2012
Animal minds: from computation to evolution
Organised by Professor Nicola Clayton FRS, Dr Uri Grodzinski and Dr Alex Thornton
16 - 17 January
The Royal Society, London
Theories of minds: the theoretical bases of comparative cognition
Organised by Professor Nicola Clayton FRS, Dr Uri Grodzinski and Dr Alex Thornton
18 - 19 January
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
Material efficiency: providing material services with less material production
Organised by Dr Julian Allwood, Professor Mike Ashby FRS, Professor Timothy Gutowski and Dr Ernst Worrell
30 - 31 January
The Royal Society, London
Chemistry, astronomy and physics of H3+
Organised by Professor Takeshi Oka FRS, Professor Mats Larsson, Professor Steven Miller and Professor Stephan Schlemmer
9 – 10 February
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
Rigidity of periodic and symmetric structures in nature and engineering
Organised by Dr Simon Guest, Professor Patrick Fowler and Professor Stephen Power
23 – 24 February
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
Nanolaboratories: physics and chemistry of small-molecule endofullerenes
Organised by Professor Malcolm Levitt FRS, Professor Tony Horsewill, Professor Nick Turro and Professor Yas Murata
15 – 16 March
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
Signal processing and inference for the physical sciences
Organised by Dr Nick Jones and Dr Thomas Maccarone
26 - 27 March
The Royal Society, London
Signal processing for the physical sciences
Organised by Dr Nick Jones and Dr Thomas Maccarone
28 - 29 March
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
H5N1 research: biosafety, biosecurity and bioethics
Organised by Sir John Skehel FRS and Professor Simon Wain-Hobson
3 - 4 April
The Royal Society, London
New windows on transients across the Universe
Organised by Professor Paul O’Brien, Professor Stephen Smartt, Professor Ralph Wijers and Professor Kenneth Pounds CBE FRS
23 - 24 April
The Royal Society, London
Interpreting signals from astrophysical transient experiments
Organised by Professor Paul O’Brien, Professor Stephen Smartt, Professor Ralph Wijers and Professor Kenneth Pounds CBE FRS
25 - 26 April
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
Structure and dynamics of the thylakoid membrane
Organised by Professor James Barber FRS and Professor Peter Horton FRS
3 – 4 May
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
Next-generation molecular and evolutionary epidemiology of infectious disease
Organised by Dr Oliver Pybus, Professor Christophe Fraser and Professor Andrew Rambaut
14 - 15 May
The Royal Society, London
Next-generation molecular and evolutionary epidemiology of infectious disease: challenges and opportunities
Organised by Dr Oliver Pybus, Professor Christophe Fraser and Professor Andrew Rambaut
16 - 17 May
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
Photoactivatable metal complexes: from theory to therapy
Organised by Professor Peter Sadler FRS, Professor Akhil R Chakravarty and Dr Nicola J Farrer
18 - 19 June
The Royal Society, London
Photoactivatable metal complexes: exciting potential in biotechnology and medicine?
Organised by Professor Peter Sadler FRS, Professor Akhil R Chakravarty and Dr Nicola J Farrer
20 - 21 June
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
New frontiers in anisotropic fluid-particle composites
Organised by Dr Susanne Klein, Professor Peter Raynes FRS and Professor Roy Sambles FRS
28 – 29 June
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
Complex patterns in wave functions – drums, graphs and disorder
Organised by Dr Sven Gnutzmann and Professor Uzy Smilansky
5 – 7 September
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
Magnetoelectric phenomena and devices
Organised by Dr Neil Mathur and Professor James Scott FRS
24 - 25 September
The Royal Society, London
Magnetoelectrics at the mesoscale
Organised by Dr Neil Mathur and Professor James Scott FRS
26 - 27 September
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
Handling uncertainty in weather and climate prediction, with application to health, agronomy, hydrology, energy and economics
Organised by Professor Tim Palmer FRS
4 - 5 October
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
Regulation from a distance: long-range control of gene expression in development and disease
Organised by Professor Wendy Bickmore and Professor Veronica van Heyningen FRS
22 - 23 October
The Royal Society, London
Regulation of gene expression from a distance: exploring mechanisms
Organised by Professor Wendy Bickmore and Professor Veronica van Heyningen FRS
24 - 25 October
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
Energy transduction and genome function – an evolutionary synthesis
Organised by Dr Nick Lane, Professor John F Allen, Professor John Raven FRS and Professor William Martin
12 - 13 November
The Royal Society, London
Bioenergetics and the major evolutionary transitions
Organised by Dr Nick Lane, Professor John F Allen, Professor John Raven FRS and Professor William Martin
14 - 15 November
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
Achieving food and environmental security – new approaches to close the gap
Organised by Professor Guy Poppy, Professor Paul Jepson, Professor John Pickett CBE FRS and Dr Michael Birkett
3 – 4 December
The Royal Society, London
Can science help us get back to the countryside?
