[Drand] VB: Scientific Fika event with Soapbox Science March 25th

[Nadia Flodgren]

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Från: jeremy vachier <jeremy.vachier at su.se>
Skickat: den 7 februari 2022 16:58
Till: postdocs at nordita.org; students at nordita.org; okc-all at albanova.se
Kopia: Nadia Flodgren; Guilherme Franzmann; Elisabeth Wetzer; Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez
Ämne: Scientific Fika event with Soapbox Science March 25th

Dear Juniors,


We are particularly delighted to announce that on March 25th, at 4:00pm, the Scientific Fika will have the pleasure to welcome Elisabeth Wetzer and Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez from Uppsala University to talk about Soapbox Science and their research.


The Scientific Fika is there to bring junior scientists from diverse horizons together around science in an accessible and fun way. This spirit is shared by Soapbox Science and on March 25th Elisabeth and Rebeca will first introduce us to Soapbox Science and second share their research with us. More information to Soapbox Science and Elisabeth-Rebeca research below


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Soapbox Science

Soapbox Science is a public outreach platform for promoting women and non-binary scientists and their remarkable science. It is all about bringing cutting edge science to the public, in an accessible, fun and unintimidating way. Since 2011, Soapbox Science has grown from one event in London to dozens of events worldwide, and has involved thousands of speakers, volunteers and organizers. Scientists in all career stages - PhD students, PostDocs, Professors - are standing on soapboxes in busy public spaces so that they can be heckled, questioned, and probed by the passers-by in a fun, informal setting about their research. There are no screens, no microphones, only props, games, hand-on examples and whatever else is usable to shed light on the science and the passion for it.

The idea behind the event is shown in this video: https://youtu.be/wmBj_H0ub_w

If you want to learn some more about the experience of previous speakers, check out this nice video: https://youtu.be/kSJhaHkmj5A and some more impressions from an event in Umeå a few years ago can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=337eQoTLqkU.



Elisabeth
My research focuses on general method development in image processing, in particular for biomedical applications. This includes texture recognition, shape description, image registration, classification, and image retrieval. Currently I am in particular interested in applying representation learning to generate common representations with equivariant properties for multimodal imaging data. Applications of my research include screening programs for early cancer detection, or registration and cross-modal retrieval of images captured by different microscopy modalities to combine the information of these different imaging techniques. However, the methods I develop are general and applicable to a broad range of different data also.




Rebeca
Title: Why we need to go beyond the standard model in particle colliders and how to do it?

The standard model of particle physics is our current best-description of the fundamental particles that make up matter and how they interact with each other. Contrary to the rumors, the standard model is not complete, it is in fact only able to describe 4% of the Universe. That 4% however, it can describe really well, and for the first time since we started colliding particles together, we don’t have strong hints on where to look for new phenomena. I will highlight the two most glaring examples of how much still the standard model needs to explain: dark matter and neutrino masses, and how we can look for answers to both of them at the next run of the Large Hadron Collider, that will start this summer and also at future colliders, that would offer different advantages and new angles for searches.

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Please put this date in your calendar, come to discuss interesting science and learn more about Soapbox Science.


Have a nice day,
Best regards,
Nadia, Jeremy and Guilherme
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