Giving a talk on Space Electronics next Tuesday

[compilerbitch]

15th Feb, 8pm, Okinaga Room, St. Edmund's College

I'm pretty sure it's open to the public, so feel free to come along if you're in Cam. It's going to be aimed at the 'BBC Horizon' level, so no electronics/physics/maths knowledge will be assumed.

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[davefish.livejournal.com]

Do you have a notice or flyer or somesuch for the one in Billy-G or do I make it up?

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

This is what went out internally:

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SPACE ELECTRONICS
Sarah Thompson
FC22, Friday 11th February

All modern spacecraft critically depend upon high performance digital electronics. Extremes of temperature, radiation and hard vacuum pose a significant engineering challenge -- circuits that would be entirely reliable on Earth will typically fail after a surprisingly short period in space.

In this talk, Sarah will describe two alternative approaches: 'build it so it won't break', and 'build it so that if it breaks you can fix it'.
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I'll be giving two versions of this talk -- one at the lab, which will be more technical, and another next week at St Edmund's (see http://findatlantis.com/albums/album03/poster_web.jpg for details), which will be aimed more at a non-specialist audience.

PS: If you're from outside the CPRG, please let me know if you're coming so we can move to a larger room if necessary.