Organised by Professor Guy Poppy, Professor Paul Jepson, Professor John Pickett CBE FRS and Dr Michael Birkett
5 - 6 December
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
2011
The new SI: units of measurement based on fundamental constants
Organised by Dr Terry Quinn CBE FRS, Professor Ian Mills FRS and Professor Patrick Gill
24 – 25 January
The Royal Society, London
Active touch sensing
Organised by Professor Tony Prescott, Professor Matthew Diamond, Professor Alan Wing and Professor John Nicholls FRS
31 January – 2 February
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
The chemical origins of life and its early evolution
Organised by Professor David Lilley FRS and Professor John Sutherland
21 – 22 February
The Royal Society, London
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture
Organised by Professor Sir David Read FRS and Professor Sam Evans
28 February - 1 March
The Royal Society, London
Testing general relativity with cosmology
Organised by Professor Pedro Ferreira, Professor Rachel Bean and Professor Andrew Taylor
28 February – 1 March
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
Ultra-precision engineering – from physics to manufacturing
Organised by Professor Xiangqian Jiang, Professor Paul Shore, Professor Pat McKeown OBE and Professor David Whitehouse
21 – 22 March
The Royal Society, London
Modelling networks from sequence to consequence in eukaryotes
Organised by Professor Dirk-Jan de Koning and Professor Chris Haley
28 – 29 March
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
Predictive ecology: systems approaches
Organised by Professor Matthew Evans, Professor Tim Benton and Professor Ken Norris
18 – 19 April
The Royal Society, London
Taking a systems approach: defining the agenda for ecological forecasting
Organised by Professor Matthew Evans, Professor Tim Benton and Professor Ken Norris
20 – 21 April
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
Quantum-coherent energy transfer: implications for biology and new energy technologies
Organised by Dr Alexandra Olaya-Castro, Dr Ahsan Nazir and Professor Graham Fleming FRS
27 – 28 April
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
Physics at the high energy frontier – the Large Hadron Collider project
Organised by Professor George Kalmus CBE FRS, Dr Richard Nickerson, Dr Valerie Gibson, Professor Robert Brown and Dr David Evans
16 – 17 May
The Royal Society, London
Nitrous oxide, the forgotten greenhouse gas
Organised by Professor David Richardson, Professor Andrew Watson FRS, Professor Andrew Thomson OBE FRS and Professor Jules Pretty OBE
23 – 24 May
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
Human evolution, migration and history revealed by genetics, immunity and infection
Organised by Professor Danny Altmann, Dr Francois Balloux and Dr Rosemary Boyton
6 – 7 June
The Royal Society, London
Human evolution – plagues, pathogens and selection
Organised by Professor Danny Altmann, Dr Francois Balloux and Dr Rosemary Boyton
8 – 9 June
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
Water in the gas phase
Organised by Professor Jonathan Tennyson FRS, Professor Keith Shine FRS, Professor Ewine van Dishoeck, Professor Peter Bernath and Dr Jonathan Taylor
13 – 14 June
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
Precision measurement
Organised by Professor Xiangqian Jane Jiang and Professor David Whitehouse
14 - 15 July
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
The new science of oxide interfaces
Organised by Professor Mark Blamire, Professor Dave Blank and Professor Judith Driscoll
12 – 13 September
The Royal Society, London
Superconductivity at oxide interfaces
Organised by Professor Mark Blamire, Professor Dave Blank and Professor Judith Driscoll
14 – 15 September
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
Non-protein-coding RNAs - the DNA–RNA dialogue in shaping the transcriptome
Organised by Dr Andreas Werner, Professor Denise Barlow and Professor Kevin Morris
19 – 20 September
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
Warm climates of the past - a lesson for the future?
