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The next scheduled meetings of the Committee will be :-

(OUTLINE PROGRAMME OCTOBER 2008 - JANUARY 2009)

Tuesday 18th November
FOOD SECURITY - IS IT ACHIEVABLE?
Professor Colin Dennis Director-General, Campden & Chorleywood Food Research Association Group
Professor Chris Lamb FRS Director, John Innes Centre
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Tuesday 9th December
WHY DOES PUBLIC HEALTH MATTER?
Dr Rosalind Stanwell-Smith Hon Senior Lecturer, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Professor Lord Krebs Kt FRS Nuffield Council on Bioethics
Sir William Stewart FRS Chairman, Health Protection Agency
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Tuesday 20th January 2009
HAVE WE PASSED PEAK OIL YET?
Dr Steven Koonin Chief Scientist, BP
Steven Sorrell Senior Fellow, Sussex Energy Group Science & Technology Policy Research (SPRU) University of Sussex
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Further information about all the Committee's events will follow as soon as it becomes available.


Recent Meetings



2008


Tuesday 21st October
NUCLEAR WASTE - WHAT TO DO WITH IT?
Richard Waite Radioactive Waste Management Directorate Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Dr Peter Bleasdale Managing Director, Nexia Solutions British Nuclear Fuels Plc
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Tuesday 15th July: 17.30 Discussion Meeting: Towards 2020 Science and the European Science Initiative

Addresses by
Dr Andrew Herbert FREng, Managing Director and a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Microsoft Research, Cambridge
Professor Stephen Emmott, Director,Computational Science & Head of Computational Biology Microsoft Research, Cambridge
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Tuesday 1st July: 08.30 Breakfast Briefing: Defence Science
Addresses by
Graham Love, Group Chief Executive QinetiQ
Andrew Sleigh, Group Chief Technology Officer QinetiQ
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Tuesday 17th June: 17.30 Discussion Meeting: Emergent Diseases: ME, Autism and Allergies
Speakers:
  • Professor the Baroness Finlay of Llandaff Chairman, House of Lords Select Committee Enquiry into Allergies
  • Professor Simon Baron-Cohen Director, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge
  • Sir Peter Spencer KCB Chief Executive, Action for ME

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    Tuesday 20th May: 17.30 Discussion Meeting: Chemicals in Food, Water and Consumer Products
    Speakers:
  • Professor David Coggon, Chairman Designate, Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment
  • Dr Kerr Wilson, Chief Executive, Pesticides Safety Directorate
  • Gwynne Lyons, Director, Chemicals, Health and Environment Monitoring (CHEM) Trust

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    Tuesday 13th May: 08.30 Breakfast Briefing: Biosimilars
    Dr Antonio Pagliuca, King’s College Hospital, London
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    TUESDAY, 22nd APRIL 2008 AT 5.15 pm
    at 5.15 pm ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
    at 5.30 pm HANDS-ON SCIENCE IN SCHOOLS
    Addresses by
    Professor Tina Overton Director, Higher Education Academy, Department of Chemistry, University of Hull
    Dr Karen Bultitude Science Communications Unit, University of the West of England, Bristol
    Dr Hugh Cartwright Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford
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    Thursday 13 March 2008, 10.00am - 2.00pm,
    Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, National Science and Engineering Week Seminar (NSEWS),
    Co-Chaired by Ian Pearson MP, Minister of State for Science and Innovation, DIUS and Dr Doug Naysmith, Chairman, Parliamentary and Scientific Committee
    Industrial Engagement with Scientists and Engineers in Universities Eur Ing Dr Alison Hodge MBE, Director, University Partnershps, QinetiQ, Malvern Technology Centre
    An Industrial Entrepreneur’s View Sir Robin Saxby FREng, Past President Institution of Engineering and Technology; Past Chairman and Co-founder, ARM Holdings PLC
    A Marine Engineer’s View Dr Ralph Rayner, Vice-President, Institute of Marine Engineering Science & Technology
    An Engineering and Technologist’s View Dr John Morton, Chief Executive, Engineering and Technology Board
    An Academic View Professor Julia King CBE, Vice Chancellor, Aston University

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    Tuesday, 26th February 2008 at 5.30 pm: SCIENCE IN THE REGIONS
    Addresses by
    Dr Ed Metcalfe Chief Scientific Advisor, South East England Development Agency SEEDA
    Dr George Baxter Director of Science and Innovation North West Regional Development Agency NWDA
    Professor Colin R Whitehouse FREng Deputy Chief Executive Science and Technology Facilities Council
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    Tuesday 22nd January 2008 at 5.30 pm: NEW DISEASES and RENEWED THREATS
    Addresses by
    Professor Hugh Pennington FRSE President of MRSA ACTION UK
    Professor Nigel Minton University of Nottingham
    Professor Andrew McMichael FRS Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford
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    2007

