I am pleased to invite you to attend the MiNDS Colloquium TODAY, Thursday November 27th at 3:30 in HSC 4E20. Bring your coffee cup for coffee and cookies before the talk at 3:00.

If there ever was a gap between science, art, business and technology, Ariel Garten has closed it. Her work converts the workings of the mind into tangible solutions.

Ariel studied at the University of Toronto and did research on hippocampal neurogenesis at Toronto's Krembil Neuroscience Centre. She is also a psychotherapist, a fashion designer whose clothing line opened Toronto Fashion Week in 2003 and has also had her work displayed at the Art Gallery of Ontario. The intersections of these diverse interests have culminated into various lectures with topics such as "The Neuroscience of Aesthetics" and "The Neuroscience of Conflict", featured on TVO's Big Ideas. Garten regularly lectures at MIT, Singularity University and FutureMed. Her lecture on Ted.com has over 250,000 views and she gave this year's opening keynote at Le Web, Europe's biggest tech conference.

Garten is lauded for her style and inspiration as much as her role at the helm of a technology company that is bringing the future to life. Ariel Garten is the co-founder and CEO of InteraXon, one of the world's leading companies creating brainwave controlled products and experiences. InteraXon debuted with the creation of "Bright Ideas", Ontario's feature showcase at the Vancouver 2012 Winter Olympics, where visitors in Vancouver got to control the lights on the CN Tower, Niagara Falls and the Canadian Parliament buildings, with their minds, from across the country.

Ariel and her team are merging technology, neuroscience, art and design. Today's talk will be about the making of Muse, InteraXon's brain-sensing headband, just one example of this innovation, which allows consumers to interact with their smartphone and tablet using the power of their mind.  Ariel and Muse are regularly lauded in global media (CNN, CNET, CNBC, Reuters, Tech Crunch, Wall Street Journal Tech) for creating what Huffington Post calls "the beautiful headband that will make you smarter".

We look forward to seeing you all at the talk today.

Regards

Sandra

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Kathryn M Murphy PhD

Hamilton ON L8S 4K1