Daytona State kicks off STEM seminar series, Jan. 25

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Jan. 8, 2016) - The School of Physical and Biological Sciences at Daytona State College announces its STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) seminar series

for spring 2016, free and open to the public.

“The seminars are designed to raise awareness of STEM and how these areas affect daily life; everyone is welcome,” said Professor Gajendra Tulsian, who coordinates the series. He has been a DSC faculty member since 2002 and holds both a Ph.D. and MBA from the University of Florida.

Infusing STEM with exciting examples and enthusiasm, speakers will discuss wide-ranging topics from black holes to brain-machine connections to space-shuttle Columbia’s disaster.

Each one-hour seminar will be held on Mondays starting promptly at 5 p.m.* in the Madorsky Theater, located in the Hosseini Center (Bldg. 1200), on the Daytona Beach Campus at 1200 W. International Speedway Blvd.

STEM spring series 2016:

Jan. 25 - The first talk, Engineering Materials to Heal the Body: A Focus on Nerve Tissue - Christine E. Schmidt, chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida

Feb. 1 - Black Holes, Waves of Gravity and other Warped Ideas of Dr. Einstein - Clifford M. Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics Department of Physics, University of Florida (Will is a 2007 inductee to the National Academy of Sciences and his 1986 book, Was Einstein Right? (1), landed on the New York Times Book Review’s best books list.)

Feb. 8 - Saving Babies Sometimes Takes Guts - Dr. Adele K. Evans, associate professor, Department of Otolaryngology, Wake Forest School of Medicine

Feb. 15 - Solar Thermochemical Production of Fuels - Jonathan R. Scheffe, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida

*Feb. 22 - Intelligent Health Systems - Parisa Rashidi, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida – Note: this presentation will be held at 1 p.m.

Feb. 22 - From Spacecraft Formation Flight to Human-space Robot Interaction - Riccardo Bevilacqua, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida

Feb. 29 -  Forecast Effects of Climate Change on Coastal Ecosystem Structure and Function - Todd Z. Osborne, Whitney Lab for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida

March 7 - Listening to the Cosmic Dawn with LISA, the First Space-based Gravitational Wave Observatory - John W. Conklin, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida

March 21 - Large Scale Biomedical Image Analysis and Imaging Informatics Using Big Data  - Lin Yang, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida

March 28 - Variation in Mutation Explains a lot, and it Accumulates Pretty Fast - Charles Baer, Department of Biology, University of Florida

April 4 - Brain-Machine Interfaces and Bioelectronic Medicines: Research at the Intersection of Engineering and Neuroscience - Jack W. Judy, director of the Nanoscience Institute for Medical and Engineering Technologies, University of Florida

April 11 - Physics Demonstrations - Weiping Yu, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Kennedy Space Center, FL

April 18 - What's Right and What's Wrong with Micro-neural Interfaces? - Kevin J. Otto, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida

April 25 - In Situ Resource Utilization: How to Live and Thrive in Space - Paul E. Hintze, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Kennedy Space Center, FL

May 2 - Lessons Learned from Space Shuttle Columbia's Disaster - Ron Caswell, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Kennedy Space Center, FL

For more information, call (386) 506-3779 or visit http://www.drtulsian.com/seminars/seminars_Spring_2016.php.

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