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Christmas lectures 2014: Book now
There will be a total of six lectures taking place between 3rd-10th December 2014. Join our academics for fantastic new ideas, explosions and experiments.
Tickets are available now from Warwick Arts Centre Box Office – but be quick, as we expect the events to be very popular. Tickets are free, with an optional £5 donation towards future collaborative science and arts projects.
Overview of activities:
3rd December
Professor Adrian Wilson will answer some intriguing questions about our senses: How do we know something is dangerous to touch? How do we see an object? How do we hear music?
4th December
Nick Barker’s lecture, Chemical Reactions, will demonstrate the amusement, beauty and importance of Chemistry – and some loud bangs!
5th December
In the Bosch Warwick Christmas Lecture, our Ogden School Teacher Fellow Ally Caldecote will use marvellous magnets and shocking electricity to show some of the super things that physicists can do that will spark your curiosity for science.
8th December
Dr Miriam Gifford will play ping pong and Chinese whispers to give you a cell’s eye view of how living things grow.
9th December
Dr Matthew Leeke gives you the opportunity to judge whether storing and tracking of data will lead him to become a supervillain.
10th December
In the final lecture, Dr John Halpin will show you how to break a glass with just your voice, music from electrical sparks and how to play Christmas carols on a carrot.