Tagged: MESA

Emerging NZ Scientists – Dr Natalie Plank, Postdoctoral Fellow with the MacDiarmid Institute - Just So Science

Elf Eldridge • Apr 02, 2012 •

• cambridge,
• edinborough,
• emergin scientists,
• macdiarmid institute,
• MESA,
• natalie plank,
• NZAS

The second of my ‘Emerging Scientists interviews‘* features Dr Natalie Plank, currently a Post-Doc with the MacDiamid Institute of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology and a previous MESA Chairperson. As Natalie completed her PhD at Edinburgh University and a Post-Doc at Cambridge, her experience is not only in leading emerging scientists but, as an … Read More

Emerging NZ Scientists – Cosmin Laslau, MESA Chairperson - Just So Science

Elf Eldridge • Mar 31, 2012 •

• conference,
• emerging scientists,
• interview,
• macdiarmid,
• MESA,
• NZAS,
• rutherford house,
• Wellington

For those that aren’t aware the NZ Association of Scientists (NZAS) has decided to make the topic of its annual conference “Do Emerging* Scientists have a Future in New Zealand?”. The conference is being held at Rutherford House in Wellington on the 16th April and has the usual collection of suspects from business, academia and government speaking about … Read More

TOSP Episode 20: February 14th 2012 - The Sciblogs Podcast

Elf Eldridge • Feb 15, 2012 •

• 2020,
• advanced materials,
• aimee whitcroft,
• biotechnology,
• Canterbury,
• discussion,
• Elf Eldridge,
• future,
• innovation,
• interview,
• investment,
• just so science,
• macdiarmid,
• MESA,
• misc.ience,
• nanoparticles,
• nanoscience,
• nanotchnology,
• New Zealand,
• photosynthesis,
• podcast,
• research,
• Science,
• science communication,
• superconductors,
• Technology,
• The Official Sciblogs Podcast,
• TOSP,
• university,
• victoria

Greetings, TOSP listeners! This week’s podcast is a teensy bit late (heh), and a little different to usual as it was the first we’ve done and edited ‘On the Road’. We (well, Elf – aimee was driving like a loon between Auckland and Wellington as practice for the Rally) travelled to … Read More

Python and science - misc.ience

Aimee Whitcroft • Sep 01, 2011 •

• Kiwi Pycon,
• matplotlib,
• MESA,
• NumPy,
• PyCon,
• python,
• SciPy,
• Shrividya Ravi,
• VUW

Python, apart from being a type of roughly tubular slidey reptile known for swallowing large things, is also a programming language. And rather a good one, at that. First released in 1991, its design philosophy was all about ease, flexibility and simplicity: easy to learn and easy to read/understand.  And, since then, it’s … Read More