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FREE ACTIVITIES AT CHELTENHAM SCIENCE FESTIVAL Come and explore the very latest research in the fantastic AREA 42! Open Friday – Sunday.

WHAT’S INSIDE? Meet KeJi the Festival Creature

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Can you Scan It?

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Meet the Super Scientists

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FOR CHILDREN:

FOR ADULTS: AREA 42 is the Science Festival’s special interactive zone for ages16+. Here you can get hands-on with experiments and technology, meet researchers from many different ﬁelds and ﬁnd out how their work will have an impact on your future. Teams exploring the very nature of the universe will be here to explain the Aurora, Quantum Physics and the UK’s role in the Large Hadron Collider. Take time to talk to a local research g group p who have developed

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technology that revolutionises the diagnosis of eye disease (including live retinal scanning) and to Swansea University researchers presenting the scum of the earth (better known as algae!) in their fascinating biofuel exhibit. How do we discover more about our most distant ancestors? This is the place to ask University of Leicester researchers. Philips UK brings together a showcase of interactive products to motivate us all to live healthy lives, whilst EADS Cassidian show how 3D gaming can be used to solve real life challenges.

The Discover Zone will be busier and more exciting than ever! Try code-cracking with GCHQ, see how high you can ﬁre an air rocket and play the amazing bubble piano with the team from Southampton University. And that’s just a tiny little taster of what’s happening on our 20-odd stalls! To get details of the full programme sign up for alerts at cheltenhamfestivals.com or join us on Facebook and Twitter.

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Build a green city of the future in the LEGO® Education Zone, meet presenters from some of your favourite BBC programmes in the BBC Science Zone, check out a replica Caterham Formula One car in the GE Pavilion... see festival map p10 & 11 for locations.

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What is the cultural value of science? Robert Winston (3.30pm) argues that science is an essential part of our culture and should be on an equal footing of the arts.

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Cheltenham Science Festival is launching its own series of bite-sized science lectures, with speakers including Robert Winston, Barry Marshall and Adam Hart set to appear.

What can we learn from ants and bees? Social insects have to cope with all sorts including housing shortages, waste management and feeding a growing population. Adam Hart (6.30pm) explains that their societies seem to run more efﬁciently than ours. So what sort of lessons, if any, can we learn from them?

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CHELTENHAM EDITIONS What damage can a stormy sun do? Pål Brekke (4pm) takes us on a multimedia exploration of one of the most amazing shows on Earth - the northern lights - but also explains how the cause – a stormy sun – is damaging to our technology-based society.

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Got 15 minutes to spare? Or just want a taster of all the exciting things happening at the festival? Cheltenham Science Festival is launching its own version of TED this June. Prepare to be challenged, surprised, provoked and be inspired… The talks will all be happening on Saturday 16th June in the ExperiTent, costing £2 per ticket in advance or £3 on the day. Don’t miss:

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Would you experiment on yourself? Barry Marshall did and it won him the Nobel Prize. He swallowed a bacterium to show it was the cause of stomach ulcers. It could have killed him, it didn’t and the research has saved countless lives. Come and hear Barry talk about selfexperimentation. Other speakers include Andrew Pontzen, Tom Whyntie, Lucie Greene, Mark Thomas and others who are still to be conﬁrmed. Visit us at cheltenhamfestivals.com/ cheltenhameditions or join us on Facebook and Twitter for line-up updates.

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I am delighted and honored to be a part of the Cheltenham Science Festival. My own research and understanding of Climate Change and how we might seek to mitigate its worst effects have given me opportunities to meet some truly remarkable (and some truly awful) people and I hope to get to know more of both of these types at the Festival — particularly at my ‘Marketing The Apocalypse’ event where we plan to sell the end of the world to you. It shouldn’t be any more difﬁcult than selling drinking water to a person who has a tap… I cannot wait to meet and seek to understand some of the great thinkers and researchers and provocateurs at this year’s bring-and-buy-knowledge, and hope to come away with enough half-remembered facts and alarming tit-bits of statistical miss-information to ruin almost any dinner party. I hope to see you there. Perhaps we’ll learn something even if it’s just how little we know.

