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This meeting marks the retirement of Professor Dame Athene Donald FRS as a Professor of Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, and is jointly sponsored by the RSC/IoP Polymer Physics group, and supported by the Biological Physics, Women in Physics, and Complex Fluids groups. It will include a retrospective of Athene’s career, and technical sessions on topics to which Athene has contributed so much:
- polymer physics
- the electron microscopy of materials
- biological physics. 

It will also include two panel discussions on the science policy issues that Athene has contributed so much to:
- The benefits of interdisciplinary working for science, and the institutional and cultural barriers that stand in its way
- Raising the profile of equality, diversity and inclusion in science – how far have we come, and what remains to be done?

The meeting is co-chaired by Profs. Ruth Cameron (University of Cambridge) and Richard Jones (University of Manchester).
 
Invited speakers:
Sir Richard Friend, University of Cambridge, UK
Paul Meredith, University of Swansea, UK
Alison Smith, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
Aline Miller, University of Manchester, UK
Jamie Hobbs, University of Sheffield, UK
Dame Julia Higgins, Imperial College London, UK
Joe Keddie, University of Surrey, UK
Tony Ryan, University of Sheffield, UK
Matin Durrani, Editor, Physics World, UK
Veronica Strang, Durham University, UK
Mark Leake, University of York, UK
Beth Bromley, Durham University, UK
Helen Gleeson, University of Leeds, UK
Richard Jones, University of Manchester, UK
 
Please reserve the date, 12-13 September 2022, with a formal dinner on 12th Sep. Registration and accommodation booking will open very shortly!