LivWiSE Annual Christmas Lecture 2015

Returing for it's second year, the LivWiSE Christmas Lecture features a series of science and engineering topics, delivered as short TED style talks, by female scientists and engineers.

1) From Silicon Valley: End of Moore’s Law; a blessing or a curse?, Dr Ivona Mitrovic, Electrical Engineering and Electronics

2) The Little things that run the world; it’s a bugs life, Dr Kate Parr, Ecology

3) The Snowman & Snowdog; Engineering a different outcome for the snowdog using a Finite Element Model, Rosti Hama-Rashid, Engineering

4) Good Driver, Bad Driver; calculating the costs - Revealing the maths behind car insurance premiums, Dr Corina Constantinescu, Maths

5) Imaging the invisible, Dr Laura Harkness-Brennan, Physics

6) Who let the virus take control?, Dr Heather Allison, Microbiology

Q&A session

 

WATCH the stream of the lecture below. Please note the sound quality may vary.

From Silicon Valley: End of Moore's Law - a blessing or a curse? by Dr Ivona Mitrovic, Electrical Engineering and Electronics
 
 
The Little Things that Run the World: All about Ants by Dr Kate Parr, Ecology
 
 
The Snowman & Snowdog; Engineering a different outcome for the snowdog using a Finite Element Model, by Rosti Hama-Rashid, Engineering
 
 
Good Driver, Bad Driver; calculating the costs - Revealing the maths behind car insurance premiums, Dr Corina Constantinescu, Maths
 
 
 
Imaging the invisible, Dr Laura Harkness-Brennan, Physics
 

 

Who let the virus take control?, Dr Heather Allison, Microbiology

 

Q&A session - Audio recording (please note the sound quality varies).  Questions asked;

  • Why does car insurance stay the same every year and doesn't go down?
  • What will happen if invasive ants are introduced into places?
  • How do you create an ant free zone?
  • Are more antivirals being developed?
  • Can you manipulate a virus?
  • What is the future of Silicon?

 

 
 

Thanks for everyone who Tweeted about the event, here is a small selection: