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

Forum at the MIT Museum
March 6/7, 2009

Registration is closed

Program

Friday, March 6, 2009, 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

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

Saturday, March 7, 2009, 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

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