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The Lord Mayor will explore the historical background to apprenticeships, their importance over the centuries, and their relevance to the future and how they can rise to the challenges of modern education in a modern society, provide training for working life, and benefit apprentices themselves.
The mystery of an image of a levitating mathematician that won a first prize in a photo science competition in 2013 will be explained to show that such principles can be used beyond special effects.
Rear Admiral Richard John Lippiett is a former senior Royal Navy officer whose final posting was as the Commandant of the Joint Services Command and Staff College. After his retirement, he was the Chief Executive of the Mary Rose Trust
Dr Robert Lomas is a writer, physicist and business studies academic. He writes primarily about the history of Freemasonry as well as the Neolithic period, ancient engineering and archaeoastronomy.
Nandini Das is Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool. She is an expert on Renaissance literature and cultural history, with a special emphasis on travel and cross-cultural encounters between Europe and Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.