Public Lectures
Welcome to the Public Lectures website. Public lectures at Newcastle are free and open to all in the region (for some lectures it is necessary to book a ticket in advance). Our aim with these lectures is to offer a programme that is topical, aspires to a high standard of excellence, and which will inform, stimulate, entertain, and excite debate. Many of our speakers are leaders in their field and all have something of special interest to convey. Topics range across many disciplines and frequently touch on key issues of the day, particularly those that affect our daily lives.
We make many of our lectures available through recordings on the web, so that they are available for anyone to download. Recordings of lectures can be found in our archive section.
Lectures start at 5.30 pm and last for one hour. Different starting and ending times or locations other than the Curtis Auditorium are noted next to the lecture listing. The Curtis Auditorium is in the Herschel Building, opposite Haymarket Metro station.
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Upcoming Public Lectures
7th October 2010
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
PROFESSOR PAUL YOUNGER, Director, Newcastle Institute for Research on Sustainability
Coal: it's not all black!
British Science Association Lecture
Free admission, no pre-booking required
12th October 2010
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
PROFESSOR ROBERT H. GRUBBS, California Institute of Technology
The synthesis of large and small molecules using olefin methathesis catalysts
Wynne-Jones Memorial Lecture
Free admission, no pre-booking required
19th October 2010
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
BRUCE VALPY, Director of BVG Associates
Offshore wind farms - can the wind industry deliver again
Joseph Swan Memorial Lecture
Free admission, no pre-booking required
21st October 2010
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
JULIET GARDINDER, Author
The Blitz: attrition, endurance and experimentation
Free admission, no pre-booking required
26th October 2010
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
PROFESSOR PANKAJ VADGAMA, Queen Mary University of London
Making biosensors to track an unstable world
Albert Latner Memorial Lecture in Biochemistry
Free admission, no pre-booking required
