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January 24, 2020 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,418
Venus
Our Hothouse Twin
Ellen Stofan
John and Adrienne Mars Director
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
February 7, 2020 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,419
The World Microbiome Project and Integrated Microbiomics
Understanding Microbial Populations and How They Shape the World
Jack Gilbert
Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California at San Diego
February 21, 2020 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,420 The Presidents' Lecture Sponsored by MWZB
Cryo-Electron Microscopy
Revolutionary Methods for Determining Molecular Structure
Joachim Frank
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and of Biological Sciences
Columbia University
Co-Winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
March 6, 2020 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,421
Brain Models, Brain Chips, Brain Nets
Devising and Implementing Brain Computer Interfaces
Rajesh P. N. Rao
Cherng Jia and Elizabeth Yun Hwang Professor
Director, Neural Systems Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Washington, Seattle
March 20, 2020 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,422 Sponsored by PSW Science Member Erica Kane
Robotics
Henrik I. Christensen
Professor of Engineering & Director, Contextual Robotics Institute
University of California at San Diego
April 3, 2020 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,423
3 April 2020
April 17, 2020 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,424
Measuring H0 and the Fate of the Universe
Wendy Freedman
Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics
University of Chicago
May 1, 2020 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,425
1 May 2020
May 15, 2020 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,426 The 89th Joseph Henry Lecture Sponsored by MWZB
The Event Horizon Telescope
First Ever Images of a Black Hole
Sheperd S. Doeleman
Founding Director, Event Horizon Telescope
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
