Reports, Papers and Other Resources
The Society publishes reports on all of its lectures, some of its visits, selected members papers and suggested reading material in its bookshelf. These can all be found in date order below.
The Society also published a monthly bulletin, the archive for these can be found here.
The talk presented to the Cirencester Science & Technology Society by Professor Lisa Methven, Programme Director for BSc Food Science, Sensory Science Centre, Reading University on the popular subject of the Chemistry of Chocolate.
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- Category: Lecture Reports
- Date: Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
- Professor Lisa Methven, Programme Director for BSc Food Science
- Sensory Science Centre, Reading University
The presentation looks at how yeast has evolved and specialised in fermenting brewers wort, and the genetic and biochemical changes it has made to adapt to this new enviroment. It is the mainstay for a multi billion dollar fermentation industry around the world.
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- Category: Lecture Reports
- Date: Wednesday, 12 Feb 2025
- Timothy O'Rourke BA
- The Brilliant Beer Co.
The talk presented to the Cirencester Science & Technology Society by Dr Alex Liu, Associate Professor Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University, introducing fossils of the enigmatic ‘Ediacaran biota’, which preserve our oldest records of early animal life, and explaining what we currently know about how and when animals diversified to ultimately dominate the planet.
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- Category: Lecture Reports
- Date: Wednesday, 8 Jan 2025
- Dr Alex Liu
- Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University
The talk presented to the Cirencester Science & Technology Society by Dr Nigel Wright, Recently Retired Programme Manager at Thales Alenia Space UK, on the subject of the EarthCARE mission.
ESA's EarthCARE (Cloud, Aerosol and Radiation Explorer) mission launched on 28 May 2024 is the largest and most complex Earth Explorer to date, and will advance our understanding of the role that clouds and aerosols play in reflecting incident solar radiation back into space and trapping infrared radiation emitted from Earth's surface.
EarthCARE employs high-performance lidar and radar technology that has never been flown in space before, with the objective to deliver unprecedented datasets to allow scientists to study the relationship of clouds, aerosols and radiation at accuracy levels that will significantly improve our understanding of these highly variable parameters.
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- Category: Lecture Reports
- Date: Wednesday, 11 Dec 2024
- Dr Nigel Wright, Recently Retired Programme Manager
- Thales Alenia Space UK
The talk presented to the Cirencester Science & Technology Society by Dr Nessa Carey, International Director of Praxis Unico (epigenetic technology transfer), Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London, on the subject of Epigenetics, its mechanism, effects and importance.
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- Category: Lecture Reports
- Date: Wednesday, 13 Nov 2024
- Dr Nessa Carey, International Director
- Praxis Unico, Visiting Professor at Imperial College
A talk presented to the Cirencester Science & Technology Society by Dr. Jason Swan and Dr. Iwan Grech of Rolls-Royce SMR, about their design of Small Module Reactor.
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- Category: Lecture Reports
- Date: Wednesday, 9 Oct 2024
- Dr. Jason Swan and Dr. Iwan Grech
- Rolls-Royce SMR
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- Category: Lecture Reports
- Date: Wednesday, 11 Sep 2024
- Professor Emily Rayfield, Professor of Palaeobiology
- School of Earth Sciences University of Bristol
The talk presented to the Cirencester Science & Technology Society by Professor Adam Hart on the subject of the interactions between predator species and humans.
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- Category: Lecture Reports
- Date: Wednesday, 12 Jun 2024
- Professor Adam Hart
The talk presented to the Cirencester Science & Technology Society by Jeroen Geltink, Deputy Principal Aerodynamicist for the BWT Alpine F1 team at Enstone, about working on the aerodynamic design of the Alpine F1 racing cars.
Jeroen is passionate about F1 and enjoys bringing together his team of inspired, enthusiastic and ambitious individuals to find the best solutions to improve the aerodynamic performance of the race car. He particularly enjoys the fast-paced nature of the job where you can go from concept to design to race track in a matter of weeks.
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- Category: Lecture Reports
- Date: Wednesday, 8 May 2024
- Jeroen Geltink
- Deputy Principal Aerodynamicist for the BWT Alpine F1 team at Enstone
The talk presented to the Cirencester Science & Technology Society by Professor Peter Sarris, Professor of Late Antique, Medieval and Byzantine Studies, University of Cambridge, on the Reign of Justinian and the Plague.
Peter Sarris is Professor of Late Antique, Medieval, and Byzantine Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. He trained as a historian in Oxford, where he was a Fellow of All Souls College.
He has written extensively on Early Medieval and Byzantine History, and his publications include Byzantium - A Very Short Introduction (2015) and Justinian - Emperor, Soldier, Saint (2023)(which was the Sunday Times, London Evening Standard and BBC History Magazine 'Book of the Year').
Joint lecture with Cirencester Archaeological and Historical Society
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- Category: Lecture Reports
- Date: Wednesday, 10 Apr 2024
- Professor Peter Sarris: Professor of Late Antique, Medieval and Byzantine Studies
- University of Cambridge