3MT Final at Llewellyn Hall

Imagine condensing hours, days and even years of complex research into a short presentation while being judged by an expert panel and lecture theatre full of your peers and strangers. An 80,000 word thesis would take 9 hours to read, they have 3 minutes.

Join us for an evening of smart entertainment suitable for the whole family and catch a glimpse of the amazing research projects that are being conducted by ANU PhD students.On the night, twelve finalists will wow you and the judges for the #ANU3MT 2018 crown, $4000 in prize money and a place in the 3MT Asia-Pacific grand final. We will ask you to cast your vote for the People's Choice award, the audience favourite will take home a $500 cash prize.

The 3MT is an international competition for research students to showcase their research. Students share what their research is and why it is important in plain language for three minutes, with only a single PowerPoint slide.

So what will each of our 12 finalists be talking about?

Heather Browning (College of Arts and Social Sciences) is talking to the animals, David McManus (College of Science) is listening to the music of gravity, and Katie Cox (College of Arts and Social Sciences) questions Super-powered security.

Tuukka Kaikkonen (College of Asia and the Pacific) is using rice to discover more about our past, meanwhile Alice Taylor asks if discrimination law in Australia values equality.

Bhavani Kannan (College of Asia and the Pacific) changed the script when negotiating with terrorists, Kirrily Apthorp (College of Arts and Social Sciences) is living with Vietnamese Cat Ba langur primates, and Ankur Sharma (College of Engineering and Computer Science) is making organic mobile phones.

Rommel Real (College of Science) is using maths to make photographs clear, Noleen Yin (College of Business and Economics) is catching tax cheats, Harry Sutton (College of Health and Medicine) is creating vaccines with memories, and Catherine Ross (College of Science) is bringing the Bettong back to Canberra.

Judges for the night will be Professor Mike Calford, Elizabeth Lee MLA, Professor Tom Calma, Lish Fejer, Dr Matthew Trinca, and Diane Kargas Bray AM.

Find more information and register for free here.