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Research Uncovered at Trinity College Dublin Friday 5pm–9pm Admission: Free Location: Trinity’s Front Square 30.09.16 Research uncovered at Trinity College THIS EUROPEAN RESEARCHERS’ NIGHT PROJECT IS FUNDED BY THE Dublin EUROPEAN COMMISSION UNDER THE MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE ACTIONS. WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT? Welcome to Probe, an evening where together, by participating and connecting to cutting-edge research at Trinity College Dublin, we can delve into society’s big issues. 02 03 This event is part of EU Researchers’ Night and an opportunity for everyone to participate in conversations about how we can make things better — locally and globally. We hope you enjoy! PAGE VENUES 06 Get Personal 08 Maker Space 10 Food Tent 12 Main Stage 14 Campanile 16 Vaults 18 Debating Chamber 05 20 Conversation Room 22 Trinity Long Room Hub 24 The Old Library 26 Berkeley Library 28 Douglas Hyde Gallery PAGE MAP 30 Trinity Campus TIMES 5pm–7pm 5pm–8pm 7.30pm–8pm Message Banking Lungs Women Are Boring Tell us the pet names, in-jokes, Find out how Seonadh WAB is a blog dedicated to and personal phrases that O’Leary is using the body’s featuring fascinating research make up your own unique own immune system to fight by interesting women. vocabulary, and find out how tuberculosis, and look at Co-founded in May 2016 by Caroline Jagoe is saving them lung samples that reveal how Catherine Connolly and Grace for people who are losing smoking impacts the disease. McDermott, who wanted to their ability to speak. hear more from women in 5pm–8pm all areas of academia. WAB 5pm–8pm Learning will be doing short vox pops Brain Take part in research on with women in research Researchers from Trinity learning a second language, during Probe to ask them why College Institute of and discover how the brain their research matters, what Neuroscience will offer you learns new information. inspires them, and what's the the opportunity to hook one thing people should know up to an EEG machine and 5pm–8pm about life as a researcher. examine your brainwaves. EU Corner 06 07 Find out about the Marie 5pm–8pm 5pm–8pm Sklowdowska Curie Actions, Unique Immune Systems Pupils and how they fund vitally Cliona O'Farrelly and her team Are the eyes the window to important research across from TBSI are hoping to locate the brain? Neuroscientists the EU, with the Irish around 370 women who were will demonstrate pupil Universities Association. infected with Hep C between dilation and the neural 1977-79 and never developed mechanisms this relates to. 5pm–8pm any signs of infection. The HEADS team believes there may be 5pm–8pm The HEADS project (Head something unique about their Sign Language protection: a European network immune systems that allowed Find out how Lorraine for Advanced Designs in Safety), them to resist infection –– Leeson’s analysis of Dara Ó aims to reach a new level of investigating this may help Briain and Chris Hadfield’s understanding of sport-related treat future cases of Hep-C, Get hand movements can give head injury and how it can be and other viruses too. us a better understanding of prevented. Try on some different sign language and how we types of helmets, learn how 5pm–7pm interpret it. accident reconstruction helps Connect researchers understand the Chat with Giovanni Frazzetto Personal factors influencing head injuries, about the psychology and and see how helmets are tested. neuroscience of intimacy and human connection. TIMES 5pm–7pm 5pm–8pm 5pm–8pm MAKESHOP BigFoot Bridge Building Challenge Created by Science Gallery, Analyse your digital footprint Can you build a bridge in the aim of MAKESHOP is with BigFoot, and see a live your kitchen? Try out some to provide people with view of how much personal different ideas and figure the tools, materials and information you’re leaking out which bridge design can guidance they need to get through social media. carry the greatest weight, making, where creativity is using only spaghetti and encouraged and everyone 5pm–8pm sticky tape! DIT engineers is welcome. MAKESHOP will Med3DP will be on hand to provide run some of their signature Check out affordable 3D-printed you with some helpful hints. workshops. medical devices, how they are used and developed by TCD’s 5pm–8pm 5pm–7pm Bioengineering Masters project. Augmented Reality Sandbox Be a Badger Trinity Geology present Test your badger knowledge 5pm–8pm an opportunity to talk — where you think their The Pip about geology through an stripes go? You’ll also have Take the opportunity to try interactive AR sandbox with 08 09 the chance to see how out The Pip, a thumb-sized projection mapping that badgers are tracked, work device that measures and changes topography as you out where they go, and see manages your stress levels move the sand. maps of badger movement. using biofeedback. Lead by Rachel Byrne with 5pm–8pm Aoibheann Gaughran and 5pm–8pm Irish Amphibians Georgia O’Sullivan. Magical Materials Get up close and personal Magical Materials is a mini- with Trinity's research on rare 5pm–7pm exhibition that explores Pennsylvanian amphibians Parasites Alive! the peculiar properties of from Kilkenny. Which animals are infected the world’s most futuristic with parasites? Find out and spectacular materials. 