Cambridge Science Festival 2015
Events at Madingley Hall
The Institute of Continuing Education (ICE) took part in the Cambridge Science Festival in 2015 with a programme of free events at Madingley Hall on Sunday 15 March 2015.
Please contact us at [email protected] if you have questions about any of the events.
Naked Scientists live
15 March 2015, 3.00pm, Madingley Hall
Expand your mind - ask any question on anything scientific, with Dr Chris Smith and the award winning Naked Scientists BBC broadcast science team! Clothes will be kept on, but science will be stripped bare..... (Talk, ages 12+)
Springwatch Madingley
15 March 2015, 4.15pm, Madingley Hall
Join Dr Ed Turner for a tour of the Madingley Hall grounds to see some of the plants and animals that call Madingley their home. We will take a look at some of the signs of spring and investigate the ways that animals and plants respond to longer and warmer days. (Tour, all ages)
Shaping the darkness: how light helped build the Universe
15 March 2015, 4.15pm, Madingley Hall
Light allows us to decipher the mysteries of the night sky, but it also helped to create them. In this talk with Dr Judith Croston, find out how light is a vital actor in the way stars and galaxies work, and in how they evolved to make up the present-day Universe. (Talk, ages 12+)
About the Cambridge Science Festival
The Cambridge Science Festival is co-ordinated by the Public Engagement team at the University of Cambridge. It is the largest free science festival in the UK, with over 30,000 people attending each year.
The 2015 Festival will run from 9 to 22 March and will feature over 275 mostly free events for all ages exploring subjects from astronomy to zoology, with hands-on experiments and talks from leading scientists.
Find out more about the Cambridge Science Festival
Watch videos of previous Science Festival talks at Madingley Hall
Evolution revolution: lecture by Dr Ed Turner (2012)
Deconstructing structures: lecture by Dr Erica Bithell (2012)
Science courses at Madingley Hall
As well as our free events in the Science Festival, we also offer a year-round programme of short and part-time science courses for adult learners. Most of our courses are open to everyone, and you don't need any special qualifications to apply.