20/10/2015
ADA LOVELACE DAY LIVE! 2015
On the evening of 13th October 2015, Dr Castelluccio took 8 of our top Mathematicians to the annual Ada Lovelace Day Live! Event at The Freethinkers Hall, The Ethical Society.
This was a SOLD OUT event, ‘Celebrating the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths’. We were lucky enough to win a scholarship from the Slack Foundation for 9 free tickets which would normally cost £20.00 each.
The event played host to the UK’s most fabulous women in STEM.
The speakers included Abigail Hutty, senior spacecraft structures engineer on Airbus’ ExoMars Rover Project. Dr Jen Gupta, an astrophysicist and science communicator based in the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth.
Dr Sujata Kundu, a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London. A nanochemist both literally and professionally, Suze’s research focuses on materials that can capture solar energy. Photo: Ed Prosser, Royal Institution
Elaine Chew, Professor of Digital Media at Queen Mary University of London where she is affiliated with the Centre for Digital Music
Science television producer/director Lucy Haken, who is the series producer of this year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, ‘How to Survive in Space’. She produced the BBC’s Britain from Above with Andrew Marr, worked with David Attenborough on the Horizon special ‘How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth?’, and has produced countless documentaries for National Geographic, Channel 4 and Discovery from all over the world
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Suw Charman-Anderson is the founder of Ada Lovelace Day, an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths.
The aim of the event was to raise the profile of women in STEM and celebrate their achievements. Students had a rewarding evening of stimulating lectures and presentations.