• Question: Does your work help with charity?

    Asked by anon-186962 to Miriam on 6 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Miriam Hogg

      Miriam Hogg answered on 6 Nov 2018:

      Unfortunately my work doesn’t help with charity. I hope in the future that I will be able to help with some charities, perhaps by lending my computing experience. Or raising money!

Comments

  • Photo: Marton

    Marton commented on :

    Sadly, my work doesn’t help charities directly, but our lab is the guardian of two orangutans living in Indonesia (Sam and Cupcake) 🙂

  • Photo: Stewart

    Stewart commented on :

    My own work doesn’t apply directly, BUT:

    Some particle physics applies very well to medicine as well, particularly imaging and cancer treatment.

    When we build particle detectors we’re interested in how particles travel through them, whether they bump into atoms along the way etc: this is also useful for calculating radiation doses for attacking tumours.

    Some of my friends moved from particle physics to working directly in hospitals calculating how much radiation cancer patients should receive.