I have linked to and posted pictures of Eva Vertes from SciFoo before and you may ask: "Who is she? Why was she invited there?" The Wikipedia page I linked to earlier is a short stub and full of errors. So, to make it clear, see this page as well as comments on this talk she gave two years ago when she was 17:
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Who is Eva Vertes?
Category: Basic Biology • Medicine • Neuroscience • Science Education • Science Practice
Posted on: August 11, 2007 4:19 PM, by Coturnix
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Was this talk actually filmed at SciFoo? Either way, great and fascinating talk..., and it's prob an undergrad! Very impressive.
Posted by: Mario Pineda-Krch | August 11, 2007 4:38 PM
Nope, this is two years old. She was in high school!
Posted by: coturnix | August 11, 2007 5:17 PM
WOW! Thanks for this one! Very inspirational young lady!
Posted by: Tanja Sova | August 11, 2007 6:03 PM
Fantastic talk, from a young lady who is going to go far and do some great things for mankind. I hope we have many more like her coming up in the furture
Posted by: Ex Patriot | August 12, 2007 2:27 AM
Your math is off. She was 19 when she gave this talk two years ago.
Posted by: Richard Akerman | August 12, 2007 6:19 PM
More bad info than bad math, really. Thank you for the correction.
Posted by: coturnix | August 12, 2007 10:03 PM