Churchill Lecture – Reaching for the Stars with Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock
17 October | Doors open 6pm
Join us for an exciting new Churchill Lecture with Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, tied to our special exhibition Beyond Infinity: American Space Exploration.
What are the benefits of thinking big and reaching for the stars? Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock explores these ideas and shows how having a big dream is good for all of us and how Astronomy has been a global – and unifying – endeavour throughout history, past and present.
About Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock PhD is a space scientist whose passion is presenting science to a general audience and demonstrating that you ‘don’t need a brain the size of a small planet’ to understand, participate in and enjoy science. She studied at Imperial College London, where she obtained her degree in Physics and her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. She has spent her career making novel, bespoke instrumentation in both the industrial and academic environments including working on the James Webb Space Telescope and various satellites monitoring climate change.
To further share her passion for science Maggie founded “Science Innovation Ltd” in 2004. Through this company she conducts public engagement activities, sharing her love of space and encouraging underrepresented communities to take up STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. To date Maggie has directly spoken to well over 600,000 people around the world. As well as public speaking she is a bafta nominated TV presenter, co-hosts the world’s longest-running science television program “The Sky at Night” as well as many other television and radio appearances. She is also an author with her recent children’s book “Am I made of Stardust” winning a Royal Society book prize. Maggie also won the Institute of Physics gold medal for exceptional services to science education and physics communication and was the President of the British Science Association. She is the current Chancellor of the University of Leicester and in December, will be presenting the 200th Anniversary Royal Institution Christmas Lecture. Maggie was made a Dame in the 2023 New Year’s Honours list.
Tickets
17 October
Things you need to know
Doors will open at 6pm with drinks for sale at our bar.
The lecture will begin at 7pm and is due to end by 8pm
We are pleased to offer free parking. If the main car park is full, please follow our signs to the additional parking, just a short distance up Claverton Hill from the main car park.
On arrival, please check in with the Ticket Office team who will give you more information about your visit.
Please be aware that we are unable to provide a refund unless the event is cancelled.
Please note we are a completely non-smoking site.
If you have any questions, or need to amend your booking, please contact us via email at ticketoffice@americanmuseum.org or by phone on +44 (0)1225 460503.