Top names lined up for 2006 lecture series

An analysis of how the 2012 Olympic Games were won for London made for an exciting start to the 2006 Saturday Evening Lecture Series. International Olympic Committee Member, Sir Craig Reedie, presented 'How the Games were won' and spoke about how it will impact on the UK, as well as opportunities the Games will bring to Scotland.

Scotland's leading clinician for diabetes and University Chair of Diabetic Medicine Professor Andrew Morris will discuss the alarming increase in the number of people with diabetes and ask what can be done to address the problem in his lecture - Metabolic Mayhem! How should we confront the Diabetes Epidemic? - on 18 February.

The Big Bang and Conspiracy Theories will be the topics for lectures in March. On 18 March acclaimed scientific author, journalist and television producer Simon Singh will present a history of the world in 60 minutes from the Big Bang to the galaxy's secret code of life.

On 25 March David Aaronovitch from The Times will give his take on the popular political suspicions of our time in 'Conspiracy Theories from JFK to Princess Diana.

The insignificance of man in the context of his natural environment, as demonstrated by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami and the Indian Ocean earthquake, will be the topic of a lecture by Dr David Tappin from the British Geological Society on 01 April.

The final lecture of the series will be presented by Dr Kumi Naidoo, Secretary General and Chief Executive Officer of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Civic Participation. Dr Naidoo will discuss 'Commission on Africa One Year On'.

All lectures are free and open to the public and take place in the Tower Extension Lecture Theatre at 6pm. For further details see: www.dundee.ac.uk/events.