Brain Awareness Day 2015

Agenda

Biopsychological Research Building conference room

Introduction by first-year graduate student Nick Nichiporuk

Biopsychological Research Building conference room

Graduate student Elliot Layden took the students deeper into one specific reason to study the brain: sports-related concussions

Biopsychological Research Building EEG lab

Live EEG performed on Elliot Layden by Ivo Gyurovski

Biopsychological Research Building conference room

Built clay models of brains

John Crerar Library’s Kathleen A. Zar Room

Robin Weiss, a research application engineer, introduced students to the basics of supercomputing

Computer Science Instructional Laboratory

Robin Weiss walked the students through using the scientific visualization program Amira to examine images of a brain—his own.

John Crerar Library’s Kathleen A. Zar Room

Demonstration of how 3D visualization technology helps scientists to understand their data better.

John Crerar Library’s Kathleen A. Zar Room

Pizza lunch

Participating schools

  • Kenwood Academy