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George Talks: Fight the fear

27 June 2019
7:30am – 8:30am
The George Institute for Global Health | Level 5, 1 King Street Newtown, NSW 2042
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What we don’t understand often looks dangerous, and the barriers of our own anxieties are hard to get over. The incomprehensible power of new and complex ideas and technologies see us pull back in fear. These reactions stop us from thinking – so maybe if we want to be able to deal with change, we need to dive into what seems dangerous.

This series of three short talks will delve into some of our most dangerous ideas and technologies - artificial intelligence, nanoparticles and gene drives – to reconsider how we might avoid panic and leverage the opportunities that are presented to us. 


 

Speakers
Dr Haris Aziz i

Haris Aziz

Dr Haris Aziz is a Scientia fellow and senior lecturer in computer science at UNSW Sydney. His research interests lie at the intersection of artificial intelligence and game theory. A central research theme of his research is to design algorithms that make fairer decisions.

Haris was a recipient of the Chris Wallace Research Excellence Award, the CSIRO Julius Career Award, and the Oxford University Noon Scholarship. In 2016, he was selected by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) as one of the top ten rising stars in AI.

Martina Stenzel

Martina Stenzel

SPEAKER

 

Martina Stenzel studied chemistry at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, before completing her PhD in 1999 at the Institute of Applied Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Germany. 

She started as a postdoctoral fellow at UNSW in 1999 and is now a full Professor in the school of chemistry.

 

Her research interest is focused on the synthesis of plastic nanoparticles for nanomedicine. She is particularly fascinated by viruses and her team tried to mimic their structure using smart polymers that fold themselves into functional particles that are as big as viruses.