Public engagement events in and around Manchester in August
03 Aug 2011
Rutherford Public Lectures * Didsbury SciBar (Stroke - The Brain Strikes Back) * Bright Club Manchester 8 (Mind)
Rutherford Public Lectures, The University of Manchester
Monday 8 August - Wednesday 10 August 2011, starting at 7.30pm each night
To celebrate the centenary of Rutherford's "discovery" of the atomic nucleus in 1911, a short series of public lectures is being held which will look at the history of this discovery, as well as its application to modern medicine and nuclear energy.
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Didsbury SciBar
Monday 15 August 2011, 6.30pm
The Albert Club, 39-41 Old Lansdowne Road, Didsbury, M20 2PA
Topic: Stroke -- the Brain Strikes Back
Speaker: Dr. Samaneh Maysami, Manchester University
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Bright Club Manchester 8
Fri 26 Aug 2011, 7:30 – 10:15pm
Nexus Art Cafe, 2 Dale Street M1 1JW
Topic: Mind
Description: Our experts dissect the theme of MIND from all sorts of directions, using comedy to engage the audience in their work. This will include everything from reverse engineering the brain to the mind of God.
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