MESA was formed in 2010 to expand the opportunities available to MacDiarmid Institute PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. It works to improve networking among them and establish a sense of community.
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Introduction to Rendering: Science and Art with Blender
This talk aims to be a short introduction to the creation of images from 3d geometries, with a focus on the program Blender (blender.o...
As part of MESA’s outreach efforts, our members have talked with school children and general audiences about what it’s like to be a scientist. (Examples of...
Many of you will have heard that the Institute has created a new commercialization unit to evaluate emerging tech applications, ranging from secure transaction protocols for online casinos NZ to br...
Technology Entrepreneurship Seminar
Speaker: Prof. David E. Williams
Date held: Friday, Dec. 9th, 2011
Location: Room 407
MESA, the MacDiarmid institute’s student and postdoc representative branch, is now already entering its second year. This brings about some changes in our committee: we thank Dr. Natalie Planck, Dr...
Writing Your Thesis: Advice and Tips
Python Workshop I: Fitting a single symmetric peak
Time to play with real data! In this workshop, we will fit a peak with a single symmetric function. The script for the entire analysis is g...
Entrepreneurial Failure
According to a recent issue of Nature (477, pg 133), scientists are well poised to become entrepreneurs not – as you might think – because of their critical faculties...