Our next event
(Event Code: E12)
Chairman of Friends: Rod Rhys Jones and President & Rector of Imperial College: Sir Keith O'Nions |
This event is open to members, their guests and donors to the College.
Book nowFizz, music and conversation with our speakers, faculty and other members... and of course a preview of our 2013-14 programme.
Friends' Annual Summer Party provides a unique opportunity to meet the Rector, speakers past and future, members of Faculty, students, other Members of Friends and their guests over a glass of fizz and canapes.
Venue: Rector's Residence, 170 Queen's Gate
Campus Map reference 24 on the Imperial College Map
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Our Previous Programmes
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Events held in 2012-2013
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Professor Ian Owens, Head of Science, Curator Alessandro Giusti, Lepidoptera, and Curator Beulah Garner, Coleoptera and Hemiptera |
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A visit to the new Darwin Centre's cocoon to view the butterflies, moths and beetles and hear about the NHM research programme. |
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Professor Richard Kitney OBE, FREng, Chair of BioMedical Systems Engineering in the Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London |
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Biologists and engineers are bringing together their understanding of biology and engineering to create new synthetic biology parts, devices and systems. |
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Professor Nelson Phillips, Chair in Strategy and Organisational Behaviour |
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Electronic communications and digital devices have caused the death of distance , place and down-time. This is causing unstoppable change in the way we see the world and is affecting how we manage information, how we interact with one another, and fundamentally changing society socially institutionally, politically and commercially. |
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Professor Sanjeev Gupta, Participating Scientist in NASA Mars Science Laboratory |
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A talk on the Mars mission: early mission operations, geological observations and future mission objectives. |
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Dr Simon Foster and his Controlled Dynamic Quantum Group |
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Join us for this popular show in which students put on a series of acts demonstrating the mysteries of the amazing quantum world where anything could happen and generally does. |
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Professor Chris Stringer, Research Leader in Human Origins, Natural History Museum |
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New discoveries are prompting a rethink of aspects of human evolutionary origins including our relationship with Neanderthals. |
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Dr Aldo Faisal, Lecturer in Neurotechnology |
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Applying computing, physics and engineering methodology to experiments with our brains to understand how they work from first principles has led to the invention of a number of low cost machines. |
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Professor Tejinder Virdee, Professor of Physics, High Energy Group, Imperial College London and Spokesperson, CMS experiment at CERN |
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Three day visit to Geneva including exclusive CERN tour, hosted by Professor Virdee |
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Professor Chris Hankin, Chair of Computing Science, Director Institute for Security Science and Technology |
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The Institute for Security Science & Technology (ISST) was founded in 2008 as one of four Imperial College Global Institutes. It seeks to focus on new science, technology and innovation applied to national security, defence and resilience. This event is a unique opportunity for Members to visit laboratories which bring together interdisciplinary teams from across the College to respond to challenges in four broad areas: a) Security in cyber space; b) CBRNE [chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive] threat reduction; c) Infrastructure protection; and d) Bio and environmental security. |
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Professor Tejinder Virdee, FRS, Professor of Physics, High Energy Group, Imperial College London and Spokesperson, CMS experiment at CERN. |
Professor Tejinder Virdee, FRS, will give an exclusive insight into the accelerator, the experiments and the most recent results from the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. |
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