Farhan Hasan is a PhD student at New Mexico State University, where his research focuses on how galaxies form and evolve, and what it means for us here on earth. We’ll be talking about his research and its implications, and ask him why you’d call him if somebody said, “Somebody Call a Doctor!”
More Information on Farhan available at his website: http://astronomy.nmsu.edu/farhasan/
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Sadie Menicanin is PhD candidate at the University of Toronto, where her research focuses on historical musicology and the intersection of music and visual culture, and how music can create metaphorical spaces in opera and other mediums.
We’ll be talking about her research and its implications, and ask her why you’d call her if somebody said, “Somebody Call a Doctor!”
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Dr. Seim is postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University, where she collaborates with Allison Okamura and Maarten Lansberg. She received her PhD in Computing from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where her dissertation focused on wearable computing and motor skill training. She has been recognized for her work by the National Science Foundation, Microsoft Research and Google. Her research interests include technology-based treatments for motor disabilities, haptic training to enhance skill acquisition, brain-computer interfaces and the next generation of human-integrated electronics.
We’ll be talking about her research and its implications, and ask her why you’d call her if somebody said, “Somebody Call a Doctor!”
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Rob Christensen is a PhD candidate in History at Georgetown. His research focuses on studying indigenous people in South America and understanding how the environment and man-made conflict impacted the socioeconomic order in their communities. We’ll be talking about his research and its implications, and ask him why you’d call him if somebody said, “Somebody Call a Doctor!”
*Please note that Rob mentions the date of independence for Argentina as 1806, but meant to say 1808.
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Margaret Lindeman is a PhD student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Her research focuses on ice sheet-ocean interactions in Greenland, and how ocean currents bring warm water close to the ice sheet, affecting how fresh water flows into the ocean and affects ocean currents. We’ll be talking about her research and its implications, and ask her why you’d call her if somebody said, “Somebody Call a Doctor!”
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Dave Abel is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Brown. His research focuses on the foundations of Artificial Intelligence and its applications to scientific and societal challenges. We’ll be talking about his research and its implications, and ask him why you’d call him if somebody said, “Somebody Call a Doctor!”
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