Alphabetical Listing of UCD Events
| BioNano - Inspiring Responsible Development for Society and the Environment |
| Summary: The focus of this INSPIRE/European Science Foundation event will be on communicating to a wide audience the role of bionanoscience in medicine and green technologies and how these will improve the human condition. |
| Date and Location: 15 & 16 October, Carlton Airport Hotel, Old Airport Road, Dublin. |
Contact: e: inspirebionanoconference@cbni.eu |
| Entrepreneurial Universities - The NovaUCD Innovation Showcase |
| Summary: Visitors attending the NovaUCD Innovation Showcase will have an opportunity to meet with, listen and talk to members of NovaUCD’s successful community of entrepreneurs. There will also be an opportunity for visitors to witness technology demonstrations by some of NovaUCD’s high-tech and knowledge-intensive companies. |
| Date and Location: 19 October, NovaUCD, Belfield Innovation Park, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4. |
| Contact: Micéal Whelan, NovaUCD, t: +353 1 716 3712, e: miceal.whelan@ucd.ie |
| Folklore Online: New Technologies and the UCD National Folklore Collection |
| Summary: A bilingual presentation by Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh, Archivist with the National Folklore Collection, will underline recent technological strides in relation to the digitisation and dissemination of the Collection |
| Date and Location: 15 October (12 pm - 1 pm and 4 pm - 5 pm), Room 9, Newman House, 85-86 St Stephen's Green Dublin 2. |
| Contact: Dr Ríonach uí Ógáin, UCD National Folklore Collection, t: +353 1 716 8402, e: rionach.ogain@ucd.ie |
| Innovation, Society and Culture: Workshop on Intangible Cultural Heritages |
| Summary: Jointly organised by UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland and the Dublin Graduate School in Creative Arts and Media (Gradcam), this workshop will focus on the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage which entered into force on 20 April 2006. The Convention represents the culmination of three decades of policy development in respect of cultural expression and practices since these issues were first raised through UNESCO in 1973. |
| Keynote Speaker: Professor Kristin Kuutma, Professor of Cultural Research, Institute of Cultural Research and Fine Arts, University of Tartu, Estonia. Estonian representative on the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage |
| Date and Location: 16 October (2pm - 4 pm), Physics Theatre, UCD Newman House, 85-86 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2 |
Contact: Valerie Norton, UCD Humanities Institute, t: +353 1 716 4690, e: hii@ucd.ie |
| Innovative Technology Exhibition |
Summary: The Innovative Technology Exhibition will showcase some of the exciting research outputs from UCD’s School of Computer Science and Informatics. The purpose of this event will be to present live technology demonstrations, speed presentations and poster exhibits to both the general public and industry representatives.There will also be an invited talk by Sam Samuel, Executive Director, Bell Labs, UK & Ireland which will be followed by a panel discussion on Should all academic research activity be informed by commercial needs ? with industry and academic representatives including Dr Sean Baker, co-founder, Iona Technologies, Joe Drumgoole, CloudSplit.com, and UCD's Professor Barry Smyth and Dr Fred Cummins. |
| Date and Location: 15 October (5 pm - 8:30 pm), UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4. |
| Contact: Dr Nicola Stokes, UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics, t: +353 1 716 2929, e: nicola.stokes@ucd.ie |
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| Launch of the 13th NovaUCD "Entrepreneurs Live!" Seminar Series by Dr Eddie O'Connor, founder and CEO, Mainstream Renewable Energy |
Summary: The aim the NovaUCD “Entrepreneurs Live!” seminar series, delivered in association with the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Enterprise Board, is to promote a spirit of entrepreneurship among the academic, research and student population at UCD. |
| Date and Location: 14 October (12:30pm-2pm), NovaUCD |
| Contact: Caroline Gill, + 353 1 716 3715, e: caroline.gill@ucd.ie, w: www.ucd.ie/nova |
| Launch of UCD's Nanovation Labs |
| Summary: A special event to officially launch and showcase the new Imaging, NanoBio, Computation and Nano-fabrication Solar Energy investments, totaling, €8 million in UCD's College of Engineering, Mathematical and Physical Sciences. |
| Keynote Speakers: Professor Walter Kohn, 1998 Nobel Chemistry Prize Winner and industry speakers John Harnett, Irish Technology Leadership Group; Donald Fitzmaurice, Director, ePlanet Ventures and Mazhar Bari, CEO, Solar Print. The event concludes with inaugural lectures from three new professorial staff who are key players in UCD's Nanovation initiative. |
Date and Location: 14 October (9:30 - 2 pm), UCD William Jefferson Clinton Auditorium, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4. |
| Contact: Adrienne Coleton, UCD College of Engineering, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, t: +353 1 716 1781, e: adrienne.coleton@ucd.ie |
| Life in the Docklands, Urban Folklore Project |
| Summary: Screened images of the Urban Folklore Project selected with particular emphasis on photographs from the Docklands Area will be looped throughout the week. Printed material on the Collection in addition to the website link will be available |
| Date and Location: 14 to 20 October, projected exhibition in the atrium of the National College of Ireland, International Financial Services Centre, Dublin 1 |
| Contact: Dr Ríonach uí Ógáin, UCD National Folklore Collection, t: +353 1 716 8402, e: rionach.ogain@ucd.ie |
| Modelling Innovative Futures |
