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Next Event - April 26, 2019

Vaccines to Combat the Opioid Epidemic

 

Kim Janda

Scripps Research Institute

Past Event - April 12, 2019

Understanding Dark Matter

Archeology of the Milky Way -- The Mystery of "Invisible" Mass

Mariangela Lisanti

Princeton University

Past Event - March 22, 2019

Climate Change and Cultural Adaptation: A Frigid Golden Age

The Dutch Republic in the Little Ice Age

Dagomar Degroot

Georgetown University

Past Event - February 22, 2019

Satellites, Dinosaurs, Milankovitch Cycles, and Cretaceous Earth

 

Compton J. Tucker

NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center

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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April 26, 2019 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,408
Vaccines to Combat the Opioid Epidemic
Kim Janda
Professor of Chemistry
Director, Worm Institute of Research and Medicine
The Scripps Research Institute
April 29, 2019 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,409 Special Event Sponsored by PSW Member Jeanne Shaw in Memory of Karen Shanor
A Planet Definition Debate
Alan Stern (PI New Horizons Mission) & Ron Ekers (Past President IAU)
May 17, 2019 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,410 The 88th Joseph Henry Lecture Sponsored by MWZB
The Big Bang and Inflation

Glimpsing The Beginning of Time From the Ends of the Earth

Brian Keating
Professor of Physics
Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences
University of California at San Diego
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