Educating the innovators of the 21st century , at Congreso Internacional de Innovación Educativa Tecnológico de Monterrey (Monterrey, Mexico), Monday, December 16, 2019:
innovating_education_tec_de_monterrey.pdf
Can we teach innovation? Innovation requires whole-brain thinking — right- brain thinking for creativity and imagination, and left-brain thinking for planning and execution. Our current approach to education in science and technology, focuses on the transfer of information, developing mostly right-brain thinking by stressing copying and reproducing existing ideas rather than generating new ones. I will show how shifting the focus in lectures from delivering information to team work and creative thinking greatly improves the learning that takes place in the classroom and promotes...
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Subcellular surgery and nanoneurosurgery, at CLEO-PR 2017 in Singapore, Thursday, August 3, 2017
We use femtosecond laser pulses to manipulate sub-cellular structures inside live and fixed cells. Using only a few nanojoules of laser pulse energy, we are able to selectively disrupt individual mitochondria in live bovine capillary epithelial cells, and cleave single actin fibers in the cell cytoskeleton network of fixed human fibro-blast cells. We have also used the technique to micromanipulate the neural network of C. Elegans, a small nematode. Our laser scalpel can snip individual axons without causing any damage to surrounding tissue, allowing us to study the...
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Less is More: Extreme Optics with Zero Refractive Index, at CLEO/Europe EQEC 2017 (Munich, Germany), Tuesday, June 27, 2017
By simultaneously controlling the electric and magnetic properties of a nanostructured composite material (metamaterial), we can create materials with a refractive index of zero. We present a novel on-chip platform to explore zero-index metamaterials.
Innovating education to educate innovators, at International School on Light Sciences and Technologies, Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (Santander, Spain), Friday, June 23, 2017:
Can we teach innovation? Innovation requires whole-brain thinking â right-brain thinking for creativity and imagination, and left-brain thinking for planning and execution. Our current approach to education in science and technology, focuses on the transfer of information, developing mostly right-brain thinking by stressing copying and reproducing existing ideas rather than generating new ones. I will show how shifting the focus in lectures from delivering information to team work and creative thinking greatly improves the learning that takes place in the classroom and promotes independent... Read more about Innovating education to educate innovators
Less is More: Extreme Optics with Zero Refractive Index, at International School on Light Sciences and Technologies, Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (Santander, Spain), Wednesday, June 21, 2017:
Interactive Learning: Technology in the Classroom — Part 1, at Symposium on Trends in 21st Century Education and its Use of Technology at Harvard University , Monday, June 12, 2017