Location: Charles Perkins Centre Auditorium.
Free to attend and no need to register! All welcome: please come and enjoy!
9:00 Welcome and Introduction including Acknowledgement of Country by Corey Tutt
Session 1: Slimey brains
Chair: Shelley Wickham
9:15 Tanya Latty (University of Sydney) Slime moulds and social insects as models for dynamic problem solving
9:45 Ben Fulcher (University of Sydney) Using machine learning to enhance productive interdisciplinary exchange
10:00 Vini Gautam (Australian National University) Nanotechnology and neuroscience
Break (30 min)
Session 2: Buzzing with light
Chair: Ben Fulcher
11:00 Srini Srinivasan (University of Queensland) Bees, birds and ‘bots
11:30 Lydia Ng (Allen Institute for Brain Science) Towards a brain cell census
12:00 Francois Ladouceur (University of NSW) A dense optical integration system suitable for optogenetics
Lunch Break (1 hour)
Session 3: Innovative approaches
Chair: Rachel Wang
1:30 Shelley Wickham (University of Sydney) DNA origami
2:00 Sarab Sethi (Imperial College London) Audio markers of biodiversity
2:30 Alice Williamson (University of Sydney) Breaking Good
Break (15 min)
Session 4: Science and Art
Chair: Yu-Heng Lau
3:15 Sebastián Pérez (Universidad de Chile) and Anya Yermakova (Harvard University)
Session 5: Science and Startups
Moderator: Maryanne Large
4:00 Corey Tutt (University of Sydney) Indigenous Pathways
4:15 Stephen Perrault (ReadCoor), Cibby Pulikkaseril (Baraja), Marinna Madrid (Cellino)
5:45 Close
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