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Glasgow Science Festival
We also support other science festivals, such as the Orkney Science Festival
Collaborative projects have included Chasing the Waves, a project that brought together researchers in IGR, actors and musicians to produce a live, musical show about the detection of gravitational waves.
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Younger members of the public were encouraged to help make a large mosaic of the first gravitational wave signal and the completed work will shortly go on display in the Glasgow Science Centre.
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Invited talks at New Scientist Live, public plenary talks e.g. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2016 and several talks with various Scottish astronomical societies
Wired Audi Innovation Awards 2016
Sheila Rowan was awarded the Scientific Breakthrough prize at the 2016 Wired Audi Innovation Awards.