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!
