Science Week Ireland runs until next Sunday, November 8th and offers dozens of events designed to encourage a better public understanding of science.
What's on today, Wednesday, November 4th
Exhibition explaining the world's largest optical telescope, the European Southern Observatory, at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 10 Burlington Road, Dublin, weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. until November 13th and next Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Additional information from (01) 838-7911.
"Remembrance of Things Past: The Functional Significance of Memory", lecture, Theatre A, Science Lecture Building, UCD, Belfield, 7.30 p.m.
Series of six half-hour lectures on "Manipulating our landscapes", "Global Change", "Marine Issues", "Ireland's lakes, the green, the blue and the ecu", "Parasites in dogs and water, public health implications" and "Conflicts in the Irish countryside", running from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Trinity College lecture theatre LTEE1. Additional information from (01) 608-2022.
A Future Tense special on RTE Radio 1 to mark Science Week Ireland at 3.30 p.m.
What's on tomorrow, Thursday, November 5th
"The size of the universe", lecture, NUI Galway, Cairnes Theatre, 8 p.m.
Open day at Letterkenny Institute of Technology, 10.30 to 3.30.
"BSE, Mad Cows and Mad Humans", lecture, Theatre A, Science Lecture Building, UCD, Belfield, 7.30 p.m.
"Meetings with Remarkable Trees", lecture by Thomas Pakenham, RDS, Ballsbridge, 1.20 p.m.1.50 p.m., admission £3. Additional information from (01) 668-0866.
Series of half-hour lectures on "The appliance of science in medicine", "Genetically modified plants" and "Truth and myth with respect to physical fitness", from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. at Trinity College lecture theatre LTEE1. Information from (01) 608-2022.