Outreach and PE 2017
School of Informatics Outreach and Public Engagement activities in 2017.
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| Name | Activity | Date | Venue | Audience | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | Areti Manataki | Code Yourself! An Introduction to Programming (MOOC) | available all year | Massive Open Online Course (Coursera) | General public |
| February | Areti Manataki, Kami Vaniea | Girls in STEM | 07/02/2017 | John McIntyre Conference Centre | Female school pupils (11-13 years old) |
| Philip Wadler | Computability, The Bright Club | 13/02/2017 | The Stand Comedy Club, Glasgow | General public (60-70 people) | |
| March | Julian Bradfield | Talk on Alan Turing and the Halting Problem | 15/03/2017 | Cargilfield Preparatory School | Pupils (11-13 years old) |
| Ian Simpson | Cub Scout Digital Maker | 24/03/2017 | Juniper Green Parish CHurch | Children (30/ 8-10.5 years old) | |
| April | Walid Magdy | Test Tube to YouTube | 01/04/2017 | Summerhall | General public, EISF |
| Areti Manataki | Game On! | 02/04/2017 | Learning Centre, NMS | General public, EISF | |
| Paul Patras | BCS Sidney Michaelson Memorial Lecture: Wearables That Snitch on Us | 03/04/2017 | Summerhall | General public, EISF | |
| James Garforth | Robot Lab | 03/04/2017 | Grand Gallery, NMS | General public, EISF | |
| James Garforth | Marty: Activate! | 05/04/2017 | Learning Centre, NMS | General public, EISF | |
| Aggelos Kiayias | Blockchain Technology: A Secure Solution | 09/04/2017 | Summerhall | General public, EISF | |
| Sethu Vijayakumar | Shared Autonomy: The Future of Interactive Robotics | 13/04/2017 | Informatics Forum | General public, EISF | |
| Kami Vaniea | Crack The Code | 28/04/2017 | Informatics Forum | Ten S2/S3 female pupils from local secondary schools | |
| Myrto Arapinis | Crack The Code | 28/04/2017 | Informatics Forum | Ten S2/S3 female pupils from local secondary schools | |
| Maria Wolters | Crack The Code | 28/04/2017 | Informatics Forum | Ten S2/S3 female pupils from local secondary schools | |
| May | Adam Lopez | Crack The Code | 05/05/2017 | Informatics Forum | Ten S2/S3 female pupils from local secondary schools |
| Helen Pain | Crack The Code | 05/05/2017 | Informatics Forum | Ten S2/S3 female pupils from local secondary schools | |
| Sharon Goldwater | Crack The Code | 05/05/2017 | Informatics Forum | Ten S2/S3 female pupils from local secondary schools | |
| Sethu Vijayakumar | Learn at BBC Scotland: The future and me! | 09/05/2017 | Glasgow Science Centre | P6-S2 pupils - live and online audience | |
| Matthias Hennig | Crack The Code | 12/05/2017 | Informatics Forum | Ten S2/S3 female pupils from local secondary schools | |
| Petros Papapanagiotou | Crack The Code | 19/05/2017 | Informatics Forum | Ten S2/S3 female pupils from local secondary schools | |
| Iain Murray | Crack The Code | 19/05/2017 | Informatics Forum | Ten S2/S3 female pupils from local secondary schools | |
| Simon King (Speaker), Charlie Nash, Sorcha Gilroy, and Lora-Lynn Asvos, James Owers (Compere) | 'How do you communicate when you can’t speak?' | 17/05/2017 | Monkey Barrel | Pint of Science, General public | |
| Maria Wolters (Speaker), Charlie Nash, Sorcha Gilroy, and Lora-Lynn Asvos, James Owers (Compere) | 'Oh Data, Where Art Thou?' | 15/05/2017 | The Safari Lounge | Pint of Science, General public | |
| Subramanian Ramamoorthy (Speaker), Charlie Nash, Sorcha Gilroy, and Lora-Lynn Asvos, James Owers (Compere) | 'Maybe the robot invasion could be a good thing?' | 16/05/2017 | The Safari Lounge | Pint of Science, General public | |
