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The Parliamentary and Scientific Committee MEETINGSYou may view or download Minutes of the AGM (23 April 2007) and Agenda for the 2008 AGM from here. If you can't see the link, please login and come back to this page. Future ProgrammeMeetings of the Committee are open to all members of both Houses of Parliament, but attendance from outside Parliament is restricted to representatives of member organisations. Members - please login and return to this page to view or download the full meeting notice in Acrobat Reader (pdf) format. Please note that Members of P&SC are invited to participate in the online discussion forum which will be made available following each meeting. If you have logged in already, please click here for further information. Otherwise, login and click on the FORUM link 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 Members - please login and return to this page to view or download the full meeting notice in Acrobat Reader (pdf) format. 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 Members - please login and return to this page to view or download the full meeting notice in Acrobat Reader (pdf) format. 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 Members - please login and return to this page to view or download the full meeting notice in Acrobat Reader (pdf) format. Further information about all the Committee's events will follow as soon as it becomes available. Recent Meetings2008 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 Download the full meeting notice in Acrobat Reader (pdf) format. 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 Click here to view or download the full meeting notice in Acrobat Reader (pdf) format. Tuesday 1st July: 08.30 Breakfast Briefing: Defence Science Addresses by Graham Love, Group Chief Executive QinetiQ Andrew Sleigh, Group Chief Technology Officer QinetiQ Click here to view or download the full meeting notice in Acrobat Reader (pdf) format. Tuesday 17th June: 17.30 Discussion Meeting: Emergent Diseases: ME, Autism and Allergies Speakers: Click here to view or download the full meeting notice in Acrobat Reader (pdf) format. Tuesday 20th May: 17.30 Discussion Meeting: Chemicals in Food, Water and Consumer Products Speakers: Click here to view or download the full meeting notice in Acrobat Reader (pdf) format. MEMBERS, PLEASE NOTE: THE POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS FROM THIS MEETING CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM THE FORUM. Tuesday 13th May: 08.30 Breakfast Briefing: Biosimilars Dr Antonio Pagliuca, King’s College Hospital, London Click here to view or download the full meeting notice in Acrobat Reader (pdf) format. MEMBERS, PLEASE NOTE: THE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION FROM THIS MEETING CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM THE FORUM. 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 Click here to view or download the full meeting notice in Acrobat Reader (pdf) format. MEMBERS, PLEASE NOTE: THE POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS FROM THIS MEETING CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM THE FORUM. 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 Click here to view or download the full meeting notice in Acrobat Reader (pdf) format. MEMBERS, PLEASE NOTE: THE POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS FROM THIS MEETING CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM THE FORUM. 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 Click here to view or download the full meeting notice in Acrobat Reader (pdf) format. 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 Click here to view or download the full meeting notice in Acrobat Reader (pdf) format. 2007 Tuesday, 11th December 2007: Visit to Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, Cromwell Road SW7 2RL Click here to view or download the full notice in Acrobat Reader (pdf) format. Wednesday 5th December: The Committee’s Annual Lunch at the Savoy Hotel The Guest of Honour will be Sir David King FRS. Click here to view or download the full notice in Acrobat Reader (pdf) format. 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) Click here to view or download the full meeting notice in Acrobat Reader (pdf) format. Members - please login and return to this page to view or download the after-dinner discussion, in Acrobat Reader (pdf) format. 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 Click here to view or download the full meeting notice in Acrobat Reader (pdf) format. 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 Click here to view or download the full meeting notice in Acrobat Reader (pdf) format. 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) Click here to view or download the full meeting notice in Acrobat Reader (pdf) format. 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) Click here to view or download the full meeting notice in Acrobat Reader (pdf) format. 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 Click here to view or download the full meeting notice in Acrobat Reader (pdf) format. Monday 21st May 5.30 pm Discussion meeting SCIENCE EDUCATION FOR THE 21st CENTURY Click here to view or download the full meeting notice in Acrobat Reader (pdf) format. Monday 23rd April 5.15 pm AGM followed at 5.30 pm by Discussion meeting SCIENCE AND RELIGION Click here to view or download the full meeting notice in Acrobat Reader (pdf) format. 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 Click here to view or download Powerpoint presentations from this meeting. with contributions from: Professor Martin Blunt, Steve Koonin, R J Budge, Robert Hawley, Maria McCaffery Click here to download full meeting notice Click here to view or download Powerpoint presentations from this meeting. 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 Click here to download full meeting notice Click here to download briefing paper 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 Click here to download full meeting notice 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 Click here to download full meeting notice Tuesday 28th November: (10.00 to 15.00) Visit to NPL Click here to download full meeting notice 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 Click here to download full meeting notice 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 Click here to download full meeting notice 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) Click here to download full meeting notice Tuesday 17th October: (10.00 to 14.30) Visit to Imperial College IMPERIAL INNOVATIONS: An Incubator for Science, Engineering, Technology and Business Click here to download full meeting notice This site is prepared and managed by Resources Computing International Ltd. |
