Scientific meetings

Scientific Meeting

Green carbon for the chemical industry of the future

Scientific Discussion meeting organised by Professor Graham Hutchings CBE FREng FRS, Sir Richard Catlow FRS, Professor Matthew Davidson, Professor Matthew Rosseinsky FRS, and Professor Charlotte Williams OBE FRS.

11 - 12 December 2023

12/11/2023

12/12/2023

Society is facing the unavoidable challenge of providing essential chemicals and materials from sustainable resources. We need a chemical industry based on non-fossil carbon that can manufacture these products in a net-zero future. The meeting will focus on this grand challenge by bringing together scientists and engineers across disciplines to define the advances needed to tackle this crucial problem. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Programme   To view the programme, please scroll down and select the day on the left-hand side. Click the arrows to view the speakers and talks.  Attending this event This event is intended for researchers in relevant fields. Free to attend Both in-person and online attendance available Advance registration is essential. Please register via Eventbrite Lunch is available on both days of the meeting for an optional £25 per day. There are plenty of places to eat nearby if you would prefer to purchase food offsite. Participants are welcome to bring their own lunch to the meeting.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team. Image credit: iStockphoto / hh5800

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Scientific Meeting

Policies for sustainable land systems

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Rachael Garrett, Dr Casey Ryan, Dr Ariane de Bremond, and Dr Patrick Meyfroidt. 

29 - 30 January 2024

01/29/2024

01/30/2024

In this meeting we explore the question: What do the 10 facts about land systems mean for land system policy design and implementation?  How do they influence policy goals, policy processes, and the governance scale? We attempt to derive some initial principles for sustainable and just land system policy. We then take a deep dive into 4 policy themes: Indigenous governance in Amazonia; rewilding in Scotland; agricultural policies in the Global North, and global carbon markets and financing.   Attending this event This event is intended for researchers in relevant fields.  This is an in-person meeting only. Free to attend. Advance registration is essential (please request an invitation). When requesting an invitation, please briefly state your expertise and reasons for attending. Requests are reviewed by the meeting organisers on a rolling basis. You will receive a link to register if your request is successful. Catering options are available to purchase during registration. Participants are responsible for their own accommodation booking. Venue This is a residential meeting taking place at Hilton Cambridge, 20 Downing St, Cambridge, CB2 3DT, UK.  Speakers To access the list of speakers, please scroll down and select the List of speakers. Click the arrows to view the speakers and biographies.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Scientific Meeting

Sustainable metals: science and systems

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Julian M Allwood FREng and Professor Dierk Raabe.

05 - 06 February 2024

02/05/2024

02/06/2024

Discussions on global warming and metal production suffer from a disconnect between environmental systems analysis which is technologically vague and materials innovations that cannot scale sufficiently to have meaningful impact. The meeting aims to nucleate a new research community focused on scalable solutions that will allow the global metals system to function with zero emissions by 2050. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Speaker abstracts are also available below. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Poster session There will be a poster session on Monday 5 February. If you would like to apply to present a poster please submit your proposed title, abstract (not more than 200 words and in third person), author list, name of the proposed presenter and institution to the Scientific Programmes team no later than Friday 8 December. Please include the text ‘Poster abstract submission’ in the email subject line. Please note that places are limited and posters are selected at the scientific organisers’ discretion. Attending this event This event is intended for researchers in relevant fields. Free to attend, an optional lunch is available to purchase during registration Both in-person and online attendance available Advance registration is essential To view the programme, please scroll down and select the day on the left-hand side. Click the arrows to view the speakers and talks. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

From melanogenesis to melanin technologies

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Micaela Matta and Professor Clara Santato.

12 - 14 February 2024

02/12/2024

02/14/2024

This interdisciplinary meeting will gather researchers across all career stages in four key domains: synthesis and melanogenesis, biopigment characterisation, modelling and melanin-based devices. We will present the latest discoveries on melanin chromophores and the factors governing ionic and electronic transport. We will discuss holistic structure-property models and demonstrate sustainable technologies for this peculiar class of biomaterials. The schedule of talks, speaker biographies and abstracts are viewable below.  Poster session There will be a flash talk and poster session on Tuesday 13 February 2024. If you would like to apply to present a poster and/or flash talk please submit your proposed title, abstract (no more than 200 words and in the third person), author list, name of the proposed presenter, and institution to the Scientific Programmes team no later than Friday 15 December 2023. Please include the text 'Melanogenesis poster submission' or 'Melanogenesis poster and flash talk submission' in the email subject line. You will be notified before the New Year about the success of your application.  Attending the meeting This meeting is intended for researchers in relevant fields and is a residential meeting. Please 'Apply to attend' using the link at the top of this webpage. The deadline for applications is Friday 15 December and the notification period is the same as above.  Free to attend This is an in-person meeting and will be taking place in Eastbourne. No virtual participation is possible Please do not book accommodation for the meeting until you have had confirmation of your attendance from the Scientific Programmes team. When/if you are invited to attend, you will be required to cover the costs of your travel, accommodation and meals during the meeting Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Creating Connections

Creating connections in the North West

Taking place at The Spine, Liverpool, this event will bring together experts from academia, industry and government to address scientific and technical opportunities and challenges in the North West region.

Wednesday 14 February 2024

02/14/2024

02/14/2024

The day will feature workshops and roundtable discussions on diverse topics including policy, innovation and education. This event will also feature a lunchtime address and networking breaks which will bring together delegates from across the conference. A detailed schedule of the day's sessions is currently being updated, and start times will soon be confirmed. Attending this event This event will be free to attend by invitation. To request an invitation, please contact industry@royalsociety.org. 

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Scientific Meeting

Understanding age and society using natural populations

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Dr Josh Firth, Dr Greg Albery, Dr Sandra Bouwhuis, Dr Lauren Brent, and Dr Rob Salguero-Gomez.

26 - 27 February 2024

02/26/2024

02/27/2024

Ageing affects almost all aspects of life, and population ageing is now recognised as an important process across diverse types of societies. This meeting will explore how natural animal populations present a unique opportunity to address the lack of fundamental understanding surrounding how individual ageing influences society functioning, particularly through combining the field of animal ageing with animal social networks. Recordings of the presentations will be available on this page once the meeting has taken place. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Poster session There will be an in-person poster session on Monday 26 February at the meeting venue and an online poster gallery for the duration of the meeting. If you would like to apply to present a poster please submit your proposed title, abstract (not more than 200 words and in third person), author list, name of the proposed presenter and institution to the Scientific Programmes team no later than Monday 5 February.  Please include the text 'Poster abstract submission - Ageing and Sociality in Nature' in the email subject line. Please note that posters are selected at the scientific organisers' discretion.  Attending this event This event is intended for researchers in relevant fields. Free to attend. Both in-person and online attendance available. Advance registration is essential. Please follow the link to register. Lunch is available on both days of the meeting for an optional £25 per day. There are plenty of places to eat nearby if you would prefer to purchase food offsite. Participants are welcome to bring their own lunch to the meeting. Programme To view the programme, please scroll down and select the day on the left-hand side. Click the arrows to view the speakers and talks.  Talks will be recorded, and the recordings will be available on the meeting webpage after the event (subject to speaker permission). Please contact the Scientific Programmes team for enquiries. Image: Greg Albery. A social group of three red deer on Isle of Rum, Scotland.

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Scientific Meeting

The promises and pitfalls of preregistration

Discussion meeting organised by Dr Tom Hardwicke, Professor Marcus Munafò, Dr Sophia Crüwell, Professor Dorothy Bishop, Professor Eric-Jan Wagenmakers.

04 - 05 March 2024

03/04/2024

03/05/2024

Serious concerns about research quality have provoked debate across scientific disciplines about the merits of preregistration — publicly declaring study plans before collecting or analysing data. This meeting will initiate an interdisciplinary dialogue exploring the epistemological and pragmatic dimensions of preregistration, identifying potential limits of application, and developing a practical agenda to guide future research and optimise implementation. The schedule of talks, speaker biographies and abstracts will be available shortly.  Poster session and flash talks There will be a lightning talk and poster session on Monday 4 March 2024. This is an opportunity to share brief updates about meta-research, ideas and tools related to preregistration. Lightning talks will be five minutes. If you would like to apply to present, please submit your proposed title, abstract (no more than 200 words), author list, name of proposed presenter, and institution to the Scientific Programmes team no later than 30 November 2023. Please state whether you would like to be considered to present a lightning talk and/or poster. Please be aware that it will take time to hear back about the success of your abstract, but the organisers intend to respond before the New Year. Anybody is welcome to apply. Attending the meeting This meeting is intended for researchers in relevant fields. Free to attend Both in person and online attendance available Please register to attend via Eventbrite. An optional lunch is also available to purchase.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes Team

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Scientific Meeting

Multi-messenger Gravitational Lensing

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Federica Bianco, Professor Martin Hendry, and Professor Graham Smith.

11 - 12 March 2024

03/11/2024

03/12/2024

The first multi-messenger (electromagnetic radiation and gravitational waves) detection of a gravitationally lensed cosmic explosion will have huge impact and unleash decades of novel science. This meeting brings together experts from the relevant disciplines to review recent progress and chart the path to first detection, as the Vera Rubin Observatory nears first-light, and gravitational wave detector sensitivity continues to improve.  We particularly encourage the participation of early career researchers, including Masters thesis students, PhD students, postdocs, and research assistants. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to submit an abstract about their relevant work for a contributed talk or the poster session. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.  Contributed talks We invite submission of abstracts (up to 200 words) to be selected for a contributed talk within the meeting. If successful, you will give a 12 minute presentation followed by 3 minutes for questions. Please submit your talk title and abstract to the Scientific Programmes team no later than Friday 26 January 2024. Your submission should include the text ‘Contributed abstract submission - Gravitational Lensing' in the email subject line. Poster session There will be a poster session on Monday 11 March. If you would like to present a poster, please submit your proposed title, abstract (up to 200 words), author list, and the name of the proposed presenter and institution to the Scientific Programmes team no later than Friday 26 January 2024. Please include the text 'Poster abstract submission - Gravitational Lensing' in the email subject line. Programme To view the programme and speakers' biographies, please scroll down and select the relevant day, then click the arrows to view the speakers and talks.  Venue This is a residential meeting taking place at The Edwardian hotel, Manchester, M2 5GP, UK.  Attending this event This is a residential meeting intended for researchers in relevant fields Free to attend Advance registration is essential (please request an invitation). When requesting an invitation, please briefly state your expertise and reasons for attending. Requests are reviewed by the meeting organisers on a rolling basis. You will receive a link to register if your request is successful This is an in-person meeting only Catering options are available to purchase during registration. Participants are responsible for their own accommodation booking  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Scientific Meeting

Sedimentology of plastics: state of the art and future directions

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Professor Gary Hampson, Dr Catherine Russell, Dr Ian Kane, Dr Michael Clare, Professor Sarah Gabbott and Professor Matthew Jackson.

18 - 19 March 2024

03/18/2024

03/19/2024

This multi-disciplinary workshop brings together researchers with interests in how plastic behaves as a sedimentary material. Understanding how, where and when plastics are transported, break down and accumulate in the natural environment requires sedimentary geoscience research to be integrated with contributions from material scientists, chemical engineers and chemists, experimentalists, fluid dynamicists and biologists. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies is available below. Speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting date. Poster session There will be a poster session on Monday 18 March 2024. If you would like to apply to present a poster please submit your proposed title, abstract (not more than 200 words and in third person), author list, name of the proposed presenter and institution to the Scientific Programmes team no later than Monday 12 February 2024. Please include the text ‘Poster abstract submission’ in the email subject line. Please note that places are limited and posters are selected at the scientific organiser’s discretion. Attending this event This event is intended for researchers in relevant fields and is a residential meeting taking place at Conference Aston, Aston Street, Birmingham, B4 7ET. The nearest train stations are Birmingham New Street, Birmingham Snow Hill and Birmingham Moor Street. Free to attend Advance registration essential (please request an invitation) This is an in-person meeting Catering options are available to purchase during registration. Participants are responsible for their own accommodation booking. To view the programme, please scroll down and select the day on the left-hand side. Click the arrows to view the speakers and talks. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Excitonic Frontiers

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Sandrine Heutz, Professor Jenny Nelson FRS, Professor Garry Rumbles and Professor Martin Heeney.

25 - 26 March 2024

03/25/2024

03/26/2024

Processes involving the photoexcited states of matter, or excitons, underpin some of today’s most important and diverse scientific advances, from solar cells, to quantum technologies via photosystems and catalysis. This meeting brings together world-leaders from traditionally separate fields to share views on the fundamental science, exploitation and characterisation of excitons, aiming to generate radical advances in exciton science and technology. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies will be available shortly. Talks will be recorded, and the recordings will be available on the meeting webpage after the event (subject to speaker permission). Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.  Attending this event This meeting is intended for researchers in relevant fields. Free to attend. Both in person and online attendance is available. Advance registration is essential. Please follow the link to register. Lunch is available on both days of the meeting for an optional £25 per day. There are plenty of places to eat nearby if you would prefer to purchase food offsite. Participants are welcome to bring their own lunch to the meeting.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Challenging the standard cosmological model

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor James Binney FRS, Dr Roya Mohayaee, Professor John Peacock FRS and Professor Subir Sarkar.

15 - 16 April 2024

04/15/2024

04/16/2024

Is the universe simple enough to be adequately described by the standard ΛCDM cosmological model which assumes the isotropic and homogeneous Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker metric? Tensions have emerged between the values of cosmological parameters estimated in different ways. Do these tensions signal that our model is too simple? Could a more sophisticated model account for the data without invoking a Cosmological Constant? The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting date. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Poster session There will be a poster session on Monday 15 April. If you would like to apply to present a poster please submit your proposed title, abstract (not more than 200 words and in third person), author list, name of the proposed presenter and institution to the Scientific Programmes team no later than Monday 4 March. Please include the text ‘Poster abstract submission’ in the email subject line. Please note that places are limited and posters are selected at the scientific organisers’ discretion. Attending this event This event is intended for researchers in relevant fields. Free to attend, an optional lunch is available to purchase during registration Both in person and online attendance available Advance registration is essential Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Vaccines and antimicrobial resistance: from science to policy

Science+ meeting organised by Professor Calman MacLennan and Dame Sally Davies FMedSci FRS.

29 - 30 April 2024

04/29/2024

04/30/2024

Vaccines for humans and animals represent an attractive means to counter the growing global pandemic of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) but are only available against a few key bacterial pathogens. The meeting will review the science of how vaccines reduce AMR, identify research gaps in developing AMR vaccines and discuss policy in advancing development and equitable deployment of such vaccines. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies will be available soon. Speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting date. Poster session There will be a poster session on Monday 29 April. Abstract submissions should include scientific studies on acceleration and development of vaccines against bacterial pathogens, particularly those that are of most relevance to low and middle-income countries (LMIC). We welcome submissions from Early Career Researchers (defined as individuals who do not currently hold a substantive position within their organisation) and applicants who are based in LMIC countries. Please visit the OECD website for more detail on what qualifies as an LMIC country.  If you would like to apply to present a poster, please submit your proposed title, abstract (no more than 200 words and in the third person), author and institution list, and name of the proposed presenter to the Scientific Programmes team no later than 10am (UK time) on Monday 2 January 2024. You will be notified the week commencing Monday 15 January about the success of your application. Registration Please register for the event above. You will need to make a new account in order to register for the event. Please direct any questions about the registration process to the Scientific Programmes team. Attending this event This event is intended for researchers in relevant fields. Free to attend, an optional lunch is available to purchase during registration Both in person and online attendance available Advance registration is essential Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Cell lineages across scales, space and time

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Giulia LM Boezio, Dr Afnan Azizi, Dr Claudio Cortés and Dr John Russell.

07 - 08 May 2024

05/07/2024

05/08/2024

Lineage trajectories and cellular decisions coordinate embryonic development and growth. Similarly, cellular origin and clonal trajectories are crucial elements to understanding and modulating the response to injury, disease, and therapies. This meeting will showcase cutting-edge research spanning developmental biology, organ regeneration, and cancer, in light of recently developed techniques to study lineage trajectories and cellular decisions.  The schedule of talks and speaker biographies will be available soon. Speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting date. Poster session There will be a poster session on Tuesday 7 May. If you would like to apply to present a poster please submit your proposed title, abstract (not more than 200 words and in third person), author list, name of the proposed presenter and institution to the Scientific Programmes team no later than Monday 25 March. Please include the text ‘Poster abstract submission’ in the email subject line. Please note that places are limited and posters are selected at the scientific organisers’ discretion. Attending this event This event is intended for researchers in relevant fields, and is a residential meeting taking place at the Edgbaston Park Hotel and Conference Centre, 53 Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham, B15 2RS. Free to attend Advance registration essential (please request an invitation) This is an in person meeting Catering options are available to purchase during registration. Participants are responsible for their own accommodation booking. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Selection shapes diverse animal minds

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Professor Elli Leadbeater and Professor Alex Thornton.

03 - 04 June 2024

06/03/2024

06/04/2024

What are the evolutionary processes that have produced extraordinary cognitive diversity across the animal kingdom? New approaches, informed by evolutionary biology, neuroscience and psychology, are allowing us to elucidate how different aspects of cognition enhance survival and reproduction for species that live very different lives. This meeting will explore how natural selection customizes animal minds to maximise evolutionary success. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies will be available soon. Speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting date. Poster session There will be a poster session on Monday 3 June. If you would like to apply to present a poster please submit your proposed title, abstract (not more than 200 words and in third person), author list, name of the proposed presenter and institution to the Scientific Programmes team no later than Friday 22 March. Please include the text ‘Poster abstract submission’ in the email subject line. Please note that places are limited and posters are selected at the scientific organisers’ discretion. Attending this event This event is intended for researchers in relevant fields, and is a residential meeting taking place at the Apex City of Bath Hotel, James Street West, Bath, BA1 2DA. Free to attend Advance registration essential This is an in-person meeting Catering options are available to purchase during registration. Participants are responsible for their own accommodation booking Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team  

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Scientific Meeting

Chemical probes for lysosomal biology

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Simon Wheeler and Professor Elizabeth New.

09 - 10 September 2024

09/09/2024

09/10/2024

Lysosomal function underpins both cellular health and disease. Despite this our understanding of how these organelles work, and how they contribute to important pathologies, is far from complete. The use of chemical sensors to elucidate these mechanisms provides an exciting but largely unexploited opportunity to facilitate fundamental research and ultimately to develop therapies. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting date. Attending this event This event is intended for researchers in relevant fields, and is a residential meeting taking place at Hilton York, 1 Tower Street, York, YO1 9WD. Free to attend Advance registration essential (more information about registration will be available soon) This is an in person meeting Catering options are available to purchase during registration. Participants are responsible for their own accommodation booking. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Transforming Our Future

Advancing the science of human nutrition

This conference explored how novel research in industry and academia is advancing our understanding of human nutrition.

Monday 04 December 2023

12/04/2023

12/04/2023

Nutrition plays a profoundly important role in health and wellbeing. Poor nutrition is a leading cause of chronic disease, including type 2 diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, cardiovascular disease, and various forms of cancer. With an increasingly overweight and ageing UK population, the incidence of such diseases and the associated healthcare costs continue to rise. This conference examined advances being made in the science of human nutrition by bringing together speakers from both industry and academia. The conference discussed how scientific breakthroughs can be translated into effective strategies for improved health, including the prevention and management of chronic disease. A cross-sector panel discussion sought to identify the barriers to translation and the important knowledge gaps in the field. It also discussed how these can be addressed through further research and innovation in both the commercial sector and academia. The conference concluded with a keynote from Henry Dimbleby MBE, co-founder of the Sustainable Restaurant Association, who considered emerging themes from the conference and the future of human nutrition. About the conference series This scientific meeting is part of the Royal Society's Transforming our Future conference series. These meetings are unique, high-level events that address the scientific and technical challenges of the next decade. Each conference features cutting edge science from industry and academia and brings together leading experts from the scientific community, including regulatory, charity and funding bodies.

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Conference

Industry College Networking 2023

Friday 24 November 2023

11/24/2023

11/24/2023

This conference will address cross-sector collaborations by bringing together past and current Royal Society Industry Fellows, Entrepreneurs in Residence and their collaborators. Participants will have the opportunity to hear what other network members are working on, participate in workshops surrounding issues facing industry scientists in the UK, and hear about the wider work of the Royal Society as a whole. Attending this event As well as new and current Industry Fellows and Entrepreneurs in Residence, there will be a limited number of places at this event for others interested in the relationship between industry and academia. If you would like to attend, please email industry@royalsociety.org with a short explanation as to why you are interested in the event. As places are limited, we cannot guarantee that there will be spaces available.

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Scientific Meeting

Long-term potentiation – 50 years on

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Cliff Abraham, Professor Tim Bliss FRS, Professor Graham Collingridge CBE FRS and Professor Richard Morris CBE FRS.

20 - 21 November 2023

11/20/2023

11/21/2023

The study of long-term potentiation (LTP), a form of synaptic plasticity first described in detail 50 years ago by Bliss and Lomo, has provided major insights into a huge range of brain physiological and pathophysiological processes. The meeting covers the basic molecular mechanisms of LTP, its role in learning and memory, with a particular focus on engrams, and its dysregulation in brain disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease, depression and chronic pain. The schedule of talks, speaker biographies and abstracts are available below. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.  Attending this event This event is intended for researchers in relevant fields. Free to attend Both in person and online attendance available Advance registration is essential  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.

The Royal Society

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Scientific Meeting

Ribosome heterogeneity and specialisation

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Dr Julie Aspden, Dr Maria Barna, Dr William Faller, and Professor Anders Lund.

06 - 07 November 2023

11/06/2023

11/07/2023

Ribosomes were thought to be homogeneous, passively translating mRNA into proteins. However, recent work has discovered that the composition of ribosomes is highly heterogeneous and that different ribosome populations can regulate the translation of specific mRNAs. This meeting discussed the latest advances, covering all types of ribosome heterogeneity in a variety of organisms and systems, including impact on human disease. The schedule of talks, speaker biographies and abstracts are available below. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.    Attending this event This meeting has now taken place. A recording of the meeting will be available in due course. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Transforming Our Future

The UK water industry: towards a resilient and sustainable future

This conference examined the challenges and opportunities facing the UK water industry and how scientific innovation in the sector can drive future progress.

Tuesday 31 October 2023

10/31/2023

10/31/2023

This event explored how scientific innovation can help to address some of the most significant challenges facing the UK water industry over the coming years, and examined some of the key advances that are likely to be needed within industry and academia. The programme opened with a keynote address from Professor Louise Heathwaite CBE FRS. Three sessions on climate resilience: coping with variability and unpredictability, water pollution and quality, and decarbonisation and energy were followed by panel discussion exploring the topics and the future of the water industry further. Transforming our future conferences This conference formed part of the Royal Society's industry-focussed Transforming our future series. These unique meetings feature cutting-edge science and bring together experts from industry, academia, funding bodies, the wider scientific community and government to explore and address key scientific and technical challenges of the coming decade.

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Policy Lab

Science x AI Safety: Expecting the unexpected

This panel discussion event will be exploring the varied risks for science and society associated with the development of advanced artificial intelligence. 

Wednesday 25 October 2023

10/25/2023

10/25/2023

Alongside the opportunities presented by AI, numerous risks have captured public attention from privacy concerns to research integrity, and the potential of an ‘existential threat’. This event will bring together expert voices to discuss the short-, medium-, and long-term risks associated with the development of advanced artificial intelligence. Being held a week before the Global AI Safety Summit, the panel will discuss what they consider to be key AI safety risks which should be prioritised by policymakers, the scientific community, and the general public.  This event is being organised independently of the UK Government and is not part of the Road to the Summit activities. Panel  Anna Bacciarelli, Human Rights Watch Ben Brooks, Stability AI Louisa Bull, Unite the Union  Professor Jon Crowcroft FRS FREng, University of Cambridge Sabhanaz Rashid Diya, Tech Global Institute Professor Gina Neff, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy  Attending this event  Free to attend by registration only This is an in-person event To register your interest, please sign up using the 'Book event' link on this page. We will then be in touch This panel discussion will be recorded, the recording will be available on this webpage after the event (subject to speaker permission)  For any queries or accessibility requirements, please email the Science Policy team Key details  The event will be taking place at the Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG from 18:30 – 21:00 This event has limited capacity. To register your interest, please sign up using the 'Book event' link on this page. You will be contacted by a member of staff if your registration is successful and will receive a formal invitation. 

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Scientific Meeting

Ptychography over all wavelengths

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Professor John Rodenburg FRS, Professor Ian Robinson and Dr Andrew Maiden.

23 - 24 October 2023

10/23/2023

10/24/2023

Ptychography is a form of computational imaging that has distinct advantages over conventional microscopic imaging methods. This meeting brought together researchers from the X-ray community, who have been using ptychography for about 15 years, with more recent adopters of the technique from the visible light, EUV and electron microscopy communities, as well as theoreticians studying novel applications and algorithms relating to the technique. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Speaker abstracts are also available below.  Attending this event This event has taken place. To view the programme, please scroll down and select the day on the left-hand side. Click the arrows to view the speakers and talks. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Complex rheology in biological systems

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Charley Schaefer, Professor Lorna Dougan, and Professor Gareth McKinley FRS. 

16 - 17 October 2023

10/16/2023

10/17/2023

The meeting will bring together an international and interdisciplinary community of researchers working on rheology and rheophysics within biological systems. Examples include viscoelasticity of the intra- and extracellular medium, sinovial fluids, blood, saliva, mucus, silk etc, as well as new experimental, theoretical, and computational methods. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. All speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting date. Poster session There will be a poster session on Monday 16 October. If you would like to apply to present a poster please submit your proposed title, abstract (not more than 200 words and in third person), author list, name of the proposed presenter and institution to the Scientific Programmes team no later than Friday 1 September 2023. Please include the text 'Poster submission' in the email subject line. Please note that places are limited and posters are selected at the scientific organisers' discretion. Decisions will be made by Friday 8 September 2023. Attending the meeting This meeting is intended for researchers in relevant fields and is a residential meeting.  This is an inclusive meeting that welcomes academics and industrial researchers at any stage in their career, and with any research interest that is related to the theme 'Complex Rheology in Biological Systems'. We encourage the participation of female researchers and researchers from under-represented groups. PhD students are also welcome to attend. Places for the event are limited, and to maximise interactions between participants, priority will be given to those who submit a poster abstract. Free to attend Registration is now closed This is an in-person meeting Catering options will be available to purchase during registration. Participants are responsible for booking their own accommodation  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Science And The Law

Careers at the interface of science and law

This event explored the career opportunities that exist within both science and law sectors.

