The Oxford e-Research Centre is pleased to welcome Paul van Veggel, Aerodynamics Operations Manager for Red Bull Racing F1 Team.
He will explain what the Red Bull F1 team does, their work philosophy and describe the opportunities they have for people with a software engineering, mathematics or engineering background. The event is open to all.
Red Bull will also bring parts of the car for people to look at.
The F1 team are looking for a broad set of students this year, for 1 year industrial placements starting summer 2017:
· Aerodynamics Development (both practical and computational)
· Aerodynamics Tools (software development, methodology development, embedded systems and electronics)
· Aerodynamics Design (mechanical design of aerodynamic parts for models and race car, plus CFD models)
· Plus a whole host of other engineering students in electronics, IT, R&D test, Vehicle Design & Vehicle Dynamics.
Open to all. Lunch provided. No booking required.
A sprawling saga of the history of humankind is packed inside our cells, written in 3 billion letters of DNA, and in the last few years we’ve learnt how to read it. Our genomes are packed with culture, war, disease, migration, murder, kings and queens, race, and a whole lot of quite deviant sex.
Geneticist, writer and broadcaster Adam Rutherford wields the latest addition to the historian’s toolbox, to unscramble the myths and the story of us, and what DNA can – and can’t – tell us about the epic human journey.
Copies of Adam’s new book – A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes – will be on sale for £14 each
Join the Facebook event and invite your friends: https://www.facebook.com/events/1730715817146149/
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7.30PM start at St. Aldates Tavern, and entry is free, although we do suggest a donation of around £3 to cover speaker expenses. We tend to get busy, so arrive early to make sure you get a seat. If you have difficulty standing, please email [email protected] and we’ll make sure we reserve a seat for you.
Come along and say hello! All welcome.
The convenors of the American Literature Research Seminar at Oxford
invite you to attend:
Anna Despotopoulou, Associate Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
“‘Terrible Traps to Memory’: National Monuments and Women in Henry James”
Examining the struggle between personal and collective memory expressed in James’s autobiographical and fictional writings (e.g. The American Scene, The Bostonians, and “Pandora”), this paper will focus on the ways in which his female protagonists confront the patriotism inscribed in monuments, challenging the grand narratives of nation and democracy from which they are often excluded.
Anna Despotopoulou is Associate Professor in English Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and is an Associate Visiting Research Fellow at the RAI in 2016-7. Her research focuses on Victorian fiction, Henry James, and women’s studies. Her most recent book is Women and the Railway, 1850-1915 (Edinburgh UP, 2015). Her work on Henry James includes articles in the Henry James Review and other journals, as well as two edited volumes: Henry James and the Supernatural (with Kimberly Reed; Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011) and Transforming Henry James (with Donatella Izzo and Anna De Biasio; Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013).
Hugh Pym, financial and political journalist and leading commentator on the banking crisis and British economic recession. Starting as a correspondent with ITN in 1988 Hugh has worked at the BBC since 1998 as special correspondent covering Economics, BBC chief Economics correspondent and since 2014 Health Editor. He stood as a Liberal Democrat candidate in 2001 and has published four books including “Inside the Banking Crisis” (2014)
Mark Stephens is a solicitor specialising in media law, intellectual property rights and human rights. In the 1990s he was a legal correspondent for Sky TV and now features regularly in print and on television. He is also Chair of Design & Artists Copyright Society, Chair of the Governors of the University of East London and a past President of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association
Jude Kelly, Artistic Director of Southbank Centre, Founder of Solent People’s Theatre and Battersea Arts Centre and founding director of West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2011. She created the WOW – Women of the World – Festival;, which is now in its 6th year at Southbank Centre, as well as taking place in other parts of the UK nad countries all over the world.
Baroness Helena Kennedy, QC is Principal of Mansfield College, a prominent barrister and a Labour member of the House of Lords. Author of “Eve was Framed: Women and British Justice” (1992).
Anthony Barnett is a former Director of Charter 88 and was co-founder of openDemocracy and is currently writing “What Next?: Britain after Brexit”
Alison Young is Professor of Public Law at Oxford and a Fellow of Hertford College. She is the author of “Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Human Rights Act” (2009) and “Citizen Engaged?”
Mobile guides have become ubiquitous in museums, but questions persist about their impact on visitor experience in terms of visitors looking down at their device, rather than up at the display. Oxford University Museums have conducted a research and development project to explore how mobile devices could be used to encourage and facilitate ‘heads up’ engagement.
We have developed new mobile interactives that rely less on the mobile screen and more on other capabilities of the phone: sensors, image recognition, and bluetooth. Using these features we turn smartphones into surrogates for some of the objects on display, allowing visitors to physically try using some of our scientific apparatus and musical instruments.
Scott Billings is the Digital Engagement Officer at the Museum of Natural History. He leads on digital engagement at the Museum, a diverse role covering web and social media as well as gallery and exhibition interactives. He was previously Public Engagement Officer at the Museum of the History of Science. Scott is trained in museum education, has co-curated exhibitions, and has been a design and cultural heritage journalist and freelance copywriter.
Ted Koterwas is the Web and Mobile Applications Lead at the University of Oxford’s IT Services. He leads the web and mobile applications team and has collaborated with the museums on a number of their recent mobile projects. He has worked creatively with technology since before phones had cameras, including directing the New Media exhibit development team at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
Jessica Suess is the Digital Partnership Manager at Oxford University Museums. She is part of a small joint museums team that coordinates collaborative activity across the four Oxford University Museums. Leading on digital, she develops and manages digital projects, and pushes forward strategic initiatives to enable more collaborative IT and Digital approaches across the museums and division.
Educated adults know some 100,000 distinct words, and they encounter and create novel words all the time. Only a fraction of all words are used by the entire speech community. Most are associated with particular topics or social groups. As a result, rare and novel words provide an interesting window into the cognitive and social processes that shape lexical systems.
To investigate the structure and evolution of the lexicon, we use large scale-text mining and psycholinguistic experiments. This talk will present examples of both methods. First, I will present a mathematical analysis of the dynamics of words in the archives of USENET discussion groups, selected because they provide data from large numbers of people (10,000 to 100,000 individuals) over long time spans (10 to 20 years). I will also talk about some experiments from the Wordovators project. This project, funded by the John Templeton Foundation, uses on-line word games in order to collect data about artificial language learning from a large and diverse pool of people. Results reveal individual variation in cognitive style, as well as social influences in games involving two people. These interact to determine general patterns of word formation.
Janet B. Pierrehumbert is Professor of Language Modelling in the Oxford e-Research Centre. She received her B.A. from Harvard in 1975, and her Ph.D. from MIT in 1980. She was a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Labs in Linguistics and AI Research until 1989. From then until 2015, she was a member of the Linguistics faculty at Northwestern University. Her current research focuses on how the dynamics of language — in acquisition, processing, or historical change — is related to the structure of linguistic systems. It combines experiments, statistical analyses of large corpora, and computational simulations of linguistic communities. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Linguistic Society of America, and the Cognitive Science Society.
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