Science Gallery Events

Get your science on with your fellow science tweeters, and kick off Dublin's turn as European City of Science in style. We'll be hosting City-of-Science themed tweetups on the first Friday of each month throughout 2012, so come meet new friends, share ideas, and commiserate offline.

(also, if all this tweeting has you peckish, the cafe will be doing their new pizza and a drink for €10 promotion)

What is Coder Dojo?

We hacked together a cool hangout that puts the real power of the internet and technology in the hands of the Irish youth. The true power of the net comes from coding, designing and having fun. CoderDojo is a place where you can learn from others and share what you are doing! Each week we have a hands on session with technologies like HTML5, PHP or Python.For more details visit http://coderdojo.com/ or contact the Coder Dojo team at dublin@coderdojo.com.

DATA 50.0 pays particular attention to the Sonic Arts, showcasing the intersection of practitioners across Digital Media, Electroacoustic Composition, Spatial Audio, Networked Performance and New Interfaces for Musical Expression.

This is a good opportunity to see a diverse group of Dublin based sound artists talk through their practices, demonstrate their instruments, interfaces and tools, discuss upcoming projects and perform new work. Presenters include electronic collective Dublin Laptop Orchestra, and sound artists Slavek Kwi and Cobi Van Tonder

Diplomat, investor, entrepreneur, business mentor, speaker, philanthropist and author, Bill Liao co-founded the business social network service XING and is a venture partner at SOS Ventures, a global venture capital firm and investment management firm. Bill is a special diplomatic envoy for St Kitts and Nevis for sustainable development and the environment. He is also the founder of WeForest.org, an international not-for-profit organization combating global warming in the most natural way possible by sustainably and holistically reforesting previously degraded land - the organisation is approaching planting it's millionth tree. Along with James Whelton, Bill is also the Co-Founder of the Coder Dojo movement to assist young people to learn how to program.

Ireland has a daily average water usage per person of around 150 litres. With an increasing demand for clean water reserves and talks of imminent water metering and charges, we tackle the big issues around Ireland's water supply.

In partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency we'll examine water in an Irish context and discuss how we manage our nation's most precious resource.  2012 will be a year of change in Irish water.  While the EU/IMF focus on setting up a new utility, the EPA is keen to see water quality and safe drinking water at the heart of the debate

Do you track personal information, hoping to gain insights into yourself or your surrounding world? Are you curious about people who do?

The Dublin Quantified Self group (#QSelfDublin) is for anyone interested in self-tracking. Whether you record your jogging times, how often you communicate with friends or how you are feeling - we would love to hear from you!

Esther Dyson talks about why she is investing in health - not health care - and how she expects the market to develop.  Her talk will be hosted by Shay Garvey of Delta Partners, with a discussion and Q&A to follow.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Esther Dyson (@edyson on twitter)  is chairman of EDventure Holdings.  Her primary activity is investing in and nurturing start-ups, with a recent focus on health care and aerospace.  She recently (October 2008 to March 2009) spent most of six months training as a backup cosmonaut in Star City outside Moscow Russia.  

Has Surface Tension’s ‘Water Lab’ given you a thirst for more?

Take part in this hands-on workshop, led by Mike Williams from the School of Natural Sciences, all about the major role of plants in the hydrological cycle as featured in Water Lab.

How does water manage to move to the tip of the tallest tree? What is water flux? How much water travels through one leaf of a tiny plant or a full rain forest and how can you calculate this? Learn more with the help of simple microscopy methods, potometers and pressure chambers.

Ignite Dublin: the night of high-energy 5-minute talks, guaranteed to amaze, inspire, upheave and amuse.  

It's a cabaret of ideas you won't forget, with scientists, artists, designers, and much much more!

Since opening SURFACE TENSION we have been asking visitors to collect samples of their tap water in 5l plastic containers and engage in conversations about their water asking them do they know where their water comes from? Should everyone have free access to water? and Do they drink their tap water or bottled water? In this one day performance that mimes the near Sisyphean acts of daily water collection in the developing world, Mary will lift and pour these samples into the purpose built 2.5 m fountain in the Gallery that contiuously filters the water.

Want a bite to eat on Friday evening that won't leave your wallet empty?  Meet friends in the always unique atmosphere of the Science Gallery cafe, and kick off your weekend right with the best deal in town!

Only €7.50 gets you a tasty plate of tapas-style food from our extensive platter, plus a drink.

This half-day international symposium is part of SURFACE TENSION - The Future of Water, a major new exhibition at Science Gallery. The symposium will provide a platform for four diverse exhibitors on the show to talk about their work engaging with 'the future of water', and to allow for discussion with both the audience and key respondents.