Thursday 05 October 2023

10/05/2023

10/05/2023

This careers session was aimed at undergraduates and recent postgraduates, as well as sixth form students interested in a career in science or law. The session featured talks from professionals working at the interface of science and the law, exploring the mobility between the two sectors and the pathway into their current careers, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A session. This event was part of the Science and Law programmes at the National Academy of Science and the Royal Society. Find out more about the Royal Society's Science and the Law programme. Event recording .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }

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Science And The Law

Science in the interests of justice

This meeting brought together leading scientists and prominent members of the legal community from the UK and USA to explore approaches used by courts in their consideration, evaluation, and management of scientific…

03 - 04 October 2023

10/03/2023

10/04/2023

The conference considered scientific evidence that appears in court today as well as emerging areas of science, including neuroscience, human enhancement and climate change attribution, that may appear in the courts in the coming years. The conference was part of the Science and Law programmes at the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society. Find out more about the Royal Society's Science and the Law programme and the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Science, Technology and Law. The conference was led by: David Baltimore, President Emeritus and Judge Shirley Hufstedler Professor of Biology, the California Institute of Technology Lord Anthony Hughes of Ombersley PC, former judge of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom Dr Julie Maxton CBE, Executive Director of the Royal Society Dr Anne-Marie Mazza, Senior Director of the National Academy of Sciences Judge David Tatel, US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Dame Anne Rafferty DBE, former Lady Justice of Appeal of England and Wales It is hoped that this will be the first in a series of joint international Science and Law meetings in the coming years. View the recording Click watch on YouTube to view the full video playlist. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } Interested in a career at the interface between science and the law? The Royal Society hosted a satellite event exploring the career opportunities within science and the law. The workshop featured talks from scientists, professionals in the police force and lawyers, highlighting the mobility between the two sectors and the pathway into their current careers, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A session.

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Scientific Meeting

Time to start taking time seriously: circadian rhythms in infection and immunity

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Professor Sarah Reece, Dr Rachel Edgar and Professor Annie Curtis.

25 - 26 September 2023

09/25/2023

09/26/2023

The time of day when infection occurs can dictate live-or-die outcomes for hosts, but how timing impacts host-pathogen interactions remains largely unknown. Leaders in the fields of circadian biology, immunology, microbiology, parasitology, virology and evolutionary ecology explored how and why rhythms in pathogen activities and host immune responses drive disease processes, ultimately determining the severity and transmission of infections. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies is available below. Speaker abstracts are also available below.  Attending this event This event has taken place. To view the programme, please scroll down and select the day on the left-hand side. Click the arrows to view the speakers and talks. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Scientific Meeting

Glycans in infection: challenge and opportunity

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Elizabeth Fullam, Professor Gurdyal Besra FRS, Professor Matthew Gibson, and Professor Sabine Flitsch.

18 - 19 September 2023

09/18/2023

09/19/2023

The importance of tackling infectious diseases cannot be overstated. Glycans are key mediators in pathogen biology and remarkably important in virulence, presenting an under explored opportunity for the development of new therapeutics, diagnostics and vaccines. This interdisciplinary meeting brought leading experts together to share knowledge and explore the future challenges of exploiting sugars to combat infectious diseases.  The schedule of talks, speaker biographies, and abstracts are available below.  Attending the meeting This meeting has now taken place. Enquires: contact the Scientific Programmes team  

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Conference

Royal Society Neural Interfaces Summit 2023

This summit will explore and aim to lay the foundations for international governance of neural interface technologies to accelerate responsible development in the field.

13 - 14 September 2023

09/13/2023

09/14/2023

Four years on from the Royal Society’s iHuman perspective report, this summit will bring together leading experts and policymakers to discuss how the field has progressed and determine its potential future direction. Sessions on Day 1 will cover the science and applications of neural interface technologies both invasive and non-invasive – from current uses in medical applications to unmet needs and potential for future advancement. The day will conclude with an evening reception of drinks and demos of the latest technologies.  Day 2 will give an introduction to the ethical and governance concerns surrounding future pathways for these technologies and delve into issues of technology abandonment, design inclusivity, privacy and liberty. A full programme (PDF) is available for this event. Attending this event This event is intended for  researchers, clinicians, innovators, patients, carers, patient representatives, any individual that can broaden interdisciplinary discussion through their technical knowledge and/or unique lived experience. Free to attend In-person attendance is by invitation only To register your interest, please sign up using the 'Book event' link on this page. We will then be in touch Lunch is available on both days of the summit. There are plenty of places to eat nearby if you would prefer to purchase food offsite. Participants are welcome to bring their own lunch to the summit For any queries or accessibility requirements, please email the Resilient Futures team  Talks will be recorded, and the recordings will be available on this webpage after the event (subject to speaker permission) Key details The summit will be taking place at the Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG Registration will be open from 8:30am on both day 1 and day 2 with tea, coffee and pastries provided  Day 1 will begin at 9:20am with a welcome and opening remarks from Sir Adrian Smith PRS Day 2 will begin at 9:30am with an introduction from Dr Sarah Chan and Professor Nita A. Farahany   Submit your questions on Slido Watch Day 1 .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } Watch Day 2 .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } Please note, photography and recording will be taking place at this event. Photography and videos will be kept in line with the Society’s privacy policy.

The Royal Society

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Scientific Meeting

Quantum science with ultracold molecules

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Professor Simon Cornish, Professor Michael Tarbutt and Dr Hannah Price. 

14 - 15 June 2023

06/14/2023

06/15/2023

Ultracold molecules offer a new and fascinating system for the study of many aspects of quantum science including ultracold chemistry, quantum computing, metrology, quantum simulation and fundamental physics. Following rapid recent progress, this meeting brought the community together to explore synergies with other disciplines and to map out the future avenues of research with ultracold molecules. Attending this event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Scientific Meeting

Recovering nature: building on Georgina Mace's work to ensure a biodiverse and liveable future

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Jon Bridle, Professor Andrew Balmford FRS, Professor Sarah Durant, Professor Richard Gregory, Professor Kate Jones, Professor Richard Pearson, Professor Andy…

12 - 13 June 2023

06/12/2023

06/13/2023

Our understanding of the patterns and rate of biodiversity loss, and their consequences for human societies has been transformed by the ideas, insight and energy of Georgina Mace (1953–2020). This meeting highlighted how Georgina’s work repeatedly changed the conversation about how we measure biodiversity, its value, and our relationship with nature, and showcased scientists building on her enormous accomplishments. The schedule of talks, speaker biographies and abstracts are available to view below. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Attending this event This event has now taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team. Aerial view of the Borneo rainforest. Credit: Hasselblad.

The Royal Society

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Creating Connections

Creating connections in Scotland 2023

The Royal Society is working in partnership with the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy, to deliver Creating connections in Scotland 2023 – a two-day conference focusing on Scottish research and…

06 - 07 June 2023

06/06/2023

06/07/2023

Across two days, this event will feature workshops and roundtable discussions on diverse topics including policy, innovation and education. This event will also feature a lunchtime address and various networking opportunities which will bring together delegates from across the conference. A detailed schedule of the sessions will soon be confirmed. Attending this event This event will be free to attend by invitation. Please see the respective sessions below for more information on attending.

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Transforming Our Future

Sustainable fashion: transdisciplinary approaches to innovation

This event explored the role of science in reducing the environmental impact of the fashion industry.

Tuesday 23 May 2023

05/23/2023

05/23/2023

This event outlined the fashion sector's largest sustainability challenges and identified areas where transdisciplinary approaches to innovation are required to drive progress. The meeting brought together key stakeholders from across industry, academia, policy and finance to explore themes such as design innovation, social science, material science, manufacturing efficiency and end-of-life. Conference report Download conference report About the conference series This scientific meeting is part of the Royal Society’s Transforming our Future conference series. These meetings are unique, high-level events that address the scientific and technical challenges of the next decade. Each conference features cutting edge science from industry and academia and brings together leading experts from the scientific community, including regulatory, charity and funding bodies.  Watch the video recording Click watch on YouTube to view the full video playlist. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }

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Scientific Meeting

Open, reproducible hardware for microscopy

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Richard Bowman, Dr Caroline Müllenbroich, Dr Benedict Diederich, Dr Julieta Arancio, Dr Sanli Faez and Professor Gail McConnell. 

22 - 23 May 2023

05/22/2023

05/23/2023

Reproducible experiments in microscopy require well-understood instruments that can be replicated independently. Open Source Hardware, the practice of sharing complete designs under an open license can make instrument development more reproducible, more accessible, and reduce duplicated effort. This meeting brought together researchers, manufacturers, and others involved in open microscopy to discuss recent developments, best practice, and goals for the future. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. The organisers would like to acknowledge the contribution of Dr Kirti Prakash, who has since stepped down from the organising committee, for helping to set up this meeting.  Attending this event The meeting has taken place.  Follow-up online event There will be a follow-up online meeting on 30 May 2023 at 2.30pm BST that aims to keep the conversation going after the main 'Open, reproducible hardware for microscopy' meeting. Registration for this follow-up meeting is open. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Transforming Our Future

Sustainability in the research and innovation endeavour

This conference explored possibilities for enhancing the environmental sustainability of research and innovation activities in wet and dry laboratory environments across all scientific disciplines in both industry…

16 - 17 May 2023

05/16/2023

05/17/2023

This hybrid Royal Society conference, developed in partnership with the Royal Society of Chemistry, offered a forum to connect a broad range of individuals working within both wet and dry laboratory environments who have an interest in enhancing the environmental sustainability of research and innovation activities. These included senior leaders from industry and academia as well as scientists, technicians, and students working in a wide range of scientific environments including physics, engineering, chemistry, biology, and clinical research. It took a discursive approach to highlight and explore this topic, considering trade-offs and myths, examining examples of good practice and promising innovations, exploring current and future challenges, discussing how progress might be measured, and fostering opportunities for collaboration. The conference contained a number of elements, including: a series of roundtable discussions reflections from the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Academy of Medical Sciences’ FORUM on recent publications and workshops future direction of travel for the Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework case studies from industry discussion about metrics, data collection, and lifecycle assessments Scope 3 emissions a discussion for laboratory scientists, technicians and data scientists discussion with funding bodies There was also unstructured time during refreshment breaks for networking and discussion.  Conference report Download the conference report (PDF), a summary of the talks and activities from this meeting. About the conference series Supported by Rolls-Royce, this meeting formed part of the Royal Society’s Transforming our future series. These meetings are unique, high-level events that address the scientific and technical challenges of the next decade. Each conference features cutting-edge science from industry and academia and brings together leading experts from the scientific community, including regulatory, charity and funding bodies.  Event recording Click watch on YouTube to view the full video playlist. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }

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Scientific Meeting

Algal holobionts: challenges and opportunities

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Mahasweta Saha, Dr Catherine LeBlanc, and Dr Suhelen Egan.

15 - 16 May 2023

05/15/2023

05/16/2023

This meeting aimed to integrate and network the broad interdisciplinary community of scientists working on marine algal holobionts. It discussed advances made in this field and future research directions. It aimed for a diverse, inclusive meeting ensuring gender, balance, ECR participation and including both EU, non-EU and other non-algal holobiont researchers. The schedule of talks, speaker biographies and abstracts are available below. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Attending this event This meeting has now taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Scientific Meeting

At the interface of asymptotics, conformal methods and analysis in general relativity

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Dr Juan Valiente Kroon and Dr Grigalius Taujanskas.

09 - 10 May 2023

05/09/2023

05/10/2023

In the sixty years since Penrose’s original insight that conformal geometry could be used to study the global structure of fields and spacetimes, these ideas have become central to many parts of mathematical and theoretical physics. Today many inspired methods and frameworks exist for asymptotic analysis in general relativity. This meeting aimed to bring together researchers working on these and related topics. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies and abstracts are available below. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Attending this event This event has taken place. To view the programme, please scroll down and select the day on the left-hand side. Click the arrows to view the speakers and talks. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team Click watch on YouTube to view the full video playlist. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }

The Royal Society

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Scientific Meeting

Tissue resilience in health and disease

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Dr Helen Weavers and Professor Anna Jazwinska.

26 - 27 April 2023

04/26/2023

04/27/2023

Most animal and plant tissues have an intrinsic ability to withstand day-to-day stress, but many also exhibit extraordinary adaptive responses to stress that drive increased ‘resilience’ against further insult. This inter-disciplinary meeting showcased cutting-edge research from basic scientists and clinicians exploring the mechanistic basis and translational potential of these remarkable phenomena, including the role of diet, ageing and biomechanics. Meeting papers will be available in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.   Attending this event This meeting has taken place.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.   Image: Jack Holcombe (Kidney tubule) Image: Zebrafish heart (Anna Jazwinska Lab)

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Scientific Meeting

Causes and consequences of stochastic processes in development and disease

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Dr Dagan Jenkins, Dr Gabriel Galea and Professor Jonathan Chubb.

17 - 18 April 2023

04/17/2023

04/18/2023

Stochastic processes impact upon many areas of biology. This phenomenon has recently become a research discipline in its own right owing to technological advances in DNA sequencing, single molecule and single cell methodologies, genetic engineering and mathematical modelling. Investigating stochastic processes requires a multidisciplinary approach, and this meeting brought together scientists from disparate areas to promote dialogue between them. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.   Attending this event This event has now taken place. To view the programme, please scroll down and select the day on the left-hand side. Click the arrows to view the speakers and talks. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

The Royal Society

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Scientific Meeting

Genetics and evolution of sexual orientation

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Professor Vincent Savolainen, Professor Sergey Gavrilets and Professor Nathan Bailey

27 - 28 March 2023

03/27/2023

03/28/2023

Homosexuality is common in animals and humans, but the biological foundations of such behaviour are unknown. Instead, as offspring are not produced, it is considered a Darwinian paradox. This meeting confronted genetic mechanisms and socio-evolutionary models underlying sexual orientation, in light of recent genomic findings, and with the aim to provide a modern, science-led synthesis on this topic.  Attending this event This meeting has taken place.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Sedimentology of plastics: state of the art and future directions – POSTPONED

This meeting has been postponed. More details to follow. Theo Murphy meeting organised by Professor Gary Hampson, Dr Catherine Russell, Dr Ian Kane, Dr Michael Clare, Professor Sarah Gabbott and Professor Matthew…

20 - 21 March 2023

03/20/2023

03/21/2023

This multi-disciplinary workshop brings together researchers with interests in how plastic behaves as a sedimentary material. Understanding how, where and when plastics are transported, break down and accumulate in the natural environment requires sedimentary geoscience research to be integrated with contributions from material scientists, chemical engineers and chemists, experimentalists, fluid dynamicists and biologists. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies can be found below. Speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting date. Attending this event This meeting has been postponed. More details to follow. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Forecasting infectious disease incidence for public health

Satellite meeting organised by Professor Sebastian Funk, Professor Nicholas Reich, Professor Steven Riley and Professor Rachel Lowe.

15 - 16 March 2023

03/15/2023

03/16/2023

Forecasts have rarely been the focus when analysing and modelling infectious disease dynamics. Recently they have become a topic of increasing activity. The meeting discussed the latest developments in this area and identify cross-cutting areas and synergies with other fields.  The schedule of talks, speaker biographies and abstracts are available below.  Attending this event This event has now taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Forecasting natural and social systems

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Sebastian Funk, Professor Nicholas Reich, Professor Steven Riley and Professor Rachel Lowe.

13 - 14 March 2023

03/13/2023

03/14/2023

Science is used to underpin forecasts of many types, but methodologies are often developed in isolation within respective disciplines. This meeting aimed to convene leading experts in forecasting across disciplines to discuss the predictability of different systems, to exchange expertise, and to identify common challenges and possible solutions. The schedule of talks, speaker biographies and abstracts are available below.   Attending this event This event has now taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

The Royal Society

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Conference

Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing

06 - 08 March 2023

03/06/2023

03/08/2023

The Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing took place on 6-8 March 2023 at the Francis Crick Institute, London UK. Building on previous events held in Washington, DC (2015) and Hong Kong (2018), the London meeting continued the global dialogue on somatic and germline human genome editing. Major themes for discussion included developments in clinical trials and genome editing tools such as CRISPR/Cas9, as well as social, ethical and accessibility considerations these scientific developments entail. The three-day Summit was organised by the Royal Society, the UK Academy of Medical Sciences, the US National Academies of Sciences and Medicine and The World Academy of Sciences. The Summit’s Organising Committee, chaired by Professor Robin Lovell-Badge FMedSci FRS, released a statement based on the Summit discussions.  Event resources Watch all three days of the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing. Read the closing statement from the Summit's Organising Committee. The Summit booklet, which includes the agenda, is available to download. The report of a research project aiming to survey, document, catalogue and analyse empirical information regarding regulatory capacity and governance approaches for somatic genome editing research interventions in different countries, which was commissioned ahead of the Summit, is available to download. Findings from the report were presented by Piers Millett on Wednesday 8 March at the Summit. A recorded presentation on 'CRISPR and Human Genome Editing: Progress & Opportunities' by Jennifer Doudna, Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA, is available to watch. A handout for the agenda session on the morning of Wednesday 8 March 'Civil Society and Human Genome Editing: roles and challenges in public engagement' is available to download. In preparation for the Summit, a three-part series of online events was held in 2022 'Looking Ahead to the Third Human Genome Editing Summit', which focused on scientific developments, equity and access, and governance of human genome editing. Recordings of all the presentations are available to watch.

London

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Transforming Our Future

Machine learning and AI in biological science, drug discovery and medicine

Wednesday 01 March 2023

03/01/2023

03/01/2023

This Royal Society conference brought together stakeholders from industry and academia to explore advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence for biological research, drug discovery and medicine. Whilst these computational technologies are already transforming biological, clinical and pharmaceutical research, significant obstacles remain, in particular around skills, financing, and accessibility. Concerted industry/academia collaboration is required to address these challenges. Three sessions around biology, chemistry and medicine included talks on machine learning for target discovery and 'omic technologies, AI-based chemoinformatics, and computational clinical trial design, as well as the classical prediction of protein folding, followed by a keynote address from Dr Demis Hassabis CBE FREng FRS (DeepMind). The conference concluded with a panel discussion that addressed how machine learning and AI can be used to advance medicine and healthcare. Conference report Download the conference report. About the conference series Supported by AstraZeneca, the meeting formed part of the Royal Society’s Transforming our future series in the life sciences. These meetings are unique, high-level events that address the scientific and technical challenges of the next decade. Each conference features cutting-edge science from industry and academia and brings together leading experts from the scientific community, including regulatory, charity and funding bodies.  Watch the event recording Click watch on YouTube to view the full video playlist. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }

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Scientific Meeting

Understanding age and society using natural populations - POSTPONED

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Dr Josh Firth, Dr Greg Albery, Dr Sandra Bouwhuis, Dr Lauren Brent, and Dr Rob Salguero-Gomez.

27 - 28 February 2023

02/27/2023

02/28/2023

Ageing affects almost all aspects of life, and population ageing is now recognised as an important process across diverse types of societies. This meeting will explore how natural animal populations present a unique opportunity to address the lack of fundamental understanding surrounding how individual ageing influences society functioning, particularly through combining the field of animal ageing with animal social networks. Recordings of the presentations will be available on this page once the meeting has taken place. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Poster session There will be an in-person poster session on Monday 27 February at the meeting venue and an online poster gallery for the duration of the meeting. If you would like to apply to present a poster please submit your proposed title, abstract (not more than 200 words and in third person), author list, name of the proposed presenter and institution to the Scientific Programmes team . Please include the text 'Poster abstract submission - Ageing and Sociality in Nature' in the email subject line. Please note that posters are selected at the scientific organisers' discretion. Please note that the submission deadline has been extended until 8 February.  Attending this event This meeting has been postponed. More details to follow.  Please contact the Scientific Programmes team for enquiries. Image: Greg Albery. A social group of three red deer on Isle of Rum, Scotland.

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Scientific Meeting

Astronomy from the Moon: the next decades

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Joseph Silk FRS, Professor Ian Crawford, Dr Martin Elvis and Professor John Zarnecki.

13 - 14 February 2023

02/13/2023

02/14/2023

This meeting discussed how low-frequency radio astronomy from the radio-shielded lunar far side can have a unique science impact on cosmology potentially at modest cost. The permanently shadowed lunar craters may offer advantages for passive cooling of infrared telescopes. This meeting examined these and other potential uses of the Moon as a platform for astronomical observations and the policy implications. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies can be found below. A related journal issue has been published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.  Attending this event This event has taken place.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team. Click watch on YouTube to view the full video playlist. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }

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Scientific Meeting

Spectroscopy of exoplanets at high resolution

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Professor Sergey Yurchenko, Dr Matteo Brogi and Professor Jonathan Tennyson FRS.

06 - 07 February 2023

02/06/2023

02/07/2023

The meeting aimed to bring together exoplanetary astrophysicists working with novel high resolution spectroscopic techniques with providers of the high-resolution spectroscopic data both theoretical and experimental. There is a growing need for these communities to communicate their needs and capabilities. The spectroscopic community needs to learn about the molecules which are thought to be important for HR atmospheric studies. In turn, the astrophysical community (data users) needs to understand the limitations and capabilities of the HR laboratory data, both experimental and theoretical. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Speaker abstracts are also available below.  Attending this event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Creating Connections

Creating connections in the East of England

Taking place at John Innes Conference Centre, Norwich, this event will bring together experts from academia, industry and government to address scientific and technical opportunities and challenges in the East of…

24 - 25 January 2023

01/24/2023

01/25/2023

The day will feature workshops and roundtable discussions on diverse topics including policy, innovation and education. This event will also feature a lunchtime address and networking session which will bring together delegates from across the conference. A detailed schedule of the day's sessions is currently being updated, and start times will soon be confirmed. Attending this event This event will be free to attend by invitation. To request an invitation, please contact industry@royalsociety.org. 

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Scientific Meeting

Probing the quantum origin of spacetime

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Steffen Gielen and Dr Jean-Luc Lehners.

23 - 24 January 2023

01/23/2023

01/24/2023

Quantum theory describes the behaviour of matter, but was it in fact also instrumental in explaining the structure of space and time? This meeting will discuss how the quantum properties of spacetime can change our understanding of the foundations of cosmology, and how their impact could be tested observationally in the near future. Attending this event This meeting has taken place.  Image credit: NASA/ESA and Jean-Luc Lehners.

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Scientific Meeting

Geodiversity science for society

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Dr Franziska Schrodt, Dr Malcolm Hunter, Mr Derk van Ree, Professor W Daniel Kissling, Dr Richard Field and Dr Joseph J Bailey.

16 - 17 January 2023

01/16/2023

01/17/2023

Geodiversity, heterogeneity of abiotic nature, is both dynamic and crucial to Earth’s systems. Yet, human-induced change threatens geodiversity globally. This meeting brought together experts across disciplines, strengthened the intellectual core around geodiversity science and enhanced its policy impact by developing ‘essential geodiversity variables’, related to human well-being, sustainability and natural resource management. This will initiate a new field of transdisciplinary science.  The schedule of talks and speaker biographies and abstracts can be found below. Meeting papers will be available in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Attending this event  This event has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Atlantic overturning: new observations and challenges

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Meric Srokosz, Professor Penny Holliday and Professor Harry Bryden.

05 - 06 December 2022

12/05/2022

12/06/2022

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) modulates our climate, including being a potential cause of rapid change. New observations over the last decade or so have revealed surprising aspects of the AMOC and led to a re-consideration of its stability and variability, its role in physical and biogeochemical components of the climate system, and its representation in climate models. An accompanying journal issue has been published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Attending this event This meeting has taken place.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team Image credit: Dr Ben Moat Recordings of the talks are now available below. Click watch on YouTube to view the full video playlist. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }

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Scientific Meeting

Strongyloides: omics to worm-free populations

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Vicky Hunt, Dr Adrian Streit, Dr Dora Buonfrate, Professor James Lok and Professor Peter Odermatt.

28 - 29 November 2022

11/28/2022

11/29/2022

This meeting brought together basic and applied scientists working on the neglected tropical disease strongyloidiasis, caused by the soil-transmitted helminth Strongyloides. The aims of this meeting were to: Share and present the latest research Discuss future priorities and goals in the field including treatment and control strategies Identify areas of overlap between disciplines and forge collaborations and networks  An accompanying journal issue has been published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Attending this event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team Image credit: Adrian Streit

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Conference

Industry College Networking 2022

Friday 25 November 2022

11/25/2022

11/25/2022

This conference will address cross-sector collaborations by bringing together past and current Royal Society Industry Fellows, Entrepreneurs in Residence and their collaborators. Participants will have the opportunity to hear what other network members are working on, participate in workshops surrounding issues facing industry scientists in the UK, and hear about the wider work of the Royal Society as a whole. Attending this event As well as new and current Industry Fellows and Entrepreneurs in Residence, there will be a limited numbers of places at this event for others interested in the relationship between industry and academia. If you would like to attend, please email industry@royalsociety.org with a short explanation as to why you are interested in the event. As places are limited, we cannot guarantee that there will be spaces available.

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Scientific Meeting

Science in Public Life: Ocean and Marine Science Policy Programme launch

Join the Royal Society for the launch of the Science in Public Life: Ocean Science Policy Programme.

Thursday 24 November 2022

11/24/2022

11/24/2022

The next decade will be pivotal for the health of the ocean, which is facing unprecedented human and environmental stressors. Science-informed policy responses will be at the forefront of creating an ocean which is both healthy and meets the needs of humanity sustainably. The Royal Society is launching the new Ocean Science Policy Programme to support the science and policy needed to meet the goals of the UN’s Ocean Decade. The programme seeks to bring early career researchers, ocean professionals, and policy makers together to identify the critical knowledge to help create a sustainably managed, healthy ocean. On the day, you will have the opportunity to engage with ocean thought-leaders, network with researchers and policy professionals from a range of marine-related disciplines, and put your mind to some of the pressing interdisciplinary challenges facing our seas. Attending this event The event is open to all policy makers, early career researchers and early career ocean professionals working in the field of marine science or policy. If you would like to participate in-person on the day, please email the Resilient Futures Team noting your current occupation/institution and area of focus, as well as any dietary requirements. Please be aware that space on the day will be limited and advanced registration is essential. Watch the livestream Ask a question

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Scientific Meeting

Understanding the endosomal network in neurodegeneration

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Peter Cullen, Professor Peter St George-Hyslop FRS, Professor Scott Small and Dr Henne Holstege.

