Wednesday, March 25
Don’t miss today’s program which includes a brown bag lecture and an evening musical performance with our three invited artists. Register now at: sep.kaust.edu.sa.
Brain-In-Sight: Visualization of the brain in 3D
12:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Al-Khawarizmi East (building 1), multipurpose room (room 2418)
Speakers: Ali Awami and Corrado CalÌ
Join Postdoctoral Corrado Cali and Ph.D. student Ali Awami as they tell you more about two of the most ambitious projects about the brain: the Human Brain Project and the Human Connectomics Project. They will show you how the visualization technology supports the study of brain structure and function.
Light lunch provided.
Art Songs and Opera Arias from the European Stage
7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Auditorium, (building 20)
Speakers: Jennifer Cho (soprano), John Tiranno (tenor) and Orazio Sciortino (pianist)
Retreat to an era before digital media, to a program of German art songs and Italian opera. Beethoven, Schumann, and others set the poetry of their day to music in “art songs.” During the year Robert Schumann married his beloved Clara (1840), he wrote 138 of them. Meanwhile, in 19th century Italy, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini and others elevated the baroque and classical musical story-telling of opera to its grand bel canto style, creating stage roles of heroes and villains for the ages, while becoming the unsurpassed heroes of popular culture themselves.
Light food and refreshments provided
Enrichment in the Spring will run from Friday, March 20 to Saturday, March 28 and will feature three days of core events and one week of community events, with the main theme being the human brain and mind.
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