March 2017

  • Meeting teachers at the TeachMeet

    I was rather uncharitable (quite uncharacteristically, so, I thought) about the Bristol TeachMeet last Thursday evening.  I'm happy to report that some 9 teachers did turn up.  I'm less happy to note that hardly any of them had heard of...

  • From Atoms to Devices: materials design for new energy technologies

    The I-SEE seminar on Tuesday 7 March is: From atoms to devices: materials design for new energy technologies and is given by Aron Walsh, Professor of Materials Design in the Department of Materials at Imperial.  Here's the Abstract The discovery of functional...

  • But will there be any teachers?

    I'm off to SWLfSC's Teachmeet today.  I wrote about this 10 days ago and wondered whether I'd be talked at for the whole 2 hours It turns out that there are even more presentations than I thought: Big Picture stuff ESD...

  • WEEC by WEEC

    WEEC 2017 has posted a list of three of its plenary speakers, and (whisper it those who dare) two of them might actually be worth listening to. The three are: Wade Davis, Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in...