NOW A VIRTUAL EVENT

The Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference will be held online and we are keeping all conference components. We’re looking forward to creating a new experience for attendees that is dynamic and interactive!

Read the full announcement.

Registration rates have been reduced. Those who already registered will receive information on requesting a partial refund. If you have any questions, please contact us atmeetings@sigmaxi.org.

HACKING THE BRAIN:

The Intersection of Art and Neuroscience

What art and science achieve together that neither could accomplish alone

November 5 – 8, 2020
A Virtual Event

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

This conference will showcase emerging trends and challenges across a broad spectrum of science–art collaborations and explore how interdisciplinarity can advance scientific discoveries.

Sessions will cover topics such as behavioral sciences, art therapy, neuroscience of aesthetic experience, data visualization, communicating science through arts, brain’s response to music, and innovative strategies for integrating arts in STEM education and research.

The event virtually brings together cross-disciplinary thought leaders, artists, communicators, and innovators working at the intersections of arts, sciences, medicine, technology, engineering, mathematics, and education to provide complementary perspectives on how the convergence of arts and sciences affect new knowledge.

CONFERENCE COMPONENTS

Business Meeting

For Chapter Delegates

Research Symposia

See the Six Conference Tracks

Student Research Conference

Poster and Oral Presentations

College and Graduate School Fair

Explore Higher Education Options

STEM Art and Film Festival

Research and Visual Arts

PLENARY & KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Anjan Chatterjee

University of Pennsylvania

Rachael Cusick

Radiolab

Larry S. Sherman

Oregon Health & Science University

Barbara Landau

Johns Hopkins University

Marcetta Y. Darensbourg

Texas A&M University

Bonnie Dunbar stands with a model of the space shuttle

Bonnie J. Dunbar

Texas A&M University

Gerard L. Coté

Texas A&M University

Charles A. Kamhoua

U.S. Army Research Laboratory

Walter E. Massey

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

CALL FOR PROFESSIONAL SUBMISSIONS

The Program Committee invites multi- and interdisciplinary abstracts for symposia, workshops, panel discussions, and individual professional research presentations. This is not the call for student research presentations, which is posted on theStudent Research Conference page.

Learn More

Enter your email address below and hit 'Submit'
in order to receive updates about the meeting

2020 Program Committee Chair

Sonya T. Smith, Sigma Xi President-Elect

Biography

Dr. Sonya T. Smith joined the Howard University faculty in 1995 and is the first tenured female faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Smith obtained her PhD in mechanical and aerospace engineering from The University of Virginia in 1995 and was also the first African-American woman to do so. In 2010 she became the first woman promoted to the highest academic rank of Professor (full) in this department and the following year, 2011, became the first women appointed as Mechanical Engineering Department Chair at Howard University.

She has established an interdisciplinary theoretical and computational research laboratory entitled the Applied Fluids-Thermal Research Laboratory. She has received support for her research from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense, and industry.

See the Full Committee