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A Small World for Big Ideas

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Past event - 2017
17 May Doors 7pm. Event 7:30-9:30pm
The Zetland Arms, 2 Bute St, Kensington,
London SW7 3EX
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How do we predict the climate? Can we even trust those predictions? And how can things only a few nanometers across help us capture CO2, trap pollutants and clean up oil spills? Join us for a fascinating evening of science big and small.

World in a box: How do we know what future climate will be like?

Dr Matthew Kasoar (Research Associate, Space and Atmospheric Physics)
We only have one planet Earth, and it doesn’t fit in a lab. So how do we do experiments on the climate, to find out how it behaves and how it might change in future? We need a model - a simulated world that we can play with and test ideas on. The latest climate models run on supercomputers with thousands of times of the power of a typical desktop PC. But for all that money, how much do they tell us? In this talk, Matthew will discuss how researchers go about modelling the climate, why we’re building ever bigger computers, and whether we can actually be confident in the answers we get.

Moving up the scale: How nanomaterials could address global challenges

Dr Camille Petit (Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering)
Sustainable energy production is not an easy task. All fields of science and engineering have their role to play, and even small things like nanomaterials can make big contributions. Finding such materials and producing them remains challenging though. In her talk, Camille will highlight how researchers design new materials to capture CO2, trap emitted pollutants, or clean oil spills, and how they control their properties at the nanoscale and produce them at a much larger scale.
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