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