Launch event

Monday 8 April 2013
Institute of Physics

Programme

09:30	Registration and coffee
10:00	Welcome – Graham Leggett, University of Sheffield
10:10	EPSRC’s Grand Challenges – Andrew Bourne, EPSRC
10:30	Introduction to Plenary Session – Tom McLeish, University of Durham
10:45	Plenary address – Tim Hunt, Cancer Research Laboratories: “How can the events in space and time which take place within the spacial boundary of a living organism be accounted for by physics and chemistry? – Schroedinger at 70”
11:30	Larry Nagahara, NSF/NCI Cancer Network: “Elucidating Cancer through the Convergence of Physical and Life Sciences”
12:15	Panel discussion – Chair, Tom McLeish
12:30	Lunch

Afternoon Session: Chair – Jamie Hobbs, University of Sheffield

13:30	Athene Donald, University of Cambridge: “Undergraduates Need to be Broad-Minded”
14:00	Kishan Dholakia, University of St Andrews: “Shaping light for Biology and Medicine”
14:30	Ray Goldstein, University of Cambridge: “Fluid Dynamics and Self-Organization of Cytoplasmic Streaming”
15:00	Andrew Turberfield, University of Oxford: “Emulating Biological Machinery”
15:30	What Now? – Graham Leggett
15:40	Coffee and Discussion
16:30	Close