LASER: Conversations in Art & Science
Room 115, Music Building
The Leonardo Art, Science, Evening Rendezvous (LASER) talks at UC Davis are evening presentations that engage the public as participants in conversations with artists, designers, scientists, and technologists making significant contributions to their fields. The evenings are designed to encourage unexpected juxtapositions between seemingly unrelated projects, facilitating the interdisciplinary conversations that engage the challenges of the 21st century.
This Winter Quarter’s speakers are:
Veronika Hubeny, Professor, Physics UC Davis,
“Wonders of Black Holes”
Marit MacArthur, Lecturer, University Writing
Program UC Davis, “Poetry Reading, Performative Speech, and Sound
Studies”
Grant Gallard, Chief Science Officer Point
Blue Conservation Science, “Providing the scientific basis for
protection of the world’s last pristine ocean”
Thursday, February 15, 2018 from 6-8 pm
Music Building, Room 115
6:15 pm Door
6:30 pm Speaker Presentations
7:15 pm Conversations followed by Rapid Fire Community Sharing
Open and free to the public
Co-directed by Professors Timothy Hyde (Art Studio) and Jiayi Young (Design), LASER runs once every quarter for the 2017-2018 academic year. Event generously sponsored by HArCS, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences UC Davis and Leonardo/ISAST.
For more information, visit the LASER Facebook page.