British Science Festival - 2016 Programme by British Science Association

Programme 

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Welcome Welcome to the British Science Festival 2016. I’m delighted to introduce this jam-packed programme for 2016 – in it you will week. It’s a privilege to be in Swansea, renowned for its engineering excellence, friendly welcome and The Festival has been the site for many important and pivotal moments in history, such as the legendary debate between the Bishop of Oxford and Thomas Huxley about Charles Darwin’s then highly controversial theory of evolution. It was also where the words Festival is set to be as novel and exciting as ever. We are bringing together a host of top researchers, broadcasters, entertainers and communicators to explore the wonders of research, culture and beyond. See Channel 4’s Rick Edwards, who will be recording his Science(ish) podcast live. Join Alan Lewis from for the beautiful game. Take part in a spot of Sonic Kayaking in Swansea Bay. Dance the night away at our celebratory Beach Party. And bring your kids along to the wonderful theatre performances happening at the Family Weekend. None of this would be possible without the generous support of our fantastic sponsors and supporters, especially our headline sponsor, Siemens, and our host, Swansea University. All events are free but spaces are limited, so go to www.britishsciencefestival.org for more information and to book your tickets. We look forward to seeing you soon! Katherine Mathieson Chief Executive of the British Science Association

I am delighted to wish visitors to the 2016 British Science Festival a very We are so pleased to be hosting the Festival; it gives us the opportunity to showcase our world-leading research and beautiful location as part of a truly worldclass event. Why has the Festival come to Swansea? Swansea is a top 30 UK University for research – we jumped up to 26th from 52nd in the last Research Excellence Framework, the highest rise of any research-intensive institution, demonstrating strength across all disciplines. We also have a strong record on public engagement in research. Being chosen to host the Festival is a great way of it will be a great success. The Swansea academics selected to present their research here represent a huge number of disciplines and research areas across all seven of our Colleges. Amongst the many topics being covered are cyberterrorism, sleep and dreams, breastfeeding, animal tagging, the use of x-ray to reveal hidden architecture in nature, and the use of genetically As well as the core Festival, we are hosting a Family Weekend, which will become an annual event showcasing the best of science to a family audience. This is taking place in and around the National Waterfront Museum on Saturday and Sunday September 10 and 11, with activities at Swansea Museum too, and we hope that many visitors to the core Festival will also join us at the Family Weekend as we aim to engage and inspire the next generation Professor Hilary Lappin-Scott, Senior Pro-Vice Chancellor, Swansea University

The Festival at a glance

Sonic kayaks

X-change The emergence

The Last British

The drive for

Inner space: the Have we been The imaginal realm of hidden architecture wrong about sex all ancient Egyptian supernatural beings in nature along?

The Voice

Adventures in the 7th dimension

Pushing the limits

Masters of the genome

Les Paul: the man behind the guitar

21st century

The data that powers Football Manager

Medical maggots

Why we laugh

Listening to the Universe: the Square Kilometre Array

False memories: abuse and 50 years of human

The Power of Storybooks

Farming in the

Calculating

Vaccination: Suspicious Minds

Marine litter: are there solutions to this global environmental problem?

What can I do about climate change anyway? The next big thing

Uplands After Dark

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Sonic kayaks

The X-change The calculus of contagion

Big data, better health

In the footsteps of our ancestors

Tracing Panama’s Predicting the geological footprint unpredictable? Where quantum physics meet philosophy

Place your bets: collapse of the Antarctic ice sheet Cloudy with a chance of pain

Privacy in the digital age

Can gene editing save the world? 3D bioprinting: the Haeckel’s embryos: future of reconstruc- images, evolution tive surgery? and fraud Post-modern cryptography: the unbreakable code?

Measuring colour: more than meets the eye beautiful game

Inside the dyslexic brain

Transformations of Voices of science nature

The Large Hadron Collider: building the world’s most complex experiment

Social egg freezing: motherhood on ice A violence of gifts

Ripples in spacetime: how LIGO detected gravitational waves

OCD: living with a monster

Jumping over hurdles: women

Creatures of the night Science(ish) Live

Fog of sex: stories from the front line of student sex work

The Festival at a glance

Foodscape

Swansea and the 1848 British Science Festival Surf lesson

X-Change The acoustics of nature

Can maths Let Toys Be Toys: solve sep- girls and science sis?

Food and nutrition:

The origin of our species

UK migration: Why do good separating fact and weather forecasts go bad?

Making science graphic

Are you a superrecogniser?

A nuclear future?

Cross fertilisation: new landscapes in science and the arts

Split second timing: decision making in sport

The secret life of animals

The forefront of gene therapy Signing science

The truth about online grooming

Presidential address Neurolaw on trial

Should rugby be banned in schools?

Pardon my French!

How do you lightning proof A brief history of everyone who

The Story Collider

Fishing in the gene pool

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Surf lesson

Can music change our immune system?

Antarctic ice shelves: the day before tomorrow?

The X-change

What did you dream about last night?

Solar cells in space

In your dreams!

Breastfeeding uncovered

Tackling trauma: surgery and science

Stars and spades: women in the history of science

Memoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time code: spaced learning

The medicalisation of young minds

Touching the future Dressed to impress: caring for wounds

The new backbone Chemistry: a of marine research circular sustainable future

Strandings investigation programme

Engineering

Beyond Sampling the aurora the race for space

Ancient volcanoes: geological Vaccinations: are travel- timekeepers ling communities being left behind?

