Professor Pedro Irazoqui, Professor of ECE and Biomedical Engineering, and two students in the ECE department, Riley Avron and Michael Zwach, will be speaking at TEDxPurdueU 2013, a conference to share Purdue research and ideas. It is scheduled for 1-6 p.m. April 12 in Loeb Playhouse on the university's campus. This year's theme of "Past, Present, Progress" will reflect on the critical times faced today and the positive prospects for the future. Check-in begins at 11:30 a.m. Following the conference, a special after-party event will be held at 7:30p.m. at Sylvia's Brick Oven in downtown Lafayette.

For more information about this event, please click here.  Tickets can be purchased at the TEDxPurdueU website.  They are $10 for students and $15 otherwise.

Below is a list of speakers who will speak at TEDxPurdueU:

* Kartik Ariyur, assistant professor of mechanical engineering
* Petronio Bendito, professor of art and design
* Riley Avron, student in Electrical engineering
* Gary Bertoline, dean of College of Technology
* Josh Boyd, associate professor of communication; director of undergraduate studies
* Betty Bugusu, managing director for the International Food Technology Center
* Katie Morigaki Breedlove, doctoral student in the health & kinesiology
* Susan Butler, author and advocate for women's equality in the workplace
* Erica Carlson, associate professor of physics
* Emilia Czyszczoń, student in agricultural and biological engineering
* Timothy Folta, Brock Family Chair of Strategic Management; director of BIOMEDSHIP
* Pedro Irazoqui, assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
* Michael Kelsey, integrative guitarist
* Oren Shatken, co-founder of FoundOps
* Christine Taylor, vice provost for diversity and chief diversity officer
* Tom Torluemke, contemporary American artist
* George Takahashi, research programmer, Envision Center
* David Waters, professor of oncology; associate director, Purdue Center on Aging and the Life Course
* Kyung Yano, author and mother of child prodigies Sho and Sayuri Yano
* Sayuri Yano, violinist
* Michael Zwach, student in electrical engineering

For further information or questions, please contact Paul D. Rosenberger at:  prosenbe@purdue.edu.