My Smarter Essex: Thursday 6 October, 16:00-19:30, Anglia Ruskin University

Could your students design and build a city for the future using just their imagination and a mobile phone?

CSES, in partnership with Anglia Ruskin University and Essex County Council, is pleased to announce an exciting and interactive event – My Smarter Essex – where students and teachers will be able to understand, explore and simulate how their requirements and preferences can influence the design of a Future Essex.

Read more: My Smarter Essex

Wednesday 22 June 2016, 19.00, Anglia Ruskin University

Announcing the next Institute of Physics (IOP) and CSES talk on the subject of Physics and the Electric Guitar with Nick Weaver.

Please see our events page for all the details.

Sat 14 – Fri 27 May 2016, Marconi Hall Street Works

As the hugely successful Building the Wireless Age exhibition continues, we are pleased to announce that the following events have been added to the programme:

• Sat 14 – Sun 15 May: Come and make a radio with CSES
• Fri 20 May: Amazing Ada: The Countess of Computers with Heidi Hards
• Fri 27 May: Riding the Radio Waves with Jane Humhpreys

These events all require booking: please follow the links above for more information.

Read more: Build a radio workshop and new talks added to Marconi programme

Thursday 5 May 2016, 19.00, Marconi Hall Street Works

Professor Danielle George, probably best known for presenting The Royal Institution 2014 Christmas Lectures, will give a talk about the impact of Marconi on the world of Radio Astronomy and the new age of instrumentation: The Square Kilometer Array (SKA). 

Places are limited: book now!

Read more: Marconi and the Invisible Universe with Professor Danielle George

EOF2016, Thursday 5 May 2016, 15.30, Marconi Hall Street Works

CSES is delighted to announce a unique opportunity, as part of our Engineering Our Future series, for local school students to see and hear Professor Danielle George at the original Marconi factory in Hall Street.

Danielle is probably best known for presenting The Royal Institution 2014 Christmas Lectures.

Places are limited: book now!

Read more: Engineering Our Future with Professor Danielle George

Hall Street, Open 11 March to 29 May 2016, every Saturday and Sunday 11am-3pm, FREE ENTRY

To celebrate the history and legacy of Marconi and the Marconi Company in Chelmsford, a free commemorative event entitled Marconi: Building the Wireless Age will be hosted over a period of three months in the original Grade II listed Marconi Factory in Hall Street prior to its conversion into residential and commercial units.

CSES will be running hands-on Science and Engineering activities and a series of talks have been organised (pre-booking is required).

Archival material from a variety of sources will be showcased, in many cases for the first time. Contributors include The International Marconi Museum in Bologna, The Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, the Essex Records Office, Chelmsford Museums and several private collections. Local families with their own small collections of Marconi-related memorabilia have also contributed.

Read more: Building the Wireless Age: A Unique Marconi Exhibition

CSES Presidential Dinner, Thursday 28 April 2016, 7.00 for 7.30 pm, The Warren Golf & Country Club

We are pleased to welcome members and their guests to our 2016 President's Dinner, and are now accepting bookings.

With a great menu and our speaker Professor David Humber (Provost of Anglia Ruskin University's Chelmsford Campus) due to deliver a talk intriguingly entitled Infectious diseases I'd rather not catch again!, this promises to be an excellent evening.

Read more: CSES Annual Dinner 2016

Videos of two of our most high-profile lectures are now available exclusively to CSES members.

We have uploaded the recordings of the following events:

• Making Waves: How Marconi's Wireless Legacy Takes us Ever Further Into Space (an exciting and well-attended talk by Marconi's grandson himself, Professor Francesco Paresce Marconi)
• Birth of the Signalling War: The Marconi Company's key role in WW1 (by the renowned Dr Elizabeth Bruton, a world-leading expert on the history of the Marconi Company, who gave a special talk in Chelmsford on this very subject)

If you are not yet a member, visit our membership section to find out how to join or register.