Intuition + Logic: How Visuals Unlock Research’s Full Potential

Microsoft Research Lab

2/26/2025

Scientific research can be challenging to convey in early stages, but a visual methodology holds the promise of connecting the dots.

This event showcased how scientific research can utilize aesthetics and the arts to give abstract concepts form in order to see, analyze, beautify, organize, and connect the dots for other researchers in relevant fields. Leading thinkers and practitioners in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, and Astrophysics discussed how this technique can be used across disparate fields to illustrate key concepts within their sometimes esoteric work.

Special Guest Speakers
Rajan Chari, AI researcher
Francesco Valenti, quantum physicist
John M Barbara, planetary astrophysicist
Matthew Schreiber, holography artist
Federico Buonerba, mathematician

Featuring the insights and work of Dalila Pasotti, Hosted by Mike Pell, Envisioneer and Director of the Microsoft Garage NYC

Intuition + Logic Painting Series

A series of painting works inspired by leading thinkers in scientific fields.

Visit to the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA GIFF

September 2023- NASA GIFF celebrated 60 years, also launching the newly renovated conference rooms. Two works from the Cassini-Huygens Series made in collaboration with the astrophysicists working at the mission, are now permanently exhibited in the Cassini conference room.