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This meeting marks the retirement of Professor Dame Athene Donald FRS as a Professor of Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, and is jointly sponsored by the Institute of Physics’s Polymer Physics Group and Biological Physics Group.

The meeting will include a retrospective of Athene’s career, and technical sessions on topics to which Athene has contributed so much:

• polymer physics
• the electron microscopy of materials
• biological physics. 

It will also include two panel discussions on the science policy issues that Athene has contributed so much to:

• The benefits of interdisciplinary working for science, and the institutional and cultural barriers that stand in its way
• Raising the profile of equality, diversity and inclusion in science – how far have we come, and what remains to be done?