TEDxUND 2014 to explore "Creating Knowledge Together"

The University of Notre Dame will current TEDxUND 2014, featuring a various lineup of speakers exploring the topic “Creating Expertise Together,” on Jan. 21 (Tuesday) in the Patricia George Decio Theatre of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

Admission to TEDxUND 2014 is free, but tickets are essential. Applications are getting accepted on the web right up until midnight Dec. 15 (Saturday) with 100 seats available for the live occasion in the Decio Theatre and an extra 800 for a reside stream broadcast that will be presented in DeBartolo’s Leighton Concert Hall. Attendees will be picked by lottery and need to claim tickets at the DeBartolo box office 15 to 30 minutes prior to the occasion.

TEDxUND 2014 will be composed of two dwell sessions from eight:thirty a.m. to 1 p.m. and one:thirty to six p.m., and will attribute emcees Candida Moss, professor of New Testament and early Christianity, and Hugh R. Web page Jr., vice president and associate provost for undergraduate affairs, dean of Initial 12 months of Studies and professor of theology and Africana scientific studies.

Scheduled subjects and speakers are as follows:

Morning session

• “It’s Not All Sex and Violence: Cooperation in Human Evolution,” Agustin Fuentes, professor of anthropology


• “Creating Neighborhood Amid ‘Urban Decline’: A Research in Resurrection,” Claire Fyrqvist, 2005 Notre Dame graduate


• “Foreign Help and Global Volunteering: Difficulties Behind the Vision of Service,” Jingting Kang, undergraduate pupil


• “Searching for the other 95% of the Universe: Accurate Stories From the Vitality Frontier,” Kevin Lannon, professor of physics


• “Measuring Design Aesthetics: A Quantitative Challenge,” José E. Lugo, graduate pupil


• “Sharing Understanding By means of the Knowledge of Musical Performance,” Carmen-Helena Telléz, professor of conducting and director, Graduate Choral Conducting Program


• “The Stunning, Messy Democracy of Chamber Music,” Third Coast Percussion, ensemble-in-residence, DeBartolo Executing Arts Center (morning and afternoon sessions)


• “Changing the Hivemind: How Social Media Manipulation Has an effect on Almost everything,” Tim Weninger, assistant professor of computer science and engineering


• “Tourette Does the Talking,” Thomas J. White, undergraduate pupil


• “The Worth of a Paycheck and the Urgency of Now,” Peter Keon Woo, undergraduate student

Afternoon session

• “Learning to See: The Power of Visual Communication and Training the Eye,” Marie Bourgeois, graphic designer, University Communications assistant professor, visual communication style


• “Big Data for Common Great: Connecting the Dots for Patient-Centered Outcomes,” Nitesh Chawla, Frank Freimann Collegiate Chair of Engineering and associate professor of laptop science and engineering


• “Varieties of Democracy: Global Regular, Local Understanding,” Michael Coppedge, professor of political science and faculty fellow, Kellogg Institute for International Research


• “The Speak About Talent: Rapping About Rap,” Jake Makowski, undergraduate pupil


• “Connecting the Dots: Caring Education, Joyful Understanding, and Human Integrity,” Maria McKenna, director of undergraduate research, Department of Africana Scientific studies


• “Don’t Miss the Trees for the Forest: Generating Tiny Data Can Solve Massive Problems,” Michael Mesterharm, graduate pupil


• “Evaluating the Position Culture Plays in Economic Outcomes,” Joel Ostdiek, undergraduate pupil


• “The Face of Innovation: What Does an Innovator Look Like?” J.R. Reagan, principal, Deloitte &amp Touche LLP
  


• “The Beautiful, Messy Democracy of Chamber Music,” Third Coast Percussion, ensemble-in-residence, DeBartolo Executing Arts Center (morning and afternoon sessions)


• “The Energy of Vulnerability: Healing Through Portraiture,” Christa Grace Watkins, undergraduate pupil

TEDxUND 2014 is presented by Student Government, the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and Hesburgh Libraries, with help from the Office of the Provost and University Communications. More details is obtainable on-line at TEDx.nd.edu.

About TEDx, x = independently organized event
In the spirit of concepts really worth spreading, TEDx is a system of nearby, self-organized occasions that deliver individuals collectively to share a TED-like encounter. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and dwell speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These neighborhood, self-organized occasions are branded TEDx, where x implies an independently organized TED event. The TED Conference offers common guidance for the TEDx system, but individual TEDx occasions are self-organized, and are topic to specified guidelines and regulations.

About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Well worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California virtually 30 years ago, TED has grown to assistance individuals globe-shifting concepts with multiple initiatives. The two yearly TED Conferences invite the world’s major thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes on a diverse combine of topics. Several of these talks are then manufactured available, cost-free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The TED2014 Conference will take location in Vancouver, British Columbia, along with the TEDActive simulcast in neighboring Whistler. TEDGlobal 2014 will be held in Rio de Janeiro.

TED’s media initiatives include TED.com, in which new TED Talks are posted every day the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as properly as translations from volunteers around the world the educational initiative TED-Ed and TEDBooks, short e-books on powerful concepts. TED has established the annual TED Prize, in which exceptional folks with a want to modify the world get help translating their wishes into action TEDx, which supports folks or groups in internet hosting nearby, self-organized TED-style events close to the globe and the TED Fellows system, assisting planet-modifying innovators from all around the globe to amplify the affect of their remarkable tasks and actions.

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Speak to: Paul Van Ness, occasion organizer, 574-631-1873, pvanness@nd.edu

TEDxUND 2014 to explore "Creating Knowledge Together"