Organised by Dr Daniel Lunt, Professor Harry Elderfield FRS, Professor Andy Ridgwell and Dr Rich Pancost
10 – 11 October
The Royal Society, London
Reconstructing and understanding CO2 variability in the past
Organised by Dr Dan Lunt, Professor Harry Elderfield, Dr Gavin Foster, Professor Richard Pancost and Professor Maureen Raymo
12 – 13 October
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
Emergent magnetic monopoles in frustrated magnetic systems
Organised by Dr Will Branford, Professor Stephen Bramwell, Professor Tom Kibble CBE FRS and Dr Tom Fennell
17 – 18 October
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
UTC for the 21st Century
Organised by Dr Terry Quinn CBE FRS and Dr Felicitas Arias
3 - 4 November
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
Can solar power deliver?
Organised by Professor Salvator Roberto Amendolia, Professor Peter Edwards FRS, Sir Richard Friend FRS and Professor Can Li
14 – 15 November
The Royal Society, London
Functional bulk nanostructures for energy generation and storage
Organised by Professor Laura Herz, Sir Richard Friend FRS and Professor Peter Edwards FRS
16 - 17 November
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
Early anatomically modern humans in Eurasia: coping with climatic complexity
Organised by Dr Rhiannon Stevens and Professor Martin Jones
21 – 22 November
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
The global nitrogen cycle
Organised by Professor David Fowler CBE FRS, Professor John Pyle FRS, Professor John Raven FRS and Professor Mark Sutton
5 – 6 December
The Royal Society, London
What would a global policy to restrict human use of fixed nitrogen look like?
Organised by Professor David Fowler CBE FRS, Professor John Pyle FRS, Professor John Raven FRS and Professor Mark Sutton
7 - 8 December
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
Principles and applications of quantum control engineering
Organised by Professor John Gough, Professor Matthew James, Professor Hideo Mabuchi, Professor Ian Walmsley and Professor Klaus Mølmer
12 – 13 December
The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
2010
The detection of extra-terrestrial life and the consequences for science and society
Organised by Dr Martin Dominik and Professor John Zarnecki
25 - 26 January
Published issue
Greenhouse gases in the Earth system: setting the agenda for 2030
Organised by Professor Euan Nisbet, Professor Peter Liss FRS, Dr Andrew Manning and Professor Ralph Keeling
22 - 23 February
Pandemic influenza
Professor John Skehel FRS and Professor Neil Ferguson
16 March
Handling uncertainty in science
Organised by Professor Tim Palmer FRS and Professor Paul Hardaker
22 - 23 March
The new science of ageing
Organised by Professor Dame Linda Partridge FRS, Professor Janet Thornton CBE FRS and Professor Gillian Bates FRS
10 - 11 May
Published issue
Metallic metamaterials and plasmonics
Organised by Professor Bill Barnes, Dr Alastair Hibbins and Professor Roy Sambles FRS
2 – 3 June
Culture evolves
A joint meeting with the British Academy
Organised by Professor Andrew Whiten FBA, Professor Robert Hinde FBA FRS, Professor Chris Stringer FRS and Professor Kevin Laland
28 - 30 June
Social learning in humans and non-human animals: theoretical and empirical dissections
Organised by Professor Andrew Whiten FBA
1 – 2 July
The sustainable planet: opportunities and challenges for science, technology and society
Organised by Professor Judith Howard CBE FRS, Professor Ash Amin FBA, Professor Martyn Chamberlain and Professor Matthew Davidson
12 – 14 July
Cognition, computation and consciousness
Organised by Professor Colin Blakemore FRS
20-21 September 2010
Web science: a new frontier
Organised by Professor Nigel Shadbolt FREng, Professor Bill Dutton, Professor Dame Wendy Hall FREng FRS and Professor James Hendler
27 - 28 September
Web science: exploring the frontier
Organised by Professor Nigel Shadbolt FREng, Professor Dame Wendy Hall DBE FRS FREng, Professor James Hendler and Professor William Dutton
29 – 30 September
Towards a scientific and societal agenda on extra-terrestrial life
Organised by Dr Martin Domink and Professor John Zarnecki
4 - 5 October
Peaks and troughs of wave energy: the dreams and the reality
Organised by Professor Francis Farley FRS, Professor Rod Rainey and Professor John Chaplin
13 – 15 October
2010: what next for stem cell biology?
