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Thats it from the BA Festival of Science LIVE Webcast! We came, we saw, we webcast.....

With almost 6 hours of science broadcasting every day, our team brought you a flavour of the festival: lectures, interviews, even the X-change live! There was serious discussion, there was exploding flour, and even a vacuum-packed Greg!

We're building up our archive, and shortly you'll be able to watch most of the programme from our archive! The archive page is linked from the menu on the left and has got the most up to date list of what's available.

The links to watch movies have now moved to individual pages, so click on a link in the programme to see the description, and to watch the video! We'll also put up length of videos, so that you know what's in store for you!

Monday, 5th September 2005

Time	Title	Lecturer
12.00 - 12.30	Welcome to the BA Festival of Science Live Online
12.45 – 13.45	Award Lecture: Irelands hidden depths	Jason Hall-Spencer
13.45 - 14:00	Overview of the Festival	with Greg
15:00-15:30	James Lunney on Hamilton	with Greg and Mat

Tuesday, 6th September 2005

Time	Title	Lecturer
10.00 - 10.15	In store for you today: An overview of Tuesday's programming, including guest appearance of Robert Walsh
10.15 – 11.15	Move It	Think Differently
11.15-12:00	Festival Interviews and Discussions
11.25	Jason Hall-Spencer - Irelands Hidden Depths - behind the scenes	with Greg
12.00	Denis Weaire visits us as C. F. Fitzgerald	with Greg
12.20	Ian Sanders - the magic of a meteorite	with Megan
12.45 – 13.45	Award Lecture: Living with a star - a new encounter with our dynamic sun	Robert Walsh
13.45	The day so far ....
14.00 – 16.00	How can maths help solve crime?	BA Mathematics Section, Part 1
	Logical forensic inference: is the law an ass?	Ian Evett
	Could statistical science have caught Harold Shipman earlier?	David Spiegelhalter
	Can maths tell what happened?	Chris Budd
16.00	Q & A Session with Robert Walsh	with Greg and Matt
16.20	live broadcast finished for the day

THE DAY'S PROGRAMME WILL BE RE-BROADCAST FROM 1630 TO CONTINUE ALL EVENING

Wednesday, 7th September 2005

Time	Title	Lecturer
10.00-12.30	Albert Einstein: A 20th Century Icon	BA Physics and Astronomy Section
	Einstein made simple	Wendy Sadler
	Einstein's brain: The search for genius	Jim Al-Khalili And Mark Lythgoe
	Big bang: A history of cosmology	Simon Singh
12.30	Intro to BA Festival of Science 2006
12.40	Peter Naish - hypnosis - myth or miracle	with Greg
13.30	Mark Lythgoe - sci-art	with Greg
13.45	Helen Lloyd of Einstein Made Simple - behind the scenes	with Greg
14.10	Jim Al-Khalili and Simon Singh	with Greg
14.25	Chris Budd and David Spiegelhalter	with Greg
14.45	Card tricks with Chris Budd	with Greg
15.30	Paul McCrory - so many experiments, live in the studio	with Greg
16.00	broadcast finished for the day

THE DAY'S PROGRAMME WILL BE RE-BROADCAST FROM 1600 TO CONTINUE ALL EVENING

Thursday, 8th September 2005

Time	Title	Lecturer
09.50	Intro to the day ahead...	with Greg
10.00 - 12.00	Enzymes as nanomachines	A Session By Trinity College Dublin
	Pulling nanomachines apart with molecular tweezers	David Brockwell
	Powering nanodevices with biomolecular motors	Amir Khan
	Viruses as nanomachines	Peter Stockley
	A small nanomachine that makes the Irish flag	Tim Mantle
Interviews and Discussions
12.00	Graeme Jones on Saturday Night Science	with Greg
12.45	Enzymes as nanomachines...behind the scenes	with Greg
13.30	David Moore on Astronomy	with Mat
14.00	Helen Lloyd from Science Made Simple	with Greg
14.45	Sue Mc Grath - danger, science, magic	with Greg
15.45	Brian Trench vs. David Dickson - communicating science	with Megan
	Lab in a Lorry	with Megan
	An Interview with Catherine Fitzgerald	with Megan
17.30 - 19.00	THE FINAL X-CHANGE - LIVE!!

Friday, 9th September 2005

Time	Title	Lecturer
12:45 - 13:45	Award Lecture: The future of civil aviation - the approach of the silent aircraft	Tom Reynolds
13.45	Summary of the week
14:00 - 16:00	Maths goes to Hollywood	BA Mathematics Section, Part 2
	The maths behind character animation	Colm Massey
	From robots' eyes to oohs and aahs: Computer vision and the art of special effects	Andrew Fitzgibbon
		Joan Lasenby
16.00	Andy Alexander - the science of Guinness, champagne and all things bubbly	with Greg
16.25	Take a run through Trinity College Dublin!
16.30	Bye Bye! Meet the team that brought you the BA Festival of Science Live 2005