ICE Annual Supper Meeting - Cumbria

Date: 9 February 2012, 18:00 - 0:00

Venue Details

Salutation Hotel, Ambleside

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Description

Nuclear Fusion and its Challenges for Civil Engineers

Speaker:
Robin Stafford Allen FIMechE of the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy

Robin is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and started his professional life in the Motor Industry with a branch of General Motors -- Vauxhall/Bedford. After a Masters in Bio-engineering at Surrey (1976) he worked for several years on the engineering of MRI magnets and cryostats with Oxford Magnet Technology, then part of Oxford Instruments. He joined Culham in 1992, and has worked in Cryogenics and in the Heating and Fuelling of plasmas on-and-off every since. Robin recently spent a sabbatical six years as Director of Engineering for a small tenant company on the Culham site designing and constructing a large 1-metre-bore special superconducting magnet for the AMS-2 experiment (a mass-spectrometer) which was launched on the penultimate Shuttle flight to the International Space Station. Sadly due to damage to our magnet during commissioning, our magnet was not part of the final payload. Robin is currently working at CCFE on the mechanical engineering of the plasma-heating equipment for the ITER machine.

Time:  18:00 for 19:00

Menu:

Steak & Mushroom Casserole with puff pastry lid
Braised Cartmel Valley Venison in red wine sauce
Fillet of Salmon with lemon & chive cream sauce
Whole Baked Pepper with poppy seed rice

Brandy Snap Basket, ice cream & red berry coulis
Chocolate Bread & Butter Pudding with custard

To Book
Please download flyer for further details and send your choice of meal and a cheque for £10 made payable to the Institution of Civil Engineers to:
Deborah Ritson, WYG Engineering Ltd., Unit 6, Lakeland Business Park, Lamplugh Road, Cockermouth  CA13 0QT (e deborah.ritson@wyg.com)

For further details contact:  Steve Pollington
e  steve.pollington@wyg.com
t  01900 898 609

Directions:
From the North: M6 to Penrith junction 40, head west on the A66 to the turning for St. John's in the Vale to join the A591 and continue south. For The Ambleside Salutation Hotel continue on to Ambleside, and the Salutation is on the left on the brow of the hill.
From the South: M6 to junction 36 then follow the A591 through Windermere to Ambleside. For The Ambleside Salutation Hotel follow the one way system and then take the right hand lane at the pelican crossing and the Hotel is on the left.

 

Flyer with further details and for display