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Programme for 2026
10 Feb Professor Steven Rowland, Professor Emeritus University of Plymouth
Floating gold or Fool's gold? A story of ambergris
10 Mar Professor Emeritus Karl Ritz, University of Nottingham
Branches everywhere: the remarkable kingdom of fungi
14 April Professor Mike Moore, University of Exeter Medical School
Alternative Medicine: fact or bulls**t?
12 May Dr Aine Maguire, Derriford Hospital
Alzheimer's Disease
9
June Professor David Bacon, Director, Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation, University of Portsmouth
The Dark Universe (provisional title)
14 July Local Young Scientists: Presentations of their projects by the Aspire Programme Students, as they compete for the Café Scientifique Prizes
8 Sept Ben Sumpter, Sumpter Mining Services & Cornwall Underground Adventures
“ Kassiteros” the History of Tin
13 Oct Professor Anne Davis, University of Cambridge
Dark Matter (provisional title)
10 Nov Professor Matthew Cramp, Peninsula Medical School
Nanoplastics and liver pathology
Programme for 2025
11 Feb Helen Findlay Senior Scientist Plymouth Marine Laboratory;
Honorary Professor University of Exeter
Our ocean's role in climate and combatting climate change
11 Mar Dr Zhuofan ( Fred ) Mou Bioinformatician Harries Laboratory University of Exeter
How genes could help improve prostate cancer prognosis
15 April Professor Graeme Ackland Professor of Computer Simulation, School of Physics & Astronomy University of Edinburgh
Metallic Hydrogen
13 May Mr Martin Howard, Northcott Farm, Tamar Valley Food Hubs
Time will tell
10 June Professor Patrick Gill MBE FRS, Senior Fellow,National Physical Laboratory
Atomic Clocks - Light Years Ahead
8 July Local Young Scientists: Presentations of their projects by the Aspire Programme Students, as they compete for the Café Scientifique Prizes
9 Sept Dr Éric Hébrard Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter
Some like it hot: chemical kinetics of (exo) planetary atmospheres
14 Oct Professor Nils Andersson
Gravity Group & STSG Research Centre, Mathematical Sciences,
University of Southampton
Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: Exploring the dark side of the Universe
11 Nov Professor Andy Bunker University of Oxford
Seeing Galaxies the far side of the Universe with the James Webb Telescope
Programme 2024
13 Feb Dr Andrew Turner University of Plymouth
"Plastics: problems, challenges, opportunities and oddities"
1 Mar Dr Dave Hughes
"Food, foresight and the future of farming: do we need to revolutionise
our food system"
2 April
Professor Graeme Ackland, Professor of Computer Simulation, University
of Edinburgh
"Covid: the Science - as seen from the Inside"
14 May Professor Awadhesh Jha, Professor of Genetic Toxicology &
Ecotoxicology,
University of Plymouth
"Assessing the environmental impact of tritium, a paradoxicalradionuclide"
11 June Peter Herring BA (Hons) M.Phil, Landscape archeologist and
historian
“The development of Bodmin Moor's historic environment”
9 July Local Young Scientists: Presentations of their projects
by the Aspire Programme Students, as they compete for the Café Scientifique
Prizes
10 Sept Professor Michael Moore Plymouth Marine Laboratory
“Oceans & Human Health: UN World Ocean assessment (WOA II & III)”
8 Oct Professor Johnjoe McFadden University
of Surrey
"The Quantum Underpinnings of Life"
12 Nov Dr Anya Burton Musculoskeletal research Unit at the University of Bristol
"Fractures in sub-Saharan Africa: Epidemiology, Economic impact and Ethnography aka Fractures E3 "