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See Marcus’s events online: S48, S108, S124, S128, S139.

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In a climate of credit crunches and a worldwide recession satellite missions and space probes are going from strength to strength currently contributing $0.25 trillion to the global economy and expected to rise to $1 trillion in the next 10 years. We investigate how these missions are changing lives and our understanding of the universe. But what is the future of humans in Space? Is it still a game for governments or will commercial enterprise be the way of the future and which countries are leading the way? Can space tourism ever be cost effective? How long will it take for us to go back to the Moon, on to Mars and then beyond? Is the era of people in space dead?

See Maggie’s events online: S103, S109, S128, SF27.

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GROUND CONTROL TO MAJOR KEJI… Meet and talk to Cheltenham’s newest inhabitant, KeJi, at Cheltenham Science Festival this June. KeJi, whose name means ‘science and technology’ in Mandarin, has quite a mysterious background. Some believe KeJi fell from Asteroid 2012 EG5 on 1st April. The hunk of space rock, which was the size of a passenger jet, flew so close to the Earth that it actually flew under the moon as it hurtled past. Others claim KeJi is the result of experimentation with artificial intelligence in a secret Chinese laboratory during the ‘The China Brain Project’. What we do know is that KeJi is an artificially intelligent creature who communicates through tweets and SMS texts. KeJi maintains a symbiotic relationship with humans by synchronizing its heart with the average heart beat of the people with whom it interacts. The University of Plymouth has discovered that the way to keep its heart beating is to play their ‘Beatbounce’ game. The game takes your rest heart rate and creates an

ECG spiked diagram, which becomes the playing ﬁeld for the game. You then jump on a trampoline to control the game, and afterwards your activity pulse is taken. The average pulse becomes KeJi’s average pulse. KeJi has a big heart and gets lonely and upset when it has nobody to talk to so make sure you say hello. KeJi will be at during Cheltenham Science Festival from Friday 15th to Sunday 17th June. To talk to KeJi during this time SMS ‘talkkeji’ and ‘your question’ to 07766404142 or send a tweet to ‘@ talkkeji’. You can also visit KeJi in the festival space, or play the game KeJi has made for you in Imperial Gardens. KeJi will also be online at www.keji.co.uk The University of Plymouth will also be displaying examples of robots being developed by the University’s Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory, including the Robot Football Team who are the current world champions.

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CAN YOU SCAN IT? We have used a state-of-the-art MRI scanner to scan these fruits and vegetables… Can you guess what they are? Answers below.

Cheltenham Science Festival wants you to bring your own objects to Area 42 to scan and there will be a daily prize for the most interesting image produced.

Festival Director Mark Lythgoe said:

“Normally, MRI scanners are great big things that take up a whole room and are off limits to the public. But we’ve got access to a new table-top version which will allow us to scan lots of unusual objects quickly and easily. And we want you to play with it! Objects with high water content scan best, so think: fruits and veg, bottled pop.” BE WARNED THOUGH - do not bring any metallic objects as these get attracted to the magnets in the scanner and get stuck! Answers: 1. Carrot 2. Kumquat 3. Leek 4. Shallot

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is used to look at almost any part of the body. It is most often used to study the brain, the heart and blood vessels and internal organs. MRI scanners use powerful magnets that act on the water molecules inside these body tissues and then produce an image.

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CONSERVATION IN ACTION: SAVING THE SPOON-BILLED SANDPIPER The incredible spoon-billed sandpiper is hurtling towards extinction perhaps faster than any other bird species, with probably fewer than 100 pairs remaining and the population in freefall. Without urgent action, it will be gone within a decade.

