Category Archives: Announcements

Update: PubSci this Wednesday FULLY BOOKED!

Dr Eugenia Cheng is proving to be one of our most popular speakers ever, and there are [only 10] no more tickets available for her talk Is Maths Real at the Old King’s Head on Wednesday 21st June.

Eugenia Cheng with music by J.S. Bach
Eugenia Cheng talking on maths and music

We’ll try to squeeze everybody in, but it looks like being a full house, so please register on Eventbrite if you intend to come*. It’s still free to attend but we use Eventbrite ticketing to manage numbers. *Update: With all places now allocated, you can only add your name to the waitlist at this stage.

Priority of admission and seating will naturally be given to ticket-holders, with walk-ins only admitted at the very last minute, and only if there is space.

You have the option of making a contribution towards PubSci’s running costs when you register on Eventbrite or you can put a few quid in the beer mug on the night.

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If you want to get an idea of what Dr Cheng has to say, she was on BBC Radio 4 Start The Week this morning, in conversation with Sarah Hart, Emily Howard and Kirsty Wark on the combined joys of maths, music and literature.

Listen on BBC Sounds if you missed it. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001n1k5

Hope to see you this coming Wednesday, and don’t forget to put next Month’s PubSci in your diary: On Weds 19th July, Professor Chris French will be talking about The Science of Weird Sh*t and testing paranormal claims – definitely not to be missed!

PubSci Lives!

Hello PubSci community.

Profuse apologies for months of radio silence. It’s been a difficult year for a number of reasons, and with the added uncertainty of live or not-live events as we recovered from the pandemic, PubSci has had to take a back seat for a while. But we didn’t forget you – and I hope you didn’t forget us.

Even as I write, we are planning to restart events within a very few months. We’ll probably be in a new venue (TBC) for live events, but for those who still want to join us online, we are planning to run most talks as hybrid events from now on, live-streamed from a pub, with recordings available on our YouTube channel afterwards.

It’ll take a bit of technical jiggery-pokery and some logistical wizardry but I tested my tech kit on a small event recently and the picture and sound were great.

Please keep watching this space for further announcements. In the meantime feel free to join us on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube where you can watch past online talks.

May the Facts be with you!

Richard