Lancashire and Cumbria

Diary of Events for 2004 - 2005

Wednesday 9 February 2005
Medical Imaging: Decision-Making from Visual Information
Dr David Manning, Reader in Medical Imaging at St Martin's College, Lancaster.
6.30 pm. George Fox Building, Lancaster University.
Drinks and snacks will be provided in the foyer before the talk.

Dr Manning's presentation can be viewed here.

Wednesday 1 June 2005
Annual General Meeting and Special Talk
From Dipoles to Icebergs:Environmental Magnetism
Are soils, dusts, sediments, or organisms 'magnetic'?.......you might not normally think so but many of these materials contain tiny amounts of magnetic crystals; the amount, type and size of these mineral grains can record a wealth of information on past environmental and climatic changes. In this talk, we'll see how magnetism can tell us how vast flotillas of icebergs have repeatedly broken free, from N. American/ European ice sheets, and sailed across the N. Atlantic, as far as the S. tip of Portugal.........how rainfall over Asia has waxed and waned through glacial/interglacial climate stages......and how we can trace present industrial and vehicle pollution by simple measurements of the magnetism of soils and tree leaves.
Professor Barbara Maher, Chree Medal and Prize Winner 2005, Lancaster University.
The venue is NOT the George Fox building but the Cavendish Colloquium Room which is part of the Faraday Lecture complex, next to the Physics Department. See the map in LANBRIA or http://www.lancs.ac.uk/travel/travel.htm . We will be providing food and drink at the AGM. Please do come along and make our meeting quorate. There will be no pressure to volunteer for anything!
4 pm. Talk.
5 pm. Annual General Meeting (with food).

13-17 June 2005
Schools' Roadshow including the Galactic Gig dramatic presentation about sound and the planets for Einstein Year, written and performed by members of the branch.

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