Last month, courtesy of a scholarship from MESA to cover registration, I was fortunate enough to attend the Science Media Centre’s SAVVY workshop in Auckland. Twelve researchers, including myself, participated in the two-day long media skills workshop, and initially I have to say I felt a bit out of my depth when meeting my [...]
The 8th MacDiarmid Student and Postdoc Symposium will be held at University of Canterbury 22-23 November 2012.
The theme this year is Mind the Gap – Future Proofing your Skillset.
Registration is open to all students and postdocs whose supervisor is a MacDiarmid Investigator whether funded or unfunded.
We will pay for [...]
Last month we offered to sponsor a MacDiarmid-affiliated student with $1500 to attend the 2012 Transit of Venus Forum – this was a a great chance to join delegates from the science, business, iwi and government communities talking about Sir Paul Callaghan’s vision for New Zealand – a place where talent wants to live. PhD [...]
The Transit of Venus Forum 2012 will take place in Gisborne 5th – 8th of June. MESA is happy to pay for one MacDiarmid-affiliated student to attend the forum and to experience this great chance to join delegates from the science, business, iwi and government communities talking about Sir Paul Callaghan’s vision for New Zealand – [...]
MESA is pleased to present a very topical seminar on ‘Data analysis and plotting with free and open source tools’. Unlike many previous seminars, this talk will not be recorded but all the slides and handouts will be posted online.
– ABSTRACT –
Spreadsheet-based data analysis and graphics software such as Origin
or [...]
Girls, get in quick!! Great fellowship open for female scientists. Please find details here.
We will use our extensive experience in pattern formation including our unique
capability of replicating the detailed topology of biological cells (Bioimprint) and our
extensive knowledge in cell culture and functions to develop a model for studying the
effects of substrate patterning on cell behaviour and growth.
We will study for [...]
Do Emerging Scientists have a Future in New Zealand? The New Zealand Association of Scientists is hosting a one-day conference at Rutherford House in Wellington, on 16 April. The conference will focus on early career scientists.
The conference is targeted at emerging scientists, their existing and potential employers, future emerging scientists, policy makers and [...]
MESA is pleased to announce the sixth seminar of our Economics Seminar Series on ‘Digital workshops of the world’ by Dr. Leon Gurevitch
The global transition from analogue to digital media has received a great deal of scholarly attention over the past decade. In New Zealand, this brought industrial change and attention for the economic stimulus and brand [...]
Upcoming Events
“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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Recent MESA Blog Posts
- Science Media SAVVY workshop report from Lisa Strover, MESA-Sponsored Attendee
- MacDiarmid Student and Postdoc Symposium 2012
- Transit of Venus Forum Impressions from Riyad Mucadam, MESA-Sponsored Attendee
- MESA Sponsored Attendance to the Transit of Venus Forum
- Data analysis and plotting with free and open source tools
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