9/11: 15 years on

Experiencing dementia

Welcome to the anthropocene

Copenhagen

The fat controller

Solar revolution: buildings as powerstations

Beach Party

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Award Lectures

successful science communicators. Previous Award Lecturers include Brian Cox, Richard Wiseman and Maggie Aderin-Pocock. The Award Lectures aim to promote open and informed discussion on issues involving science and actively encourage scientists to explore the social aspects of their research.

The emergence

Venue: Taliesin arts centre Free: Booking required Imagine a piece of fabric that can be tapped or swiped just like you would a touch screen. Or if sensors woven into the cover of your chair told you when you were slouching? Electronic textiles are where computer science, electrical engineering, textiles and design all come together. Rebecca Stewart will discuss its rise and how it could change the way we interact with the world around us. for Digital Innovation was awarded to Dr Rebecca Stewart (Queen Mary University of London) by the British

The Voice

Venue: Taliesin arts centre Free: Booking required Talking, laughing, singing, beat boxing â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the human voice is a unique instrument and almost Carolyn McGettigan will illustrate how new techniques, such as MRI scanning, are opening up our understanding of the biology and evolution of the human voice and how it relates to the neuroscience of vocal control. The Charles Darwin Award Lecture for Agricultural, Biological and Medical Sciences, supported by McGettigan (Royal Holloway, University of London) by the British Science Association.

The calculus

Venue: Taliesin arts centre Free: Booking required One of the tools in the diseaseHow can we measure disease spread? How can a few key people shape an outbreak? Which infections are hardest to control? Adam Kucharski shares his experience working to understand new disease threats, from Ebola to The Rosalind Franklin Award and Mathematics was awarded School of Hygiene and Tropical

all of our 2016 Award Lectures to be performed again at other Festivals next year.

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Place your bets: collapse of the Antarctic ice sheet

Venue: Taliesin arts centre Free: Booking required Climate change and the melting of the polar ice caps are always making headlines, but how do scientists predict how fast it is happening? Tamsin Edwards used of Antarctica, to give a range of predictions. She will discuss some of the challenges of predicting the probability of the collapse of the ice sheet and how she The Charles Lyell Award Lecture for Environmental Sciences was awarded to Dr Tamsin Edwards (Open University) by the British Science Association.

The acoustics of nature

Are you a superrecogniser?

Can music change our immune system?

Venue: Taliesin arts centre Free: Booking required Could you spot an unfamiliar face in the crowd? For some this is no problem at all as they have an innate ability – super facial recognition skills. Why do some people possess this and how do they scan faces so precisely? This skill is particularly important for the police; Scotland that searches CCTV footage for suspects, terrorists and missing Sarah Bate phenomenon and how she is working with the police to identify the ‘super-recognisers’ amongst the force. The Margaret Mead Award supported by the Learned Society the British Science Association.

Venue: Taliesin arts centre Free: Booking required music has rapidly expanded over the last decade, with studies as diverse as the playing of war songs to improve walking in Parkinson’s patients, to the use of pop music to increase speed and accuracy in operating theatres. But how much do we actually know about how of the body? With the help of the Daisy Fancourt can impact on the mind and body and consider its potential bioevolutionary origins.

Venue: Taliesin arts centre Free: Booking required

supported by the Learned Society

From mobile phones to hearing aids, microphones are very common, yet their designs still

Fancourt (Royal College of Music) by the British Science Association.

nature play a role in improving their quality? Engineer Rob Malkin will show how studying insects with fascinating hearing organs could hold the key to helping us build bioinspired acoustic devices. The Isambard Kingdom Brunel Award Lecture for Engineering, Technology and Industry, Dr Rob Malkin (University of Bristol) by the British Science Association.

Activities, exhibitions and tours

The Hub

The X-change supported by Siemens

Research as Art

September, All day Venue: The Hub, Fulton House, Swansea University Free: No booking required, please just drop in

Venue: The Grand Theatre, Swansea Free: No booking required, please just drop in

Continue the conversation after each event in the Hub, where you can join the speakers to discuss their research, network with other visitors to the Festival and find out Based in Fulton House, the Hub is the central point of this year’s Festival, where you’ll be able to get information on the programme from our staff, book your tickets at the box office, and take a look at some of the pop up installations which will be ever-changing throughout the week.

The X-change, supported by Siemens, is a daily chat show bringing you the best bits from each day’s upcoming Festival programme. Featuring inspiring speakers, big issues, exciting research and some familiar faces, the X-change is a fast-paced whistle-stop tour of the day to come. Get a sneak peak of events you’re planning to head to, or check out some speakers to help you plan your day.

Art and science come together in this fantastic exhibition of photography, fine art and drawings that have been inspired by research in some way. Research as Art is a competition with an emphasis on telling the research story, where scientists from all backgrounds submit an image and a short piece of easily-understood text through which they can convey the emotion, beauty and humanity of

Supported by: Siemens

Sonic kayaking in Swansea Bay

Venue: The beach, 360 beach and watersports, Swansea Free: Booking required The Sonic Kayak is a musical instrument with which to investigate nature. Kayaks rigged with underwater environmental sensors generate live music from the marine world, providing the paddler with an extra dimension of senses with which to explore the underwater climate. Join us on the beach and have a go playing this most All participants must be over 18 and confident swimmers. Please ensure you wear appropriate clothing

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Classroom of the future

Surf Lesson

Venue: The Bay Campus, Swansea University Free: No booking required, please just drop in Drop in to discover a new concept for buildings of the future. Constructed over just a few weeks on Swansea University’s new Bay Campus, this prototype building will generate, store and release its own energy. Explore this innovative and ambitious ‘Active Classroom’ and the new technologies and materials used in its construction with researchers from the SPECIFIC Innovation and Knowledge Centre.

