June LASER Event - Stanford

7:00-7:25: Stacey Bent(Stanford's TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy) on "Shining Light on Energy"By making small changes at the nanoscale, scientists hope to improve solar cells...Read more
7:25-7:50: Soraya Murray(UC Santa Cruz/ Film & Digital Media) on "Games, Connectedness and Radical Empathy Under Globalization"How games can reflect the world as it is, and present tools for imagining what our place in it may be...Read more
7:50-8:10: BREAK. Before or after the break, anyone in the audience currently working within the intersections of art and science will have 30 seconds to share their work. Please present your work as a teaser so that those who are interested can seek you out during social time following the event.
8:10-8:35: Danielle Tullman-Ercek(UC Berkeley/ Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) on "Synthetic Biology: The Challenges and Potential of Engineering Living Systems"The past few decades has seen an explosion in our ability to understand and even manipulate cells...Read more
8:35-9:00: Kiri Rong(Visual Artist, Curator, Computer Scientist) on "The State of the Arts in China" The unique trajectory of China's art world over the last 30 years... Read more
9:00pm-9:30pm: Discussions, networkingYou can mingle with the speakers and the audience