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Next Event - May 20, 2022

Ingenuity: The First Flying Machine on Mars

First Controlled Powered Flight on Another Planet

J. (Bob) Balaram

JPL/CalTech

Past Event - May 6, 2022

Ultraminiature Medical Implants

Bionic retinas, neuromodulators, and physiosensors

John Randall

Zyvex Labs/Teliatry/Nanoretina

Past Event - April 22, 2022

Living Measurement Systems and Minimal Cells

Engineering Cellular Life for Understanding and Applications

Elizabeth Strychalski

NIST

Past Event - March 25, 2022

Ocean Microbes, Aerosols, Climate and Health

Tiny Critters, Huge Impacts

Kimberly Prather

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Past Event - March 11, 2022

Squirrels, Lemurs, and all Manner of Creatures Great and Small

Field Studies & Museum Collections -- Essential tools of taxonomy, ecology, evolutionary biology, and conservation

Melissa T.R. Hawkins

National Museum of Natural History

Past Event - February 25, 2022

Quantum Steampunk

Victorian thermodynamics meets quantum computing

Nicole Yunger Halpern

Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science

Past Event - February 11, 2022

The ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope

Challenges and Progress on the World's Largest Telescope

Roberto Tamai

European Southern Observatory

Past Event - January 14, 2022

Extreme Adaptive Optics

The technology behind high contrast imaging of exoplanets

Olivier Guyon

Steward Observatory & University of Arizona

Past Event - December 17, 2021

Planet Formation

 

Sean Andrews

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Past Event - December 3, 2021

The Arecibo Observatory

Legacy and Ideas for the Future

Francisco Córdova

Arecibo Observatory
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May 20, 2022 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,459 The 91st Joseph Henry Lecture Sponsored by MWZB Law
Ingenuity: The First Flying Machine on Mars

First Controlled Powered Flight on Another Planet

J. (Bob) Balaram
Chief Engineer of Ingenuity
JPL/CalTech
June 3, 2022 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,460 Sponsored by PSW Science Member Tim Thomas
Quantum Information Science and Quantum Computing

The National Initiative

Charles Tahan
Assistant Director for Quantum Information Science and Director of the National Quantum Coordination Office
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
June 17, 2022 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,461 Sponsored by PSW Science Member James Trefil
Supermassive Black Holes at the Centers of Galaxies

Accretion, Dynamical Interactions, Galaxy Evolution, and Cosmic History

Shobita Satyapal
Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
George Mason University
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