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WEP 2019 CREDITED OFFERINGS THANKS TOTHE SPEAKER REVIEW COMMITTEE
Valerio Orlando
Marie-Laure Boulot
Virginia Anne Unkefer
Ali M. Alrashoudi
Chair 2019 , Winter Enrichment Prog ram
Director, Enrichment Progr ams
Manager, Publi cation Srvcs and Student, Researcher Suppor t Electrical Engineering (MS)
Xose Anxelu Moran Faculty, BESE
Ananya Ashok
Student, Marine Scien ce (PhD)
Sahika Inal
Faculty, BESE
Wendy W. Keyes
Director ,
Garry S. Hall LibrariesC
Jasmeen Merzaban Faculty, BESE
Sabine A. Vahrenkamp
ommunity Engagemen t
Abdullah S. AlRamadan
Student, Mechanical Engineering (PhD )
Can A. Ikram
Deanna A. Lacoste
Aram Amassian
Christian Froekjaer Jense n Faculty, BESE
Director , Admissions and Enrollmen t
Faculty, Division of PSE
Faculty, Division of PSE
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACADEMIC EVENTS
STUDENT BREAKFAST ORIENTATION FLICKER FUSION: MEASURING YOUR PERCEPTION OF TIME
WEP OFFERS LECTURES, COURSES AND WORKSHOPS FOR STUDENTS FOR CREDITS. ‘A CONVERSATION WITH...’ IS A SERIES OF TECHNICAL TALKS WITH INVITED SPEAKERS . AN INTIMATE AND INTERACTIVE SESSION ALLOWING FOR A DEEPER CONVERSATION ABOUT A TECHNICAL TOPIC. THE SESSIONS ARE TYPICALLY SCHEDULED AFTER BROADER LECTURES WITH SAID SPEAKERS, WHICH WE STRONGLY ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO ATTEND.
A CONVERSATION WITH NOBEL LAUREATE MICHAEL YOUNG AND PAOLO SASSONE-CORSI CERN VIRTUAL VISIT CHASING AFTER THE FIRST BLACK HOLES EPOSTER COMPETITION GEOLOGIC AND HUMAN TIME SCALES: HOW CAN WE SALVAGE OUR GLOBAL CIVILIZATION? A CONVERSATION WITH JOHN ELLIS A CONVERSATION WITH GIULIO TONONI THE SLEEPING BRAIN ALUMNI LECTURE SERIES THE SEARCH FOR LIFE ON MARS PUSHING THE LIMITS OF SCIENCE ON THE TRACK SCIENCE FAIR FLICKER FUSION: HOW FAST CAN YOU SEE? REWINDING THE CLOCK ON MEMORY LOSS TIMES OF TIME: BEING AUTISTIC IN A HECTIC WORLD A PHILOSOPHICAL ODYSSEY IN THE CONCEPT OF TIME LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION AND TIME
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CREATIVE TACTICS FOR COMMUNICATING SCIENCE LABVIEW WORKSHOP
EVENTS REINVENTING AL JAZARI’S TIME MACHINES WEP OFFERS CREDITED HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS AND COURSES TO DEEPEN THE STUDENTS’ SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNICAL SKILLS.
BE MIND FULL OR MINDFUL? THE SCIENCE OF STORYTELLING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; WHAT IS IT AND WHY SHOULD I CARE SCIENTIFIC WRITING FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: SEARCH SESSION
ENTREPRENEURIAL EVENTS WEP OFFERS SPECIAL EVENTS TO UPSKILL THE STUDENTS’ EXPERTISE AND ENTREPRENEURIAL CAPABILITIES.
INNOVATING FOR TOMORROW’S TECHNOLOGY TRUST IN TIME: REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS WITH BLOCKCHAIN
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CULTURAL EVENTS WEP OFFERS CREATIVE PANEL DISCUSSIONS AND LECTURES FOR THE STUDENTS.