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The spoon-billed sandpiper is one of the world’s rarest and most unusual birds. It is a small wading bird, barely larger than a sparrow, born with a spoon-shaped bill. Breeding in Chukotka, on coastal tundra in Russia’s Far East, and wintering 5,000 miles away in the tropics of South and South-East Asia, the spoon-billed sandpiper faces a multitude of threats, among them is hunting in Myanmar, Thailand and Bangladesh which is devastating the population of young birds, and the reclamation of migration-route stopover sites for farming and development. Spoon-billed sandpipers, and millions of other waterbirds, depend on large tidal areas like the Saemangeum in South Korea to rest and refuel on migration. Loss of these areas has contributed to a 90% decline in the species in just 10 years. In 2011, WWT and other groups completed an almost impossible mission to collect eggs from the few nests remaining at breeding grounds and transferred them safely to purpose-built facilities at Slimbridge. The 13 birds the team brought back are now all fully grown and thriving in their new quarters. CCTV cameras are beaming live footage of their every move to screens inside the Slimbridge visitor centre.

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WWT is planning to return to Chukotka to bring back more birds, establishing a safety net population that will buy precious time to tackle hunting and loss of habitat. Our aim is to build up the number of birds in captivity, ready for release into the wild in the future. But this isn’t just about one very cute little species. Rather, it is the tip of an iceberg. If we save the spoonbilled sandpiper we will be improving the survival chances of millions of birds. Support WWT’s fundraising appeal, visit www.wwt.org.uk/supportus/donate/spoonbilledsandpiper At Cheltenham: S4 SPOON-BILLED SANDPIPER: EMERGENCY RESCUE Tuesday 12th June, 2.45–3.45pm £7(£6) Also… S57 THE ECOSYSTEMS REVOLUTION: WETLANDS AND WATER QUALITY Thursday 14th June, 8–9pm £9(£8) After all the other revolutions that have shaped our world, Mark Everard sets forth the Ecosystems Revolution: we must rebalance the interests of humans and wildlife so that we can all survive together. He’s joined by Rob Shore, from the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge.

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The solutions to the biggest issues that we face are often en only found throu through h working together, sharing experience and learning from m leaders. One forum where this has been immensely successful has been Commercial’s ommercial’s CSR Day, held ld every year for the past five in Cheltenham and d attracti attracting g over 1000 busine business leaders. or Mar Combining insights from leading expertss like climate scientis scientist Professor Mark entary maker Franny Armstrong ong an Maslin, thought leaders such as documentary and nt D nks, the CSR inspirational businesses including Markss & Spencer and Inno Innocent Drinks, uality wi Day has been described by attendees as “inspirational” and “aa day of quality with a spirit of ‘can do’”. 2012 sees a partnership between Commercial and Cheltenham bring heltenham Festivals brin together the two events so that the CSR Day will be part of the “Glastonbury of Science” that is the Science Festival. June 14th sees the first fruits of this xplore the comp ex partnership with a special public event for businesses to explore complex he needs of ‘people, issue of sustainability and whether it is possible to balance the planet and profit’ (please see event S43).

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ans have evolved and migrate d around the World. Fieldwork: Using genetic data , including ancient DNA, com puter simulations and archaeological information to examine the origins and migrations of speciﬁc human populations includin g Jewish groups, British pop ulations and a number of enigmatic African peoples. Legacy: In recent years he has worked on modelling cult ural evolution to better understand the origins of mod ern human behaviour, the pro cesses of natural selection and gene-culture co-evolution, particularly the origins of lactose intolerance in Europe and Afri ca. Straight from the comedia n’s mouth: Having met him at Cheltenham Literature Festival, Marcus Brigstocke describes Thomas as “by far the most fascinating man I’ve ever met”. Current work: Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at Univ ersity College London. At Cheltenham: S124 Marcus Brigstocke Invites... Sunday, 17 June, 2012 - 12:3 0 An intriguing conversatio n about human evolution, genetics and ancient DNA, and whether it was ever possibl e for Adam to meet Eve... S106 Evolution Out of Africa Saturday, 16 June, 2012 - 17:0 0 How did humans evolve to cop e with shorter days, less inte nse sun and new hunting (and farming) challen ges?

