Back To The Future SciScreen

Brighton and Hove BSA Branch runs a range of events to demonstrate how embedded science is in our everyday lives, with activities as broad and diverse as its members; sharing our passion for science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).The British Science Association (BSA) is a charity, founded in 1831.  Our vision is of a world where science is at the heart of society and culture.  Our mission is to support, grow and diversify the community of people interested and involved in science; and to strengthen their influence over science's direction and place in society.

British Science Association Brighton and Hove Branch

Wearable technology, video calls and tablet computers were all predicitons from Back to the Future films. But how blurred has Science Fiction and Science Fact become?
Join us for an evening review of the science themes of Back to the Future I with expert scientists, and join our activities to see a mini-hoverboard fly!
 
Timings
18:30 Science-related activities
19:15 Talk: How do we perceive time? Dr Warrick Roseboom
19:30 Talk: Can we run the Universe backwards? Professor Philip Harris
19:55 Talk: The possibilities and impossibilities of time travel. Dr Marek Kukula
20:30 Back to the Furture film screening 
 
Speakers
<H4><A HREF="Warrick%20Roseboom%20%20" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Warrick Roseboom</A>: How do we perceive time?</H4>
Warrick is a researcher focusing on human perception at the <A HREF="http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sackler/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science</A>, University of Sussex.
<H4><A HREF="http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/8102" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Philip Harris</A>: Can you run the Universe Backwards?: The neutron EDM experiment</H4>
Philip's research is focused on the measurement of the <A HREF="http://www.cryoedm.org/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">neutron electric dipole moment</A> (e.d.m.), a small asymmetry in the structure of the neutron that is strongly related to the question of why the universe contains so much more matter than antimatter. He is Head of the School of Mathematical and Physical Science, University of Sussex.
<H4><A HREF="https://twitter.com/marekkukula" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Marek Kukula</A>: The possibilities/impossibilities of time travel, implications of changing history</H4>
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Marek is an expert in black holes and the evolution of galaxies, and the Public Astronomer for The Royal Observatory Greenwich.
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Film synopsis: High schooler Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) doesn't have the most pleasant of lives. Browbeaten by his principal at school, Marty must also endure the acrimonious relationship between his nerdy father (Crispin Glover) and his lovely mother (Lea Thompson), who in turn suffer the bullying of middle-aged jerk Biff (Thomas F. Wilson), Marty's dad's supervisor. The one balm in Marty's life is his friendship with eccentric scientist Doc (Christopher Lloyd), who at present is working on a time machine. Accidentally zapped back into the 1950s, Marty inadvertently interferes with the budding romance of his now-teenaged parents. Our hero must now reunite his parents-to-be, lest he cease to exist in the 1980s. It won't be easy, especially with the loutish Biff, now also a teenager, complicating matters. Beyond its dazzling special effects, the best element of Back to the Future is the performance of Michael J. Fox, who finds himself in the quagmire of surviving the white-bread 1950s with a hip 1980s mindset. Back to the Future cemented the box-office bankability of both Fox and the film's director, Robert Zemeckis, who went on to helm two equally exhilarating sequels. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
 
What are SciScreens?
SciScreens provide an opportunity to combine film screenings and STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths). We choose films that we hope will attract an audience and then look at what science there is in the film and identifiy expert speakers and some interactive activites so we can all learn more about the themes.
 
Suitable for 18+

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