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expand all collapse all
December 6, 2024 Meeting #2,506
Sponsored by PSW Science Members Erica & Bruce Kane
The Science Driving Particle Physics and Big Accelerators
JoAnne Hewett
Director, Brookhaven National Laboratory
November 22, 2024 Meeting #2,505
Sponsored by PSW Science Member Frederica Darema
The Nuclear Clock: Scaling Quantum Systems for Precision Metrology

Keeping Time with Nuclear Transitions

Jun Ye
Fellow, JILA
Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
November 1, 2024 Meeting #2,504
Sponsored by a PSW Science Member who wishes to remain anonymous
Ukraine Conflict

Uncrewed, Ubiquitous, Unprecedented Technology Applied to Modern War

Jason Eckberg
Colonel, USAF
Chief of the Penetrating, Persistent, Multi-role Remotely Crewed Air Vehicles Operations Division
Operations Directorate, HQ, USAF
October 18, 2024 Meeting #2,503
Sponsored by a PSW Science member who wishes to remain anonymous
The Science of Rare Isotopes

From the Cosmological Origin of the Elements to Making Rare Isotopes for Use on Earth

Alexandra Gade
Professor of Physics
Scientific Director, Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
Michigan State University
October 4, 2024 Meeting #2,502
Sponsored by PSW Science Member AC Charania
Klingon and Other Constructed Languages in the Real World
Marc Okrand
Linguist and Language Author
September 20, 2024 Meeting #2,501
Sponsored by PSW Science Member Joe Schulman
Space Tourism

Enabling a Space-Faring Civilization

Kirby Runyon
CEO, Planex
September 6, 2024 Meeting #2,500
Sponsored by PSW Science Member A.C. Charania & BAE Systems
The 2,500th Gala Meeting — “Uniting All the Men of Science in this City in One Organization”

Joseph Henry, the Philosophical Society of Washington, and the Status of Science in Post-Bellum Washington

Marc Rothenberg
Editor, The Joseph Henry Papers Project (Ret.)
Research Associate
Smithsonian Institution
June 28, 2024 Meeting #2,499
Human-Centered AI

Ensuring Human Control While Increasing Automation

Ben A. Shneiderman
Professor Emeritus, Computer Science
Founding Director, Human Computer Interaction Lab (Ret.)
University of Maryland
June 14, 2024 Meeting #2,498
Sponsored by PSW Science Members Ajay Kothari and Ravi Deepak
Returning Humans to the Moon

How the United States Can Actually Get There Instead of Watching China Do It

Mike Griffin
Co-President
LogiQ, Inc.
May 31, 2024 Meeting #2,497
President’s Forum

A convivial evening to talk about the Society and topics of current scientific interest

President Millstein
May 17, 2024 Meeting #2,496 The 93rd Joseph Henry Lecture
Sponsored by MWZB Law
Unlost – Recovering the Text of Burnt and Carbonized Scrolls

Reading Herculaneum Papyri using X-ray CT and AI

Brent Seales
Professor of Computer Science
University of Kentucky
May 3, 2024 Meeting #2,495
Sponsored by PSW Science Member Michael Sandifer
Lessons from the Universe’s Baby Picture

Our simple and strange universe

David Spergel
President
Simons Foundation
April 19, 2024 Meeting #2,494
Sponsored by PSW Science Member Frederica Darema
Diving Deep into Biodiversity

Leveraging the Latest Technology to Explore Deep Coral Reefs

Rich Pyle
Director of Natural Sciences & Director of EXCORE
Senior Curator of Ichthyology
Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
April 5, 2024 Meeting #2,493
Sponsored by PSW Science Members Larry Millstein & Robin Taylor
We Have You Surrounded!

Encapsulation and Its Application to Vaccine Formulation and Drug Delivery

Philip DeShong
Emeritus Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Maryland
March 22, 2024 Meeting #2,492
Sponsored by PSW Science Member Edward Gadasu
The Emerging Directed Energy Weapons

Are they finally ready to provide real military capability?

Thomas J. Karr & James Trebes
(1) Thomas J. Karr:
MITRE Corp. Chief Scientist for Sensors and Directed Energy
Consultant to the Defense Science Board and the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board
Principal Director for Directed Energy, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense (Research & Engineering), 2018-2020

(2) James Trebes:
Principal Director Directed Energy Office of the Undersecretary for Research and Development, Department of Defense, Ret.
Physics Division Leader, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Ret.
March 8, 2024 Meeting #2,491
Sponsored by PSW Science Member Edward Gadasu
The Survival of Civilizations

After 1177 BCE

Eric Cline
Professor of History, Classics, and Anthropology
Director, GWU Capital Archaeological Institute
George Washington University
February 9, 2024 Meeting #2,490
Spectroscopy of Deception

Unmasking Food Fraud with Biophysics

Bartek Rajwa
Research Professor, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Purdue University
January 26, 2024 Meeting #2,489
Sponsored by PSW Science Member Joe Schulman
Three PSW Scientists
Lloyd Mitchell, Ajay Kothari & Scott Mathews
January 12, 2024 Meeting #2,488 The Presidents' Lecture
Sponsored by MWZB IP Law Firm
Back to the Moon to Stay?

The Artemis Program and the Past and Future of Human Lunar Exploration

Michael J. Neufeld
Senior Curator (Retired)
National Air and Space Museum
Smithsonian Institution
December 15, 2023 Meeting #2,487
Sponsored by a PSW Science Member who has asked to remain anonymous
Nuclear Energy & Advanced Reactor Designs
Kathryn Huff
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy
Department of Energy
December 1, 2023 Meeting #2,486
Sponsored by PSW Science Members Erica & Bruce Kane
Self-Driving Cars: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

Is Better than Humans Enough?

Missy Cummings
Director
Autonomy and Robotics Center
George Mason University
November 17, 2023 Meeting #2,485
Sponsored by PSW Science Members Rip Rawlings and Erin Felger
Defining Death — Cultural, Scientific and Legal Complexity

Implications for Hospital Care, Transplantation and Biotechnology

Robert D. Truog
Frances Glessner Lee Distinguished Professor of Bioethics, Anaesthesia, & Pediatrics
Senior Associate in Critical Care Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital &
Center for Bioethics, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
November 3, 2023 Meeting #2,484
Sponsored by a PSW Science Member who has asked to remain anonymous
The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Ants and Humans
Ted R. Schultz
Research Entomologist
National Museum of Natural History
October 20, 2023 Meeting #2,483
Sponsored by PSW Science Member John Downing
Driven Out of Equilibrium

Shining New Light on Quantum Matter

Prineha Narang
Professor, Physical Sciences & Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California - Los Angeles
October 6, 2023 Meeting #2,482
Sponsored by PSW Science Members Larry Millstein & Robin Taylor
NIST: Advancing Innovation for Economic Competitiveness
Laurie Locascio
Director
National Institute of Standards and Technology
September 22, 2023 Meeting #2,481
Sponsored by a PSW Science Member who has asked to remain anonymous
Hayabusa2 – Surveys and Samples from Asteroid Ryugu and Beyond

Technologies and Challenges for a Round-Trip Journey to an Unexplored Small Body

Yuichi Tsuda
Project Manager, Hayabusa2 Project
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
September 8, 2023 Meeting #2,480
Sponsored by Enig Associates, Inc.
Nuclear Propulsion Systems for Space Exploration

DARPA’s DRACO Project

Tabitha Dodson
DRACO Program Manager
DARPA
June 16, 2023 Meeting #2,479
Sponsored by PSW Science Members Brett Magaram & Robin Taylor and Larry Millstein
The Ike Dike Project to Protect Texas Coasts

Responding to Rapid Climate and Land Use Change

William Merrell & Sam Brody
William Merrell
Professor and George P. Mitchell Chair
Department of Marine and Coastal Environmental Science
Texas A&M University at Galveston

Sam Brody
Professor, Department of Marine and Coastal Environmental Science
Texas A&M University at Galveston
June 2, 2023 Meeting #2,478
Sponsored by the IP Law Firm of MWZB, PC
Einstein’s Real Equation

Mass, Energy and the Curvature of Space-Time

Sean Carroll
Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy
Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy
Johns Hopkins University
May 19, 2023 Meeting #2,477 The 92nd Joseph Henry Lecture
Sponsored by University of California San Diego
Architecture for the New Space Age

Learning to Work and Live Beyond Earth

Paul Kessler, Eleanor Morgan, Daniel Inocente, and Corky Clinton
Paul D. Kessler
Aerospace Technical Manager
NASA

Eleanor E. Morgan
Space Architect & Program Manager
Lockheed Martin

Daniel Inocente
Senior Space Architect
Blue Origin

Raymond "Corky" Clinton
Senior Technical Advisor, Science & Technology Office
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
April 28, 2023 Meeting #2,476
Sponsored by PSW Science Members Brad Calvin & Robin Taylor and Larry Millstein
Ancient Lives Preserved in Cuneiform

Impressions of Mesopotamian Society Over 3,500 Years Ago

Amanda Podany
History Professor Emeritus, CalPoly Pomona
Author of Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East
March 31, 2023 Meeting #2,475
In Memory of Marvin Hass
Using Experiments in Nature to Study Evolution

Research on Lizard Island Adaptations in Real Time

Jonathan Losos
Director, Living Earth Collaborative
Danforth Distinguished University Professor
Washington University
March 17, 2023 Meeting #2,474
Sponsored by PSW Science Members Erica & Bruce Kane
Comets, Centaurs, and Trans-Neptunian Objects

Exploring the Echoes of Formation in the Outer Solar System

Walter Harris
Chief Scientist, University of Arizona Space Institute
University of Arizona
March 3, 2023 Meeting #2,473
The “All of Us” Research Program

NIH's Plan to Build a Million Person Health Metric Database

Andrea Ramirez
Chief Data Officer
National Institutes of Health
February 17, 2023 Meeting #2,472
Sponsored by PSW Science Member John Downing
Mayan Civilization in Northern Guatemala

An Extensive Civilization Revealed with Extraordinary LiDAR Technology

Richard Hansen
Director, Mirador Basin Project, Guatemala
Department of Anthropology
Idaho State University
February 3, 2023 Meeting #2,471 The Presidents' Lecture
Sponsored by the IP Law Firm of MWZB, PC
Whispers from Other Worlds

NASA's Search for Life in the Cosmos

Thomas Zurbuchen & Nadia Drake
Thomas Zurbuchen
Retired Director, Science Mission Directorate
NASA

Nadia Drake
Science Journalist
January 20, 2023 Meeting #2,470
Sponsored by PSW Science Member Frederica Darema
Post-Quantum Cryptography

Cornerstone for Security in the Coming Quantum Computing Era

Lily Chen
Mathematician, Cryptographic Technology Group
National Institute of Standards and Technology
December 16, 2022 Meeting #2,469
Back to the Moon to Stay

Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium

Brett Denevi and Wesley Fuhrman
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
December 2, 2022 Meeting #2,468
Sponsored by PSW Science Members Erica and Bruce Kane
The Latest on the Great Dinosaur Extinction

The K-Pg Chicxulub impact and mass extinction event

Sean Gulick
Research Professor, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics
Department of Geological Sciences
University of Texas at Austin
November 18, 2022 Meeting #2,467
Sponsored by PSW Science Member Adarsh Deepak
Chip Scan: 3D X-Ray Imaging of CMOS Integrated Circuits

Can you trust the electronics you use?