5pm–8pm about the parasites that See, touch and experience Ore to the Core cause tropical diseases, track magical materials from Researchers from iCRAG Maker the life-cycle of parasites, and CRANN and AMBER. show the relationship see a tape worm explode out between ores, rocks, of its cyst live! Led by Celia 5pm–8pm minerals and their crucial Holland, Gwen Deslyper, RoboSlam role in everyday life. Peter Stuart, Maureen Get hands-on with robots. Space Williams and Paula Tierney. The RoboSlam team will help you learn how to build a bot! TIMES 5pm–6pm 5pm–8pm 6pm–6.30pm Surplus Food Meal ShareCity Pollinator Food Demo With the assistance at Browse the ShareCity A cooking demonstration FoodCloud and ShareCity database, where people can and Q&A with chef Clare (from the Department of explore the global network Anne O’Keefe and botanist Geography), Fiona Hallinan of food-sharers. Come speak Jane Stout, who have and the DU Food & Drink with researchers about the developed a recipe entirely Society will create a meal potential impact of this from animal-pollinated food. from leftover, extra, and work and the challenges of soon-to-be-dumped food. creating an infrastructure and legislation for sharing, and 5pm–7pm add your own thoughts and Cloud Picker suggestions to the debate. Roasting and cupping demos from Cloud Picker, 5pm–8pm Dublin City’s first micro Science Gallery Café Stand coffee roastery. Soup, stewp and hot drinks available all night. 10 11 5pm–8pm Endophytes Demo 5pm–8pm Isolate the symbiotic Microbiome microorganisms that live Explore the gut biome and in and protect plants, and its connection to overall discover how they might health with Ruairi Robertson. lead to cleaner, more sustainable agricultural 5pm–9pm practices. Sharing Station WeShare Dublin provide 5pm–8pm a space where people can Pollinated Cosmetics leave something they don’t A demonstration of high- need, take something they end cosmetic products that do need, or reduce their Food wouldn’t exist without carbon footprint for a more Tent insect pollinators. sustainable and caring world. TIMES 6pm–7pm 5.20pm–5.40pm Short Talks Liam O'Connor Curated and hosted by the & Seán McKeon Irish Research Council, this Traditional music on fiddle event features seven five- and uilleann pipes from two minute long talks by seven of Ireland's most exciting early-career researchers, performers. each addressing a different grand societal challenge. Curated and hosted by the Irish Research Council. 7.15pm–7.45pm Music from Carol Anne McGowan Experience Carol Anne’s timeless, haunting folk-noir, with a captivating burnished 12 13 style of vocal that has been compared to Beth Gibbons, Hope Sandoval, Karen Dalton and Nancy Sinatra. 8.15pm–9pm Music from Stomptown Brass Get down with the New Orleans style vibes of this urban brass band based in Dublin, playing original music written and composed Main by James O’Leary. Stage TIMES All Night 5pm–7pm Sun at Night Birdsong Students from the School of (Next to Campanile) Physics will project 48 hours Want to try being a birdsong of recent footage of the sun researcher? Can you trap vertically into the Campanile birds and analyse birdsong? to create an immersive Researchers use differences experience that engages between birds’ songs to visitors in the concepts of determine what species solar physics. This event is they are. Throw toy birds in kindly supported by the HEA a net, play birdsongs and — Dublin Graduate Physics match pictures of birds to Programme. their songs. Lead by Darren O’Connell, Andrew Mooney All night and Annabel Smith. Radio data soundscape A soundscape that will play in the Campanile 14 15 to accompany the sun projection, using sonified radio data from the sun. This event is kindly supported by the HEA — Dublin Graduate Physics Programme. Campanile TIMES 5pm–8pm 5pm–8pm Spatial Music Ice Core Isotopes Experience a 360° music Researchers from IsoNose performance in virtual demonstrate how ice cores reality, by composer and can be used to interpret researcher Enda Bates. isotope patterns to understand past climate 5pm–8pm change. AR Sandbox iCRAG present an 5pm–8pm opportunity to talk about Listening Post geology through an Listen to audio documen- interactive augmented taries that connect with reality sandbox with TCD research themes and projection mapping that researchers. changes topography as you move the sand. 5pm–8pm Coffee and Snacks 16 17 5pm–8pm Coffee and snacks available Deep Flow in the Buttery all night.
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