Category: Watering Hole

Friday, November 10

Venue: Edith O’Donnell Arts and Technology Building, UT Dallas
Room: ArtSciLab 3.209 
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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Speakers

The ArtSciLab presents a new iteration of our cross-disciplinary, round table casual discussions about intriguing topics. You will have the opportunity to share your personal interests, research topics, passions, concerns, collaboration requests, and anything else that captivates you. Faculty members, undergraduates, industry professionals, and the overall UT Dallas staff will be able to contribute their thoughts on your interests. Snacks will be provided! 

For this week’s Watering Hole, we will have:

1. Gary Cocke, Director of Sustainability and Energy Conservation at UT Dallas, will be presenting “Sustainability at UT Dallas.” 
2. Aidan Acuna, a UT Dallas Political Science Undergraduate, will be presenting a “Summary of the Elections.” 
3. Katie Strand, a Graduate Student from Bass School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, will be presenting “Mechanical Marvels: Early Automata’s Intersection of Art and Engineering.” 
4. Nikhil Chaturvedi, Misal Shah, and Ojal Bhatnagar, ArtSciLab members, will be presenting “The Diwali Experience.” 

We are excited to see you there.

Friday, November 3

Venue: Edith O’Donnell Arts and Technology Building, UT Dallas
Room: ArtSciLab 3.209 
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

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Speakers

The ArtSciLab presents a new iteration of our cross-disciplinary, round table casual discussions about intriguing topics. You will have the opportunity to share your personal interests, research topics, passions, concerns, collaboration requests, and anything else that captivates you. Faculty members, undergraduates, industry professionals, and the overall UT Dallas staff will be able to contribute their thoughts on your interests. Snacks will be provided! 

For this week’s Watering Hole, we will have:

1. Yueh-Jung Lee, a PhD candidate from the Bass School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, presenting: Wanderer—Uninteractive Interaction in Everyday Life
2. August Davis, Department Chair, Associate Professor, & Director of The Gallery at UTA, presenting: Divide and Conquer: Artist Amalia Pica and The Empty Set: Legacies of Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’ and the war on ‘New Math’
3. Omer Ahmed, a Global Business undergrad, presenting Pakistani Melodies: A Tribute to the Rich Musical Heritage

We are excited to see you there.

Friday, October 27

Venue 1: Arts and Technology Lecture Hall (ATC 1.102)  
3:30pm to 5:00pm
Venue 2: ATEC 3.209
5:15pm – 6:00pm

The ArtSciLab presents a new iteration of our cross-disciplinary, round table casual discussions about intriguing topics. You will have the opportunity to share your personal interests, research topics, passions, concerns, collaboration requests, and anything else that captivates you. Faculty members, undergraduates, industry professionals, and the overall UT Dallas staff will be able to contribute their thoughts on your interests. Snacks will be provided! 

For this week’s Watering Hole, we will first attend the UTD Bass School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology’s ‘From Pitch to Panda‘ event, and then we will have a discussion at the ASL lab about the event. Here is the agenda:

Details of the Event:  

• From Pitch to Panda with PIXAR director & screenwriter Domee Shi
• Friday, October 27 at 3:30pm to 5:00pm
• Location: Arts and Technology Lecture Hall (ATC 1.102), ATC 1.102
• Event Link
• Cost: Free Event

Round Table Discussion about the above event

• Friday, October 27 at 5:15pm – 6:00pm
• Room: ATEC 3.209

We are excited to see you there.

Friday, October 20

Venue: Edith O’Donnell Arts and Technology Building, UT Dallas 
Room 1: ArtSciLab 3.209 
Room 2: ATEC 3.102  
4 pm – 6 pm

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Speakers

The ArtSciLab presents a new iteration of our cross-disciplinary, round table casual discussions about intriguing topics. You will have the opportunity to share your personal interests, research topics, passions, concerns, collaboration requests, and anything else that captivates you. Faculty members, undergraduates, industry professionals, and the overall UT Dallas staff will be able to contribute their thoughts on your interests. Snacks will be provided! 

For this week’s Watering Hole, we will have:

1. Jacob Hunwick, ArtSciLab’s Experience Design Lead, presenting:
   INTERIOR DESIGN WORKSHOP: Fung-Shui in Academia. The ArtSciLab calls for talented designers to help us rethink the interior design of our lab. Join us this Friday from 4-5pm to get hands-on experience taking user data and transforming it into beautiful and practical interiors. 
2. Alejandro Garcia, Andrew Duarte, Evan Acuna, Michael Tran, and Chris Gauthier, Winners of NASA’s Mars XR VR 2 Challenge, presenting “Experience Mars in VR and other mediums with the Comet to Mars team”. 

We are excited to see you there.

