September LASER event at Univ of San Francisco

Program:

• 6:45pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking.

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• 7:00-7:25: Loren Frank (UCSF)on "What is a memory?"Recent discoveries have given us new insights into how memories are stored and  retrieved...Read more 
• 7:25-7:50: Lia Cook(Visual Artist) on "Woven Faces and Neuro Nets"Abstract...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: Birgitta Whaley(Berkeley Quantum Information and Computation Center) on ""Abstract...Read more 
• 8:35-9:00: Marcy Darnovsky(Center for Genetics and Society) on "The Case for a New Biopolitics"New practices in the life sciences are raising profound challenges to social justice, the public interest, and the human future...Read more 

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