February 2017
Stephanie Dick – After Math: Reasoning, Proving, and Computing in Postwar United States
With a focus on communities based in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century, this talk will introduce different visions of the computer as a mathematical agent, software that was crafted to animate those imaginings, and the novel practices and materialities of mathematical knowledge-making that emerged in tandem.
Find out more »All Things Living and Not: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Non-Anthropocentric Perspectives in Slavic Studies
This conference asks participants to consider the conjunction between the animal, the plant, the machine, inorganic matter, and the human as a way to destabilize the mind-body dichotomy, class, race, gender, age, etc. By bringing Slavic studies into closer contact with a set of discourses referred to as posthumanism, our conference aims to expand the theoretical apparatus of our field and to allow for new perspectives on the histories and cultures of the region.
Find out more »Making & Knowing Laboratory Open Day
Come see the Making & Knowing lab, where the project is reconstructing historical artisanal, technical, alchemical, and craft techniques from the 16th century. As a research cluster of the Center for Science and Society, the Project brings together participants from the humanities, arts, and sciences to foster new connections and insights through interdisciplinary research, teaching, and knowledge exchange.
Find out more »Google Sidewalk Labs: How does Technology Enrich the Public Realm?
Faculty House, Columbia University Sidewalk Labs is a new type of company founded by Alphabet Inc./Google, that works with cities to build products addressing big urban problems. This event is free and open to the public. Rohit Aggarwala, Chief Policy Officer, Sidewalk Labs Noelle Francois, CEO, Heat Seek NYC Miguel Gamiño Jr, Chief Technology Officer, The City of New York Rohit Aggarwala is an experienced executive and thought leader in sustainability, environmental, and urban issues. A member of the team…
Find out more »The Science of Jazz: Linking Music & The Structure of the Universe
For the third year, Jazz at Lincoln Center presents one of our most popular events: Science of Jazz. This unique and intimate evening explores the dynamic connection between the sciences and jazz in this special lecture series. This year’s edition will feature physicist and musician Stephon Alexander in conversation with saxophonist/composer María Grand. Alexander and Grand will use musical samples to illustrate how a physicist – or a jazz musician - approach the process of experimentation. Attendees will discover how some leaps in Physics operate like Jazz solos.
Find out more »Matthew Jones – Reckoning with Matter: Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage
In Reckoning with Matter, Matthew L. Jones draws on the remarkably extensive and well-preserved records of the quest to explore the concrete processes involved in imagining, elaborating, testing, and building calculating machines. He explores the writings of philosophers, engineers, and craftspeople, showing how they thought about technical novelty, their distinctive areas of expertise, and ways they could coordinate their efforts. In doing so, Jones argues that the conceptions of creativity and making they exhibited are often more incisive and more honest than those that dominate our current legal, political, and aesthetic culture.
Find out more »Critical Histories, Activist Futures: Science, Medicine, and Racial Violence Conference
The History, Science, and Justice Collective at Yale University is pleased to announce the “Critical Histories, Activist Futures: Science, Medicine, and Racial Violence” conference that will take place on February 24 and 25, 2017. Please learn more about the conference, explore the program and find tips for getting to Yale University on the conference website.
Find out more »Digital Amati: Structure and Interpretation of Classical Stringed Instruments
Harry Mairson, professor of computer science, Brandeis University, and amateur violoncello maker, has conducted research on type systems in programming languages and their relation to problems in logic and complexity theory. In this lecture, he introduces the Digital Amati Project which explores the structure, interpretation, and making of stringed instruments, and how modern software can be used to represent historical practices of instrument design. The lecture discusses digital humanities tools, and the creative work done with them, and will be…
Find out more »Andrew Gelman – Ethics and the Replication Crisis in Science
Professor Andrew Gelman will discuss “Ethics and the Replication Crisis in Science”. This event is sponsored by The Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, the Data Science Institute, and Sage Publications; it is part of the Computational Social Science Speaker Series.
Find out more »March 2017
Conevery Valencius – Fracking, Earthquakes, and Public Science in Rural America
The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room Conevery Valencius, University of Massachusetts Boston Scientists studying these earthquakes have implicated our recent shale energy revolution, particularly the pressure created by the massive volume of toxic wastewater produced when we use hydraulic fracturing to harvest oil and gas from shale formations. In some states, regulators have restricted the underground injection of wastewater, but other states are taking only limited action or continue to deny the science linking fracking to earthquakes. What can…
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