21 - 22 November 2022

11/21/2022

11/22/2022

Abnormalities in the endosomal network are a signature feature of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and numerous other neurological disorders. In bringing together world leading researchers from a range of disciplines, this meeting sought to discuss the latest advances in this rapidly moving field and foster collaborative efforts to enhance the rate of discovery in this medically important research field. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Speaker abstracts are also available below.  Attending this event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team. Click watch on YouTube to view the full video playlist. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }

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Transforming Our Future

Innovation in sport: accelerating breakthroughs in engineering, optimisation and performance

This one day hybrid conference brought together stakeholders from across the sports industry to explore the cutting-edge advances and innovations that are enabling humans and machines to operate ever closer to peak…

Monday 14 November 2022

11/14/2022

11/14/2022

This Royal Society conference brought together stakeholders from across industry, academia and competitive sport to explore how cutting-edge advances and innovations in data, modelling, simulation, and design engineering are enabling humans and machines to operate ever closer to peak functional and mechanical capacity. Talks included case studies from Formula 1, high-performance sport and Paralympic engineering, and will discuss the key scientific, translational and commercial opportunities and challenges of the coming decade within the elite and everyday sporting industries. The conference concluded with a panel discussion to consider debates around ethics, accessibility, and how scientific and technical challenges and research gaps might be addressed to drive continued interdisciplinary innovation. Download the conference report (PDF) summarising the event. About the conference series This scientific meeting is part of the Royal Society’s Transforming our Future conference series. These meetings are unique, high-level events that address the scientific and technical challenges of the next decade. Each conference features cutting edge science from industry and academia and brings together leading experts from the scientific community, including regulatory, charity and funding bodies. Watch the event video Click 'watch on YouTube' to view the full video playlist. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }

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Scientific Meeting

Understanding fast-ion conduction in solid electrolytes

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Benjamin Morgan, Dr Wolfgang Zeier and Professor Serena Corr.

14 - 15 November 2022

11/14/2022

11/15/2022

'Superionic' solid electrolytes exhibit exceptional room-temperature ionic conductivities, giving them the potential to enable next-generation battery and fuel-cell technologies. Developing new high-performance electrolytes requires understanding how chemistry can control fast ionic conduction. This meeting will bring together experts on solid electrolytes, superionic conduction, and complex diffusion mechanisms in solids, to discuss the mechanistic origins of fast-ion conduction in solid electrolytes. An accompanying journal issue has been published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.  Attending this event This event has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Cell mimicry: bottom-up engineering of life

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Dr Yuval Elani, Dr David Lunn, Professor Thomas McLeish FRS, Dr Annela Seddon, Dr Tom Ellis, and Professor John Seddon.

07 - 08 November 2022

11/07/2022

11/08/2022

This meeting explored the emerging area of artificial cell science. Specifically, bottom-up synthetic biology approaches were discussed, where molecular building blocks are brought together to yield protocells that mimic properties of biological systems. Biomimetic assemblies that traverse lengthscales (from sub-cellular structures to proto-tissues) were covered. There was a focus on potential applications of this research area. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies and abstracts can be found below. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Interface Focus. Attending this event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team Click watch on YouTube to view the full video playlist. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }

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Scientific Meeting

A bicentenary tribute to Louis Pasteur, Foreign Member of the Royal Society

Friday 28 October 2022

10/28/2022

10/28/2022

The Institut Pasteur and the Académie des sciences celebrate Louis Pasteur’s bicentenary, with support from the Royal Society. This symposium will present cutting-edge research in Louis Pasteur’s own research areas and promote international cooperation in science and scientific outreach as he did throughout his life. This event is free to attend. Please register using Eventbrite. This event will be livestreamed on this webpage and on YouTube. The Royal Society has an acceptable use policy for all online events, and we expect our users to abide by these guidelines

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Scientific Meeting

The virtues and vices of protein citrullination

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Maria Christophorou.

24 - 25 October 2022

10/24/2022

10/25/2022

Citrullination is emerging as a fundamental regulatory mechanism in human physiology and pathophysiology, from immunity, neurobiology and embryonic development to rheumatology, neurodegeneration and cancer. Scientists from across these fields will come together for the first time to discuss the molecular and cellular biology of citrullination, approaches for its detection and modulation, future directions and implications for health and disease.   The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Speaker abstracts are also available below. An accompanying journal issue has been published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Attending this event This event has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Causes of obesity: theories, conjectures and evidence

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor John R Speakman FMedSci FRS, Professor Thorkild IA Sørensen, Dr Kevin D Hall and Professor David B Allison.

17 - 19 October 2022

10/17/2022

10/19/2022

Obesity has been described by the WHO as the largest health threat facing mankind. Obesity is manifestly an issue of energy balance. Yet, there is surprisingly little consensus about why such energy imbalance develops. This meeting included presentations by world experts on the plethora of ideas about the mechanisms underlying obesity, and hence how we may tackle it. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Speaker abstracts are also available below. A related journal issue has been published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Part 1 and Part 2. Attending this event This event has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team Click watch on YouTube to view the full video playlist. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }

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Scientific Meeting

Diamond for quantum applications

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Shannon Nicley, Dr Gavin Morley and Professor Ken Haenen.

10 - 11 October 2022

10/10/2022

10/11/2022

A discussion on the recent progress of diamond growth and engineering for the creation and optimisation of colour centres, toward the integration of diamond based qubits in quantum systems. The schedule of talks is available below. An accompanying journal issue has been published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.  Attending this event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Confronting radical uncertainty

Science+ meeting organised by Professor David Tuckett, Dr David Good and Professor Leonard Smith.

03 - 04 October 2022

10/03/2022

10/04/2022

In this meeting, the plan is to focus on 'real life' decision-making in government, business and the Third Sector – decisions such as those about climate mitigation and preserving our environment; policy priorities in health and education; innovation, increasing productivity and new product design; organisational and regulatory innovation; when and how to intervene in humanitarian or other crises; how to maintain cyber and other forms of security; what macroeconomic policies to use to maximise the wellbeing of citizens; how to minimize social and mental discontent; etc. We conceive decisions of this type and many of the other vital ones confronting us as made in a framework of Radical Uncertainty. It means that, at the time decision-makers decide what to do, they may reasonably be able to imagine some of the different outcomes of their actions but can neither know nor specify the full range of possibilities nor calculate the likelihood that the one they desire will eventuate. Moreover, as many such decisions have to be made and cannot be delayed (because not making them is a decision), decision-makers face an additional challenge – how to build commitment to an uncertain course (or be paralysed) and how to monitor and adjust as plans unfold through time.   Within this Radical Uncertainty framework, in discussion between decision-makers and scientists from across a wide academic spectrum, we want to test whether by re-evaluating prevailing analytic approaches to decision-making, mostly based on probabilistic reasoning, we can offer better decision support. A guiding idea is that uncertainty is an opportunity to be embraced as well as to be feared and avoided. Decision-making under uncertainty will generate emotions attached to approach or avoidance. One proposition is that it is time to talk both about the facilitating role of emotion in human decision-making and to recognise the costs of ignoring feelings.  In the panel sessions during the conference, we will use the Radical Uncertainty framework proposed to:  Discuss the experience of a group of very senior decision-makers (Panel 1). Debate some of the core academic approaches to decision-making coming from cognitive science, mathematics, statistics and operational research (Panel 2).  Hear about some new contemporary research into social and affective neuroscience and 'conviction narrative theory' (Panel 3) Discuss several pilot projects aimed at helping decision-makers in Whitehall and elsewhere to confront radical uncertainty (Panel 4). Think about the core questions that further research needs to address and how research funding and institutions might need to adapt to make it possible (Concluding dialogue). The schedule of sessions and speaker biographies are available below. Attending this event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Cognitive artificial intelligence

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Alan Bundy CBE FREng FRS, Professor Stephen Muggleton FREng, Professor Nick Chater, Professor Josh Tenenbaum, Professor Ulrike Hahn and Assistant Professor Ellie…

26 - 27 September 2022

09/26/2022

09/27/2022

In recent years there has been increasing excitement concerning the potential of Artificial Intelligence to transform human society. The meeting addressed present incompatibilities and similarities of human and machine reasoning and learning approaches, and involved presentations of relevant leading research in both Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. Recordings of the talks are now available below. An accompanying journal issue has been published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Attending this event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team  

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Scientific Meeting

Marine microbes in a changing climate

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Professor Alessandro Tagliabue, Professor Thomas Mock, Dr Julie Robidart and Dr Patricia Sanchez-Baracaldo.

12 - 13 September 2022

09/12/2022

09/13/2022

Marine microbes are crucial for ocean health and ecosystem services. However, understanding their response to climate change requires us to bridge gaps between biogeochemistry and genomics to reveal how the changing seascape impacts microbial metabolism, diversity, and evolution. This meeting brought together this cross-disciplinary community to discuss emerging findings and key topics, as well as identifying new research opportunities. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Speaker abstracts are also available below. Attending this event This event has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Creating Connections

Creating connections in the South West

Taking place at Reed Hall, Exeter, this event will bring together experts from academia, industry and government to address scientific and technical opportunities and challenges in the South West region.

16 - 17 June 2022

06/16/2022

06/17/2022

The day will feature workshops and roundtable discussions on diverse topics including policy, innovation and education. The event will also feature a lunchtime address and networking session which will bring together delegates from across the conference. A detailed schedule of the day's sessions is included below. Attending this event This event will be free to attend by invitation. To request an invitation, please contact industry@royalsociety.org. 

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Conference

Modelling the COVID-19 pandemic: achievements and lessons

Join the Royal Society, RAMP, the Isaac Newton Institute and the wider modelling community as we reflect on the scientific and policy implications of modelling work done in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and…

Monday 13 June 2022

06/13/2022

06/13/2022

Submit your questions on Slido Download the conference schedule (PDF). Modelling played a key role in understanding the scientific evidence surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic as well as informing policy decisions. The Rapid Assistance in Modelling the Pandemic (RAMP) initiative drew on a diverse range of disciplines to support that modelling work.  Through this and other initiatives, but particularly through the hard work of many early career researchers who served at the forefront of the national effort, our modelling capabilities have undergone rapid expansion, and great scientific progress has been made. Structure of the workshop This all-day event, held at the Royal Society, will bring together the wide community of modelling scientists involved in the COVID-19 pandemic response to celebrate their contributions. The first part of the day will consist of a series of talks by early career researchers across modelling disciplines relevant to the pandemic response, which include not only epidemic modelling but also work on air-flow, human behaviour and other topics. Early career researchers will also be invited to present at a poster session accompanied by (pre-recorded) flash-talks.   This will be followed by a policy-focused panel discussion that will explore the lessons from the pandemic for how the scientific community can respond to future emergencies.  In the evening, there will be a series of public talks from invited speakers which will provide an overview on epidemiological modelling, the factors that influence virus transmission and the path between science and policy. Details for the public talks can be found on the 'Lessons from modelling the pandemic' Royal Society page'. The evening talks will be livestreamed on the Royal Society website for those who cannot attend in person. Contributed talks and poster session This event will feature contributed talks, flash talks and a poster session, which will be selected by the organisers of the meeting. If you are interested in submitting a contributed talk or poster for consideration, please include an abstract (max. 400 words) with a title and list of authors submitted through the Eventbrite registration page by 20 May 2022. Attendee information This is a hybrid event This event will take place on 13 June at the Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG. Participants can register to attend in person or online The event is free to join. Advance registration is essential due to capacity restrictions Subtitles will be available on the recordings If after registering you are not able to attend, please cancel your ticket as soon as possible so others can attend Submission information At registration, ECRs will be invited to submit a poster, pre-recorded flash talk and/or full oral presentation abstract (max. 400 words) The poster session is in-person only. ECRs attending online can nonetheless submit an abstract for a flash-talk and/or full oral presentation Abstracts should be submitted by 20 May 2022. We will respond with acceptance decisions by 27 May We are flexible about the definition of ECRs but roughly speaking this means people who did not have a permanent academic or equivalent post before the pandemic began For enquiries, contact the workshop team. Email: alexandra.wakefield@royalsociety.org and mahi.hardalupas@royalsociety.org.  This event is funded through a grant to RAMP from UKRI, grant number EP/V053507/1. Event programme (updated 8 June 2022) Download the conference schedule (PDF). Daytime session  9.30-10.10  Registration and refreshments  10.10 - 10.20 Welcome remarks by Professor Peter Bruce FRS and Professor Mike Cates FRS  10.30 - 12.35 Session 1 - ECR Showcase  Chair: Dr Ellen Brooks Pollock (University of Bristol)  12.35 - 13.15 Lunch   13.15 - 14.45 Session 2 - ECR Showcase Chair: Dr Robin Thompson (University of Warwick)  14.45 - 15.15 Session 3 - ECR Flash talks  15.15 - 15.45 Refreshments   15.45 - 17.30 Session 4 - Policy focus session: How the scientific community responds to emergencies -- lessons from the pandemic Chair: Sir Patrick Vallance FMedSci FRS, Government Chief Scientific Adviser, Head of Government Science and Engineering Profession, and National Technology Adviser 5 minute presentations followed by discussion with panelists: • Professor John Aston, Harding Professor of Statistics in Public Life, University of Cambridge • Fliss Bennée, Deputy Director, Technology and Digital at Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh Government • Professor Mike Cates, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, University of Cambridge and Chair of the RAMP Committee • Professor Oliver Johnson, Professor of Information Theory at the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol • Dr Libby Richards, Senior Scientist and Analyst, Department for Health and Social Care • Professor Steven Riley, Director General for Data, Analytics and Surveillance at UKHSA   17.30 - 19.00 Poster exhibition with finger buffet and refreshments Evening session 19.30 - 21.00   Lessons for modelling the pandemic Chair: Professor Andrew Curran, Chief Scientific Adviser and Director of Research at Health and Safety Executive 30-minute talks: • Making sense of pandemic dynamics – Professor Adam Kucharski (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) • Environmental factors in virus transmission - Professor Chris Budd OBE (University of Bath) • The path from science to policy – Dr Louise Dyson (University of Warwick)  21.00 - 21.30 Panel discussion  21.30 End 

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Scientific Meeting

Realising the potential of cochlear implants

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Bob Carlyon and Dr Deborah Vickers

13 - 14 June 2022

06/13/2022

06/14/2022

Click watch on YouTube to view the full video playlist. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } Cochlear implants (CIs) restore hearing to deaf people by electrically stimulating the auditory nerve (AN). This meeting will focus on the limitations and successes of CIs and on new methods for improving them. Topics include new methods of stimulating the AN, measuring AN survival so as to aid patient-specific processing, understanding the brain changes that occur when hearing is restored by a CI, and how to best combine CI stimulation with residual acoustic hearing.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Software solutions to the challenges of materials modelling

Satellite meeting organised by Professor Scott Woodley, Professor Sir Richard Catlow FRS, Professor Nora H de Leeuw and Professor Angelos Michaelides FRS.

08 - 09 June 2022

06/08/2022

06/09/2022

In the Discussion meeting the aim was to discuss the challenges and achievements in materials modelling that will and have been enabled by High End Computer (HEC) resources. The Satellite meeting moved on to the software solutions recently developed and still required in order to effectively exploit HEC to address the scientific challenges identified during the Discussion meeting. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies can be found below. Speaker abstracts can also be found below.  Attending this event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Supercomputer modelling of advanced materials

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Scott Woodley, Professor Sir Richard Catlow FRS, Professor Nora H de Leeuw and Professor Angelos Michaelides FRS.

06 - 07 June 2022

06/06/2022

06/07/2022

The development of advanced materials is of central importance in key scientific and industrial areas, including energy, catalysis and quantum technologies. High end computing and data science offer unprecedented opportunities for predictive modelling of complex materials. The meeting explored the scientific and methodological challenges in the field, focusing on structure prediction, nucleation and crystal growth, biomaterials and catalysis. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Speaker abstracts are also available below. An accompanying journal issue has been published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.  Attending this event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team. Click watch on YouTube to view the full video playlist. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }

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Turbulent dissipation in space plasmas

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Julia Stawarz, Dr Daniel Verscharen and Dr Christopher Chen.

30 - 31 May 2022

05/30/2022

05/31/2022

This meeting brought together experts on plasma turbulence in the solar wind and Earth's magnetosphere to discuss the latest cutting-edge results on the role of collision-less plasma processes in turbulent energy dissipation from the revolutionary Magnetospheric Multiscale and Parker Solar Probe spacecraft. These discussions provided crucial input for the ongoing science operations of these and future space missions. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Speaker abstracts are also available below.  Attending this event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Collective animal behaviour through time

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Dr Christos Ioannou and Dr Kate Laskowski.

23 - 24 May 2022

05/23/2022

05/24/2022

Click watch on YouTube to view the full video playlist. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } Great strides have been made in understanding the mechanisms underlying collective behaviour in animals using the complex systems approach common in the physical sciences. This work however focuses on snapshots of collective behaviour. The goal of this meeting was to integrate the study of collective behaviour over time: how does it develop and how does it evolve? Recordings of the talks will be available soon. An accompanying journal issue has been published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.  Attending this event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Radiocarbon in the Anthropocene

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Professor Timothy Eglinton FRS, Dr Heather Graven, Professor Susan Trumbore and Professor Peter Raymond.

16 - 17 May 2022

05/16/2022

05/17/2022

This meeting brought together leading experts in the carbon cycle and global change science together with radiocarbon specialists in order to discuss the merits, feasibility and scope of a global-scale radiocarbon measurement and synthesis program for improved assessment of current, future and managed changes to the Earth's carbon cycle and greenhouse gas emissions. An accompanying journal issue has been published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.  Enquiries: please contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Transforming Our Future

Decarbonisation of electricity supply and land transport to meet net zero in the UK

This conference brought together national and international leaders in energy storage systems and was attended by participants from across academia, industry and government.

Thursday 12 May 2022

05/12/2022

05/12/2022

Background A previous event  Energy storage – automotive and grids at the Royal Society explored how high performance energy storage systems will be essential in developing a sustainable future economy and their potential for next generation technologies to change the way we live. Over the last four years however we have seen that while the challenge to meet net zero has remained the same, the potential of novel technology and use of hydrogen, ammonia, and synthetic fuels to meet the energy storage challenge has increased with a parallel increase in investment.  This conference explored key issues associated with implementing decarbonisation technologies for the national electricity supply and land transport to meet net zero in the UK. Topics discussed included the development of electrification through batteries and other alternatives, and the coordination of an increasingly diverse and dispersed electricity system.

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Scientific Meeting

Heat and carbon uptake in the Southern Ocean: the state of the art and future priorities

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Dr Andrew Meijers, Professor Corinne Le Quéré CBE FRS, Dr Pedro Monteiro and Dr Jean-Baptiste Sallée.

09 - 10 May 2022

05/09/2022

05/10/2022

There have been significant advances in observing and modelling the Southern Ocean in the past five years. Results from new autonomous observing platforms and large national programmes have challenged our understanding of the role of the Southern Ocean in global climate. This meeting brought together physical oceanographers, climatologists and carbon scientists to synthesise insights across disciplines and identify future challenges. Recordings of the presentations are available below. An accompanying journal issue has been published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.  Watch the video playlist Click watch on YouTube to view the full video playlist. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Conference

Climate change: science, responses and research needs

Watch the Royal Society conference on the implications of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report for the UK and urgent policy and research needs. Day 1: www.youtube.com/2l9QPWWk_zQ Day 2: www.youtube.com/JVxWlVp5TzY

11 - 12 April 2022

04/11/2022

04/12/2022

Read the post conference reflections from the organisers on where next for UK climate policy and research Read the Royal Society's summary of the Sixth Assessment report and the implications for the UK.  Download the conference programme (PDF) The Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) delivers the starkest warning yet on the risks of climate change. The Royal Society brought together leading scientists, policy professionals and representatives from the energy and land use sectors to discuss the findings and implications of the IPCC AR6 reports.  What is the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report? The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report provides the most comprehensive analyses of the latest climate science, impacts and vulnerabilities related to climate change. It highlights that immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are needed, alongside urgent actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change. IPCC reports underpin major international climate agreements, including the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement. The three Working Groups of the IPCC presented the latest knowledge on: The physical science of climate change  Climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability  Mitigation of climate change: methods of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere Working Group I reported on the most up-to-date physical science knowledge on climate change in August 2021. It highlighted that climate change is widespread, rapid and intensifying. Working Group II published its report on impacts, adaptation and vulnerabilities at the end of February 2022 and Working Group III published a report on climate change mitigation at the beginning of April 2022.  Structure of the Conference We heard from IPCC lead authors, working group chairs, policy professionals and representatives from the land-use and energy sectors as they reflected on the findings of the reports and explored the implications for policy and evidence-based action. Day 1 considered the key findings of AR6, outcomes of COP26 and the implications for policy, land-use and the energy sector, and future IPCC activity. Day 2 aimed to identify the scientific research and collaborations needed to progress our knowledge of climate change and contribute to global climate policy and responses. The conference took place at the Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG, and online.  For enquiries contact the Resilient Futures team

The Royal Society

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Scientific Meeting

Face2face: advancing the science of social interaction

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Antonia Hamilton and Dr Judith Holler.

04 - 05 April 2022

04/04/2022

04/05/2022

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Transforming Our Future

The Science of COVID

Over two days, this meeting explored the basic science, vaccine efforts and diagnostic logistics, treatment and recovery from long and acute COVID, as well as the opportunities gained for the life sciences, and how…

30 - 31 March 2022

03/30/2022

03/31/2022

This conference held by the Royal Society brought together leading experts from industry, academia, government and the wider scientific community at the forefront of the scientific pandemic response. The conference celebrated the exceptional efforts of scientists over the previous two years, demonstrating the importance of a strong and dynamic life science sector. The event highlighted the advances in cutting edge science and technology that have been made during the pandemic, and how systems have successfully adapted to the crisis. Speakers explored the positive ongoing impact of the pandemic response in many areas of the life science sector. Read the conference report summarising the event (PDF). The event programme is available online (PDF). About the conference series The conference is part of the Royal Society's Transforming our future conferences in the life sciences, supported by AstraZeneca. These meetings are unique, high-level events that address the scientific and technical challenges of the next decade. Each conference features cutting edge science from industry and academia and brings together leading experts from the scientific community, including regulatory, charity and funding bodies.

Online

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Scientific Meeting

Microbial ecology for engineering biology

Theo Murphy scientific meeting organised by Professor Thomas Curtis and Dr Jane Fowler.

28 - 29 March 2022

03/28/2022

03/29/2022

Open engineered microbial systems have a crucial role to play in the development of sustainable technologies for the 21st century. The solution, ecology-based design of engineered biological systems, is urgently needed. This meeting united disciplines by integrating ecological theory with microbial ecology and engineering aims. The meeting spanned the scales from genome to the systems. The organisers of this meeting believe that engineering across these scales will accelerate progress in the many systems where researchers’ engineering aspirations can be met by exploiting the power of microbial communities.  Attending this event This event has taken place.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Scientific Meeting

Anhydrobiosis – cheating death and telling the tale

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Professor Roy Quinlan and Professor Takekazu Kunieda.

21 - 23 March 2022

03/21/2022

03/23/2022

Anhydrobiosis was first described by Van Leeuwenhoek in 1702. Both plants and animals have anhydrobiotic responses and understanding the mechanisms that support such an extreme stress response will prove invaluable for future food security and for new therapeutics to treat for example proteinopathy-based diseases. Interdisciplinary scientists at the plant-animal interface scoped the application of anhydrobiotic mechanisms in future technologies. Click watch on YouTube to view the full video playlist. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }

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Scientific Meeting

The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines

Scientific discussion meeting organised in partnership with the British Academy by Professor Andrew Whiten FBA, Dr Ellen Garland, Professor Dora Biro and Professor Simon Kirby FBA.

14 - 15 March 2022

03/14/2022

03/15/2022

.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } This meeting bridged between two research fields that have recently burgeoned, although largely separately. One field covers collective action and intelligence, the other cultural evolution. Through an evolutionary perspective spanning both human and non-human animals and extending to machine intelligence, the meeting will elaborate and deepen newly recognised intersections and linkages across these subjects and advance their integration. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting date. Recordings of the presentations will be available on this page shortly. An accompanying journal issue has been published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.  Attending this event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

SIMposium: recent advancements in structured illumination microscopy

Theo Murphy scientific meeting organised by Dr Kirti Prakash, Dr Benedict Diederich, Professor Lothar Schermelleh, Dr Stefanie Reichelt and Professor Rainer Heintzmann.

21 - 22 February 2022

02/21/2022

02/22/2022

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) has emerged as an essential super-resolution technique for 3D and live-cell imaging. However, to date, there has not been a dedicated symposium/workshop covering different aspects of SIM, from biological applications, use of commercial instruments, to bespoke hardware and software development. The meeting aimed to recap recent developments as well as outline future trends. A two-part Philosophical Transactions A journal issue accompanies this meeting. The first volume can be read here and the second volume can be read here.  Watch the event Click watch on YouTube to view the full video playlist. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Transforming Our Future

Oligonucleotide therapeutics: challenges and opportunities

Read the conference report summarising the event (PDF). This Royal Society meeting will seek to explore the opportunities and existing challenges of oligonucleotide-based therapies as a platform. Speakers will…

Tuesday 08 February 2022

02/08/2022

02/08/2022

Background This meeting will bring together key stakeholders from across the sector to highlight the emerging technologies in the field and explore opportunities around the use of oligonucleotides as therapeutic agents, including siRNA, antisense, and aptamers.   Speakers will also outline some of the key challenges such as targeted delivery, the balance of efficacy and efficiency, and manufacturing that must be addressed if these wide ranging therapeutics are to be successful. The conference will conclude with a panel discussion on the future of Oligonucleotide therapeutics. About the conference series Supported by AstraZeneca, the meeting will form part of the Royal Society’s Transforming our future conferences in the life sciences. These meetings are unique, high-level events that address the scientific and technical challenges of the next decade. Each conference features cutting edge science from industry and academia and brings together leading experts from the scientific community, including regulatory, charity and funding bodies.

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Scientific Meeting

H-mode transition and pedestal studies in fusion plasmas

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Eun-jin Kim and Dr Yasmin Andrew.