Anthony F.J. Levi
Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering -- Electrophysics
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Southern California
November 4, 2022 Meeting #2,466
Sponsored by PSW Science Members Eric Enig & Brett Magaram
ICE-CUBE: The Under-the-Ice Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica

Opening a New Window on the Universe from the South Pole

Francis Halzen
Professor of Physics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
October 21, 2022 Meeting #2,465
NASA Astrophysics

Exploration, Origins, & Physics of the Cosmos

Mark Clampin
Astrophysics Division Director
Science Mission Directorate
NASA Headquarters
October 7, 2022 Meeting #2,464
Sponsored by PSW Science Member Joe Schulman
DART: The Double Asteroid Redirection Test

Protecting Earth from Planetary Impacts

Andrew Cheng & Andrew Rivkin
Applied Physics Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University
September 23, 2022 Meeting #2,463
The Endless Frontier

The DOD Basic Research Initiatives

Bindu Nair
Director of Basic Research
US Department of Defense
September 9, 2022 Meeting #2,462
A First Interstellar Probe

Next Step to the Stars

Ralph L. McNutt, Jr.
Principal Investigator, Interstellar Probe Proposal
Principal Professional Staff Member, APL
Johns Hopkins University
June 17, 2022 Meeting #2,461
Sponsored by PSW Science Member James Trefil
Supermassive Black Holes at the Centers of Galaxies

Accretion, Dynamical Interactions, Galaxy Evolution, and Cosmic History

Shobita Satyapal
Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
George Mason University
June 3, 2022 Meeting #2,460
Sponsored by PSW Science Member Tim Thomas
Quantum Information Science and Quantum Computing

The National Initiative

Charles Tahan
Assistant Director for Quantum Information Science and Director of the National Quantum Coordination Office
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
May 20, 2022 Meeting #2,459 The 91st Joseph Henry Lecture
Sponsored by MWZB Law
Ingenuity: The First Flying Machine on Mars

First Controlled Powered Flight on Another Planet

J. (Bob) Balaram
Chief Engineer of Ingenuity
JPL/CalTech
May 6, 2022 Meeting #2,458
Sponsored by PSW Science Member Joe Schulman
Ultraminiature Medical Implants

Bionic retinas, neuromodulators, and physiosensors

John Randall
CEO, Zyvex Labs
Executive Vice President of Teliatry, Inc.; Executive Vice President of Nanoretina
Adjust Professor UT-Dallas
April 22, 2022 Meeting #2,457
Living Measurement Systems and Minimal Cells

Engineering Cellular Life for Understanding and Applications

Elizabeth Strychalski
Group Leader, Cellular Engineering Group
National Institute of Standards & Technology
March 25, 2022 Meeting #2,456
Sponsored by an Anonymous PSW Science Member
Ocean Microbes, Aerosols, Climate and Health

Tiny Critters, Huge Impacts

Kimberly Prather
Distinguished Professor and Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry
Director, NSF Center for Aerosol Impacts on Chemistry of the Environment
University of California - San Diego
March 11, 2022 Meeting #2,455
Squirrels, Lemurs, and all Manner of Creatures Great and Small

Field Studies & Museum Collections -- Essential tools of taxonomy, ecology, evolutionary biology, and conservation

Melissa T.R. Hawkins
Curator of Mammals and Research Zoologist
National Museum of Natural History
February 25, 2022 Meeting #2,454
Quantum Steampunk

Victorian thermodynamics meets quantum computing

Nicole Yunger Halpern
Fellow
Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science
University of Maryland
February 11, 2022 Meeting #2,453
The ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope

Challenges and Progress on the World's Largest Telescope

Roberto Tamai
Programme Manager
European Southern Observatory
January 14, 2022 Meeting #2,452 The Presidents' Lecture
Extreme Adaptive Optics

The technology behind high contrast imaging of exoplanets

Olivier Guyon
Astronomer, Steward Observatory
Professor, University of Arizona
December 17, 2021 Meeting #2,451
Sponsored by PSW Science Member Erica Kane
Planet Formation
Sean Andrews
Astrophysicist
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
December 3, 2021 Meeting #2,450
The Arecibo Observatory

Legacy and Ideas for the Future

Francisco Córdova
Director of the Arecibo Observatory
November 19, 2021 Meeting #2,449
Microchip Accelerators

Laser-driven particle accelerator-on-a-silicon-chip

Robert L. Byer
Kenan Professor of Applied Physics
Stanford University
November 5, 2021 Meeting #2,448
Computational Microscopy of SARS-CoV-2

Using Simulations to See the Unseen

Rommie Amaro
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California - San Diego
October 22, 2021 Meeting #2,447
Twelve Times Hubble and Halfway to Space

The Thirty Meter Telescope

Fengchuan Liu
Project Manager
Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project
October 8, 2021 Meeting #2,446
Sponsored by PSW Science Member Joe Schulman
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
September 24, 2021 Meeting #2,445
The First Serious Problem Solved by AI

How Proteins Fold to Become the Machines of Life

John Moult
Professor
Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
University of Maryland
September 10, 2021 Meeting #2,444
The Ultimate Software

Machine Learning and Intelligence

Pedro Domingos
Professor
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington
June 18, 2021 Meeting #2,443
Sponsored by PSW Science Member Adarsh Deepak
NASA’s Commercial Crew Program

Returning America to Human Spaceflight

Steve Stich
Program Manager
NASA Commercial Crew Program
June 4, 2021 Meeting #2,442 The 90th Joseph Henry Lecture
Sponsored by MWZB Law & PSW Science Member Carl Merril
Quantum Gravity
Carlo Rovelli
Director, The Quantum Gravity Group
Centre de Physique Théorique de Luminy, Aix-Marseille University
May 21, 2021 Meeting #2,441
Sponsored by PSW Science Member Tim Thomas
Bringing Back the American Chestnut Tree

How Biotechnology Can Be Applied to Conservation

William A. Powell
Director, American Chestnut Research & Restoration Project
Roosevelt Wild Life Station Scientist-in-Residence
May 7, 2021 Meeting #2,440
Satellite Constellations and Astronomy

Satellite Interference with Astronomical Observations and Potential Remedies

Tony Tyson
Distinguished Professor of Astronomy - UC Davis
Chief Scientist at The Rubin Observatory
April 23, 2021 Meeting #2,439
“Crossrail” — Building the £15B Elizabeth Line

Digitally Digging a New Metro Beneath London's Skyscrapers

Simon Bennett & Daniel Irwin
Crossrail, Ltd
April 9, 2021 Meeting #2,438
Designing Alien Artificial Intelligences

Programming Beyond the Limits of Human Knowledge and Reason

James Evans
Director, Knowledge Lab
University of Chicago
March 19, 2021 Meeting #2,437
The Clipper Mission to Europa

Exploring a Potentially Habitable Ocean World

Kate Craft
Planetary Scientist
Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
March 5, 2021 Meeting #2,436
Sponsored by PSW Science Member Joe Schulman
Building the Giant Magellan Telescope
James Fanson
Project Manager
GMTO Corporation
February 19, 2021 Meeting #2,435
Hot! The Parker Solar Probe

Heliophysics Near the Edge of the Sun

Nicola Fox
Director
NASA Heliophysics Science Division
February 5, 2021 Meeting #2,434
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Are We the Sharpest Cookies in the Jar?

Abraham (Avi) Loeb
Baird Professor of Science
Director, Institute for Theory and Computation, Center for Astrophysics
Harvard University
January 22, 2021 Meeting #2,433
Sponsored by PSW Science Member Tim Thomas
Quantifying COVID-19 Pandemic Spread

Metrics, Mathematics, and Models to Guide Effective Responses

Alison Hill
Assistant Professor
Institute for Computational Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
January 8, 2021 Meeting #2,432 The Presidents' Lecture
Sponsored by Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, PC
The Year Nanomaterials Saved the World from COVID-19

Nanoparticle-Enabled Delivery of Nucleic Acid Medicines

Michael J. Sailor
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Director, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
University of California at San Diego
December 18, 2020 Meeting #2,431
Quantum Chemistry at Ultracold Temperatures

Building Single Molecules Atom by Atom

Kang-Kuen Ni
Morris Kahn Associate Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, and Physics
Harvard University
December 4, 2020 Meeting #2,430
The TRIPLE Project

A System to Explore Europa’s Icy Oceans

Christoph Waldmann
TRIPLE Project Co-Director
MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences
University of Bremen
November 20, 2020 Meeting #2,429
Golden Rice
Rob Bertram
Chief Scientist for Food Safety, USAID
November 6, 2020 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
October 23, 2020 Meeting #2,427
Sponsored by PSW Science Member Adarsh Deepak
The Mathematics of Voting Systems

Mathematical perspectives on theories and practices of social choice

Prasad Senesi
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics
The Catholic University of America
October 9, 2020 Meeting #2,426
Sponsored by PSW Science Member Tim Thomas
A Coming Revolution in Aging

Will we live to be 150?

Eric Verdin
President & CEO, The Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Adjunct Professor,
University of California at San Francisco & University of Southern California
September 25, 2020 Meeting #2,425
COVID-19 Treatments and Trials

Treatments to End a Pandemic

Davey Smith
Professor of Medicine
University of California at San Diego
September 11, 2020 Meeting #2,424
Vortices of Light and Matter Waves

A New Twist on Light and Particles

Charles W. Clark
Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Fellow at the Joint Quantum Institute of NIST and the University of Maryland
June 26, 2020 Meeting #2,423
Sponsored by PSW Science Member Erica Kane
Contextual Robotics

Making Intelligent Robots that Serve Society

Henrik I. Christensen
Professor of Engineering & Director, Contextual Robotics Institute
University of California at San Diego
June 5, 2020 Meeting #2,422
Sponsored by PSW Science Member Adarsh Deepak
When AI Joins the Human Brain

Brain Co-Processors for Restoring and Augmenting Human Function

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
May 15, 2020 Meeting #2,421 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

With Colleagues:
Michael Johnson, Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Andrew Strominger, Professor of Physics, Harvard University
February 21, 2020 Meeting #2,420 The Presidents' Lecture
Sponsored by MWZB
Single-Particle Cryo-Electron Microscopy

Revolutionary Methods for Determining the Structures of Biological Molecules in their Native States

Joachim Frank
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and of Biological Sciences
Columbia University
Co-Winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
February 7, 2020 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
January 24, 2020 Meeting #2,418
Venus

Our Hothouse Twin

Ellen Stofan
John and Adrienne Mars Director
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
December 6, 2019 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
November 15, 2019 Meeting #2,416
Argo: A Flotilla of Autonomous Ocean Sensors

Observing the Oceans' Role in Climate Systems

Dean Roemmich
Distinguished Professor of Oceanography
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California - San Diego
November 1, 2019 Meeting #2,415
Sponsored by PSW Science Member Bob Terry
TESS’ Exoplanets

