Join a full day of presentations and stimulating discussions with the academics and prize-winning PhD students in the Faculty of Natural Sciences and find out about our innovative work. Everybody is welcome! Please register as soon as possible (deadline: 18th September).
Natural Sciences Showcase
10:00 – 18:00, SAFB G34 LT
Welcome coffee from 9.30 in the concourse level 1
- Departmental talks sessions: 10:00 -16:10 in SAFB G34 LT (coffee breaks in the concourse level 1)
- PhD students poster competition: 12:30-13:40 in SAFB 120-122 (lunch will be provided) – Imperial staff and students can VOTE for their favourite poster before the event – check this website!!
- Panel session – Mitigating the climate catastrophe: 16:10 – 17:10 in SAFB 120-122
- Awards from 17:15 with canapés & drinks reception in the concourse level 1
Don’t miss this great opportunity to engage with our academics and postgraduate students. Please see the full programme below:
Programme
(Coffee and tea will be available from 9:30 in the concourse level 1)
10:00-10:05 Welcome by the Dean Professor Richard Craster
10:05-10:35 Centre for Environmental Policy Showcase
- 10:05 – 10:20 Dr Alex Collins – Title of talk: Transdisciplinary research on nature based solutions for sustainable, resilient and just cities?
- 10:20 – 10:35 Elizabeth Fonseca – Title of talk: Biodiversity and air quality impacts of future agricultural scenarios in the UK: how spatial modelling can provide policy insights
10:35-11:20 Department of Mathematics Showcase
- 10:35 – 10:50 Dr jack Jacquier – Title of talk: Mathematical Finance: From data to models and back?
- 10:50 – 11:05 Sara Veneziale – Title of talk: Machine learning detects terminal singularities
- 11:05 – 11:20 Bethany Clarke – Title of talk: Bifurcation Analysis in Active Filament Models
Coffee break (11:20-11:30)
11:30-12:30 Department of Life Sciences Showcase
- 11:30 -11:45 Professor Tom Bell – Title of talk: Replaying the tape of ecology
- 11:45 – 12:00 Alex Yip – Title of talk: Investigating colonisation resistance against carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae using artificial gut models
- 12:00 – 12:15 Theo Hembury – Title of talk: Generating electricity from bacteria
- 12:15 – 12:30 Eleonora Moratto – Title of talk: Electric fields in plant pathogen interactions
12:30-13:40 Lunch & Poster session
13:40-14:40 Department of Chemistry Showcase
- 13:40 – 13:55 Dr Andreas Kafizas – Title of talk: Can water fuel our future? Developing solar-driven water splitting prototypes for the production of clean hydrogen fuel using scalable synthetic routes
- 13:55 – 14:10 Nan Wu – Title of talk: Evolutionarily conserved protein allosteric pathways
- 14:10 – 14:25 Tong Wang – Title of talk: Investigating the intermolecular charge transfer state in high efficient non-fullerene acceptors by ultrafast spectroscopy
- 14:25 – 14:40 Aatikah Majid – Title of talk: High-throughput synthesis and screening of optical probes for g-quadruplex DNA
Coffee break (14:40-14:50)
14:50- 15:50 Department of Physics Showcase
- 14:50 – 15:05 Dr James Owen– Title of talk: The Exoplanet Opportunity
- 15:05 – 15:20 Sophia Zomerdijk-Russell- Title of talk: The Dynamic Magnetosphere of Mercury
- 15:20 – 15:35 Anezka Klustova – Title of talk: Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions at MINERvA
- 15:35 – 15:50 Jan Kożuszek – Title of talk: Hearing the echos of the cosmos: gravitational waves from a theorist’s perspective
15:50 -15:55 Closing remarks by the Dean Professor Richard Craster
Coffee break (15:55-16:10)
16:10 – 17:10 Mitigating the climate catastrophe
Panel discussion
Chair: Dr Vivienne Foster (Centre for Environmental Policy)
- Panel members:
- Dr Laura Barter (Department of Chemistry)
- Professor Helen Brindley (Department of Physics)
- Professor Colin Cotter (Department of Mathematics)
- Dr Bonnie Waring (Department of Life Sciences)
- Professor Joeri Rogelj (Centre for Environmental Policy)
17:15 – 18:00 – Canapes reception and Prizes
- Awards will be given at 17:30