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After a busy summer of conferences in Europe and further afield, I have been thinking about the work that continues between meetings. Presenting research is one part of belonging to a scientific community. Helping people discover…
Read more : Between conferences: contributing to scientific communities
A research-group website usually introduces people, publications and projects. I wanted to add another way to meet the work: open a simulation, move around it, and explore how it changes. I created an AR-enabled extension of our…
Read more : Taking our research website into augmented reality
Explaining your research to someone who did not come for a mechanics lecture is a useful test. The first thing they need is a reason to care about what they are looking at. At the European Researchers’ Night at NET Village in Rome,…
Read more : Research outside the lab: a night at NET Village
The conference season started in July with the World Congress of Biomechanics in Vancouver. After the congress came Banff and the Canadian Rockies, then a return to Rome and a summer break before the meetings resumed in Milan and,…
Read more : From Canada to Texas, via Milan
Vancouver was the scientific starting point of this Canadian trip: the World Congress of Biomechanics, a packed programme, and the chance to discuss our work with people approaching similar questions from very different directions.…
Read more : Canadian Rockies, after the congress