Cambridge Science Festival

Monday 12 March, 8:00AM - 5:00PM From hidden engineering on the nano scale to origami designs for engineering structures, explore an exhibition of astounding photographs taken by staff and students from the Department of Engineering.

Monday 12 March, 9:00AM - 5:00PM An exhibition of photographs of volcanoes and major volcanic eruptions, their hazards and consequences (1980 to the present).

Monday 12 March, 9:00AM - 5:30PM A very small table-top display about the work of the Darwin Correspondence Project, which is publishing all the available letters to and from Charles Darwin.

Monday 12 March, 6:00PM - 7:00PM To prepare competitors and spectators for London 2012, we cast a mathematical eye over a wide range of Olympic sporting events. A little elementary maths can help us appreciate more fully what is going on in a range of running, swimming, jumping, throwing, paddling, lifting, swinging and wheelchair racing events. We will also examine some of the strange scoring systems that sports employ.

Monday 12 March, 6:30PM - 9:00PM Throughout the 20th century, films used the monstrous to explore concerns about intervention and normality. This second series of 'Reproduction on Film' presents works featuring various artificial and natural monsters, examining anxieties about science, sex, relationships, parenthood and social marginalisation.

Monday 12 March, 7:45PM - 9:15PM In this lecture materials scientist Sir Colin Humphreys will talk about apparent inconsistencies in the Gospel accounts of the last week of Jesus' life that have puzzled Bible scholars for centuries.

Monday 12 March, 8:00PM - 9:00PM Gert-Jan de Haas, neuropsychologist and musician, takes us on a journey through the musical brain via dancing parrots, snails, a cup of tea and the important principle of ‘not not’. He explains how what is known about general brain functions can be applied to learning and performing music and why it is that the musical brain really knows nothing!