Monday, 5 December 2011
MANDEC, 7pm

Fascinating Foams
Professor Dennis Weaire FRS
Emeritus Professor of Physics, Trinity College, Dublin

Bubbles and foams have always been a recurrent theme in art, literature and science, and today they find applications in a range of industries. The physics of foam is remarkably simple, with surface tension playing the main role. This story will take us eventually to Beijing, where the 2008 Olympics featured an iconic building based on a celebrated foam structure.

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Wednesday 14 December 2011
Royal Northern College of Music, 7pm

!!!!! PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS FULLY BOOKED !!!!!

A Media Too Mighty………?
Peter Preston
Observer Columnist and Former Editor, The Guardian

The speaker will look at media power in the 21st century - the clout of a Murdoch, the soft sway of the BBC, the cowardice of politicians - and ask whether things have got out of hand or whether the media exaggerates its own importance?

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