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Next Event - December 6, 2019

Super-Resolution and 3-D Imaging: Brain Circuits to Cell Ultrastructures

Transforming Views of Biology with Innovative Microscopes

Harald Hess

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Past Event - November 15, 2019

Argo: A Flotilla of Autonomous Ocean Sensors

Observing the Oceans' Role in Climate Systems

Dean Roemmich

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Past Event - November 1, 2019

TESS’ Exoplanets

Results of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Mission

George Ricker

MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research

Past Event - October 18, 2019

Like Life

Bottom-Up Synthetic Biology

Neal Devaraj

University of California - San Diego

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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December 6, 2019 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,417 Sponsored by PSW Science Member Tim Thomas
Super-Resolution and 3-D Imaging: Brain Circuits to Cell Ultrastructures

Transforming Views of Biology with Innovative Microscopes

Harald Hess
Group Leader
Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Janelia
January 10, 2020 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,418
10 January 2020
January 24, 2020 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,419
Venus – Our Hothouse Neighbor

Returning to Study Atmospheric Evolution

Ellen Stofan
John and Adrienne Mars Director
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
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