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‘Man’s Inhumanity to Man’: Burns, Jamaica, and No Ruined Stone | Burns Chronicle
Slavery was a brutal and merciless social – as well as legal and economic – system, maintained through the threat and actuality of violence against anyone who challenged it.
Barav Barzani | Alumni Services | Alumni
Originally from Iraqi Kurdistan, Barav Barzani came to Edinburgh to study International Relations. Immediately enamoured with the city, he credits his time as a student with revealing a better, more ambitious version of himself. He has now taken
‘Criminal dreaming’: Reimagining Crime and Justice in Australian Aboriginal Crime Fiction | Crime Fiction Studies
In this article, we analyse Australian Aboriginal crime fiction as a form of world crime fiction that draws on the genre’s globally recognisable devices while at the same time localising them in a ...
Referral | Occupational Health Service | Health and Safety Department
Advice and guidance for managers and employees regarding referral to OHS by managers and by self referral.
Nonequilibrium summer school update
This is an update from the 5-day nonequilibrium summer school at KU Leuven. It covered aspects of modern nonequilibrium theory, simulation methods, and quantum statistics. I will explain a few concepts presented in the school, including 'frenesy' in
For the Sake of God and a Sense of Justice: Past Realities and Future Possibilities of Religious Reform in Afghanistan | Afghanistan
This article brings into conversation the dialectic of religious reform in Afghanistan by engaging with three key scholars and their approaches to the utilization of religion as the source for acti...
Lavinia, MEng Mechanical Engineering | School of Engineering | School of Engineering
From captaining the hockey team and playing cricket to producing a CAD model of a gearbox, Lavinia has enjoyed taking advantage of everything the university has to offer. In her spare time she loves exploring Scotland and hiking up the Munros.
Speed limit and Landauer's bound
Landauer's bound represents the minimum thermodynamic cost of erasing a single bit of information. However, as this bound is only achievable in quasistatic processes, finite-time operations inevitably incur additional energetic costs. In this talk,
Random walks and kernel methods
I will present a method of tackling a class of 2-D random walks. Using an example of a 2-D walker with 3 possible movements, I will outline a derivation of the full generating function for paths of various lengths and initial conditions, starting
Using Light to Control Bacteria
By applying light patterns to bacteria which are genetically modified to have a light-dependent swimming speed [1], we can create spatial bacterial patterns, since the bacteria swim out of the light regions and aggregate in the dark regions [2]. We