Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017

Computers tracking your every move! Creepy or awesome? Come see for yourself!
I'll explain how companies like Oculus track your movements in virtual reality to immerse you in an alternate world.

On Hospital Duty! A day in my life as an ob/gyn doctor
In this talk, Dr. Branson will walk through a doctor's approach to diagnosis and treatment of a pregnancy gone awry.

STEM Blasts Off Into Orbit: How satellites work and protect our nation
Unmanned satellites provide critical support for our nation's security. Come hear how these satellites have helped keep our country safe for decades!

Trompe L'oeil Murals and Burning Man Base
Burning Man... from spark to fire! Andrew Johnstone, the designer of "The Man" for the Burning Man Festival describes the year-long process from the concept of the design to the building of the structure.

Reinventing Garbage: Innovations in recycling and beyond

Deadliest Catch: How a love-hate relationship with bugs turned into a career hunting the world’s deadliest animal
We're doing field trials to try to produce and release 1 million sterile male mosquitoes a week to crash the population of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and hopefully reduce Dengue, Zika, Chikungunya and Yellow Fever transmission. We do this through Project Debug -- using robotics and automation along with cutting edge biology to try to suppress populations of disease-transmitting mosquitoes.

Constructible Polygons and Related Questions

How Nintendo of America Uses Data Science to Make Business Decisions

Automated driving: from human to machine
Automated vehicle technology continues to advance. What will it take for computers to drive cars as well as the best human drivers?

How the Heck Do You Make a Wearable Holographic Computer That's Comfortable?! Find out how we did it

Want to Climb Buildings Like Spiderman? Let's take a bio-inspired approach to engineering
A look at how science and engineering unlock nature's secrets to make a little robot climb and give a human climbing powers previously only the stuff of comic books.

Fire Ecology of our Chaparral Ecosystems

A Path to Understanding Brain Disorders: Making neurons from skin cells
One of the challenges in studying brain disorders is the inaccessibility of patient brain cells. In this talk, a new technology called induced pluripotent stem cells that enables us to overcome this challenge will be discussed.

Lessons on Aging: Using yeast to study mitochondria

Tracking Cancer Tumors in Real Time: Using MR Imaging to guide radiation treament
I'll introduce the newest available technology in real-time tracking of soft tissues to accurately irradiate tumors.