Telluride House at Cornell University

Jong Min will have his pubspeak on Monday, April 29th at 7pm. His pubspeak is about quantum mechanics and its philosophical implication. He will try my best to make things understandable to everyone, but still not too naive or simple. Below is his plan. First, he will start with a brief history about how quantum [...]

Martin Romo will be giving his PubSpeak Friday (April 19) at 7PM. He will start by introducing the Ciudades Rurales Sustentables (“Sustainable Rural Cities”) program taking place in Chiapas, Mexico and will discuss the shortcomings/shortsightedness of the model for economic development in the region. Then, he will introduce a common tool used for economic impact [...]

Thea’s pubspeak is on Monday, April 15, 7pm. She plans to give a talk about the emergency state deceleration of Detroit which has caused the appointment of an external fiscal manager who has been granted higher authority than existing local elected representatives. She wants to discuss how a community which has been politically disenfranchised organizes [...]

Violeta’s pubspeak is on Thursday (3/28/13) at 7pm.  She will be talking about how certain problems in the humanities can be addressed using engineering techniques. Specifically,  she will be discussing the collaboration between the Van Gogh Museum and the Electrical Engineering department to develop algorithms that aid in the analysis and identification of art pieces. [...]

James’s pubspeak is happening on Wed March 6 at 7:00 PM, and he is going to be speaking about fraudulent scientific claims and how the modern academic community has grown to deal with them. He will go over some of the most interesting cases in the last few years of researchers who have been removed [...]

Martin gave a candle-lit presentation on Tennyson’s, In Memoriam- the elegy he wrote for his best friend over the 17 years after his death. He spoke about notions of friendship and emotion, death and mourning in the poem.