| Summary: Multiple poster presentations from UCD´s newly established Innovation Research Unit (IRU) showcasing cutting-edge research projects. The research has evolved from the Computational Policy Lab, a new powerful infrastructure for innovation research built on a high-performance computing cluster. The IRU is developing and testing optimising strategies for innovative organisations and entire innovation networks that span many organizations. The IRU is working on tools to anticipate and analyse new developments to help the recovery of the economy. |
| Date and Location: 16 October (8:30 am - 1 pm), NovaUCD, Belfield Innovation Park, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4. |
Contact: Lisa Kilmartin, UCD Innovation Research Unit, Complex Adaptive Systems Laboratory (CASL), t: +353 1 716 5367, e: lisa.kilmartin@ucd.ie. |
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| Now What? |
| Summary: A presentation to the public from the participants of the Now What? initiative. During the event the public, the presenters and the exhibits will intermingle to experience and respond to the innovative and diverse projects created out of the Now What? initiative which consisted of workshops, open studios and public conversations taking place at UCD's School of Architecture, Landscape and Civil Engineering. |
| Date and Location: 15 October, starting at 7pm, Smithfield |
Contact: Alice Clancy, t: +353 86 343 9156, e: nowwhatrichview@ucd.ie |
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| Reflections on Research |
| Summary: An exhibition of graduate scientific research presented as short summaries compiled as part of UCD’s annual AccesScience competition. In this competition UCD graduate students compete to explain their research to a general public audience without the use of scientific jargon. |
| Dates and Location: 14 to 20 October (excl. week-end), Foyer, UCD Conway Institute for Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4. |
| Contact: Elaine Quinn, UCD Conway Institute for Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, t: + 353 1 716 6706, e: conwaycommunications@ucd.ie |
| Television Cities Conference |
| Summary: This international conference will examine the multiple ways in which cities are embedded in processes of televisual representation, production and consumption. Television is a privileged medium of urban (post) modernity. It works to render ‘the city’ legible, providing sensory and cognitive maps of social spaces and relations; it both mirrors and shapes perceptions of the time and space, the rhythms and settings, of urban existence; and it mediates fears and desires about the city as a space of human encounter. |
| Plenary Speakers: Anna McCarthy, New York University and Allison McCracken, DePaul University. |
| Dates and Location: 16 to 18 October, UCD William Jefferson Clinton Institute and the UCD William Jefferson Clinton Auditorium, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4 |
| Contact: Catherine Carey, UCD Clinton Institute of American Studies, t: +353 1 716 1560, e: catherine.carey@ucd.ie |
| The Art of Innovation Lecture Series |
| Summary: The Art of Innovation Lecture Series will consist of 5 separate lectures held during the course of Innovation Dublin 2009. The lectures will link discussions of buildings, sculptures and works of art in Dublin to earlier chapters in the history of innovation and will take place in several locations around the city. |
| UCD Engineering Evening |
| Summary: This event is aimed at 6th year secondary students who are taking honours mathematics for the leaving certificate. The evening will comprise of a series of talks about the engineering programmes at UCD and the wide variety of careers available to engineering graduates. Students will also have an opportunity to speak to academics from all of the engineering schools at UCD and to learn more about the innovative engineering research taking place at UCD. |
| Date and Location: 15 October, starting at 7 pm, UCD Engineering and Material Science Centre, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4. |
| Contact: Adrienne Coleton, UCD College of Engineering, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, t: +353 1 716 1781, e: adrienne.coleton@ucd.ie |
| UCD Home of Modernism |
| Summary: A web-based feature will be launched which will include a 7-10 minute presentation showcasing UCD’s role in 20th century modernism on literature, drama, visual arts, music and architecture. |
| Date and Location: To commence on 15 October, online |
| Contact: Dr James Ryan, UCD School of English, Drama and Film, t: +353 1 716 8184, e: james.ryan@ucd.ie |
| UCD Research Images Exhibition 2009 |
| Summary: The UCD Research Images Exhibition 2009 will showcase a wide range of compelling images that have been created by researchers in UCD during the course of their research |
| Dates and Location: 14 to 16 October, Newman House, 85-86 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2 and UCD Research, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4. |
| Contact: Emma Kavanagh, UCD Research, t: +353 1 716 4005, e: emma.kavanagh@ucd.ie, w: www.ucd.ie/research |
| UCD Sculpture Trail |
| Summary: A self-guided walking trail across the UCD Belfield Campus to view the sculptures that have been put in place over several decades. Works by many of Ireland’s leading sculptors are included in the Trail. Information leaflets, including the location of each work, can be obtained at UCD services desks. |
| Dates and Location: Daily 14 to 20 October, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4. |
| Contact: Dr Paula Murphy, UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy, t: +353 1 716 8624, e: paula.murphy@ucd.ie and Ruth Ferguson, Newman House, t: +353 1 477 9807, e: ruth.ferguson@ucd.ie. |
For further information on UCD's involvement in Innovation Dublin contact Micéal Whelan, NovaUCD, tel: 01-716 3712, email: miceal.whelan@ucd.ie.