17 - 19 January 2022

01/17/2022

01/19/2022

Watch event videos Click watch on YouTube to view the full video playlist. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } Understanding the high confinement (H-mode) transition and the plasma pedestal remain critical topics for the successful operation of future magnetic fusion devices. This meeting provided a valuable opportunity for focused discussions on the cross-machine approach (experimentally and theoretically) to further our understanding of H-mode access and exit, providing a forum for the exchange of specialist knowledge and co-operation. Meeting papers have been published in an accompanying issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. This meeting has taken place.   Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Online

Voices from the Syrian Academic Community

06 - 10 December 2021

12/06/2021

12/10/2021

Full programme (PDF) Objectives Syrian academics to share their research findings and recommendations with an audience from the academic and humanitarian sectors. Highlight the importance of their unique insights, given local knowledge, expertise and connections. Prompt discussion on issues raises, what needs to be done next and by whom. Prompt new partners and engage funders in follow-up work. Get Syrian higher education and its tertiary educators back on the international agenda. Partners This event is supported by The Royal Society and The British Academy. Collaborators: Universities of Edinburgh and Sussex. UN Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) Framework Each day is themed, with a number of sub-themes under which over 50 Cara Syria Programme supported studies have been clustered, allied to a number of UNSDGs. Day 1. ‘Reconstructing Syrian Society: The role of higher education.’ Day 2. ‘Inequality & Displacement.’ Day 3. ‘Operationalising Research to Help Rebuild Syria’s Infrastructure .’ Day 4. ‘Syrian Food Futures: Agriculture & food security.’ Day 5. ‘Syria: Partnership for the goal of quality higher education.’ Welcome and Keynote speakers Professor Simon Goldhill FBA, British Academy Foreign Secretary Professor Sir Malcolm Grant CBE, Cara President Professor Robin Grimes FRS FREng, incoming Royal Society Foreign Secretary Dr Flavia Schlegel, International Science Council Special Envoy for Science in Global Policy Professor Jim Al-Khalili CBE FRS, theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster Session chairs Day 1. Professor Sir Malcom Grant CBE/Cara President; Professor Elaine Unterhalter FBA/UCL IOE; Professor Christine Chinkin FBA/LSE; Dr Bahriye Kemal/Kent; Dr Maggie Grant/Stirling. Day 2. Professor Dawn Chatty FBA/Oxford; Professor Ann Phoenix FBA/UCL IOE; Professor Tom Shakespeare FBA/LSHTM; Professor Jen Baird/Birbeck; Dr Kristen Hopper/Durham. Day 3. Professor Michael Worton CBE/UCL; Professor Mark Pelling/KCL; Professor Robin Perutz FRS/York; Dr Bahriye Kemal/Kent; Dr Maggie Grant/Stirling. Day 4. Professor Joanna Haigh CBE FRS/Imperial; Professor Lisa Boden/Edinburgh; Professor Colleen McLaughlin/Cambridge. Day 5. Professor Michael Worton CBE/UCL; Professor Colleen McLaughlin/Cambridge; Dr Juliet Millican/IDS & Dr Fateh Shaban/FAU. "This symposium offers a chance to close the gender gap that has always existed. The evening cultural events pave the way to explore the new roles that women have played since the Syrian revolution, as novelists and writers." Hiba Al Haji Evening cultural events (6pm GMT) 6/12/21 'Women Writing Syria: Resilience, Solidarity, Movement', with readings from Samar Yazbek and other Syrian authors and activists 7/12/21 'Syrian Cultural Heritage: Global North/South Collaboration' 8/12/21 'Documenting Syria: Health, Space, Activism' Q&A with BAFTA award-winning director of 'For Sama', Waad al-Kateab 9/12/21 'Syrian Humming Project' Dr Suk-Jun Kim, Korean composer & sound artist View the full programme here (PDF) Attending this event The event will begin on Monday 6 December at 10.00 GMT Once you have booked your free ticket, you will be sent a link by email that will allow you to join the event.

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Creating Connections

Creating connections in the West Midlands

Wednesday 01 December 2021

12/01/2021

12/01/2021

This one-day conference will be joined by leading experts from academia, industry and government to address scientific and technical opportunities and challenges in the West Midlands. The day will feature workshops and round-table discussions on diverse topics in science, policy and education. The event will also feature a lunchtime address and networking session which will bring together delegates from all the events taking place during the conference. Attending this event This event is free to attend by invitation. Please follow instructions under each session to request an invitation. Travel and accessibility information: Coventry Transport Museum

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Industry College Networking 2021

Friday 26 November 2021

11/26/2021

11/26/2021

This conference will address cross-sector collaborations by bringing together past and current Royal Society Industry Fellows, Entrepreneurs in Residence and their collaborators. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss issues and successes and hear about the wider work of the Society.

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New approaches to 3D vision

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01 - 04 November 2021

11/01/2021

11/04/2021

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Michael Morgan FRS, Dr Paul Linton, Professor Jenny Read, Dr Dhanraj Vishwanath, Professor Sarah Creem-Regehr and Professor Fulvio Domini. Leading approaches to computer vision (SLAM: simultaneous localization and mapping), animal navigation (cognitive maps), and human vision (optimal cue integration), start from the assumption that the aim of 3D vision is to produce a metric reconstruction of the environment. Recent advances in machine learning, single-cell recording in animals, virtual reality, and visuomotor control, all challenge this assumption. The purpose of this meeting was to bring these different disciplines together to formulate an alternative approach to 3D vision. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies and abstracts are available below. An accompanying journal issue has been published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Attending the event This meeting has taken place. Watch the recordings on our YouTube channel. Enquiries: please contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Drought risk in the Anthropocene

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19 - 20 October 2021

10/19/2021

10/20/2021

Science+ meeting organised by Professor Jim Hall FREng, Associate Professor Jamie Hannaford and Professor Gabriele Hegerl FRS. The impacts of droughts on people and the natural environment are increasing, due to climate change and over-exploitation of water resources. This Science+ meeting explored scientific understanding of changing drought risk and examined drought impacts on the environment, people and the economy. Policy-makers, practitioners and scientists discussed policy options for management of droughts in the future. An accompanying journal issue has been published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Attending the event This meeting has taken place.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Transforming Our Future

Women's Health: a life course approach

Read the conference report summarising the event (PDF). This symposium, jointly hosted by the Royal Society and Academy of Medical Sciences, will explore innovative, evidence-based health technologies and…

Monday 18 October 2021

10/18/2021

10/18/2021

Background In the UK, 51% of the population and 47% of the workforce are women, yet the funding for research of women’s health is much less than for research of men’s health issues. The resulting unmet health needs of women present a major health inequality but also a significant market opportunity for gendered innovation. Recent appreciation of this has led to a surge of investment into new technologies and treatments in the women’s health sector, including the ongoing growth of a $35bn ‘fem tech’ market. Many such innovations offer exciting opportunities for a personalised and preventive approach to women’s health across a life course, but it is critical that these advances are evidence-based and inclusive, to maximise benefits to women and avoid unintentional harms. This meeting will explore some novel health interventions that support women to live healthily through the major transitions of their life. Speakers will discuss examples of innovative research, therapies and technologies that benefit women’s health and consider how to overcome some of the societal challenges and barriers to building systems, in healthcare and beyond, that meet the needs of all women at different stages of their lives.  About the conference series Supported by AstraZeneca, the meeting will form part of the Royal Society’s Transforming our future conferences in the life sciences, and the Academy of Medical Sciences’ FORUM programme. These meetings are unique, high-level events that address the scientific and technical challenges of the next decade. Each conference features cutting edge science from industry and academia and brings together leading experts from the scientific community, including regulatory, charity and funding bodies. Accessibility and safer space policy The Royal Society and Academy of Medical Sciences aim to have an inclusive environment for everyone engaged in the organisations' work. At this event our approach to seek diversity is not to use differences to further marginalise groups without power or those who experience systemic exclusion. Please note that auto-captions will be available and a summary of the talks will be written and sent to registrants after the meeting. Some of the talks may be recorded and made available after the meeting, however, these may be limited. Full details of the ethos and expectations for this event can be found in the safer space policy.

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Transforming Our Future

Diagnostics: Building capacity and capability in the UK

This symposium, hosted by the Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences, explored advances in the diagnostics sector and the opportunities and challenges towards building capacity and capability within the…

Tuesday 12 October 2021

10/12/2021

10/12/2021

Read the conference report summarising the event (PDF). Background Over 1.5 billion diagnostic tests are carried out in the NHS each year. These diagnostics, which include medical images, pathology tests and genomic tests, are crucial to the detection and diagnosis of disease and guiding subsequent treatment in a targeted way. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of the diagnostics sector and the need to increase testing capacity and capability to tackle current and future health challenges. As healthcare systems transition towards a greater emphasis on prevention and early detection, diagnostics will become an increasingly important component to ensuring good health for the nation. This will require innovative approaches to both the development of new diagnostic tools, and in how we support their adoption and delivery into the healthcare system. This event followed the Academy’s FORUM workshop on ‘Building a sustainable UK diagnostics sector’, and brought together scientists from industry and academia, experts from the wider scientific community and patients with lived experience to discuss how to build the UK’s diagnostics capacity and capability. Speakers explored successful case studies of novel emerging technologies in a variety of diagnostic modalities. The meeting finished with a panel discussing the challenges and opportunities around launching new diagnostic products into the healthcare system. About the conference series Supported by AstraZeneca, the meeting forms part of the Royal Society’s Transforming our future conferences in the life sciences, and the Academy of Medical Sciences’ FORUM programme. These meetings are unique, high-level events that address the scientific and technical challenges of the next decade. Each conference features cutting edge science from industry and academia and brings together leading experts from the scientific community, including regulatory, charity and funding bodies. 

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Rising methane: is warming feeding warming?

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04 - 07 October 2021

10/04/2021

10/07/2021

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Euan Nisbet, Professor Ute Skiba, Dr Anna Jones and Professor John Pyle FRS. Atmospheric methane is rising rapidly. The rise is making it more difficult to reach the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement. But the reasons for methane’s growth and concurrent isotopic shift are unclear: sources may be increasing, sinks may be declining, or both processes taking place. Is this a climate change impact? Is the warming feeding the warming? The schedule of talks and speaker biographies and abstracts are available below. Accompanying journal issues have been published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: part 1 and part 2. Attending the event This meeting has taken place. Watch all of the recordings on our YouTube channel. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Genomic population structures of microbial pathogens

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28 - 30 September 2021

09/28/2021

09/30/2021

The comparative genomics of microbial pathogens from all domains of life has become a big data problem. Databases already contain >200,000 assembled genomes from single species but adequate tools to reveal population structures are in their infancy. This meeting brought together world-class bioinformaticians with experts on bacterial and viral genomes to illustrate multiple approaches to solving this challenge. A related journal issue has been published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Attending the event This meeting has taken place. You can watch the recording here. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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A cracking approach to inventing tough new materials: fracture stranger than friction

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20 - 21 September 2021

09/20/2021

09/21/2021

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Dr Kevin Kendall FRS, Professor Anthony Kinloch FREng FRS, Professor Neil Alford MBE FREng and Dr Siva Bohm. In the 100 years since Griffith published his ground-breaking paper on the energy criterion for cracking, there have been great advances in the understanding of cracks. This meeting reflected on recent observations in the field plus interesting new theories of cracking, as well as discussing how to invent tough new materials, while removing problems in Fracture Mechanics. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies and abstracts are available below. An accompanying journal issue has been published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Attending this event This meeting has taken place. You can watch the recording here. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Transforming Our Future

Unlocking building sustainability

Read the conference report summarising the event (PDF). This two-day Royal Society conference will bring together key stakeholders from across the building sector to highlight opportunities and challenges associated…

01 - 02 September 2021

09/01/2021

09/02/2021

Background Over 170,000 new homes were built over the year ending June 2019 with a UK Government commitment to deliver homes that are high-quality, well designed and good for the planet. In parallel, the roughly 28 million existing homes use 35% of the UK’s total energy consumption and emit 20% of CO2 emissions.  A recent CLC report indicates that the Government’s retrofit strategy will not meet net 2050 targets. Rapid interventions are required and will need a coordinated effort, system-based thinking, employing new and available technologies, and a roadmap to the upskilling of ~ 500,000 new professionals. This Royal Society meeting will gather key stakeholders across the construction, energy, and materials sectors to discuss the technical, supply chain, regulation, and economic issues and interventions required to achieve net-zero targets for buildings by 2050. Speakers will examine how the industry is functioning, explore systems-based approaches to building sustainability and highlight existing and emerging solutions within New Build and Retrofit, and examine the path to unlocking building sustainability in the UK.  About the conference series This scientific meeting is part of the Royal Society’s Transforming our Future conference series generously supported by AstraZeneca. These meetings are unique, high-level events that address the scientific and technical challenges of the next decade. Each conference features cutting edge science from industry and academia and brings together leading experts from the scientific community, including regulatory, charity and funding bodies.

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Transforming Our Future

Sci-Fi: bridging climate science and green finance

This Royal Society meeting explored climate science and the technologies that show genuine promise towards net zero emissions, as well as barriers to the flow of capital and solutions to funding such technologies.…

Wednesday 21 July 2021

07/21/2021

07/21/2021

A report summarising the meeting is available online (PDF). Background Achieving a net zero carbon society that is both resilient to climate change and inclusive requires the development and widespread deployment of both disruptive and existing technologies, supported by public and private funding. Responding to climate change has historically been seen as the realm of government policy, however, there is rising expectation that the financial sector should contribute to managing the risks associated with climate change. In June 2019, at least $30.7 trillion of funds were held in sustainable or green investments, an increase of 34% from 2016 according to a report by the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance. However, closer integration is needed between the physical and social sciences, financial professionals and institutions, innovative start-ups and global industry to support a low-carbon future.  This Transforming our future meeting was held by the Royal Society in partnership with the Green Finance Institute. This unique interaction between science and finance brought together leading experts from across industry, government and the wider scientific and financial communities. Speakers explored recent developments in low carbon technologies across sectors which have been the target for ‘green finance’: hydrogen and ammonia, heating and cooling, batteries and energy storage, nuclear energy and digital. The meeting also explored opportunities and challenges to commercialising these technologies and potential solutions to channel the world’s finance into their widespread implementation. Speakers discussed the measurement of risk of new scientific technologies for the financial community and how to mitigate this. In dedication During the planning of this event, Sir Roger Gifford, a key member of the organising committee, sadly passed away. His family were keen for the meeting to go ahead, which was held as a dedication to him. Sir Roger leaves a strong legacy in this important area of climate-linked financial services, and contributed significantly in the development phase and to shaping the agenda and content of this important event. Dame Sue Ion DBE FREng FRS and Professor Peter Bruce FRS led the organising committee in his stead. About the conference series The conference is part of the Royal Society's Transforming our future conference series, overseen by the Science, Industry and Translation Committee and generously supported by AstraZeneca. These meetings are unique, high-level events that address the scientific and technical challenges of the next decade. Each conference features cutting edge science from industry and academia and brings together leading experts from the scientific community, including regulatory, charity and funding bodies.

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Transforming Our Future

Advances in antimicrobial innovation

This joint Royal Society and Academy of Medical Sciences symposium brought together scientists, medical practitioners and funding bodies to raise awareness and interest for new anti-microbial advances.  

Monday 05 July 2021

07/05/2021

07/05/2021

A report on the event is available to read (PDF). Background Anti-microbial resistance continues to grow as a worldwide health challenge. Pathogens are continually evolving to combat drugs given to treat potentially life-threatening diseases, rendering treatments ineffective and threatening the many advances in fighting microbes over recent decades. As therapeutics in current use become less effective, new approaches are required. This event aimed to raise awareness and interest for new anti-microbial advances, the challenges faced in market delivery, and their appropriate use in healthcare systems. About the conference series Supported by AstraZeneca, the meeting formed part of the Royal Society’s Transforming our future conferences in the life sciences, and the Academy of Medical Sciences’ FORUM programme. These meetings are unique, high-level events that address the scientific and technical challenges of the next decade. Each conference features cutting edge science from industry and academia and brings together leading experts from the scientific community, including regulatory, charity and funding bodies.

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Sustainable packaging: protecting products and the planet

This Royal Society symposium brought together key stakeholders from across the packaging industry to highlight the cutting-edge technologies that are making packaging more sustainable. 

Friday 02 July 2021

07/02/2021

07/02/2021

This Royal Society symposium highlighted new approaches to replace, reuse, or remove plastic from packaging and discussed how green materials are not so clear cut. Recordings of the discussion are available online: Compostable plastics: unlocking existing barriers to system change Influencing consumer attitude and behaviour towards packaging A report on the event is available to read (PDF). Background Packaging has transformed the manner and extent to which we can safely transport and store goods, but our current system is failing. Studies suggest that only 14% of plastic packaging used globally is collected for recycling and only 10% of all plastic recycled has been so more than once. Around 40% currently ends its useful life in landfill. Tackling waste and establishing a circular plastics economy will play a vital role in making the packaging industry sustainable. From designing effective and affordable materials to mining discarded plastic, this event showcased global disruptors and policymakers who are working to reduce, reuse or revolutionise plastic at every level of the packaging life cycle. About the conference series This scientific meeting was part of the Royal Society’s Transforming our Future conference series generously supported by AstraZeneca. These meetings are unique, high-level events that address the scientific and technical challenges of the next decade. Each conference features cutting edge science from industry and academia and brings together leading experts from the scientific community, including regulatory, charity and funding bodies.

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Creating Connections

Creating connections in Scotland

15 - 16 June 2021

06/15/2021

06/16/2021

Scotland plays a key role in driving UK innovation and prosperity. The Royal Society is working in partnership with the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's National Academy, to deliver Creating Connections – a two day conference focusing on Scottish research and innovation. Scientific and technical opportunities and challenges in Scotland will be addressed by leading experts from academia, industry and government. Attending this event Please send an email to industry@royalsociety.org where we will forward your request to the relevant Royal Society staff member.

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Immuno-Oncology: How to get the immune system to beat cancer

This Royal Society conference explored immuno-oncology therapies - both current and recent technologies - whilst looking at removing barriers to their use.

24 - 25 March 2021

03/24/2021

03/25/2021

Read the conference report summarising the event (PDF). Background Every two minutes, someone in the UK is diagnosed with cancer. Year on year, the cancer incidence rate continues to grow, with a projected increase of approximately 62% by 2040, resulting in over 27 million additional worldwide cancer cases per year. Traditionally, cancer has been treated using methods such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy. However, some cancers don’t respond well to traditional therapies, and others recur.   Immuno-oncology could help provide a solution to these problems by harnessing the body’s immune system to eradicate cancer and prevent its recurrence. Through combination therapy, and addressing the barriers to its use, immuno-oncology treatments could help tackle the rising number of worldwide cancer cases.  About the conference series The conference is part of the Royal Society's Transforming our future conferences in the life sciences, supported by AstraZeneca. These  meetings are unique, high-level events that address the scientific and technical challenges of the next decade. Each conference features cutting edge science from industry and academia and brings together leading experts from the scientific community, including regulatory, charity and funding bodies.

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Day 4 highlights - 2021 Commonwealth Science Conference: Science for a resilient future

Friday 26 February 2021

02/26/2021

02/26/2021

The third Commonwealth Science Conference will take place virtually from 22-26 February 2021, co-organised by the Royal Society and the African Academy of Sciences. The conference is funded via the UK government’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), part of the UK’s Official Development Assistance (ODA). The theme of the conference will be “Science for a resilient future”, with three main sub-themes: Developing resilient energy systems – climate resilient infrastructure; decarbonising energy systems; and a circular economy for the Commonwealth  Nurturing resilient ecosystems – challenges and opportunities for the blue economy; trajectories, challenges and solutions for biodiversity; and adaptation and mitigation challenges for coastal states in the era of climate change Building resilient societal systems – pandemic preparedness before and after Covid-19; climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction; and a ‘just transition’ to a sustainable Commonwealth Day 4 highlights include keynote talks and panel discussions:  Panel discussion on Towards a sustainable recovery from Covid-19  Chair: Professor Dame Anne Johnson, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, University College London. UK  Speakers:  Paul Dickinson, Executive Chair, CDP, UK  Dr Tolullah Oni, Clinical Senior Research Fellow, Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, UK  Professor Salim Abdool Karim, CAPRISA Professor for Global Health in the Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University  Dr Agnes Kalibata, President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) on Building resilient food systems to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals Professor Richard Leakey, Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University’s Turkana Basin Institute on Science and Africa Watch Baroness Scotland, the Secretary General of the Commonwealth’s, closing remarks For all enquiries, please contact csc@royalsociety.org Abstracts Building resilient food systems to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals Dr Agnes Kalibata, President, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Rwanda With less than 10 years remaining, the world is not on track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and targets of the 2015 Paris Declaration, and in some cases like hunger and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs0, the world is moving in the wrong direction. The COVID-19 pandemic has meanwhile exposed dangerous deficiencies in our food systems, actively threatening the lives and livelihoods of people around the world, particularly the most vulnerable and those in fragile contexts. Millions more are at risk of hunger and losing their jobs.  Building more resilient, inclusive, and sustainable food systems is an imperative for all communities and countries in the world. Even before the onset of the current crisis, the evidence for transformation had never been clearer. Food systems are in many cases part of the problem, but there is scientific consensus that transforming food systems also offers one of the best opportunities we have to change course and realize the vision of the 2030 Agenda, in support of the UN Secretary-General’s call to “build back better” from COVID-19. Over the past year, the pandemic has also highlighted the connectedness of countries around the world and the need to bring the best of our collective science, innovation and technology to bear in our search for solutions. If these are harnessed properly, then we can change the trajectory of the decade and scale up food systems approaches that work for all people, the planet, and prosperity.  As Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Food Systems Summit, Dr Agnes Kalibata is working day-to-day with Member States and constituencies all around the world to accelerate transformative change in the way the world produces, processes, consumes, and disposes of food. Her remarks will speak to not only the need for more resilient food systems to achieve the SDGs, but even more importantly, how actors across the world and the scientific community need to contribute to his process to make it a reality for all people in their own unique country and community contexts. Science and Africa  Professor Richard Leakey, Chairman, Turkana Basin Institute LTD, Kenya The fate of the natural world is of great concern and requires solutions. This talk outlines the action and commitment required by governments, individuals, and the global scientific community to enable societies to live sustainably and in balance with nature. This talk will be followed by a live Q&A session with Professor Richard Leakey. Towards a sustainable recovery from Covid-19 This panel discussion will bring together several of the conference’s keynote speakers, who include some of the Commonwealth’s leading experts on health and other global challenges. In the run-up to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kigali in June 2021, they will consider how scientists and policymakers can help their societies, and the Commonwealth as a whole, emerge from the COVID-19 crisis in as sustainable and inclusive a manner as possible, whilst also addressing other critical challenges such as climate change and biodiversity. Speakers confirmed for this panel discussion include Paul Dickinson, Executive Chair, CDP; Dr Tolullah Oni, Clinical Senior Research Fellow, Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge; and Professor Salim Abdool Karim, CAPRISA Professor for Global Health in the Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.

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Day 3 highlights - 2021 Commonwealth Science Conference: Science for a resilient future

Thursday 25 February 2021

02/25/2021

02/25/2021

The third Commonwealth Science Conference will take place virtually from 22-26 February 2021, co-organised by the Royal Society and the African Academy of Sciences. The conference is funded via the UK government’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), part of the UK’s Official Development Assistance (ODA). The theme of the conference will be “Science for a resilient future”, with three main sub-themes: Developing resilient energy systems – climate resilient infrastructure; decarbonising energy systems; and a circular economy for the Commonwealth  Nurturing resilient ecosystems – challenges and opportunities for the blue economy; trajectories, challenges and solutions for biodiversity; and adaptation and mitigation challenges for coastal states in the era of climate change Building resilient societal systems – pandemic preparedness before and after Covid-19; climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction; and a ‘just transition’ to a sustainable Commonwealth Day 3 highlights include keynote talks and panel discussions:  Dr Tollullah Oni, Clinical Senior Research Fellow, Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge on Health-proofing our future; Future-proofing our planet Panel discussion: Science and policy - lessons from the pandemic and its impact  Chair: Peter Gluckman, Chair, International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA); co-chair, Commonwealth Science Advice Network (CSAN); President-elect, International Science Council Speakers:  Sir Patrick Vallance, UK government Chief Scientific Adviser and co-chair CSAN, UK Dr Sabin Nsanzimana, Director-General of Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC)  Associate Professor Vernon Lee, Deputy Director for Communicable Diseases in the Singapore Ministry of Health, Singapore  Professor Mona Nemer, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada, Canada  Professor Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, India  Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies on Science for a sustainable future Panel discussion: Developing and strengthening networks of ECRs to address global development challenges  Chair: Chai Lay Ching - Chair, Young Scientists Network-Academy of Sciences Malaysia  Speakers: Lucy Stewart, Chair, Royal Society Te Apārangi ECR Forum, New Zealand Dr Karly Kehoe, President – College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, Royal Society of Canada Joanes Atela, Convener, Africa Research & Impact Network, Nairobi Stuart Minchin, Director General, Pacific Community Attending this event The event will be livestreamed on the Royal Society YouTube channel on Thursday 25 February 2021 at 6pm GMT The event is free to join, and there is no registration required Live subtitles will be available For all enquiries, please contact csc@royalsociety.org Abstracts Health-proofing our future; Future-proofing our planet Dr Tolullah Oni, Public Health Physician Scientist and Urban Epidemiologist, and Clinical Senior Research Fellow, Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, UK Between 2000 and 2050 it is anticipated that there will be an increase in growth of urban communities globally, particularly on the African and Asian continents. This presentation outlines the link between urban growth, disease trends and health inequalities, and sets out the importance of reimagining the urban. Dr Oni introduces the notion of health and resilience foresight as an important approach to bringing the future into the present and thinking more long term about human and planetary health, as well as approaches from her own research that she uses to bring the future into the present. Science for a sustainable future  Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice-Chancellor, University of the West Indies, Jamaica The creation of an interdisciplinary dynamic discourse around resilience and sustainability and an interface between historical and medical sciences is required to decolonise the sciences. This presentation discusses the concepts of resilience and sustainability and considers the link between colonisation, racial inequality and injustice in how climate change and Covid-19 are experienced by citizens of small island states in the Caribbean. Science and policy - lessons from the pandemic and its impact Chair: Peter Gluckman, Chair, International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA); co-chair, Commonwealth Science Advice Network (CSAN); President-elect, International Science Council As the Covid-19 pandemic spread across the world in the last year, discussions around the politics of science advice gained an unprecedented level of prominence. Many national and international debates on combatting the virus centred around issues such as levels of uncertainty, the accuracy of modelling, policy trade-offs, and the need to synthesise and act on a wide range of input across disciplines in the natural and social sciences. While these debates played out in the context of the pandemic, and the varying national and regional responses to it, their implications are much wider. As the world considers the prospects for a sustainable recovery from the pandemic, and the need to take urgent action on a number of other critical global challenges such as climate change and biodiversity, a robust and effective science-policy interface has never been more important. This debate will bring together leading science advisers and decision makers from across the Commonwealth to discuss the key lessons from the pandemic for the relationship between science and policy, and how early career researchers can ensure the translation of their research into science advice to policy makers to best effect. Developing and strengthening networks of ECRs to address global development challenges Chair: Chai Lay Ching - Chair, Young Scientists Network-Academy of Sciences Malaysia  As the growing and interlinked crises of climate change, biodiversity and sustainability become ever more urgent, the pressures on the next generation of scientists to keep track of these impacts, identify and refine solutions, and influence policymakers to take coordinated action, are growing. Developing new, and strengthening existing, international networks of early career researchers from a wide range of perspectives and across a growing range of disciplines will therefore be essential. In this discussion, leading early career researchers from across the Commonwealth, with input from at least one senior policymaker, will consider what the next generation of researchers need most in order to address these challenges in as effective, coordinated and equitable way as possible.