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Barry Marshall Human guinea-p ig Specialist Topic: Spiral bacteria

in association with gastritis. Fieldwork: Drinking a culture of bacteria to prove that the germ ‘Helicobacter pylori’ was harmful. Legacy: Discovering the combina tions of drugs that killed the H.py lori bacteria and eliminated ulcers permanen tly. The World Health Organisa tion recognized H.pylori as the main cause of stomach cancer. Marshall and colleague Robin Warren’s work is acknowledge d as the most signiﬁcant discover y in the history of gastroenterology, compara ble to the development of the polio vaccine and the eradication of smallpox. Awards: Along with J. Robin War ren, Marshall was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Straight from the scientist’s mouth: “Like a trail of crumbs, the DNA of our Helicobacter pylori can show where we were born and where our ancestors travelled from over the past 60,0 00 years” says Marshall. At Cheltenham: S84 Barry Mar shall: The Human Guinea Pig Friday, 15 June, 2012 - 20:30 Barry is joined by Quentin Coo per and pharmacologist Jeff Aronson to explore why doctors and scie cienntis tists ts have been experimenting on themselves since the 16th century.

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SCIENCE IN THE SQUARE Experience all that the Festival has to offer in Cheltenham’s Town Hall and Imperial Gardens. From FREE interactive science in Discover Zone and Area 42 to informal scientiﬁc chat in The Times Café and The Talking Point and book buying in the on-site Waterstones tent.

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AREA 42 Interactive science for over 16s FREE 12 – 8pm Fri, Sat & Sun THE TIMES CAFÉ

Why should children have all the fun? Area 42 is the Discover Zone just for adults. See and get hands-on with some of the best cutting edge research and technology science and engineering have to offer. It’s your chance to speak with the researchers involved and get more in-depth information or play and act like a big kid. It’s up to you!

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DISCOVER ZONE Interactive science for all ages FREE 10am – 5pm daily The Discover Zone is open every day of the Festival, and gives kids the perfect opportunity to get hands-on with interactive technology and experiments.

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LEGO® EDUCATION ZONE Suitable for all ages FREE 11am – 5pm Sat & Sun Challenges, experiments and games for children of all ages from the LEGO® Education team.

BOX OFFICE AND INFO POINT The Box Office and Info Point in Imperial Gardens opens on Tuesday 12 June and offers tickets and information every day from 9.30am until the start of the last event of the day.

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EDF ENERGY ZONE Suitable for all ages FREE Every day

SCIENCE ZONE

This year our ever-popular Discovery Trail is about energy. Come to the EDF Energy Zone to pick up quiz forms and stop a while to visit the fascinating interactive exhibits exploring the world of energy.

Suitable for all ages FREE Thurs, Fri, Sat & Sun

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Meet the production teams responsible for some of your favourite BBC science programmes, explore the content further, get hands-on with science and have the opportunity to quiz their family of expert presenters in an informal setting. Visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/ bbc-science-zone for more details on content and sessions.

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An event got you thinking? Continue the debate with the speakers and other audience members at the Talking Point.

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SCIENCE EVENTS Our purpose built venues will be playing host to 100s of events on topics as diverse as health, technology, space, food and sport. There are lots of free events too â€“ look out for them in the main event listings. Visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/ find-events to browse events

The GE team are offering things to do and see for all the family, including a Caterham Formula 1 racing car, and the hugely popular flight demonstrator.

FAMILY FUN DAYS Suitable for all ages FREE Sat & Sun from 11am

SCIENCE STORY ZONE Interactive science for under 7s FREE 11am â€“ 4pm Sat & Sun Open daily 9.30am to Festival close. The Waterstones Book Tent stocks a wide range of science titles and will be hosting author signings throughout the Festival.

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SCIENCE FOR SCHOOLS 2012

Cheltenham’s School programme brings a real vibrancy to the Festival weekdays, with hundreds of pupils buzzing around the site, getting stuck into science, interacting with scientists and engineers, and ﬁring their curiosity. Workshops and events include everything from talks on wiggly worms (SS37-41) and snot, sick, and scabs (SS35) for Key Stage Twos, to drug detection at the Olympics (SS5-SS8) for Key Stage Threes, and Zombie Science (SS26) for Key Stage Fours. Dr Andy Spurr, Managing Director of EDF Energy Nuclear Generation, said: “At EDF Energy we are passionate about engaging young minds with science and are particularly pleased to have signiﬁcantly developed our partnership with Cheltenham Science Festival. Through a programme of year-round STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) activities that will grow in scope over the next three years, we aim to engage as many children and young people with STEM as possible, and to widen participation for all schools.”

