The visual world comes to us as patterns of light on the retina. This session will present some ideas about how this complex process works, with several demonstrations of illusions and other visual surprises that illustrate these ideas. In this session we will see how gestures and movement in everyday life convey meanings that either support, supplement, or undercut verbal messages. In this talk you will learn about earthquake characteristics and how rock type can determine whether or not earthquakes will occur on a fault. The answer to this question may lie in nature's amazing tendency to do things in the most economical way possible, a tendency known as the Principle of Least Action.
Many natural phenomena occur in a manner that minimizes energy or other quantities.
In this talk, we will explore several of those problems, many of which have been around for thousands of years. Come to learn about the language, culture, literature, and arts of this small country and view webpages made by students in a class at Pomona College. This session will be a hands-on workshop introducing a variety of techniques designed to expand the participants' experience with creative processes. No experience is necessary, just a bold sense of exploration. A lone aircraft, barely more than a black speck, emerges from the clouds.