The lecture series runs from September 2018 to February 2019 at Glasgow Science Centre.
The series will cover a variety of astronomy topics from quantum clocks, The Big Bang, space exploration and the first-hand experience from a member of the Mercury 13 – a 1960’s ‘Woman in Space’ programme. Lectures take place in the fulldome digital planetarium.
This lecture series continues the tradition of monthly astronomy lectures in Glasgow which began with the first David Elder Lecture in 1905, 113 years ago.
The current trustee of the David Elder Bequest is the Department of Physics at the University of Strathclyde, who seek to continue a tradition of public lectures that extend back to the establishment of the bequest itself. The planetarium at Glasgow Science Centre has delivered the series since 2015.
The lectures have proved so popular that the speakers deliver the same lecture twice each night, at 6.30pm and 8pn, to accommodate more guests. Each lecture last approximately one hour, and are best suited to older teenagers and adults. Tickets cost £6.
Full schedule
Wednesday September 26, 2018 – Prof Leo Hollberg, Research Professor of Physics at Stanford Photonics Research Centre, Space, Time and Quantum Clocks
Saturday October 13, 2018 – Wally Funk (Mercury 13) and Sue Nelson (science writer and broadcaster), The Mercury 13 and the Extraordinary Story of a Female Aviation Pioneer
Wednesday October 31, 2018 – Markus Nordberg, Development and Innovation Unit at CERN, Connecting the Worlds of Micro to Macro: from Open Science to Open Innovation — CERN as a Case
Wednesday November 28, 2018 – Dallas Campbell, science writer and broadcaster, Ad Astra: An Illustrated Guide to Leaving the Planet
Wednesday, January 30, 2019 – Prof. Mark McCaughrean, Senior Advisor for Science & Exploration, European Space Agency, Once Explorers, Always Explorers
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 – Marcus Chown, science writer and broadcaster, The Day Without a Yesterday
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