Teddy Abrams is best known in Louisville as the Music Director of the Louisville Orchestra, but he is widely acclaimed as a pianist, clarinetist and composer. In this unique program of chamber music, Teddy is joined by some of his best friends in an intimate look at Teddy the Composer.
Session: Club IF
Thursday, October 1
8:00 PM
Club IF
Dr. Julia Aebersold is the manager of the 10,000 ft2 class 100/1000 Micro/Nano Technology Center (MNTC) cleanroom at the University of Louisville. She has been awarded 7 patents and has participated in 4 start-up companies. Aebersold has successfully reoriented operations of the MNTC to become more of prototyping facility for external business, while also serving as a facility meeting the varied needs of faculty. She and MNTC are now integrally in the nano-design and fabrication of Kentucky Space and Space Tango technology platforms.
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Session: IF Early-Start: Next Gen ... S P A C E
Friday, October 2
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
Bomhard Theater, Kentucky Center
Each year IdeaFestival asks our presenters to submit a list of books that they are currently reading or any book(s) they have read in the past or at any stage of their lives that have had a major influence on their thinking.
Recommended Books
Pioneer in exploring how deeply ingrained factors in economics around the world-patterns that can be traced throughout history-explain today’s realities, author of Outrageous Fortunes.
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Each year IdeaFestival asks our presenters to submit a list of books that they are currently reading or any book(s) they have read in the past or at any stage of their lives that have had a major influence on their thinking.
Recommended Books
One of the best known and most widely-read astronomers in the world, Bob Berman has written for Discover Magazine, Astronomy Magazine and is the author of the recent book Zoom, How Everything Moves.
Session: Exactly What and Where is the Universe?
Thursday, October 1
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Bomhard Theater, Kentucky Center
Each year IdeaFestival asks our presenters to submit a list of books that they are currently reading or any book(s) they have read in the past or at any stage during of their lives that have had a major influence on their thinking.
Recommended Books
Mackenzie Berry, a senior at duPont Manual High School, is Founder and Executive Director of Young Poets of Louisville, a non-profit organization which offers free writing workshops for young people as well as poetry slam opportunities. An alumnus of the Governor's School for the Arts and the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, she organized and won the Louisville Youth Philanthropy Council's first-ever Poetic Philanthropy Youth Slam held at the 21c Museum in May 2015. She seeks to advocate for poetry and writing as a means of activism and plans to write various bodies of work in time to come.
Journalist and social commentator Bill Bishop explores why America is so culturally, economically, educationally and politically divided. He co-wrote a book with retired college professor Robert Cushing entitled The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart. He is the co-founder and contributing editor of the Daily Yonder, a blog about rural issues in the United States. Bishop has worked for several newspapers: the Austin American-Statesman, Lexington Herald-Leader and the The Mountain Eagle.
Session: The Big Sort Continues
Thursday, October 1
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Bomhard Theater, Kentucky Center
Each year IdeaFestival asks our presenters to submit a list of books that they are currently reading or any book(s) they have read in the past or at any stage of their lives that have had a major influence on their thinking.
Recommended Books
Soraya Chemaly, recently named Director of the WMC Speech Project, is an award-winning feminist writer, media critic and activist whose work focuses on women's rights and the role of gender in media, politics, religion, technology and popular culture. She is a frequently called upon expert in the relationship between representation, freedom of expression, violence and gender. Prior to writing, Soraya worked in the data and media industries for more than 15 years. She serves on the boards of The Women's Media Center; Women, Action and The Media, In this Together Media, Common Sense Media and FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture.
Twyman Clements is President and CEO of Space Tango, Inc. a Lexington, Kentucky based company focused on utilizing space for solutions on Earth. The company designs technology, platforms, and software to enable high-throughput research and manufacturing on orbit. Clements also serves as Sr. Space Systems Engineer for Kentucky Space LLC (Space Tango’s R&D partner). His experience includes multiple CubeSat, ISS tech development and Exomedicine related experiments.
Session: IF Early-Start: Next Gen ... S P A C E
Friday, October 2
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
Bomhard Theater, Kentucky Center
Former Marine/Iraq War combat veteran, poet and essayist Maurice Decaul has been featured in the New York Times, The Daily Beast, Sierra Magazine, Barely South Review and others.
Session: Maurice Decaul
Wednesday, September 30
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Bomhard Theater, Kentucky Center
Each year IdeaFestival asks our presenters to submit a list of books that they are currently reading or any book(s) they have read in the past or at any stage of their lives that have had a major influence on their thinking.
Recommended Books
Richard DeMillo is the Charlotte B. and Roger C. Warren Professor of Computing and Professor of Management, former John P. Imlay Dean of Computing, and Director of the Center for 21st Century Universities at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Author of over 100 articles, books, and patents, he has held academic positions at Purdue University, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Padua. He directed the Computer and Computation Research Division of the National Science Foundation and was Hewlett-Packard's first Chief Technology Officer. He is the 2013 Lumina Foundation Inaugural Fellow which recognized his founding of the Center for 21st Century Universities as a “unique institution.” He is also a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association for Computing Machinery. He is the author of the influential 2011 book “Abelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities.” A sequel entitled “Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators will Make College Accessible and Affordable” will be released this summer by MIT Press.
Session: Reimagining Education
September 29
1:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Muhammad Ali Center