The 7th “Clareity Symposium” was held on thursday the 13th of March 2014 in the Gillespie Conference Centre, Memorial Court. It was a splendid day with a great variety of talks (20 in total), ranging from conservation and quantum physics, politics and art, to history and medicine. Furthermore, Professor Nicky Clayton gave a brilliant keynote lecture about her amazing work on cognition.
There was a great turn-out and lively discussion throughout the day, both after the talks and over tea and lunch and the day was finished off with a special three-course dinner in small hall for all the speakers, chairs and organisers of Clareity.
Congratulations to Dave Williams who won the first prize for his great talk on megafauna extinction and Nathaniel Zelinsky who won the prize for the best question!
Click here to see the full programme of the symposium. Below is a nice selection of photos of the day, with great thanks to Quentin Gouil.

Welcome by Clareity President, Jolle Jolles

Opening of the day by the master of Clare, Professor Tony Badger

There was a great turn-out for the Symposium

Timothy Chesters chairing

The first talk of the day by Emma Cross

Tiia Sahrakorpi presenting the second talk of the day

Timothy Chesters chairing the first session of the day

Dave Williams presenting his price winning talk

The speakers of the first panel answering some interesting questions

Ross Buckingham, MCR President, chairing the second session

Payam Gammage talking about genetic engineering

Enjoying the day

Tehmina Kazi delivering an impressive talk

Megan Stanley explaining about quantum physics

Megan Stanley explaining about quantum physics

The speakers answering questions from the audience

All talks were very engaging

Time for a great lunch!

People discussing some of the posters over lunch

A great job by the catering

Tehmina Kazi presenting a trailer of her film

Adam Wurr delivering a great talk once again

Aideen Foley talking about climate change

Clareity CRA Meredith Shafto chairing the second session

Ellen Quigley giving a surprisingly understandable talk about finance

Rachel Silverman talking about tuberculosis

Time for some more lively discussion

Jolle Jolles introducing the plenary of the day by Nicky Clayton

Professor Nicky Clayton giving the plenary lecture of the day

Jennifer Jenkins talking about volcanoes

Mark Agius giving a talk about the Human Self and the Medical Consultation

Jiho Han giving us some new insights about laser beams

Jiho Han giving us some new insights about laser beams

Question time!

Dionysios Kyropoulos giving an interesting talk about gesture in Baroque opera

Dionysios Kyropoulos giving an interesting talk about gesture in Baroque opera

Chairing was easy as all speakers kept their talks nicely within the time limits

David Fairen-Jimenez talking about self-assembled architectures

Patricia Fara chairing the last session of the day

The only minor issue of the day due to a computer deciding to restart by itself!

Nathaniel Zelinsky giving a great talk about the V for Victory symbol

Edward Oughton giving a talk about ICT interconnectivity

Jelena Renic’s talk about preventing waste accumulation

The final talk of the day by Maya Corry

The final question session of the day!