hi Claire, I think you may like the work of Ami Shulman - she has worked with Dor Abrahamson at UCLA and would be very interesting to have as one of your speakers. amishulman.

Made me think..the surface area of a car that is smooth or crumpled up is the same. If you fit a smooth brain inside a hard casing (the skull), its surface area is as big as your two hands. When you fit a brain with many rises and falls, it is the size of two tea towels (cerebrum and cerebellum).