Ilkley & District u3a - Science and Technology(Tuesday) Group

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Science and Technology (Tuesday) Group

For the latest Information on our group including photographs and a downloadable version of our 2021-22 programme, select here

Description:

Normally we meet on twelve occasions from October to March with a break over the festive period. Six meetings are held at Clarke Foley for a presentation on a science/technological/engineering topic of interest. On every other meeting date we visit locations to see science and technology in action, often a factory or other setting.

Because of Coronavirus we cannot expect to make any site visits before autumn 2022 and our meeting room will have limited capacity/social distancing rules. In these circumstances, both the Tuesday and Wednesday groups have decided to continue their successful collaboration of 2020/2021 by combining forces to share a speaker programme that will operate via Zoom until Easter 2022.

Dates for diaries are as follows

2021		Speaker	Topic

Wed	29th Sep	Andy Johnson	What Google knows about us
Tue	12th Oct	Prof. Colin Wright	Kill or Cure? Remedies from 18th and 19th centuries
Wed	27th Oct	Jonathan Smith	Blumlein and the history of stereo
Tue	9th Nov	Gary Fildes	The expanding universe
Wed	24th Nov	Andy Botherway	Discovery of Penicillin - Part 1
Tue	7th Dec	Andy Botherway	Discovery of Penicillin - Part 2

2022
Wed	5th Jan	Richard Robson	U.K. Dam Legislation and recent Reservoir incidents.
Tue	18th Jan	Prof. Anna Williams	A day in the life of a Forensic Anthropologist
Wed	2nd Feb	Ian Appleyard	Frank Whittle & development of the jet engine - Part 1
Tue	15th Feb	Ian Appleyard	Frank Whittle & development of the jet engine - Part 2
Wed	2nd Mar	Andrew Knight	Technology and Art at Hargreaves Foundry, Halifax
Tue	15th Mar	Prof Emanuel Gloor	The Amazon now emits more carbon than it stores

Zoom links for these meetings will be supplied to members of both groups. If at some stage we feel able to return to Clarke Foley, then the talks will still be held via Zoom with limited numbers in the room, and the majority viewing from home.

Organisers:

Bill Jones, Anne Hodgson.

Venue:

Jack Lofthouse Annex, Clarke-Foley Centre, Ilkley

Times:

The talks begin at 10.00 on Zoom.

Cost:

To cater for the possibility of a return to Clarke Foley, each group has booked the room for their respective dates. To cover this cost and for providing zoom licences, subscriptions for both groups will be £7.00 for the 2021/2022 season.

Contact Information:

U3A Members please contact Steve Crossley-Smith by clicking Steve

Non U3A Visitors please click here.

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