Desma 9

The fourth event that I went to was to listen to our Professor Victoria Vesna who was a keynote speaker for the UCLA undergraduate Research Week. I really enjoyed this zoom because I was able to learn a lot about Professor Vesna and what her interests are and how she got started in the space that she is currently working in now. During her presentation she gives an overview of what over the course of her life has inspired her and what people have helped peak certain interests. An interesting fact that she shared was that her father was obsessed with Nikola Tesla and through her dad she became interested in the science world. She also expressed that she went to an art school as a kid but didn’t enjoy it because she wanted to learn about science. Professor Vesna was fascinated and intrigued by pyramids and how they were made and overall was so interested in the unknown. With the things you don’t see or would understand without digging deeper and understanding certain things at great deta...

For my third event of the quarter I had the pleasure of listening to Nina Sobell. It was an overall great presentation as she went over what she does and what she studies while also going over her journey and how she got so involved in her work. I learned so many incredible facts and concepts that I didn’t even think were possible. Her work consists of using people's brain waves in order to show different interesting facts about the human mind. For instance, she talked about how they used some technology that connects to the person's head and as a result it shoots out on a computer or paper a brainwave drawing. Brainwave drawings were created through their mental thoughts through brainwaves. She also describes they did the same set up on two different humans and showed that one person's thoughts can influence the other and they had the brain wave drawings and graphs to show for it. They learned a lot from these people's brain wave patterns. Electrodes were used to their...