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Day 2 highlights - 2021 Commonwealth Science Conference: Science for a resilient future

Wednesday 24 February 2021

02/24/2021

02/24/2021

The third Commonwealth Science Conference will take place virtually from 22-26 February 2021, co-organised by the Royal Society and the African Academy of Sciences. The conference is funded via the UK government’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), part of the UK’s Official Development Assistance (ODA). The theme of the conference will be “Science for a resilient future”, with three main sub-themes: Developing resilient energy systems – climate resilient infrastructure; decarbonising energy systems; and a circular economy for the Commonwealth  Nurturing resilient ecosystems – challenges and opportunities for the blue economy; trajectories, challenges and solutions for biodiversity; and adaptation and mitigation challenges for coastal states in the era of climate change Building resilient societal systems – pandemic preparedness before and after Covid-19; climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction; and a ‘just transition’ to a sustainable Commonwealth Day 2 highlights include keynote talks and panel discussions:  Paul Dickinson, Executive Chair at the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) on Looking at climate change from a Social Science perspective Dr Kelly Chibale, Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Cape Town on the H3D Story: Entrepreneurship in science while addressing unmet medical needs in Africa Professor Julie Makani, Fellow, Tanzania Academy of Sciences and Royal Society Africa Award 2011 on Can Genomics Improve Health in Africa? Establishing Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease in Tanzania Laureate Professor Peter Doherty at the University of Melbourne on The impact of the pandemic on science Attending this event The event will be livestreamed on the Royal Society YouTube channel on Wednesday 24 February 2021 at 6pm GMT The event is free to join, and there is no registration required Live subtitles will be available For all enquiries, please contact csc@royalsociety.org Abstracts Looking at climate change from a Social Science perspective Paul Dickinson, Executive Chair, Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), UK For over thirty years scientists have issued ever more grave warnings regarding the risks presented by accelerating climate change driven by greenhouse gas emissions from human industry. This talk explains that resolution of these problems will require attention to social science issues as well as atmospheric science. This talk encourages the audience to consider the global business system, both large corporations and investors, as political actors in society. The talk explains how corporations can be supported to evolve rational action in response to global risk.  The H3D Story: Entrepreneurship in science while addressing unmet medical needs in Africa Professor Kelly Chibale, Neville Isdell Chair in African-centric Drug Discovery and Development, University of Cape Town, South Africa Gaps in scientific infrastructure, enabling technology platforms and a critical mass of skilled scientists have hampered African-led health innovation. Unless these gaps are addressed, Africa will not be able to build resilient societal health systems and will always be reliant on external partners to address the continent’s health challenges. This will in turn also make it extremely challenging to effectively respond to new pandemics. On the other hand, entrepreneurship in science is rarely encouraged and incentivized in Africa. While there are large numbers of African scientists graduating, as well as a large number that forms part of the African diaspora, supporting scientific entrepreneurship can help move the continent forward in terms of using science for development, including creating jobs. Therefore, there is a strong need to find sustainable solutions that embed entrepreneurship in African-led health innovation strategies.   This lecture will describe the journey of H3D, the University of Cape Town Drug Discovery and Development Centre, in the development of world-class scientific infrastructure and enabling technology platforms for health innovation. Entrepreneurship in science and initiatives aimed at building a critical mass of skilled scientists across the continent of Africa in a sustainable manner will also be described.   Can Genomics Improve Health in Africa? Establishing Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease in Tanzania Professor Julie Makani, Fellow, Tanzania Academy of Sciences; Royal Society Africa Award 2011), Tanzania Sickle cell disease (SCD) is considered a model disease for genomic research, as it is a single-gene disorder, causing high morbidity and mortality, with limited interventions. The first report of gene therapy to cure SCD was from France in 2017, demonstrating the clinical applicability of genomics to cure disease. The highest public health burden of SCD in the world is in Africa (80% of 300,000 annual births) and there is concern that individuals in Africa not only do not have access to existing public health interventions,but will not likely have access to these new gene-based curative therapies. Therefore, countries in Africa have to develop a strategy to achieve two goals; the first goal is the establishment of health programmes that will provide universal access to effective evidence-based health interventions to all individuals with SCD whilst simultaneously pursuing the second goal; which is to conduct research that will lead to curative interventions using genomics. Tanzania is establishing a national public health programme for SCD and has established a genomic programme, which has successfully conducted one of the first genome-wide association studies in SCD in Africa. Using these two platforms, Tanzania aims to conduct gene therapy trials to cure SCD in Tanzania and use the public health system to make these interventions accessible.   Interview with Nobel Laureate Professor Peter Doherty  Laureate Professor Peter Doherty, The University of Melbourne, Australia Julie Maxton, Executive Director of the Royal Society, interviews Laureate Professor Peter Doherty, winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology of Medicine, on the response of the global scientific community to the Covid-19 pandemic. The interview focuses on the impact of the pandemic on science, what lessons can be drawn from the pandemic, and how early career researchers can most effectively contribute to the fight against Covid.

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Day 1 highlights - 2021 Commonwealth Science Conference: Science for a resilient future

Tuesday 23 February 2021

02/23/2021

02/23/2021

The third Commonwealth Science Conference will take place virtually from 22-26 February 2021, co-organised by the Royal Society and the African Academy of Sciences. The conference is funded via the UK government’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), part of the UK’s Official Development Assistance (ODA). The theme of the conference will be “Science for a resilient future”, with three main sub-themes: Developing resilient energy systems – climate resilient infrastructure; decarbonising energy systems; and a circular economy for the Commonwealth  Nurturing resilient ecosystems – challenges and opportunities for the blue economy; trajectories, challenges and solutions for biodiversity; and adaptation and mitigation challenges for coastal states in the era of climate change Building resilient societal systems – pandemic preparedness before and after Covid-19; climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction; and a ‘just transition’ to a sustainable Commonwealth Day 1 highlights include keynote talks from:  Professor Gagandeep Kang, Professor of Microbiology, Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences at Christian Medical College (CMC) on What is our ‘new normal’?: Vaccines and resilience in the time of SARS-CoV2 Professor Veena Sahajwalla, Professor of Materials Science in the Faculty of Science at the University of New South Wales on Aligning recycling and manufacturing  Professor Salim Abdool Karim, CAPRISA Professor for Global Health at Columbia University on A tale of two pandemics: AIDS and Covid-19  His Excellency Anote Tong, Former President of Kiribati on The impact of sea level rise on small island states Professor Tshilidzi Marwala, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Johannesburg on The Fourth Industrial Society, and the Economy   Attending this event The event will be livestreamed on the Royal Society YouTube channel on Tuesday 23 February 2021 at 6pm GMT The event is free to join, and there is no registration required Live subtitles will be available For all enquiries, please contact csc@royalsociety.org Abstracts Interview with His Excellency Anote Tong His Excellency, Anote Tong, Former President of Kiribati Elaine Sadler, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Sydney, interviews Anote Tong, former President of Kiribati and advocate for ocean conservation. 24 of the Commonwealth’s 54 member states are small island developing states. The interview focuses on the impact of sea level rise on small island states, the importance of ocean and marine conservation, and the role of the Commonwealth and the global scientific community in addressing the impact of climate change on the oceans. Aligning recycling and manufacturing Professor Veena Sahajwalla, Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Professor, The University of New South Wales, Australia We need to look at waste, recycling and manufacturing in a new way and to acknowledge the valuable materials contained in waste. Virgin resources are finite and rather than sending waste items to landfill or other unsustainable disposal methods, we need to reuse those materials over and over to support the new products and materials needed by societies. Waste therefore is a type of new ‘renewable resource’ for us to mine and use as feedstock materials for manufacturing. By aligning manufacturing and recycling, communities can become more resilient and sustainable. This presentation explores and provides examples of how we can take so called “end of life” waste products and reform them into materials for remanufacturing. What is our ‘new normal’?: Vaccines and resilience in the time of SARS-CoV2 Professor Gagandeep Kang, Professor of Microbiology, Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College (CMC), India What is our new normal in thinking about vaccines, especially at a time of SARS CoV2? From AIDS to Zika, this presentation examines why there is an increase in epidemics and pandemics and the lessons that can be drawn from these outbreaks; the development of the CoV2 vaccine and what the future holds for the current pandemic; and also, pandemics in the future. A tale of two pandemics: AIDS and Covid-19 Professor Salim Abdool Karim, Director, Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), South Africa South Africa has the highest number of Covid-19 cases in Africa, reporting over 1.3 million cases and 38,000 deaths by 20 January 2021. The Covid-19 epidemic has unfolded against a backdrop of a substantial HIV epidemic in the country, which accounts for 1 in every 5 people living with HIV in the world. Early predictions raised concerns that people with compromised immunity, such as those living with HIV, particularly those with low CD4 T-cell counts, would be at higher risk of developing severe Covid-19. Although some studies have shown that the clinical presentation and outcomes of Covid-19 in HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected individuals are similar, others find an increased risk of death in HIV-infected individuals.  In addition to deaths, the Covid-19 epidemic has impacted the HIV response in several ways. Firstly, key resources used for control of HIV, including: diagnostic platforms, community outreach, programs, medical care access, and research infrastructure, were redirected to control COVID-19. Secondly, the national lockdown early in the epidemic resulted in a significant decrease in patient attendance at health care facilities, potentially reversing the gains made over the past 2 decades. Delays in HIV testing impedes initiation of ART, potentially increasing the risk of new infections and drug resistance. This presentation will highlight ten lessons from HIV for the Covid-19 response. Scientific evidence has assumed new importance in decision-making and both pandemics have provided a new lens for the nexus between science, policy-making and global health in pursing the sustainable development goals, with equity and social justice as guiding principles. The Fourth Industrial Society, and the Economy  Professor Tshilidzi Marwala, Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of Johannesburg, South Africa As we wage a war against the coronavirus pandemic, the global economy has taken a hit likened to the great depression. South Africa, which has been in an economic downturn for a decade, is far worse off than many other nations. As we begin to rethink our policies and strategies to rebuild the economy, our focus needs to shift towards embracing a digital transformation. The economic benefits of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) are apparent. If we are to emerge on the other side stronger, we have to begin to tap into policies that speak to this shift - beginning with implementing our national 4IR blueprint. The pandemic has confirmed that the 4IR is certainly here, we must adapt in order to be relevant!

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Energy-environment-society interactions

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18 - 26 February 2021

02/18/2021

02/26/2021

Science+ meeting organised by Dr Alona Armstrong and Professor Nicola Beaumont. This meeting gathered thought-leaders from across disciplines and sectors to better understand the coincidental ecosystem effects of wind, solar and marine energy infrastructure and the implications for society. Science knowledge gaps were highlighted, a future research roadmap developed, policy needs identified and disparate researchers and practitioners in the emerging energy-ecosystem field united to promote a more sustainable energy transition. More information about the schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Speaker abstracts are also available below. Speaker presentations were recorded and are available at the top of the page.  Attending this event This meeting has taken place.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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New perspectives on quantum many-body chaos

Online scientific discussion meeting organised by Dr Zlatko Papic, Professor Juan Garrahan, Professor Jonathan Keating FRS, Dr Mike Blake and Dr Achilleas Lazarides.

08 - 11 February 2021

02/08/2021

02/11/2021

In the last few years the study of chaos in interacting quantum many-body systems has experienced a remarkable resurgence, combining insights from mathematical physics, string theory and condensed matter physics. This timely meeting brought together an international selection of researchers to cement the UK’s position as a world leader in this rapidly developing field. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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T cell/B cell collaboration in autoimmunity

Online Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Professor Lucy Walker and Dr Deepak Rao.

01 - 02 February 2021

02/01/2021

02/02/2021

This meeting focused on how bidirectional interactions between T and B cells can underpin the development of autoimmune diseases. The molecular conversation between these two immune cell types is relevant to multiple diseases, including type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis. This meeting brought together international leaders who shared emerging biological insights in this area and explored their therapeutic implications. Speakers included Professor Carola Vinuesa, Professor Hideki Ueno, Professor Hai Qi, Professor Virginia Pascual, Professor Ludvig Sollid and Professor Alessandra Pernis.

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Digital Technologies and the Planet: Towards Net Zero

10 - 11 December 2020

12/10/2020

12/11/2020

Read the conference report summarising the event (PDF). View the conference talks on the Royal Society's YouTube channel. Human activity has increased atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration by more than 40% since pre-industrial times. This, and increases in other greenhouse gases such as nitrous oxide, has led to a global average temperature rise of 1°C above pre-industrial levels. If emissions continue to increase at their present rate, temperatures could rise by more than 4°C by 2100. Limiting global warming to 1.5°C may still be feasible. To achieve a 1.5°C target, the net emissions of long-lived greenhouse gases, principally CO2, would have to reach ‘net zero’ level by around 2050. In the next decade urgent, ambitious and concerted action is required across all countries and sectors to deliver rapid emissions reductions. Rapid and unprecedented changes in energy, land use, urban development, transport, infrastructure and industrial systems are needed, with implications for how individuals live and work. Digital technologies could support this transformation. These technologies have already reshaped many daily activities – from online retail to on-demand transport services – with individuals using data-enabled systems to bring physical activities into the digital realm, reducing carbon emissions in the process. As technologies develop and systems for data use evolve, there will be further opportunities to find new ways of carrying out everyday tasks, with digital technologies bolstering a low-carbon revolution. This conference follows the launch of the Royal Society's Digital Technologies and the Planet policy report on 3 December. Attending this event  This online conference has been developed to help generate connections between industry, academia and government. We would welcome attendees involved in high-tech and digital industries, green technology, green recovery and the Just Transition, associated policy and finance bodies, as well as those with an interest in the social sciences. If you meet these criteria, or are otherwise interested, please do register for this event. Please direct any questions to the Industry team. About the conference series This scientific meeting is part of the Royal Society’s Transforming our Future conference series. The Transforming our Future meetings are unique, high-level events that address the scientific and technical challenges of the next decade. Each conference features cutting edge science from industry and academia and brings together leading experts from the scientific community, including regulatory, charity and funding bodies. Join the Scientists mailing list to receive updates about the Royal Society's activities and events. 

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Networking event for Industry Fellows and Entrepreneurs in Residence

19 - 20 November 2020

11/19/2020

11/20/2020

This Industry College networking event takes place for the first time online on 19 & 20 November 2020. This conference will address cross-sector collaborations by bringing together past and current Royal Society Industry Fellows, Entrepreneurs in Residence and their collaborators. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss issues and successes and hear about the wider work of the Society. Training courses will also be offered to participants. The Royal Society Industry summer placement programme supports students to complete a placement with an Industry Fellow. We will be joined at this event by our summer students, who will present their work. As well as former and current Industry Fellows and Entrepreneurs in Residence, there will be a limited number of places at this event for others interested in the relationship between industry and academia. If you would like to attend, please email industry@royalsociety.org with a short explanation as to why you are interested in attending.

London

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Online

Understanding the endosomal network in neurodegeneration

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09 - 12 November 2020

11/09/2020

11/12/2020

Online discussion meeting organised by Professor Peter Cullen, Professor Peter St George-Hyslop, Professor Scott Small and Dr Henne Holstege. Abnormalities in the endosomal network are a signature feature of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and numerous other neurological disorders. In bringing together world leading researchers from a range of disciplines, this meeting sought to discuss the latest advances in this rapidly moving field and foster collaborative efforts to enhance the rate of discovery in this medically important research field. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Speaker abstracts are also available below. This meeting had live closed captions. Attending this event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Online

The impact of COVID-19 on industry-academia collaborations

This meeting explored the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on research translation practices and business-academia collaborations.

Thursday 05 November 2020

11/05/2020

11/05/2020

Read the conference report (PDF). This online event explored the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on research translation practices and business-academia collaborations. The main topics for discussion revolved around removing barriers to translation, reducing bureaucracy, recognising the need for urgency and establishing quick and efficient collaborations.  The meeting comprised a series of short talks followed by a panel discussion. The ultimate aim was to understand how practices and attitudes have changed during the pandemic, what the outcome of those changes was and to identify any lessons learned.

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Online

A cracking approach to inventing tough new materials: fracture stranger than friction

Online discussion meeting organised by Dr Kevin Kendall FRS, Professor Anthony Kinloch FREng FRS, Professor William Clegg and Dr Siva Bohm.

Monday 19 October 2020

10/19/2020

10/19/2020

In the 100 years since Griffith published his ground-breaking paper on the energy criterion for cracking, there have been great advances in the understanding of cracks. This meeting reflected on recent observations in the field plus interesting new theories of cracking, as well as discussing how to invent tough new materials, while removing problems in Fracture Mechanics. Please click on the YouTube link to view the recording of the event.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

A cracking approach to inventing tough new materials: fracture stranger than friction - POSTPONED

This meeting is postponed. More details to follow. Scientific discussion meeting organised by Dr Kevin Kendall FRS, Professor Anthony Kinloch FRS, Professor William Clegg and Dr Siva Bohm.

19 - 20 October 2020

10/19/2020

10/20/2020

In the 100 years since Griffith published his ground-breaking paper on the energy criterion for cracking, there have been great advances in the understanding of cracks. This meeting will reflect on recent observations in the field plus interesting new theories of cracking, as well as discussing how to invent tough new materials, while removing problems in Fracture Mechanics. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting date. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Attending this event This meeting is postponed. More details to follow. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Radiocarbon in the Anthropocene - POSTPONED

This meeting is postponed. More details to follow. Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Professor Timothy Eglinton FRS, Dr Heather Graven, Professor Susan Trumbore and Professor Peter Raymond.

12 - 13 October 2020

10/12/2020

10/13/2020

This meeting will bring together leading experts in the carbon cycle and global change science together with radiocarbon specialists in order to discuss the merits, feasibility and scope of a global-scale radiocarbon measurement and synthesis program for improved assessment of current, future and managed changes to the Earth's carbon cycle and greenhouse gas emissions. The schedule of talks and biographies will be available soon. Speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting date. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Attending this event This meeting is postponed. More details to follow. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Rising methane: is warming feeding warming? - POSTPONED

This meeting is postponed. More details to follow. Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Euan Nisbet, Professor Ute Skiba, Dr Anna Jones and Professor John Pyle FRS.

05 - 06 October 2020

10/05/2020

10/06/2020

Atmospheric methane is rising rapidly. The rise is making it more difficult to reach the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement. But the reasons for methane’s growth and concurrent isotopic shift are unclear: sources may be increasing, sinks may be declining, or both processes taking place. Is this a climate change impact? Is the warming feeding the warming? The schedule of talks and speaker biographies will be available shortly. Speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting date. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Attending this event This meeting is postponed. More details to follow. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Turbulent dissipation in space plasmas - POSTPONED

This meeting is postponed. More details to follow. Royal Society Theo Murphy International meeting organised by Dr Julia Stawarz, Dr Daniel Verscharen and Dr Christopher Chen.

28 - 29 September 2020

09/28/2020

09/29/2020

This meeting will bring together experts on plasma turbulence in the solar wind and Earth's magnetosphere to discuss the latest cutting-edge results on the role of collision-less plasma processes in turbulent energy dissipation from the revolutionary Magnetospheric Multiscale and Parker Solar Probe spacecraft. These discussions will provide crucial input for the ongoing science operations of these and future space missions.  The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting date. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place.  Attending this event This meeting is postponed. More details to follow. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Scientific Meeting

Cell mimicry: bottom-up engineering of life - POSTPONED

This meeting is postponed. More details to follow. Scientific discussion meeting organised by Dr Yuval Elani, Dr David Lunn, Professor Thomas McLeish FRS, Dr Annela Seddon, Dr Tom Ellis, and Professor John Seddon.

21 - 22 September 2020

09/21/2020

09/22/2020

This meeting will explore the emerging area of artificial cell science. Specifically, bottom-up synthetic biology approaches will be discussed, where molecular building blocks are brought together to yield protocells that mimic properties of biological systems. Biomimetic assemblies that traverse lengthscales (from sub-cellular structures to proto-tissues) will be covered. There will be a focus on potential applications of this research area. Speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting date. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Interface Focus.  Attending this event This meeting is intended for researchers in relevant fields. This meeting is postponed. More details to follow. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Software solutions to the challenges of materials modelling - POSTPONED

This meeting is postponed. More details to follow. Satellite meeting organised by Professor Scott Woodley, Professor Richard Catlow FRS, Professor Nora De Leeuw and Professor Angelos Michaelides.

16 - 17 September 2020

09/16/2020

09/17/2020

In the Discussion meeting the aim is to discuss the challenges and achievements in materials modelling that will and have been enabled by High End Computer (HEC) resources. The Satellite meeting will move on to the software solutions recently developed and still required in order to effectively exploit HEC to address the scientific challenges identified during the Discussion meeting. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies is available below. Speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting date. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place.  Attending the event This meeting is postponed. More details to follow. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Supercomputer modelling of advanced materials - POSTPONED

This meeting is postponed. More details to follow. Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Scott Woodley, Professor Richard Catlow FRS, Professor Nora De Leeuw and Professor Angelos Michaelides.

14 - 15 September 2020

09/14/2020

09/15/2020

The development of advanced materials is of central importance in key scientific and industrial areas, including energy, catalysis and quantum technologies. High end computing and data science offer unprecedented opportunities for predictive modelling of complex materials. The meeting will explore the scientific and methodological challenges in the field, focusing on structure prediction, nucleation and crystal growth, biomaterials and catalysis. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies is available below. Speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting date. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.  Attending the event This meeting is postponed. More details to follow. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Apply for the APEX Award webinar

Learn about developing a competitive application for the Royal Society, British Academy and Royal Academy of Engineering APEX Award

Monday 07 September 2020

09/07/2020

09/07/2020

About this Event Do you have a great idea for an interdisciplinary research project? Are you looking for funding to support a collaboration across science, engineering, social science and the humanities? Join this webinar to understand how to put together a high quality and competitive application for the APEX Award. Hear from staff involved in the administration of this funding; Chairs of the assessment panel; and previous award holders with advice on how and why to apply for this prestigious £100,000 research grant with opportunities to request up to £10,000 for associated public engagement activities. In addition to prospective applicants for this funding, we also invite research support office staff to attend this webinar to provide you with insight on supporting prospective applicants. Event format 11.00 - 11.05: Overview of the session 11.05 - 11.20: Introduction to the APEX Award Dr Kelly Makarona - Royal Society Senior Manager, UK Grants 11.20 - 11.35: Perspectives from the APEX Award Chairs Professor Chris Frith FMedSci FBA FRS - APEX Chair - University College London Professor Carole Goble FREng - APEX Deputy Chair - University of Manchester 11.35 - 11.55: APEX Award holders presentations Professor Kate Robson Brown - University of Bristol Professor Robert Field - University of Northumbria at Newcastle 11.55 - 12.15: Questions from the audience 12.15: Close Background to the APEX Award   In partnership with the British Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society (‘the Academies’) and with generous support from the Leverhulme Trust, the APEX award (Academies Partnership in Supporting Excellence in Cross-disciplinary research award) scheme offers established independent researchers, with a strong track record in their respective area, an exciting opportunity to pursue genuine interdisciplinary and curiosity-driven research to benefit wider society. The objectives of this scheme are to: promote collaboration across disciplines, with a particular emphasis on the boundary between science, engineering and the social sciences and humanities support outstanding interdisciplinary research which is unlikely to be supported through conventional funding programmes support researchers with an outstanding track record, in developing their research in a new direction through collaboration with partners from other disciplines enable outstanding researchers to focus on advancing their innovative research through seed funding Contact For questions about this webinar or the APEX Award, please contact apex@royalsociety.org.

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Scientific Meeting

Diamond for quantum applications - POSTPONED

This meeting is postponed. More details to follow. Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Dr Shannon Nicley, Dr Gavin Morley and Professor Ken Haenen.

15 - 16 June 2020

06/15/2020

06/16/2020

A discussion on the recent progress of diamond growth and engineering for the creation and optimisation of colour centres, toward the integration of diamond based qubits in quantum systems. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting date. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place.  Attending this event This is a residential conference, which allows for greater discussion and networking. This meeting is intended for researchers in relevant fields. This meeting is postponed. More details to follow. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Excitonic Frontiers - POSTPONED

This meeting is postponed. More details to follow. Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Sandrine Heutz, Professor Jenny Nelson FRS, Professor Garry Rumbles and Professor Martin Heeney. 

08 - 09 June 2020

06/08/2020

06/09/2020

Processes involving the photoexcited states of matter, or excitons, underpin some of today’s most important and diverse scientific advances, from solar cells, to quantum technologies via photosystems and catalysis. This meeting brings together world-leaders from traditionally separate fields to share views on the fundamental science, exploitation and characterisation of excitons, aiming to generate radical advances in exciton science and technology.  The schedule of talks and biographies will be available soon. Speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting date. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Attending this event This meeting is intended for researchers in relevant fields. This meeting is postponed. More details to follow.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

London

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Scientific Meeting

Realising the potential of cochlear implants - POSTPONED

This meeting has been postponed. More details to follow. Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Dr Bob Carlyon and Dr Deborah Vickers

01 - 02 June 2020

06/01/2020

06/02/2020

Cochlear implants (CIs) restore hearing to deaf people by electrically stimulating the auditory nerve (AN). This meeting will focus on the limitations and successes of CIs and on new methods for improving them. Topics include new methods of stimulating the AN, measuring AN survival so as to aid patient-specific processing, understanding the brain changes that occur when hearing is restored by a CI, and how to best combine CI stimulation with residual acoustic hearing. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting date. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place.  Attending this event This meeting has been postponed. More details to follow. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Collective animal behaviour through time - POSTPONED

This meeting is postponed. More details to follow. Scientific discussion meeting organised by Dr Christos Ioannou and Dr Kate Laskowski.

