Here you will find the selection of excursions for ICPS 2007.
Bletchley Park- Buckinghamshire
Visit Bletchley Park - Britain’s World War II code-breaking centre. A must for anyone interested in computers or cryptology!
Culham- Oxfordshire
Visit Culham, the home of JET (Joint European Torus), the world-leading magnetic-confinement fusion project, and the UK’s own experiment, MAST (Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak).
Diamond Light Source & Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL)- Chilton, Oxfordshire
Visit Diamond Light Source, the largest UK-funded scientific facility to be built for over 30 years, and the Rutherford Appleton Lab (RAL), the UK's premier physics laboratory, home to the VULCAN and ASTRA lasers.
Herstmonceux - Sussex
Visit the later home of the Royal Observatory and see the restored six domes that make up the Equatorial Group, and four of their telescopes. This tour also includes a visit to the nearby Laser Ranging System and to Herstmonceux Castle.
Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory - near Cambridge
Visit the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory where Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars, and see a range of conventional dishes to modern arrays.
The National Physical Laboratory - Teddington, Middlesex (SW London)
Visit the organisation that has weighed Concorde, developed the atomic clock, invented radar and now leads the world in radiotherapy dosages and measurement of nanoparticles.
The Science Museum - London
Visit the UK's premier science museum that houses just about everything to do with science, from space, computing, mathematics to geophysics.
The Thames Flood Barrier - Charlton, London
Visit the Thames flood barrier - an amazing example of UK science in engineering in action to safeguard the capital.
Greenwich Observatory - London
Visit the Royal Observatory (founded in 1675). This tour also includes a visit to the National Maritime Museum.