, University of Cambridge, 8.30 -10.00 pm,
Wolfson Theatre, Churchill College
Monday 26th January 1998
CONCERT HALL & OPERA HOUSE ACOUSTICS DEVELOPING DESIGN Dr
Rafal Orlowski, Arup Acoustics, 8.30 -10.00 pm, Wolfson Theatre,
Churchill College
Monday 9th February 1998
ARE NEW ENGINEERING MATERIALS ALL THEY'RE CRACKED-UP TO BE? Dr
Peter W R Beaumont Engineering Department, University of
Cambridge, 8.30 -10.00 pm Wolfson Theatre, Churchill College
Monday 23rd February 1998
GENETIC ENGINEERING OF PIGS TO PROVIDE ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION INTO
MAN Dr David White FRC PATH, Lecturer, Department of Surgery,
University of Cambridge 8.30 -10.00 pm, Wolfson Theatre,
Churchill College
Monday 9th March 1998
CAPTURING THE ENERGY OF THE SUN Dr Mary Archer, Bye-fellow of
Newnham College, Cambridge, Visiting Professor at Imperial
College, London. Cambridge Philosophical Society will join us for
this meeting, 8.30 -10.00 pm, Wolfson Theatre, Churchill College
Friday 13th March 1998
VISIT TO A UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT IN CONNECTION WITH SET'98
(Science & Technolgy Week) Private viewing (Details to be
announced)
Monday 27th April 1998
RADON: THE DANGER UNDER THE FLOOR BOARDS Dr Paul Phillips School
of Environment Science, Nene College of Higher Education, 8.30
-10.00 pm Wolfson Theatre, Churchill College
Monday 11th May 1998
WEATHER FORECASTING THE NEXT MILLENIUM Dr P J Mason FRS Chief
Scientist & Director of Research & Development The
Meteorological Office 8.30 -10.00 pm Wolfson Theatre, Churchill
College
Monday 18th May 1998
HELPFUL MONSTERS: UNRAVELLING THE SYMMETRY OF FLOWERS Dr Enrico
Coen The John Innes Centre, Norwich 8.30 -10.00 pm Wolfson
Theatre, Churchill College
Monday 1st June 1998
100 YEARS OF CARNAGE Dr Rod Kimber, Research Director The
Transport Research Laboratory 8.30 -10.00 pm Wolfson Theatre,
Churchill College
Monday 15th June 1998
SOIREE: VISIT TO THE BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY (Details to be
announced)
Full details are circulated to members of the Society before every event.
Coffee and biscuits are provided during the 30 minute period preceding each lecture
Non members are very welcome at all lecture meetings. Other events are for members only.
For all details please telephone Cambridge (01223) 334756
Prof. Sir Sam Edwards FRS (Cavendish Laboratory) President; Mr. K. Spence-Jones (SJ Consulting Limited) Vice President; Dr. N. Bruce (Institute of Biotechnology); Prof. D.G. Creighton FRS (DAMTP); Dr. J.H. Cummings (Dunn Clinical Nutrition Lab); Brian J. Ford (Chartered Biologist); Prof. L.D. Hall (Laboratory for Medicinal Chemistry); Dr. R.C. Jennings (Wolfson Industrial Liaison Office); Mr. I. Kent (Dalgety Spillers); Mr. R.A. King CBE (Graseby plc); Dr. W.C. Nixon FEng (Peterhouse, Cambridge); Dr. P.W. Russell-Eggitt OBE (Consultant); Mr. C. Smart (Cambridge Research & Innovation); Mr. P.R. Bligh (Deloitte & Touche) Corporate Secretary; Prof. Richard Artley (Scientific Generics) Organising Secretary.