SLOW FOOD: A GLOBAL MOVEMENT TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM KONTINUUM: PHOTOGRAPHY, TIME, AND TECHNOLOGY TIME AND CREATIVITY PANEL WOMEN IN TIME LOUVRE ABU DHABI: A MUSEUM OF THE SIMILARITIES OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE OVER TIME SELLING TIME: STORIES FROM THE GREENWICH OBSERVATORY A CONVERSATION WITH DAVID ROONEY
FILM SCREENINGS AND DISCUSSIONS WEP HOSTS ITS ANNUAL FILM FESTIVAL, WHERE RENOWNED SCIENTISTS AND EXPERTS WILL INTRODUCE AND LEAD DISCUSSIONS FOR A RANGE OF EDUCATIONAL DOCUMENTARIES AND FICTIONAL FILM SCREENINGS RELATED TO TO EACH YEAR’S THEME.
SLOW FOOD STORY A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME (1991) THE AGE OF ADALINE (2015) INCEPTION (2010) THE STORY OF EARTH (2018) MCLAREN (2017) LO AND BEHOLD, REVERIES OF THE CONNECTED WORLD (2016) LONGITUDE (2000)
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ACADEMIC EVENTS MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS , COURSES , LECTURES AND MASTER CLASSES, CAN BE FOUND ON OUR WEBSITE.
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Student Breakfast Orientation DESCRIPTION Start your WEP with an orientation session with Professor Valerio Orlando, Chair of WEP 2019, and Marie Laure Boulot. This event is a nice gathering to kick off WEP 2019. During this breakfast, you will be able to confirm your schedule, meet with the team, and ask questions. SPEAKERS CREDIT
Valerio Orlando
Professor, Bioscience, KAUST
Marie-Laure Boulot
Enrichment Office Director, KAUST
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Flicker Fusion: Measuring Your Perception of Time DESCRIPTION How fast can you see? The human eye is limited in its ability to observe the separation between subsequent flashes when they reach a critical threshold -- a phenomena known as Flicker Fusion. Interestingly, this threshold varies between people and is dependent on a number of factors that will be investigated. About this 3-day hands-on programming and experimental workshop In this workshop, you will work in teams of 6 students to build high-speed display boards that will allow users to test their own personal Flicker Fusion threshold. Students will learn electronics know-how related to wiring and programming LED matrices, and will also practice LabView programming skills in order to achieve the high speeds needed to measure Flicker Fusion. Each team will then develop a unique experiment to explore the phenomena of Flicker Fusion in more depth.
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Hassane Trigui Brian Parrot Sahejad Patel
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Research Engineer, Saudi Aramco R&D Center at KAUST Research Scientist, Saudi Aramco, R&D Center at KAUST Sub-Team Leader, Saudi Aramco, R&D Center at KAUST
The workshop is be taught by members of Saudi Aramco’s Intelligent Systems Team.
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Academic Technical Talk
A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Michael Young and Paolo Sassone-Corsi (TBC) DESCRIPTION Michael Young is an American geneticist who contributed to the discovery of molecular mechanisms that regulate circadian rhythm, the 24-hour period of biological activity in humans, and other organisms. He was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Paolo Sassone-Corsi, PhD, is the director of the Center for Epigenetics and Metabolism and Donald Bren Professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry. Dr. Sassone-Corsi studies gene expression and signal transduction, with an emphasis on the links between cellular metabolism, epigenetics and the circadian clock. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an external professor of the Max Planck Society, Germany. SPEAKERS
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Paolo Sassone-Corsi Director, Center for Epigenetics and Metabolism, University of California, Irvine Michael Young 2017 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1
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Academic Course
CERN Virtual Visit DESCRIPTION The first part of the three-hours course will serve as a brief introduction to the basic principles and tools required for experimental analysis of CERN collider data. Students will interact with a purpose-built ATLAS detector animation to characterize elementary particles produced by highly energetic protonproton collisions. Students will use the newly acquired knowledge to analyze original data from the ATLAS experiment that was taken in 2011 to draw their conclusion about the structure of the proton as well as understand how the search for the Higgs particle works. In the second part of the course, students will be connected, via live link-up, to the ATLAS experiment’s control room at CERN. It is a chance to experience CERN from KAUST, and Students will also be able to interact with the CERN Tunnel exhibit. SPEAKER
Christos Chatzichristidis
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Senior Lecturer, KAUST PSE
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Chasing After The First Black Holes DESCRIPTION
We now know that black holes are ubiquitous in the universe, in fact, every galaxy including our own harbors a supermassive black hole in its center. Less than 40 years ago, black holes were considered mere mathematical curiosities, with their bizarre properties. Not only have black holes become real, they are also now understood to play a critical role in shaping the structure of galaxies. Priyamvada Natarajan, Professor in the Departments of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University, will recount this journey of black holes, including the legacy of Hawking’s contributions and give a status report of what we know currently and what remains unknown and how we will soon unveil the properties of the first black holes.