18 - 19 May 2020

05/18/2020

05/19/2020

Great strides have been made in understanding the mechanisms underlying collective behaviour in animals using the complex systems approach common in the physical sciences. This work however focuses on snapshots of collective behaviour. The goal of this meeting is to integrate the study of collective behaviour over time: how does it develop and how does it evolve? Speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place.  Attending the event This meeting is postponed. More details to follow.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.  

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Scientific Meeting

SIMposium: recent advancements in structured illumination microscopy - POSTPONED

This meeting is postponed. More details to follow. Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Dr Kirti Prakash, Benedict Diederich, Dr Lothar Schermelleh and Dr Stefanie Reichelt.

13 - 14 May 2020

05/13/2020

05/14/2020

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) has emerged as an essential super-resolution technique for 3D and live-cell imaging. However, to date, there has not been a dedicated symposium/workshop covering different aspects of SIM, from biological applications, use of commercial instruments, to bespoke hardware and software development. The meeting aims to recap recent developments as well as outline future trends. Highlights of this meeting:  An interdisciplinary meeting involving biologists, microscopists, physicists and engineers for discussions about the past, the current and the future advancements in SIM Overview of different theoretical, technical, biological and correlative aspects of SIM  Hands-on Hackathon with SIM experts to build an 'OpenSIM'-System based on the open-source optical toolbox UC2 (youseetoo.org) The schedule of talks and speaker biographies will be available closer to the meeting date. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place. An accompanying journal issue for this meeting was published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.  Attending this event This meeting is postponed. More details to follow. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Scientific Meeting

Confronting radical uncertainty - POSTPONED

This meeting is postponed. More details to follow. Royal Society Science+ meeting organised by Professor David Tuckett, Dr David Good and Professor Leonard Smith.

27 - 28 April 2020

04/27/2020

04/28/2020

In this meeting we will focus on “real life” decision-making in Government, Business and the Third Sector–decisions such as those about climate mitigation and preserving our environment; policy priorities in health and education; new product, organizational and regulatory innovation; when and how to intervene in humanitarian or other crises overseas; how to maintain cyber and other forms of security; what macroeconomic policies to use to maximise the wellbeing of citizens; how to minimize social and mental discontent; etc.  All these decisions require those making them to draw on available resources so they can imagine both the futures they hope to create with the help of others and possible ways of achieving these futures, or not.  In the five panel sessions during the conference, we will use the Radical Uncertainty framework proposed below to:  Discuss the experience of a group of very senior decision-makers (Panel 1). Debate some of the core academic approaches to decision-making coming from cognitive science, mathematics, statistics and operational research (Panel 2).  Hear about relevant contemporary research into AI, social and affective neuroscience and “conviction narrative theory” (Panel 3). Discuss several pilot projects aimed at helping decision-makers to confront radical uncertainty (Panel 4). Think about what sort of further research can help (Panel 5).  The aim is to test in discussion between decision-makers and scientists from across a wide academic spectrum whether there are radically new opportunities for research and organizational arrangements that are likely to improve decision-making by treating uncertainty as opportunity across the policy areas mentioned above.  We propose a new framework for researching and making such decisions in which we conceive them as made in Radical Uncertainty, with the meaning that, at the time decision-makers decide, they can reasonably imagine but cannot know, the outcome of their actions, which are likely to unfold through time. Within the framework, the central idea is that uncertainty is an opportunity to be embraced as well as something that is feared and avoided. The core implication is that ambivalence - the existence of reasons for and against what is being chosen which will automatically also evoke approach and avoidance emotions – will remain present in such decision-making until the uncertainty is resolved, whether this is recognised or not. In addition, it may last a long time.  The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Attending this event This meeting has been postponed. More details to follow. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

London

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Microbial ecology for engineering biology - POSTPONED

This meeting is postponed. More details to follow. Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Professor Thomas Curtis and Dr Jane Fowler.

20 - 21 April 2020

04/20/2020

04/21/2020

Engineered microbial systems have a crucial role to play in the development of sustainable technologies for the 21st century. The solution, ecology-based design of engineered biological systems, is urgently needed. This meeting will unite disciplines by integrating ecological theory with microbiology and engineering demands. With a focus on modelling from genome- to systems-scale, we can accelerate progress in environmental biotechnology.Speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place.  Attending this event This meeting is postponed. More details to follow.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Anhydrobiosis – cheating death and telling the tale – POSTPONED

This meeting is postponed. More details to follow. Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Professor Roy Quinlan and Professor Takekazu Kunieda.

30 - 31 March 2020

03/30/2020

03/31/2020

Anhydrobiosis was first described by Van Leeuwenhoek in 1702. Both plants and animals have anhydrobiotic responses and understanding the mechanisms that support such an extreme stress response will prove invaluable for future food security and for new therapeutics to treat for example proteinopathy-based diseases. Interdisciplinary scientists at the plant-animal interface will scope the application of anhydrobiotic mechanisms in future technologies. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies is available below. Speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting date. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place.  Attending this event This meeting is postponed. More details to follow.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Scientific Meeting

The population structure of Escherichia - POSTPONED

This meeting is postponed. More details to follow. Scientific meeting organised by Professor Mark Achtman FRS, Professor Kathryn Holt and Professor David Aanensen.

25 - 26 March 2020

03/25/2020

03/26/2020

Escherichia includes commensal and invasive E. coli, Shigella, and multiple discrete species. >100,000 Escherichia genomes have been assembled by EnteroBase and 9,500 genomes that represent the entire diversity have been identified, the so-called EcoRPlus collection. Experts on all aspects of Escherichia will convene here to discuss creating an integrated scientific community for annotating the basic population structure of this genus.  Attending this event This meeting is postponed. More details to follow. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Scientific Meeting

Genomic population structures of microbial pathogens - POSTPONED

This meeting is postponed. More details to follow.  Scientific Discussion meeting organised by Professor Mark Achtman FRS, Professor Kathryn Holt and Professor David Aanensen.

23 - 24 March 2020

03/23/2020

03/24/2020

The comparative genomics of microbial pathogens from all domains of life has become a big data problem. Databases already contain >200,000 assembled genomes from single species but adequate tools to reveal population structures are in their infancy. This meeting will bring together world-class bioinformaticians with experts on bacterial and viral genomes to illustrate multiple approaches to solving this challenge. Information on the speakers and programme is available below. Speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.  Attending the event This meeting is postponed. More details to follow.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team  

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Scientific Meeting

Understanding fast-ion conduction in solid electrolytes - POSTPONED

This meeting is postponed. More details to follow.  Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Dr Benjamin Morgan, Dr Wolfgang Zeier and Professor Serena Corr.

16 - 17 March 2020

03/16/2020

03/17/2020

'Superionic' solid electrolytes exhibit exceptional room-temperature ionic conductivities, giving them the potential to enable next-generation battery and fuel-cell technologies. Developing new high-performance electrolytes requires understanding how chemistry can control fast ionic conduction. This meeting will bring together experts on solid electrolytes, superionic conduction, and complex diffusion mechanisms in solids, to discuss the mechanistic origins of fast-ion conduction in solid electrolytes. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting date. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place. An accompanying journal issue has been published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Attending this event This meeting is postponed. More details to follow.   Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Transforming Our Future

Trauma recovery: new science and technology for mental and physical health

Wednesday 04 March 2020

03/04/2020

03/04/2020

Read the conference report (PDF). This Transforming our Future meeting, held by the Royal Society in partnership with the Invictus Games Foundation, will bring together leading experts from industry, academia, government and the wider scientific community to discuss recent advances in technologies and treatments that have the real possibility of helping individuals recover from injury across the health spectrum. The conference will focus upon two broad themes: Our increased understanding of the biology of human health after injury, and especially the impact of trauma on both mental and physical health and the application of innovative new technologies and treatments to help individuals adapt to life-changing injuries. Following the presentations, speakers will discuss what can be achieved in the short- and medium-term, and how such developments should be prioritised and driven forward based upon the experiences of those who have suffered injury.  Attending this event  This event was held on 4 March 2020 Please direct any questions to the Industry team About the conference series This scientific meeting is part of the Royal Society’s Transforming our Future conference series. The Transforming our Future meetings are unique, high-level events that address the scientific and technical challenges of the next decade. Each conference features cutting edge science from industry and academia and brings together leading experts from the scientific community, including regulatory, charity and funding bodies. Join the Scientists mailing list to receive updates about the Royal Society's activities and events. 

London

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Scientific Meeting

Prospects for high gain inertial fusion energy

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Peter Norreys, Dr Kate Lancaster, Professor Mark Koepke, Professor George Tynan and Dr Christopher Ridgers.

02 - 03 March 2020

03/02/2020

03/03/2020

Inertial fusion is a grand challenge for humanity and promises many disruptive scientific applications, including nucleosynthesis of high-Z elements, future power generation and the brightest possible source for neutron scattering science. This meeting brought together the world’s leading scientists and policy advocates to begin preparations for the next generation facilities that enable movement directly to high energy gain. Recorded audio of the presentations is available below. Accompanying journal issues for this meeting were published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: part 1 and part 2.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Interdisciplinary approaches to dynamics in biology

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Dr Ruben Perez-Carrasco and Dr Berta Verd.

24 - 25 February 2020

02/24/2020

02/25/2020

This meeting brought together an interdisciplinary group of scientists interested in the timing of biological processes. Biology is dynamic at every scale, from transcription in a single cell to evolution. Increasingly, technological advances allow us to temporally quantify biological processes. The challenge we now face, which this meeting addressed, is to extract mechanistic understanding from the dynamics we measure. Information on the speakers and programme is available below. Speaker abstracts are also available below. Recorded audio of the presentations is available below. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Interface Focus.  Attending this event This meeting has taken place.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Understanding earthquakes using the geological record

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Dr Owen Weller, Dr Alex Copley, Dr Clare Warren and Professor Peter Cawood.

17 - 18 February 2020

02/17/2020

02/18/2020

This meeting focused on the interplay between deformation, metamorphism, and rheology of the lithosphere. Modern geophysical research is revealing increasingly complex and spatially variable fault zone behaviours. The properties and deformation of the ductile crust and mantle are controversial, as is their influence on the overlying faults. Current models indicate a close coupling between metamorphism, rheology and deformation, but remain poorly constrained by geological observations. The meeting united international experts in geodesy, seismology, metamorphism and rheology to characterise and understand the geological controls on fault behaviour, guiding future studies and advancing our understanding of earthquake hazards. Speaker abstracts are available below. Recorded audio of the presentations are also available below. An accompanying journal issue was published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.  Attending the event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Transforming Our Future

Healthy ageing

This conference explored fundamental science of healthy ageing and social considerations (including the NHS).

13 - 14 February 2020

02/13/2020

02/14/2020

Read the conference report here (PDF). Healthy ageing was a two-day conference held by the Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences' FORUM. The UK Government has set the Grand Challenge of achieving five extra years of healthy older age by 2035, but achieving this will be reliant on innovations in research and health and social care systems that benefit people of all ages and backgrounds. Speakers discussed scientific advances across ageing research, from basic mechanisms that drive ageing through to novel treatments and other interventions - considering how we define healthy ageing and prioritise the most effective research and innovations. The meeting addressed the implications of our ageing population for society, policy, and the health and social care systems. Finally, it considered how healthier older age can be realised through research, policy and other initiatives, exploring the ethical, social and economic frameworks that will be needed to ensure sustainable and fair benefit for all. Attending this event This open event was free to attend and was intended for participants with an interest in the life sciences sector from a variety of backgrounds including academia, industry, government, as well as regulatory and other scientific bodies. Contact the Industry team for more information. About the conference series This meeting forms part of the Royal Society's Transforming our Future series and the Academy of Medical Sciences' FORUM programme. The Transforming our Future meetings are unique, high-level events that address scientific and technical challenges of the next decade and bring together leading experts from wider scientific community, industry, government and charities. The meetings are organised with the support of the Royal Society Science, Industry and Translation Committee. The Academy's FORUM programme brings together industry, academia and the NHS, and the charity, regulatory and wider healthcare sectors. It provides an independent platform to bring together leaders from across the life sciences sector to discuss scientific opportunities, technology trends, translational challenges and strategic choices in healthcare. Sign up for the scientists' newsletter to receive updates about industry programme activity and events.

London

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Scientific Meeting

High resolution wave dynamics in the lower solar atmosphere

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Dr David Jess, Dr Peter Keys, Dr Marco Stangalini and Dr Shahin Jafarzadeh.

10 - 11 February 2020

02/10/2020

02/11/2020

You can find out more this research team, their research and other activities at WaLSA (Waves in the Lower Solar Atmosphere). A focused meeting to discuss the current challenges faced in wave studies in the lower solar atmosphere, including those related to spectropolarimetry and radiative transfer in the optically thick atmosphere. Implications imposed on upcoming next-generation ground-based facilities such as DKIST and EST, alongside space and balloon-borne missions like Solar Orbiter and SUNRISE, will also be discussed. Speaker abstracts are available below. Recorded audio of the presentations are also below.  Attending this event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Scientific Meeting

Understanding intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes

Satellite meeting organised by Professor Hayley Fowler.

05 - 06 February 2020

02/05/2020

02/06/2020

The satellite meeting continued the discussion meeting Intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes and implications for flash flood risks but with a clearer focus on process understanding and integrating/synthesising research results from different international groups working in this area with identification of key research gaps and research studies that can address these. Speaker biographies and abstracts are available below. Recorded audio of the presentations is also available below.  Attending this event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes and implications for flash flood risks

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Hayley Fowler.

03 - 04 February 2020

02/03/2020

02/04/2020

Extreme heavy precipitation is increasing in frequency and intensity, and results from new global sub-daily datasets and high-resolution modelling suggest that precipitation extremes will intensify more than anticipated based upon theoretical considerations. Understanding this process is vital in advancing the theoretical knowledge necessary for a step change in regional prediction from understanding the nature and drivers of precipitation extremes. Speaker biographies and abstracts are available below. Recorded audio of the presentations is also available below. An accompanying journal issue was published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Attending this event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

London

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Scientific Meeting

Dissolved organic matter in freshwaters: nature, origins and ecological significance

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Professor Penny Johnes, Professor Davey Jones, Professor Stephen Maberly and Professor Richard Evershed FRS.

20 - 21 January 2020

01/20/2020

01/21/2020

Dissolved organic matter (DOM) plays an important role in ecosystem function. Its flux to waters is rising globally, driven by population growth, agricultural intensification, land use and climate change. This meeting brought together a cross-disciplinary community to debate and discuss current understanding of the nature, origins and ecological significance of DOM in freshwaters, and identify exciting opportunities for future research. Speaker biographies and abstracts are available below. Recorded audio of the presentations is also available below. Attending this event This event has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Future exploration of the ice giants

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Dr Leigh Fletcher, Dr Adam Masters, Dr Athena Coustenis, Dr Kathleen Mandt, Dr Ian Cohen, Dr Christopher Arridge and Dr Amy Simon.

20 - 21 January 2020

01/20/2020

01/21/2020

Uranus and Neptune are our closest representatives of a class of planet that may be commonplace in our universe, and yet our exploration and understanding of these icy worlds is in its infancy. This meeting aimed to shape the key questions, motivations, and concepts for future collaborative missions to these tantalising destinations. Speaker biographies and abstracts are available below. Recorded audio of the presentations is also available below. An accompanying journal issue was published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team Splinter meeting A splinter meeting was held following this meeting, details of which can be found on the organisers' website.

London

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Transforming Our Future

Future food: health and sustainability

Thursday 12 December 2019

12/12/2019

12/12/2019

Read the conference report (PDF). This conference, held by the Royal Society, brought together leading experts from industry, government and the wider scientific community to discuss the future of food sources and the human diet in decades to come. The conference focused on two broad themes: the sustainability and health benefits of plant-based foods, and the application of synthetic biology in food production. The UK’s current standing in terms of food research, technical challenges, changing consumer preferences and public perception, safety and ethical issues, and the regulation of genome edited products was also explored. Attending this event This open event was free to attend and intended for those with an interest in food security and novel food technologies, from a variety of backgrounds including academia, industry, government, as well as regulatory and other scientific bodies. Contact the Industry team for more information. About the conference series This meeting forms part of the Royal Society’s Transforming our Future series. The Transforming our Future meetings are unique, high-level events that address scientific and technical challenges of the next decade and bring together leading experts from wider scientific community, industry, government and charities. Join the Scientists mailing list to receive updates about industry programme activity and events.

London

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Prize Lecture

Royal Society Africa Prize Seminar 2019

Royal Society Africa Prize Seminar 2019 with Dr Henry Mwandumba

Monday 09 December 2019

12/09/2019

12/09/2019

The Royal Society Africa Prize recognises research scientists based in Africa who are making an innovative contribution to the biological sciences, including basic medical science, which contributes significantly to capacity building in Africa. The Royal Society Africa Prize 2019 is awarded to Dr Henry Mwandumba for his novel work in description of the TB phagosome in HIV infected alveolar macrophages and his leadership in the College of Medicine in Malawi. This afternoon seminar, held as part of the Prize, celebrated Dr Mwandumba’s work and explored related research. The seminar was chaired by Professor David Lalloo, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. The audio recording of the seminar talks and discussion is available on this page.   For all enquiries, please contact the Events team.

London

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Scientific Meeting

The next generation of analogue gravity experiments

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Dr Maxime Jacquet, Dr Silke Weinfurtner and Dr Friedrich König.

09 - 10 December 2019

12/09/2019

12/10/2019

The discussion meeting brought together scientists who reproduce effects of the interplay between general relativity and quantum physics in the laboratory. From the foundational ideas of the research programme to its latest experimental breakthroughs and their philosophical implications, participants discussed the present state of the field and possible routes to the future. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Speaker abstracts are also available below. Recorded audio of the presentations is available below. Meeting papers are available in an issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.  Attending this event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Carbon dioxide detection in biological systems

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Professor Martin Cann, Dr Vicki Linthwaite and Dr Eoin Cummins.

02 - 03 December 2019

12/02/2019

12/03/2019

This meeting will unite researchers from the plant and animal kingdoms to discuss the common goal of understanding the molecular basis of carbon dioxide detection. Carbon dioxide is essential for life on earth. It is central to physiological processes including photosynthesis, metabolism, homeostasis, chemosensing and pathogenesis. Given recent and rapid developments in our understanding of mechanisms that underpin carbon dioxide detection in both the plant and animal kingdoms, a new forum must be developed to bring together researchers in these fields. This forum will identify common themes in carbon dioxide detection across different biological systems and exchange methodologies that can be bought to bear on different biological systems. Furthermore, its members will identify new approaches that can benefit our identification of carbon dioxide detection mechanisms across diverse species. The forum will foster the creation of new scientific community/network that will enhance the pursuit of knowledge in this area and form the foundations for future collaborative publications and funding proposals. Speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Interface Focus. Poster session There will be a poster session at 17:00 on Monday 2 December 2019. If you would like to apply to present a poster please submit your proposed title, abstract (not more than 200 words and must be in third person), author list, name of the proposed presenter and institution to the Scientific Programmes team with the subject heading "Carbon Dioxide: poster abstract" no later than Friday 18 October 2019. Please note that places are limited and posters are selected at the scientific organisers' discretion. Poster abstracts will only be considered if the presenter is registered to attend the meeting. Attending this event This is a residential conference, which allows for increased discussion and networking. Free to attend Limited places Please request a registration invitation above Catering and accommodation available to purchase during registration Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Conference

Educational Research Forum: Developing a future agenda for educational research

Tuesday 26 November 2019

11/26/2019

11/26/2019

Join the upcoming Educational Research Forum, hosted by the Royal Society and the British Academy, which will bring together educational researchers, policy makers and teaching practitioners to talk about shared challenges and opportunities in educational research. This event aims to take forward one of the Harnessing Educational Research report's key recommendations: 'improving collaboration' in the ecosystem. Published in 2018, the report assessed the current state of educational research about formal education up to the age of 18 in the UK and how it is used in the broader education ecosystem. This exciting event aims to: Bring together educational researchers, policy makers and teaching practitioners to talk about shared challenges and opportunities in educational research; Move towards a shared future research agenda which is jointly owned by the key communities in the ecosystem; Harness expertise and enthusiasm across communities to set in motion a step change in the way educational research is planned, coordinated and used in the UK; Create a lasting legacy to enable future collaboration between educational researchers, policy makers and teaching practitioners.   Attending this event Attendance is by invitation only. Registration has now closed. For further details please contact Kelly Chaplin.      

London

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Scientific Meeting

Quantum light for investigating complex molecules and materials

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Professor Alexandra Olaya-Castro, Professor Shaul Mukamel and Professor Graham Fleming FRS.

25 - 26 November 2019

11/25/2019

11/26/2019

Quantum light such as entangled photon pairs is a key resource for quantum technologies but its applications have a much wider scope. This meeting aimed to bridge and accelerate the developments in the fields of quantum optics and spectroscopy by discussing the fundamentally new opportunities that quantum light opens in the investigation of ultrafast phenomena in complex molecules and materials. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page soon.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Networking event for Industry Fellows and Entrepreneurs in Residence

Friday 22 November 2019

11/22/2019

11/22/2019

This Industry Fellows College networking event takes place at the Royal Society on 22 November from 9am-6pm. This conference will address cross-sector collaborations by bringing together past and current Royal Society Industry Fellows, Entrepreneurs in Residence and their collaborators. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss issues and successes and hear about the wider work of the Society. Training courses will also be offered to participants. The Royal Society Industry summer placement programme supports students to complete a placement with an Industry Fellow. We will be joined at this event by our summer students, who will present their work. As well as past and current Industry Fellows, there will be a limited number of places at this event for others interested in the relationship between industry and academia. If you would like to attend, please email industry@royalsociety.org with a short explanation as to why you are interested in attending.

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History Of Science

Collecting for charity

Thursday 14 November 2019

11/14/2019

11/14/2019

Baroque musicians 82 Degrees perform a benefit concert to raise awareness of the Coram Foundation for Children in London. The concert is hosted by Collective Wisdom in tribute to the work of Francke, Handel and Coram. The performance includes pieces by Handel, Haydn and Paganini. Download the programme (PDF) About the concert Collective Wisdom is an international network of scholars exploring how and why members of the Royal Society, the Society of Antiquaries of London and the Leopoldina collected specimens of the natural world, art, and archaeology in the 17th and 18th centuries. Part of this work examined the Wunderkammer or Natural History Museum in the Historic Orphanage of the Francke Foundation in Halle, Germany. In 1698, Francke created this global cabinet of curiosities as a teaching tool for the children in his care. His ‘learning-by-doing’ approach included teaching the children to sing for public performance. These ideas greatly influenced Thomas Coram’s vision for his Foundling Hospital. Handel was a native of Halle, had Francke as his teacher, and was familiar with Francke's use of musical performance to fundraise. Handel's Messiah was performed in a benefit concert for Coram's Hospital. Collective Wisdom is funded by a networking grant award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and project partners include the Royal Society, the Leopoldina, the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Francke Foundation, the University of Lincoln and the University of Oregon. Attending this event Free to attend Doors open at 6.50pm Seats are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis An optional donation of £10 to Coram’s Programme of Creative Therapies for Children is suggested Travel and accessibility information This event follows Collecting and Collections: Digital Lives and Afterlives, a two-day workshop on early modern collections held at the Royal Society.

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History Of Science

Collecting and Collections: Digital Lives and Afterlives

This workshop concerning the afterlives, use and reconstruction of early modern collections is designed to benefit scholars interested in digital humanities.

14 - 15 November 2019

11/14/2019

11/15/2019

We will explore digital approaches to survey collections over time, assisted by the Royal Society-Google Cultural Institute partnership. How can we data-mine and use tools to integrate extant databases? How did the norms of early modern academies, of scientific journal publication, priority of discovery and ‘matters of fact’ shape the organisation of knowledge? How do we consider those early modern models in digital reconstructions of early collecting? This workshop is organised by Collective Wisdom. Collective Wisdom is funded by a networking grant award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and project partners include the Royal Society, the Leopoldina, the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Francke Foundation, the University of Lincoln and the University of Oregon. Download the conference programme (PDF) Download the speaker abstracts (PDF) Attending this event You must purchase a ticket to attend this event Register and more information on the University of Lincoln website Travel and accessibility information

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Scientific Meeting

Air quality, past, present and future

Science+ meeting organised by Professor David Fowler CBE FRS, Professor John Pyle CBE FRS, Professor Mark Sutton and Professor Martin Williams.

11 - 12 November 2019

11/11/2019

11/12/2019

This meeting brought together a range of interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners working in fields related to air pollution, including human health, environmental policy and atmospheric composition in developing nations. The science presented first covered the chronology of atmospheric composition in the UK and Europe over the last century. This was followed by two similar chronologies of the effects of the air pollutants on human health and on ecosystems. The papers presented at this meeting identified scientific and policy issues central to these chronologies, their potential solutions and their costs. Air quality is currently responsible for 7 million premature deaths annually, extensive crop loss and biodiversity declines in Europe, North America and Asia. It contributes to climate change and is highly policy relevant. In the UK, acid rain, premature mortality, ozone and eutrophication have all been issues caused by air pollution. Some of these issues have been solved, while others remain politically intractable. Current and future issues will not be resolved without substantial reductions in emissions of the pollutant precursors, for which there is limited political support. An accompanying journal issue for this meeting was published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Meeting recordings Video recordings of this event are available at the top of the page. To find the recording of a particular talk, please click the playlist in the top right hand corner of the video. Please note, recordings are only available for those talks where the speaker has given permission for their talk to be published. Call for posters There will be a poster session and drinks reception held at 16:55 on Monday 11 November 2019. If you would like to apply to present a poster please submit your proposed title, abstract (not more than 200 words and must be in third person), author list, name of the proposed presenter and institution to the Scientific Programmes team with the subject heading "Air Quality: poster abstract" no later than Monday 30 September. Please note that places are limited and are selected at the scientific organisers' discretion. Poster/talk abstracts will only be considered if the presenter is registered to attend the meeting. Whilst the posters are free to view for all registered participants, the corresponding optional drinks reception is ticketed. Drinks reception tickets can be purchased in advance during registration.   Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Transforming UK translation conference

Thursday 31 October 2019

10/31/2019

10/31/2019

Read the conference report (PDF). Building on previous work of the Royal Society, this conference will focus on current challenges surrounding translation of research into successful business outcomes and how we can overcome them. The meeting will consist of a mixture of talks and round table discussions, and bring together key stakeholders across the innovation continuum to discuss some of the key challenges, best practice and ways we can foster stronger industry-academia relationships. Details about the speakers and discussions will be available closer to the event.  Attending this event Please note this conference is free (lunch and refreshments included) but by invitation only. You will require an invitation in order to register. To request an invitation or for more information, please contact the Industry team Travel and accessibility information

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Scientific Meeting

Dynamic in-situ microscopy relating structure and function

Fast-track discussion meeting organised by Dame Pratibha Gai FREng FRS, Professor Edward Boyes, Professor Rik Brydson and Professor Richard Catlow FRS.