Venue: The Hub, Fulton House Free: Booking required Join two surfing scientists for a special surf lession at Caswell Bay. Discover the factors that affect

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Venue: Swansea Museum, Swansea Free: Booking required The British Science Festival has been to Swansea four times. The first was in 1848, when the then British Association for the Advancement of Science visited the Royal Institution of South Wales. What was Swansea like? What drew the Festival to Swansea in 1848? And what was the Festival like? John Tucker and Gerald Gabb takes us back to the science, scientists and town of 1848.

and the resulting impact on the coastline during the short mini-bus journey. Then, armed with your new knowledge, enjoy a surf session with Gower Surf School.* *We can’t promise that a greater understanding of the waves will improve your surfing ability. Mini bus will depart from the meeting point outside Fulton House at the start time of the event. Please arrive at least 5 minutes early to avoid disappointment. The surf lesson will last approximately 90

Foodscape guided walk

Organised by: Royal Institution of South Wales Meeting point outside Venue: The Hub, Fulton House Free: Booking required

minutes. There will be two drop off points on the way back, one at campus and one at Castle Square in the centre of Swansea. You must be over 18 and a confident swimmer to book on this lesson. No prior experience of surfing necessary, it will be a mixed ability class. All equipment will be provided by the Gower Surf School but please bring a towel, bathers, and a large bag to put all your dry kit in. There will be toilets and changing facilities, however there will not be showers on site. You will be required to fill out a consent form before the surf lesson. Please visit the Gower Surf School website to read the terms and conditions before booking

Join psychologist Laura Wilkinson for a guided walk exploring the ‘foodscape’ of our local environment and the influence it might have on our eating behaviour. Consider food advertising, the availability and presentation of food in shops and restaurants, and the areas where we consume

The Halstead lecture: The last British Venue: Lecture theatre K, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required 20,000 years ago, much of the UK was covered in ice. Glaciers reached as far south as the Bristol Channel and extended West over most of Wales. Glacial geologist Bethan Davies reveals the legacy left behind in our landscape and describes how researchers are piecing together the evidence to reconstruct the last British ice sheet.

The power of storybooks

Farming in the future Venue: Lecture theatre B, Glyndwr Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Farming is going through a revolution, bringing in big data from sensors on satellites, drones, farmers insights into local weather, pests and disease, water and nutrient status of crops, helping farmers to achieve higher yields using fewer resources. Our panel discusses these technologies and their necessity for food security

The drive for life Venue: Main lecture theatre, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Many of us will stop driving as we get older but this can have resulting in a loss of independence and even a deterioration in health. Discuss the issues with Charles Musselwhite can all help to prolong safe driving on the road.

Venue: Lecture theatre M, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required

Have we been wrong about sex all along?

Jessica Horst wants you to know that it’s great to read your child the same storybook over and over again. In this event, she’ll let you see for yourself how hard it is to learn new words, and examine how children manage to do so. Here’s a clue: the key is repetition!

Venue: Lecture theatre, Wallace Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required women? For centuries it has been a given that, in terms of biology, brain and behaviour, men and women are ‘opposites’. Cognitive Gina Rippon argue that it is now time to stop asking if men are from Mars and women from Venus and realise we are all from Earth.

The imaginal realm of ancient Egyptian supernatural beings Venue: Room West, Fulton House, Swansea University Free: Booking required The ancient Egyptians’ gods and goddesses helped them make sense of a mysterious and frightening world. But what about their demons? Kasia Szpakowska studies the supernatural beings that were blamed for and called upon for protection from physical and psychological ailments. Join her to see into the mind of people who hoped & feared—just like us!

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Inner space: the hidden architectures in nature

Adventures in the

Venue: Lecture theatre L, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required mummies, researchers will use the latest imaging techniques to reveal inspire and improve new materials.

Venue: Lecture theatre K, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required In 7 dimensions there exist special shapes that may give us the tools to unlock the mysteries of the universe. Looking for this unique geometry is challenging but a possible solution takes inspiration and thermodynamics. Jason Lotay journey across multiple dimensions, whilst exploring their role in art, science and popular culture.

Calculating cancer risk Venue: Lecture theatre M, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Early diagnosis of cancer is vital to improve survival rates. Discover a new blood test that can indicate a personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s risk of having cancer by measuring mutations in red blood cells. Find out why these mutation levels act as an early warning sign and hear how this simple noninvasive test allows researchers to study the link between lifestyle and future cancer risks. This event is supported by

Vaccinations: suspicious minds

Pushing the limits

Venue: Lecture theatre B, Glyndwr Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required

Venue: Main lecture theatre, Faraday Building,

Vaccination is a vital public health intervention, yet it has always been associated with distrust and opposition. In the 19th century, attempts to make smallpox vaccination compulsory in Britain met with protests, particularly from some poorer parents who believed this legislation to be sinister in intent. Discover more about Sabine Clarke surrounding vaccination.

Free: Booking required

Les Paul: the man behind the guitar

What is healthy in sport? get ahead, often pushing their bodies and minds beyond what most people would consider healthy. But how far is too far? Join an expert panel to discuss genetic advantage, issues in sport doping and the limits of

Venue: Taliesin theatre, Taliesin arts centre, Swansea University Free: Booking required Unless you happen to be an electric guitarist, dreaming of owning a Gibson Les Paul, you probably aren’t familiar with the name Les Paul. But his innovative genius – as a musician and inventor – paved the way for rock and roll and changed how we record and experience music.

