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Radar Cat

Introducing ‘RadarCat’, the latest in object recognition! RadarCat uses the Google Soli radar sensor to recognise objects. Also on the team is ‘AquaCat’, which can identify liquids and other substances. Come and give them a try! Test them on your own objects.

Friday 29 September 2017 5:00 pm

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Visual Perception

Why do we have two eyes? How do we see in 3D? Learn about visual perception, and how scientists study how we see and interact with the world. You’ll also have the change to explore 3D vision by drawing with your own stereograms and using our desktop accessories.

Friday 29 September 2017 5:00 pm

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Bright Club St Andrews

Bright Club is a stand-up comedy night like no other. Six academics take off their lab coats, put down their rare manuscripts and exit their offices for one night to take to the stage and perform eight minutes of side-splitting comedy about the topic they know best: their research!

Friday 29 September 2017 10:30 pm

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Planetarium

We are bringing a portable planetarium showing a projection of the night sky as visible from the St. Andrews latitudes. The projection shows all the visible stars with the unaided eye, plus the Milky Way, and Solar System objects such as the Moon and the bright planets.

Friday 29 September 2017 6:30 pm

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The XX Factor

Six women take to the stage. They each have three minutes to pitch their work and convince you that they are the most inspirational researcher. Who will be crowned XX Factor Champion? You decide!

Friday 29 September 2017 6:30 pm

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Using Light to Find Landmines

Discover how light can be used to find landmines and more.

Friday 29 September 2017 5:00 pm

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Night at the Museum Torchlight Tours

See the Bell Pettigrew Museum as you’ve never seen it before with a torchlight tour of the rare and fascinating specimens in this zoological collection. Stay close, you never know what might pop out of the shadows! Tours will depart from the Byre.

Friday 29 September 2017 5:30 pm

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The Secret Lives of Mediaeval Things

Join us on a walking tour through MUSA’s mediaeval collection, as we look at the exhibits in the way medieval writers did: as things with their own stories and lives rather than as passive inanimate objects.

Friday 29 September 2017

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