Workshops

On January 15, 2021, Wikipedia turned twenty, marking two decades of open access, democratised access to knowledge. Over those 20 years, the volunteer community has made over 1 billion edits to more than 6 million topics. Despite these achievements, Wikipedia still suffers from content gaps, especially regarding its collection of biographies. In this workshop you’ll learn about the power of the platform to communicate science and document the stories of scientists, as well as having a practical training in how to edit Wikipedia. No experience necessary!

Ever had issues making your points across? Your cousin never understands you when you talk about your PhD/Master's project? Ever felt like an alien around your family? We understand you (sort of)! Join us to work together on creative ways to communicate your research. Whether you are a dancer or a baker, a youtuber or a singer, there is a way to convey your research, so let’s find it together!

Job hunting is often seen as a formulaic number game. This session will show you how to avoid common mistakes and get noticed by being different to the crowd.

3MT is an academic competition that challenges doctoral researchers to describe their research within three minutes to a general audience. It’s a great opportunity to practice explaining your research to non-specialists, practice public speaking, and maybe even win some prizes! Come along to this workshop for some top tips on crafting a successful 3MT talk.

Optical systems used in the pathology process often have two major components: real-time image guidance, and offline post-processing. Real-time operations are typically less computationally expensive, and, consequently, there are limits to their complexity. Post-processing operations meanwhile are often able to correct for sources of image degradation and artifacts, however, these are slow and computationally expensive. When designing a clinical system researchers are often faced with a choice the use of computationally limited low-cost acquisition computers, or expensive, and bulky PCs. Choosing the former limits the quality of guidance in the operating theater, cloud computing can be used to bridge that gap. Furthermore, smaller labs may have limited or no post-processing access to specialized functions such as GPU acceleration. This workshop is designed to introduce an emerging workflow to researchers who have never used cloud computing, or have very limited use. Some minor programming will be done in Python and the workshop is not focused on any one modality.”

Some ideas for producing engaging academic content will be shown. The workshop will touch aspects related with the preparation of oral and poster presentations and how to achieve that a message be remembered by the listeners. A couple of experiences with interactive content will be discussed.