When:
June 17, 2017 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
2017-06-17T17:30:00+01:00
2017-06-17T18:30:00+01:00
Where:
Oxford Town Hall
Oxford OX1 1BX
UK
Oxford OX1 1BX
UK
Cost:
Free
Contact:
From mobile phones to hearing aids, microphones are very common, yet their designs still have significant drawbacks. Could nature play a role in improving their quality? Engineer Rob Malkin will show how studying insects with fascinating hearing organs could hold the key to helping us build bio-inspired acoustic devices.
Rob Malkin is a senior research assistant at the University of Bristol working in acoustics and is interested in sound and sensing within insects and mammals.
This talk was awarded the annual Isambard Kingdom Brunel Award Lecture by the British
Science Association. The British Science Association’s Awards Lectures on tour is
supported by 3M.