FameLab talking Science competition 2016 - Dublin Heat 06 February 2016

FameLab - talking science competition is one of the biggest science communication competitions in the world.

Famelab Ireland returns in 2016 as the world’s leading science communication competition.

If you think you can explain a scientific concept to a general audience, in just three minutes, then why not enter?

The winner will represent Ireland at the 2016 Famelab international finals in the UK and will also win €1000 in prize money.

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Are you studying or working in science, technology, engineering or maths?

If you are aged 18 or older and think you can explain a scientific concept in just three minutes, you could win some fantastic prizes.

Engaging with people outside the scientific community allows scientists to not only enthuse people about their work and science in general, but to justify their use of public funding. 

Regional Heats:

FameLab Ireland 2015-2016 will have 4 regional heats:

Cork: Tuesday 26 January 2016 @ 7pm, Triskel Christchurch, Cork. Application deadline - Tuesday 19 January 2016 

Dublin: Saturday 06 February 2016 @ 4pm, Science Gallery. Application deadline - Friday 29 January 2016  (training 03 February, 5pm-9pm, Beresford Hotel, Store Street, Dublin)

Galway: Tuesday 09 February 2016, Taibhdhearc Theatre, Galway. Application deadline - Thursday 31 December 2015 (training Tuesday 12 January 2016)

More information about the whos, whys and whats of entering the competition.

Apply for FameLab Ireland

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Semantic Scholar launched - free computer science search engine

A new search engine called Semantic Scholar has been launched by the Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence.  It is a free product which currently searches approx. 3 million open-access papers in computer science.

Innovative features include picking out the most important keywords from the text without the author or publishers input.  It extracts figures from documents and presents them in the results list alongside paper references and citing papers.

Semantic Scholar also identifies which of a paper's cited references were influential.

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Welcome Science students and staff - September 2015

Welcome to all new and returning students to ITT Dublin.

For new students, I am the science and computing subject librarian.  Over the next few weeks you will be introduced to the library and all the resources that are available to you to successfully work through your assignments and exams.

Keep up to date with your Library news:

Subscribe to library updates through facebook, twitter and library blogs such as the Library and Science & Computing blogs .  These will keep you up to date about current trials, new journals of interest etc.
Use your library subject supports such as the Science & Computing subject portal.

Calling all makers, educators, technologists etc. - DublinMaker open call is now live!

Dublin Maker will be held on July 25th, 2015 on the grounds of Trinity College Dublin. It is a free to attend, family friendly and community driven event.

Dublin Maker takes the form of a “show and tell” experience where inventors/makers sourced through an open call, will have an opportunity to showcase their creations at individual booths in a carnival atmosphere. It’s a place where people show what they are making, and share what they are learning.

For more information about Dublin Maker click here

Submit an entry to the event - The Open Call for makers opens on March 30th and closes May 25th 2015

Irish Programming Competition 2015 - Registration deadline 16th March 2015

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Irish Collegiate Programming Competition 2015

Registration is now open, register your team before the deadline of March 16th

The UCC ACM Student Chapter will hose the sixth annual Irish Collegiate Programming Competition (IrlCPC) this year on Saturday the 28th of March 2015.

The event is part of The Year of George Boole, a celebration of the life and work of George Boole who was born in 1815 and worked at the University College of Cork. Each team of competitors will be given a problem set that tests their problem solving, numeracy and computer programming skills.

This competition is not for novice programmers but those who have a passion for programming. We are grateful that this year’s prizes will be made possible through the sponsorship of Google.

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Contest for postgraduate students - submission date 16th April 2014

Post-graduate students are invited to submit proposals for this year's student contest at the TERENA Networking Conference (TNC2014), which is sponsored by Cisco Systems and Internet Society. Submissions should be made in PDF format no later than 16 April 2014.

Ten posters will be selected for presentation at TNC2014 with one author from each selected submission able to attend TNC2014 free of charge and potentially receiving financial support for travel. The best of these ten will go through for presentation as a lightning talk. The sponsors will award an additional prize to the author whose poster and talk are voted the best by TNC2014 attendees.

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