Results of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Mission

George Ricker
TESS Principal Investigator
Director, CCD Laboratory
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
October 18, 2019 Meeting #2,414
Sponsored by PSW Science Member Jerry Harasewych
Like Life

Bottom-Up Synthetic Biology

Neal Devaraj
Professor, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Bioengineering
University of California - San Diego
October 4, 2019 Meeting #2,413
Immortal Spacecraft

The Rise of In-Space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing

Benjamin Reed
Deputy Director, Satellite Servicing Projects Division
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
September 20, 2019 Meeting #2,412
Sponsored by PSW Science Member Mayumi Okada
Space Architecture for a Moon Village

Designing for Space Habitation

Daniel Inocente
Senior Architectural Designer
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
September 6, 2019 Meeting #2,411
Sponsored by PSW Science Member Carl Merril
Quantum Gravity

It's Different and Why

Jared Kaplan
Associate Professor of Physics
Johns Hopkins University
May 17, 2019 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
April 29, 2019 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)
April 26, 2019 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 12, 2019 Meeting #2,407
Sponsored by PSW Member Erica Kane
Understanding Dark Matter

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

Mariangela Lisanti
Assistant Professor of Physics
Princeton University
March 22, 2019 Meeting #2,406
Climate Change and Cultural Adaptation: A Frigid Golden Age

The Dutch Republic in the Little Ice Age

Dagomar Degroot
Assistant Professor of Environmental History
Georgetown University
March 8, 2019 Meeting #2,405
Blockchains in Commerce
Ramesh Gopinath
Computer Scientist
Vice President, IBM Blockchain Solutions
IBM Research
February 22, 2019 Meeting #2,404
Satellites, Dinosaurs, Milankovitch Cycles, and Cretaceous Earth
Compton J. Tucker
Senior Scientist, Earth Sciences Division
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
February 8, 2019 Meeting #2,403
Sponsored by PSW Member Frank Robert
Differentiation of the Embryonic Universe

Interpreting the Cosmological Fossil Record

Raman Sundrum
Director, Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics
John S. Toll Chair and Distinguished University Professor of Physics
University of Maryland
January 25, 2019 Meeting #2,402
Wearable Biosensors
Todd Coleman
Professor of Bioengineering
Director, Neural Interaction Laboratory
University of California at San Diego
January 11, 2019 Meeting #2,401 Presidents' Lecture
Sponsored by Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, PC
Personalized Drugs on Demand

The Digitization of Chemistry

Leroy (Lee) Cronin
Regius Chair of Chemistry
School of Chemistry
University of Glasgow
December 7, 2018 Meeting #2,400
Sponsored by PSW Member Robert E. Terry
NSF’s Ten Big Ideas

Advancing the Frontiers of Science and Engineering

Dawn Tilbury
Assistant Director
Directorate for Engineering
National Science Foundation
November 2, 2018 Meeting #2,399
Comets and the Origin of Life

The Proposed CAESAR Mission to Return a Comet Sample to Earth

Steven W. Squyres
James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences
Cornell University
October 19, 2018 Meeting #2,398
CubeSats

A Giant Revolution in Space

Charles Norton
Special Advisor, Small Spacecraft Missions
Science Mission Directorate, NASA
October 5, 2018 Meeting #2,397
Dragonfly

Exploring Titan by Rotorcraft

Elizabeth (Zibi) Turtle
Planetary Scientist
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
September 21, 2018 Meeting #2,396
Sponsored by PSW Science Member Carl Merril
Black Holes and the Structure of Spacetime
Juan Maldacena
Feinberg Professor of Theoretical Physics
Institute for Advanced Study
September 7, 2018 Meeting #2,395
Aeronautical Beginnings

The Science of Ballooning During the Civil War

James L. Green
Chief Scientist
NASA
June 15, 2018 Meeting #2,394 The 87th Joseph Henry Lecture
Sponsored by Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, PC
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
May 4, 2018 Meeting #2,393
Adventures in Big Data Analysis

Using Astronomical Methods to Understand Urban Housing Complexities in Baltimore

Tamás Budavári
Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics & Statistics
The Johns Hopkins University
April 20, 2018 Meeting #2,392
The Mystery of Missing Anti-Matter

Why Is the Universe Made Only of Matter?

Yuval Grossman
Professor of Physics
Cornell University
April 6, 2018 Meeting #2,391
Democratizing Design

Providing Knowledge and Tools to Everyone

Don Norman
Director of the Design Lab
University of California - San Diego
March 23, 2018 Meeting #2,390
Earth’s Earliest Life Written in Stone

Reconstructing Earth Life's Deep History and What It Suggests About Life Elsewhere in the Universe

Andrew H. Knoll
Fisher Professor of Natural History and
Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Harvard University
March 9, 2018 Meeting #2,389
Sponsored by Jeanne Shaw in Honor of Karen Shanor
Eclipses

Using Shadows to Shed New Light

Thomas Zurbuchen
Associate Administrator
Science Mission Directorate
NASA
February 9, 2018 Meeting #2,388
Cultural Heritage and Modern Inscriptional Forgeries in the Marketplace

The Intersection of Law, Ethics, and Biblical Studies

Christopher A. Rollston
Associate Professor of Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures
Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
George Washington University
January 19, 2018 Meeting #2,387
Sponsored by PSW Member Tim Thomas
The Human Cell Atlas

Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Cellular Diversity and Dynamics

Aviv Regev
Professor of Biology, MIT
Core Member and Faculty Chair, The Broad Institute
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
January 5, 2018 Meeting #2,386 Presidents' Lecture
Sponsored by Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, PC
Taking the Pulse of the Ocean in a Changing World
Margaret Leinen
Vice Chancellor for Marine Science, UC San Diego
Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
December 15, 2017 Meeting #2,385
Invisibility Cloaks and Other “Impossible” Optics

From Revolutionary Science to Disruptive Technology

David R. Smith
James B Duke Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, The Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics
Duke University
December 1, 2017 Meeting #2,384
The Doom of Spacetime

Why It Must Dissolve Into More Fundamental Structures

Nima Arkani-Hamed
Professor, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and
A. D. White Professor-at-Large, Cornell University
November 17, 2017 Meeting #2,383
Life 2.0

Synthetic Self Replicating and Evolvable Systems

Gerald Joyce
Professor, The Salk Institute
Institute Director, Genomics Institute
Novartis Research Foundation
November 3, 2017 Meeting #2,382
Automatically Proving That Computer Programs Do What They are Supposed to Do
Byron Cook
Senior Principal, Amazon Web Services
Professor of Computer Science
University College London
October 20, 2017 Meeting #2,381
Space Weather, Earthly Effects

Sunspots, Ion Storms, Magnetic Shields, Plasma Wakefields and More

Antti Pulkkinen
Astrophysicist
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Adjunct Professor of Astrophysics
Institute for Astrophysics and Computational Sciences, Catholic University
October 6, 2017 Meeting #2,380
Searching for Signs of Habitability and Life on Other Ocean Worlds

Possibilities and Prospects for Revolutionary Science

James B. Garvin
Chief Scientist
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Co-Chair, Europa Lander Science Definition Team
May 12, 2017 Meeting #2,379 The 86th Joseph Henry Lecture
Sponsored by Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, PC
Exoplanets and the Search for Life

An Exploration in Four Lectures

Speakers from NASA & Yale University
April 28, 2017 Meeting #2,378
The Mosquito, Synthetic Biology, CRISPR, and Malaria

Using Gene Modification and Gene Drive to Eradicate a Disease

Anthony A. James
Distinguished Professor Dept's of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics and Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, University of California - Irvine
April 7, 2017 Meeting #2,377
Our Blue Planet from the Vantage Point of Space

The View from Remote Sensing Satellites

Eric J. Lindstrom
Program Scientist, Physical Oceanography
Earth Science Division
NASA Science Mission Directorate
March 24, 2017 Meeting #2,376
Biological Collections

From Dark Data to a Global, Accessible Digital Resource Documenting Life on Earth

Reed Beaman
Program Director, Division of Biological Infrastructure
Directorate for Biological Sciences
National Science Foundation
March 10, 2017 Meeting #2,375
Saving the Past

The Quest to Combat Cultural Racketeering

Deborah Lehr
Founder and Chairman
The Antiquities Coalition
February 24, 2017 Meeting #2,374
The Next Space Race

Opening Space to All

Bretton Alexander
Director, Business Development & Strategy
Blue Origin
February 10, 2017 Meeting #2,373
After the James Webb Space Telescope

In-Space Assembly of Very Large Space-Based Observatories

John M. Grunsfeld
Astronaut
Former Associate Administrator, Science Mission Directorate
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
January 20, 2017 Meeting #2,372
Eliminating the Third Largest Cause of Death

How Transparency Can Disrupt the Medical Care Industry and Change it for the Better

Martin A. Makary
Surgical Director, Multidisciplinary Pancreatitis Ctr.
Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Professor of Health Policy and Management
Center for Global Health, Johns Hopkins University
January 6, 2017 Meeting #2,371 Presidents' Lecture
JUNO’s Exploration of Jupiter
Scott Bolton
Associate Vice President, Space Science & Engineering
Southwest Research Institute
Principal Investigator, JUNO Mission
December 2, 2016 Meeting #2,370
Particles and the Nature of Nothing
David Kaplan
Professor of Physics & Astronomy
Johns Hopkins University
Producer, “Particle Fever,” PGA
November 18, 2016 Meeting #2,369
Exciting Possibilities for 21st Century Aviation

NASA's X-Plane Program

Jaiwon Shin
NASA Associate Administrator
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
NASA
November 4, 2016 Meeting #2,368
Seeing the Light

The Wonderful Diversity of Light Perception in Living Organisms

Thomas Cronin
Professor of Biological Sciences
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
October 21, 2016 Meeting #2,367
Understanding the Brain’s Network Using DNA Sequencing

Will It Be Possible to Map Minds to the Cloud?

Anthony Zador
Harrison Professor of Biology
Chair of Neuroscience
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
October 7, 2016 Meeting #2,366
Prospects for Life & Human Habitability Around Nearby Stars

Many Possible Homes - But the Likely Neighbors Are Microbes

Carey M. Lisse
Principal Staff Scientist
Planetary Exploration Group
Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University
September 23, 2016 Meeting #2,365
NASA’s Kelly Twins Study

How Space Affects Human Physiology

Craig Kundrot
Life Sciences Lead, Lead Mission Scientist for the Twins Study
Office of the Chief Scientist
NASA
September 9, 2016 Meeting #2,364
Bitcoin and the Blockchain

What are they? Will they reshape the world?