21 - 22 October 2019

10/21/2019

10/22/2019

This meeting evidenced and advanced development in dynamic in-situ environmental electron, scanning probe, optical and fast time resolved microscopy and computer modelling studies of vital interest in the chemical, physical and life sciences, underpinning technologies of high commercial and societal value. It focused on the pivotal role of imaging and spectroscopy for dynamic processes across the sciences to access previously invisible aspects of real world processes. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Speaker abstracts are also available below. Recorded audio of the presentations is available below. An accompanying journal issue for this meeting was published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Attending the event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Transforming Our Future

The future of photonics: sensors and quantum technologies

Tuesday 15 October 2019

10/15/2019

10/15/2019

Read the conference report (PDF). This one-day international conference held by the Royal Society in Cardiff will bring together experts to explore recent developments in photonic technologies and the future opportunities and challenges that they present. Photonic technologies have a wide range of recent and future applications including sensors, optical computers, next-generation lasers and LEDs, visible light communication (LiFi), water purification, quantum information processing and more. Speakers will discuss the use of photonics from smart cities to satellites and explore the vast opportunities of photonic technologies for society and the economy. They will introduce current state-of-the-art technology and blue-sky applications in the broader context of regulation, policy and funding. Photonics ties into many topics in the Government's Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, from early disease detection, to commercialising quantum technologies, and manufacturing and future materials. This conference will highlight the importance of photonics to solve challenges in all of these sectors.  Attending this event This open event is free to attend and is intended for participants from a variety of backgrounds including academia, industry, government, as well as regulatory and other scientific bodies. Contact the Industry team for more information. About the conference series This meeting forms part of the Royal Society's Transforming our Future series. The Transforming our Future meetings are unique, high-level events that address scientific and technical challenges of the next decade and bring together leading experts from wider scientific community, industry, government and charities. Sign up for the scientists' newsletter to receive updates about industry programme activity and events.

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Scientific Meeting

Contemporary morphogenesis

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Dr Kyra Anne Campbell, Dr Emily Noel, Dr Alexander Fletcher and Dr Natalia Bulgakova.

07 - 08 October 2019

10/07/2019

10/08/2019

Recent advances have revolutionised the field of developmental biology, heralding a new era of state-of-the art super-resolution live imaging, precision analyses, and à la carte genetic engineering. As a result, this fast-moving field now impacts on almost every other biological discipline. This meeting showcased the cutting edge of research in developmental biology, with a focus on emerging talent. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page under the abstract of each talk. An accompanying journal issue for this meeting was published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

London

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Scientific Meeting

Continuous-time quantum computing and simulation: perspectives and challenges

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Dr Viv Kendon, Sir Peter Knight FRS and Professor Andrew Daley.

02 - 03 October 2019

10/02/2019

10/03/2019

Developing experiments capable of useful simulations of quantum systems and computation using native Hamiltonians needs highly optimised hardware and software, to extract the best performance from state-of-the-art quantum engineering. This meeting brought together experts from different research areas to share ideas and further develop UK strength in this important future quantum technology. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Restoration science relevant for action

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Professor Katharine Suding, Professor Richard Hobbs, Professor Eric Higgs, Professor Stephen D Murphy and Professor Jim Harris.

23 - 24 September 2019

09/23/2019

09/24/2019

The rapid rise of global restoration initiatives alongside rapid environmental and cultural change has exposed complex questions that straddle the divide between theory and practice. This meeting borught together leaders in ecology, restoration science, and conservation biology to synthesise current understanding and develop a research agenda to address knowledge gaps. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Pearls of wisdom: synergising leadership and expertise in molluscan genomics

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Dr Angus Davison and Dr Maurine Neiman.

16 - 17 September 2019

09/16/2019

09/17/2019

Although molluscs are ecologically, economically, and medically important, progress in understanding their biology has been limited by problems associated with genome sequencing and assembly. As technology breakthroughs overcome these challenges, this meeting brought together experts in molluscan biology and genomics to share best practice in how to use these developments in elucidating the biology of this diverse and ill-understood phylum. Speaker biographies and abstracts can be found below. Recorded audio of the presentations are also available below.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Framing an agenda for understanding the origin and rise of complex life

Satellite meeting organised by Professor Rachel Wood, Professor Philip Donoghue FRS, Professor Simon Poulton, Professor Tim Lenton and Dr Alex Liu.

11 - 12 September 2019

09/11/2019

09/12/2019

The Satellite meeting explored issues and controversies raised in the Discussion meeting by focused interrogation of key multidisciplinary topics, interwoven with extensive, open discussion. These included: 1. Reducing uncertainty in the record 2. Modelling tipping points and biotic responses 3. Understanding the role of diagenesis Such a format was to advance understanding and help frame future agendas. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Speaker abstracts are also available below. Recorded audio of the presentations is available below. Attending this event This meeting has taken place.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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The origin and rise of complex life: integrating models, geochemical and palaeontological data

Scientific Discussion meeting organised by Professor Rachel Wood, Professor Philip Donoghue FRS, Professor Simon Poulton, Professor Tim Lenton and Dr Alex Liu

09 - 10 September 2019

09/09/2019

09/10/2019

Understanding of the triggers and timing of the rise of complex life ~720-520 million years ago has expanded dramatically in recent years. This meeting will integrate diverse and novel geochemical and palaeontological data to create testable hypotheses for the differing roles of changing climate, oceanic redox, nutrient availability, and ecosystem feedbacks, across this profound, but enigmatic, transitional period. More information on the programme and speakers will be available soon. Speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place. Poster session There will be a poster session at 17:00 on Monday 9 September. If you would like to apply to present a poster please submit your proposed title, abstract (not more than 200 words and in third person), author list, name of the proposed presenter and institution to the Scientific Programmes team with the subject heading "Complex Life: poster abstract" no later than Friday 9 August 2019 (extended deadline).   Please note that places are limited and posters are selected at the scientific organisers' discretion. Poster abstracts will only be considered if the presenter is registered to attend the meeting. Attending this event This meeting is intended for researchers in relevant fields. Free to attend Limited places, advance registration essential An optional lunch can be purchased during registration Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Creating Connections

Creating connections in Ireland

05 - 06 September 2019

09/05/2019

09/06/2019

The Royal Society is coming to Northern Ireland with Creating connections to discuss the country's role in driving UK innovation and prosperity. Scientific and technical opportunities and challenges in Northern Ireland will be addressed by leading experts from academia, industry and government. The Society is working closely with the Royal Irish Academy - an all-island independent forum of peer-elected experts. The day will focus on Northern Irish research and innovation (R&I), its contribution to UK R&I, and relationship with R&I in the Republic of Ireland. The day will feature workshops and round-table discussions on diverse topics in science and policy. The event will also feature an exhibition of Royal Society work where participants can discuss how we can provide support and share resources. Attending this event This event is free to attend by invitation Please follow instructions under each session to request an invitation Travel and accessibility information

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Scientific Meeting

Scientific priorities for realising a circular economy

Satellite meeting organised by Professor Matthew Davidson, Professor Richard Catlow FRS, Professor Adrian Mulholland and Professor Graham Hutchings CBE FRS.

26 - 27 June 2019

06/26/2019

06/27/2019

Building on the topics of the Discussion meeting, this Satellite meeting focused on identifying specific scientific challenges and priority setting for realising a circular economy. Each session focused on a core aspect of science and was introduced by three experts leading to in-depth discussion, breakout sessions and final summary.

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Scientific Meeting

Science to enable the circular economy

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Matthew Davidson, Professor Richard Catlow FRS, Professor Adrian Mulholland and Professor Graham Hutchings CBE FRS.

24 - 25 June 2019

06/24/2019

06/25/2019

For society to be sustainable, realising circular flows of molecules and materials will be fundamental to delivering the circular economy. This meeting brought together scientists and engineers to highlight efforts to meet the formidable challenge of 'keeping the molecules in play' by addressing important global challenges such as using waste carbon dioxide, harnessing biotechnology and eliminating plastics pollution. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page soon after the meeting has taken place. Meeting papers are available in an issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.

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Scientific Meeting

Revealing Saturn’s deep interior for the first time with Cassini

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Professor Michele Dougherty CBE FRS and Dr Adam Masters.

17 - 18 June 2019

06/17/2019

06/18/2019

Bringing together experts on the interior of the planet Saturn to consolidate new data from the Grand Finale of the highly successful Cassini-Huygens mission. This data allows us to finally address long-standing mysteries concerning Saturn's deep interior structure and dynamics, its uniform and differential rotation rate, how Saturn’s magnetic field is generated, and how the external environment affects the evolution of the system, with broad solar system and explanatory implications. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place.   Poster session There will be a poster session at 17:00 on Monday 17 June 2019. If you would like to apply to present a poster please submit your proposed title, abstract (not more than 200 words and in third person), author list, name of the proposed presenter and institution to the Scientific Programmes team no later than Friday 10 May 2019. Please note that places are limited and posters are selected at the scientific organisers' discretion. If your submission is successful, you will be sent the details to complete your registration for the meeting. Attending this meeting This is a residential conference, which allows for increased discussion and networking. This meeting is intended for researchers in relevant fields. Free to attend Advance registration essential, please request an invitation above Catering and accommodation available to purchase during registration Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Memory reactivation: replaying events past, present and future

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Professor Edwin M Robertson and Dr Lisa Genzel.

20 - 21 May 2019

05/20/2019

05/21/2019

This meeting directly addressed several key challenges to understanding replay and its contribution to memory. Participants discussed the diverse contemporary ways of identifying memory replay, whether these are revealing identical, distinct or complementary processes, and finally, what contribution replay makes to circuits to support memory. Addressing these issues was achieved through discussion prompted by short talks from speakers from diverse disciplines. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are below. Recorded audio of the presentations is available on this page under each speaker abstract.   An accompanying journal issue for this meeting was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. It can be found here. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Crossroads between transposons and gene regulation

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Dr Miguel Branco and Dr Edward Chuong.

13 - 14 May 2019

05/13/2019

05/14/2019

Genome evolution is inextricably linked to the evolution of transposons that reside within. It is increasingly recognised that these selfish mobile elements play major roles in genome regulation. This meeting discussed how transposons have shaped host gene regulation, both through their evolutionary conflict with the host, and through the dispersal of new coding and non-coding sequences with strong regulatory potential. An accompanying journal issue for this meeting was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Numerical algorithms for high-performance computational science

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Nicholas Higham FRS, Laura Grigori and Professor Jack Dongarra.

08 - 09 April 2019

04/08/2019

04/09/2019

As computer architectures evolve, numerical algorithms for high-performance computing struggle to cope with the high resolution and data intensive methods that are now key to many research fields. This meeting brought together computer and computational scientists who are developing innovative scalable algorithms and software with application scientists who need to explore and adopt the new algorithms in order to achieve peta/exascale performance. Speaker abstracts and biographies can be found below. Recorded audio of the presentations is also available below. An accompanying journal issue for this meeting was published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Attending this event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Chemical communication in humans

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Professor Craig Roberts, Dr Jan Havlíček and Professor Benoist Schaal.

01 - 02 April 2019

04/01/2019

04/02/2019

This meeting brought together an international group of biologists, psychologists, linguists, anthropologists and chemists to present and discuss emerging evidence of human chemical communication. It clarified conceptual frameworks, facilitate discussion, and help to shape a road map for future work. A multidisciplinary approach is necessary to build on recent advances in knowledge and new developments in sensing techniques. Speaker abstracts are available below. Recorded audio of the presentations is also available below. Meeting papers can be found in a themed issue of Philosophical Transactions B.  Attending this event This event has taken place.   Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team. 

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Creating Connections

Creating connections in Wales

25 - 26 March 2019

03/25/2019

03/26/2019

The Royal Society is coming to Cardiff with Creating connections to discuss the role of Wales in driving UK innovation and prosperity. Scientific and technical opportunities and challenges in Wales will be addressed by leading experts from academia, industry and government. Mae'r Gymdeithas Frenhinol yn dod i Gaerdydd i drafod rôl Cymru wrth hybu arloesedd a ffyniant yn y DU. Bydd arbenigwyr o'r byd academaidd, diwydiant a'r llywodraeth yn trafod cyfleoedd a heriau gwyddonol. The day will feature sessions on various areas of science and policy, including discussions of net zero Wales 2040, the Government's commitment to increase investment in research and innovation, data talent and skills, and more.  A full-day media skills training course will be running at this event. See the agenda below for registration details and note the course cost. An exhibition will also be a feature of this event, including Royal Society stands to share resources and find out how we can support you. Further information about individual exhibits will soon be available in the agenda below. Attending this event This event is free to attend by invitation. You may request an invitation or direct any other queries to industry@royalsociety.org. Mae'r digwyddiad hwn yn rhad ac am ddim trwy wahoddiad. Gallwch ofyn am wahoddiad neu drafod unrhyw ymholiadau eraill trwy e-bostio: industry@royalsociety.org See further details about each session in the agenda below.

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How should pension liabilities be valued? Risk aversion and demographic uncertainty

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Jane Hutton and Professor Saul Jacka.

25 - 26 March 2019

03/25/2019

03/26/2019

Several challenges arise in estimating the liabilities and assets needed for pensions provision. The UK Government has increased the State Pension Age to reflect longevity. For developing countries, achieving reliable estimates of life expectancy is not easy. Actuaries, economists and statisticians use varied definitions of risk and methods for estimation and forecasting. Disagreement centres on concepts of risk and prudence. This meeting aired some slow-burn economic and social issues, to initiate a more co-ordinated approach and to dispel some widely-held misapprehensions. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available under each speaker abstract at the bottom of this page approximately one month after the meeting has taken place.   Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.

London

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Scientific Meeting

Celebrating the 100,000 Genomes Project – a review and look ahead

Wednesday 20 March 2019

03/20/2019

03/20/2019

Scientific meeting organised by Genomics England, NHS England and the Royal Society. The 100,000 Genomes Project, led by Genomics England in partnership with NHS England, recently reached its goal of sequencing 100,000 whole genomes from around 85,000 NHS patients with a rare disease, their families, and patients with cancer. Harnessing whole genome sequencing technology the project has uncovered new diagnoses and improved treatments for patients with rare inherited diseases and cancer. In time, there is the potential of new and more effective treatments. The legacy of the project is the launch of the Genomic Medicine Service in the NHS last year. This makes the UK the pioneering global leader in integrating genomic technologies and approaches into routine healthcare. This will continue to add to the rich dataset, created through the project, which is currently being used by approved researchers and drug developers to produce the next generation of precision therapies, diagnostics, and clinically actionable insights. Genomics England, NHS England and the Royal Society are holding a meeting to celebrate the 100,000 Genomes Project. This meeting will review progress to date and lessons learned, and will consider what the future holds for genomics, not just in the UK but globally. We will bring together global leaders in the genomics field together with researchers in genomics and project participants. There will be workshops on transforming healthcare, data sharing, analytics and AI, and ethics, trust and participants. Poster Session There will be a poster session on 20 March 2019. If you would like to apply to present a poster please submit your title, proposed abstract (not more than 200 words and in third person), author list, name of proposed presenter and authors' institutions to the Scientific Programmes team no later than 9am Monday 18 February 2019. Please include the text 'Poster abstract submission' and the meeting title in the subject line.  Please note that places are limited and are selected at the organisers' discretion. Poster abstracts will only be considered if the presenter is registered to attend the meeting. Poster deadline extended: Please note that we will now be taking submissions for posters until Friday 1 March. Please submit proposals as soon as possible using the guidelines above. Attending the event This meeting is intended for researchers in relevant fields and project participants. Free to attend Limited places, advanced registration is essential Enquiries: Contact the Scientific Programmes team  

London

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Scientific Meeting

Unity and diversity of ciliary systems in locomotion and transport

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Professor Gáspár Jékely, Professor Raymond Goldstein FRS and Dr Kirsty Wan.

18 - 19 March 2019

03/18/2019

03/19/2019

Cilia are specialised cellular organelles that are united in structure and ubiquitously implicated in key life processes including sensing, locomotion, and the production of physiological flows. This meeting brought together biologists, biophysicists, and mathematicians to highlight the remarkable diversity of systems in which motile cilia fulfil vital functions, and to inspire and define novel interdisciplinary strategies for future research. Speaker biographies and abstracts can be found below. Recorded audio of the presentations can also be found below. An accompanying journal issue for this meeting was published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Attending this event This event has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Transforming Our Future

Future skills for the life sciences

Tuesday 12 March 2019

03/12/2019

03/12/2019

Read the conference report (PDF). This conference will explore the skills required for a thriving life sciences sector in the UK and will highlight the creative ways that the future skills needs are being addressed. On 11 March 2019, the day before the 'Future skills for the life sciences' conference, we will hold a workshop for early career professionals, offering the opportunity to discuss career challenges and expectations. The key points that emerge from this workshop will feed into the conference on 12 March 2019. Attending this event This open event is free to attend and is intended for those with an interest in the life sciences sector, from a variety of backgrounds including academia, industry, government, as well as regulatory and other scientific bodies. Contact the Industry team for more information. About the conference series This meeting forms part of the Royal Society’s Transforming our Future series. The Transforming our Future meetings are unique, high-level events that address scientific and technical challenges of the next decade and bring together leading experts from wider scientific community, industry, government and charities. Join the industry mailing list to receive updates about industry programme activity and events.

London

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Royal Society Industry College networking event

Friday 08 March 2019

03/08/2019

03/08/2019

A networking meeting organised by the Royal Society Industry College. The program focuses on introducing new members of the college through presentations, tours, discussions and networking.  Located at GSK within the Stevenage Bioscience Campus, delegates will have the opportunity to make new contacts, contribute to discussions on getting the most out of their collaborations and projects, learn about the site, and meet the scientists working there. Attending this event As well as new and current Industry Fellows and Entrepreneurs in Residence, there will be a limited numbers of places at this event for others interested in the relationship between industry and academia. If you would like to attend, please email industry@royalsociety.org with a short explanation as to why you are interested in the event. As places are limited, we cannot guarantee that there will be spaces available.

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Topological avatars of new physics

Scientific Discussion meeting organised by Professor Nikolaos Mavromatos, Dr Laura Patrizii, Dr Vasiliki Mitsou, Professor James Pinfold, Dr Adrian Bevan, Professor Arttu Rajantie and Professor Jonathan Ellis CBE…

04 - 05 March 2019

03/04/2019

03/05/2019

The meeting will discuss the theoretical and experimental status of searches for topologically non-trivial solutions in quantum field theories of particle physics, including the Standard Model and its extensions. It will cover both current and future colliders and cosmic searches both on Earth and in space. The topics will include black holes, magnetic monopoles, sphalerons, Q-balls and other solitonic solutions. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies is available below. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place.  Enquiries: Contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Non-equilibrium superconductivity and spintronics

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Professor Mark Blamire, Dr Chiara Ciccarelli, Professor Matthias Eschrig, Dr Jason Robinson and Professor Lesley Cohen

25 - 26 February 2019

02/25/2019

02/26/2019

This meeting will bring together leading researchers in the fields of magnetism and superconductivity to explore new functionality in which spin, charge and superconducting phase coherence can work together. Their discoveries and predictions form the foundation for the field of superconducting spintronics which could eventually be developed as a replacement for large-scale semiconductor-based logic and memory. Speaker biographies and abstracts are available below. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions A.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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CRISPR ecology and evolution

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Dr Edze Westra, Dr Rachel Whitaker, Dr Sylvain Gandon and Dr Stineke van Houte.

18 - 19 February 2019

02/18/2019

02/19/2019

This meeting focused on the evolutionary ecology of CRISPR-Cas adaptive immune systems of prokaryotes, and their applications for ecological engineering including the associated ethical and policy considerations. This meeting brought together scientists from diverse disciplines and act as a platform to discuss outstanding evolutionary and ecological questions in the field of CRISPR-Cas. An accompanying journal issue for this meeting was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Enquiries: Contact the Scientific Programmes team

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The Royal Society Business Forum: the role of post-16 education in ensuring workplace resilience

Tuesday 12 February 2019

02/12/2019

02/12/2019

The Royal Society is bringing together industry leaders, policymakers and practitioners to explore how post-16 education can provide students with the skills they need to succeed in the changing world of work. There are growing expectations that the way we live and work will change considerably as a result of technological innovation. Many traditional career pathways are likely to disappear and highly-skilled talent will fuel growth in other areas. People entering the workforce now are likely to have a wider variety of jobs and perhaps multiple careers during their lives.  A broad post-16 curriculum could equip young people with a wider range of skills and the ability to think, interpret, and understand across several disciplines, providing a strong basis for participating in the future workforce, which is likely to be altered by technological and social changes. The Royal Society Business Forum will examine how the current post-16 curriculum prepares students for the modern world of work, how employers engage with schools to expand students’ learning, and how the future of work may demand new skills, through workshops and panel sessions. You will have the opportunity to shape the next stage of the Royal Society’s work in this area during the workshop sessions at the event. Attending this event Attendance is by invitation only. For further information, please contact Kelly Chaplin.

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Evolution of mechanisms and behaviour important for pain

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Dr Amanda Williams and Professor Edgar Terry Walters.

11 - 12 February 2019

02/11/2019

02/12/2019

This meeting was the first to convene scientists from diverse fields studying mechanisms and behaviour important for pain together with experts in evolutionary medicine. The goals of the meeting were to encourage the application of an evolutionary perspective to pain research, to identify pain-related questions having important evolutionary considerations, and to highlight advances in our understanding of the evolution of pain. More information on the schedule of talks is available below. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place. Meeting papers can be found in a themed issue of Philosophical Transactions B. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Scientific Meeting

Big data for better science: technologies for measuring behaviour

Science+ meeting organised by Professor Sophie von Stumm

04 - 05 February 2019

02/04/2019

02/05/2019

This meeting gave behavioural scientists the chance to learn about the latest research technologies for collecting 'big' high-quality data. Data scientists and technology experts explained the latest developments, challenges and benefits of research technology in a series of cutting-edge talks. Attendees also had the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with various research technology tools during interactive showcase sessions. The schedule of talks is available below. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place. This meeting is kindly supported by the Jacobs Foundation. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

The past is a foreign country: how much can the fossil record actually inform conservation?

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Samuel Turvey and Professor Erin Saupe.

28 - 29 January 2019

01/28/2019

01/29/2019

This meeting brought together researchers from the fields of deep-time palaeontology, Quaternary science, historical ecology, and conservation biology to provide expert-based interdisciplinary assessment of the potential opportunities for using different long-term biodiversity archives to inform conservation and environmental management, and critical evaluation of the potential limitations of using past data to understand the present and predict the future. Audio recordings talks (where permitted by the speaker) can be found in the programme at the bottom of this page. Each recording can be found underneath its corresponding abstract. An accompanying journal issue for this meeting was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Itcan be found here. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Advances in hydrogen molecular ions: H3+, H5+ and beyond

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Jonathan Tennyson FRS, Professor Benjamin McCall, and Professor Steven Miller. 

21 - 22 January 2019

01/21/2019

01/22/2019

This meeting highlighted recent developments in theoretical, laboratory and astronomical studies of the molecular ion H3+and its hydrogenated cousin H5+ These developments include the first models of H5+, high-resolution studies of H3+deuterated isotopologues, ultra-cold chemistry studies, new chemical models of the Galactic Centre, and data from the space missions Cassini (Saturn) and JUNO (Jupiter). An accompanying journal issue for this meeting was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.   Enquiries: Contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Developing new approaches for the single cell manipulations and experimentation

Satellite meeting organised by Professor Thomas Richards, Dr Ramon Massana and Professor Neil Hall

12 - 13 December 2018

12/12/2018

12/13/2018

Single cell approaches are changing how we study many biological problems. This meeting will bring together biophysicists, molecular biologists and microbial ecologists who are using these technologies to understand the natural world. The aim of this satellite meeting is to report progress, identify areas for synergy and lay down the foundations for further developing this interdisciplinary science. The speaker biographies and abstracts are below. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place.   Enquires: Contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Single cell ecology

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Thomas Richards, Dr Ramon Massana and Professor Neil Hall

10 - 11 December 2018

12/10/2018

12/11/2018

Interdisciplinary meeting to explore the use of single cell technologies to understand the function, diversity and interactions of microbes. By bringing together physicists who manipulate cells, microbiologists who seek to understand the nature of microbial communities and genomicists who are developing new approaches to study individual cells we will achieve a greater understanding of the potential of this new field. The speaker biographies abstracts are below. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place. Meeting papers will be published in Philosophical Transactions B. Enquiries: Contact the Scientific Programmes team.

London

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Scientific Meeting

Integrated control of cerebral blood flow

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Professor Stephen Payne, Dr Clare Howarth, Professor Daniel Bulte and Professor Shieak Tzeng

03 - 04 December 2018

12/03/2018

12/04/2018

The brain regulates cerebral blood flow very tightly to provide a sufficient and continuous supply of oxygen and glucose. It thus has to respond to many different challenges, which have traditionally been considered largely separately. In this meeting we aimed to move towards an integrated approach to understanding cerebral blood flow control and to explore its important clinical implications. The schedule of talks and speaker abstracts and biographies are below. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place. This was a residential conference, which allows for increased discussion and networking. Attending this event This event has taken place.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Networking event for Industry Fellows and Entrepreneurs in Residence

Friday 23 November 2018

11/23/2018

11/23/2018

This Industry Fellows College networking event takes place at the Royal Society on 23 November from 9am-5pm. This conference will address cross-sector collaborations by bringing together past and current holders of a Royal Society Industry Fellowship and their collaborators. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss issues and successes, and hear about the wider work of the Society. Training courses will also be offered to participants. This year saw the return of the Royal Society Industry summer placement programme, with students completing a placement with an Industry Fellow. We will be joined at this event by our summer students, who will present their work. New to the College will also be the Entrepreneurs in Residence who were announced in March and will be spending 20% of their time in collaborating universities helping to commercialise research and adapt courses to reflect skills needed within industry. As well as past and current Industry Fellows, there will be a limited number of places at this event for others interested in the relationship between industry and academia. If you would like to attend, please email industry@royalsociety.org with a short explanation as to why you are interested in attending.

