His educational concerns, interests and objectives are focused on the development of teaching methods and procedures derived from the research.  Báez has extensively exhibited and lectured on his work and research in various international conferences and institutions.  The work has been funded by such agencies and institutions as the Canada Council for the Arts the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Cranbrook Academy of Art and Carleton University.

In collaboration with Jean Le Mée, former Mechanical Engineering Department Chairman at The Cooper Union, the design of The Millennium Sphere project was a Finalist (Honorable Mention) in the New York Times Magazine Time Capsule Competition.  This project was subsequently exhibited at The Museum of Natural History and The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City.

In 2005, Báez was honoured with a Research Achievement Award from Carleton University. More recently, as a way of exploring possible collaborative projects, he has been invited to present his work at the Bath, U.K., offices of consulting engineers, Buro Happold (research division), landscape architects, Grant Associates and the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University of Bath.  This has been made possible by a recent Carleton University Foundry Program Innovation Grant that has allowed for the proposal and presentation of a series of projects to possible collaborators and industry partners within the Ottawa community and beyond.

As a result of this, Báez has been invited to be a guest speaker at a TEDx event on the theme of Ideas Driving Innovation at Carleton University.  Professor Báez received his B. Arch. Degree from The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and his M. Arch. Degree from the Cranbrook Academy of Art.  He is a licensed architect in New York State.

Photo credit: Ian Murchison

Jesse Stewart is an award-winning percussionist, composer, improviser, artist, instrument builder, educator, and writer. A dynamic and inventive performer, Stewart has a remarkable ability to coax unexpected—even magical—sounds out of virtually any resonating object or material. He has performed with many internationally acclaimed musicians including George Lewis, Roswell Rudd, Bill Dixon, William Parker, Evan Parker, Joe Mcphee, Michael Snow, and many others. He is currently a member of the David Mott Quintet and Tallboys, a trio featuring virtuoso musicians Kevin Breit on guitar and Matt Brubeck on cello. He also leads his own groups and performs regularly as a soloist at festivals across the country and has made numerous compact disc recordings …

After majoring in both visual art and in music as an undergraduate student at the University of Guelph, he went on to complete two Master of Arts degrees concurrently at York University in Toronto: one in ethnomusicology and another in music composition. His composition teachers included James Tenney and David Mott. In 2008, Stewart completed doctoral level studies at the University of Guelph where he was the first recipient of the Brock Doctoral Scholarship, the university’s most prestigious graduate award. He now teaches music composition at Carleton University in Ottawa.

His playing has been described as “truly exciting” (Musicworks 76), “exceptional” (Cadence Oct. 2002) and “phenomenal” (Cadence Nov. 1999). In a 2002 review, Texas-based music critic Frank Rubolino described him as “…one of the finest young drummers and percussionists on the scene today” (One Final Note Summer/Fall 2002).

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Links:

Jesse Stewart’s Website

Casia Interviews Jesse Stewart at the Ottawa Folk Festival

Jesse Stewart’s Music Channel on Youtube

Photo Credit: Ian Murchison

With the help of our partner – OAK Computing – we have created is a very simple solution that allows all of you to post your interests, questions, comments (in specific topics or in people with a specific background) for the TEDxCarletonU audience to review before the actual event. Our hope is that the “community” will help connect you with other audience members. So we hope you will consider being part of this experiment and help you meet some amazing people at TEDxCarletonU.

If you do register for this experiment, be sure to check your *Spam* folder for the automated reply message that contains your login information.

You can find the community page at: http://carletoninnovation.com/community/

How to work with the community page

Registration is a very simple (10 second) process. You can find the registration link on the top right hand corner of the community page.

1. Click on “Register” or you can go to http://carletoninnovation.com/community/ and please enter a username (please give your Full Name) and an email ID.

2. You will receive the password for your registration in your email (PS: Do check your SPAM mail if you don’t see the password in your INBOX)

3. With your Username and Password, log into the community using the “LOGIN” link on the top right hand corner of the community page.

4. To post a message or a request, just type a brief message (ideally max of 160-200 characters) and assign relevant tags (2-3 max).

Alternatively to post a message:
- Please click on the “POST” link on the “Add Post” link on the top right hand corner of the community page.
- Within the Post editor, please create a title and a message for the rest of the community (ideally max of 160-200 characters)
- Before “Publishing”, please type some relevant “tags” (2-3 max) and highlight a “category” by checking off the relevant category.
- To return back to the community, click on “TEDxCarletonU Community” on the top left hand corner.

If you have any questions/comments/feedback, please contact me or Manu Sharma at manu@oakcomputing.com

Jim Davies is an assistant professor in the Institute of Cognitive Science at Carleton University. Director of the Science of Imagination Laboratory, he explores processes of visualization in humans and machines and specializes in artificial intelligence, analogy, problem-solving, visual analytics, artistic compellingness and creativity. His work has shown how people use visual thinking to solve problems, and how they visualize imagined situations and worlds …

In his spare time, he is a published poet, an internationally-produced playwright, and a professional painter, calligrapher, and swing dancer.

Links:

http://www.jimdavies.org/

You can find Jim Davies on Twitter

and Jim’s blog: http://jimdavies.blogspot.com

Given increasing concerns about infectious diseases and environmental contaminants, there is an urgent need to develop these kinds of innovative sensing tools for the rapid and accurate detection of these substances. For example, faster and more accurate biosensors could have an impact on medicine by allowing for earlier disease diagnosis and therapy. More sensitive biosensors could also help us protect our food and water supply by detecting contaminants, even when they are at very low levels.

