August LASER Event - Berkeley

7:00-7:25: Therese Lahaie(Artist) on "TBA"Abstract forthcoming...Read more
7:25-7:50: Charlotte Jacobs(Standford University) on "Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio"Salk's polio vaccine all but eradicated a crippling disease...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: Greg Niemeyer(UC Berkeley/ Center for New Media) on "TBA"Abstract forthcoming...Read more
8:35-9:00: Lauren Baines (Choreographer) on "Embodied Knowledge: Mirror Neurons, Kinesthetic Empathy, and What Site Dance Can Show Us"Developments in neuroscience have demonstrated that our movements in space are not relegated solely to the sphere of action....Read more
9:00pm-9:30pm: Discussions, networkingYou can mingle with the speakers and the audience