During the covid pandemic, this online program replaces both the 12
physical L.A.S.E.R.s that were planned
at Stanford University and University of San Francisco for 2020 and the
L.A.S.T. Festival that was planned for Spring 2020.
Since some of them are simply "fireside chats",
we tentatively called them the The Life Art Science Tech (L.A.S.T.) dialogues.
See previous and future speakers and their videos.
(Note: All times are California time)
- April 20 @ 6pm
Nicole Yunger Halpern (Joint Institute for Quantum Information and Computer Science, University of Maryland) on "Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow"
Betty Sargeant (Media Artist) on "The Art of Collaboration: Decolonising Digital Landscapes"
Katia Zolotovsky (RISD) (RISD) on "Spatial design with Engineered Living Materials"
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Nicole Yunger Halpern (Joint Institute for Quantum Information and Computer Science, University of Maryland) on "Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow"
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Nicole Yunger Halpern is a theoretical physicist at the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science at the University of Maryland, as well as the author of the book "Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow". Nicole earned her PhD at Caltech, winning the international Ilya Prigogine Prize for an energy-science thesis. As a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, she won the International Quantum Technology Emerging Researcher Award. Nicole has written over 100 articles for the blog Quantum Frontiers and suspects that a copy of her is a novelist in some parallel universe. You can follow her on Twitter @nicoleyh11.
Katia Zolotovsky (RISD) on "Bio-Futures: Engineered Living Materials for Transplanetary Habitats"
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Katia Zolotovsky, Assistant Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) is an architect, biologist and bio-designer drawing from new technologies, synthetic biology, and materials science to further sustainable innovation with materials. She designs things on multiple scales: buildings and interiors as an architect, but also biomaterials and 3D-printed materials, and even designed bacteria engineered on the nanoscale. Her research focuses on the intersection of science and design, particularly computational design and biology. She hopes to introduce first-year students to material sciences that capture generative bio-processes within a framework of ecological concerns and sustainability. She earned her PhD in Design and Computation from the Department of Architecture at MIT. She has an impressive record of National Science Foundation funding and experience in various domains of professional practice.
Betty Sargeant (Media Artist) on "The Art of Collaboration: Decolonising Digital Landscapes"
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Betty Sargeant is a media artist based in Australia who creates multi-sensory installations with a focus on disappearing the interface. She is co-creative director and artist with the art-technology duo PluginHUMAN. Betty has exhibited internationally (Asia, Europe, North America, Australia). She has won Good Design Awards (2020 and 2018) and a Premier's Design Award (2017) for her progressive artworks. She was the Melbourne Knowledge Fellow (2016), was artist-in-residence at the Exertion Games Lab, RMIT University (2017-19); and was creator-in-residence at the Asia Culture Centre (South Korea, 2016-17). Betty's PhD was ranked top three at the CHASS Prize (2015). Betty has created media art installations for institutions such as the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taiwan, 2018), Questacon (the National Science and Technology Museum, Australia, 2018) and the Asia Culture Centre (South Korea, 2016 & 2017).
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