| Korin Richmond (Speaker), Charlie Nash, Sorcha Gilroy, and Lora-Lynn Asvos, James Owers (Compere) | Future of Human-robot interaction & communications | 17/05/2017 | The Safari Lounge | Pint of Science, General public | |
| June | Sharon Goldwater | Women in Computer Science | 23/07/2017 | Huxley Building, Clore Lecture | General public |
| Ludovic Capelli | Disaster Relief Challenge | 27/06/2017 | Holy Rood High School | S3 pupils | |
| Perdita Stevens | Primary workshop: Bidirectional transformations | 27/06/2017 | Cargilfield School, Barnton | P6 pupils | |
| July | Helen Pain | Sutton Trust Summer School | 03/07/17 - 06/07/17 | Informatics Forum | S5/Y11 pupils |
| Kami Vaniea | INSPIRE Summer School | 03/07/17 - 05/07/17 | Informatics Forum | 25 pupils (year 11,12) (female only) | |
| Adam Lopez | INSPIRE Summer School | 03/07/17 - 05/07/17 | Informatics Forum | 25 pupils (year 11,12) (female only) | |
| Benjamin Bach | Workshop on 'Data Comics for Data-Driven Storytelling' | 18/07/2017 | University of Edinburgh | Open to public, students of College of Art | |
| Benjamin Bach | Workshop on 'Paper Visualizations' | 21/07/2017 | University of Edinburgh | Open to public, students of College of Art | |
| Benjamin Bach | Talk 'Introduction into Data Visualization' at Workshop on Visualization | 26/07/2017 | University of Edinburgh | Open to general audience, mostly students and staff of the UoE | |
| Philip Wadler | Computability at Bright Club | 25/07/2017 | The Stand | General public | |
| Ram Ramamoorthy | ScotML in partnership with Amazon | 06/07/2017 | Waverley Gate, Edinburgh | Industry and open to public | |
| August | Benjamin Bach | Invited talk and workshop on network visualization 'Interactive Network Visualizations': Connected Past Conference on Networks in Archeology | 23/08/17 - 24/08/17 | Bournemouth | Researchers in archeology |
| Martino Sorbaro | UK Youth Generation Code event | 29/08/2017 | Waverley Gate, Edinburgh | STEM Ambassadors | |
| September | Connie Crowe, Karel Kuzmiak | Doors Open Day: Appleton Tower teaching facilities tour and student demos | 23/09/2017 | Appleton Tower | General public |
| Orfeas Stefanos Thyfronitis Litos | Explorathon '17 @ Curiosity Forrest: talk on Trust is Risk | 29/09/2017 | Charteris Centre | All ages | |
| Sethu Vijayakumar | New Scientist: Live - Keynote | 30/09/2017 | London | General public (ticketed) | |
| October | Kami Vaniea |
Information Security Awareness Week 2017 |
04/10/2017 | Informatics Forum | General public (~50 attendees) |
| Sethu Vijayakumar | Robot Wars (judge) | 22/10/17 - 03/12/17 | BBC Two | TV and online audience | |
| Perdita Stevens | Support for introducing a programming curriculum | 23/10/2017 | James Gillespie's Primary School | CS teachers | |
| Kami Vaniea | Making IT work for women | 24/10/2017 | Informatics Forum | ~100 students (high school to PhD) | |
| November | Petros Papapanagiotou | I'm an Engineer, Get Me Out of Here! | 06/11/17-17/11/17 | Online | School Students |
| Ian Simpson | STEMEast: Routes into employment/Speed Networking | 13/11/2017 | Currie Community High School | ~100 S3 pupils | |
| Sethu Vijayakumar |
Public Lecture at the Franco–Scottish Seminar: Robotics |
15/11/2017 | Royal Society of Edinburgh | Seminar attendees and general public | |
| December | Kami Vaniea | Cyber Security Christmas lecture | 14/12/2017 | George Square, Lecture Theatre | General public |