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.
Simple array operations
Those of you who use (have used) Origin are you used to doing simple manipulation of datasets with the embedded spreadsheet functionality. Selecting data, only using every nth datapoint etc. are capabilities that we need ...
How to tell a compelling story
First things first – this is quite a separate set of skills as to what is needed for a great scientific presentation, which our technical guru, Cosmin Laslau, has already put together an excellent tutorial for h...
Datamashup Workshop
Thanks to the Mix and Mash datamashup competition and the lovely folks at Digital NZ MESA was able to hold a workshop for datamashups and API at Victoria on Friday 2nd September 2011. The speaker was Tim McNamara
We are looking to fill two graduate student positions at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (applicants for Ph.D. program preferred, but strong applications for M.S. program will be considered):
(1) Ph.D. graduate student support availa...
Economics Seminar III:
This talk will present basic definitions of sustainability, discuss how they relate to measured economic growth and then discuss how economists think about enhancing sustainabili...
Economics seminar II: Introductory economics for non-economists Part II
This second lecture connects core principles to common economic measures and statistics produced by Statistics NZ. The following topics will be covered: economic growth (GDP...
Yet MORE examples of scientific use of python
Still not convinced? Here’s a list of 10 basic scientific tasks made easy with python, by a Harvard scientist, to help ease you into it
Intellectual Property Seminar
This the MESA Intellectual Property seminar held on 5th August 2011 at Victoria University.
The speaker is Dr. Jared Scarlett who has been a patent specialist with Baldwins IP sin...
Synchrotron Workshop
MESA held a Synchrotron techniques workshop on Friday the 29th July 2011 at the Victoria University Kelburn Campus. The workshop was hosted by Dr. Bridget Ingham from Industrial Research Limited with a guest le...
Economics seminar I: Introductory economics for non-economists
This lecture is designed for anyone who wants a deeper or broader understanding of economic principles, and the interconnections between different economic statistics. Intended as th...