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About the Lecture Series<\/h3>\n

Founded in 2004 by former provost Chuck Phelps, the Phelps Colloquium lecture series gives faculty opportunities to hear about research taking place campus-wide, spend time with colleagues outside their normal spheres, and promote cross-school and cross-discipline collaborations.<\/p>\n

The talks are preceded by a small reception and followed by an opportunity for informal discussion.<\/p>\n

Nominate a Speaker<\/h4>\n

Please use the online nomination form linked below to nominate a speaker for this lecture series.<\/p>\n

Submit a Nomination<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About the Lecture Series Founded in 2004 by former provost Chuck Phelps, the Phelps Colloquium lecture series gives faculty opportunities to hear about research taking place campus-wide, spend time with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":1816,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/one-column.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"class_list":["post-1896","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"lead_in":"","display_title":"Phelps Colloquium Series","subtitle":"","call_to_action":"","hero_image_placement":"no_image","hero_media":"images","hero_pattern_option":"","hero_video":"","hero_image_landing":"","hero_image_landing_two":"","hero_image_landing_three":"","content_modules_above":[{"acf_fc_layout":"card_grid","anchor":"","css_class":"","title":"

Upcoming Lectures<\/h3>","description":"","background_color":"#FFFFFF","width":"width-large","columns":"1","cards":[{"card_title":"

Augmenting Humanity: CXR and the Case for an Open, Ethical Spatial Computing Future<\/h1>","card_text":"Date:<\/b> September 23, 2026, 3:30 - 5:30 pm\r\nReception:\u00a0<\/strong>3:30 - 4:00 pm\r\nLecture:<\/strong> 4:00 - 5:30 pm\r\n<\/span>Location:<\/b> Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library\r\nSpeaker: <\/strong>Barry Silverstein<\/span>\r\n
As artificial intelligence grows more capable, a familiar anxiety resurfaces: will humans become unnecessary? This talk argues for a different answer \u2014 one in which the goal is not to compete with AI but to build the interfaces through which humans and AI collaborate at their mutual best.<\/div>\r\n
Within the decade, digital overlays driven by contextual AI will begin reshaping how we perceive and navigate the world \u2014 enhancing surgical precision, transforming how students learn, and redefining what it means to interact with a computer. The question is not whether this transition will happen, but who will design it and toward what ends.<\/div>\r\n
The University of Rochester's Center for Extended Reality (CXR) brings together faculty across engineering, medicine, neuroscience, education, and the humanities to pursue that design challenge as a shared mission. This talk presents CXR's transdisciplinary framework \u2014 spanning hardware innovation in optics and display, human-computer interface research, applied clinical development, and ethical governance \u2014 and explains why Rochester's existing strengths make it a natural hub for this work.<\/div>\r\n
The audience will hear how each school and division on campus connects to this agenda, and how CXR aims to advance Rochester's core missions of education, research, and health through a coherent, collaborative vision of what human-AI interaction can and should become.<\/div>\r\n \r\n

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Maiken Nedergaard<\/h1>","card_text":"Date:<\/b> November 11, 2026, 3:30 - 5:30 pm\r\nReception:\u00a0<\/strong>3:30 - 4:00 pm\r\nLecture:<\/strong> 4:00 - 5:30 pm\r\nLocation:<\/b> Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library\r\nSpeaker: <\/strong><\/span>Maiken Nedergaard\r\n

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Gretchen\u00a0 Helmke<\/h1>","card_text":"Date:<\/b> January 20, 2027, 3:30 - 5:30 pm\r\nReception:\u00a0<\/strong>3:30 - 4:00 pm\r\nLecture:<\/strong> 4:00 - 5:30 pm\r\nLocation:<\/b> TBD\r\nSpeaker: <\/strong><\/span>Gretchen\u00a0 Helmke\r\n

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Tricia Shalka<\/h1>","card_text":"Date:<\/b> March 9, 2027, 3:30 - 5:30 pm\r\nReception:\u00a0<\/strong>3:30 - 4:00 pm\r\nLecture:<\/strong> 4:00 - 5:30 pm\r\nLocation:<\/b> TBD\r\nSpeaker:\u00a0<\/strong>Tricia Shalka<\/span>\r\n

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Amanda Larracuente<\/h1>","card_text":"Date:<\/b> April 7, 2027, 3:30 - 5:30 pm\r\nReception:\u00a0<\/strong>3:30 - 4:00 pm\r\nLecture:<\/strong> 4:00 - 5:30 pm\r\nLocation:<\/b> TBD\r\nSpeaker: <\/strong><\/span>Amanda Larracuente\r\n

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Tim Long<\/h1>","card_text":"Date:<\/b> May 5, 2027, 3:30 - 5:30 pm\r\nReception:\u00a0<\/strong>3:30 - 4:00 pm\r\nLecture:<\/strong> 4:00 - 5:30 pm\r\nLocation:<\/b> TBD\r\nSpeaker: <\/strong><\/span>Tim Long\r\n

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