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PAWS Event
Monday 29 March 2004, The Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London W1B 1NT
“A More Electric Evening”
Presented in association with The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Rolls-Royce plc, The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board and The Institute of Physics
The event is free and open to all interested parties. Places are limited however and so pre-booking is advised. Contact:-
PAWS Office: [log in to unmask] or Tel: 020 8214 1543
The schedule for the evening is:
6.30pm for 7.00pm Coffee and arrivals
7.00pm to 8.30pm approx Main Event
8.30pm to 10.00pm Buffet Reception
The Speakers are
Nigel Brandon (Imperial College)
Fuel Cells - Powering the Future
Bradley Payne (The Strategy Research Centre, Rolls-Royce)
Switching on to Electric Aircraft and Ships
Jenny Jones (Energy and Fuel Department, Leeds University)
Biomass - the “Cool” Way to Electricity
Jessica Pope (BBC Executive Producer of “Stephen Hawking”)
The making of a Factually Based Drama
And to mark the forthcoming Einstein centenary year
Graham Farmelo (The Science Museum)
Einstein - More than Just a Genius
The PAWS Drama Fund was set up in 1994 to encourage and support new television drama drawing on science and technology (PAWS stands for Public Awareness of Science and Engineering). It has developed a growing range of activities designed to bring science and technology to the largely arts based world of TV drama, to help writers and TV producers become more familiar with the excitement and issues of the world of science and technology.
Underlying this aim is the recognition that television drama is the most watched medium within broadcasting, and that it is important that new drama reflects the growing role that science and technology are playing in our lives, both individually and as a society. The PAWS science evenings present themes within science and engineering to TV writers and producers in a sympathetic way, with the aim of inspiring them to further enquiry and offering role models of modern scientists. Writers can only write about what they know, with characters they can picture, and bridging this information gap is central to the PAWS agenda.
As well as three or four science talks, PAWS Evenings also feature a presentation from a leading writer or broadcaster, to help cement the cross-cultural nature of the evening and to ensure that everyone learns something new. For scientists and engineers interested in communicating to a wider public, there is the chance to communicate with writers and broadcasters in both the structured part of the evening and over a buffet reception afterwards. The audience is usually made up of about 70 TV writers and producers and about 30 scientists or engineers.
* Please reply to PAWS [log in to unmask] or Tel: 020 8214 1543 and not to me - thank you
Dianne