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• Thu

  24

  Sep

  2015

  Discover Research Dublin

  4 – 10pm
  

  Trinity College, Dublin

  
  

  Trinity College Dublin and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) will again offer the public an incredible opportunity to get up close and personal with the world of research – and researchers – at Discover Research Dublin 2015.

  Building on the success of 2014’s event, which saw thousands of people descend upon Trinity to engage with research and researchers, Discover Research Dublin 2015 features over 60 exciting, interactive events and demonstrations that will take place in and around central Dublin.

  Discover Research Dublin showcases what researchers really do and why research matters. Exploring abstract and practical questions through a variety of unique digital and traditional formats including interactive installations, apps and social media, debates, digital archives, tours and presentations Discover Research Dublin will feature something for everyone.

  Participants can immerse themselves in 3D visualisations of the brain, control computers with nothing but their minds, and create colourful visualisations of the music they play with magnetised instruments. The Robotics and Cybernetics Showcase will display how engineers are creating robots to help the elderly and those living with disabilities, while the Dublin Language Garden will explain how linguistics evolve and teach people to speak a language like a local in a mere five minutes.

  Children, meanwhile, will take part in real-time experiments to find out which bacterial beasties live in their mouths and meet a friendly tarantula in the Zoology Museum while hearing how researchers combine fossil data with high-tech computers to learn how T-Rex lived his life millions of years ago.

  People can also go behind the scenes at the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute (TBSI), where cutting-edge medical and scientific research takes place. Visitors will enjoy tours of the labs, where researchers will explain how technology allows them to make life-saving breakthroughs and design drugs that are revolutionising the treatment of diseases.

  Additional highlights will see visitors help astrophysicists rank the severity of solar eruptions seen in the Sun, look to the heavens in the Monck Observatory, consider the biodiversity in our everyday lives, hear about the Trinity Medical Graduates lost in World War I, and enjoy musical performances led by Trinity Long Room Hub artist in residence Michael Gallen.