High Performance Electrical NeuroImaging Laboratory (HPEN)

Made miniature clay models of the brain to illustrate overall structure

HPEN

Two students laced a shoe together—each with one arm behind their back, and only one able to speak. This demonstrated the way that the left and right hemispheres of the brain worked together.

HPEN

Presentation on disorders arising from brain damage, specifically damage to Broca’s Area, a location in the left hemisphere of the brain crucial to language

HPEN

Live EEG reading

HPEN

Students donned 3-D glasses she showed the students a three-dimensional reconstruction of the brain of an individual who had suffered a stroke in a specific cortical region.

Zar Room in the John Crerar Library

Introduction to multicore computing with an exercise. One student stood in the middle of the room with her hand extended, and all the other students had to run by and touch her hand as they were timed. This is a single-core processor, doing one operation at a time. Then three more students joined the original one, and timed their classmates as they filed past more quickly. This was a quad-core processor, doing four things at once. Multicore processing is one of the keys to modern high-performance computing.

Zar Room in the John Crerar Library

Examination of the interior of a computing node, similar to the ones used on the Midway compute cluster

Zar Room in the John Crerar Library

Open-source program 3D Slicer that allowed a virtual dissection of a brain from a living patient. 

Zar Room in the John Crerar Library

Google Cardboard. Google Cardboard is a simple 3D viewer (made of, yes, cardboard) that allows users to transform their cellphone into a virtual reality device with a free app. The students experimented with a game that took them on a trip inside a human brain.

Zar Room in the John Crerar Library

Pizza lunch