Visit PROBE: Research Uncovered at Trinity
Posted on: 17 September 2019
Trinity is excited to invite all curious minds to journey through the best that Irish research has to offer as this year’s offering of PROBE – an intimate, engaging, and interactive pop-up festival – takes centre stage from 5 pm on Friday September 27.
PROBE at Trinity College Dublin is a free showcase of the diverse range of academic research taking place, which aims to engage and involve the public with live experiments, exclusive demonstrations, interactive workshops, and much, much more.
Get a flavour of PROBE and relive some of the excitement from a previous year by watching the video below:
PROBE is part of European Researchers’ Night, which takes place in cities across the continent on the same date. It features around 50 events, talks and research experiments, so there will be plenty to do and see for families, students and interested people of all ages.
Some of the many highlights to look forward to this year include:
Neureka: download the Neureka game app and work through a series of cognitive tasks to help scientists understand how big data can be used to predict the onset of dementia and troubling mental health episodes.
Dr Burges’ Plague Cure: help prepare one of the first cures for plague, which was shared widely by women in centuries gone by, and learn about the contribution of women throughout medical history.
Astrophysics stellarium: chat with our astrophysicists and help them characterise the many different stars, comets and globular clusters lighting up the night sky.
Heliosphere relationships debate: take part in an all-inclusive debate about the future of meaningful relationships and how technology will change it – would you swap your partner for a robot designed to be ‘the one’? The Heliosphere revolves around a 360 degree camera that allows online audiences to partake in the debate.
Learn some Mandarin Chinese: with a growing number of people wanting to learn Chinese, researchers in Trinity are aiming to build a computer-mediated communication platform to support those people. Come along and learn a few words yourself.
PROBE is free to attend, though activities with restricted numbers will be ticketed on Eventbrite. Stay posted for the finalised programme, which will be available soon.