Masters of the genome

Join musician Steve Wheel and Swansea International Festival Director Lyndon Jones as they show how two mid-20th century inventions – both by the same man – radically altered the music

Huxley debate:

Venue: Lecture theatre L, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Genome editing means that building an organism from scratch is no longer in the realm of science in which we can grow individual organs or stimulate brain cells with lasers, John Parrington examines these technologies and the impacts they might have on our society. This event is supported by

Venue: Lecture theatre K, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Steel has played an important role in shaping our industrial, economic and social landscape and it is essential for many of tomorrow’s technologies, but over the past few months the steel industry has been in the news for all the Join our expert panel to discuss the wide-ranging impact of the Port Talbot steelworks on the local area and the importance of steel for the 21st century world.

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Marine litter: are there solutions to this global environmental problem? Venue: Lecture theatre M, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Marine litter contaminates habitats around the world, from shorelines to deep sea, from large items like packaging and netting down to tiny pieces called ‘microplastic’. Much marine litter is discarded plastics items; yet plastics bring many societal evidence on the harm caused by marine litter and what the potential solutions could be.

What can I do

Venue: Lecture theatre B, Glyndwr Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Is there a bigger challenge to our society than combatting climate change? Governments and policymakers have launched many campaigns to persuade the public that the path to tackle climate change lies in behaviour change on an individual level. Our panel explore what we can do as individuals, and how we should

The data that powers

Medical maggots

Venue: Main lecture theatre, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required When did football video games go from purely entertaining to and strategy? Football Manager’s Tom Markham will explain the evolution of the game’s database from randomised players in the early nineties to being used by professional clubs at the highest level today.

Venue: Lecture theatre L, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Maggot therapy might sound medieval but modern medics are of using maggots to clean and heal wounds. Put aside your disgust and join entomologist and maggot enthusiast Yamni Nigam as she reveals the mysteries of out how these creatures could

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Why we laugh

The next big thing

Venue: Taliesin theatre, Taliesin arts centre, Swansea University Free: Booking required

Venue: Lecture theatre, Wallace Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required

Two major questions are the drive behind Sophie Scott’s research: why do we laugh and how do we do it? Joined by a comedian, because no science is complete without an experiment, she’ll venture into the sometimes surprising reasons for laughter, its use as a social tool, and how our anatomy produces it.

From investigating the secrets of

Uplands after dark

borders with innovative technology, to understanding our immune infections; join three Royal Society Research Fellows as they discuss their work at the forefront of science. This event is followed by a women in

Listening to the universe: the Square Kilometre Array

Venue: Multiple venues in the Uplands area Free: No booking required, please just drop in Swansea’s Uplands area transforms after dark as artists, scientists, makers and performers take over the area’s best venues. Dive into a range of creative activities, performances and exhibitions, and side to the city.

False memories: abuse and the brain Venue: Lecture theatre L, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required

Venue: Lecture theatre K, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required In remote areas of South Africa and Australia, thousands of receptors are being constructed to form the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope – the Square Kilometre Array. Join Simon Berry to discover how the Square Kilometre Array will transform our understanding of the early history of the Universe; investigate the nature of gravity; and search for signs of extraterrestrial life.

childhood abuse share certain hallmarks with those with PTSD. Abuse can produce asymmetries between the two hemispheres, resulting in a number of distressing symptoms including leaving the patient vulnerable to false memories. Peter Naish delves into these brain changes and their potential consequences for

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Venue: Taliesin theatre, Taliesin arts centre, Swansea University Free: Booking required List some of the major NASA initiatives over the last half century and chances are that George Abbey moon and successfully bringing Apollo 13 back to Earth, selecting and assigning Dallas Campbell. In a career that space exploration â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a must for all space enthusiasts!

Tracing Panama’s geological footprints Venue: Lecture theatre L, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Small but powerful, the Panama Isthmus connects two continents, climate across the Northern Hemisphere. Investigations into volcanic and tectonic processes in remote parts of Panama by David Buchs and his team are shedding new light on the emergence of this strip of land.

Privacy in the Venue: Lecture theatre K, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required We are increasingly living our lives that the interconnectivity brings, but how safe is cyberspace? Financially, e-crime is estimated to cost the Welsh economy up to £974 million each year. In this interactive workshop, David Mair reveals just how much of your personal data is available and shows us how to protect our online self.

Where quantum physics meets philosophy

Big data, better health

Predicting the unpredictable

Venue: Lecture theatre, Wallace Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required

Venue: Lecture theatre B, Glyndwr Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required

From improving treatment and diagnosis to identifying risk factors

How can we attempt to predict

has the potential to revolutionise our public services. Find out how researchers at the Swansea Data Science Facility are linking large data sets to provide a holistic picture across health, social care and housing services and join a discussion about the concerns security of our private data.

acts of terrorism? Such events can often seem random but researchers can unpick the underlying complexity using probability models known as Hawkes processes. Join Alan Hawkes himself and his collaborator Maggie Chen to discover the wide-ranging applications of these

Venue: Lecture theatre M, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required For a subject based in empirical evidence, there’s a lot of disagreement in how to interpret quantum physics. Even wellperplexing interpretations. Juha Saatsi and Steven French tread the murky waters at the borders of our the importance of philosophical analysis in contemporary science.

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In the footsteps of

Cloudy with a chance of pain

Venue: Main lecture theatre, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required In 1996, Robin Crompton controversially suggested – at the British Science Festival – that our tree-dwelling ape ancestors walked on two feet rather than dragging their knuckles. Now twenty years later, come hear him recount his hominid foot function and collecting evidence to support his theory and reverse the accepted view.

