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"Even during a bitter election season, persuasive conversations were not only possible, but surprisingly attainable". It might feel like it's utterly impossible to have productive conversations about science sometimes but this article featured in Scientific American gives a really interesting perspective and reflections on effective strategies for having potentially sticky conversations. Get yourself a cuppa and give it a read; especially if your research is in climate change or any other 'controversial' area.
i-City
i-City (Intelligent sustainable networked City) is an exciting postgraduate student innovation competition sponsored by MathWorks and jointly run by MPLS and Reuben College.
Training and development courses
Browse our current MPLS Researcher Training and Development course programme
Training and development courses
Browse our current MPLS Researcher Training and Development course programme
Training and Development course programme
Browse our current MPLS Researcher Training and Development course programme
Black History Month 2022
October is Black History Month in the UK, an annual celebration to promote and celebrate Black contributions in British society while also giving time for reflection. Find out more about what’s happening in MPLS and the University.
Black History Month 2022
October is Black History Month in the UK, an annual celebration to promote and celebrate Black contributions in British society while also giving time for reflection. Find out more about what’s happening in MPLS and the University.
Destination net zero: the push for cleaner aviation
The UK aviation industry alone is targeting a reduction of just over 30 million tonnes of CO2 per year, to zero. A 50-year collaboration between Rolls-Royce and the University of Oxford is hoping to rise to the challenge by designing more efficient jet engines. Includes a profile of Manuela Sisti, who recently won a $10,000 prize from the Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship. Named after the pioneering aviator, the prize is awarded to women breaking barriers in aerospace.
Innovation Festival at Begbroke Science Park
Discover some of the transformative science and innovation happening right now, across Oxfordshire and the University, and learn about the radical new plans for Begbroke Science Park’s future development as an Innovation District, where more world-class research ideas will find a home.
On the edge of existence: rediscovering a lost coral
In this new Oxford Sparks film, marine biologist Dr Bryan Wilson shares the incredible story of his rediscovery of a once-thought-to-be-extinct coral.
MPLS supports Mental Health Awareness Week 2022
Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 is from Monday 9 May - Sunday 15 May. The theme for the week this year is loneliness. MPLS are once again planning a programme of activity Monday - Friday of that week. We hope you can join us!
Connecting with Industry
Connecting with Industry is designed to help give PhD students (and other postgraduates) the confidence, tools and skills to help them more effectively engage with and work with industry.
Towards Efficient and Generalizable Dexterous Manipulation with Reinforcement Learning using AWS
By Zheng Xiong, AIMS CDT Student. Despite that robots driven by hard-coded instructions have achieved great success in the past decades, their applications are still quite limited in highly controlled scenarios due to the lack of adaptability to flexible environments with unforeseen variations. Reinforcement learning (RL) has the potential to tackle these challenges.
Learning How to Learn Where You Are: Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Camera Localization using AWS
By Dominik Kloepher, AIMS CDT Student. In this project, we looked at the task of camera localization: given a number of images of a scene (a room, a street, …) and the positions and viewing directions from which they were taken (together, these are the camera pose), can we determine the camera pose from which a new, unseen image was taken? A method that could do so reliably and quickly would find use in many different fields, from robotics and autonomous driving to augmented reality applications.
New human-machine collaborations unlock society’s big challenges
AWS blog on the Oxford X-Reality Hub Ed Tech project, which set out to investigate how virtual reality (VR) could transform the classroom experience and close the gap between disadvantaged groups of pupils who statistically do less well than their peers.
Mission critical cloud: Transforming education
From digital transformation to virtual reality, hear how educational institutions are continuing to redefine and reimagine virtual learning. An AWS podcast.
RisingWISE role models and case studies
Our previous participants are inspiring in ways both big and small and we are proud to share some of their motivating profiles here.
Enterprising Women Lunch and Learn Podcasts
A series of talks by enterprising and successful women working in STEM.
Using AWS to analyse Elephant Rumbles
Elephants generate a wide range of vocalisations to communicate with one another, such as snorts, trumpets and infrasonic rumbles. Since these rumbles are so low frequency, they cannot be heard by the human ear, but can be detected either by microphones or seismometers.
Enterprise courses run by MPLS
See a list of the Enterprise courses we run regularly in MPLS.