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PARTICIPATION EVENT
10am
Walk at Great
Gonerby
Community Walks Team SKDC
Community Walks Team SKDC
Meeting Point: Parking by St
Sebastian Church, High Street, Great
Gonerby, Lincs NG31 8LN
Ticket: £1 booking fee. Numbers
are limited so book to guarantee a
place.
Duration: 1hr 45mins
This walk is inspired by the windmill which
used to be at the top of Gonerby Hill.
Newton was intrigued by the windmill and
made models of windmills and lanterns.
Newton would walk out towards Gonerby
to look at the windmill. Meeting point and
walk length to be confirmed. Call or look
for details online.
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SCIENCE EVENT
11.40 to be seated by 11.45
Women in Science
Live Broadcast. Professor
Valerie Gibson, Sasha Norris
and Liz Beckmann
St Wulfram’s Church
Ticket: £4, For school bookings
call the Box Office
Duration: 1hr
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SCIENCE EVENT
11am
Glorious Blood Science Show for
Schools KS2
Science Museum
Grantham Guildhall
Ticket: School booking
Duration: 1hr
Blood, guts…gross. Follow the blood
through the human body, and out of it….
Brought to you by the team from the
Science Museum in London.
BBC Radio Lincolnshire’s Nicola Gilroy
hosts a live broadcast edition of her
Lunch Bunch focussing on the role
of women in science with leading UK
women scientists including Professor
Valerie Gibson (Physicist), Sasha Norris
(zoologist and environmentalist) and Liz
Beckmann, past-President of the British
Institute of Radiology. Audience please
arrive at 11.40 to be seated by 11.45. As
historian of science Naomi Oreskes said
recently, "The question is not why there
haven't been more women in science; the
question is rather why we have not heard
more about them." Our panel of women
scientists discuss how the place of women
in science is changing.
Hear about the place women
scientists have held in history,
and the role they play in
science now.
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SCIENCE EVENT
1.30pm
How to Build a
Quantum Computer
Professor Danny Segal
Grantham Guildhall
Ticket: £4
Duration: 1hr
What are ‘Quantum Computers’?
Working with single atoms and photons
may allow the construction of ‘quantum
computers’ to perform hitherto impossibly
hard computational tasks.
Physics is underpinned by ‘Quantum
Mechanics’ which has some weird
features that emerge in the behaviour of
very small things. By working with single
atoms and photons it may be possible to
harness ‘quantum weirdness’ to perform
computational tasks that are simply
impossible using current computers,
creating a ‘quantum computer’.
Professor Daniel Segal is an experimental
physicist working in the general area of
trapped ions and laser spectroscopy.
Reflections:
The wave-description of light, as
championed in Newton’s time by Huygens,
is supported by a wide body of evidence.
Nonetheless Newton believed light to be
composed of particles.
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