LIYSF 2023: Day 9

Hi everyone! Catherine back to recount LIYSF 2023 day 9! Today we started our day off with specialist lectures! It was alumni day so every specialist was a previous attendee of LIYSF! My lecture was with Dr. Stephen Priebe on Aerodynamics, Turbulent Flow, and Computational Fluid Dynamics. We covered the history of aerodynamics, common misconceptions … Read more

LIYSF 2023: Day 8

Hi everyone! Catherine here, back to recap LIYSF 2023 Day 8! On day 8 Manjot and I began our day with visits to scientific facilities. Manjot went to The Jenner Institute at Oxford while I went to HR Wallingford and Oxford as well. Manjot got to learn about designing and developing vaccines and got to … Read more

LIYSF 2023: Day 7

Hello all! Catherine here to recap LIYSF day 7! I can’t believe we are already half way through LIYSF!! It has been so much fun and we’ve learned so much! I’m so excited to see what’s in store for the last seven days! Today Manjot and I had jet lag finally catch up on us. … Read more

LIYSF 2023: Day 6

Today I got to visit Rolls-Royce to see their largest collection of aero engines in the country! The bus ride there was two and a half hours and we had to get up really early but it was all worth it. We got to see engines ranging from World War 1 piston engines to Merlin … Read more

LIYSF 2023: Day 5

Welcome to Day 5 of LIYSF!  Today was an amazing day filled with captivating lectures! We have so much to share with you all that it was difficult trying to fit it all into one post. We started off with a principal lecture from Professor Christopher Jackson, Professor of Basin Analysis at Imperial College London. … Read more

LIYSF 2023: Day 4

Hello everyone! Catherine here. I am back to tell you all about LIYSF day 4! On this day there was an optional visit to Stonehenge and Salisbury which I attended. We began our day with breakfast before getting to our bus and taking the two hour drive to Stonehenge. Let me introduce you all to … Read more

LIYSF 2023: Day 3

Welcome to Day 3 of LIYSF!  Manjot here, to start off the day we had a principal lecture from Professor Waseem Qasim, a pediatric immunologist and Professor of Cell and Gene Therapy in London. Dr. Qasim’s work focuses on leading ‘bench-to-bedside’ development of translational gene therapies for children with blood and immune disorders. His research … Read more

LIYSF 2023: Day 2

Hi everyone, it’s Manjot here!  For our second day at the London International Youth Science Forum we went on our first scientific visit! Catherine went to The Royal Institution where they did a lab on electromagnetism and motors in the Loreal Lab, where several elements have been discovered and confirmed. They got to explore the … Read more

LIYSF 2023: Day 1

Welcome to Catherine and Manjot’s LIYSF 2023 blog series! Hello all! I’m going to give you the recap of Manjot and I’s journey to London as well as day 1 of LIYSF! Manjot and I began our journey on Tuesday at 9am in BC. We arrived to the airport and got on our first flight … Read more

Congratulations to UFV’s 2023 LIYSF Representatives: Catherine Laflamme and Manjot Benning!

The Faculty of Science is pleased to announce that Manjot Benning, Biology major and Catherine Laflamme, Physics major have been selected to represent UFV this summer, in person, at the 64th Annual London International Youth Science Forum. The shortlisted candidates presented a research topic of their choice to our selection panel last week. The presentations were … Read more