Photons, Neurons and Bits: Holography for the 21st Century

5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Doors open / Registration

5:30 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.

Welcome: John Durant, Director, MIT Museum; Philip Khoury, Associate Provost, MIT

Keynote: Dr. Charles Vest, President Emeritus, MIT, President, U. S. National Academy of Engineering

6:15 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Luminous Windows: Holography for the 21 Century John Durant

Artists’ comments

Luminous Windows viewing

6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Reception

8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast / Registration

9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

Sean Johnston, University of Glasgow: Other Dimensions of Holography: the Historical, Social and Cultural

9:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

George Barbastathis / Nick Loomis / Jose Dominguez–Caballero, 3-D Optical Systems Group, MIT: Warping Space From 3-D to 2-D: Volume Holography, Digital Holography, and Real-Time Imaging

10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

Ramesh Raskar / Ankit Mohan, Camera Culture Group, MIT Media Lab: 4-D Capture and 6-D Display

10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Coffee/Tea break

11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Aude Oliva / Antonio Torralba, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT / Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab and Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT: Insights on Brain Disorders through Optical Illusions and the Potential of Holographic 3-D

11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.

Allan Doyle / Seth Riskin, MIT Museum: Making the MIT Museum’s Holography Collection Accessible

11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Morning Panel Discussion

12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Linda Law: Fine Art Holography in Transition - Analogue to Digital

2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Elizabeth Goldring, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT: "Seeing Machines" for the Sight-Impaired

2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Paula Dawson, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales: Holoshop; Haptic Drawing in 3-D

3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Holographic chocolate break / Eric Begleiter, Dimensional Foods

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Michael Bove, Principal Investigator, Object-Based Media Group, MIT Media Lab: Holographic Video and 3-D Television

4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Afternoon Panel Discussion