Arvind Narayanan
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Princeton University
Affiliated Faculty, Center for IT Policy, Princeton University
Affiliated Scholar, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford University
May 6, 2016 Meeting #2,363 Special Event
Sponsored by Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, PC
LIGO, Gravitational Waves, and Colliding Black Holes

LIGO and the LIGO Result

Speakers from NASA & the University of Maryland
April 15, 2016 Meeting #2,362 The 85th Joseph Henry Lecture
Sponsored by Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, PC
The Exploration of Pluto
Alan Stern
Principal Scientist, New Horizons
Vice President for Research, Southwest Research Institute
CEO, Uwingu and The Golden Spike Company
April 1, 2016 Meeting #2,361
Surveying the Universe

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

Steven M. Kahn
Kirk Professor of Physics
Director, LSST Project
Stanford University
March 18, 2016 Meeting #2,360
Genetically Engineered Livestock

Bringing 21st Century Medicines to the Developing World

William H. Velander
Distinguished Scholar and Fellow
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
College of Engineering University of Nebraska - Lincoln
March 4, 2016 Meeting #2,359
From Fragments to Classical Forms

Reconstructing Greek Bronzes and the Greek and Roman Trade in Art

Carol C. Mattusch
Mathy Professor of Art History, Emerita
Department of History and Art History
George Mason University
February 19, 2016 Meeting #2,358
Chance vs. Necessity in Mineral Evolution

A New Approach to an Ancient Subject

Robert M. Hazen
Staff Scientist, Carnegie Institution for Science
Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Sciences, George Mason University
February 5, 2016 Meeting #2,357
Improving the Tick-Tock of the Atomic Clock

Telling Time to an Accuracy of One Second in the Lifetime of the Universe

Andrew Ludlow
Project Leader, Time and Frequency Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology
January 8, 2016 Meeting #2,356 Presidents' Lecture
Sponsored by Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, PC
Einstein, Time, and Light
William D. Phillips
Co-Recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics
Leader, Laser Cooling and Trapping Group, NIST
Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland
Physicist, Joint Quantum Institute of UMd and NIST
December 4, 2015 Meeting #2,355
Sponsored by the Policy Studies Organization in Co-operation with the American Public University
The Health Gap

Why It Concerns All Of Us and What to Do About It

Michael Marmot
University College London
Professor, Epidemiology and Public Health
Director, Institute of Health Equity
November 20, 2015 Meeting #2,354
Sponsored by PSW Member Tim Thomas
Obama’s BRAIN

A View of Science Policy from Inside the White House

Philip Rubin
Senior Advisor to the President & CEO Emeritus, Haskins Laboratories
Adj. Professor, Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine
Principal Assistant Director for Science (Retired)
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
November 6, 2015 Meeting #2,353
Microbiomes and Microbiomics
Jo Handelsman
Principal Assistant Director for Science
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
HHMI Investigator and Rose Prof. of Molecular, Cell & Dev. Biology
Yale University
October 23, 2015 Meeting #2,352
The Anthropocene and the Future of Nature
W. John Kress
Interim Under Secretary for Science
Distinguished Scientist and Curator of Botany
Smithsonian Institution
October 9, 2015 Meeting #2,351
Sailing the Wine Dark Seas

International Trade and the Collapse of the Late Bronze Age Aegean

Eric H. Cline
Professor, Classics and Anthropology
Dept. of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
George Washington University
September 25, 2015 Meeting #2,350
Over the Rainbow

Other Worlds Seen by Animals

Charles W. Clark
Co-Director, Joint Quantum Institute
NIST and University of Maryland
Fellow, US National Institute of Science and Technology
September 11, 2015 Meeting #2,349
Isotopes

Magic Keys to Understanding Life and the Cosmos

Mark H. Thiemens
Dean, Division of Physical Sciences
Chancellors Associates Chair & Distinguished Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCSD
May 8, 2015 Meeting #2,348 The 84th Joseph Henry Lecture
Sponsored by Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, PC
Synthetic Biology

The Technology Engine of the 21st Century

Pamela Silver
Professor, Systems Biology
Harvard Medical School
April 24, 2015 Meeting #2,347
Sponsored by Jeanne Shaw
Advanced Spacesuits

Wearable Technology for Exploring the Solar System

Dava Newman
Professor, Aeronautics, Astronautics and Engineering Systems
Director of Technology and Policy Program, MIT
NASA Deputy Administrator Appointee (Pending Confirmation)
April 20, 2015 Meeting #2,346 Special Event
Sponsored by The Policy Studies Organization
In Cooperation with the American Public University
The Hubble 25th Anniversary Lectures

Revealing the Universe

Speakers from NASA, STSI, AURA & More
April 10, 2015 Meeting #2,345
Human Skin Color

Its Evolution and Relevance to Health and Human Society

Nina Jablonski
Evan Pugh Professor of Anthropology
Pennsylvania State University
March 20, 2015 Meeting #2,344
Sponsored by PSW Member Tim Thomas
Brave Genius

A Scientist’s Journey from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize

Sean Carroll
Wilson Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics
University of Wisconsin
Vice President, Science Education, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
March 6, 2015 Meeting #2,343
Hubble

The Missions that Enabled the Hubble Space Telescope to Unravel Mysteries of the Universe

John M. Grunsfeld
Associate Administrator
NASA Science Mission Directorate
Astronaut
February 20, 2015 Meeting #2,342
Validating Research

Steps for Restoring Trust in Experimental Results

Marcia McNutt
Editor-in-Chief, Science
and the Science Family of Journals
January 23, 2015 Meeting #2,341 Presidents' Lecture
Sponsored by Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, PC
Grasping the Universe

Telescopes to See Almost Forever

John C. Mather
Senior Astrophysicist, NASA
Senior Project Scientist, James Webb Space Telescope
Co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2006
December 5, 2014 Meeting #2,340
The 35 Years GMO War
Nina V. Fedoroff
Evan Pugh Professor of Biology, Penn State University
Distinguished Professor of Biosciences Emerita
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
November 21, 2014 Meeting #2,339
The New SI

Defining Fundamental Constants of Nature

David Newell
Fundamental Constants Data Center
National Institute of Standards and Technology
November 7, 2014 Meeting #2,338
Revealing Art

Science in the Technical Examination of Paintings

Carol Christensen
Senior Painting Conservator
National Gallery of Art
October 24, 2014 Meeting #2,337
Quantum Entanglement

Einstein's Spooky Action at a Distance

James Franson
Professor, Deptartment of Physics
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
October 10, 2014 Meeting #2,336
Are We Alone in the Universe?

For the first time we may have it within our grasp to answer this ancient question

Matt Mountain
Director, Space Telescope Science Institute
Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University
September 19, 2014 Meeting #2,335
The Search for Life in the Solar System and Beyond

Habitats and Exotic Possibilities

Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Professor, School of the Environment
Washington State University
May 9, 2014 Meeting #2,334 The 83rd Joseph Henry Lecture
Sponsored by the Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, PC
A Worm’s Tale

Secrets of Evolution and Immortality

Craig C. Mello
Nobel Prize, Medicine or Physiology, 2006
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Blais University Chair in Molecular Medicine & Co-Director,
RNA Therapeutics Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School
April 25, 2014 Meeting #2,333
Connectomics

Mapping the Brain's Wiring Diagram

Jeff Lichtman
Jeremy R. Knowles Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Santiago Ramon y Cajal Professor of Arts and Sciences
Harvard University
April 11, 2014 Meeting #2,332
Understanding the Quantum Universe

Mysteries of Massive and [Almost] Massless Particles

Nigel Lockyer
Director, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
University of Pennsylvania
March 21, 2014 Meeting #2,331
Sponsored by The Policy Studies Organization
In Cooperation with the American Public University
Exceeding Fusion Fuel Breakeven

Lasers at The National Ignition Facility

Speakers from the National Ignition Facility & Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
March 7, 2014 Meeting #2,330
Heart of Darkness

Understanding the Invisible Universe of Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Jeremiah P. Ostriker
Charles A. Young Professor Emeritus
Astrophysical Sciences Department
Princeton University
February 21, 2014 Meeting #2,329
Drilling for Human Origins

Understanding Climate's Influence On Human Evolution

Rick Potts
Curator of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History
Director, Smithsonian Human Origins Program
February 7, 2014 Meeting #2,328
The Coming Era of Cognitive Computing
Jane L. Snowdon
Chief Innovation Officer, IBM Federal
Director, IBM Federal Cloud Innovation Center
January 24, 2014 Meeting #2,327
Bio Methane

Renewable Transportation Fuel

John G. Ingersoll
Founder and President
EcoCorp
PSW Retired President
January 10, 2014 Meeting #2,326 Presidents' Lecture
Sponsored by Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, PC
What is a Gene?

How ENCODE is Redefining Genetic Information

Thomas Gingeras
Professor & Head of Functional Genomics
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Principal Investigator, NIH ENCODE Project
December 6, 2013 Meeting #2,325
Sponsored by the Policy Studies Organization in cooperation with the American Public University
Behavioral Economics

Designing Experiments that have Policy Applications

Daniel L. Goroff
Vice President and Program Director
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
November 15, 2013 Meeting #2,324
DNA Nanostructures as Building Blocks for Research and Future Medical Therapeutics
William Shih
Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry
and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School
November 1, 2013 Meeting #2,323
Amazonia

Reconstructing the history of Earth's most diverse biota

Joel L. Cracraft
Lamont Curator and Chair, Division of Vertebrate Zoology
American Museum of Natural of History
October 18, 2013 Meeting #2,322
Atom by Atom Manufacturing

Making atomically perfect materials and machines

John N. Randall
President
Zyvex Labs
October 4, 2013 Meeting #2,321
Sailing the Seas of Titan

Saturn's Earth-Like Moon

Ralph D. Lorenz
Principal Professional Staff
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
September 20, 2013 Meeting #2,320
In Search of the True Universe

The Tools, Shaping and Cost of Cosmological Thought

Martin Harwit
Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, Cornell University
Director, National Air and Space Museum (1987-1995)
September 6, 2013 Meeting #2,319
Swarms

Beyond Solo UAVs, Flying Teams of Robots

Vijay Kumar
Professor, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Director, Robotics, White House OSTP
May 10, 2013 Meeting #2,318 The 82nd Joseph Henry Lecture
Sponsored by Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, PC
Curiosity’s Robotic Exploration of Mars’ Gale Crater
John P. Grotzinger
Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology
Chief Mission Scientist, Mars Science Laboratory, aka "Curiosity"
April 26, 2013 Meeting #2,317
The Origins of Amphibian Diversity
R. Alexander Pyron
Robert F. Griggs Professor of Biology
George Washington University
April 12, 2013 Meeting #2,316
ALMA – The World’s Largest Radio-telescope

Looking Into the Beginning of Time

Alberto D. Bolatto
Department of Astronomy
University of Maryland, College Park
March 22, 2013 Meeting #2,315
DARPA

Creating & Preventing Strategic Surprise

Arati Prabhakar
Director
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
March 8, 2013 Meeting #2,314
Overdiagnosed

Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health

H. Gilbert Welch
Professor of Medicine
Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice
February 22, 2013 Meeting #2,313
Web Platforms for Collaborative Research and Education

The Quantifiably Positive NanoHub Impacts

Gerhard Klimeck
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director of the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (and NanoHub)
Purdue University
February 8, 2013 Meeting #2,312
What Do We Really Know About Economic Growth?
Tyler Cowen
Professor of Economics
George Mason University
January 25, 2013 Meeting #2,311
Sticking To Our Guns

Our Basic Right or a Public Peril?

