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For More Information:
Dawn Marie Yankeelov
President, ASPectx and VP of Programs, Louisville Women in Technology
(502) 292-2351
dawny@aspectx.com
Louisville Women In Technology Presents the First ideaFestival Event in Louisville
Three of the World’s Top Female Scientists Will Speak on Sept. 22nd at the Kentucky Center—Ayanna Howard, Helene Andersson, and Erin Lavik
June 30, 2004--(Louisville, KY)—Louisville Women in Technology presents the first ideaFestival event in our market on Sept. 22, 2004, with short lectures and a panel discussion by three of the world’s top female scientists from 7 PM to 10 PM in Clark Todd Hall at the Kentucky Center. The general public is invited. The event is entitled, “Innovation and Transformation: Big New Ideas.” Tickets went on sale today from Ticketmaster, The Kentucky Center, and The ideaFestival (www.ideafestival.com). College students can receive discounted tickets direct at the Kentucky Center for $18. Online purchases can be made via www.ticketmaster.com or www.ideafestival.com. Or, purchase your tickets direct at the Kentucky Center for $25. There will be a free reception preceding the event at beginning at 5:30 PM in Barnes Hall at the Kentucky Center. The three women, Ayanna Howard, Helene Andersson, and Erin Lavik, were named to MIT’s TR 100 list (the top 100 scientists in the world) for 2003/2004 as acknowledged recently in MIT’s Technology Review Magazine. They will discuss their cutting-edge work as well as other important advances they “see” emerging on the horizon. The noted scientists will bring their diverse backgrounds to the panel discussion on trends and technology issues facing today’s lifestyles.
Dr. Ayanna Howard of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, has led research efforts on various projects utilizing robotics, and artificial intelligence. Last year she released to the public her Artificial Intelligence Toolkit, which has more than 80 users. In 2001, Dr. Howard received the Lew Allen Award for Excellence in Research—the highest honor possible at NASA JPL. Currently, she is a senior member of technical staff with the mobility systems concepts development section. She also holds the title of Deputy Manager for the Strategic University Partnership Office under the Office of the Chief Scientist.
Dr. Helene Andersson, Business Manager for Life Science at Silex Microsystems AB in Stockholm, Sweden, focuses her research on micro and nano-fluidic devices for biotech applications. She is also currently a research associate at the Royal Institute of Technology in the Microsystem Technology Group and at MESA + Research Institute in the Lab-on-a-chip group. She holds several related patents and is a member of the editorial board of Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical.
Dr. Erin Lavik, an assistant professor in biomedical engineering at Yale, currently works on applying principles of tissue engineering and drug delivery to the development of new environments which are capable of promoting repair in the central nervous system. She is also a playwright.
This ideaFestival event, sponsored by Inter-tel, is only one of more than 40 events during the week of Sept. 21-25, 2004 as part of The ideaFestival. Events will be held this year in Lexington, Northern Kentucky, and Louisville. This is the third annual event which reached more than 7,500 people, students, and professionals in 2002 in the Lexington, Ky. region.
For more information on the ideaFestival, go to www.ideafestival.com. A full pass to all ideaFestival events, including Sir George Martin, Twyla Tharp, and Oliver Sacks is $220.
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