2026

Tuesday 3rd March – AI in healthcare – from hype to hope (Professor Antoni Chan – University of Reading/RBH)

Tuesday 3rd February – AI Griefbots and Memorybots (Professor Dan Remenyi)

Tuesday 13th January – Reading New Year STEAM Social

2025

Tuesday 7th November – Unearthing the Future – Modelling of Failures (Chris Riches)

Tuesday 7th October – Lichens, drones & dinosaur bones: dinosaur discovery in Canada (Dr Brian Pickles – University of Reading)

Tuesday 16th September – Too many elephants? (Dr Vicky Boult – University of Reading)

Tuesday 12th August – Reading STEAM Summer Social

Tuesday 1st July – Microwaves – Friend or Foe? From your kitchen to outer space (Samudra Dasgupta – University of Bristol)

Tuesday 3rd June – How to talk to bacteria (Dr Aidan J. Taylor – School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading)

Tuesday 29th April – The Science Behind the Magic: Can Psilocybin Treat Chronic Pain? (Tate Askey & Daniil Luzyanin – University of Reading)

Tuesday 1st April – Lovelock, Cybernetics & Systems Approach (Richard Mitchell, Professor of Cybernetics, Computer Science, University of Reading)

Tuesday 4th March – Whooping cough vaccines: a century of good science & bad (David Miles – London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

Tuesday 4th Feb – Scraping sheep, mad cows & zombie deer: prion diseases in the 21^st century (Professor Patrick Lewis – The Royal Veterinary College)

2024

Tuesday 5th Nov – Origins: The Cosmos in Verse (Professor Joseph Conlon – University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3rd Sept – The solar material of the future? Breaking the efficiency glass celling with perovskite solar cells! (Akash Dasgupta – University of Oxford)

Tuesday 13th Aug – Reading STEAM Meetup Groups Summer Gathering

Tuesday 6th Feb – Citizen Science from your back garden – Helping professional astronomers with amateur equipment (Dr Trevor Gainey, Reading/Basingstoke Astronomical Societies)

Tuesday 9th January – Reading STEAM Meetup Groups New Year Gathering

2023

Tuesday 7th November – Harnessing space technology to monitor and manage life below water (Dr Shovonlal Roy – University of Reading)

Tuesday 3rd October – Cognitive neuroscience insights from imaging and stimulating the brain (Dr Eva Feredoes – University of Reading)

Tuesday 4th July – An introduction to Oxford Quantum Circuits & superconducting qubits (Harry Waring – Oxford Quantum Circuits)

Tuesday 6th June – The Great Chatbot Wars – What is at stake? (Professor Dan Remenyi)

Tuesday 4th April – Tracking the sustainability of long-haul flights (Dr. Cathie Wells University of Reading/The Walker Institute)