Can gene editing save the world? Venue: Lecture theatre, Wallace Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Editing the human genome and designer babies are rarely out of the media, but gene editing could also contribute to solving some of the most pressing issues facing society. The panel will discuss the technique’s potential to help in malaria, and improve our global food security, as well as wider implications of editing genomes.

Venue: Lecture theatre M, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Can you really feel it in your joints when the weather changes? That’s the of its kind, it uses a smartphone app to collect pain levels of patients with arthritis or another chronic pain condition whilst tracking real-time weather data. Will Dixon talks about how new technologies can involve the public in health research in innovative ways.

This event is supported by Venue: Lecture theatre K, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required team of scientists, engineers and plastic surgeons working together to develop 3D printed tissue. The group are developing biological “inks” containing human cells that can be printed using custom made bio-printers. Find out more about their pioneering research and how it could change the future of reconstructive surgery.

Venue: Lecture theatre B, Glyndwr Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Drawings of embryos by the Darwinist pioneer Ernst Haeckel are among Nick tells a fascinating story of fame and infamy, evolutionists and creationists, and explains how alleged forgeries could become standard textbook illustrations.

Inside the dyslexic brain Venue: Main lecture theatre, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Join neuroscientist and cofounder of the Dyslexia Research Trust John Stein as he reveals the latest research on the underlying causes of dyslexia and the brain processes involved. Discover the genetic background of this common nutrition and the immune system hearing and vision.

Post-modern cryptography: the unbreakable code? Venue: Lecture theatre, Wallace Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Cryptography is the cornerstone of our online security, protecting our email messages, credit card information and medical records. Join mathematician and Advisor to GCHQ Richard Pinch to explore security and privacy in an increasingly connected world

Measuring colour: more than meets the eye

Venue: Lecture theatre L, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Roses are red, but are violets blue or purple? Where do you draw the line between lime green and yellow? And what colour was that dress? Identifying colours informs our daily choices and helps us make sense of the world, but our colour vision is subjective and contextual. Join Andrew Hanson from the National Physical Laboratory to discover the surprising challenges involved in the important task of

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beautiful game Venue: Lecture theatre K, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Earlier this year, thousands of Liverpool fans walked out of their football match against Sunderland, in protest to the decision to increase ticket prices. This is one of many examples of fan activism as they struggle to shape the direction of their clubs. Join an expert panel, including sociologist Mark Doidge and Alan Lewis from the Swansea City Supporters’ Trust, to explore the development of football into a corporate business and the important role fans have played in challenging this.

Transformations

Voices of science Venue: Lecture theatre B, Glyndwr Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required

Venue: Lecture theatre M, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required For centuries artists and scientists have collaborated to examine the living world. From the meticulous drawings of Albrecht Durer to the emergence of photography and microscopy, artists have helped extend the boundaries of knowledge and engage new audiences. work with plant scientists, and the important contribution artisans, illustrators and artists make to contemporary culture.

In 2009 the British Library began an ambitious project to record 100 scientists and engineers talking in depth about their lives and work. But what do you do with over 1,000 hours of scientists talking? Join members of the National Life Stories team as they tell the recent history of British science through the words of those who made

The Large Hadron world’s most complex experiment Venue: Taliesin theatre, Taliesin arts centre, Swansea University Free: Booking required How do you build something that has never been attempted before to look for particles that we don’t even know exist? That was Lyn Evans, the person responsible for building the Large Hadron Collider at Sue Nelson Chris Allton, hear his story of its construction and some of the research taking place today.

Social egg freezing: motherhood on ice

Jumping over hurdles: women in sport

Venue: Lecture theatre, Wallace Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required

Venue: Lecture theatre M, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required

What makes women feel like sport isn’t for them? Our panel considers women’s fear of judgment and how they look, examines breast health issues and feelings of physical discomfort, and even brings in the professional athlete’s perspective. Join them to learn how we can help

increasingly touted as a gamechanger for women wanting to delay motherhood. How does it work and what are the social implications of the procedure? Join the Society for Endocrinology’s panel of hormone and fertility experts to debate these questions.

A violence of gifts Venue: Main Lecture Theatre, Faraday Building, Swansea University Join composer Mark Bowden and poet and Professor of Creativity Owen Sheers as they discuss ‘A Violence of Gifts’, an oratorio exploring the origins of our universe. Hear how this 2015 BBC Radio 3 commission for soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra to CERN and listen to recorded musical examples from the premiere performance.

Fog of Sex: stories from the front line of student sex work Venue: Lecture theatre B, Glyndwr Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Over 20% of UK students have winning docudrama brings the real-life testimonies of students currently working within sex industry to the screen.

a pioneering new study, The Student Sex Work Project, which has transformed understanding about the motivations and needs of student sex workers. This special screening will be followed by a Q&A with criminologist Debbie Jones, who co-led the study, producer Chris Britten and clinical sexologist .

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Ripples in spacetime: how LIGO detected gravitational waves Venue: Lecture theatre K, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Earlier this year the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) made a major announcement: they had detected This spectacular measurement was a result of two black holes merging together producing ripples in the fabric of spacetime. Join Joe Giaime, head of LIGO Livingstone

Science(ish) Venue: The Depot, Swansea Grand Theatre Free: Booking required Rick Edwards Brooks acclaimed podcast Science(ish) to the British Science Festival. Recording a brand new episode in front of your very eyes, they’ll pick explore whether there is any truth in the tale.

