On 11 April 2018, a small group of CSES members were privileged to receive a guided tour of Lord Rayleigh's laboratory at Terling Place, which remains today largely as it was left in the 1940s.
Our thanks to Professor Edward Davies, University of Cambridge, for offering us this wonderful and rare opportunity.
For those who missed it, we will try to organise another tour in the future, with priority spaces offered to those on the waiting list from April.
Here are some photographs courtesy of Roy Hilsley and David Humber.
We are pleased to announce that we have set the dates for our social meals and drinks for the remainder of 2018.
Our members, and their guests, are very welcome to join us at the following events:
- Chinese buffet (Thursday 14 June) at San Chinese
- Curry (Thursday 18 October) at Balti King
- Christmas meal/drinks (Thursday 13 December) at Wetherspoon's
These are excellent opportunities for all members to meet, network and share an enjoyable evening. We particularly encourage new members to come along and meet their counterparts.
We are also organising at least one Café Scientifique event for later in the year: please watch this space!
We look forward to seeing you there.
Extraordinary General Meeting: Wed 16 May 2018, 19:00, Anglia Ruskin University
Members are hereby given notice that an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) will be held on Wednesday 16 May to ratify a new Constitution for the Society.
This implements the appointment of the elected Council as the Society trustees, as approved at the Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 22 November 2017.
Schools' Competition: Mon 25 June 2018, Marconi Building, Anglia Ruskin University
We are very pleased to announce that this year's CSES Schools' Engineering and Technology Competition is open for entries.
A reminder of the dates (both events at Anglia Ruskin University):
- The competition will take place on Monday 25 June 2018
- The awards evening will take place on Wednesday 11 July 2018
Please click here for full details and to enter the competition.
The deadline for entries will be Monday 18 June 2016, although please don’t wait for your project to be finished before entering. Spaces are available on a first-come-first-served basis.
If you have any questions, please contact us. We are happy to come into school and discuss or present if this would help.
We look forward to seeing you in June.
Engineering Advanced Prosthetics: Wed 28 Mar 2018, 19:30, Anglia Ruskin University
Tour of Lord Rayleigh's laboratory: Wed 11 Apr 2018, 14:00, Terling Place
We have been able to arrange a very rare opportunity to visit Terling Place and see Lord Rayleigh's original laboratory as he left it!
There will only be space for 23 visitors so please register using the link below. We will operate a waiting list so please do register your interest even if the quota is full. Further details will be provided to successful applicants.
Due to the limited capacity, this opportunity will only be open to CSES members and their guests, at least initially.
Click here to sign up if you're not yet a member.
We are also pleased to advise that a talk on Engineering Advanced Prosthetics has been added to our programme, courtesy of our partners the IMechE.
Nanotechnology: Why is small different, and useful? Thu 15 Mar 2018, Anglia Ruskin University
President's Dinner: Thu 19 Apr 2018, The Warren Golf and Country Club
We are pleased to advise that we are now taking bookings for our annual President's Dinner, to be held as usual in April. We do hope to see as many members as possible at this prestigious and enjoyable event.
We have also added a nanotechnology talk to our 2017/2018 programme: please add this to your diaries! Our thanks to our partners the Institute of Physics (IOP) for this.
As you may be aware, we offer videos of our talks and some other events to members via the website.
Unfortunately, we have a huge backlog of videos from past events still to be published as we (the Committee) currently don't have sufficient capacity to work through them!
We are looking for a video editor (or team of editors) who would enjoy:
- Creating standard title and closing graphics (idents).
- Editing videos as required and preparing them for upload.
- Bringing creative ideas to the process such as incorporation of speakers' slides where available.
- Anything else that you can think of, such as filming events in the future.
Thu 22 Feb 2018, 19:00, Balti King, Moulsham Street
Members are invited to join us for our now somewhat traditional New Year's Curry of 2018.
This is slightly later than usual as we have been working throughout January on a social programme for the whole year: please watch this space.
Please come along for an excellent meal with a 50% discount on all food!
We look forward to seeing you there.
Wed 16 May 2018, 09:00 departure from Civic Theatre
We are pleased to announce a social event organised by Chelmsford Civic Society, who will be taking a coach trip to Bletchley Park to see:
- The mansion
- The codebreaking huts
- Colossus, the world's first digital computer
- The National Museum of Computing
- The National Radio Centre
Smashing Physics: Thu 8 Feb 2018, Anglia Ruskin University
We have added a lecture to our 2017/2018 programme: please add this to your diaries! Our thanks to our partners the Institute of Physics (IOP) for this.
- Lecture and Christmas social added to programme
- My Smarter Essex: Braintree and Chelmsford
- Schools' Competition 2018: save the date...
- Welcome to the 2017-2018 season
- KEGS First Lego League
- Frinton-on-Sea Primary School STEM LEGO Club
- IET Faraday Challenge Day 2018
- 2017 Competition results
- Upcoming social: Sandford Mill museum and waterworks tour
- Upcoming social: Chinese buffet