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Next Event - September 22, 2023

Hayabusa2 – Surveys and Samples from Asteroid Ryugu and Beyond

Technologies and Challenges for a Round-Trip Journey to an Unexplored Small Body

Yuichi Tsuda

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency


Past Event - September 8, 2023

Nuclear Propulsion Systems for Space Exploration

DARPA’s DRACO Project

Tabitha Dodson

DARPA


Past Event - June 16, 2023

The Ike Dike Project to Protect Texas Coasts

Responding to Rapid Climate and Land Use Change

William Merrell & Sam Brody

Texas A&M University at Galveston


Past Event - June 2, 2023

Einstein’s Real Equation

Mass, Energy and the Curvature of Space-Time

Sean Carroll

Johns Hopkins University


Past Event - May 19, 2023

Architecture for the New Space Age

Learning to Work and Live Beyond Earth

Paul Kessler, Eleanor Morgan, Daniel Inocente, and Corky Clinton

NASA, Lockheed Martin, Blue Origin, NASA


Past Event - April 28, 2023

Ancient Lives Preserved in Cuneiform

Impressions of Mesopotamian Society Over 3,500 Years Ago

Amanda Podany

CalPoly Pomona


Past Event - March 31, 2023

Using Experiments in Nature to Study Evolution

Research on Lizard Island Adaptations in Real Time

Jonathan Losos

Living Earth Collaborative


Past Event - March 17, 2023

Comets, Centaurs, and Trans-Neptunian Objects

Exploring the Echoes of Formation in the Outer Solar System

Walter Harris

University of Arizona Space Institute


Past Event - March 3, 2023

The “All of Us” Research Program

NIH's Plan to Build a Million Person Health Metric Database

Andrea Ramirez

National Institutes of Health


Past Event - February 3, 2023

Whispers from Other Worlds

NASA's Search for Life in the Cosmos

Thomas Zurbuchen & Nadia Drake

NASA


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September 22, 2023 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,481 Sponsored by a PSW Science Member who has asked to remain anonymous
Hayabusa2 – Surveys and Samples from Asteroid Ryugu and Beyond

Technologies and Challenges for a Round-Trip Journey to an Unexplored Small Body

Yuichi Tsuda
Project Manager, Hayabusa2 Project
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
October 6, 2023 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,482 Sponsored by PSW Science Members Larry Millstein & Robin Taylor
Meeting the Nation’s Needs for Standards and Measurement Technology

NIST - Present and Future

Laurie Locascio
Director
National Institute of Standards and Technology
October 20, 2023 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,483
Quantum Communication and Networks
Prineha Narang
Professor, Dept of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California - Los Angeles
November 3, 2023 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,484
The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Ants and Humans
Ted R. Schultz
Research Entomologist
National Museum of Natural History
November 17, 2023 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,485
Defining Death — Cultural, Scientific and Legal Complexity

Implications for Hospital Care, Transplantation and Biotechnology

Robert D. Truog
Frances Glessner Lee Distinguished Professor of Bioethics, Anaesthesia, & Pediatrics
Senior Associate in Critical Care Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital &
Center for Bioethics, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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