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Priyamvada Natarajan
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Professor, Departments of Astronomy and Physics, Yale University 11
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ePoster Competition DESCRIPTION Interested in sharing your research with the greater KAUST community? Posters will be submitted and displayed using the University Library ePoster platform during the first week of the Winter Enrichment Program. This competition will be judged on one element i.e. ePoster - this can include audio &/or video files. Emphasis will be on the design, quality, attractiveness and innovative elements of the ePoster. Poster presentations official judging will take place on Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Prizes, sponsored by the University Library, will be awarded during the Final Gala on Thursday, January 24, 2019. First prize for the combined ePoster competition will be an iPad Pro. Other prizes will include Amazon Gift vouchers. CREDIT
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Geologic and human time scales: How can we salvage our global civilization? DESCRIPTION Inspired by ecologist friend, Wes Jackson, Prof. Patzek will shrink time since the beginning of the Silurian period to 1 year. On this new time scale, the living Earth has had over 1 year to make topsoil, sediments, aquifers, natural gas, crude oil, and coal. The oldest samples of crude oil from red algae are almost 4 years old. In early January, the leafless vascular plants, psilophytes, were plentiful. Club mosses, horsetails, forest trees and ferns developed by early April, and ferns and conifers in late May. They all flourished in late June, as well as cycads
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and ginkgoes and later became plenty of coal. In the first days of November, dinosaurs died and by mid-November mammals spread to all continents. At noon of December 30, the Great Ice Age began making more soil than perhaps in any other month of this memorable year. The oldest human species, Homo habilis, were first seen in the early hours of New Year’s Eve. Finally, he will zoom on the last 20 seconds of this extraordinary year in Earth’s history. This last blink of geologic time belongs to humans. So here we are, thinking that we are an immortal species. But are we? SPEAKER
Tad Patzek
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Professor, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, KAUST
Academic Technical Talk
A Conversation with John Ellis DESCRIPTION John Ellis holds the Clerk Maxwell Professorship of Theoretical Physics at King’s College in London. After his 1971 PhD from Cambridge University, he worked at SLAC, Caltech, and CERN (Geneva), where he was Theory Division Leader for six years. Much of his work relates directly to interpreting results of searches for new particles. He was one of the first to study how the Higgs boson could be produced and discovered. He is currently very active in efforts to understand the Higgs particle discovered recently at CERN, as well as its implications for possible new physics such as dark matter and supersymmetry. John Ellis was awarded the Maxwell Medal and the Paul Dirac Prize by the Institute of Physics. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London and of the Institute of Physics, and is an Honorary Fellow of King’s College Cambridge and of King’s College London. SPEAKER
John Ellis
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Clerk Maxwell Professor, Theoretical Physics, King’s College London
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A Conversation with Giulio Tononi DESCRIPTION Giulio Tononi received his medical degree from the University of Pisa, Italy, where he specialized in Psychiatry. He is currently Professor of Psychiatry, Distinguished Professor in Consciousness Science, the David P. White Chair in Sleep Medicine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Sleep and Consciousness. SPEAKER
Giulio Tononi
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Director, Wisconsin Institute for Sleep and Consciousness, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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The Sleeping Brain (TBC) DESCRIPTION Chiara Cirelli is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She received her medical degree and Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Pisa, Italy. Dr. Cirelli’s research is aimed at investigating the fundamental mechanisms of sleep regulation by using a combination of molecular and genetic approaches. Together with her long-term collaborator, Dr. Giulio Tononi, she has developed a comprehensive hypothesis about the function of sleep, the synaptic homeostasis hypothesis, according to which sleep serves to renormalize synaptic strength, counterbalancing a net increase of synaptic strength due to plasticity during wakefulness.
