NSQI at the University of Bristol

(Left) Nobel Laureate Heinrich Rohrer declared the centre officially open. Photo credit: Jesse Karjalainen. (Right) The NSQI centre itself – the labs are out of sight and sound in the basement.

reference:
http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/43832

This week was the scientific opening of the Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information (NSQI) at the University of Bristol. The event coincided with the Bristol Nanoscience Symposium 2010, and featured great talks from some of the pioneers of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/nsqi-centre/

The first NSQI-based research paper goes online
17 September 2010

Samantha Pitt and colleagues from the research group of Rebecca Sitsapesan have published the first scientific paper, containing results collected from the Centre for NSQI. The paper, "TPC2 is a novel NAADP-sensitive Ca2+-release channel, operating as a dual sensor of luminal pH and Ca2+" has been published online and will appear in print later this year in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.


The paper is available at:
http://www.jbc.org/content/early/2010/08/18/jbc.M110.156927.abstract?sid=645e8e50-44a2-460a-8af1-b4ccb1dc564a

video mysteries

video mysteries;
We recommend you to play all the videos at the same time;

the scientists

Name: Simon Lock, Detroit
e-mails: lock@comp.lancs.ac.uk, simon@bigdoginteractive.co.uk
Interested in: Novel interaction, Public engagement, Mobile devices, Vision, Clothes, Steampunk, Wood
Likes to work in: Nightclubs, Coffee shops, Festivals, Outreach events, Fields

Name: Clarissa Ribeiro 1177 Earth Born
e-mail: almeida.clarissa@gmail.com
Interested in: design process, complex systems, information and meaning, chance and chaos and mirrors and fashion, fairy tales and indie rock and toy art and science and architecture.
Likes to play; and works for fun

Name: Isobel Taylor
e-mail:isobel.massey@gmail.com
Interested in: radioactivity, Nuclear reactor technology and coffee beans
Likes to work in: Secret Nuclear Factories' secret projects

Name: Luke Christison
e-mail: luke.christison@plymouth.ac.uk
Interested in: 3D modeling and animation, telling stories
Likes to work in: riding immersive vision theatres' virtual spaceships and airplanes

the evidences

Immersive Theatre

VanMan woke up in the midle of the night. There was a phone call. He rushed the phone.It was his brother form Amsterdam, He was ill - a broken heart from the football world cup! John must rush to his potential death bed. John leaps into a plane from the museum he used to work in, next door. An old plane from the second clone wars. Without a thought he takes off! Aproaching mt baldy on the edge of New Plymouth he realises he was down to emergency reserve and so jettison´s all superfluous contents. Opening the canopy the sudden depressureization whips off his helmet sending it down below. in a fluster he flips out his business card, throws out the flower intended for his brother and ejects and flings out the cassette tape that was playing in the ancient player. The tape spools out, covering the cityscape in an atomically thin layer of Ferric Oxide...

a nano-fiction texture tale

John The Van Man / a nano-fiction texture tale

We will tell you the story of John The VanMan:
VanMan woke up in the midle of the night. There was a phone call. He rushed the phone.It was his brother form Amsterdam, He was ill - a broken heart from the football world cup! John must rush to his potential death bed. John leaps into a plane from the museum he used to work in, next door. An old plane from the second clone wars. Without a thought he takes off! Aproaching mt baldy on the edge of New Plymouth he realises he was down to emergency reserve and so jettison´s all superfluous contents. Opening the canopy the sudden depressureization whips off his helmet sending it down below. in a fluster he flips out his business card, throws out the flower intended for his brother and ejects and flings out the cassette tape that was playing in the ancient player. The tape spools out, covering the cityscape in an atomically thin layer of Ferric Oxide...

Four intrepid scientist "The Van Taskforce" were called in to solve the mystery of the Van Mans dematerialisation in a nowhere sky...










This tale is part of a team project developed in the workshop "Scale Electric..."
19 - 20 July 2010, i-DAT.org, The Wolfson Nanotechnology Laboratory, Ubiquity Journal. As result we have a 3D immersive model of the cassette-cityscape were JohnTheVanMan could keep flying forever. This is the story so far...

to model the cassette-cityscape the scientists used a scan in nano scale of the original item: a small fragment of the tape they found on the city road.

The story of the sound...(by Simon Lock)

The story of the sound...(by Simon Lock)

Half the guts of a cassette tape - no casing and only one spool!
I stuck the loose end of the tape to the powered spindle of my old personal cassette player;
I feed the tape past the guide pins, over the read head and over the rubber driver wheel;
Had to press the tape against the read head with my finger as it played
Recorded the audio output using "Audacity";
Must have got the alignment wrong - it played back in reverse;
Used "Audacity" to reverse the track and get the proper audio out
I guess the fortune teller's right?



Torn
Natalie Imbruglia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEUrw3b85r4

I thought I saw a man brought to life
He was warm
He came around
And he was dignified
He showed me what it was to cry

Well you couldn't be that man I adored
You don't seem to know
Or seem to care
What your heart is for
I don't know him anymore

There's nothin' where he used to lie
My conversation has run dry
That's what's going on
Nothings right
I'm torn

I'm all out of faith
This is how I feel
I'm cold and I am shamed
Lying naked on the floor
Illusion never changed
Into something real
I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn
You're a little late
I'm already torn

So I guess the fortune tellers right
I should have seen just what was there and not some holy light
But you crawled beneath my veins
And now, I don't care

I have no luck
I don't miss it all that much
There's just so many things
That I can't touch
I'm torn

There's nothin' he used to lie
My inspiration has run dry
That's what's going on
Nothing's right
I'm torn
Chorus