Joyce Lee Malcolm
Professor of Law
George Mason University
January 4, 2013 Meeting #2,310 Presidents' Lecture
Sponsored by Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, PC
The Human Role in Earth Evolution

Will the Anthropocene be an Event, An Era or a Transition?

David Grinspoon
Library of Congress Chair of Astrobiology
December 14, 2012 Meeting #2,309
Stem Cells

Challenging Clinical Applications

Robert Deans
Exec VP Regenerative Medicine
Athersys, Inc. & ReGenesys, BVBA
December 7, 2012 Meeting #2,308
Whole Brain Emulation

Envisioning Economies And Societies of Emulated Minds

Robin Hanson
Associate Professor of Economics
George Mason University
November 9, 2012 Meeting #2,307
Programming Matter

The Science of Digital Fabrication

Neil Gershenfeld
Director
The Center for Bits and Atoms
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
October 26, 2012 Meeting #2,306
Ants

Their Agriculture and Antibiotics

Cameron R. Currie
Professor of Bacteriology
University of Wisconsin - Madison
October 12, 2012 Meeting #2,305
Grasping the Molecules of Life

Modeling in Three Dimensions

Arthur Olson
Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
The Scripps Research Institute
September 21, 2012 Meeting #2,304
Smaller Bodies of the Solar System

Comets, Asteroids, TNOs and What They Tell Us About How Planetary Systems are Formed

Michael F. A'Hearn
Distinguished University Professor of Astronomy Emeritus
University of Maryland
September 7, 2012 Meeting #2,303
John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon
John M. Logsdon
Professor Emeritus, Space Policy Institute
Elliott School of International Affairs
George Washington University
May 25, 2012 Meeting #2,302 The 81st Joseph Henry Lecture
Sponsored by Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, PC
Synthesizing Life
Lee Cronin
Gardiner Professor of Chemistry
University of Glasgow
May 11, 2012 Meeting #2,301
RoboCars and Their Remarkable Implications
Brad Templeton
Consultant to the Google Self-Driving Car Project
Networks and Computers Chair
Singularity University
April 20, 2012 Meeting #2,300
Cosmic Dawn

The First Stars and Galaxies

Massimo Stiavelli
Acting Mission Director
James Webb Space Telescope
Space Telescope Science Institute
March 30, 2012 Meeting #2,299
Enceladus

Saturn's Remarkable, Watery Moon

John Spencer
Institute Scientist
Southwest Research Institute
March 16, 2012 Meeting #2,298
Maritime Prediction and History

The Tide Predictions for D-Day

Bruce Parker
Center for Maritime Systems
Stevens Institute of Technology
Formerly Chief Scientist, National Ocean Service, NOAA
February 24, 2012 Meeting #2,297
Sponsored by the Policy Studies Organization in cooperation with the American Public University
Sand Stories

Fish, floods and folks in landscape evolution in river valleys throughout the world

Marwan Hassan
Professor of Geography
University of British Columbia
February 3, 2012 Meeting #2,296
Three Dimensional Sound
Edgar Choueiri
Professor, MAE and Director
Electric Propulsion & Plasma Dynamics Lab
Princeton University
January 20, 2012 Meeting #2,295
CRITTERCAM: Animal-Borne Imaging

A Wild Point of View

Greg Marshall
Vice President
Remote Imaging
National Geographic Society
January 6, 2012 Meeting #2,294 Presidents' Lecture
Sponsored by Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, PC
The Beauty and Promise of Molecular Nanotechnology

In Honor of Retiring President Robin Taylor

J. Fraser Stoddart
Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Northwestern University
December 16, 2011 Meeting #2,293
Entropy and Self-Replicating Robots
Gregory Chirikjian
Professor of Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
December 2, 2011 Meeting #2,292
Sponsored by the Policy Studies Organization in cooperation with the American Public University
Trading at the Speed of Light

Electronic Exchanges, Computational Trading and Artificial Intelligence in Financial Markets

Alexander D. Wissner-Gross
Media Laboratory
MIT
November 18, 2011 Meeting #2,291
MESSENGER at Mercury

The Innermost Planet Reveals Its Secrets

Sean C. Solomon
Director
Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
Carnegie Institution of Washington
October 28, 2011 Meeting #2,290
GoogleSky

A Journey from Earth to the Edge of the Cosmos

Alberto Conti
Astronomer and NASA Multimission Archive Scientist
Space Telescope Science Institute
October 14, 2011 Meeting #2,289
Engineering the World’s Tallest Building

The Burj Khalifa

William F. Baker
Partner
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP
September 23, 2011 Meeting #2,288
The $1,000 Genome Project and New DNA Sequencing Technologies

An NIH View

Jeffery A. Schloss
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health
September 9, 2011 Meeting #2,287
A Billion Times Brighter

The Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC

Persis Drell
Director and Professor
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Stanford University
May 20, 2011 Meeting #2,286 The 80th Joseph Henry Lecture
2020 Vision

A Decadal View of New Worlds and New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Debra Elmegreen
Maria Mitchell Professor of Astronomy
Vassar College
April 29, 2011 Meeting #2,285
How We Remember Apollo
Roger D. Launius
Curator, Planetary Exploration Programs
National Air and Space Museum
Smithsonian Institution
April 8, 2011 Meeting #2,284
Studies of Human Disease

At the Intersection of Engineering, Natural Science, and Medicine

Subra Suresh
Director
National Science Foundation
March 25, 2011 Meeting #2,283
The Climate for Energy Change

Clean versus Green

Robert Ehrlich
Professor
George Mason University
March 11, 2011 Meeting #2,282
Modern Alchemy

The Chemical Vapor Deposition of Diamonds

James E. Butler
Research Associate
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
Naval Research Laboratory Chemistry Division, Retired
February 25, 2011 Meeting #2,281
Sponsored by the Policy Studies Organization in cooperation with the American Public University
Water in Arid Lands

Mapping and Managing A Scarce Resource in the Middle East

Eilon Adar
Director, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research
Professor of Hydrology
Ben Gurion University
February 4, 2011 Meeting #2,280
Advanced Propulsion for Future Space Exploration
Edgar Choueiri
Professor, MAE and Director
Electric Propulsion & Plasma Dynamics Lab
Princeton University
January 21, 2011 Meeting #2,279
Sponsored by Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, PC
Breaking Rules, Making Rules
Regina Dugan
Director
DARPA
January 7, 2011 Meeting #2,278 Presidents' Lecture
“I Am Compelled to Differ”

The Philosophical Society in 1883: Bell, Gallaudet, and Powell

Robin M. Taylor
Attorney at Law
PSW President
December 17, 2010 Meeting #2,277
Auditory Communication of Affect

The Neuronal Computation of Emotion

Jagmeet S. Kanwal
Associate Professor
Physiology & Biophysics
Georgetown University
December 3, 2010 Meeting #2,276
Sponsored by the Policy Studies Organization and the Dupont Summit on Science, Technology and Environmental Policy, in cooperation with the American Public University.
Science for Energy
William F. Brinkman
Director of the Office of Science
Department of Energy
November 19, 2010 Meeting #2,275
Wernher Von Braun

Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War

Michael J. Neufeld
Chair, Space History Division
National Air and Space Museum
Smithsonian Institution
October 29, 2010 Meeting #2,274
How Many Human Genes Are There?
Steven Salzberg
Hurvitz Professor of Computer Science
Director, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
University of Maryland
October 15, 2010 Meeting #2,273
Chromatin, Epigenetics and Human Inherited Diseases
Joel M. Gottesfeld
Professor of Molecular Biology
The Scripps Research Institute
September 24, 2010 Meeting #2,272
Interoperability of Heterogeneous Information Systems on the Internet
Robert Kahn
CEO
Corporation for National Research Initiatives
September 10, 2010 Meeting #2,271
The Limits of Science

Can Scientific Discovery Be Automated?

Hod Lipson
Professor, Computing and Information Science
& Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Cornell University
May 14, 2010 Meeting #2,270 The 79th Joseph Henry Lecture
Cosmos and Culture

Life in the Universe and Its Implications for Humanity

Steven J. Dick
Chief Historian
NASA (Retired)
April 30, 2010 Meeting #2,269
Graduate Research, Education and Infrastructure

Keeping the Genii Out of the Bottle

Arden Bement
Director
National Science Foundation
April 16, 2010 Meeting #2,268
Planets Around Nearby Stars
Paul Butler
Scientist
Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
Carnegie Institute of Washington
March 19, 2010 Meeting #2,267
Astronomy with the James Webb Space Telescope
John C. Mather
Co-Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2006
Senior Project Scientist
James Webb Space Telescope
March 5, 2010 Meeting #2,266
The Study of Mind and Its Emergence from Brain
James L. Olds
Director
Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study
George Mason University
February 19, 2010 Meeting #2,265
Battery Research and Development for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles
Tien Duong
Manager
Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies
DOE Office of Vehicle Technologies
January 22, 2010 Meeting #2,264
Space Astronomy After the Great Observatories
Eric P. Smith
James Webb Space Telescope Program Scientist
NASA
January 8, 2010 Meeting #2,263 Retiring President's Lecture
Sponsored by Bill Spargo, LLC.
NexGen DNA Sequencers and Personalized Genomics
Larry Millstein
Registered Patent Attorney
Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University
Retiring President
December 18, 2009 Meeting #2,262
Surveying the Federal City

LaEnfantas Design and Ellicottas Geometry

Don Alexander Hawkins
Architect
Don Hawkins and Associates
December 4, 2009 Meeting #2,261
A Brief History of Cosmic Expansion and Acceleration
Adam Riess
Astrophysicist
Johns Hopkins University
November 13, 2009 Meeting #2,260
Competency to Mastery

How We Learn and Apply Knowledge

Donlin M. Long
Professor of Neurosurgery
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
October 30, 2009 Meeting #2,259
Thermoelectrics for Vehicles
John W. Fairbanks
Manager
US Department of Energy
October 16, 2009 Meeting #2,258
Air Quality in the Anthropocene Era

A Satellite Perspective

Pawan K. Bhartia
Senior Research Scientist
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
September 25, 2009 Meeting #2,257
Advances in Medical Imaging
Ahmed M. Gharib
Radiologist
National Institutes of Health
September 11, 2009 Meeting #2,256
CyberSecurity a Serving Society Badly
Anita K. Jones
University Professor
University of Virginia
May 1, 2009 Meeting #2,255 The 78th Joseph Henry Lecture
Our Microbial Partners and Their Roles in Health and Disease
Claire M. Fraser-Liggett
Director of the Institute for Genome Sciences
University of Maryland
April 17, 2009 Meeting #2,254
Forensic DNA Profiling

A Valuable Tool for Human Identification

Amanda C. Sozer
President
SNA International
April 3, 2009 Meeting #2,253
Double Stars for Fun and Profit
William Hartkopf
Astronomer
U.S. Naval Observatory
March 20, 2009 Meeting #2,252
Multiphoton Imaging Excitation Microscopy