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Chiara Cirelli
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Professor, Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin–Madison
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Alumni Lecture Series DESCRIPTION Join us for the annual Alumni Lecture Series, a highlight in the University’s event calendar! We welcome the return to KAUST of alumni who will present highlights from their work in business, research, academia, industry and innovation. SPEAKERS
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Nabeelah Ali
Microsoft Office Suite, Norway
Yiqiang Fan
Associate Professor, Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Albara Al Auhali
Strategic Projects Manager, Vision Realization Programs
Hassan Al-Ismail
Team Leader of the 2D Near Surface Modeling Team, Saudi Aramco
Vanessa Robitzch
Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Austral University of Chile
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The Search for Life on Mars DESCRIPTION
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Professor Martin Van Kranendonk is a geologist and astrobiologist, working on some of the world’s oldest rocks and the record of life trapped therein. He is the Director of the Australian Centre for Astrobiology and has recently become involved in the search for life on Mars via NASA’s Mars 2020 mission. He joined the Geological Survey of Western Australia in 1997, where he worked for 15 years until the start of 2012, when he accepted a position as Professor of Geology at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. SPEAKER
Martin Van Kranendonk
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Director, Australian Centre for Astrobiology
Academic Panel Discussion
Pushing the Limits of Science on the Track DESCRIPTION
This panel discussion will showcase current projects jointly researched by KAUST scientists and McLaren Racing engineers. In the world of Formula 1 racing, the difference between winning and losing a race comes down to mere fractions of a second. A number of factors go into developing a winning Formula 1 car, including optimal race strategy, fuel/engine technology, tire management, and vehicle aerodynamics. All of these factors are optimized in real time using hundreds of sensors, big data management, and high performance computing. The extreme environment, constrained by both time and space, requires technological solutions that push the limits of science and engineering. SPEAKERS
John Cooper Mark Barnett
Chief Business Officer, McLaren Racing Head of Strategy, McLaren Formula 1
Mani Sarathi
Associate Director, Clean Combustion Research Center, KAUST Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, KAUST
Matteo Parsani CREDIT
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Science Fair DESCRIPTION Every year during WEP, the Science Fair brings technology and science to the KAUST community and local schools. This is a great opportunity for KAUST students to develop skills in demonstrating and researching their science by engaging with the community. A variety of booths manned by graduate students and scientists will showcase science experiments from many different fields. This Science Fair will able to a chance to showcase the projects of our youngest scientists from the TKS Schools. CREDIT
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Flicker Fusion: How fast can you see? DESCRIPTION How fast can you see? The human eye is limited in its ability to observe the separation between subsequent ashes when they reach a critical threshold - a phenomena known as Flicker Fusion. Interestingly, this threshold varies between people and is dependent on a number of factors that will be investigated. In this 3-day hands-on programming and experimental workshop, you will work in teams of 6 students to build high-speed display boards that will allow users to test their own personal Flicker Fu- sion threshold. Students will learn electronics know-how related to wiring and programming LED matrices, and will also practice LabView program- ming skills in order to achieve the high speeds needed to measure Flicker Fusion. Each team will then develop a unique experiment to explore the phenomena of Flicker Fusion in more depth. Hassane Trigui
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Brian Parrot CREDIT
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Sahejad Patel
Research Engineer, Saudi Aramco R&D Center at KAUST Research Scientist, Saudi Aramco, R&D Center at KAUST Sub-Team Leader, Saudi Aramco, R&D Center at KAUST
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Rewinding the Clock on Memory Loss DESCRIPTION
The concept of time becomes a concrete and palpable “object” with our collection of memories. When our ability to collect and preserve memories is at risk, separating the past from fiction becomes hard and our connection with loved ones and ourselves is lost. SPEAKER
Karen Ashe
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Professor of Neuroscience and Director, N. Bud Grossman Center for Memory Research
