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 - 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?