FUN FOR FAMILIES Cheltenham Science Festival offers plenty of family activities. There’s the Science Fiction of Doctor Who (SF7), a talk on the amazing brain (SF12), explosive science (SF24) and indestructible energy (SF29), as well as many other interactive talks and shows. There’s also a number of workshops where youngsters can make their own mini-head (SF8-11), see the normally invisible DNA (SF18), experiment with lights, lasers and illusions (SF19-22), and make water rockets (SF25-26). To see the full family programme visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/science

The full school programme is available online cheltenhamfestivals.com/education/science-for-schools, where you will also ﬁnd information about the Young Scientists’ Day, girls in Science Day, and many other opportunities throughout the year.

TIME FOR TOTS Cheltenham also offers activities exclusively for pre-school children and their families. There’s science story-time (SF1-4) where little ones can hear their favourite stories, such as The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and explore the natural world through play and investigation. Pre-schoolers can also learn about the dusty secrets of the sky and its clouds and rainbows (SF6) and Dinosaurs with TimeZone’s travelling puppet team (SF13). Children will have to help sort the dinosaurs into their families, deciding which puppets are dinosaurs, if dinosaurs can swim, if dinosaurs come out of eggs, and look at all their other vital characteristics. Cheltenham’s Guest Director Maggie Aderin-Pocock will also take young children on a voyage of Space Discovery (SF27). Ashley Kent, from Cheltenham’s Science Team, said: “Pre-school children are so inquisitive and ready to learn that we wanted to give them their own events. They have been designed with the age of the children in mind so there will be plenty of interactive activities that are perfect for little hands.”

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JAZZ MEETS SCIENCE IN ANIMATION MIGRATION Join leading jazz pianist and Mercury Prize nominee Kit Downes and his band, with animator Lesley Barnes and scientist Adam Rutherford in a unique collaboration ‘A random email arrived late at night describing a project in which there was going to be a fusion of animation with jazz and the story behind it was going to be DNA. I thought it was a hoax at ﬁrst, I asked my wife to have a look at this, what do you think is going on here?’ Adam Rutherford, Scientist

‘This project was absolutely brilliant, one of the best musical experiences I’ve had’ Kit Downes, Jazz Musician Adam, Kit and Lesley have crafted their understanding of evolution into something unique and we think, absolutely gorgeous.

Friday 15 June at 8.00pm, Parabola Arts Centre

Over fourteen years ago, L’Oréal and UNESCO founded the For Women In Science programme to promote and highlight the importance of ensuring greater participation of women in science.

The L’Oréal UNESCO For Women in Science Programme

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Western Australia’s Chief Scientist Lyn Beazley is reviewing research into the re-connection of damaged nerves, and it might one day help paralysed people to walk again.

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Award-winning Danish journalist Lone Frank has gone deep inside herself to get genetic answers to very intimate questions. In a new era of consumer genomics, it left her wondering who should be allowed access to such personal information.

S73 Alien Hunters, Friday 15 June, 4.30pm

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Sebastian Seung from Massachusetts Institute of Technology is at the forefront of a revolution in neuroscience, exploring how your brain’s wiring shapes your personality. He believes that one day we might even be able to ‘upload’ our brains into a computer, and effectively become immortal.

If you want to see the Northern Lights then Norway is the place to be. From the Norwegian Space Centre, solar physicist Pål Brekke explains how a display so beautiful is created by a violent, stormy sun.

