{"id":635,"date":"2015-10-26T20:51:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T20:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/kponto\/?p=635"},"modified":"2015-10-26T20:52:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T20:52:15","slug":"speaking-at-the-big-ideas-for-busy-people-for-sciencefest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/kponto\/2015\/10\/26\/speaking-at-the-big-ideas-for-busy-people-for-sciencefest\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking at the Big Ideas for Busy People for ScienceFest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back by popular demand for a second year at the Wisconsin Science Festival, Big Ideas for Busy People is a one-of-a-kind event that is a centerpiece of the Cambridge (MA) Science Festival. More than a half dozen of the University of Wisconsin\u2019s best and brightest in areas ranging from fossils to supernovas and from virtual reality to real-life politics in Wisconsin highlight their groundbreaking work\u2014for five minutes\u2014with another five for audience Q&amp;A before the gong sounds and it\u2019s on to the next world-renowned speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Moderated by Judy Davidoff, editor of Isthmus, Big Ideas features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Hawks, professor of anthropology and author of one of the most popular science blogs in the country<\/li>\n<li>Jordan Ellenberg, professor of mathematics and NY Times bestselling author of How Not to be Wrong<\/li>\n<li>Kathy Cramer, professor of political science<\/li>\n<li>Eric Wilcots, professor of astronomy<\/li>\n<li>Kevin Ponto, assistant professor of design studies<\/li>\n<li>Bilge Mutlu, associate professor of computer science<\/li>\n<li>Sunduz Keles, professor of biostatistics<\/li>\n<li>Andreas Velten, research affiliate, Morgridge Institute<\/li>\n<li>Janis Eells, professor of biomedical sciences, UW-Milwaukee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinsciencefest.org\/program-guide.wsf?e=126\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-636\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/kponto\/files\/2015\/10\/scifest.jpg\" alt=\"scifest\" width=\"307\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/kponto\/files\/2015\/10\/scifest.jpg 307w, https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/kponto\/files\/2015\/10\/scifest-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/kponto\/files\/2015\/10\/scifest-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinsciencefest.org\/program-guide.wsf?e=126<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back by popular demand for a second year at the Wisconsin Science Festival, Big Ideas for Busy People is a one-of-a-kind event that is a centerpiece of the Cambridge (MA) Science Festival. More than a half dozen of the University of Wisconsin\u2019s best and brightest in areas ranging from fossils to supernovas and from virtual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/kponto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/kponto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/kponto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/kponto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/kponto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/kponto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/kponto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/kponto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/kponto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/kponto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}