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LAKE FX: SCIENCE ON SCREEN workshop

“Science on Screen” will explore the ways that filmmakers and scientists can work together to maximize their creative, communicative, and commercial aims. Covering both documentary film and narrative drama, the workshop will examine how filmmakers can be inspired by real scientific research, and in turn, how working scientists can collaborate with artists to ensure their science is represented responsibly on screen.

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Large Hadron Collider is back in action!

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By Dr. Mark Oreglia

On Easter Sunday beam began to circulate again in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.  The world’s highest energy particle accelerator resumed operation after a two year shutdown to modify its magnets so it can collide protons at twice the former energy.  At half the energy, LHC “Run 1” discovered the Higgs boson; now scientists are excited to have a more powerful instrument to learn more about the Higgs boson and possibly see evidence of the Dark Matter in the universe (if it is due to a particle that can be produced in LHC proton collisions, of course). Continue reading “Large Hadron Collider is back in action!”

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C2ST Speakeasy: “Biomedical Imaging and Personalized Medicine” with Dr. Daniel Procissi

How far are we technologically from having  imaging  platforms such as the ones depicted in science fiction TV shows and movies? Will Doctors be able to use advanced imaging to get an immediate snapshot of our body and assess our physical condition and therapeutic requirements in real time? Continue reading “C2ST Speakeasy: “Biomedical Imaging and Personalized Medicine” with Dr. Daniel Procissi”

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Music – There’s a Science to That – Nicolas Collins, Doug McBride, & Torin Hopkins

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Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at School of the Art Institute of Chicago Ballroom

When you imagine someone working in the music field, what do you see? A composer? A musician? A conductor? Would you ever picture a scientist or an engineer? The areas of science and music appear to some to be diametrically opposed to one another, but nothing could be farther from the truth in today’s music industry. Continue reading “Music – There’s a Science to That – Nicolas Collins, Doug McBride, & Torin Hopkins”