YQI AiR
Creator & Host:
Florian Carle
Created:
2017
Medium:
Talk Series
Launched in Spring 2017, this series works at the intersection of science and the humanities to combat quantum physics phobia — and science phobia more broadly. Using music, art, design, games, and even crochet as points of entry, we invite experts to cast new light on often-overlooked aspects of scientific work and to open a wider conversation about quantum physics, mathematics, and science.
Open to a diverse audience of undergraduates, faculty, staff, and New Haven residents alike, these events invite all of us to reflect on the role science plays in daily life — and aim to leave a lasting impression on young attendees who may go on to consider a career in STEM.
This series is co-sponsored by The Franke Program for Science and the Humanities
Nancy Baker Cahill & Jesse Damiani
On Fundamental AR (Attention Research): Visualizing the Invisible through Augmented Reality & Poetic Imagination
October 1, 2025
Monica Ong
Planetaria: Visual Poetry & Star Gazing — Live Reading & Planetarium Show
March 26, 2025
James Wootton
The Quantum Mothman: Quantum technology for music, gaming, and creative productions
February 7, 2025
Toni Dove
Embodied Machines & Human Operated Instruments: working in a field that doesn't exist yet
November 12, 2024
Serena Scapagnini
The Shape of Thoughts: down the flowing river of tributaries neurons
June 10, 2024
Nicholas Milkovich
Your cells are leaking! — The uncanny biomechanical world of polyethylene art
May 1, 2024
Klem Jankiewicz
Quantum is in. Code is out! — Designing no-code experiences for user-interactions with quantum technology
October 4, 2023
Karen Barad
Spooky Objects: The particle wave duality nature of light
November 3, 2022 — collaboration with CCAM
Stewart Smith
For The Hapless Dreamers: Digital Art meets Quantum Simulations
June 30, 2022
Stephone Alexander
Fear of a black universe: an outsider's guide to the future of physics
May 12, 2022
Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky
Particle Plateaux — An informal history of invisible things
October 7, 2021
Ben Okri
Alternative Realities for the Living
February 12, 2021
Werner Sun
Taking a Random Walk
January 28, 2020
Rowan Jacobsen
The Nature of Nature
September 5, 2019
Spencer Topel
Immaterial Waves, Light, Sound and Architecture
February 28, 2019
Doug Stone
Einstein and the Quantum
November 8, 2018
Philip Ball
The heretical idea of making people artificially
September 26, 2018
Dante Lauretta
OSIRIS Rex and the XTRONAUTS
March 29, 2018
Daina Taimina
Crocheting adventures with the hyperbolic places
December 5, 2017
Adele Myers & Emily Coates
Einstein's happiest dance
September 28, 2017
Martha Lewis
So close I can almost taste it
April 4, 2017
Michael Berry
How quantum physics democratized music
February 9, 2017