Coming Up: A Few Seats Still Left for Remaining Series Lectures
Engineering the Imagination sells out first lecture, some seats left for two remaining sessions
- This year’s Engineering Lecture Series will include an inside-Mission-Control perspective on the Mars Rover landings as well as the latest news from the ongoing exploration of the Red Planet. (Image: NASA)
The 2004 Engineering Lecture Series, Engineering the Imagination, opened earlier this month with a sold-out session when 235 people packed into a lecture room on the UW's Seattle campus to hear about the state of the art in digital filmmaking.
UW Computer Science & Engineering Professor Steve Seitz and Loren Carpenter, a UW alumnus and co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios, wowed the crowd with demonstrations of the latest technological advances, including clips from the upcoming Pixar film "The Incredibles."
Some seats are still left for the remaining two sessions. Both will be in Kane Hall and will be followed by an informal meet-the-speakers coffee and cookies reception. Reservations are available online through the UW Alumni Association. Interested parties can also call the association at (206) 543-0540.
The remaining lecture dates and topics for this year are:
Oct. 26: Destination Mars! The Mars Rover landings
UW Aeronautics and Astronautics Chair Adam Bruckner will be joined by Rob Grover, an A&A grad and former student of Bruckner’s who is now entry, descent and landing systems engineer on both of the Mars Rover landings. Hear stories from Mission Control on the night of the landings and view fantastic 3-D images of the Red Planet.
Nov. 9: Virtual Healing: VR as more than fun and games
UW researcher Hunter Hoffman will take audience members into a virtual world -- a sort of video-game experience -- where he and his team are helping patients at Harborview Medical Center endure the excruciating pain of severe burn treatment. Learn how donning a VR helmet can help accelerate healing.
The series is co-sponsored by the College of Engineering and the UW Alumni Association.
International conference on fluid dynamics set for Seattle
UW Mechanical Engineering Professor Jim Riley and Mathematics Professor Peter Schmid are co-chairing an international gathering of scientists and engineers who will discuss the latest findings in areas as varied as climate change, space and volcanic activity.
The 57th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics will be Nov. 21-23 at the Westin Hotel in downtown Seattle. For more information, see the conference Web site.