Posted on September 16th, 2010 by Mobyseven
Blaaaaaaargh. I’m not feeling particularly well today. Not sure why, but I’m working on the assumption that it’s an extremely temporary situation. Nevertheless, I’m not in a ‘writing lots of information mood’, so just know this: The event this week will be awesome, it will be on tropical geometry, and (as always) there are more [...]
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Posted on September 14th, 2010 by Mobyseven
After a week-long break we are back with our regular UMSS events! This Wednesday the 15th (tomorrow) sees us hosting our next Q&A on Campus session on genes in the environment and genetic mythbusting led by Professor Ary Hoffmann. Ary Hoffmann is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science who received a Federation Fellowship [...]
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Posted on September 9th, 2010 by Mobyseven
If that title sounds cryptic, that’s because…well, it is. This week the MUMS event is sort of a mixed bag approach. Antoinette Tordesillas, from the applied maths tribe of the maths department, has gathered together five of her students, and each of them will be giving a short presentation on some problem or issue they [...]
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Posted on September 2nd, 2010 by Mobyseven
Henry Segerman, to the best of my knowledge, is a reasonably recent addition to the academic staff at the University of Melbourne — having come in this year as a research fellow (or last year — as ever I’m a bit hazy on the details). He’s got an extremely interesting website on all sorts of [...]
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Posted on August 31st, 2010 by Mobyseven
That’s right — I’m offering you all what can only be described as the offer of a lifetime (provided you happen to only live for, say, a week). Tomorrow at 1pm, the Secular Society will be screening more highlights from the Global Atheist Convention and feasting on a smorgasbord of dips and bread (vegetarian friendly, [...]
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Posted on August 26th, 2010 by Mobyseven
As you can see, I’ve decided that it’s about time I gave these weekly notifications some kind of label — thus is born the MUMS Friday Event category of my blog which, considering there is an event every Friday of every week, should be getting a fair bit of love from me until the end [...]
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Posted on August 24th, 2010 by Mobyseven
This week sees the return of the extremely popular Secular Society Q&A, with Greg Barber of The Greens coming in to talk about science, ethics and politics: Greg Barber Science and ethics – why politics can include both: The role of the Greens in the political process. Greg Barber has a strong history of involvement [...]
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Posted on August 18th, 2010 by Mobyseven
For those of you who haven’t been paying attention, this week (14-22 August) is National Science Week — and the Secular Society is getting in on the action. We’ve got two events coming up on Thursday and Friday lunchtimes, so if you’re at Melbourne Uni, or are just an interested party, I highly recommend coming [...]
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