Smart Clothes
Radcliffe’s annual science symposium will focus on “smart clothes” and the science of designing materials that improve and protect lives. Experts in biology, design, engineering, materials science, medicine, and nanotechnology will address a variety of topics, including digital fabrication, soldier-related technologies, smart materials and biology, wearable technology, and the future of innovative substances.
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Google Class
Babak Parviz, creator of Google Glass and affiliate professor in the department of electrical engineering at the University of Washington, discusses the origin and future of Google Glass.
Science and Application of Wearable Technology
Introductions by John Huth, Codirector, Science Program, Academic Ventures, Radcliffe Institute; Donner Professor of Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University and Conor J. Walsh, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Oren Milstein, President and Chief Scientific Officer of StemRad, Inc.
Vijay Varadan, Twenty-First Century Endowed Chair in Nano- and Bio-Technologies and Medicine, Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering, Distinguished Professor of Biomed Engineering, and Professor of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas Medical School
Babak Parviz, Creator, Google Glass, and Affiliate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington
Q&A moderated by Conor J. Walsh
Concluding remarks by John Huth
Biological Ideas and Smart Materials in Biology
WELCOMING REMARKS
Lizabeth Cohen, Dean, Radcliffe Institute, and Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Harvard University
John Huth, Codirector, Science Program, Academic Ventures, Radcliffe Institute; Donner Professor of Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
BIOLOGICAL IDEAS AND SMART MATERIALS IN BIOLOGY
Peter Vukusic, Associate Professor of Natural Photonics, University of Exeter
Introduced by Marko Loncar, Tiantsai Lin Professor of Electrical Engineering; Faculty Associate, Center for Nanoscale Systems; Participant, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Technology and Smart Soldiers
Karen Gleason, Associate Dean of Engineering for Research Alexander and I. Michael Kasser Professor of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Christine Ortiz, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Dean for Graduate Education, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joseph K. Hitt, Program Manager, Tactical Technology Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Q&A moderated by Leia Stirling, Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
