February LASER Event - Stanford

• 7:00-7:25: Birgitta Whaley(Berkeley Quantum Information and Computation Center) on "What role does Quantum Mechanics play in Biology?Advances in nanotechnology are driving the development of microscopic studies of biological phenomena...Read more
• 7:25-7:50: Rieko Yajima(Stanford/ Design and AAAS) on "Catalyzing scientific innovation using design-thinking paradigms"Design Thinking Paradigms (DTP) have successfully been applied to non-design fields...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: Christine Lee(Visual Artist and Designer) on "Latent Potential - Using art, design and engineering to help divert materials from going to the landfill"Rethinking what we consider to be trash and creating a sense of accountability for the amount of excess waste generated...Read more
• 8:35-9:00: Jennifer Widom(Stanford/Computer Science) on "Big Data, Big Discoveries, Big Fallacies"It is surprisingly easy to come to false conclusions from data analysis alone...Read more

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• 9:00pm-9:30pm: Discussions, networkingYou can mingle with the speakers and the audience

Li Ka Shing Center, Room LK120