Creatures of the night Venue: Plantasia, Parc Tawe Free: Booking required The British Science Association present an evening exploring the science of night through art, and the art of night through science. Set in a tropical paradise, audiences will follow a narrow path under a glass pyramid and the night sky encountering; soundscapes installations and one on one live

OCD: living with Venue: Taliesin Theatre, Taliesin arts centre, Swansea University Free: Booking required Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is often portrayed as the condition that plagues ‘neat freaks’, however the reality is far more complicated and in some cases terrifying. Join Uta Frith conversation with journalist David Adam, to explore the breadth of this debilitating condition, explore the realities of living with it and discuss the latest

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Can maths solve sepsis? Venue: Lecture theatre M, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Sepsis, also known as blood poisoning, kills 40,000 people in the UK each year. Many of those lives could be saved through early diagnosis and treatment. Meet a mathematician and physiologist working together to detect the early stages of sepsis and hear how mathematical methods can help address important health issues.

Let Toys be Toys: Venue: Lecture theatre K, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Why, despite doing equally well at GCSE science, are boys more likely to continue in science than girls? To answer this, Let Toys Be Toys take us much further back into childhood. Our panel will bring perspectives from education, developmental psychology, campaigning, and communication to examine how gender stereotypes ingrained at a young age can

Food and nutrition: fad, fact Venue: Lecture theatre, Wallace Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required We’ve all heard the advice that we should try to eat more healthily, but what are the true interactions between diet food, nutrition and health? Judy Buttriss, Director General of the British Nutrition Foundation, sheds some light on what we know, what we don’t know and what the future might hold for

and what we can do about it.

The origin of Venue: Main lecture theatre, Faraday Building, Free: Booking required

The last decade has brought a plethora of discoveries of ancient human remains, which have led scientists to rethink our ancestral history. Join celebrated human origins expert Chris Stringer as controversies and current issues around who we are and where

Making science graphic Venue: Room West, Fulton House, Swansea University Free: Booking required

Image © Natural History Museum

Graphic novels have always captured the imagination with imaginative narratives and vivid drawings but could they be a useful vehicle for talking about science? Join this fun, interactive drawing workshop to see if you can illustrate by neuroscientists Uta Frith and Chris Frith and get expert tips from graphic novel enthusiast Adam Rutherford and artist Daniel Locke.

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A nuclear future?

Why do good weather

Venue: Lecture theatre M, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Nuclear power is a controversial topic, but depending on what you read, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s either the saviour of the energy market, or a 20th century Find out how researchers use computer modelling to understand nuclear fuel behaviour at the atomic level and discover how this helps to address storage concerns and bring us closer to a nuclear-

Venue: Lecture theatre B, Glyndwr Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Weather is the great British obsession yet we rarely stop to think about the David Schultz

Cross fertilisation: new landscapes in science and the arts

UK migration: separating fact

Split second timing: decision making

Venue: Lecture theatre L, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required

Venue: Lecture theatre, Wallace Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required

Venue: Lecture theatre K, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required

Migration is a contentious issue in the UK, with strong opinions and emotive arguments on both sides of the debate. Uncover the facts with economists Christian Dustmann and Tommaso Frattini, who have been working this important subject for decades. Discuss the key issues

Join neuroscientist Vince Walsh

There is a growing interest in collaborative and interdisciplinary work across science and the arts. Join three artists working in

say about them.

our brains can help improve performance in sport. Discover how techniques such as brain stimulation, 3D simulations and records of eye movements can reveal brain activity in elite sportspeople and help develop strategies for decision making and skill delivery under pressure.

barriers between the two cultures

Signing science

The secret life of animals

Venue: Lecture theatre K, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required How can people learn about science when there are no in their language? The British Sign Language Glossaries of Curriculum Terms is tackling this problem for the deaf community, and have recently launched new geography and geology signs. Come learn about the development of these terms and the importance of inclusivity and communication within the sciences.

Venue: Main lecture theatre, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required

The truth about

us? Rory Wilson has developed pioneering electronic tags that allow researchers to monitor the movement, behaviour, energy expenditure, temperature and feeding patterns of hard-to-observe animals. Discover how this technology is transforming our understanding of animal behaviour

Venue: Lecture theatre M, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required

habits and the emotional state of elephants.

The forefront of Venue: Lecture theatre L, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Michael Linden and Nick Clarke lift the lid on gene therapy, exploring how viruses can be used as tools to replace or repair faulty genes. These techniques have the potential to cure patients with debilitating and life-threatening genetic conditions, such as cystic This event is supported by

Fishing in the gene pool Venue: Lecture theatre, Wallace Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Humans are the only animals involved in almost every food chain practices unlike any other. What Shaun Killen explores genetic changes which are happening in of evolution and putting speciesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; survival in question.

The anonymity of the internet makes it easier for people to hide their identity and many parents are concerned about the threats posed by strangers online. Join Cristina Izura Nuria Lorenzo-Dus they dispel some of the widelyheld misconceptions about online grooming and learn about the practical tools that can help protect our children.

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Should rugby tackling be banned in schools?

Presidential address

Venue: Main lecture theatre, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required When do the risks of sport outweigh rugby in schools and balancing health and exercise with injury risk.