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Times of Time: Being Autistic in a Hectic World DESCRIPTION Every single western traveler to a non-western place is first and foremost unsettled by the slow pace at which time flows. Regularity and smoothness seem to be the main features of what Eliade used to call the cosmic time, etymologically the time of an ordered and harmonious whole, in which things slither and revert, time after time. Our postmodern world offers a strikingly antagonistic veneer: its random jolts induce a well-known yet blurry feeling of seasickness or timesickness. Fortuitously or not, unlike any other major form of disability, autism was unknown as such, regardless of the vocabulary, in the days of yore: whereas any ancient culture had words for blindness, deafness, and even epilepsy and schizophrenia, no clear translation for what is nowadays called autism looms up.
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Josef Schovanec
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Doctor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
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A Philosophical Odyssey in the Concept of Time DESCRIPTION In this lecture, Francois de Ryckel will present how philosophy has conceptualized time throughout history. The audience will travel in time to discover how Greek philosophers already devised linear and cyclical conceptions of times, the medieval times, the advent of Islam, and how thinkers are adding a transcendental connotation to the idea of time. SPEAKER
Francois de Ryckel Teacher, The KAUST School
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Location, Location, Location, and Time DESCRIPTION
The Global Positioning System GPS has been a driver for so many applications that it is often considered to be a key technology of our time. GPS is not only the dominant positioning service, but it is also the most important source for accurate timing. While GPS is 40 years old, several novel ideas have been popping up recently. In this talk, the speaker will present some of these exciting new developments: In particular, he will show how to drastically improve the energy consumption of a GPS tracker, how to achieve indoor localization, and how to prevent location spooďŹ ng. He will start out with an introduction to the fundamentals of GPS, including the importance of GPS for the global time standard UTC. SPEAKER
Roger Wattenhofer
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Personal & Professional Development Workshop
Creative Tactics for Communicating Science DESCRIPTION This 3-session workshop will show you different ways to communicate your research, as well as show you how to keep momentum going and continue to build your personal reputation as an expert in your field with the media, fellow researchers and future investors between your discoveries. Topics that will be covered in this 3-day workshop include: • Establishing goals for communicating your science to different audiences • Developing and practicing targeted messages about your research to reach your audiences • Looking the latest methods used to communicate science • Using social media and learning how to effectively increase your followers • Resources for communicating more broadly By the end you will understand what the media wants, have learned multiple ways to communicate science ranging from articles and video to social media and have the tools you need to develop your own science communication plan. SPEAKER
Nicholas Demille
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Head, KAUST Editorial Services
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LabVIEW Workshop DESCRIPTION LabVIEW is a comprehensive development environment that contains all the tools engineers and scientists need to design and deploy measurement and control systems. In this 1-day workshop, explore the fundamentals of graphical system design and discover how LabVIEW can benefit your applications by providing diverse real-world measurements; signal processing and analysis; advanced control. Also you will learn the notion of Real-Time System, Time Synchronized system and get exposed on how to build time sensitive system. SPEAKER
Michel Nassar
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Senior Technical Advisor, National Instruments
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Reinventing Al Jazari’s Time Machines DESCRIPTION In this 4-day workshop, we will re-create and build working models of some of Al Jazari’s time machines. Understanding the scientific principles behind them, participants attain a special type of understanding through hands-on “making” of how Al Jazari’s time machines worked. Applying the design methodology principles participants will be able to ideate their own design of a working modern time machine using the same mechanical principles Al Jazari implemented in his own designs. By ideating our own time machines, we creatively problem solve and understand why these inventions are still relevant and applicable to modern technologies.
