QLD: 3D printing pills, quantum tech symposium, and science music at the Planetarium
National Science Week in QLD
Our early picks of highlights
- Design and 3D print pills: ask a pharmacist how and why – Woolloongabba
- Symposium to get Queensland quantum ready – Fortitude Valley
- Satirical science music, astrophysicists, and ‘homeopathic cocktails’ at a live Planetarium concert – Toowong
More on each of the highlights below.
National Science Week in Queensland is coordinated by Inspiring Queensland. Visit their website: inspiringqld.com.au.
Design and 3D print pills: ask a pharmacist how and why – Woolloongabba
Ask pharmacist and 3D printing researcher Dr Jared Miles why 3D printed pharmaceuticals should be brought to the clinic. And design and print your own tablets.
Customisable colour, flavour, texture, and even braille or symbols play an important role in medication usage. For example, polypills with multiple active ingredients could reduce the mix-ups that often occur when people take several different drugs daily.
Following a talk from Jared, participants will take part in a workshop demonstration of 3D printing tablets facilitated by University of Queensland researchers, with the opportunity to design and print their own.
Friday 16 August. Event details: www.scienceweek.net.au/event/from-pixels-to-pills-why-we-should-be-3d-printing-medicines/woolloongabba/
Media enquiries: Liam Krueger, l.krueger@uq.edu.au
Scientists available for media interviews.
Symposium to get Queensland quantum ready – Fortitude Valley
Quantum technologies are already used in smart phones and cars, medical imaging, manufacturing, and navigation. But today’s technologies capture only a small fraction of the potential of quantum science.
Quantum technologies could reshape our industries. But how much do we really know about it? And are we truly ‘quantum ready’?
Researchers, industry professionals, investors, and government representatives will get together for a one-day symposium to explore the opportunities in Queensland’s growing technology scene.
Hosted by the Queensland Government, in partnership with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems.
Tuesday 13 August. Event details: www.scienceweek.net.au/event/qx-queensland-advanced-technologies-future/fortitude-valley
Media enquiries: Kim Wood, kim.wood@des.qld.gov.au or 0424 620 303.
Satirical science music, astrophysicists, and ‘homeopathic cocktails’ at a live Planetarium concert – Toowong
Award-wining songwriter and science communicator Nathan Eggins (aka Conspiracy of One) is bringing his signature sciencey music back to the Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium, with a couple of University of Queensland astro-experts in tow.
Nathan’s pop-rock-funk music explores scientific and psychological concepts while highlighting and satirising many forms of pseudoscience, misinformation, and cognitive biases.
Nathan and his band will share songs from his debut album ‘Road to Reason’, along with fan favourite science songs like ‘We’re All Aliens, Baby’ and ‘The Sound a Duck Makes’, set against the backdrop of the starscapes of the Skydome.
Participants will also hear from dark energy expert Tamara Davis and extrasolar planets researcher Benjamin Pope and enjoy free popcorn and ‘homeopathic cocktails’.
Saturday 17 August. Event details: www.scienceweek.net.au/event/planetarium-concert-live-music-in-the-skydome-2/toowong
Media enquiries: Nathan Eggins, nathan@sentientproductions.com.au or 0402 593 431.