The Dorothy Hodgkin Symposium

You are warmly invited to attend a one-day symposium that aims to recognise Dorothy Hodgkin’s legacy and mark the award of her Nobel Â
 Prize. Her field, crystallography, underpins all of the sciences today and has an extensive range of applications within the agro-food, Â
 aeronautic, computer, electro-mechanical, pharmaceutical and mining industries and more. 45 scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize Â
 over the past century for work that is either directly or indirectly related to crystallography, and yet it remains a field relatively unknown to Â
 the general public. This year UNESCO has joined forces with the International Union of Crystallography to promote education and public Â
 awareness, and we are delighted to contribute to this effort with the Dorothy Hodgkin Symposium. Â
 PROGRAMME
 2:45 pm Tea & Coffee, Somerville College, Flora Anderson Hall
 3:00 pm Hidden Glory, Dorothy Hodgkin in her own words, Somerville College, Flora Anderson Hall
 A filmed performance of a short, one-woman play about the life and work of Dorothy Hodgkin, Â
 followed by Q&A with the playwright Georgina Ferry
 4:00 pm Registration, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
 4:10 pm Welcome, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
 Dr Alice Prochaska, Principal of Somerville College
 Dr Wendy Watson-Wright, Assistant Director General and Â
 Executive Secretary of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
 4:30 pm Keynote Talk: A Hundred Years of Visualising Molecules, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
 Professor (Sir) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel laureate; Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge
 5:30 pm Tea & Coffee, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
 5:45 pm Panel Discussion, Using crystallography to help solve the world’s great medical problems: from Dorothy Hodgkin into the 21st century, Â
 Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
 Biographies of panel participants may be found overleaf
 7:15 pm Drinks Reception, Somerville College, The Old College Bar
 8:00 pm Supper, Somerville College, Dining HallÂ

The Symposium welcomes academics, students, Somerville and Oxford alumni, representatives of scientific bodies and institutions, the Â
 media and members of the general public. The majority of the programme is free to attend. Tickets for supper including wine will be Â
 £35 per person and students are offered a reduced rate of £15 per person.

To register, please visit https://www.alumniweb.ox.ac.uk/somerville/dorothy-hodgkin-symposium or ring the Somerville Development Office on 01865 280 626. Space is limited, so prompt Â
 booking is recommended, and places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.Â