    Tuesday, 11th December 2007: Visit to Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, Cromwell Road SW7 2RL
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    Wednesday 5th December: The Committee’s Annual Lunch at the Savoy Hotel
    The Guest of Honour will be Sir David King FRS.
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    Monday, 26th November 5.30 pm: Natural Disasters
    Addresses by
    Professor Stephen Sparks FRS NERC Research Professor and Director of the Centre for Environmental and Geophysical Flows, Bristol University
    Professor Christopher Rapley CBE Director, Science Museum, London
    Professor John Dewey FRS University of California, Davis and University College, Oxford (click here for a copy of the speaker's notes)
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    Tuesday, 13th November 8.30 am: Breakfast Briefing: Potential for Concentrated Solar Power & Creation of a HVDC Grid
    Addresses by
    Dr Gerry Wolff CEng Coordinator of TREC-UK
    Neil Crumpton Friends of the Earth
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    Monday, 22nd October 5.30 pm: Global Population
    Addresses by
    Professor Malcolm Potts School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, USA
    Dr Therese Hesketh Centre for International Health and Development, Institute of Child Health, UCL
    The Earl of Selborne FRS House of Lords
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    Monday 9th July
    5.30 pm Discussion meeting
    THE DESIGN AND REGULATION OF MODERN CLINICAL TRIALS
    Addresses by:
    Professor Sir Gordon Duff Florey Professor of Molecular Medicine, Sheffield University; Chairman, Commission on Human Medicines
    Professor Janet Darbyshire Director, Medical Research Council – Clinical Trials Unit; Professor of Epidemiology, Royal Free and University College London Medical School
    Dr Julia Dunne Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory products Agency (MHRA)
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    Monday 18th June
    5.30 pm Discussion meeting
    IS DUAL FUNDING OF OUR UNIVERSITIES FIT FOR PURPOSE IN THE 21ST CENTURY?
    Addresses by:
    Rama Thirunamachandran Director, Research and Knowledge Transfer, Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)
    Sir Keith O'Nions FRS Director General of Science and Innovation, Department of Trade and Industry
    Dr Peter Cotgreave Campaign for Science & Engineering in the UK (CaSE)
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    Wednesday 6th June
    5.30 pm Discussion meeting
    ELEPHANTS: Will they survive the next 100 years in the wild?
    Addresses
    Headaches and Heartaches: The elephant management dilemma Dr Ian Whyte BSc PhD Research Manager: Large Herbivores, Kruger National Park, South Africa
    Population Control: Inaction leads to disaster Professor Twink Allen CBE ScD FRCVS Jim Joel Professor of Equine Reproduction, University of Cambridge
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    Monday 21st May
    5.30 pm Discussion meeting
    SCIENCE EDUCATION FOR THE 21st CENTURY
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    Monday 23rd April
    5.15 pm AGM followed at 5.30 pm by Discussion meeting
    SCIENCE AND RELIGION
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    Thursday, 15th March 2007 9.30 am to 2.00pm
    INNOVATIVE SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF CLIMATE CHANGE
    National Science and Engineering Week Seminar
    jointly chaired by
    Dr Douglas Naysmith MP and Malcolm Wicks MP
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    with contributions from:
    Professor Martin Blunt, Steve Koonin, R J Budge, Robert Hawley, Maria McCaffery
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    Tuesday, 20th February 2007 (08.30 am):
    PARLIAMENTARY BREAKFAST BRIEFING - THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER SWITCH ON
    Addresses by
    Dr Lyn Evans Large Hadron Collider CERN
    Dr Tara Shears Royal Society University Research Fellow
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    Monday 15th January: (17.30)
    CONFLICTS OF INTEREST - DOES MONEY INFLUENCE SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION?
    Addresses by
    Richard Smith Chief Executive, United Health Europe
    Sir Iain Chalmers Editor, James Lind Library
    Professor Clive Wilson J.P Todd Chair of Pharmaceutics, Strathclyde University Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
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    2006

    Monday 4th December: (17.30)
    MATERIALS, MINERALS and MINING – INNOVATION, CONSERVATION and WEALTH CREATION
    Addresses by
    Professor Robert Pine Chair of Geotechnical Engineering Head of Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Penryn
    Dr Stuart Lyon Immediate Past-President Institute of Corrosion Reader in Corrosion Control Engineering, University of Manchester
    Professor Colin J Humphreys CBE FREng Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge
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    Tuesday 28th November: (10.00 to 15.00)
    Visit to NPL
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    Monday 20th November: (17.30)
    ARE PATIENTS SAFE WITH THE NHS?
    Addresses by
    Bill Murray OBE CEng DSc MIMechE FIHEEM Acting Chief Executive , National Patient Safety Agency
    Professor Tom Treasure MD MS FRCS General Thoracic Surgeon, Guy's Hospital
    Professor Peter Buckle Robens Centre for Health Ergonomics, European Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey
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    Wednesday 8th November: (8.30 to 10.30)
    Breakfast Briefing on Satellites
    SATELLITES for Science, Engineering, Technology and Business
    Presentations by
    Prof John Zarnecki Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) Open University, Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute (PSSRI)
    Sir Martin Sweeting Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL)
    Colin Paynter Managing Director EADS Astrium Ltd
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    Monday 23rd October: (17.15)
    Extraordinary General Meeting
    HOW CAN SCIENCE HELP TO SAVE THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT?
    Addresses by
    Professor Ed Hill Director, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
    Dr Carol Turley Head of Science, Plymouth Marine Laboratory

    Mark Farrar Chief Executive, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas)
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    Tuesday 17th October: (10.00 to 14.30)
    Visit to Imperial College
    IMPERIAL INNOVATIONS: An Incubator for Science, Engineering, Technology and Business
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