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HDSI Seminar – Victor Minces – The Sound of Data
February 21 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
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When Friday, February 21st
Where: HDSI MPR 123
Title: The Sound of Data
Speaker: Victor Minces
Abstract: In this talk, Dr. Minces will give an overview of his career and how it led to the development of Listening to Waves, a program that creates playful activities and web applications that connect music with science through data visualization and sonification. He will demonstrate how to use the applications created by his team to create surprising sounds and how the applications can help people understand the science of waves, signal processing, and music. He will discuss the impact of his program on children’s attitudes toward science and the education system. Further, he will demonstrate new projects for sonifying data, such as ‘the talking hand,’ an application transforming hand movements into phonemes.
Bio: Dr. Minces is a neuroscientist of music, sound artist, performer, and developer of educational programs centered on the STEM of music. He studied fine arts and physics at the University of Buenos Aires and obtained his Ph.D. in Computational Neurobiology at the University of California, San Diego, in Andrea Chiba’s laboratory. He is now a research scientist in the Department of Cognitive Science. He has studied how large neural networks in the brain encode sensory information and how the brain processes musical rhythm. He has created Listening to Waves, a widely adopted program that develops web applications and activities for people to learn about the science of sound through playful exploration.
