• ATOM Society Talk; Legitimate Idleness

    Abingdon United Football Club Northcourt Road, Abingdon, United Kingdom

    Legitimate Idleness: Victorian Travel for Health The ATOM Society brings you a fascinating talk by Prof. Sally Shuttleworth at 19:30 on Tuesday (new weekday this year!) 16th May 2023 in Abingdon United Football Club, Northcourt Rd, OX14 1PL, Abingdon. Middle-class Victorians had always travelled in Europe, but from the 1860s there was a huge rise […]

    £3
  • ATOM Society Talk: Fusion, Powering the Future

    Abingdon United Football Club Northcourt Road, Abingdon, United Kingdom

    ATOM Society brings you a highly topical talk about energy from nuclear fusion by Chris Warrick at 19:30 on Tuesday (new weekday this year!) 20th June 2023 in Abingdon United Football Club, Northcourt Rd, OX14 1PL, Abingdon. Fusing hydrogen atoms together has the potential to provide a near-limitless, safe, and clean source of carbon-free energy. This has […]

  • ATOM Society talk; The End of Housework?

    Abingdon United Football Club Northcourt Road, Abingdon, United Kingdom

    Domestic work is critical to health and well-being. Societies cannot function without regular meals cooked, clothes and homes cleaned, and people cared for. It is also very time consuming and generally shared unequally within and between households. Women continue to do more unpaid domestic work than men in the majority of households, though the extent of gender […]

    £3
  • ATOM Society talk about Quantum Technologies

    Abingdon United Football Club Northcourt Road, Abingdon, United Kingdom

    ATOM Society brings you a fascinating talk by Dr. Rhys Lewis at 19:30 on Tuesday (new weekday this year!) 15th August 2023 in Abingdon United Football Club, Northcourt Rd, OX14 1PL, Abingdon. Rhys will describe the range of new technologies being developed based on the physics of quantum mechanics involving interactions at the fundamental level […]

    £3
  • ATOM Society talk on Quantum Technologies: Principles and Applications

    Abingdon United Football Club Northcourt Road, Abingdon, United Kingdom

    This month's future-oriented talk will be given by Dr Rhys Lewis of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). As many of you may have seen from our website https://www.atomsociety.org.uk, we are bringing you a key talk entitled "Quantum Technologies: Principles and Applications" on Tuesday (new weekday!) 15th August 2023 Rhys will describe the range of new technologies being […]

    Free – £3
  • ATOM Society talk: Lions, from corncobs to geopolitics

    Abingdon United Football Club Northcourt Road, Abingdon, United Kingdom

    ATOM Society brings you a highly topical talk by Prof. David Macdonald at 19:30 on Tuesday (new weekday this year!) 19th September 2023 in Abingdon United Football Club, Northcourt Rd, OX14 1PL, Abingdon. David, working in and around Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, with his long-term colleague, Andrew Loveridge, has researched landscape planning (the identification […]

    Free – £3
  • ATOM Society talk: Lions, from corncobs to geopolitics

    Abingdon United Football Club Northcourt Road, Abingdon, United Kingdom

    ATOM Society brings you a highly topical talk by Prof. David Macdonald at 19:30 on Tuesday (new weekday this year!) 19th September 2023 in Abingdon United Football Club, Northcourt Rd, OX14 1PL, Abingdon. David, working in and around Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, with his long-term colleague, Andrew Loveridge, has researched landscape planning (the identification […]

    Free – £3
  • ATOM Society talk – Motor Neuron Disease (MND)

    Abingdon United Football Club Northcourt Road, Abingdon, United Kingdom

    Several high-profile cases of MND among sports stars have brought much increased attention to this progressive degenerative disorder. The ATOM Society will host a talk by a leading local expert, Professor Kevin Talbot at 19:30 on Tuesday (new weekday this year!) 16th October 2023 in Abingdon United Football Club, Northcourt Rd, OX14 1PL, Abingdon. Motor […]

    Free – £3
  • The ATOM Society – Space Sweepers Get Set to Clean the Orbital Highway

    Abingdon United Football Club Northcourt Road, Abingdon, United Kingdom

    One of the first companies in the world to focus on space sustainability, Astroscale has been working for over a decade on developing technologies to remove space debris and enable a circular economy in space. This talk will present how they go about removing debris from Earth’s orbits and creating a safer and more sustainable […]

    £3
  • The ATOM Society: Space Sweepers Get Set to Clean the Orbital Highway

    Abingdon United Football Club Northcourt Road, Abingdon, United Kingdom

    One of the first companies in the world to focus on space sustainability, Astroscale has been working for over a decade on developing technologies to remove space debris and enable a circular economy in space. This talk will present how they go about removing debris from Earth’s orbits and creating a safer and more sustainable […]

    £3
  • The ATOM Society: Space Sweepers Get Set to Clean the Orbital Highway

    Abingdon United Football Club Northcourt Road, Abingdon, United Kingdom

    One of the first companies in the world to focus on space sustainability, Astroscale has been working for over a decade on developing technologies to remove space debris and enable a circular economy in space. This talk will present how they go about removing debris from Earth’s orbits and creating a safer and more sustainable […]

    £3
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