Presidential address What role does a university system which can trace its structure and design back to the Middle Ages have in experience for today’s students, and what is the right mix of “blue-sky” research, application and teaching? With the White Paper on Higher Education set to chart its course through Parliament this autumn, the BSA’s incoming President, Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, President & Vice-Chancellor of The University of Manchester, will talk about the history of Universities and the changing face of This annual address is given by the incoming President of the British Science Association (BSA). The BSA’s President Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell. Her year-long term will begin with this address, and the role involves helping to promote the organisation’s vision, in which science is seen as part of culture and society at large. Nancy is a Professor of Physiology and President and Viceappointed to the role. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a former non-executive director of AstraZeneca. Venue: Taliesin theatre, Taliesin arts centre, Swansea University Free: Booking required

How do you lightningproof a plane? Venue: Lecture theatre L, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Rhys Phillips discuss the processes which lead types of lightning. He’ll then go on to show what happens to aircraft when they are hit by lightning and how we protect against damage from this. Join him to talk planes, lightning and maybe even piggy banks.

Neurolaw on trial Venue: Lecture theatre B, Glyndwr Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required

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As we understand more and more about the brain, we might be to be responsible for a crime. Does blame lie solely in the brain, and should we impose treatments that make people less likely to of “neurolaw” and its implications for society with legal philosopher Bebhinn Donnelly-Lazarov.

The Great British Venue: Free: Booking required University to explore the cutting-edge science happening on your doorstep. Grab a drink and join the discussion at this special Welsh language event for the British Science Festival.

Pardon my French! Venue: Lecture theatre K, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Does swearing really have a

Venue: The Depot, Swansea Free: Booking required Do you feel like your brain is half-baked? Or that your mental ‘head’ chef Alan Gow to consider the recipe for the perfect brain with age, and what you can do if you feel your own grey matter needs some

increased when swearing in your native language? Join an interdisciplinary panel of experts including a psychologist, a historian and a philosopher to discuss the social history of swearing and the have on our brains, bodies and social interactions.

A brief history of everyone who Venue: Lecture theatre, Wallace Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required The latest addition to the historian’s toolbox is inside every one of us, and in the last few years we’ve learnt how to read it – DNA. Our genomes are packed with a sprawling saga of the history of humankind, full of culture, war, disease, migration, murder, kings and queens, race, and a whole lot of Adam Rutherford Kat Arney can – and can’t – tell us about the human journey.

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The Story Collider Venue: Taliesin theatre, Taliesin arts centre, Free: Booking required Join us for an evening of true, personal stories with a science twist. Five storytellers plucked from the Festival line up will share their exciting tales of how science has touched their lives. Some stories are heart-breaking; some are hilarious; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all true and, in one way or

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What did you dream about last night? Venue: Room West, Fulton House, Swansea University Free: Booking required Researchers from Swansea Sleep Lab invite volunteers to share their dreams in this interactive workshop. Join the discussion as participants search for connections between their dreams and their waking life. The workshop will be followed by a talk describing how this process is used to study the role of dreams in memory consolidation.

In your dreams! Venue: Room West, Fulton House, Swansea University Free: Booking required Dreams are often described as a source of personal, artistic or serve a more fundamental purpose? Uncover the relationship between sleep, dreaming and memory consolidation with Mark Blagrove techniques to study why we dream what we dream.

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Breastfeeding Uncovered Venue: Lecture theatre L, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required New mothers are bombarded with messages about how to look after their babies. While breastfeeding is universally with it, leaving some mothers demoralised and unsure as to why a biologically normal behaviour is Amy Brown as she reveals how social and cultural messages can work against new mothers and make breastfeeding

Solar cells in space Venue: Lecture Theatre K, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required On Earth, solar power is a promising renewable energy source but solar cells were originally developed to power the satellites orbiting our planet. Now, initiatives such as Space Based Solar Power and Lunar and Martian Bases are driving the need for a new type of solar cell. Dan Lamb work developing ultra-lightweight solar cells that are being tested in the UK Space Agency’s CubeSat mission this summer.

Antarctic ice shelves: the day before tomorrow?

Venue: Lecture Theatre, Wallace Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required With nearly 30% of the world’s population being overweight, ‘diabesity’ is a growing problem: diabetes, brought on by obesity, which in turn causes brain, heart, nerve and kidney damage. But could we prevent it? Join science broadcaster Emily Grossman in conversation with her father Ashley Grossman, professor of endocrinology, as they discuss potential ground-breaking medical techniques to lose weight for our future. Supported by the Society

Venue: Main lecture theatre, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Join Bernd Kulessa and Suzanne Bevan on a journey of exploration to the Antarctic continent, as they recount their tales from ten years Discover how they assess the health of some of the most threatened ice shelves in Antarctica and uncover the warning signs that may herald ice sheet collapse and sea level rise.

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Tackling trauma: surgery and science Venue: Lecture theatre B, Glyndwr Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required

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Discover the latest innovations that could save lives after a severe Ian Pallister will describe how life-like models depicting blast wounds could help train military surgeons. Then medical researcher Wendy Francis will explain how scientists are exploring new ways to tackle the invisible threat posed by the body’s own immune response to trauma. This event is supported by

Stars and spades: women in the history Venue: Taliesin Theatre, Taliesin arts centre, Swansea University Free: Booking required Women have made valuable contributions to science throughout the ages, so why do we rarely hear about female astronomers and archaeologists? History seems to have ignored their existence. Amanda Foreman, historian and presenter of BBC’s The Ascent of Woman, is joined by science historian Patricia Fara, palaeontologist Becky Wragg Sykes and neuroscientist Daniel Glaser to discuss some of the discoveries made by women and why they have been forgotten. Supported by the Learned Society of Wales

Venue: Lecture Theatre M, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required What happens when a whale strands on a beach? Cue the Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme, which carries out post-mortem examinations of UK stranded whales, dolphins and porpoises. Robert Deaville talks about this research, which together with their large collection of samples and data, sheds light on the threats these species face, and their lives and deaths in UK waters.

