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Next Event - October 8, 2021

Taking the Twinkle Out of the Stars

How Adaptive Optics on Ground Based Telescopes Delivers the Sharpest Images of Our Universe

Olivier Guyon

University of Arizona

Past Event - September 24, 2021

The First Serious Problem Solved by AI

How Proteins Fold to Become the Machines of Life

John Moult

University of Maryland

Past Event - September 10, 2021

The Ultimate Software

Machine Learning and Intelligence

Pedro Domingos

University of Washington

Past Event - June 18, 2021

NASA’s Commercial Crew Program

Returning America to Human Spaceflight

Steve Stich

NASA

Past Event - June 4, 2021

Quantum Gravity

 

Carlo Rovelli

Aix-Marseille University

Past Event - May 21, 2021

Bringing Back the American Chestnut Tree

How Biotechnology Can Be Applied to Conservation

William A. Powell

American Chestnut Research & Restoration Project

Past Event - May 7, 2021

Satellite Constellations and Astronomy

Satellite Interference with Astronomical Observations and Potential Remedies

Tony Tyson

The Rubin Observatory

Past Event - April 9, 2021

Designing Alien Artificial Intelligences

Programming Beyond the Limits of Human Knowledge and Reason

James Evans

University of Chicago

Past Event - March 19, 2021

The Clipper Mission to Europa

Exploring a Potentially Habitable Ocean World

Kate Craft

Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

Past Event - February 5, 2021

The Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Are We the Sharpest Cookies in the Jar?

Abraham (Avi) Loeb

Harvard University
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Upcoming Events

October 8, 2021 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,446
Taking the Twinkle Out of the Stars

How Adaptive Optics on Ground Based Telescopes Delivers the Sharpest Images of Our Universe

Olivier Guyon
Astronomer, Steward Observatory
Professor
University of Arizona
October 22, 2021 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,447
Twelve Times Hubble and Halfway to Space

The Thirty Meter Telescope

Fengchuan Liu
Project Manager
Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project
November 5, 2021 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,448
Viral Protein Dynamics
Rommie Amaro
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California - San Diego
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