Friday, October 13

Venue: Edith O’Donnell Arts and Technology Building, UT Dallas 
Room 1: ArtSciLab 3.209 
Room 2: ATEC 1.910  
4 pm – 6 pm

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Speakers

The ArtSciLab presents a new iteration of our cross-disciplinary, round table casual discussions about intriguing topics. You will have the opportunity to share your personal interests, research topics, passions, concerns, collaboration requests, and anything else that captivates you. Faculty members, undergraduates, industry professionals, and the overall UT Dallas staff will be able to contribute their thoughts on your interests. Snacks will be provided! 

For this week’s Watering Hole, we will have:

1. Haoyi Song, PhD student in the Visual and Performing arts, hanging “The Watering Hole Experience” oil painting in the Dean’s Suite  
2. Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, A UNT Regents Professor, presenting “Music as a Complex Adaptive System” 
3. Andrew Scott, Associate Professor teaching Digital Fabrication Technologies and Traditional Fine Art Practices, presenting the 3D Studio

• Agenda:  
• 4:00 PM – Hanging Haoyi’s painting in the Dean’s Suite  
  4:30 PM – Walk to Andrew Scott’s 3D Studio 
  5:00 PM – Marco Nardelli’s talk  

We are excited to see you there.

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Friday, October 6
ATEC 3.209
4 pm – 6 pm

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Speakers

The ArtSciLab presents a new iteration of our cross-disciplinary, round table casual discussions about intriguing topics. You will have the opportunity to share your personal interests, research topics, passions, concerns, collaboration requests, and anything else that captivates you. Faculty members, undergraduates, industry professionals, and the overall UT Dallas staff will be able to contribute their thoughts on your interests. Snacks will be provided! 

For this week’s Watering Hole, we will have:

1. Roman Hauksson, a Computer Science Undergraduate, presenting “Extreme Risks from Advanced Artificial Intelligence”  
2. Andrew Peters, a School of Arts Tech & Emrg Com Senior, presenting “Future Faith”  
3. Eric Fulbright, an artist and empresario, presenting “Opening Doors of Delusion” 
4. Suvash Gupta, an MFA student, presenting “Vrindavan” 
5. Jacob Hunwick, an ATEC undergrad, presenting “ASL Focus Group” 
6. Haoyi Song, PhD student in the Visual and Performing arts, Watercolor painting the Watering Hole experience 

We are excited to see you there.

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Friday, September 29
ATEC 3.209
4 pm – 6 pm

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Speakers

The ArtSciLab presents a new iteration of our cross-disciplinary, round table casual discussions about intriguing topics. You will have the opportunity to share your personal interests, research topics, passions, concerns, collaboration requests, and anything else that captivates you. Faculty members, undergraduates, industry professionals, and the overall UT Dallas staff will be able to contribute their thoughts on your interests. Snacks will be provided! 

For this week’s Watering Hole, we will have:

1. Aidan Acuna, a Political Science Undergraduate student, presenting “The Realistic Capabilities of Artificial Intelligence in Political Campaigns” 
2. Tomás Londoño Gómez, Project Manager at La Salle BCN, presenting “Smart Villages Innovation Project” 
3. Haoyi Song, PhD student in the Visual and Performing arts, oil painting the Watering Hole event.

We are excited to see you there.

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Friday, September 22
ATEC 3.209
4 pm – 6 pm

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Speakers

The ArtSciLab presents a new iteration of our cross-disciplinary, round table casual discussions about intriguing topics. You will have the opportunity to share your personal interests, research topics, passions, concerns, collaboration requests, and anything else that captivates you. Faculty members, undergraduates, industry professionals, and the overall UT Dallas staff will be able to contribute their thoughts on your interests. Snacks will be provided! 

For this week’s Watering Hole, we will have

1. Nisha Philips, a Computer Science Masters student, presenting about ‘LLMs in marketing’
2. Jacob Hunwick, an ATEC undergrad, presenting ‘How to Decarbonize Tailgate Barbecue’
3. Christine Malina-Maxwell, presenting ‘A.I. | I.A.: (Artificial Intelligence | Information Artisans)’
4. Haoyi Song, PhD student in the Visual and Performing arts, oil painting the Watering Hole event.

We are excited to see you there.

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Friday, September 15 
ATEC 3.209 
4 pm – 6 pm 

More dates throughout Fall 2023

Speakers

The ArtSciLab presents a new iteration of our cross-disciplinary, round table casual discussions about intriguing topics. You will have the opportunity to share your personal interests, research topics, passions, concerns, collaboration requests, and anything else that captivates you. Faculty members, undergraduates, industry professionals, and the overall UT Dallas staff will be able to contribute their thoughts on your interests. Snacks will be provided! 

For this week’s Watering Hole, we will have Nisha Philips, a Computer Science Masters student, presenting about LLMs in marketing; Omer Ahmed, a Global Business undergrad, presenting ‘Arts and Business: Weaving the Gaps’ as a BPA Vice President; and Anupama Gowda, a PhD candidate, presenting ‘Taking Stock of Innovation Studies.’ We are excited to see you there. 

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