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Hi lovely people! My name is Abby, I am a 3rd year Pure Maths major (I know, scary!) in a Bachelor of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at the University of Adelaide. I am also the Mathematics officer for WISTEMS in 2023, and I, like many… Read More »Embracing Change: From Dance to Maths – Abby Hodgkiss
Have you ever looked out to the night sky? I mean REALLY looked. Paused for a long moment and stared at all of those small specks of light. Stars, galaxies, planets, and clusters. Quite wonderful, isn’t it? SPOILER ALERT: You are looking at what these… Read More »Time travel is real? – Shaghaf Abumustafa
Over the summer I interned at Linney Engineering Services as a process engineer. Linney Engineering Services are a consulting company specialising in the wine, food and beverage industries across Australia. The services provided by Linney Engineering are extensive, ranging from conceptual layouts and designs to… Read More »Interning in the Wine Industry
My name is Olivia and I study Environmental Engineering and Chemistry at the University of Adelaide. At high school I loved maths and science, so I studied Math Methods, Specialist Maths, Chemistry and Physics in year 12. I’ve always had a passion for geography and… Read More »Sustainability Summer School in the UK – Olivia Webb
Hi! Nice to meet you! I’m Isabelle, and I was lucky enough to be the WISTEMS Vice President last year while I finished off my degrees in mathematics and French. I’m currently using mathematics to help us understand hailstorms and have lots of very random… Read More »Positives of the + sign: Musings on being a (very) queer mathematician and scientist – Isabelle Greco
From self-driving cars to snapchat filters, many of the computing devices we use everyday are able to ‘see’ the world around them in some way. But how do they do this? Humans see when electromagnetic waves hit the retina in the eye and are transformed… Read More »How do Computers See? – Olivia Byrnes
Snowflakes! Beautiful, unique and symmetric crystals of ice. Have you ever wondered how these intricate creations are formed? In this article we’ll be exploring some of the science and maths behind this beautiful phenomenon as well as introducing you to a tool to make your… Read More »The Science of Snowflakes – Isabelle Greco
Join us for a Q&A session with Sabrina as she shares her experience working at the Department of Infrastructure and Transport (DIT). What is your name, and what do you study? I’m Sabrina Harper and I study Civil Engineering and have just completed a Diploma… Read More »Working as a Civil Engineering Intern – Sabrina Harper
Adelaide’s October 2021 Climate StrikeImage used from School Strikes 4 Climate https://www.facebook.com/StrikeClimate/photos/1089259718569739 In Australia we’ve flooded, we’ve burned, and we’ve had far too many ‘one in a hundred year’ events in the last year or two for this to be normal. As we approach the… Read More »On A (Climate) Budget: Why all the hullabaloo about CO2? -Isabelle Greco
This summer, I spent a lot of time playing video games. Is this article an excuse to validate the tens of hours I spent on my PS4 playing Horizon: Forbidden West? Probably. But it’s true that, as a Computer Science student, my interest in technology… Read More »How Playing Video Games FAST Helps You Think Like a Programmer – Olivia Byrnes