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The Next Wave of ArtScience: Breaking the Barriers to Innovation - Todd Siler
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Todd Siler is the founder and chief creative officer of Think Like a Genius, LLC, a Denver-based company that develops multimedia tools for fostering creativity, innovation, and collaborative learning in businesses, schools, and other organizations. He has facilitated hands-on workshops throughout the world, consulting to such organizations as IBM, Blue Cross Blue Shield, The Home Depot, Procter & Gamble, and many others.He is a visual artist, author, and inventor who received his Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies in psychology and art from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986. He was the first visual artist to receive a doctorate from the institute. He has published many articles and books on his work, including Think Like A Genius and Breaking the Mind Barrier Siler exhibits his artworks internationally in such major museums and galleries as The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art. Part of an interdisciplinary symposium on Breaking Creative Barriers: http://www.iastate.edu/~ceah/art_symp.html.

The Connections between Creative Thought in Art and Science - Panel Discussion
3:30 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Panel participants: Arthur I. Miller, Michael Golec, Vera John-Steiner, and Richard Poss. Part of an interdisciplinary symposium on Breaking Creative Barriers: http://www.iastate.edu/~ceah/art_symp.html.

Astrobiology and the Arts: Implications of Life beyond Earth - Richard Poss
2:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Richard Poss is an associate professor in the Astronomy Department at the University of Arizona and former director (2001-4) of the university's Humanities Program. He regularly teaches a course titled "Science and the Humanities," which examines topics such as robotics and artificial intelligence, planetary science and space exploration, genetic design and bioengineering. Part of an interdisciplinary symposium on Breaking Creative Barriers: http://www.iastate.edu/~ceah/art_symp.html.

The Anamorphosis of Big Science
11:00 AM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Michael J. Golec is an assistant professor of art and design history in the Department of Art and Design and the Department of Architecture at Iowa State University. Part of an interdisciplinary symposium on Breaking Creative Barriers: http://www.iastate.edu/~ceah/art_symp.htm

Collaborations in Creative Thought - Vera John-Steiner
9:30 AM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Vera John-Steiner's books include Notebooks of the Mind: Explorations of Thinking and Creative Collaboration. She is currently Regents' professor of education and linguistics at the University of New Mexico. Part of an interdisciplinary symposium on Breaking Creative Barriers: http://www.iastate.edu/~ceah/art_symp.html.

Einstein, Picaasso: Abstract Science and Abstract Art - Arthur I. Miller
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Arthur I. Miller is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at University College, London, and has lectured and written extensively on the history and philosophy of nineteenth and twentieth century science and technology, cognitive science, scientific creativity, and the relation between art and science. His latest book is Empire of the Stars: Friendship, Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes. He is the author of numerous other works, including Einstein and Picasso: Space, Time and the Beauty that Causes Havoc, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art and Imagery in Scientific Thought: Creating 20th-Century Physics. Part of an interdisciplinary symposium on Breaking Creative Barriers: http://www.iastate.edu/~ceah/art_symp.html.

Plan Colombia: US Military Might in a Changing Latin America - Diana Milena Murcia
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Diana Milena Murcia has been at the forefront of struggles for human rights in Colombia. A lawyer with Colombia's cutting-edge legal collective "Jose Alvear Restrepo", Diana has come under threat as a strong voice in opposition to "Plan Colombia", a US policy that has sent over 4 billion US tax dollars - mostly military funding - to the war-torn nation.

Murderball - the movie
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Admission Free - Murderball is a film about tough, highly competitive rugby players --who just so happen to be quadriplegics. In their own version of the full-contact sport, they smash the hell out of each other in custom-made gladiator-like wheelchairs. From the gyms of middle America to the Olympic arena in Athens, Greece, 'Murderball' tells the story of a group of world-class athletes unlike any ever shown on screen. In addition to smashing chairs, it aims to smash every stereotype. It is a film about standing up, even after your spirit -- and your spine -- has been crushed. Mark Zupan, the paralympic rugby athlete featured in the film, will be speaking in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union on Tuesday, October 18 at 8:00 p.m.

The Blue Revolution: Helping to End Hunger in Southeast Asia - Modadugu Vijay Gupta
2:00 PM – Lebaron Auditorium 1210 - Modadugu Vijay Gupta was the 2005 World Food Prize Laureate. He pioneered the development and dissemination of low-cost techniques for freshwater fish farming by the rural poor, providing farmers and their families with a nutritious food source they had not previously had. Dr. Gupta's pioneering breeding of carp and other pond fish adaptable to a variety of different environments in rural areas, from Bangladesh to the Mekong Basin countries, combined with his efforts to help millions of small-holder farmers gain access to innovative aquaculture techniques to produce a vital supply of nutritious food, brought a "Blue Revolution" to Southeast Asia and beyond.

Lessons Learned from the Terri Schiavo Case - Francis Degnin
4:10 PM – Physics 5 - Francis Degnin is a Philosopher and Clinical Bioethicist at the University of Northern Iowa. He has published a half dozen articles in philosophy and medical ethics, conducts educational seminars for physicians, nurses, social workers, and other care givers, and has taken part in over 200 clinical case consultations. He serves on the Ethics Committee of two local hospitals, the Institutional Review Board for the University, and he chairs the Ethics Planning Committee for the Northeast Iowa Ethics Conference.