Presentation #1
How Cartoons Come to Life
by Eric Molinsky

Description: Isn't animation extremely tedious? Isn't it all done on computers now? Isn¹t it really hard to do a live cartoon? This presentation will allow you to learn the secrets of the craft that
brought Dumbo, Bambi, and Bugs Bunny to life.

Presentation #2
A Brief History of the Nerd
by Benjamin Nugent

Description: "Nerd" is like "white person" in that it's a scientifically invalid category that affects us all. What is the history of this all-important construct? From romanticism to anti-semitic caricature in early industrial England to the Muscular Christianity movement to Zane Grey's assertion that all real boys like baseball to the engineering school humor magazines of the late 1950s to Superbad, it's largely painful. Come experience catharsis.

Presentation #3
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): A Painless Peek Inside the Brain
by Kristen Klemenhagen

Description: You may be familiar with images from the popular press showing multicolored pictures of areas of "brain activity" detected via functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). However, fMRI is only one type of experimental neuroimaging that can be done using an MRI magnet. Learn about what fMRI actually measures (and what it does not measure), and about other interesting but less well-known imaging modalities. You'll also learn a hot dance move called the "hydrogen proton precession" while learning about MRI physics, and hear about some recent controversial functional imaging studies.

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