Subcellular Imaging In Vivo

Robert S. Balaban
Scientific Director
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
National Institutes of Health
March 6, 2009 Meeting #2,251
At the Nexus of Physics and Biology
Eugenie V. Mielczarek
Department of Physics
George Mason University
February 20, 2009 Meeting #2,250
Exploration and Exploitation of the Deep Sea

Tales from the Ocean Trenches

David L. Pawson
Senior Scientist
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
February 6, 2009 Meeting #2,249
The Shocking Truth About Electricity
Phillip F. Schewe
Chief Science Writer
American Institute of Physics
January 23, 2009 Meeting #2,248
Science Education For Everyone

A Story In Three Heresies

James Trefil
Clarence J Robinson Professor of Physics
George Mason University
January 9, 2009 Meeting #2,247 Retiring President's Lecture
Sponsored by Bill Spargo, LLC.
The NIPCC Report

Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate

Kenneth A. Haapala
Investment Economist
Retiring President
December 12, 2008 Meeting #2,246
A Note to the New President

Science, Technology, and Education Are Key to Your Leadership

Charles Vest
President
National Academy of Engineering
November 21, 2008 Meeting #2,245
New Advances in Preservation Science at the Library of Congress
Eric F. Hansen
Chief
Preservation Research and Testing Division
Library of Congress
November 7, 2008 Meeting #2,244
The Once and Future History of the Idea of Autoimmunity
Paul Plotz
Acting Chief, Autoimmunity Branch
NIAMS
National Institutes of Health
October 24, 2008 Meeting #2,243
The History of Probability
Mike Shlesinger
Research Division Director
Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare and Combating Terrorism Department
Office of Naval Research
October 10, 2008 Meeting #2,242
Computational Thinking
Jeannette Wing
Assistant Director
Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate
National Science Foundation
September 26, 2008 Meeting #2,241
Too Sweet

Sisyphean Efforts to Understand and Treat Type 1 Diabetes

David M. Harlan
Branch Chief
NIDDK
National Institutes of Health
September 12, 2008 Meeting #2,240
Can America Compete in Science and Engineering?
Norm Augustine
Former Chairman & CEO
Lockheed Martin Corporation
May 16, 2008 Meeting #2,239 The 77th Joseph Henry Lecture
Sponsored by Larry Millstein and Robin Taylor
Arsenic in Ground Water

Aquatic Chemistry and Mitigation through a Sustainable Filtration Technology

Abul Hussam
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
George Mason University
April 25, 2008 Meeting #2,238
Junk Science, Junk Justice
Roberta Shaffer
Executive Director
Federal Library and Information Center Committee
Library of Congress
April 11, 2008 Meeting #2,237
Reviving “The Problematique”
Joseph Coates
Futurist
Consulting Futurist, Inc.
March 28, 2008 Meeting #2,236
4000 Years of Women in Science
Sethanne Howard
Astronomer
Chief of the Nautical Almanac Office
US Naval Observatory (Retired)
March 14, 2008 Meeting #2,235
Cassini: A Distant Outpost for Exploration
F. Michael Flasar
Principal Investigator
Cassini Composite Infrared Spectroscopy Experiment
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
February 22, 2008 Meeting #2,234
Revolutionizing Prosthetics
Geoffrey Ling
Program Manager
Restorative Biomedical Technologies
DARPA
February 8, 2008 Meeting #2,233
Epidemiology of PTSD and Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries among Soldiers Returning from Iraq
Charles Hoge
Colonel
US Army Medical Corps
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
January 25, 2008 Meeting #2,232
Underwritten in Honor of Klaus Heiss
Manmade Global Warming

A Pending Catastrophe, or False Alarm?

Roy W. Spencer
Principal Research Scientist
University of Alabama in Huntsville
January 11, 2008 Meeting #2,231 Retiring President's Lecture
Supporting U.S. Innovation and Prosperity in the 21st Century

In Honor of Retiring President Ruth McDiarmid

William A. Wulf
University Professor, University of Virginia
President Emeritus, National Academy of Engineering
December 14, 2007 Meeting #2,230
Eudynia

The Neurosurgical Management of Pain

Richard North
Director of Neuromodulation
LifeBridge Brain & Spine Institute
November 30, 2007 Meeting #2,229
Plate Tectonics and World Volcanism
Michael P. Ryan
Research Volcanologist and Hydrologist
U.S. Geological Survey
November 9, 2007 Meeting #2,228
Humans + Robots Will Make a Perfect Team – When?
Vladimir Lumelsky
Laboratory of Robotics for Unstructured Environments
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
October 26, 2007 Meeting #2,227
Managing Digital Objects on the Internet
Robert Kahn
Chairman & CEO
Corporation for National Research Initiatives
October 12, 2007 Meeting #2,226
The International Fusion Energy Project – ITER
Michael Roberts
Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Department of Energy's Fusion Energy Sciences (Retired)
September 28, 2007 Meeting #2,225
SUSY and the Lords of the Ring

Supersymmetry Theory

James Gates
Director for the Center for String and Particle Theory
University of Maryland
September 7, 2007 Meeting #2,224
The Complexity of Language

How It Is Learned and How It Changes

David Lightfoot
Director
Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
National Science Foundation
May 11, 2007 Meeting #2,223 The 76th Joseph Henry Lecture
Sponsored by Millstein & Taylor, PC
The Very First Light

The True Inside Story of the Scientific Journey Back to the Dawn of the Universe

John Mather
Co-Recipicent of the Nobel Prize in Physics (2006)
Senior Astrophysicist
Observational Cosmology Laboratory
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
April 27, 2007 Meeting #2,222
Technologies of the Future
Anthony J. Tether
Director
DARPA
April 13, 2007 Meeting #2,221
The Secret to Benjamin Franklin’s Electrifying Success
Mark Skousen
Benjamin Franklin Chair of Management
Grantham University
March 30, 2007 Meeting #2,220
Chemistry Against Crime
Walter F. Rowe
Professor of Forensic Sciences
George Washington University
March 16, 2007 Meeting #2,219
The Role of the Gut, Hormones and the Brain in Obesity
Monica C. Skarulis
Senior Clinical Investigator
National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases
National Institutes of Health
March 2, 2007 Meeting #2,218
The Global Positioning System
Thomas McCaskill
Scientist
Naval Research Laboratory (Retired)
February 16, 2007 Meeting #2,217
Astrobiology
William Newman
Professor
Earth & Space Sciences, Physics & Astronomy, and Mathematics
University of California
February 2, 2007 Meeting #2,216
Mankind’s Struggle with Its Perennial Scourge, Malaria
D. Gray Heppner
Director
Division of Malaria Vaccine Development
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
January 12, 2007 Meeting #2,215 Retiring President's Lecture
The Mystery of Iron
Bill Saalbach
Senior Electrical Engineer
Alion Science and Technology Corporation
Retiring President
December 15, 2006 Meeting #2,214
Nanotechnology
Mike Roco
Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology
National Science Foundation
December 1, 2006 Meeting #2,213
Military Robotics

Status and Challenges

Stephen Welby
Director
Tactical Technology Office
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
November 17, 2006 Meeting #2,212
Sponsored by Millstein & Taylor, PC
Fifteen Years of Astounding Images by the Hubble Space Telescope
H. John Wood
Lead Optical Engineer
Hubble Space Telescope
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
November 3, 2006 Meeting #2,211
Unraveling the Secrets of the Polar Ice Sheets

A Glaciological Perspective

Julie Palais
Program Director
Antarctic Glaciology Program
National Science Foundation
October 20, 2006 Meeting #2,210
Where Is That Collection?

Finding Geological Specimens for Research

J. Thomas Dutros, Jr.
Research Associate
Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
October 6, 2006 Meeting #2,209
What is Science and Why Do We Really Care?
G. Peter Nanos
Associate Director for Research and Development
Defense Threat Reduction Agency
September 15, 2006 Meeting #2,208
Growing Older

Challenges and Opportunities in Aging

Richard Hodes
Director
National Institute on Aging
National Institutes of Health
May 12, 2006 Meeting #2,207 The 75th Joseph Henry Lecture
Latest Scientific Results from the Mars Exploration Rovers
Jim Garvin
Chief Scientist
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
April 21, 2006 Meeting #2,206
Art, Adventure, and Discovery Down Under
Michael Van Woert
Executive Officer
Polar Programs
National Science Foundation
April 7, 2006 Meeting #2,205
The Promise of Biotechnology for Applications in Energy and the Environment
Ari Patrinos
President
Synthetic Genomics, Inc.
March 24, 2006 Meeting #2,204
Long, Fast, and Multicolor Fireworks from the Center of Galaxies
Rita M. Sambruna
Senior Astrophysicist
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
March 10, 2006 Meeting #2,203
Avian Influenza
David K. Henderson
Deputy Director for Clinical Care
Clinical Center
National Institutes of Health
February 24, 2006 Meeting #2,202
The Future Role of Nuclear Power
Richard A. Meserve
President
Carnegie Institution
February 10, 2006 Meeting #2,201
Imaging the Brain — Finding Emotion
Claudia Wassmann
Fellow in the History of Biomedical Sciences and Technology
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
National Institutes of Health
January 20, 2006 Meeting #2,200
An Abundance of Frozen Clean Energy from the Sea
Bhakta Rath
Associate Director of Research
Naval Research Laboratory
January 6, 2006 Meeting #2,199 Retiring President's Lecture
Energy Trade-Offs
Robert L. Hershey
Professional Engineer
Retiring President
December 9, 2005 Meeting #2,198
Einstein’s Warped Universe
Ted Jacobson
University of Maryland
November 18, 2005 Meeting #2,197
Beyond The Edge of the Sea

Volcanoes and life in the deep ocean

Cindy L. Van Dover
College of William and Mary
October 14, 2005 Meeting #2,196
The Theory of Chaos
James Yorke
University of Maryland
September 23, 2005 Meeting #2,195
From The Chicago Heat Wave to Houston Floods

How Cities Affect Weather and Climate

J. Marshall Shepherd
NASA Deputy Project Scientist-Global Precipitation Measurement Mission
September 9, 2005 Meeting #2,194
Life in the Age of Risk Management
Kimberly Thompson
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health
May 13, 2005 Meeting #2,193 The 74th Joseph Henry Lecture
Time, Einstein, and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe
William Phillips
NIST, Nobel Laureate
April 22, 2005 Meeting #2,192
Smallpox and Ebola Viruses as Agents of Bioterrorism
Peter Jahrling
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
April 8, 2005 Meeting #2,191
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance-based Quantum Computing
Karen Sauer
George Mason University
March 25, 2005 Meeting #2,190
The Ocean Floor

What We Don't Know and Why It Matters

Walter H. F. Smith
NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry
March 11, 2005 Meeting #2,189
Genetic Testing and Personalized Medicine

The Genome and a Health Care Revolution

Joann Boughman
American Society for Human Genetics
February 25, 2005 Meeting #2,188
LEFT & RIGHT

Geochemical origins of life's molecular handedness

Bob Hazen
Carnegie Institution of Washington & George Mason University
February 11, 2005 Meeting #2,187
Waves and Particles in Light
Luis A. Orozco
Department of Physics, University of Maryland
January 21, 2005 Meeting #2,186
Snow’s “Two Cultures” Revisited, from an Engineer’s Perspective
William Wulf
President, National Academy of Engineering
January 7, 2005 Meeting #2,185 Retiring President's Lecture
Cosmic Evolution

