“In June 2011 a new exhibit intended to promote science and assist recruitment into academic programs across Canada called “Live Science” opened at the National Museum of Civilization (Quebec, Canada), supported by DIMACS research agency and Canada National Film Board. It links fundamental discoveries of Newton, Einstein, Darwin to modern day science and also looks at human side of research. Quote from the official museum website: “The exhibition puts a human face on the men and women whose scientific endeavours have produced the studies and theories that are helping us understand our world—and sometimes even changing our lives! In addition to examining the specific contributions that these “leading lights” have made to scientific history, Live Science also spotlights current science, looking closely at work being done by eight scientific teams identified across Canada expressly for this purpose.”
Marina Gavrilova research ““Biometric: From Science Fiction to Reality” representing both computational geometry and applied aspects of biometric research is featured alongside other seven projects selected from over 300 applicants across Canada and is the only one in computer science domain. It is also an only project representing research in Alberta. Web site for the exhibit is http://www.mcq.org/en/mcq/expositions.php?idEx=w3065 , clicking on 3rd image from the top it brings up full image of display with Marina standing in 4th position from the left, explaining my research through National Film Board produced video in both English and French with another video running highly interactive visual demonstration on University of Calgary, her Computational Sciences lab, and scientific methods (such as Voronoi diagrams, biometric fingerprints, voice and face recognition). Scientific artifacts and inspiring personal items are hosted in adjacent museum display. The exhibit will be hosted in National Museum of Civilization for one year, then travel to other Science Centres across Canada, with good chance of coming to Calgary in 2013 or 2014.“
4th position from left: Dr. Marina Gavrilova of the Dept. of Computer Science
