15.30 hrs Welcome remarks
15.35 hrs Presentations by:
- The Elements Song, with Helen Arney. Helen will talk about why she came to learn the entire periodic table in song, whether it’s a good example of good science communication (or not!), and finish her section with a performance of the Elements Song.
- Chemical Insight through a Digital Lens, with Prof. Clémence Corminboeuf. The periodic table of elements is every chemists’ alphabet. But as with the letters in a regular alphabet, it is not the individual atoms that matter, it is their assemblies into novel molecules and materials. These assemblies are the books that tell the stories of molecular functionalities. However, when we read a book, we often use our imagination to visualize the story - or, better yet, we watch a film, a screen version of this story. Chemists use digital visualization for the same purpose - to convert the dry language of symbols into insightful images of molecules and patterns in their behavior, ultimately hoping to learn from these images what we wouldn’t see otherwise.
- The Building Blocks of the Universe, with Dr. Claire Lee. In this talk we’ll take a look at the Periodic Table of particle physics, known as the Standard Model, which is the best description that we have for our universe today. We’ll see how the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN discovered the Higgs Boson in 2012, and what that means for our understanding of the universe as a whole.
- Complexity for the experts, simplicity for everyone else? With Lisa Charlotte Rost. To understand the world, we need to decrease its complexity. But does that mean that we need to dumb down our ideas if we want more people to understand them? Not as much as we might think – thanks to the power of design. With good design, we can communicate our scientific ideas to more people with the same degree of complexity. Or we can show a higher complexity in our ideas, without losing audiences. In this talk, we will look at examples of data visualizations that achieve both, and explore other goals than "understandability" and "communicating complexity" that are worth optimizing for.
- Elemental qualities when dealing with data, with Dr. Muhammad Atiyat. Having high quality data is imperative when it comes to every type of analytical work, including data visualizations such as the periodic table of elements. Reflecting on the manner in which the table was set up, we also discuss an essential quality of any person dealing with data.
16.50 hrs Digital/interactive Q&A
17.00 hrs Networking event (with fun activities and surprises!)
17.45 hrs End