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d.heritage 2 tech
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Personal & Professional Development Workshop
Be Mind full or Mindful? DESCRIPTION According to a Harvard study, 47% of time is spent in mind wandering and 70% of leaders report regularly unable to be attentive in meet- ings. Mindfulness, being aware and open in the present, enables stability of mind and insight into how we are feeling, thinking and reacting and as a result, leading to better judgment and emotional balance, especially in difďŹ cult situations. This 2-day workshop, in- spired by a successful program offered in Google and based on cur- rent research on brain neuroplasticity, will give an overview of mind- fulness and how to cultivate it as a fundamental skill that enables emotional awareness and interpersonal effectiveness. SPEAKER CREDIT
Sandra Katakalea Senior Learning & Development Specialist, KAUST 6
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The Science of Storytelling DESCRIPTION
During these 4-day course, students will learn how to tell a compelling story about complicated scientific or technological research in a concise and engaging way, while acquiring new communication skills in videography. As a result, students will produce a short film on their research, and the top film will be awarded during the Final Gala. This course will not only demonstrate how to effectively communicate science through video, but to emotively portray a scientific discovery’s implications on society, drawing out their value and use in a social context. The instructors will showcase the latest technology and techniques for science communication, including virtual reality, drones, and socially innovative campaigns. SPEAKERS
Jon Rawlinson Ian McLeod
Mark Ziembicki Todd Nims CREDIT
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Co-founder and CEO, Cinematic Science Photographer and Co-Founder, Cinematic Scienceand, Senior Research Scientist and Communications Manager, James Cook University Co-Founder, Cinematic Science Film Producer
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Intellectual Property; What is it and Why Should I Care DESCRIPTION
Intellectual property (IP) protection is essential to foster innovation. For the protection of important technology for commercialization, a strong and enforceable patent is required. Hence, scientists and engineers need to be aware of the basics of intellectual property protection to avoid the simplest pitfalls. SPEAKER
Mardson Mcquay
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Associate General Counsel and Senior IP Attorney at KAUST
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Scientific Writing for Academic Success DESCRIPTION During this 4-day workshop, students will explore how scientific articles are constructed and interpreted, how research findings are presented, and how scientific arguments are developed. Attendees will learn to engage with the scientific literature critically, to read and analyze efficiently, to distinguish their own work from previous work, and to cite and report the work of others responsibly and accurately. Each day attendees will read research articles and write informal critical responses to exchange with other attendees. The attendees will put their analysis into practice by constructing arguments about research literature, first in the form of short critical review of research articles, then in longer reviews of research in fields related to their own project. SPEAKERS
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Umair Bin Waleed Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University Virginia Unkefer Manager, Academic Writing Services, KAUST 8
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Intellectual Property: Search Session DESCRIPTION This workshop will give an overview of different patent search resources available, with a focus on PatBase Express (subscribed database). The session will include hands-on exercises to aid participants to become effective patent searchers. SPEAKER
Janis Tyhurst
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Senior Subject Specialist, KAUST Library
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Entrepreneurial Course
Innovating for Tomorrow’s Technology DESCRIPTION
Innovating in today’s world is becoming an essential trait for tomorrow’s jobs. This 3-day course will help students understand the fundamentals of Innovation & Entrepreneurship to build tomorrow’s technologies. Session topics will cover: What is Innovation & Entrepreneurship?, Where ideas come from?, and What does it take to transform an idea into reality?
