Day 71 - Special Lectures to remember your late colleague

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Hello students, a reminder of what being at a top university is all about!

May I please encourage you to attend Professor Rick Battarbee's special lecture at 5.30 pm on March 19th. The title is "Fossil Fuel Combustion: the Environmental Impact" and it will be held in the Christopher Ingold Chemistry Lecture Theatre. It has been designed with both physical and human geographers in mind and will relate to the courses of all years. You will have the opportunity to hear a renowned world specialist on one of the most important topics of the age.

The lecture is the annual Frank Carter lecture. It is named in honour of our former colleague, Professor Frank Carter (1938-2001). Frank spent almost all of his academic life lecturing and researching the geography of Eastern Europe at UCL and SSEES. His research interests were broad and included a range of environmental issues in Eastern Europe. Hence, it is highly appropriate that this year's lecture has an environmental theme.

John Salt

And so I went for the talk. Returned to Chemistry Auditorium, where we had our International Orientation.

While the speaker is getting ready

The huge periodic table that grace the auditorium.

When they started to introduce the speaker, saying how this is a bi-annual lecture to commemorate their generous late colleague, I began to feel that something is not right. Turns out I was in the wrong lecture theatre! Yes, this is a memorial lecture, but it's on Shakespeare and Romanticism!

I quickly exited the LT with much embarrassment, only to find out that the Chemistry Auditorium is not the Christopher Ingold Theatre. How come? The direction signs point to the same place what?

Turns out there is a small door around the corner......

I thought the talk was a waste of time. Don't get me wrong, it has wonderful content on the research behind acid rain and lake acidification. But it's EXACTLY the same thing I had when he lectured for the Restoration and Management of Freshwater Ecosystem!!! So there wasn't any value adding for me though. :(

But I thought it is an interesting way to commemorate your late colleagues.