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SCIENCE EVENT Ages 8+
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SCIENCE EVENT
9.30am - 4pm, 6pm - 9.30pm
10.15am
Curated by Dr Harry Cliff
Professor Val Gibson
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SCIENCE EVENT
St Wulfram’s Church
Ticket: Free entry to exhibition
except during ticketed talk at
10.15am
St Wulfram’s Church
Ticket: £4
Duration: 1hr
Treating and Seeing
Cancer with Protons
CERN live
Live speakers and video presentations. A
detailed schedule will be produced in early
September and published online at
www.gravityfields.co.uk.
Timings of live sessions:
10.15am Professor Val Gibson
11.30 CERN Live event (details to be
published in September)
1.30pm CERN Live event – Professor
Tara Shears, based at the University of
Liverpool and works on the LHCb Velo
experimemt at CERN. Free entry.
3.00pm CERN Live event – Smashing
Physics - Professor Jon Butterworth – a
leading physicist on the Large Hadron
Collider, and Head of Physics and
Astronomy at UCL.
"Smashing Physics" is the story of the
Atlas experiment and collaboration the amazing machines, the people,
the science, the politics, and the
consequences. Free entry.
Supported by
Life at the Collider
Life at the Collider with Professor Valerie
Gibson looks ahead to what mystery of
the Universe the Large Hadron Collider
will reveal next after the Higgs Boson
discovery. Grantham born festival patron
and CERN UK spokesman, Professor
Gibson gives an insight into its science,
showcases the people and personalities
involved, explains how discoveries are
made and summarises current knowledge
about fundamental particles and forces
of nature.
Reflections:
Professor Valerie Gibson is head of
High Energy Physics at the University of
Cambridge. She is the second person
from Grantham to be a Fellow of Trinity
College, the first being Isaac Newton.
Her research is based on understanding
the fundamental laws of nature. She
undertakes her research at the largest
experiment in the world, the Large
Hadron Collider.
10:30am
Professor Nigel M Allinson ScD,
MBE
Angel & Royal Hotel, Grantham
Ticket: £4
Duration: 1hr
A new proton cancer treatment could
revolutionise the treatment of childhood
and difficult to treat cancers amidst the
300,000 people diagnosed in the UK
annually. Prof Allinson is at the forefront
of a process exploring proton treatment
called – the PRaVDA international research
project (see display exhibit at the George
Centre).
As protons interact with human tissue very
differently than gamma rays employed
in radiotherapy treatment, PRaVDA is
developing tools to improve the quality of
proton therapy.
Professor Nigel Allinson is professor of
Image Engineering at the University of
Lincoln.
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