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Next Event - November 6, 2020

Is There a Crisis in Cosmology?

A New Debate Over the Value of H0

Wendy Freedman

University of Chicago

Past Event - October 23, 2020

The Mathematics of Voting Systems

Mathematical perspectives on theories and practices of social choice

Prasad Senesi

The Catholic University of America

Past Event - October 9, 2020

A Coming Revolution in Aging

Will we live to be 150?

Eric Verdin

The Buck Institute for Research on Aging

Past Event - September 25, 2020

COVID-19 Treatments and Trials

Treatments to End a Pandemic

Davey Smith

University of California at San Diego

Past Event - May 15, 2020

The Event Horizon Telescope

First Ever Images of a Black Hole

Sheperd S. Doeleman

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Past Event - April 29, 2019

A Planet Definition Debate

 

Alan Stern (PI New Horizons Mission) & Ron Ekers (Past President IAU)

Past Event - June 15, 2018

Cassini’s Spectacular Saturn

How it Revolutionized Our View of Planets, Moons, and the Possibilities for Life in the Universe

Speakers from NASA, Cornell, & JPL

Past Event - November 17, 2017

Life 2.0

Synthetic Self Replicating and Evolvable Systems

Gerald Joyce

The Salk Institute

Past Event - May 12, 2017

Exoplanets and the Search for Life

An Exploration in Four Lectures

Speakers from NASA & Yale University
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November 6, 2020 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,428 Sponsored by PSW Science Member Bob Terry
Is There a Crisis in Cosmology?

A New Debate Over the Value of H0

Wendy Freedman
Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics
University of Chicago
November 20, 2020 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,429
Golden Rice
Rob Bertram
Chief Scientist for Food Safety, USAID
December 4, 2020 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,430
The TRIPLE Mission to Europa
Oliver Funke
Project Manager
Coordinator of DLR Explorer Initiatives
DLR - The German Space Administration
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