Join us for a packed day of activities featuring:

• keynote lectures by world-renowned speakers
• a thought-provoking panel discussion
• Global Challenges: subject-specific breakout sessions led by our academics
• Soapbox research talks, featuring some our PhD students and early-career researchers

Lunch will be provided and the day will end with a celebratory drinks reception.

Events and activities will suit all levels of interest.

Sulis Minerva is the goddess of wisdom and ancient deity of the thermal springs here in Bath.

Speaker profiles

Keynote lectures by:

• Professor Dame Linda Partridge (Director of the Institute of Healthy Ageing, UCL; Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing)
• Louise Kingham (Chief Executive of Energy Institute)
• Professor Dame Athene Donald (Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Cambridge)

Panel discussion chaired by Professor Carole Mundell (Head of Department of Physics, University of Bath). Our panelists are:

• Dawn Bonfield MBE (Director, Towards Vision)
• Simon Cooper (Chief Information Officer, J.P. Morgan)
• Patrick Goymer (Chief Editor, Nature Ecology and Evolution)
• Dr Emily Grossman (Science broadcaster and educator – Molecular Biology, Genetics, Natural Sciences)
• Professor Melanie Welham, Chief Executive, BBSRC

Who should attend

We welcome all University staff and students, female and male, our GW4 colleagues and members of our local community interested in the fields of science, technology, engineering and maths.