SciBAr discussion lead by:- Dr Murray Bell of the University of Plymouth , School of Engineering.
Dr Bell has been designing a new kind of domestic sized combined heat and power plant. Its current configuration is that it is potentially capable of using renewable fuels (like wood pellets or wood chips) to generate electricity and heat without any contaminated air coming into contact with the moving parts of the engine. Combined with an inverter and battery storage it has the potential to make a household independent of centrally generated energy (gas and electricity particularly).
Dr Bell will bedrawing on his experinece to braoden out the discussion to cover biomass in general.
Tuesday 7th October - Visit to the University of Plymouth Immersive Vision Theatre
Find out how this new educational facility can be used.
Experience immersive films.
Venue: University of Plymouth - "The Old Planetarium"
Experience immersive films.
Venue: University of Plymouth - "The Old Planetarium"
Tuesday June 3rd 2008 - Climate change - what is it all about?
Dr Iain Stewart - University of Plymouth
Tuesday 6th May 2008 - All things bright and beautiful: the science of natural colour
Pete Vukusic is a Senior Lecturer at Exeter University’s School of Physics
Summary: From the silver of fish scales, to the blue of peacock feathers, there is far more to colour in nature than meets our eyes. Even in the wings of the seemingly simple butterfly, there exist optical systems that are breathtaking in their aesthetic elegance and their scientific ingenuity. Many diverse designs of naturally evolved micro-structures are known to manipulate light and colour, generating important optical functionality in the natural world. While these complex optical systems have clearly evolved for biological purposes, they are increasingly offering inspiration and design blueprints for applied optical technologies. Through the presentation of accessible descriptions and colourful photographs and diagrams, this talk will introduce and describe nature's use and production of colour; outlining the results of recent scientific research and describing the way such new understanding is being applied to modern technological systems.
Tuesday 4th March 2008 - As the Heating happens - Educational implications for rampant climate change
Prof. David Selby
Tuesday 9 October 2007: "A brief tour of the sex chromosomes"
Dr. John Bothwell, Marine Biological Association.
What are the genetic differences between males and females? Why are men genetically degenerate? And why does the Greek pantheon represent the most reproductively realistic religion? Insofar as these questions can be answered in 30 minutes, this talk will try...
Tuesday 5 June 2007: Art and Mental Illness ( Vienna 1900)
Dr Gemma Blackshaw- Faculty of Arts – University of Plymouth
Gemma Blackshaw is a lecturer in Art History, specialising in Viennese modernism
Gemma is currently working on a three year research project which is fully funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board, which will culminate in an international exhibition entitled Madness and Modernity: Mental Illness and the Visual Arts in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, proposed for 2007/2008. One of the aims of the project is to explore the connections in turn-of-the-century Vienna between modernist identity and the identity of the ‘insane’. The many documented connections between Vienna’s celebrated modernist architects, interior designers and artists and the mental health community will be explored. Recreations of the ‘new’ and ‘modern’ psychiatric hospitals will be displayed alongside the mechanotherapy equipment used to retrain the patient’s body. Portraits of patients by Vienna’s leading artists will hang next to items of furniture designed exclusively to meet psychiatric patients’ needs by the city’s cutting-edge design groups.
Gemma Blackshaw is a lecturer in Art History, specialising in Viennese modernism
Gemma is currently working on a three year research project which is fully funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board, which will culminate in an international exhibition entitled Madness and Modernity: Mental Illness and the Visual Arts in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, proposed for 2007/2008. One of the aims of the project is to explore the connections in turn-of-the-century Vienna between modernist identity and the identity of the ‘insane’. The many documented connections between Vienna’s celebrated modernist architects, interior designers and artists and the mental health community will be explored. Recreations of the ‘new’ and ‘modern’ psychiatric hospitals will be displayed alongside the mechanotherapy equipment used to retrain the patient’s body. Portraits of patients by Vienna’s leading artists will hang next to items of furniture designed exclusively to meet psychiatric patients’ needs by the city’s cutting-edge design groups.
Tuesday 1st May 2007: "Magnetic Fields – are they good for you?"
Prof. Des Mapps – Faculty of Technology, University of Plymouth
Magnetic fields are all around us – and through us! They have been used for hundreds of years for navigation but in the more recent past are found in electrical motors, generators, relays, hospital MRI scanners, mobile telephones and household appliances such as washing machines, televisions, computers, electric blankets and hair dryers. They are produced by high voltage power lines and transformers. For more than 100 years they have been applied to the human body through so – called ‘health’ magnets and more recently, through trans - cranial magnetic stimulation, for the treatment of depression.
Magnetic fields are all around us – and through us! They have been used for hundreds of years for navigation but in the more recent past are found in electrical motors, generators, relays, hospital MRI scanners, mobile telephones and household appliances such as washing machines, televisions, computers, electric blankets and hair dryers. They are produced by high voltage power lines and transformers.For more than 100 years they have been applied to the human body through so – called ‘health’ magnets and more recently, through trans - cranial magnetic stimulation, for the treatment of depression.
The intention is to give a brief introduction to magnetic fields and debate the advantages and disadvantages and, if anybody is worried about them – how to avoid them!
Magnetic fields are all around us – and through us! They have been used for hundreds of years for navigation but in the more recent past are found in electrical motors, generators, relays, hospital MRI scanners, mobile telephones and household appliances such as washing machines, televisions, computers, electric blankets and hair dryers. They are produced by high voltage power lines and transformers. For more than 100 years they have been applied to the human body through so – called ‘health’ magnets and more recently, through trans - cranial magnetic stimulation, for the treatment of depression.
Magnetic fields are all around us – and through us! They have been used for hundreds of years for navigation but in the more recent past are found in electrical motors, generators, relays, hospital MRI scanners, mobile telephones and household appliances such as washing machines, televisions, computers, electric blankets and hair dryers. They are produced by high voltage power lines and transformers.For more than 100 years they have been applied to the human body through so – called ‘health’ magnets and more recently, through trans - cranial magnetic stimulation, for the treatment of depression.
The intention is to give a brief introduction to magnetic fields and debate the advantages and disadvantages and, if anybody is worried about them – how to avoid them!
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