Experimental Physics Workshop #1
MESA is pleased to announce our first experimental physics workshop at long last! It’s at Victoria University of Wellington in
Laby 201 and starts at 5:30pm on Wednesday the 14th December.
This workshop will be run by new committee member, Alex Barker, and will involve a simple build followed by a discussion about future projects, builds and and topics for the experimental workshops to take. So come along and help us plan for 2012!
We have strictly limited numbers and there will be a cost associated with the parts needed for the build, so if you’re interested please visit the website and register ASAP (by clicking the link below)

for more information visit the registration page which will be kept up to date with the latest information, and don’t forget to follow MESA via twitter @MESAmacdiarmid for all our future experimental physics workshops and more!
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“The practical application of stats for experimental research scientists”
Presented by Dr Dalice Sim from VUW’s School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research. This one hour seminar will focus on statistics concepts that are important when undertaking experimental research such as:
-How uncertainty propagates when manipulating data
-How to consider error when fitting to data
-How to effectively and efficiently explore the parameter space for a new experiment.Tuesday 21th May 2013, 3.00pm. Location: AM101, VUW (Wellington)
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