On Thursday, December 12, 2024, Cultural Programs of the NAS hosted a DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous at the Keck Center, 500 Fifth St NW, Washington, D.C.

The conversation explored the theme of Flourishing with guest moderator Ryan McGranaghan, a data scientist and research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Flourishing is an unfolding process of growth and transformation. This salon will examine flourishing at the intersection of art, science, and society, and how we can expand the frontiers of knowledge creation through interdisciplinary collaboration. New approaches are emerging in data science, open science, art, technology, and culture, interacting in ways that could transform our understanding of how we live and thrive together.

The event featured talks by the following speakers:
• The Fascinating Work of Integrating the Nonlinear, Chaotic, and Dynamic Atmospheric and Social Systems: Julie Demuth, lead, National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR) Convergence Science Program, and Project Scientist III, NSF NCAR Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Lab, Boulder, Colorado.
• ENFOLD Sci-Art: A Unicorn Breeding Farm for the 21st Century: Daniel Jay, dean emeritus, professor emeritus of Tufts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, part-time lecturer, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
• Your Brain on Art: Cultivating Flourishing Through Creativity: Susan Magsamen, executive director, International Arts + Mind Lab, Center for Applied Neuroaesthetics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, co-director, NeuroArts Blueprint, and co-author, Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us.
• The Heavens Above Inspiring Life Below: Jennifer J. Wiseman, astrophysicist at NASA, Greenbelt, MD, and Director-Emeritus of the AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) program. She studies the formation of stars and serves as the Senior Project Scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope.

The program included community sharing, short presentations by each panelist, and an audience discussion.

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