A model public lecture
Ross H. McKenzie (noreply@blogger.com)
Scientists giving public lectures face a formidable challenge. It needs to be both interesting, exciting, and accessible to a broad audience. Hopefully, the speaker can communicate something not just about science but also about how science is done. Yesterday I attended a very nice public lecture at UQ. Professor Ullrich Steiner from Cambridge spoke on How Nature Makes Materials . It nicely bridged physics, chemistry, and biology. His work on photonic structures in nature is described here. The