L.A.S.E.R. talks in Stanford: Quantum Steampunk, Biofutures, Multi-sensory Art, Chaired by: Piero Scaruffi

When: April 20, 2022 06:00 PM in Pacific Time (US and Canada) (UTC-7) Find your timezone here

Where: Online, Registration via ZOOM


PROGRAM

This evening will feature 3 presentations:

* Nicole Yunger Halpern (Joint Institute for Quantum Information and 
Computer Science, University of Maryland) on "Quantum Steampunk: The 
Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow"
* Katia Zolotovsky (RISD) (RISD) on "Bio-Futures: Engineered Living 
Materials for Transplanetary Habitats"
* Betty Sargeant (Media Artist)

Nicole Yunger Halpern is a theoretical physicist at the Joint Center for 
Quantum Information and Computer Science at the University of Maryland and 
the author of the book "Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's 
Tomorrow". Nicole has written over 100 articles for the blog Quantum 
Frontiers and suspects that a copy of her is a novelist in some parallel 
universe.

Katia Zolotovsky, Assistant Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design 
(RISD), is an architect, biologist and bio-designer drawing from new 
technologies, synthetic biology, and materials science to further 
sustainable innovation with materials. She designs things on multiple 
scales: buildings and interiors as an architect, but also biomaterials and 
3D-printed materials, and even designed bacteria engineered on the 
nanoscale.

Betty Sargeant is a media artist based in Australia who creates 
multi-sensory installations with a focus on disappearing the interface. 
She is co-creative director and artist with the art-technology duo 
PluginHUMAN.

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