March LASER Event

For this LASER we'll experiment a different format than the traditional 20-minute talks. We'll try the "A.T.O.M.I.C." format: A for Anthropology, T for Technology, O for "Omega Point", "M" for Music, "I" for Images, "C" for Cognitive Science. Six discussions on six topics. "I" will be led by Jennifer Parker, founding director of OpenLab at UC Santa Cruz and will be the only extended talk. The others will be

• "I": Jennifer Parker on "Collaborating with a Living Organisms, the Algae Society: BioArt & Design Lab"
• "O": Krishnan Thyagarajan on "What does Human Obsolescence mean for the future of intelligence?"
• "T": Arun Rao on "The Banach Tarski theorem - The Pea and the Sun"
• "C": Anirudh Sankar on "What the Evolution of Stone Tool Technology says about Cognition"
• "A": Jinxia Niu on "Disinformation and Free Speech"
• "M": Sofia Lozano on "Sound as a Therapy and a Practice"

Each will lead a conversation with a brief introduction and then will invite the others and the audience to join the conversation.

Room:  LiKaShing building, LK120