Tickets can be purchased via eventbrite. Imperial staff and students can buy discounted entry.
Join us for Ada Lovelace Day Live 2013 at Imperial College London for an evening of fun, inspiration and science. With live demos, biomedical wonders, neuroscience, inspiration, laughter and song, Ada Lovelace Day Live is an event not to be missed!
- 18.00 – reception opens with demonstrations and cash bar
- 19.00 – show starts
- 20.00 – break
- 21.00 – show ends; after-party with demonstrations and cash bar
Special guests
- Fran Scott, a science communicator who designs demos for CBBC, live stage shows and the Science Museum.
- Prof Molly Stevens, a leading bioengineer from Imperial College London whose work includes growing human bones in the lab.
- Hazel Gibson, a geologist who studying how geological processes affect our lives, is out to prove that women and geology is a combination that rocks!
- Chi Onwurah, engineer, MP for Newcastle, and Shadow Cabinet Office Minister with responsibility for cybersecurity.
- Leila Johnston, a comedy writer, technologist, maker and broadcaster who encourages us to ‘do things we’re not supposed to’.
- Prof Sophie Scott, a cognitive neuroscientist and standup scientist who studies laughter, from brain scanners to comedy clubs.
- Dr Bernadette Byrne, a molecular membrane biology researcher at Imperial College London, who looks at the science of our own cells
And not forgetting our host and compere, comedian and Imperial alumnus Helen Arney.
Try your hand at table-top experiments performed by Imperial’s very own science buskers during the reception and interval, or browse the books on sale. Also on display will be a series of photographic portraits from the ‘100 Women – 100 Visions’ exhibit, celebrating women scientists and engineers from all academic levels at Imperial College London.
This event is part of a network of events across the globe, from personal blog posts about women in STEM to Wikipedia edit-a-thons to Ada Lovelace-themed tea parties and conferences.