Wednesday 22 June 2016, 19.00, Anglia Ruskin University
Announcing the next Institute of Physics (IOP) and CSES talk on the subject of Physics and the Electric Guitar with Nick Weaver.
Please see our events page for all the details.
Sat 14 – Fri 27 May 2016, Marconi Hall Street Works
As the hugely successful Building the Wireless Age exhibition continues, we are pleased to announce that the following events have been added to the programme:
- Sat 14 – Sun 15 May: Come and make a radio with CSES
- Fri 20 May: Amazing Ada: The Countess of Computers with Heidi Hards
- Fri 27 May: Riding the Radio Waves with Jane Humhpreys
These events all require booking: please follow the links above for more information.
Read more: Build a radio workshop and new talks added to Marconi programme
Thursday 5 May 2016, 19.00, Marconi Hall Street Works
Professor Danielle George, probably best known for presenting The Royal Institution 2014 Christmas Lectures, will give a talk about the impact of Marconi on the world of Radio Astronomy and the new age of instrumentation: The Square Kilometer Array (SKA).
Places are limited: book now!
Read more: Marconi and the Invisible Universe with Professor Danielle George
Hall Street, Open 11 March to 29 May 2016, every Saturday and Sunday 11am-3pm, FREE ENTRY
To celebrate the history and legacy of Marconi and the Marconi Company in Chelmsford, a free commemorative event entitled Marconi: Building the Wireless Age will be hosted over a period of three months in the original Grade II listed Marconi Factory in Hall Street prior to its conversion into residential and commercial units.
CSES will be running hands-on Science and Engineering activities and a series of talks have been organised (pre-booking is required).
Archival material from a variety of sources will be showcased, in many cases for the first time. Contributors include The International Marconi Museum in Bologna, The Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, the Essex Records Office, Chelmsford Museums and several private collections. Local families with their own small collections of Marconi-related memorabilia have also contributed.
Read more: Building the Wireless Age: A Unique Marconi Exhibition
CSES Presidential Dinner, Thursday 28 April 2016, 7.00 for 7.30 pm, The Warren Golf & Country Club
We are pleased to welcome members and their guests to our 2016 President's Dinner, and are now accepting bookings.
With a great menu and our speaker Professor David Humber (Provost of Anglia Ruskin University's Chelmsford Campus) due to deliver a talk intriguingly entitled Infectious diseases I'd rather not catch again!, this promises to be an excellent evening.
Videos of two of our most high-profile lectures are now available exclusively to CSES members.
We have uploaded the recordings of the following events:
- Making Waves: How Marconi's Wireless Legacy Takes us Ever Further Into Space (an exciting and well-attended talk by Marconi's grandson himself, Professor Francesco Paresce Marconi)
- Birth of the Signalling War: The Marconi Company's key role in WW1 (by the renowned Dr Elizabeth Bruton, a world-leading expert on the history of the Marconi Company, who gave a special talk in Chelmsford on this very subject)
If you are not yet a member, visit our membership section to find out how to join or register.
We are very pleased to release the coming season's lecture programme, organised in partnership with the IET, IMechE and IOP.
Please see our Events section for this year's programme.
Do keep an eye our here on the website for other events to be added soon, including the 2016 Schools' Engineering and Technology Competition.
This year the Chelmsford Civic Society is co-ordinating the Heritage Open Days on behalf of the City Council. These take place between Thursday the 10th and Sunday the 13th of September. Nationally the Heritage Open Days is managed by the National Trust. Last year the sites that were open attracted over three million people. All events are free.
Read more: Heritage Open Days in Chelmsford: 10 - 13 September
A forward-thinking initiative from Essex County Council is helping plug the gap of highly-skilled workers in the science, technology and engineering sectors in Britain today.
Damning findings from a recent Confederation of British Industry report have revealed more than half of employers fear they will not be able to recruit enough high-skilled workers.
In an attempt to address this, four years ago (2011), Essex County Council launched the Education and Industry STEM programme to directly target shortages in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Read more: Essex businesses challenged to provide 500 experiences to highly-skilled youngsters
IOP/CSES lecture: Our Dynamic Sun, Wednesday 1 July 2015, Anglia Ruskin University
We are pleased to announce the addition of another lecture to our 2014/2015 programme, organised by the Institute of Physics (IOP).
The talk, by Dr Helen Mason from the University of Cambridge, review what we have learnt about the active Sun, in particular what we know (and don't yet know!) about solar active regions and flares, and how this solar activity affects the Earth's environment.
- New talk added to our programme: The Birth of the Signalling War
- Photos from our Raspberry Pi workshop now available
- 2014-2015 lecture series to include a talk by Marconi
- FES FutureNetwork 2014
- Café Scientifique: The Night Sky
- IOP lecture: Particle Physics
- The inaugural CSES Café Scientifique
- Heartbleed security update
- Obituary: David Speake
- Book now for the 2014 CSES Presidential Dinner