London

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Computing Education - 1 year on

Tuesday 20 November 2018

11/20/2018

11/20/2018

One year on from the Royal Society’s report on computing education 'After the reboot', the Royal Society, alongside the Digital Skills Partnership, hosted an event to discuss how the landscape has changed, and what more there is to do. The aim was to look back on the progress made since the publication of the report, as well as looking forward to explore how businesses can support the new National Centre for Computing Education and how industry can best support computing in schools, in particular. Over 70 business representatives attended and confirmed the interest and commitment of businesses to provide support for computing education. The day ended with a ‘Call to Action’ outlining the types of support needed and how organisations can direct their efforts to provide maximum impact. Professor Simon Peyton-Jones has produced a blog reflection on the day, which can be read here.

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Serpentinite in the Earth System

Scientific Discussion meeting organised by Dr Andrew McCaig, Professor Peter Kelemen, Professor Gretchen Früh-Green and Professor Damon Teagle

19 - 20 November 2018

11/19/2018

11/20/2018

This meeting will bring together international scientists working on all aspects of serpentinisation, a process that may have been important for the origin of life on Earth and perhaps other planets. Serpentine is also a key carrier of water to depth in subduction zones, leading to intermediate depth earthquakes and the formation of island arc volcanoes. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place. Attending the event This meeting has taken place.  Enquiries: Contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Attention to sound

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Dr Alain de Cheveigné, Professor Maria Chait and Dr Malcolm Slaney.

14 - 15 November 2018

11/14/2018

11/15/2018

Some sounds are safe to ignore, others require attention. New paradigms and analysis techniques are emerging that enhance our understanding of how the auditory brain makes this choice, and pave the way for novel applications such as the cognitive control of a hearing aid. We gathered neuroscientists, experts in brain signal encoding, and people involved in developing and marketing devices. The schedule of talks and speaker abstracts and biographies are below. Recorded audio of the presentations is also available below. Attendance of invited discussants supported by H2020 project COCOHA. Confirmed invited discussants include: Dr Aurélie Bidet-Caulet, Lyon Neuroscience Research Centre, France Dr Jennifer Bizley, University College London, UK Dr Gregory Ciccarelli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, USA Professor Maarten De Vos, University of Oxford, UK Professor Fred Dick, Birkbeck University of London and University College London, UK Professor Tom Francart, KU Leuven, Belgium Dr Jens Hjortkjær, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Dr Christophe Micheyl, Starkey France, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center and Ecole Normale Supérieure, France Professor Lucas Parra, The City College of New York, USA Dr Tobias Reichenbach, Imperial College London, UK Attending this event This event has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Beyond Challenger: a new age of deep-sea science and exploration

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Dr Kerry Howell, Professor Paul Tyler, Dr Alan Jamieson and Dr Bhavani Narayanaswamy

12 - 13 November 2018

11/12/2018

11/13/2018

The deep-sea is the largest ecosystem on earth covering 60% of the planet’s surface. However, our fundamental knowledge of this ecosystem has been limited by the logistical challenges of conducting research in this environment. This meeting explored how recent developments in autonomous and robotic technologies could bring about a step-change in deep-sea research, ultimately revolutionising understanding of global biodiversity. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page soon. Enquiries: Contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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SiC quantum spintronics: towards quantum devices in a technological material

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Dr Cristian Bonato, Professor Joerg Wrachtrup and Dr Sang-Yun Lee.

05 - 06 November 2018

11/05/2018

11/06/2018

Recent research has shown that spin-active colour centres in silicon carbide (SiC) are a promising system for quantum technology. In contrast to similar platforms, such as diamond, SiC is an industrially-mature material for micro-electronics, opening exciting prospects for integrated quantum devices. This symposium will interface leading academic and industrial researchers to discuss the potential of SiC-based quantum devices. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page within one month after the meeting has taken place. Attending this event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Diversity Conference 2018: Achieving diverse leadership in a research environment

Thursday 01 November 2018

11/01/2018

11/01/2018

The Royal Society is committed to increasing diversity in STEM by seeking out participation from under-represented groups, in order to build and develop a world in which studying and working in science are open to all. This year’s conference will explore barriers to diverse leadership in STEM and how the research community can work together to overcome them. Our 2018 conference brings you high-profile speakers from STEM academia and industry who will share their expertise in creating inclusive leadership teams and overcoming barriers to success. Highlights include Professor Michelle Ryan exploring why the precarious ‘glass cliff’ makes it harder for under-represented groups to achieve their leadership ambitions, and an afternoon address by Court of Appeal judge and Chairman of the Judicial College, Lady Justice Rafferty. Panel discussions will bring together experts from across AI, chemistry, engineering and other fields to discuss barriers to diverse leadership, such as gender pay gaps and research funding decisions, and delegates will be able to share their own ideas on solutions to these barriers at roundtable discussions. Our eminent speakers will also be sharing their views on how the scientific community can better support under-represented groups into leadership roles. The conference will be of particular interest to the research community, scientists, diversity practitioners, learned academies and societies, professional bodies and policy-makers.

London

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Conference

Research culture: Changing expectations

This event is now full. Research culture: Changing expectations will bring together intertwined debates around research assessment, career progression, researcher development, research dissemination and research…

29 - 30 October 2018

10/29/2018

10/30/2018

This landmark event, compèred by Professor Mark Miodownik FREng, will give attendees the opportunity to think creatively about how the culture of research can be different, to share and build on best practice across the sector, and develop new networks with individuals across the research landscape. Across the two days attendees will be invited to explore how the system and the behaviours of individuals in it can help to catalyse change. The conference will be the culmination of the Royal Society's two year programme on research culture. The Pitch: ideas to positively change research culture This competition is an exclusive opportunity to pitch an idea or scheme to improve research culture in the UK and potentially receive a small grant to support its implementation. Submitted ideas will be shortlisted and the groups or individuals behind the top three will be invited to pitch them on stage at the Research culture: Changing expectations event. A panel of judges will challenge and probe the pitches before deciding whether to award a small grant to support its implementation. Entries to the competition are now closed. Full details can be found here. Confirmed speakers include: Professor Jim Al-Khalili OBE FRS (theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster) Dr Eugenia Cheng (Scientist In Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago) Dr Margaret Heffernan (author of Beyond Measure: the big impact of small changes) Sir John Kingman FRS, (Chair, UKRI) Liz Nicholl CBE (Chief Executive, UK Sport) Professor Venki Ramakrishnan PRS Dr Adam Rutherford (presenter of BBC's Inside Science) Robert-Jan Smits (Open Access Envoy of the European Commission) Dr Magdalena Skipper (Editor in Chief, Nature) Dame Julia Slingo FRS David Sweeney (Executive Chair, Research England) Sir Mark Walport FRS (Chief Executive, UKRI) Programme Download the full programme here. Attending the event Research culture: Changing expectations is now fully subscribed The event will be livestreamed. Catch up: Monday 29 October YouTube link Tuesday 30 October YouTube link For all enquiries, please contact frances.downey@royalsociety.org

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X-ray astronomy and fundamental physics

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Professor Joseph Conlon, Dr David Marsh and Dr Helen Russell.

24 - 25 October 2018

10/24/2018

10/25/2018

The use of X-ray astronomy for fundamental physics has been seen in two areas; dark matter through the 3.5 keV line, and in searches for axion-like particles. In advance of satellite technological leaps, this meeting brought together astronomy and particle physics communities with a focus on the ability of existing and future X-ray observatories to search for and constrain fundamental physics. It explored the opportunities open to astronomers to probe fundamental physics with both existing archival data and also with future satellites such as ATHENA.  The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place. Enquiries: Contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Transforming Our Future

Delivering novel therapies in the 21st century

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24 - 25 October 2018

10/24/2018

10/25/2018

Delivering novel therapies in the 21st century is a two-day conference held by the Royal Society and Academy of Medical Sciences FORUM. Speakers will discuss recent scientific advances in therapeutic modalities and delivery. The meeting will also explore the infrastructure required to develop novel treatments and implications of these advances for policy and healthcare. Developments in areas including new immunotherapies, affinity reagents, bioelectronics, gene therapy and nanoparticle delivery will be considered within the broader context of personalised medicine, technology and data, regulation, value, access and care delivery. Attending this event This open event is free to attend and is intended for those with an interest in the life sciences sector, from a variety of backgrounds including academia, industry, government, the NHS, as well as regulatory, charitable and other scientific bodies. Contact the Industry team for more information. About the conference series This meeting forms part of the Royal Society’s Transforming our Future series, and the Academy of Medical Sciences’ FORUM programme. The Transforming our Future meetings are unique, high-level events that address scientific and technical challenges of the next decade and bring together leading experts from wider scientific community, industry, government and charities. The Academy’s FORUM programme brings together industry, academia and the NHS, and the charity, regulatory and wider healthcare sectors. It provides an independent platform to bring together leaders from across the life sciences sector to discuss scientific opportunities, technology trends, translational challenges and strategic choices in healthcare.

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Scientific Meeting

Bridging senses: new developments in synaesthesia

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Simon E Fisher and Dr Amanda Tilot.

22 - 23 October 2018

10/22/2018

10/23/2018

Experts from cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and genetics joined to discuss the phenomenon of synaesthesia based on findings from major multi-year initiatives, including the first genome-wide investigations of the trait. For a research area that lacks a recurring scientific meeting, this was a rare opportunity to determine how emerging results can shape our field and build interdisciplinary collaborations. The schedule of talks and speaker abstracts and biographies are available below. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page soon. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions B. Enquires: Contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Srinivasa Ramanujan: in celebration of the centenary of his election as FRS

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Ken Ono, Professor George E Andrews, Professor Manjul Bhargava and Professor Robert C Vaughan FRS.

15 - 16 October 2018

10/15/2018

10/16/2018

This meeting is a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Ramanujan’s election as FRS. Distinguished scientists will speak on Ramanujan’s mathematics and its extraordinary legacy across many fields: Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics. The emphasis will be on recent, cutting edge research. The primary goal is to have leaders from these four important threads interact, share ideas, and develop cross-disciplinary collaborations. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Recorded audio of the presentations are available on this page. Attending this event This meeting has taken place.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Synthetic glycobiology

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Professor Bruce Turnbull, Dr Anne Imberty and Professor Ola Blixt.

08 - 09 October 2018

10/08/2018

10/09/2018

Cell surface carbohydrates mediate diverse biological processes including fertilisation, inflammation and invasion by pathogens. Our understanding of glycobiology has advanced remarkably over recent years, raising the prospect of applying the methods of synthetic biology to reengineer these systems for new and useful purposes. This meeting will bring together chemists, biologists and physicists to define the emerging field of synthetic glycobiology. The schedule of talks and speaker abstracts and biographies are available below. Recorded audio of the presentations is also available below. An accompanying journal issue for this meeting was published in Interface Focus. Attending this event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Transforming Our Future

The microbiome: human medicine and agriculture in a microbial world

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Friday 05 October 2018

10/05/2018

10/05/2018

This one-day conference held by the Royal Society will bring together experts from both agricultural and human microbiome sectors to discuss the barriers to technology translation and common principles across both sectors. Speakers will discuss the challenges in determining microbiota through to the dynamic forces determining colony structures. The meeting will also explore intentional modulation of microbial populations to develop medical therapeutics and improvements in agricultural productivity, covering technical challenges in determining causation and methods to drive the technology forward. Attending this event This open event is free to attend and is intended for those with an interest in the life sciences sector, from a variety of backgrounds including academia, industry, government, as well as regulatory, charitable and other scientific bodies. Contact the Industry team for more information. About the conference series This meeting forms part of the Royal Society’s Transforming our Future series. The meetings are unique, high-level events that address scientific and technical challenges of the next decade and bring together leading experts from wider scientific community, industry, government and charities.

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Prize Lecture

Royal Society Africa Prize Seminar 2018

Royal Society Africa Prize Seminar 2018 with Dr Dorothy Yeboah-Manu

Monday 01 October 2018

10/01/2018

10/01/2018

The Royal Society Africa Prize recognises research scientists based in Africa who are making an innovative contribution to the biological sciences, including basic medical science, which contributes significantly to capacity building in Africa. The Royal Society Africa Prize 2018 is awarded to Dr Dorothy Yeboah-Manu for her contributions and innovative approaches to understanding Mycobacterium ulcerans and Mycobacterium africanum, combining microbiology, genetic studies and epidemiology in the areas of her work. This afternoon seminar, held as part of the Prize, celebrated Dr Yeboah-Manu's work and explored related research. The seminar was chaired by Sir Brian Greenwood CBE FMedSci FRS, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. The audio recording of the seminar talks and discussion is available on this page. For all enquiries please contact the Events team.

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Scientific Meeting

Multi-resolution simulations of intracellular processes

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Professor Radek Erban, Dr Sarah Harris and Dr Raffaello Potestio.

24 - 25 September 2018

09/24/2018

09/25/2018

Multi-resolution methods for spatio-temporal modelling of intracellular processes have potential to bridge the gap between all-atom molecular dynamics simulations and stochastic reaction-diffusion models in the macroscopic limit. This scientific meeting brought together mathematicians, biophysicists and computational biologists to discuss the development of new multi-resolution methods, the analysis of their accuracy, convergence and efficiency, and biological applications. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Materials challenges for sustainable energy technologies

Satellite meeting organised by Professor Saiful Islam, Professor Peter Bruce FRS, Professor Richard Catlow FRS, Professor Jenny Nelson FRS

19 - 20 September 2018

09/19/2018

09/20/2018

This meeting focused on the challenges posed by battery, fuel cell, solar and thermoelectric technologies and aimed to identify the specific needs in terms of materials development for these technologies to have wider spread deployment. It explored our current individual technologies, and set the priorities for research in materials for energy technologies in the coming decades. Download a one page summary of the satellite meeting talk schedule (PDF). The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are below. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place.  Enquiries: Contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Scientific Meeting

Energy materials for a low carbon future

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Saiful Islam, Professor Peter Bruce FRS, Professor Richard Catlow FRS, Professor Jenny Nelson FRS

17 - 18 September 2018

09/17/2018

09/18/2018

The provision of clean sustainable energy is one of the greatest challenges of our time. New low carbon technologies for energy conversion and storage require fundamental advances in the science of energy materials. This meeting brought together world-renowned experts in the field including batteries, solar power and fuel cells, and aimed at setting the agenda for future energy materials research. Download a one page summary of the discussion meeting talk schedule (PDF). The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are below. An accompanying journal issue for this meeting was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.  Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Creating Connections

Creating connections in the North East

06 - 07 September 2018

09/06/2018

09/07/2018

This Creating connections conference will address important issues connected to science and industry in the North East. Through a series of workshops and round-table discussions it will bring together leading scientists and experts from industry, academia, and local government to share their perspectives on supporting R&D in the North East and the region’s role in driving UK innovation and prosperity. The meeting will consist of six sessions over two days. The workshops on Friday 7 September at the Centre for Life are on the themes of the UK Government's industrial strategy and 2.4% target for R&D investment, education and skills, dynamics of data science, and research culture. All participants will have the opportunity to network during breaks, explore the exhibition space, hear a keynote presentation from Chi Onwurah MP (Newcastle upon Tyne Central; Shadow Minister for Industrial Strategy), and learn about the work of the Royal Society. Further details are included in the agenda below. This event is free to attend by invitation only, if you would like to request an invitation to a session please use the session-specific contact information provided in the agenda below, with a short explanation about your interest. Please note places are limited. For general enquiries please contact the industry team.

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Scientific Meeting

New technologies in cancer mechanobiology

Satellite meeting organised by Dr Chris Bakal and Dr Julia Sero

20 - 21 June 2018

06/20/2018

06/21/2018

The development of new technologies has long been a driving force in the study of mechanobiology. This workshop will bring together an interdisciplinary group of early to senior level researchers to discuss cutting-edge in vivo, in vitro, and in silico techniques and how these methods can be applied to cancer research, diagnostics, and therapeutics. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place. The speaker biographies and abstracts are available below.  Enquires: Contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Scientific Meeting

Forces in cancer: interdisciplinary approaches in tumour mechanobiology

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Dr Chris Bakal and Dr Julia Sero

18 - 19 June 2018

06/18/2018

06/19/2018

In the last decade, research from diverse fields has converged to establish a fundamental concept: that physical forces play key roles in both the initiation and progression of cancer. This meeting will bring together an interdisciplinary group of pioneering scientists tackling cancer mechanobiology from many angles to present the latest developments in the field. The speaker biographies and talk abstracts are available below. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place. Meeting papers are now published in Philosophical Transactions B. Enquiries: Contact the Scientific Programmes team.

London

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Scientific Meeting

Quantum integrability and quantum Schubert calculus

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Dr Christian Korff and Professor Vassily Gorbounov.

11 - 13 June 2018

06/11/2018

06/13/2018

There is a new direction in Schubert calculus, which links the Yang-Baxter equation, the central equation in quantum integrable systems, to problems in representation theory that have their origin in enumerative geometry. This will be a cross-disciplinary meeting that brings together researchers of different career stages and from different areas in mathematics for a mix of talks and focused discussion rounds. The speaker abstracts and biographies can be found below. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Industry Fellows College networking event

Friday 08 June 2018

06/08/2018

06/08/2018

A networking meeting organised by the Industry Fellows College. The program focuses on introducing new members of the college through presentations, tours, discussions and networking.  Located within the Warwick Manufacturing Group at the University of Warwick, delegates will gain the opportunity to make new contacts, contribute to discussions on getting the most out of their collaborations and projects, and learn about the new facilities available at WMG.  Attending this event As well as new and current Industry Fellows, there will be a limited numbers of places at this event for others interested in the relationship between industry and academia. If you would like to attend, please email industry@royalsociety.org with a short explanation as to why you are interested in the event As places are limited, we cannot guarantee that there will be a space available.

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Scientific Meeting

Directions in particle beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Professor Bernhard Hidding, Dr Mark Hogan, Professor Patric Muggli, Professor James Rosenzweig and Professor Brian Foster OBE FRS.

04 - 05 June 2018

06/04/2018

06/05/2018

Electric fields in plasmas waves, driven by relativistic particle beams, can accelerate particles to tens of Giga-electron-volt energies on metre-scale distances. Recent conceptual and experimental breakthroughs have ushered in a worldwide effort which may be transformative for accelerators and their applications for natural, life and material sciences. This meeting discussed emerging trends and prospects of this new kind of compact accelerators. Speaker abstracts and biographies can be found below. Recorded audio of the presentations can also be found below. Meeting papers have been published a volume of Philosophical Transactions A. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Macropinocytosis in physiology, disease and therapy

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Dr Jason King and Professor Joel Swanson.

21 - 22 May 2018

05/21/2018

05/22/2018

The engulfment of extracellular solutes or particles by macropinocytosis is an important process with newly appreciated significance for fundamental cell biology, cancer, infectious diseases and therapeutics. This first-of-its-kind meeting devoted to macropinocytosis will bring together experts from disparate fields with a shared interest in the biology of macropinosome formation and trafficking, with the goal of fostering collaboration and building a community. Speaker abstracts and biographies can be found below. Recorded audio of the presentations is also available below. An accompanying journal issue for this meeting was published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Attending this event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Cosmic-ray muography

Theo Murphy international meeting organised by Dr David Mahon, Professor Ralf Kaiser, Professor David Ireland, Dr Craig Shearer and Professor Raffaello D’Alessandro.

14 - 15 May 2018

05/14/2018

05/15/2018

The innovative imaging technique of muography uses naturally-occurring background radiation in the form of cosmic-ray muons to characterise a diverse range of complex structures that cannot be imaged using conventional techniques. Research interest in muography is at an all-time high and this proposed meeting aims to unite the global community, encourage international collaboration and engage industry via dedicated user-led sessions. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Attending this event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Sexual selection: patterns in the history of life

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Dr Rob Knell, Dr Dave Hone and Professor Doug Emlen

09 - 10 May 2018

05/09/2018

05/10/2018

Sexual selection is potentially an important driver of macroevolutionary processes like speciation and extinction, but this has rarely been tested using the fossil record. This meeting will bring biologists and palaeontologists together to discuss sexual selection’s role in macroevolution, how to detect it in extinct animals and how to measure its influence on the history of life across geological time. The speaker abstracts and biographies are available below. Recorded audio of the presentation will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place.  Enquiries: Contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Scientific Meeting

The transformative potential of data and image analysis for eye care

Science+ meeting organised by Professor Emanuele Trucco, Professor Caroline MacEwen, Professor Paul Foster and Professor Tunde Peto.

23 - 24 April 2018

04/23/2018

04/24/2018

A Science+ interdisciplinary meeting that captured scientific and translational needs and opportunities for eye care research within data and image analysis, including harnessing the potential of the eye as a source of biomarkers for systemic conditions. The meeting brought together scientists and clinicians, including those from the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and the College of Optometrists. More information on the speakers and programme is available below. Recorded audio of the presentations is also available below. Attending the event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Frontiers of chemical dynamics

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Professor David Manolopoulos FRS, Professor Stuart Mackenzie and Professor Claire Vallance.

18 - 19 April 2018

04/18/2018

04/19/2018

Chemical dynamics is undergoing a transformation in which experimental and theoretical techniques developed for the study of elementary gas phase processes are increasingly being adapted and applied to the dynamics of more complex systems. This meeting brought together leading experimentalists and theoreticians from around the world to discuss this transformation and explore the wealth of exciting new directions it is opening up for us. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies and talk abstracts are available below. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Fusion energy using tokamaks: can development be accelerated?

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Colin Windsor FRS, Professor Dennis Whyte, Dr Jack Connor FRS, Dr Melanie Windridge and Professor Guenter Janeschitz.

26 - 27 March 2018

03/26/2018

03/27/2018

Fusion power is one of the few options for abundant, safe, carbon-free energy. Steady progress has been made using tokamaks, but the flagship ITER remains years ahead. It is time for a discussion on whether new technologies, techniques and materials, such as high temperature superconductors, spherical tokamaks and composite materials could lead to faster development. The schedule of talks and speaker biographies are available below. Recorded audio of the presentations is also available below. An accompanying journal issue for this meeting was published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Attending this event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes Team

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Scientific Meeting

Computation by natural systems

21 - 22 March 2018

03/21/2018

03/22/2018

Theo Murphy scientific meeting organised by Dr Dominique Chu, Professor Christian Ray and Professor Mikhail Prokopenko Over recent years it has become clear in various sciences that many natural systems perform computations. Research into the properties of these natural computers remains fragmented along disciplinary boundaries between computer science, physics, engineering and biology. The objective of this meeting was to overcome this fragmentation by bringing together researchers from different fields to discuss their latest finding on natural computation. Enquiries: please contact the Scientific Programmes team

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Scientific Meeting

Earth dynamics and the development of plate tectonics

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Chris Hawkesworth FRS, Professor Michael Brown, Professor Mary Fowler and Professor Jeroen van Hunen.

19 - 20 March 2018

03/19/2018

03/20/2018

"Why does Earth have plate tectonics?" stands among the top research questions in the Earth Sciences. Plate tectonics developed in the last 4 billion years. This meeting will explore the evidence for the development of plate tectonics, contrast the terrestrial record with those from neighbouring planets, evaluate the conditions required for plate tectonics, and discuss implications for environmental conditions and development of the biosphere Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page shortly. Meeting papers will be published in a future volume of Philosophical Transactions A. 

London

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Conference

The CRISPR revolution: Changing life

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Wednesday 07 March 2018

03/07/2018

03/07/2018

The CRISPR revolution: Changing life will bring together experts from industry, academia and government to discuss the current state-of-the art in the use of the CRISPR/Cas9 system to understand biological pathways, to create cellular and animal models of disease, to develop improved agricultural crops and farm animals and to create new human therapies to correct somatic gene defects that lead to disease. Following rapid advances in the research laboratory the field is beginning to witness the first commercial applications of CRISPR/Cas9. This meeting will address the technical, regulatory and ethical challenges associated with the commercialisation of CRISPR modified crop and animal species, and with the development of novel gene therapies created through the use of genome editing technologies. See the programme below. Attending this event This open event is intended for participants from industry, academia and government who have an interest in genome editing. Contact the Industry team for more information. About the conference series The conference is part of the Royal Society's Transforming our future conferences in the life sciences, supported by AstraZeneca. This conference series was launched to address the major scientific and technical challenges of the next decade and beyond. Each conference will focus on one topic and will seek to cover key issues, including: The current state of the key industry sectors involved The position of the UK and how it can benefit from the technology The future direction of research The challenges faced in turning research into commercial success The skills base needed to deliver major economic scientific advances The wider social and economic impacts The conferences are a key component of the Society’s five-year Science, Industry and Translation initiative which demonstrates our commitment to reintegrate science and industry at the Society and to promote science and its value by connecting academia, industry and government.

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Scientific Meeting

Changing views of translation: from ribosome profiling to high resolution imaging of single molecules in vivo

Theo Murphy International scientific meeting organised by Professor Colin Smith, Dr Isabella Moll and Professor Byung-Kwan Cho.

05 - 06 March 2018

03/05/2018

03/06/2018

Our understanding of protein synthesis in living systems is being transformed as a result of breathtaking recent developments in methods for measuring the dynamics of translation, genome-wide at nucleotide resolution, and in imaging techniques to visualise translation of single mRNA molecules. This meeting will bring together leading scientists from both research areas to review progress and explore collaborative opportunities. Speaker biographies and abstracts are available below. Recorded audio of the presentations is also available below. Attending this event This meeting has taken place. Enquiries: Contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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Industry Fellows College networking event

Tuesday 27 February 2018

02/27/2018

02/27/2018

A networking meeting organised by the Industry Fellows College. The program focuses on introducing new members of the college through presentations and networking time.  Located at the Sci-Tech Daresbury campus, delegates will gain the opportunity to experience the facilities and equipment at the Liverpool Virtual Engineering Centre, a leading digital technology innovation centre. The VEC has several advanced laboratories that research virtual engineering simulation, robotics and autonomous systems, virtual reality and haptic simulation. Attending this event As well as new and current Industry Fellows, there will be a limited number of places at this event for others interested in the relationship between industry and academia.  If you would like to attend, please email industry@royalsociety.org with a short explanation as to why you are interested in the event.  As places are limited, we cannot guarantee that there will be a space available.

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Scientific Meeting

The artificial cell: biology-inspired compartmentalisation of chemical function

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Barbara Ciani, Dr Paul Beales and Professor Stephen Mann FRS

26 - 27 February 2018

02/26/2018

02/27/2018

This meeting brings together life and physical scientists to explore mechanisms of biological compartmentalisation and how these principles can be harnessed to develop smart technologies. We will address how repurposing of biological and synthetic components can be used to create artificial cells for development in areas such as fuel production, drug delivery and environmental remediation.  Speaker biographies and talk abstracts are available below. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Interface Focus. Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.

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