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Todd Morrill Hattan Ahmed
Teaching Fellow, UC Berkeley KAUST Entrepreneurship Center Lead
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Trust in Time: Real-World Applications with Blockchain DESCRIPTION
This 2-day workshop will cover everything from the foundations of blockchain, to what smart contracts are, how to write them, good examples worldwide, and a brainstorming session and presentation for local use-cases. In the first session, Prof. Marco Canini will introduce the fundamentals of blockchain technologies. This will be followed by a presentation by Prof. Wattenhofer, who will discuss some of classics fundamental results that predate Satoshi Nakamoto, in particular what has been done by the distributed computing community (consensus, byzantine agreement, state replication, ledgers). Then he will present recent developments in blockchain technologies: malleability, selfish mining, DAG-based blockchains, state channels, payment networks, watchtowers, governance, applications, economical aspects. Afterwards, students will learn what smart contracts are and what you can achieve through them with Hassan Alsibyani. Finally students will Understand what works and what not with blockchain in the real world with James Audretsch. SPEAKERS Roger Wattenhofer Professor, Information Technology and Electrical Engineering Department, ETH Zurich
Marco Canini
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Hassan Alsibyani James Audretsch 6
Assistant Professor, Computer Science at KAUST Technical Lead, Wasphi MS/PhD Student, Computer Science, KAUST
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Cultural Lecture
Slow Food: A Global Movement to Change the Food System DESCRIPTION We live in a world where the production/consumption system that has characterised the last 70 years has failed: more than 800 millions of people suffer from hunger, almost 2 billions suffer from deseases caused by bad diet or too much food. The whole planet is in trouble from the environmental perspective. The response to this situation for Slow Food can only be to change the food system and to create one where any single person can enjoy food that is good for them, good for those who grow it and good for the planet. Slow Food is a global, grassroots organization, founded in 1989 to prevent the disappearance of local food cultures and traditions, counteract the rise of fast life and combat people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from and how our food choices affect the world around us. SPEAKER
Paolo di Croce
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General Secretary of the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity
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Cultural Lecture
Kontinuum: Photography, Time, and Technology DESCRIPTION Adam Magyar finds innovative ways to use tech to observe life. That led him to capture the passing of time and freeze it into still photographs and videos. Using modified or self-built high-tech digital tools and cameras that “see” what the human eye can not see and the human nature rarely perceives, he has created mesmerizing representations of speeding subway trains and of flows of people on busy sidewalks. Born and raised in Hungary and now based in Berlin, he travels the world extracting his images from the simple, ever-changing nature of daily urban life. SPEAKER
Adam Magyar
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Photographer and Video Artist
Cultural Panel Discussion
Time and Creativity Panel (TBC) DESCRIPTION The details of this event will be confirmed shortly. Visit the Enrichment website for further updates. SPEAKERS
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Adam Magyar
Photographer and Video Artist
Rachel Sussman
Artist
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Cultural Panel Discussion
Women in Time (TBC) DESCRIPTION The details of this event will be confirmed shortly. Visit the Enrichment website for further updates. CREDIT
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Cultural Cultural
Louvre Abu Dhabi: A Museum of the Similarities of Human Experience Over Time DESCRIPTION Noëmi Daucé is currently Chief Curator at Louvre Abu Dhabi in charge of Archaeology. She is also managing the Research policy and the Documentation center of the museum. SPEAKER
Noëmi Daucé
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Chief Curator, Louvre Abu Dhabi
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Cultural Lecture
Selling Time: Stories from the Greenwich Observatory DESCRIPTION We are surrounded today by accurate time. We can hear time signals on the radio or look at automatically corrected kitchen clocks. Our home computers are synchronized by the internet or we can pick up the telephone and call the speaking clock. But how did people check the time before all this existed? In this lively illustrated lecture, David Rooney tells the tale of how precise Greenwich time has increasingly been distributed around Britain, Europe and the world from humble local beginnings in the early nineteenth century. It includes stories of scientists and telephonists, terrorists and horologists, poets and paupers, bombers and bell-ringers, from millionaires and murderers to the Greenwich Time Lady and the Girl with the Golden Voice. Rooney reveals the human faces behind the remorseless tick of the clock. SPEAKER
David Rooney
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Former Curator of Timekeeping at the Royal Observatory Greenwich
Cultural Technical Talk
A Conversation with David Rooney DESCRIPTION Have you ever wondered how long a clock can keep running, and how time was synchronised before the digital age? Why do quartz crystals and caesium atoms set the tempo of our daily existence, and how can we ďŹ ght back against the remorseless beat of the clock? What really goes on inside the watches we wear on our wrists? David Rooney discusses the technologies of precision timekeeping that rule so many aspects of our lives in the modern world.
