Expert Seminars 2024
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A preview into the upcoming 6 week lecture series that will launch for Fall 2024. Unleash your creativity and learn methods to revive your beloved torn or discoloured clothing and textiles to give them new life. Fibre Artist Anne Warburton will guide you through a variety of techniques to repair your items, giving them a fresh new look, using fabric, stitch, paint and more. As with the Japanese art of “Kintsugi”, we will highlight the mend instead of trying to hide it, while keeping these old and damaged items out of landfill. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to refresh your items into something beautiful and unique. We will also discuss the importance of such creative activities on our well being and mental health, helping us live in the present moment.
Dates: August 19, 2024
Time: 9:30am-11:30am
Price: $40 + HST
- In Person Dates: Tuesday August 6, 2024 Online Dates: Thursday August 15, 2024
In Person Time: 9:30am-11:30am Online Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Price: $40 +HST
- SENSE-MD Project aims to bring objective and relevant information about risk to older drivers and their chosen driver safety team members. The overall goal of the project is to extend driving activities for as long as safely possible, and inform drivers when they should reduce, restrict, or stop driving. Join this Knowledge Dissemination Session to learn more about the current findings from the research project. https://carleton.ca/sense-md/
Join five researchers from the Advanced Cognitive Engineering (ACE) Lab at Carleton University as they present their innovative work on improving driving safety. The presentations will explore key topics such as how trust in automation and attentional capacity affect senior driver awareness, the design of context-aware alerts in automated vehicles, the development of personalized safety insights for older drivers, the use of sensor data to assess driver risk, and the cognitive factors influencing performance at intersections. Together, these studies aim to enhance safety, situational awareness, and decision-making for all drivers, with a particular focus on the needs of older adults.
Date: Monday, November 25, 2024
Time: 9:30am-11:30am
Price: $45.00 +HST
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In this captivating lecture, Dr. Jayne Yack will guide you into the acoustic world of butterflies and other insects, uncovering the surprising ways they perceive sound. While butterflies are often admired for their visual beauty, their hearing abilities are less understood. Dr. Yack will share groundbreaking research from her lab that explores how these delicate creatures detect and respond to sounds in their environment. Through vivid examples and cutting-edge discoveries, you’ll learn how insects use their auditory senses for communication, predator detection, and survival. This lecture will offer a fascinating glimpse into the sensory lives of insects and their remarkable adaptations.
About the Lecturer: Dr. Jayne Yack is a Professor in the Department of Biology at Carleton University and a leading expert in insect communication and sensory biology. Her research focuses on understanding how insects use sound and vibrations to communicate, with a particular emphasis on butterflies and caterpillars. Dr. Yack’s interdisciplinary approach combines neurobiology, behavior, and ecology, and her work has been widely published in scientific journals. She is passionate about mentoring students and promoting the understanding of sensory systems in animals. In addition to her research, she is an active science communicator, engaging with the public on the fascinating world of insect biology.
Date: Thursday, October 10, 2024
Time: 10:00am-12:30pm
Price: $30.00 +HST
In this engaging one-hour lecture, Dr. Gregory Bulté invites you to dive beneath the water’s surface to explore the hidden world of map turtles. Dr Bulté has used a wide range of field techniques to document how map turtles interact with one another and how they survive the winter trapped under the ice. In his lecture, Dr Bulté will share images and insights about the little known underwater life of this captivating species.
About the Lecturer: Dr. Gregory Bulté is an Associate Professor (teaching stream) in the Department of Biology at Carleton University where he teaches courses about ecology, evolution, zoology, and field biology. Dr Bulté is broadly interested in natural history but has a soft spot for amphibians and reptiles. Since 2003, he has been monitoring the northern map turtles of Opinicon Lake. His work has help document the ecology and behaviour of this species at risk, and identify threats to its survival.
Date: Friday, October 11, 2024
Time: 10:00am-12:30pm
Price: $30.00 +HST