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Wed 16 Mar 2011
15:00 - 17:00

Venue: Geography Dept

Provided by: Graduate School of Life Sciences


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How to Keep a Lab Notebook (Lecture/workshop)
Beginners

Wed 16 Mar 2011

Description

Your lab notebook is one of the most important and precious objects you, as a scientist, will ever have. This session explore how keeping an exemplary laboratory notebook is crucial to good scientific practice in lab research. The course will consist of a short talk, a chance to assess some examples of good and bad practice, with plenty of time for questions and discussion. You might like to bring along your own lab notebook for feedback. (Please note that issues relating to protection of Intellectual Property Rights will not be covered in this session)

Target audience
  • MPhil students
  • First and second year PhD students
Sessions

Number of sessions: 1

# Date Time Venue Trainer
1 Wed 16 Mar 2011   15:00 - 17:00 15:00 - 17:00 Geography Dept Dr C.J. O'Kane
Topics covered (session 1)
  • Samples and populations; the normal distribution
Topics covered (session 2)
  • The binomial distribution; testing hypotheses
Topics covered (session 3)
  • The t distribution
Topics covered (session 4)
  • Comparison of two independent, approximately normally distributed samples
Topics covered (session 5)
  • One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA)
Aims
  • To present your work to a large peer-group audience
  • To experience inspirational research talks from leading scientific researchers
  • network with graduate students and researchers from departments and institutes right across the Graduate School of Life Sciences
Format

Presentation and demonstrations

System requirements
  • Analysis of variance (continued)
Duration

One session of two hours

Frequency

Yearly

Themes

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