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Three L.A.S.E.R. talks: Bioelectronics, 4D Audio-Visual AI, Photography & Environment

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The LASERs (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) are an international program of evening gatherings that bring artists andscientists together for informal presentations and conversation with an audience. This evening, chaired by cultural historian Piero Scaruffi,will feature three talks:

- Alberto Salleo (Stanford/ Material Science) on "Soft Polymers for Bioelectronics"

- Changan Chen (Stanford/AI) on "4D Audio-Visual Learning: A Visual Perspective of Sound Propagation and Production"

- Karolina Karlic (UC Santa Cruz/ Photography) on "Unseen California: Photography, Place and Environment "

Alberto Salleo is Professor of Materials Science and Chair of the Department of Materials Science at Stanford University. His current research centers on structure-property relationships of organic semiconductors and their applications in (bio)electronics. Salleo is a leader in developing x-ray and electron microscopy characterization techniques to study the structure of conjugated polymers with unprecedented precision both ex-situ and operando. He recently inventeda new organic-based artificial synapse for neuromorphic computing.

Changan Chen is a postdoc researcher at Stanford University working with Dr. Fei-Fei LI and Dr. Ehsan Adeli. His work focuses on multimodal learning and embodied AI. He led the development of audio-visualsimulation platforms SoundSpaces 1.0 and 2.0. He has previously been a visiting researcher at FAIR for two years. He was a recipient of Adobe Research Fellowship 2022. His research has also been featured in media such as MIT Technology Review, VentureBeat, Yahoo News, etc.

Karolina Karlic is an Associate Professor of Photography at UC Santa Cruz where she serves as Director of Graduate Studies in the Environmental Art + Social Practice MFA Program and the Faculty Director of Art + Science initiatives at the Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History at UC Santa Cruz. She is a visual artist whose work explores the intersection of photography and documentary practices, focusing on themes of labor, industry, globalization and their effect on social and environmental systems.

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Detailed bios at: www.lasertalks.com

The Stanford LASERs are co-sponsored by the deans of Humanities and Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, and by Chemical Engineering.

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