Organised by Professor Sir Ian Wilmut FRS, Dr Ian Chambers and Dr Gareth Sullivan
18 - 19 October
Published issue
Biological diversity in a changing world
Organised by Professor Anne Magurran and Dr Maria Dornelas
27 - 28 October
Published issue
Geoengineering – taking control of our planet’s climate
Organised by Professor Andy Ridgwell, Professor Chris Freeman and Professor Richard Lampitt
8 - 9 November
Making light work: illuminating the future of biomedical optics
Organised by Professor Clare Elwell, Professor Jeremy Hebden, Professor Paul Beard, Professor Elizabeth Hillman and Professor Chris Cooper
8 – 10 November
New vaccines for global health
Organised by Professor Adrian Hill and Professor Brian Greenwood FRS
15 - 16 November
Accelerating vaccine development
Organised by Professor Adrian Hill and Professor Brian Greenwood FRS
Wednesday 17 and Thursday 18 November 2010
2009
The evolution of society
Organised by Professor Tim Clutton-Brock FRS, Professor Robert A Foley, Professor Stuart West and Professor Francis Ratnieks
19 and 20 January
Published issue
Colloids, grains and dense suspensions: under flow and under arrest
Organised by Professor Michael Cates FRS, Dr Paul Bartlett and Professor Wilson Poon
9 and 10 March
Published issue
Computation of emotions in man and machines
Organised by Professor Peter Robinson and Dr Rana el Kaliouby
20 and 21 April
Published issue
Darwin and the evolution of flowers
Organised by Sir Peter Crane FRS, Professor Else Marie Friis and Professor William Chaloner FRS
11 and 12 May
Published issue
New frontiers in science diplomacy
Organised by Professor Lorna Casselton FRS, Professor Mohamed Hassan, Dr Raghunath Mashelkar FRS, Dr Jim McQuaid FREng, Dr Vaughan Turekian and Professor Anthony Cheetham FRS
1 and 2 June
Energy materials to combat climate change
Organised by Professor Richard Catlow FRS, Professor Peter Bruce FRS and Professor Peter Edwards FRS
8 and 9 June 2009
Published issue
The spin on electronics!
Organised by Professor Stuart Parkin FRS, Professor Gabriel Aeppli and Professor Bryan Hickey
28 and 29 September 2009
Published issue
The first 4 million years of human evolution
Organised by Professor Alan Walker FRS and Professor Christopher Stringer FRS
19 and 20 October 2009
Published issue
Water and society: past, present & future
Joint meeting with the British Academy
Organised by Sir Brian Hoskins CBE FRS, Professor Steve Mithen FBA and Dr Emily Black
9 and 10 November 2009
Published issue
Genetics and the causes of evolution: 150 years of progress since Darwin
Joint meeting with the Genetics Society
Organised by Professor Brian Charlesworth FRS and Dr Mike Bonsall
12 and 13 November 2009