Latest Events
ECRR Peter Wilson Lecture: Appliance of Science in the rural sector of Scotland
13 February 2012, 6pm, The Royal Society of Edinburgh
Speaker: Professor Iain J Gordon, Chief Executive,The James Hutton Institute.
This is a joint lecture with the Edinburgh Consortium for Rural Research (ECRR) and the Society of Biology, Scotland.
Lecture: Extreme Light - a New Paradigm for Fundamental Physics
16 February 2012, 6pm, The Royal Society of Edinburgh
Speaker: Professor Gerard Mourou, Institut de Lumiere Extreme, ENSTA
This event is part of the Franco-Scottish Science Seminar Series, jointly-funded by the RSE and the French Embassy, London.
Workshop: A New Paradigm of Science Driven by Ultrafast Lasers
16 February 2012, 12:30pm, The Royal Society of Edinburgh
This scientific workshop brings together young rising stars from Scotland and France whose research will highlight some of the unique properties of lasers.
This event is part of the Franco-Scottish Science Seminar Series, jointly-funded by the RSE and the French Embassy, London.
Lecture: A Celebration of Women in Astronomy
20 February 2012, 6pm, The Royal Society of Edinburgh
Speaker: Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS FRSE, Visiting Professor of Astrophysics, University of Oxford.
This lecture forms part of the Edinburgh Lecture series.
Conference: Scotland and the United Kingdom
28 February 2012, The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH
Full day conference: London
This is a joint event with the British Academy.
Lecture: Infrastructure Costs Too Much, and it Needn't
7 March 2012, 6pm, The Royal Society of Edinburgh
Speaker: Mr Terry Hill, Chairman, Arup Group Trusts
This event is supported by Arup.
Lecture: Experimental and Theoretical Approaches to Conscious Processing
22 March 2012, 6pm, The Royal Society of Edinburgh
Speaker: Professor Jean-Pierre Changeux, Laboratoire de Neurobiologie Moleculaire, Institut Pasteur.
This event is part of the Franco-Scottish Science Seminar Series, jointly-funded by the RSE and the French Embassy, London.
Lecture: Extreme Engineering
26 March 2012, 6pm, The Royal Society of Edinburgh
Speaker: Mr Ivor Tiefenbrun MBE, Executive Chairman, Linn Products Ltd.
This is a joint annual lecture with The Royal Academy of Engineering.
Debate: The Future of Energy in Scotland
27 March 2012, 6pm for 6:30pm, The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9DW
The Royal Academy of Engineering in association with The Royal Society of Edinburgh will be holding a debate on energy at The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
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Lecture: An Evening with Tim Flannery
4 April 2012, 6pm, The Royal Society of Edinburgh
Speaker: Mr Tim Flannery, mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist.
This event is part of the Oxygen series run by the Royal Commonwealth Society in partnership with Creative Scotland.
Conference: Scotland and the United Kingdom
27 April 2012, The Royal Society of Edinburgh
Full day conference: Edinburgh
This is a joint event with the British Academy and is supported by the Scottish Public Law Group.
Discussion Forum: An Evening with Diarmaid MacCulloch
2 May 2012, 6pm, The Royal Society of Edinburgh
Speaker: Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch Kt DD FBA FRHistS FSA, Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford, Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, and prize-winning author.
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Lecture: Alan Turing: Legacy of a Code Breaker
10 May 2012, 6pm, George Square Lecture Theatre, George Square, Edinburgh
Speaker: Professor Jim Al Khalili, Professor of Physics, University of Surrey.
This is a joint lecture with the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics and is supported by the University of Edinburgh Gifford Lectureship Committee.
Conference: Celebrating 100 Years Since the Birth of Alan Turing
11 May 2012, The Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
Full day conference: Edinburgh
This is a joint event with the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics, organised in partnership with SICSA and supported by Cambridge University Press.