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Wednesday 20 June, 7.00pm-8.30pm Engineering the gold: sport and technology in the future Prof Kristan Bromley, Prof Steve Haake and Dr Martin Strangwood. Chaired by Dr Andy Miah. Imagine the ancient Greek Olympics, where athletes competed in the nude using the same piece of equipment as their competitors. Now envisage a modern day cyclist, complete with customised, lightweight bike and stream lined helmet and we only begin to scratch the surface of the impact that technology has had in the modern world of sport. Human performance in modern elite sport is intertwined and underpinned with technology and can often be the deciding factor between winning and losing. Not only that, but sports equipment is now so advanced that an athlete with prosthetic limbs may be able to out run his able bodied competitor. Join our experts, Prof Steve Haake, Dr Martin Strangwood and Prof Kristan Bromley, four time gold medallist at the World Skeleton Bobsleigh Series, as they talk us through the increasingly technological world of sport. They will explore the new materials that have transformed sports engineering into a multimillion pound industry and some of the ethical issues surrounding their use. A free wine reception will follow the event. Venue: Showroom and Workstation, Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX Tickets are free but booking is advised. Book at www.rigb.org <http://www.rigb.org/> or call the Events Team on 020 7409 2992. The Royal Institution in association with EPSRC ********************************** Dr Andy Miah | [log in to unmask] | http://www.andymiah.net Reader in New Media & Bioethics School of Media, Language and Music University of Paisley, UK Editorial Board, Health Care Analysis: An International Journal of Health Care, Philosophy and Policy http://www.springerlink.com/content/1573-3394/ Editorial Board, Genomics, Society and Policy. http://www.gspjournal.org Co-Editor, Culture @ the Olympics: Issues, Trends and Perspectives www.culturalolympics.org.uk NanoBio-RAISE: http://nanobio-raise.org/ Fellow in Visions of Utopia and Dystopia Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) | http://ieet.org University of Paisley, Ayr Campus, KA8 OSR, Scotland, UK. [t] +44 7962 716 616 [f] +44 1292 886371 [e] [log in to unmask] ********************************************************************** 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail 2. To resume email from the list, send the following message: set psci-com mail 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com 4. Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html 5. The psci-com gateway to internet resources on science communication and science and society can be found at http://psci-com.ac.uk **********************************************************************