Due to the current social distancing guidelines this instalment of Café Scientifique will be hosted online Via Zoom.
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Dynamic Pricing
ARC’s policy is to set ticket prices based on demand, like budget airlines, which means we set a price when the event goes on sale and then sometimes put the price up or down depending on how the show is selling. Usually, the price will increase as we get closer to the event, so it is advantageous to book in advance, although sometimes we will put special offers on and reduce the price. Our website will always show the current ticket price.
ARC’s theatre and dance performances are priced on a Pay What You Decide basis, which means you don’t have to pay until after you have seen a show!
We want to encourage more people to come and see shows at ARC, more often. Pay What You Decide not only allows you to pay what you can afford, rather than a fixed ticket price, but also removes the financial risk of buying a ticket for a show in advance without knowing whether you are going to enjoy it or not.
Tickets are available to book in advance as usual, but there is no obligation for you to pay until after you have seen the show. You can then decide on a price which you think is suitable based on your experience, which means if you haven’t enjoyed it at all, you don’t have to pay anything.
All money collected will help ARC pay the artists who have performed, and we therefore hope you will give generously.
Please ensure you have arrived and collected your tickets 15 minutes before the show starts in order to secure your seats. At the end of the show, you can decide what to pay, either by cash on the door or by card at the Box Office.
What do Teflon, Prozac, air conditioning and mobile phones have in common?
Graham Sandford – Professor of Chemistry, Durham University
Nature provides many of the chemical building blocks we need for medicines, plastics and polymers from plant sources and oil. However, many household items we use in daily life are entirely man-made. Some synthetic products contain a specific element which gives materials improved properties for valuable pharmaceutical use, as non-stick coatings, anaesthetics, agrochemicals and in mobile phone batteries. The talk will show how one chemical element, common to all these different applications, is used for our benefit.
After obtaining his PhD in Chemistry at Durham, Graham Sandford carried out postdoctoral research in Los Angeles. He then returned to Durham and became a Professor in 2008. He has published over 180 research papers, review articles and patent applications. In 2018 he received the SCI Process Chemistry award sponsored by leading pharmaceutical companies
Due to the current social distancing guidelines this installment of Café Scientifique will be hosted online Via Zoom. Please contact [email protected] for details of how to join the meeting.