Your host for the day, Dr Adrian Burden.

Lead organiser of the annual Malvern Science in the Park and founder of the Malvern Festival of Innovation will be in Mission Control hoping that the tech works and introducing the fantastic partiicpants who have jumped to the challenge and adapted to science communication in the virtual world.

@apburden

10:30

Virtual kick-off:

Dr Malcolm Macleod, Chief Scientist, Research and Innovation, & Dean of Fellows at QinetiQ, and Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde will kindly be joining us on-line to officially open the Virtual Malvern Science in the Park.

10:45

Gather your materials (for today's IoP experiments) and experiments in Floating and Sinking

The Institute of Physics will be performing a number of hands-on experiments during the day, so they'll use this opportunity to explain what you can collect from around then house to do them as well.  They'll also be starting the day with some investigations into the science of bouyancy.  Have you heard of Archimedes and his Principle?

@iophwc, @PhysicsNews

11:00

Dr Mark O'Dell. A collector’s perspective: Fossil collecting in the Malverns and the Cotswolds

Local paleontologist Mark will talk about the tools he uses to find, extract and clean-up fossils. He's found interesting samples to the west of the Malvern Hills and a little further afield in the Cotswolds. If you have any questions about fossils, you'll be able to field your questions to him as well.

11:10

STEMWorks. Water Clocks

More details of this exciting engineering challange to follow soon.

@STEMworksUK

11:30

Dr Chris Hamlett. The surprising structures of surfaces.

Chris is the Henry Royce National Outreach Officer for Materials Science, based in the School of Metallurgy & Materials at the University of Birmingham.

He will be joining us live from Birmingham and looking at the structure of some natural and manmade materials that have unusual properties as a result of their microscopic structure. Have you ever looked in detail at a butterfly's wing or a gecko's foot? This is your opportunity to see for yourself, with the help of Chris's friends at Zeiss who have used scanning electron microsopy to look even closer!

@hamlettcae

11:45

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12:00

Dr Chris Hamlett. Surfactants and Elephant's Toothpaste.

We welcome Chris back for a second installment.

This time he'll be demonstrating surface tension, hydrophobic surfaces, and hydrophyllic surfaces with the help of a gigantic lotus leaf.  And then he'll explain the importance of chemical surfactants and concoct a mixture that could be useful for cleaning the teeth of elephants!

@hamlettcae

12:15

Do try this at home: Bubble Extravaganza.

More details to follow.

@iophwc, @PhysicsNews

12:30

Dr Andrew Holding. The scourge of scurvy, and other nutritious stories.

Andrew is a Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences at the University of York where his research team investigates how the messages carried by the estrogen hormone are altered in tumours to drive the growth of breast cancer.

But on this occasion he will be explaining to us why sailors were encouraged to eat lemons or limes, what happens if you become deficient in vitamin C, and how food and nutrition is important to the basic biochemical reactions in our bodies.

@AndrewHolding

12:50

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14:00

Dr Mark O'Dell. A collector’s perspective: Fossil collecting in the Malverns and the Cotswolds

Local paleontologist Mark will talk about the tools he uses to find, extract and clean-up fossils. He's found interesting samples to the west of the Malvern Hills and a little further afield in the Cotswolds. If you have any questions about fossils, you'll be able to field your questions to him as well.

14:10

Dr Ilija Rašović. A chat about carbon.

Ilija has dual roles at the University of Birmingham between the Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences (LANS) Hub and the Engineering & Physical Sciences (EPS) college, where he teaches modules with an interdisciplinary science focus and champions the importance of science communication. He also carries out research on the synthesis of new fullerene-based materials for use in biomedical applications.

Ilija will join host Adrian to have a discussion about the wonderful world of carbon. Have you ever wondered how sparkly diamond and 'pencil lead' graphite could possibly be made of the same atoms? Have you heard about buckyballs and graphene and wondered what they really are? All will be explained!

@IlijaRasovic

14:30

Do try this at home: Science with a Washing line.

More details to follow.

@iophwc, @PhysicsNews

14:40

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15:30

Hilary Edgeley. The Rock Cycle.

Hilary is a retired teacher/tutor with twenty years of experience. She has a degree in Geology and is a member of the Malvern U3A Geology and Science groups. For the past five years Hilary has been part of the Geology group steering committee.

During her presentation today, she will talk about the three general types of rocks; igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic, including the origins of each rock type, and how the rock cycle connects and impacts on each of them.

15:40

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15:50

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16:00

Sibghat Ullah, Artificial Intelligence now and in the future

Sibghat is a PhD student undertaking scientific research on a Europen project at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), in The Netherlands  He is modeling intrinsic uncertainty / noise in the area of Computational Intelligence. In this session, Sibghat will be giving a brief introduction to Artificial Intelligence, it’s history, trends and future outlook.

16:10

Do not do this at home: Dangerous experiments!

More details to follow.

@iophwc, @PhysicsNews

16:20

Round-up

We'll take a look at the social media feeds and any photos you've submitted whilst doing experiments in your own home or garden.

16:30

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