ASU conference promotes opportunities for physicists, materials scientists, and biologists around the topic of Iridescence
Iridescent hummingbird
Photograph by Pierre Deviche
November 23, 2007 –The Frontiers in Life Sciences Workshop: Iridescence: More than Meets the Eye is a School of Life Sciences’ graduate student initiated and organized international conference developed to connect diverse disciplines and researchers around the topic of iridescence. The conference, to be held February 6 – 9, 2008, will include panel discussions, poster presentations, talks and workshops developed to catalyze cross-disciplinary discussion, identify new avenues of research, and explore the potential for iridescence in nature to provide novel insight in materials sciences, science education, and biological discovery. The final evening of the conference incorporates a dinner, a fashion show with student dancers from ASU Herberger College of the Arts choreographed by Jennifer Tsukayama wearing iridescent costumes created by costume artists Galina Mihaleva and Jacqueline Benard, and a talk by Dennita Sewell, curator of costume design at the Phoenix Art Museum, on the use of iridescence in costuming and fashion from traditional ceremonial garb to modern day fashion and textiles.** An international array of speakers is slated, and abstracts have been received from scientists in Brazil, Canada, Japan, Netherlands, Australia, Belgium, United Kingdom and the United States. The conference presents a unique opportunity for ASU faculty and graduate students to interact with innovative, international leaders in their fields, and build collaborations between departments and disciplines within ASU.
More information about the conference and invited speakers at: http://sols.asu.edu/rti/frontiers/iridescence
Registration is free before December 14, 2007. Abstract deadlines: see below.
Registration is required to attend final Banquet. Banquet cost is $35.
Conference program:
Day 1: Mechanisms and Measurement
Day 2: Development
Day 3: Evolution
Day 4: Education and Outreach
Invited speakers:
Stephanie Doucet, University of Winsor (Ontario, Canada)
Helen Ghiradella, University at Albany, (State University of New York)
Roger Hanlon, Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, MA)
Darrell Kemp, James Cook University (Cairns, Australia)
Kevin McGraw, ASU
Daniel Colaco Osorio, University of Sussex (UK)
Richard Prum, William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology,
Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University
Ronald Rutowski , ASU
Matthew Shawkey, UC Berkeley
Mohan Srinivasarao, Georgia Institute of Technology
Doekele Stavenga, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Peter Vukusic, University of Exeter (UK)
Deadlines coming up!
Abstract Submission Deadline: Passed. For late submissions, contact us at animalcoloration@gmail.com
Registration is FREE through Dec. 14, 2007
Late registration available through Feb. 6 – $25.
For more information: http://sols.asu.edu/rti/frontiers/iridescence
Inquiries should be directed to: animalcoloration@gmail.com or 480-965-2593
Margaret Coulombe
(480) 727-8934
Margaret.coulombe@asu.edu