Memory’s time code: spaced learning

Solar revolution: buildings as power stations

Venue: Lecture Theatre K, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required

Venue: Lecture Theatre, Wallace Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required

Discover why short lessons of structured repetition separated by breaks - Spaced Learning - can be better than hours of being taught.

Imagine living in a house that has no energy bills, is heated and powered

memories are made, strengthened and lost, scientist Paul Kelley discoveries about how we acquire, use and lose long-term memories, and some real-world applications of memory science.

air all year round. Join Research Director Dave Worsley, Industrial Director Paul Jones and architect Jo Morgan from Swansea University’s SPECIFIC project to discover how the latest solar technology and a unique approach to building design are creating buildings that can generate, store and release more energy than they use.

The medicalisation

Dressed to impress: caring for wounds

The new backbone of marine research Venue: Lecture Theatre K, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Modern CT scanning is revolutionising the way we look at sharks and rays. With this technology, Zerina Johnson and her team are able to examine skeletons

Venue: Main lecture Theatre, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Mental health issues are a growing concern in children and young prescription of antidepressants and controversies over misdiagnosing typical teenage behaviour. Join Ann John Sinead Brophy out what big data can contribute to the debate and discuss the medicalisation of unhappiness. This event is supported by

Touching the future Venue: Lecture Theatre L, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Discover the future of screen technology with computer Matt Jones. Hear how his team are exploring displays that mutate to create textures and change shape to reveal controls like dials and switches depending on our needs. See some of the early prototypes that are connecting our digital interactions to the

Venue: Lecture Theatre B, Glyndwr Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required From burns and cuts to surgical incisions and chronic ulcers, wounds take many forms. They can be small and fast-healing or large and chronic. All of them need specialised dressings, and in many cases patients are responsible for their own care. Join our expert panel to discuss how manufacturers develop new products and whether they really meet our needs.

things. For example, parts of rays’ backbones fuse together much like in some human diseases. What else can we learn from these animals and their skeletons?

Ancient volcanoes: geological time keepers

Chemistry: a circular sustainable future Venue: Lecture Theatre M, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Discover chemistry’s role in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Avtar Matharu will highlight how the European chemical manufacturing industry must adapt to ensure sustainable consumption through optimising resources, reducing waste generation and engaging the public. Then discuss the demand to train sustainable-thinking scientists to keep pace with the latest developments and transition from ‘brown’ to ‘green’ chemistry.

Venue: Lecture Theatre, Wallace Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Siwan Davies she pieces together past climates using grains of ash from ancient volcanic eruptions. Discover how a handful of grains, preserved in the glaciers of Greenland, could help us to understand triggers of climate change, past, present and future.

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Engineering the future Venue: Lecture Theatre L, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required changing how we live, work, travel and communicate. Today, engineering is essential to address the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most serious problems, including climate change, food security, global health, and sustainable cities. Peter Goodhew who must play a key role in tackling the global challenges of the

Beyond the Aurora

Venue: Main lecture Theatre, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required A beautiful, physical phenomenon caused by the energy of solar landscapes and people. Join Melanie Windridge as she explores how the common explanation given

The beach party

Sampling The Race

Venue: The beach, 360 Beach and Watersports, Swansea Bay Free: Booking required

like no other on Swansea Beach. Grab a drink and some food, join in hands-on activities, and check out music, comedy and Supported by the Royal Society of Chemistry

Venue: Diva’s, Swansea University’s Student Union, Swansea University Free: Booking required J. Willgoose, Esq, the brains behind Public Service Broadcasting, will discuss the making of their cosmic Part historical document, part immersive soundscape and part nerd disco, The Race For Space weaves samples of news reels and recordings from the Sputnik and Apollo missions to retell the story of the American and Soviet space race from 1957–1972 across a nine

Vaccinations: are Travelling communities being left behind? Venue: Lecture Theatre B, Glyndwr Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required Immunisation is one of the most against diseases. However, many groups face barriers to getting vaccinated, which can also the health of the wider community. Join us to hear about the barriers facing Gypsies and Travellers from the researchers who are working collaboratively with these communities to

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Welcome to the Anthropocene

Experiencing dementia

Copenhagen by Michael Frayn

Venue: Lecture Theatre, Wallace Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required

Venue: Lecture Theatre M, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required

Venue: Taliesin Theatre, Taliesin arts centre, Swansea University Free: Booking required

Have humans permanently changed the planet? As a species we have caused extinctions, changed ecosystems, constructed human-dominated environments, and altered the Mark Williams impact on the planet and asks if this new human age could become stable over geological

Valerie Blumenthal has a rare form

In September 1941, four years before Hiroshima, the head of German nuclear research Werner Heisenberg travelled to Copenhagen to meet fellow Nobel

consequences for human society and global biodiversity?

9/11: 15 years on Venue: Lecture Theatre K, Faraday Building, Swansea University Free: Booking required With the anniversary of the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon looming, Lella NouriBennett understanding of terrorism in the UK. In particular, how has counterterrorism advanced over the last 15 years, how has our societal understanding of terrorism evolved and are we any safer now?

speaks about the less well known symptoms experienced by herself and others living with dementia. She is joined by Tim Parry, who discusses shifting perceptions of dementia and how the latest in virtual reality can boost public understanding. This event is supported by

wife Margrethe. What they said cuts to the heart of the relationship between science and the uses of nuclear technology. To mark the 75th anniversary of the 1941 meeting, Theatr Cadair presents a thrilling new production directed by

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