S20 How the Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are, Tuesday 12 June, 8.30pm

S96 Solar Storms and Northern Lights, Saturday 16 June, 12.30pm

NEW ZEALAND Jack Copeland from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand is a leading authority on the life and work of Alan Turing, the brilliant but troubled man who ushered in the era of computing. S21 Alan Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age, Tuesday 12 June, 8.30pm

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THE STRATEGY OF BOARD GAMES BBC Radio 4 presenter and science journalist Quentin Cooper on the new generation of board games, where maths and strategy have obliterated the luck of the roll We love board games. Not so much the old favourites you get in most toy stores - although I’m fond of Scrabble, and not Dungeons & Dragons or other fantasy role-playing epics. These are games that have only appeared in the last 10 years or so, many created by designers with a background in mathematics, and quite a few of the best by one particular maths PhD, Reiner Knizia. I’d never heard of him until a few years ago when my wife bought me a game called Samurai because she liked the way it looked. It is beautiful, but it also turned out to be a delight to play... and play again. And since the box said “Reiner Knizia’s Samurai” as if his name was signiﬁcant, I looked him up online and stumbled into this whole parallel universe: one in which Knizia is one of the most lauded of a group of designers using clever maths and applied science to create games in that Goldilocks zone of replayability –

not too easy or difﬁcult, too strategic or determined by luck, too hard to grasp or time consuming. I ended up buying a lot more such games, several by him, and having many memorable nights and weekends playing them with friends. So I’m more than usually excited to meet someone responsible for providing so much fun, and to try with the help of Professor Ian Stewart to get at how the underlying mathematics makes them work. Plus we all get to try out some of Reiner’s latest creations as part of the event. So what’s to lose?

Venue: ExperiTent Date: Sunday 17 June Time: 5.15pm - 6.15pm

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CAN ROBOTS THINK? By Alan Winﬁeld, Professor of Electronic Engineering, UWE Bristol, Director of the UWE Science Communication Unit and EPSRC Senior Media Fellow

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We’ve become used to press headlines about robots that think like humans, have feelings or behave ethically, but is there any basis of truth in these headlines or are they just sensationalist hype? Computer scientist EW Dijkstra famously wrote “the question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim”, but – given the proliferation of ‘intelligent’ robots in the modern world – the question of robot thought cannot so easily be dismissed. So how should we answer the question ‘can robots think’? It all depends on what you mean by ‘think’. If think means ‘process data’ then yes of course robots think, but so do laptop computers. But thinking is about more than processing data. It’s about forming judgements, having intentions or beliefs; reﬂecting and attending to an idea. No current robot can truly do these things and, in my view, we’re unlikely to see thinking robots in the near future.

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But a slightly different question: ‘can robots behave as if they are thinking?’ has much more relevance today. It is surprisingly easy to make a humanoid robot give the appearance of thinking by, for instance, making the robot nod its head in the gaps between your speech. Robots that behave as if they are thinking are interesting but also worrying because of the implicit deception and where it might lead. Could we, for instance, end up placing some trust or reliance on a robot because the robot appears to be smarter than it really is? And what would be the consequences of that misplaced trust?

Venue: Pillar Room Date: Tuesday 12 June Time: 7.15pm - 8.15pm

S16 Can robots think? Or at least pretend to?

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THE CHALLENGES FACING A WORLD CLASS PIANIST In his Sunday morning recital, pianist Melvyn Tan will be wired up by Aaron Williamon, Professor of Performance Science at the Royal College of Music, to monitor Melvyn’s physical output during the concert – his heart rate and skin conductivity among other things. The results will be delivered later in the day, and not even Melvyn knows what to expect… Singapore-born Melvyn Tan spoke to us about his training and challenges of being a world-class pianist. “How I prepare for concerts depends on the repertoire. Some of the pieces I have worked on are more difﬁcult than others. Whatever the difﬁculty though I like to ‘live in’ a new piece. Learn the notes, like an actor learning his words, then get into the music/role and let it become part of you. Once you have done that, it’s always wise to leave it for a while and come back to it at a later date. No matter what it is, it is always easier second-time round. After this process has elapsed a few times, then you can begin to interpret and perform the piece in public. You spend a lifetime learning and re-learning something, but that is the best and most enjoyable thing about it all.”

