Lunch and refreshments will be provided for registered participants.

8:30am Registration Begins  
9:00
Welcome and Opening Statements Peter March
Executive Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

9:10 Molecular Animacy Natasha Myers
Department of Anthropology, York University
9:40 Art & Analogy to Help "See" Big Molecules in 3D
Department of Biochemistry, Duke University
10:10 Break  
10:30 Sculptures Inspired by Physics, Proteins and People
Sculptor, Portland, OR
11:00 Animating Molecular Biology
Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah
11:30 Bridging the Science-Art Gulf
Julia Buntaine
Innovator-in-Residence, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
11:45 Lunch at Zimmerli for registered participants  
1:00pm Empirical Science and the Origins of Aesthetics: A Brief Archaeology
Department of History, University College London
1:30 Reflecting on Theatricality Within Art and Artificial Life Yvan Tina
The University of Aix-Marseille and The University of Texas at Dallas
2:00 The Importance of Aesthetics in Science Education
Department of Biochemistry, Swarthmore College
Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
2:30 STEAM Panel Discussion Ruqqayya Maudoodi, Chair
Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

George V. Berger
Impeller Studios and Game Design Methodology at Rutgers University

Ryan Reedell
Makerspace, The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey

Anne McKeown
Master Papermaker, Brodsky Center
Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
3:15 Break  
3:30 Animated Keynote performance presented by
Dance Exchange
Cassie Meador, Executive Artistic Director
Elizabeth Johnson, Associate Artist & Director of Partnerships
Matthew Cumbie, Associate Artistic Director
Shula Strassfeld, Associate Artist
Sydney Noelle Parker, Adjunct Artist
Deborah Zanelli Maciel, Adjunct Artist

4:30 Closing Comments
D. Graham Burnett
Department of History, Princeton University
5:00 Cocktail hour at Zimmerli for registered participants