The LASERs (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) are an international program of evening gatherings that bring artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversation with an audience. See the program for the whole international series and the dates for the Bay Area.
Send an email to "scaruffi at stanford dot edu" if you want to be added to the mailing list for the LASERs.
This is two LASERs in one. The online portion will take place at lunch-time and will host speakers from the East Coast.
The in-person portion will take place at the Stanford LiKaShing room LK101.
Register here
or here
for the online LASER: 12pm California time.
Program for the online LASER:
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Ilan Stavans (Amherst College) on Octavio Paz
If you missed this presentation, you can view it by clicking on the image:  .
The in-person LASER at 7pm:
LiKaShing building - Room LK101
There should be ample parking in the structure on corner of Campus Drive West and Roth Way (355 Roth Way).
Parking is mostly free at Stanford after 6pm.
No need for RSVP - just show up at the venue.
Program,
not necessarily in this order:
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Gary Steinberg (Stanford) on "Stem cell therapy for stroke"
If you missed this presentation, you can view it by clicking on the image:  .
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Joshua Landy (Stanford) on "Literature and the Brain"
Discussions, networking
You can mingle with the speakers and the audience
Bios:
- Joshua Landy is the Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University, where he co-directs the Initiative in Philosophy and Literature and co-hosts the nationally syndicated public radio program “Philosophy Talk.” His books include Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust (Oxford, 2004), How to Do Things With Fictions (Oxford, 2012), The World According to Proust (Oxford, 2022), and (as coeditor) The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age (Stanford, 2009).
- Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American, and Latino Culture at Amherst College, the publisher of Restless Books, and a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary. His work, translated into two dozen languages, has been adapted into radio, TV, film, and theater. His latest books are Conversations on Dictionaries: The Universe in a Book (Cambridge University Press), Lamentations of Nezahualcoyotl: Nahuatl Poems (Restless Books), and Sabor Judio: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook (University of North Carolina Press).
- Gary K. Steinberg graduated from Stanford University in Neurosciences in 1980. Before attending medical school he studied classical trumpet on a music study scholarship at the Institute for Advanced Musical Studies in Montreux, Switzerland. He completed his surgical internship and residency in Neurological Surgery at Stanford under John Hanbery. During his training he received an NIH NINDS Individual National Research Service Award to investigate aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, and he spent one year studying cerebrovascular surgery with Charles Drake in London, Ontario. In 1987 Dr. Steinberg joined the faculty at Stanford as Assistant Professor in Neurosurgery, being promoted to associate professor with tenure in 1993 and professor in 1997. He founded the Stanford Stroke Center in 1991 and is currently the Co-Director, and is Founder and Director of the Stanford Moyamoya Center. He served as Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford from 1995-2020 and holds the Bernard and Ronni Lacroute-William Randolph Hearst Endowed Chair of Neurosurgery and the Neurosciences. Over the past 25 years Dr. Steinberg expanded the department from a faculty of 5 to more than 60 neurosurgeons and scientists. Dr. Steinberg maintains a busy clinical practice specializing in cerebrovascular surgery. His clinical research is focused on developing innovative surgical, endovascular and radiosurgical approaches for treating patients with difficult intracranial aneurysms, complex vascular malformations and occlusive cerebrovascular disorders including moyamoya disease. He has also spearheaded several early phase clinical trials of stem cell transplantation for chronic stroke and subacute spinal cord injury.
- Piero Scaruffi is a cultural historian who has lectured in three continents and published several books on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, the latest one being "The Nature of Consciousness" (2006). He pioneered Internet applications in the early 1980s and the use of the World-Wide Web for cultural purposes in the mid 1990s. His poetry has been awarded several national prizes in Italy and the USA. His latest books of poems and meditations are "Synthesis" (2009) and "Dialogue of the Lovers". As a music historian, he has published ten books, the latest ones being "A History of Rock and Dance Music" (2009) and "A History of Jazz Music" (2007). His latest book on technology are "A History of Silicon Valley" (2011, revised edition in 2022) and "Intelligence is not Artificial" (2013, expanded edition 2019). The first volume of his free ebook "A Visual History of the Visual Arts" appeared in 2012. "A History of California" appeared in 2025. He has also written extensively about cinema and literature. He founded the Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) in 2008. Since 2015 he has been commuting between California and China, where several of his books have been translated.
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