“I have absolutely no idea what to expect from the result of this investigation. I like to think I am fairly ﬁt though sometimes after a long journey that is not the case. I swim regularly about 2-3 times weekly if I can, about 2-2.5km each time. Travelling as often as I do my life can be very sedentary, and I don’t know how some of my colleagues manage to do the jet set lifestyle and keep ﬁt. Actually many don’t and I think that can’t be good for you.” “I think a lot of stage nerves is due to insecurity, whether in yourself, or your ability to perform on the night, or it may be more what audiences are going to think of you. Either way, it’s best to be convinced in yourself, your ideas, and your projection. There will be always be someone who won’t like it – that is human nature.”

“Any ﬁrst-time concert attendees should just let the music come to you and wash over your senses, and be open to ideas. Once you have heard it then I am sure you will have thoughts and opinions about it. Never be intimidated by it. Contrary to what some people think, music is for everyone and for everyone to ENJOY. If you want to delve deeper that is ﬁne, but if you don’t it doesn’t matter. Listen to it for what it is. If you enjoy engage the replay button. The wonderful thing with really great music is that there are so many layers and the more you hear the more it will be revealed.”

Venue: Pittville Pump Room Date: Sun 8 Jul / Time: 11am

M27 Melvyn Tan Programme includes: J S Bach, Judith’s Variations, Schumann, Chopin Venue: Parabola Arts Centre Date: Sun 8 Jul / Time: 4.15pm

Match ﬁt or on the bench? The world of music making is highly competitive. It involves long days and late nights, ﬁerce concentration, masses of adrenalin, countless hours of solitary practice, and the management of performance nerves – all pressures that we typically associate with sportsmen and women. Cheltenham Music Festival’s Musical Athletes series investigates this music athleticism and its associated problems in its LabOratory project. Funded by the biomedical organisation the Wellcome Trust, which brings science to all four Cheltenham Festivals, and with support from the LabOratory Think Tank and medical charity the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine, Cheltenham Music Festival will explore the biomechanics and psychology of musicians.

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S42 HAPPINESS THROUGH SCIENCE

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S54 GROWING UP TOO SOON?

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S39 HOW IS A PLANE TREE LIKE A SACRED LOTUS?

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S49 ADDING QUALITY TO THE END OF LIFE

S71 BODY FAT: SCIENCE, MYTHS AND WISHFUL THINKING

S47 THREE-PARENT BABIES: MYTH OR REALITY?

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S126 BRAIN SCAN LIVE: S132 PARADOX – GREATEST S123 LEARN TO LIVE IN LYING AND DECEPTION ENIGMAS IN SCIENCE THE MOMENT SF28 MY TOURIST GUIDE S130 A GLIMPSE OF GREENS127 WHY ARE WE TO THE SOLAR SYSTEM LAND: THE DISAPPEARING ICE SCARED OF BUGS? SF20 WORKSHOP: SF22 WORKSHOP: SF21 WORKSHOP: S133 HOW WAS IT FOR YOU? LIGHT, LASERS & ILLUSIONS LIGHT, LASERS & ILLUSIONS LIGHT, LASERS & ILLUSIONS S134 THE STRATEGY OF S129 DIAGNOSIS: SF27 GENERATION SPACE: CAN SF29 INDESTRUCTIBLE BOARD GAMES THE SMART WAY? WE REACH THE STARS? ENERGY S124 MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE S128 CALL MY SCIENTIFIC S121 MIGRAINE S131 HUMAN EXPLORATION INVITES... BLUFF

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S25 EVOLUTION: THE HUMAN STORY S26 AN ICEBERG AS BIG AS MANHATTAN

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S4 SPOON-BILLED SANDPIPER: EMERGENCY RESCUE SF4 SCIENCE STORY-TIME (A42)

S46 SURVIVORS: THE ANIMALS AND PLANTS LEFT BEHIND S45 GOING FOR GOLD: THINK LIKE A WINNER

S65 AGEING: HOW LONG COULD WE LIVE?

SF15 THAT’S LIFE WITH ROBERT WINSTON S96 SOLAR STORMS AND NORTHERN LIGHTS SF9 WORKSHOP: SF10 WORKSHOP: MAKE YOUR OWN MINI-HEAD MAKE YOUR OWN MINI-HEAD

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