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2024-2025 Season September 2024 to May 2025

Using AI to Predict Bee Colony Behaviour  Dr Gordon Hunter, Kingston (November 2024)

London's Industrial Archaeology by Prof David Perrett (Barts Emeritus Professor) (October 2024)

Maxwell Without Maths by Dr Nick Stapley (BSS President), (September 2024)

2023-2024 Season September 2023 to May 2024

Why Do Transformers Fail? by My Paul Dyer, UK Power Networks (May 2024)

Advances in Crop Production: Manipulating Plant Processes Using LEDs (April 2024), Prof Tracy Lawson, Essex University

Colouring the Sky: Nature’s Cathode Ray Tube,  Prof Alan Aylward  (March 2024) A write up of this talk is not available

The Psychology of Belief, by Dr Anna Stone, UEL (February 2024)

From Gout to Mad Cow Disease, by Prof David Perrett (Barts Emeritus Professor), (January 2024)

The James Webb Space Telescope, by Dr Nick Stapley (BSS President), (December 2023)

AGM followed by Science on Ice: The US Antarctic Programme,  by Mike Lucibella, UCL, (November 2023)

Helium - Where on Earth?  by Mr Alan Bodley (October 2023)

The inconveniencie of the aer and smoak of London revisited: 1661-2023  by Dr Ian Mudway, Imperial (September 2023)

2022 - 2023 Season - September 2022 to May 2023
   

Is it Possible to Live a Carbon Zero Life?  by Dr Michael de Podesta (May 2023)

How Insects Search, by Prof Richard Hopkins, Greenwich University (April 2023)

Diatoms by Prof Graham Underwood, University of Essex (March 2023)

Plastic Dust Polution   by Dr Stephanie Wright (February 2023)

Milankovitch Cycles by Prof Alan Aylward (January 2023)

AGM followed by Transatlantic Telegraph Cables, Mr Richard Buchanan, and Salicylates and Medical Applications, Dr Ron Bennett (December 2022)

Spices (November 2022), Mr Alan Bodley

Introduction to Stars and Nucleosynthesis (October 2022), Dr Nick Stapley

The Smell of the Sea (September 2022), Dr Michael Steinke, University of Essex

Write-ups of older lectures are found here in our Archive: The Archive