Staff and students from the University of Cambridge will be helping to bring a little bit of science to the Secret Garden Party festival in Cambridgeshire this weekend.

The group was founded in 2007 at the Secret Garden Party, and returns this year with new performances, workshops and other wild and wonderful activities.

From Friday 23rd July to Sunday 26th July, the event will give festival-goers the chance to hear about a variety of topics from discussing history, and the anatomy of the universe at the ‘Bake-a-Brain Tea Party’, to discovering the Moons of Jupiter at ‘The Travelling Observatory’.

Amongst university staff, Dr Helen Mason of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics will be talking about the sun and how it impacts our world on Friday of the event from 3pm.

Professor David Spiegalhalter, a Professor in public understanding of risk promises to wow crowds with his controversial opinions on life and death.

Other contributors set to appear at this summers ‘best small festival’ are Adrian Owen, University of Cambridge neuroscientist, and theoretical physicist Ben Allanach.

University of Cambridge PhD student, Mark Rosin is grant holder for Guerilla Science through the Science and Technology Facilities Council and said "By taking science into a new environment we offer both scientists and festival goers the chance explore and broaden their horizons. It is a wonderful experience for everyone involved."

 

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