LASER Talks Stanford, Chaired by: Piero Scaruffi

Event Info

When: January 18 @ 7pm (California time) Find your timezone here

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Program
Therese Lahaie (Media Artist) on "Analog and Digital Migration"
Annie Kritcher (Lawrence Livermore Lab) on "The State of Nuclear Fusion Research"
Primavera De Filippi (National Center of Scientific Research, Paris) on "Do blockchains dream of electronic flowers?"

ABOUT SPEAKERS

Therese Lahaie studied glass technology at Massachusetts College of Art and had a BA in Fine Art from Emmanuel College, Boston, MA. Her light sculptural work is in the permanent collections of the Crocker Art Museum (CA), Corning Museum of Glass Contemporary Collection (NY), the DiRosa Collection (CA), and the Glassmuseet Ebeltoft (Denmark). In addition, she has been an artist in residence at the Kala Art Institute (CA) and had three honorary fellowships at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program (CA). She is the 2015 national award winner of the LuciteLux Just Imagine award for her Art in Public Places commission, Crossing Signal Mosaic, in Emeryville, CA. She lives and works at the 45th Artist Cooperative in Emeryville, CA.

Primavera De Filippi is a legal scholar at Harvard University, as well as an Internet activist and artist exploring the intersection between law and technology, focusing specifically on the legal and political implications of blockchain technology. Her artistic practice instantiates the key findings of her research in the physical world, creating blockchain-based lifeforms that evolve and reproduce themselves as people feed them with cryptocurrencies. Her works have been exposed in various museums, galleries and art fairs around the world including Ars Electronica (Austria), Furtherfield Gallery and Kinetica Art Fair (UK), Centre Pompidou, Grand Palais, Gaité Lyrique, and Le Cent Quatre (France), Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture (San Francisco), as well as festivals such as Burning Man (Nevada) and Fusion Festival (Germany).

Annie Kritcher is the design lead for the first ever fusion ignition experiment in a laboratory at the National Ignition Facility in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). She is also team lead for integrated modeling and is part of the Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) leadership team at LLNL. Annie received her BS from the University of Michigan Nuclear Engineering department in 2005, and MS and PhD from the UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering department in 2007 and 2009. Annie was first employed at the Lab as a summer intern in 2004, as an LLNL Lawrence Scholar during her time at UC Berkeley, as a Lawrence postdoctoral fellow in 2009 following completion of her Ph.D from UC Berkeley, and as technical staff in 2012. Annie has served on various committees such as the chair of the Strategic Initiative and Exploratory Research High Energy Density Science LDRD technical review committee, the Lawrence Fellow selection committee, Dynamic Compression Sector proposal selection committee, and the LCLS MEC peer review panel.

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