Just a quick reminder. Please join us at our next STEM Café, Swarming Robots, on February 11, Tuesday, at the Two Brothers Roundhouse in Aurora from 6:30 to 8:30 PM.
What can we learn from bird flocks and fish schools to mitigate crowd disasters? How can we program robots to work together so one person controls an entire swarm of them? Researchers are studying the collective behaviors of fish, birds and swarming insects to answer questions like these. You may never think of a flock of birds in quite the same way again!
Learn more from NIU Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Sachit Butail.
Our March STEM Café, Earthquakes and Fracking on March 18, Wednesday, will be held at the Fireside Grille in Sugar Grove.
At least 26 minor earthquakes have rattled northern Illinois in the past 100 years, and in recent years Oklahoma has experienced more “felt” earthquakes (magnitude 3 or higher) than California. Where are faults located in the northern Illinois region, and what unmapped faults might be active here? How are human activities, such as fracking and wastewater disposal, triggering earthquakes in the central and eastern U.S.?
Join us for an earth-shaking discussion of seismic activity with NIU Geology professors Philip Carpenter and Megan Brown.
See you there!
