Manchester Science Festival 2011
22 - 30 October 2011

Blackwell's Bookshop

The Precinct Centre
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9RN
Website
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Phone
0161 274 3331

What's on at Blackwell's Bookshop

Molecules

The private life of atoms

Sat 22 Oct 2011 11am - 12 noon

Peter Atkins, author of Reactions, explains the processes involved in chemical reactions by introducing a 'tool kit' of basic reactions, such asprecipitation, corrosion, and catalysis.

Colourful wires

A history in 40 moments

Sat 22 Oct 2011 2pm - 3pm

Utterly beautiful. Profoundly disconcerting. Quantum theory is quite simply the most successful account of the physical universe ever devised.

Space

Quantum field theory and the hunt for an orderly universe

Sat 22 Oct 2011 3.30pm - 4.30pm

Forty or so years ago, three physicists made the spectacular breakthroughs that led to the world's largest experiment, the CERN Large Hadron Collider...

Traffic at night

Essays from the cutting edge

Sat 29 Oct 2011 11am - 12 noon

From 19 talented young scientists comes an exciting volume of essays about the future of science...

Theory of relativity

Relativity for all

Sat 29 Oct 2011 2pm - 3pm

Andrew Steane will give a lively and visual introduction to Einstein's theory of relativity...

Numbers

Mathematics, magic and playing the guitar

Sat 29 Oct 2011 3.30pm - 4.30pm

David Acheson, author of 1089 And All That, makes mathematics accessible to everyone in the fascinating talk. Complete with sketches and cartoons...