Three Views of the Universe

Steven J. Dick
NASA Chief Historian
December 3, 2004 Meeting #2,184
Tracking Bowhead Whales under the Arctic Sea Ice
William T. Ellison
President, Marine Acoustics
November 19, 2004 Meeting #2,183
The Terrestrial Impact Cratering Record
Jeff Plescia
Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University
November 5, 2004 Meeting #2,182
Managing the Planet

Hard Science and Hard Choices

James Trefil
Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Physics, George Mason University
October 22, 2004 Meeting #2,181
The Conduct Of Science Is Not What It Used To Be
Arden Bement
Director, NIST; Acting Director, NSF
October 8, 2004 Meeting #2,180
Seven Reasons that Neutrinos May be Faster-Than-Light Tachyons
Robert Ehrlich
George Mason University
September 10, 2004 Meeting #2,179
Underwritten by Joseph and Vary Coates
Mars

New Frontiers in Exploration from the Mars Exploration Rovers

Jim Garvin
NASA Chief Scientist for Mars and the Moon
May 28, 2004 Meeting #2,178 The 73rd Joseph Henry Lecture
Oceans and Human Health

A Symbiotic Relationship between People and the Sea

Rita R. Colwell
Retiring Director, National Science Foundation
May 7, 2004 Meeting #2,177
Nanomagnetics
Robert D. Shull
National Institute of Standards and Technology
April 2, 2004 Meeting #2,176
Electric Power Reliability

The August 14, 2003 Electric Power Blackout: Why did it happen, what did we learn, and where do we go from here?

Will Grant
MPR Associates
March 19, 2004 Meeting #2,175
Nanotechnology

Hype, Hope, and Prey

James S. Murday
Office of Naval Research
March 5, 2004 Meeting #2,174
Human Evolution
Sarah Tishkoff
Department of Biology, University of Maryland
February 20, 2004 Meeting #2,173
The Golden Ratio
Mario Livio
Space Telescope Science Institute
February 6, 2004 Meeting #2,172
The Rabi Quantum Computer

A Venture in Philosophy

Rudolph A. Krutar
George Mason University
January 23, 2004 Meeting #2,171
The Future of Human Space Flight
John M. Logsdon
Director, Space Policy Institute
January 9, 2004 Meeting #2,170 Retiring President's Lecture
Wine 202

Adding a Bit of Scientific Rigor To the Art of Understanding and Appreciating Fine Wines

Ken Haapala
Retiring President
December 5, 2003 Meeting #2,169
Synchrony in Nature

From Clocks to Neurons

Paul So & Ernest Barreto
George Mason University
November 14, 2003 Meeting #2,168
Atoms, Molecules and Light

Physics Serving Society

Wendell T. Hill, III
University of Maryland
October 24, 2003 Meeting #2,167
Fun with Physics in More than Four Dimensions
Alan Chodos
American Physical Society
October 10, 2003 Meeting #2,166
The Audubon Movement

Harbinger of Our National Wildlife Refuge System

Kent Minichiello
Audubon Naturalist Society
September 26, 2003 Meeting #2,165
Herschel to Ritter

Synchrotron Light and Its Applications

Uwe Arp
National Institute of Standards and Technology
September 12, 2003 Meeting #2,164
Reducing Risks to Our Health and Our Environment

The Roles of Science and Precaution

Gail Charnley
Society for Risk Analysis
May 16, 2003 Meeting #2,163 The 72nd Joseph Henry Lecture
Biology and Humans in Space
Baruch Blumberg
1976 Nobel Prize in Medicine
May 2, 2003 Meeting #2,162
A New Spin on Electronics
Stuart Wolf
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
April 4, 2003 Meeting #2,161
Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems
Frederica Darema
National Science Foundation
March 21, 2003 Meeting #2,160
Neutrinos and their Role in Astrophysics
Bob Ellsworth
George Mason University
March 7, 2003 Meeting #2,159
Genesis

Science and the Beginning of Time

Raymond L. Orbach
Director, Office of Science, Department of Energy
February 21, 2003 Meeting #2,158
Superconductivity

An Emerging, Energy Efficient Technology

Donald U. Gubser
Naval Research Laboratory
February 7, 2003 Meeting #2,157
SDI Missile Defense
Hank Cooper
Chairman, High Frontier
January 24, 2003 Meeting #2,156
A Thermometric Odyssey
Robert Soulen
Naval Research Laboratory & National Institute of Standards and Technology
January 10, 2003 Meeting #2,155 Retiring President's Lecture
MEMS Rocket Engines Applications and Status

A Marriage of Two 20th Century Technologies

Robert J. Collins
Retiring Presiden
December 6, 2002 Meeting #2,154
The Value of Crazy Ideas in Science
Bob Ehrlich
George Mason University
November 22, 2002 Meeting #2,153
A Manned Mission to the Mysterious Moons of Mars
S. Fred Singer
President, Science & Environmental Policy Project
November 8, 2002 Meeting #2,152
Bioterrorism
Pierre Noel
National Institutes of Health
October 25, 2002 Meeting #2,151
Measuring Surface Roughness

From the Atomic Level to Highway Bumps

Theodore Vorburger
National Institute of Standards and Technology
October 11, 2002 Meeting #2,150
The Engineering of Blast Protection
Robert L. Hershey
Professional Engineer
September 27, 2002 Meeting #2,149
The Origin of Size
John Marburger
Presidential Science Advisor
September 13, 2002 Meeting #2,148
Building and Fire Safety

Response to the World Trade Center Disaster

S. Shyam Sunder
National Institute of Standards and Technology
May 17, 2002 Meeting #2,147 The 71st Joseph Henry Lecture
The Cholesterol Myths
Uffe Ravnskov
Independent Researcher
April 26, 2002 Meeting #2,146
The Beauty of the Cosmos and the Accelerating Universe
Mario Livio
Space Telescope Science Institute
April 12, 2002 Meeting #2,145
Animal Communication and Awareness
Michael W. Fox
Humane Society of the United States
March 22, 2002 Meeting #2,144
The St. Petersburg Paradox
Klaus P. Heiss
Consulting Mathematician
March 8, 2002 Meeting #2,143
Science at the Earth’s Poles
Karl Erb
National Science Foundation
February 22, 2002 Meeting #2,142
Chirality and Molecular Order
Jonathan Selinger
Naval Research Laboratory
February 8, 2002 Meeting #2,141
Art and Science

Two Ways of Seeing

Barbara H. Berrie
Senior Conservation Scientist, National Gallery of Art
January 25, 2002 Meeting #2,140
The Proteome Challenge
John S. Garavelli
Bioinformatics Scientist
January 11, 2002 Meeting #2,139 Retiring President's Lecture
The Genome Challenge
Ruth McDiarmid
Retiring President
December 14, 2001 Meeting #2,138
Autistic Spectrum Disorders
Kenneth Towbin & Ann Wagner
National Institute of Mental Health, NIH
November 30, 2001 Meeting #2,137
Protecting All of the Planets, All of the Time
John Rummel
Planetary Protection Officer, NASA
November 9, 2001 Meeting #2,136
The Science of Missile Defense
Steve Fetter
School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland
October 26, 2001 Meeting #2,135
Physics in the 20th Century
Curt Suplee
National Science Foundation
October 12, 2001 Meeting #2,134
The Clinical and Intellectual Implications of Stem Cell Biology
Ronald D.G. McKay
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH
September 21, 2001 Meeting #2,133
(Discovery of) Extrasolar Planets
R. Paul Butler
Carnegie Institute of Washington
May 11, 2001 Meeting #2,132 The 70th Joseph Henry Lecture
The Human Computer and the Birth of the Information Age
David A. Grier
Associate Professor, George Washington University
April 27, 2001 Meeting #2,131
Atoms and Light

From Laser Cooled Atoms to Atom Lasers

Paul D. Lett
Atomic Physics Division, NIST
March 30, 2001 Meeting #2,130
Lobbying for Time in Nineteenth-Century America
Ian R. Bartky
Bethesda, MD
March 9, 2001 Meeting #2,129
Fire in Space
Gregory T. Linteris
Fire Science Division, NIST
February 23, 2001 Meeting #2,128
Rethinking Motivation and Personality

An Introduction to Reversal Theory

Michael J. Apter
Visiting Researcher, Georgetown University
February 9, 2001 Meeting #2,127
The Issue of Life on Mars and Its Implications on Science and Philosophy
Gil Levin
President, Biospherics, Inc.
January 26, 2001 Meeting #2,126
Genetically Engineered Plants
Maxine Singer
President, Carnegie Institute of Washington
January 5, 2001 Meeting #2,125 Retiring President's Lecture
John Wesley Powell Didn’t Throw in the Towel
Phil Cantelon
President, Cosmos Club
December 8, 2000 Meeting #2,124
Who Will Speak for the Truth?

The Case of Nuclear Radiation

Theodore Rockwell
Engineer in Private Practice
November 17, 2000 Meeting #2,123
Debunking the PC Rhetoric from the Merchants of Fat
Mary G. Enig
Director, Nutritional Sciences Division, Enig Associates, Inc.
November 3, 2000 Meeting #2,122
Light-Gas Gun Satellite Launchers
Harold Gilreath
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
October 20, 2000 Meeting #2,121
Brain-Immune Interactions in Health and Disease

Implications for Susceptibility to Arthritis and Infectious Disease

Esther M. Sternberg
National Institute of Mental Health
October 6, 2000 Meeting #2,120
The Extraterrestrial Life Debate

Historical, Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives

Steven Dick
U.S. Naval Observatory
September 22, 2000 Meeting #2,119
Art and Science
John Safer
Artist
May 12, 2000 Meeting #2,118 The 69th Joseph Henry Lecture
Global Warming

Hot Talk, Cold Science

S. Fred Singer
President, Science and Environmental Policy Project
April 14, 2000 Meeting #2,117
The Kensington Rune Stone
Ronald O. Hietala
Organizational Psychologist
March 17, 2000 Meeting #2,116
Time Measurement
Robert A. Nelson
President, Satellite Engineering Research Corporation
February 25, 2000 Meeting #2,115
The Politics of Science 2000
Daniel S. Greenberg
Department of History of Science, Medicine and Technology at Johns Hopkins University
February 11, 2000 Meeting #2,114
Risks and Trade-Offs
Robert L. Hershey
Consulting Engineer
January 28, 2000 Meeting #2,113
Microbial Genome Sequencing

A Window into Physiology and Evolution

Karen E. Nelson
Institute for Genomic Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington
January 14, 2000 Meeting #2,112 Retiring President's Lecture
Hilbert’s Space

Aspects of one century and prospects for the next

John S. Garavelli
Associate Director, Protein Information Resource
December 10, 1999 Meeting #2,111
Deconstructing the Milky Way
Henry T. Freudenreich
NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center
November 12, 1999 Meeting #2,110
The Chemical Biology of Nitric Oxide

Getting to K(NO)w a Radical

David Wink
Senior Staff Fellow, National Cancer Institute
October 29, 1999 Meeting #2,109
Buildout

An Examination of Environmental Carrying Capacity around Chesapeake Bay from 1607 to the Present

Kent Mountford
Senior Scientist, USEPA Chesapeake Bay Program
October 15, 1999 Meeting #2,108
The L’Enfant Plan for Washington and Its Fate
Don Hawkins
Architect
October 1, 1999 Meeting #2,107
The Nature of Time in Physics and Human Experience
Robert A. Nelson
President, Satellite Engineering Research Corporation
May 7, 1999 Meeting #2,106 The 68th Joseph Henry Lecture
Quantum Crystallography, a Tool for Enhancing Information from Crystallographic Data
Isabella Karle
Naval Research Lab
April 23, 1999 Meeting #2,105
The Problem of Mass
Jonathan A. Bagger
Johns Hopkins University
April 2, 1999 Meeting #2,104
Does Solar Energy Have a Future in Utility Power?

