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Creative Thoughts, Inventive Actions

Kevin Byron
April 25

This is a working seminar using a combination of lecture, individual exercises and a team project. Its aims will be to explore aspects of the creative process and to apply these in inventive solutions to practical problems. The material presented will cover recent neural research findings and macroscopic models of how we think. Complementing this will be exercises which will include the use of optical illusions for illustrating modes of thinking and visualisation for practical problem-solving. The team project will include techniques for generating ideas and solutions and will offer the experience of applying these techniques for creating new inventions.

No specialised skills are required - just a sense of curiosity matched with a sense of fun.

Dr. Kevin Byron graduated from the University of Salford in 1970 and received his doctorate in Applied Physics at the University of Hull in 1974. After graduation, he joined Nortel's Harlow Laboratories where he has been engaged in research in optical communication. He has published some sixty papers and forty patents and is a co-author of Waveguide Optoelectronics. He is an honorary visiting lecturer to the University of Glasgow and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. As part of Nortel's educational programme, he has developed a course on 'thinking skills' for sixth form students and is currently working on a project with local schools aimed at teaching inventing.