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David Rooney
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Former Curator of Timekeeping at the Royal Observatory Greenwich
MANDATORY AND CREDITED OFFERRINGS
WEP 2019
FILM SCREENINGS AND DISCUSSIONS
BROUGHT TO YOU IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE ENRICHMENT OFFICE, COMMUNITY LIFE AND THE KAUST LIBRARY
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EVENT CATEGORY EVENT FORMAT
Film Screenings and Discussions Film Festival
Slow Food Story DESCRIPTION Slow Food Story offers a personal account of how the Slow Food movement was born 25 years ago, and its journey that has seen it spread to 150 countries. Starting with its founder still current president Carlo Petrini, director Stefano Sardo weaves a story that portrays how a group of friends from a small Italian province pursued a dream of a better world. Sardo, himself from the city of Bra in the Piedmont region, introduces us to characters like Azio, who have been at the association’s side since the beginning and offer a unique insight. SPEAKER
Paolo di Croce
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EVENT CATEGORY EVENT FORMAT
General Secretary, Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity
Film Screenings and Discussions Film Festival
A Brief History of Time (1991) DESCRIPTION A film about the life and work of the cosmologist, Stephen Hawking, who despite his near total paralysis, is one of the great minds of all time. To Be Confirmed SPEAKER CREDIT
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MANDATORY AND CREDITED OFFERRINGS
EVENT CATEGORY EVENT FORMAT
WEP 2019
Film Screenings and Discussions Film Festival
The Age of Adaline (2015) DESCRIPTION A young woman, born at the turn of the 20th century, is rendered ageless after an accident. After many solitary years, she meets a man who complicates the eternal life she has settled into. SPEAKER
To Be Confirmed
CREDIT
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EVENT CATEGORY EVENT FORMAT
Film Screenings and Discussions Film Festival
Inception (2010) DESCRIPTION A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a CEO. SPEAKER CREDIT
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Film Screenings and Discussion Film Festival
The Story of Earth (2018) DESCRIPTION This Australian documentary, narrated by Rachel Ward, centres on how contemporary geology has potentially led to a new understanding of how life on Earth came to be. SPEAKER
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Martin Van Kranendonk 1
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Director, Australian Centre for Astrobiology
Film Screenings and Discussions Film Festival
McLaren (2017) DESCRIPTION The story of Bruce McLaren, the New Zealander who founded the McLaren Motor Racing team. A man who showed the world that a man of humble beginnings could take on the elite of motor racing and win. SPEAKER
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MANDATORY AND CREDITED OFFERRINGS
EVENT CATEGORY EVENT FORMAT
WEP 2019
Film Screenings and Discussions Film Festival
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016) DESCRIPTION Legendary master filmmaker Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Cave of Forgotten Dreams) examines the past, present and constantly evolving future of the Internet in Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World. Working with NETSCOUT, a world leader in-real time service assurance and cybersecurity, which came aboard as a producer and led him into a new world, Herzog conducted original interviews with cyberspace pioneers and prophets such as PayPal and Tesla co-founder Elon Musk, Internet protocol inventor Bob Kahn, and famed hacker Kevin Mitnick. SPEAKER CREDIT
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EVENT CATEGORY EVENT FORMAT
Film Screenings and Discussions Film Festival
Longitude (2000) DESCRIPTION In two parallel stories, the clockmaker John Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea in the 18th Century and the horologist Rupert Gould becomes obsessed with restoring it in the 20th Century. SPEAKER
To Be Confirmed
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