After finishing her undergraduate work in chemistry at Carleton University, Dr. DeRosa was awarded the University’s most prestigious medal-the Governor General’s Silver Medal.  She pursued her graduate studies at Carleton under the guidance of Prof. Robert Crutchley with whom she published several papers in top journals including the Journal of the American Chemical Society. In 1993, upon successful completion of her Ph.D., she was presented with a Senate Medal. She has received several scholarships including an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship that allowed her to do research at the California Institute of Technology from 2004-2005 with Prof. Jackie Barton, a world-leader in DNA sensor research.  Her research during this time was published in the top journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. In 2005, she joined the Chemistry Department at Carleton as an Assistant Professor.  She was awarded the John Charles Polanyi Prize, a prize for promising new researchers, in 2006, and has also been a CFI Leaders Opportunity grant recipient.

Related Links:

Visit the DeRosa Lab

Faculty News – Maria DeRosa

Photo credit: Ian Murchison

So, for 10 days leading up to the event date (March 30th), I am posting tweets on the TEDxCarletonU Twitter account spotlighting various audience members.  My hope is that attendees who are curious about knowing who else will be in the audience on the 30th will click through those tweets and make connections before, during or after the event.  Networking can be a very serendipitous process but social media can help make amazing connections much less randomly.   My hope is that TEDxCarletonU audience members (and the community-at-large) will engage and take full advantage of this “experiment”.   So go ahead, start your networking today!   — Luc

Dr. Banu Örmeci is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Wastewater and Public Health Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carleton University. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University (Durham, NC), and served as an Assistant Research Professor at Duke for two years before joining Carleton University in 2005 …

She was named a Canada Research Chair in 2007. She is the recipient of several awards including the Ontario Early Researcher Award, Carleton University Research Achievement Award, Carty Research Fellowship, and Carleton University Students’ Association Teaching Excellence Award.   Her main research areas include sludge treatment and disposal, water and wastewater disinfection, removal of endocrine disrupting compounds and pharmaceuticals from wastewater, and fate and persistence of chemicals and pathogens through treatment processes.   As well as fundamental research, she is interested in research that has practical applications in the field and is engaged in research project partnerships with the public and private sectors. She has two patents.

Canada Research Chair in Wastewater and Public Health Engineering – Profile of Banu Örmeci

Canadian Water Network funding research into producing safer drinking water and wastewater

Alan Neal is the guest host of All in a Day, which airs weekday afternoons between 3 and 6 p.m. on CBC Radio One (91.5 FM). Alan’s voice might be familiar to CBC Radio audiences in Ottawa and across the province from his previous hosting gigs on Bandwidth and Ontario Today.

Follow Alan on Twitter @alannealottawa

– Siddhartha Buddha

At the time I obtained a license in June 2009 to host a TEDx event for Carleton University, I knew the task of organizing such as event was going to be no small exercise.  As event host, the tasks involved are much more than logistics handling and finding cool speakers.  I took to heart the role of “Curator” and challenged myself to create a positive experience for all those I can touch with such an event.  For me, “curating” TEDxCarletonU involved four specific areas: event theme, external outreach, “community” engagement and student experience.

Event Theme

My first concern was to tie a theme that was unique to TEDxCarletonU while maintaining loyalty to the overarching TED philosophy of “ideas worth spreading”.  Given my work at Carleton University to support the development of innovation arising from our research activities, I decided to focus on those researchers who were truly pushing the limits of their respective disciplines.

Good ideas were a good start but I believed it would be — as the Buddha quote states — that an idea put into action was more important than “just an idea”.  Hence, I sought those researchers who had the vision and commitment to apply their ideas for real-world benefit.   I also sought to find those researchers on campus who were relatively new to Carleton (and the Ottawa region) and give them a platform to share their innovative ideas.

External Outreach

An important dimension of TEDxCarletonU is the desire to “showcase” the innovative research that goes on at Carleton U to an external audience.  The audience make-up of our first TEDxCarletonU event, as a result, will be over 80% external attendees.  I deliberately sought to make the event an outreach of Carleton U into the broader Ottawa community.  In keeping with this view, the event is being hosted off-campus at the fabulous Gladstone Theatre.

Community Engagement

For first-time organizers like myself, our TEDx attendance is limited to 100 people as per our license with TED.  With so many TED aficionados in the Ottawa region, the issue of who can attend the TEDxCarletonU event represents the most daunting task of all.  It was for this reason that I selected a “theme” to help identify prospective attendees.  In keeping with our TEDxCarletonU theme of “Ideas Driving Innovation“, I thought to attract local “changemakers” who were equally passionate about ideas and, more importantly, were actively involved in making a difference in the Ottawa area.  In a sense, my goal was to engage a diverse audience of community changemakers who understood and “practiced” our event theme.

Student Experience

Last but not least, I believe the TEDxCarletonU event should also engage our amazingly creative and talented students in all aspects of the event organization (social media, web design, public relations, photography, etc).  I am very proud of the team of highly motivated students who have joined me in bringing TEDxCarletonU to life.

As much as we would like to open up many more seats for TEDxCarletonU, our license restricts us to 100 guests only. Our goal is to engage audience members with innovative ideas, start conversations and build lasting networks. TEDxCarletonU would like to you be part of a select and diverse group of local “changemakers” who are equally passionate about making ideas work…

But first we would like to get to know you!

Application Process:

To be considered for an invitation to TEDxCarletonU, we kindly ask you to complete a very brief application form. The form will remain online until Sunday March 7th. Invitations will then be sent by Tuesday March 9th. There is no charge for the event.

Event Schedule:
Tuesday, March 30th
Reception: 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Presentations Start: 7:15pm
Intermission: 8:15pm
Closing: 9:30pm