If so, When and Why?

George D. Cody
Scientific Advisor, Exxon Corporate Research
March 19, 1999 Meeting #2,103
An Astronaut’s View of the Planet Earth
Mary Cleave
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
March 5, 1999 Meeting #2,102
The Next Billion Years
Joseph N. Pelton
George Washington University
February 19, 1999 Meeting #2,101
World Wide, Web-Enabled Experiments in Protein Structure Prediction
John Moult
University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
February 5, 1999 Meeting #2,100
Probing the Depths of Geology
Paul G. Silver
Carnegie Institution of Washington
January 22, 1999 Meeting #2,099
Surviving the Age of Bad Information
Joel Achenbach
Washington Post
January 8, 1999 Meeting #2,098 Retiring President's Lecture
Freud, Scientist of the Mind
Eloise Agger
Retiring President
December 11, 1998 Meeting #2,097
Changing Concepts of New World Origins

Putting a New Face on the First Americans

Dennis Stanford
Smithsonian Institution
November 20, 1998 Meeting #2,096
The Life and Works of George Gamov
G. David Anderson
Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist, and Popular Science Writer George Washington University
November 6, 1998 Meeting #2,095
Forensic Metallurgy of the RMS Titanic
Timothy Foecke
National Institute of Standards and Technology
October 23, 1998 Meeting #2,094
Science in the Service of the State

Magic Bullets, Medical Research and Wartime Human Radiation Experiments

Greg Herken
Historian and Curator of Military Space, National Air and Space Museum
October 2, 1998 Meeting #2,093
Superstrings

Why Einstein Would Love Spaghetti in Fundamental Physics

S. James Gates
University of Maryland, Department of Physics
September 18, 1998 Meeting #2,092
Dr. Spock’s Legacy
Thomas Maier
Journalist and Author
May 8, 1998 Meeting #2,091 The 67th Joseph Henry Lecture
What Hubble Didn’t Know About the Universe
Vera C. Rubin
Carnegie Institution of Washington
April 24, 1998 Meeting #2,090
Are We Unique?
James Trefil
Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Physics, George Mason University
April 3, 1998 Meeting #2,089
Malignant Leaders and Vulnerable Followers

The Psychopolitics of Hatred

Jerrod Post
Professor of Psychiatry and Political Psychology and International Affairs, George Washington University
March 20, 1998 Meeting #2,088
Clusters of Galaxies as Cosmological Probes
Richard Mushotzky
Astrophysicist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
March 6, 1998 Meeting #2,087
Birds, Eels, and Turtles: Migration and Magnetism
Eugenie Mielczarek
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, George Mason University
February 20, 1998 Meeting #2,086
Latest Results From the Mars Pathfinder and the Mars Global Surveyor

And an Update from the Hubble Space Telescope

H. John Wood
Astronomer and Optics Lead Engineer, Hubble Space Telescope Project, NASA Goddard Optics Branch
February 6, 1998 Meeting #2,085
An Exhibit Denied

Lobbying the History of the Enola Gay

Martin Harwit
Astrophysicist, Former Director, National Air and Space Museum
January 23, 1998 Meeting #2,084
The Visible Human Project

A Public Resource for Anatomical Visualization

Michael Akerman
Asst. Dir. High Performance Computing and Communications, NIB
January 9, 1998 Meeting #2,083 Retiring President's Lecture
Scientific Exchanges with other Countries

My Experiences in Egypt, China and India and Where the Heck is Ouarzazate, Anyway

Thomas R. Lettieri
National Institute of Standards and Technology
December 12, 1997 Meeting #2,082
Exploring Washington History

The Research Library of the Historical Society of Washington, D.C.

Gail R. Redmann
Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
November 21, 1997 Meeting #2,081
Antimatter Fountain in the Galactic Center
Charles D. Dermer
Naval Research Laboratory
November 7, 1997 Meeting #2,080
Snow and Ice Crystals

Three Dimensional Structure, Metamorphoses of Crystals Revealed by Scanning Electron Microscopy

William P. Wergin
U.S. Department of Agriculture
October 17, 1997 Meeting #2,079
What Can You Do with a Broken Computer?
Russell A. Kirsch
Director of Research, Sturvil Corporation
September 12, 1997 Meeting #2,078
The First Aerospace Aluminum Alloy

The Wright Flyer Crankcase

Frank W. Gayle
National Institute of Standards and Technology
September 5, 1997 Meeting #2,077
Manufacturing Infrastructure for Optoelectronics
Victor R. McCrary
National Institute of Standards and Technology
May 12, 1997 Meeting #2,076
“Frequent Interchange of Ideas and Appreciative Encouragement”

The Role of Scientific Societies in the Life of Joseph Henry

Marc Rothenberg
Curator, Joseph Henry Papers Project, Smithsonian Institution
May 2, 1997 Meeting #2,075 The 66th Joseph Henry Lecture
Mars in Fact versus Fiction
Donna Lee Shirley
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
April 18, 1997 Meeting #2,074
Uneconomic Growth

In Theory, in Fact, and Some Consequences

Herman E. Daly
University of Maryland
April 4, 1997 Meeting #2,073
Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Prozac
Harvey L. Rich
Washington Psychoanalytical Association
March 21, 1997 Meeting #2,072
Scientific Determination of the Causes of Aging
Anna M. McCormick
National Institutes of Aging
March 7, 1997 Meeting #2,071
Hyperspectral Imaging
Lee J. Rickard
Naval Research Laboratory
February 21, 1997 Meeting #2,070
The Controversy on the Distance to Gamma Ray Bursters
Jay Norris
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
February 7, 1997 Meeting #2,069
Metrology, the Science and the Philosophy
H. Steffen Peiser
National Institute of Standards and Technology
January 24, 1997 Meeting #2,068
Manifesto for a New Medicine
James S. Gordon
Georgetown University School of Medicine
January 3, 1997 Meeting #2,067 Retiring President's Lecture
Principles of Contemporary Technology
Joseph Coates
President, Coates & Jarratt
December 13, 1996 Meeting #2,066
Lessons Learned from a Medieval Map

The Vinland Map

Jacqueline S. Olin
Smithsonian Institution
November 15, 1996 Meeting #2,065
A Model for a Real Aether
Allen Rothward
Professor, Electronics and Computer Engineering, Drexel University
November 1, 1996 Meeting #2,064
Preserving Ancient Statues from ‘Ain Ghazal, Jordan
Carol Grissom
Senior Objects Conservator, Conservation Analytical Laboratory, Smithsonian Institution
October 18, 1996 Meeting #2,063
Evolution of Consciousness as Emotion
Ayub K. Ommaya
Professor of Neurological Surgery, George Washington University
October 4, 1996 Meeting #2,062
Satellite Laser Ranging

A Joint Agency Effort for Precise Satellite Positioning

G. Charmaine Gilbreath
Electro-Optics Center Naval Research Laboratory
September 6, 1996 Meeting #2,061
When Congress Writes the Prescription

Voodoo Medicine at the National Institutes of Health

Robert L. Park
Professor, University of Maryland; Director of Public Information, American Physical Society
May 3, 1996 Meeting #2,060 The 65th Joseph Henry Lecture
How do Protein Molecules Self-Assemble?
George D. Rose
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
April 19, 1996 Meeting #2,059
Cryo-Electronics

A Hot New Topic

Stuart A. Wolf
Naval Research Laboratory
March 29, 1996 Meeting #2,058
Beginnings of Cellular Life

Metabolism Recapitulates Biogenesis

Harold Morowitz
George Mason University
March 15, 1996 Meeting #2,057
Light, Heat and Materials

Thermal Imaging and Nondestructive Evaluation

John Murphy
Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University
March 1, 1996 Meeting #2,056
Genetic Variation and Nutrition
Artemis Simopouloss
Center for Genetics, Nutrition, and Health
February 2, 1996 Meeting #2,055
Mapping Language and Memory Functions in the Human Brain
Teresa Blaxton
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH
January 19, 1996 Meeting #2,054
Pros and Cons of Genetic Studies
Lameh Fananapazir
Co-Chief, Inherited Cardiac Diseases
National Institutes of Health
January 5, 1996 Meeting #2,053 Retiring President's Lecture
The Best Two Out of Three and Other Interesting Computer Tales
James Ohlmacher
Retiring President
December 15, 1995 Meeting #2,052
Recent Results from the Hubble on Star and Planet Formation
Christopher Burroughs
European Space Agency and Space Science Telescope Institute
December 1, 1995 Meeting #2,051
Science and the Future of Cities
James Trefil
George Mason University
November 17, 1995 Meeting #2,050
Ecological Biogeography of Rare Plant Species in the Mid-Atlantic Region
Larry E. Morse
Chief Botanist, The Nature Conservancy
November 3, 1995 Meeting #2,049
DNA Identification of the Last Romanovs
Thomas J. Parsons
Armed Forces Institution of Pathology
October 20, 1995 Meeting #2,048
Whatever Happened to “Cold Fusion?”
David J. Nagel
Naval Research Laboratory
September 29, 1995 Meeting #2,047
Joseph Priestley

Radical, Natural Philosopher, and Theologian

Jack Fruchtman, Jr.
Professor, Political Science Department, Towson State University
September 15, 1995 Meeting #2,046
Updates on Three Problems in Modern Astronomy

COBE and How We Know There Was A Big Bang, The Solar Neutrino Problem and How We Know the Stars Run on Nuclear Energy, Gamma Ray Bursters and How Sometimes We Don't Know Anything

Virginia L. Trimble
Professor Physics Department, University of California at Irvine and Astronomy Department, University of Maryland at College Park
May 12, 1995 Meeting #2,045 The 64th Joseph Henry Lecture
Designer Brain

Receptor-Neurotransmitter Research, the Scientific and Social-Ethical Implications

Richard M. Restak
George Washington Medical School
April 21, 1995 Meeting #2,044
Worlds Apart

The Inner Planets

Sean C. Solomon
Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington
April 7, 1995 Meeting #2,043
Timekeeping

Synch or Swim

Donald B. Sullivan
Time and Frequency Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology
March 17, 1995 Meeting #2,042
Neutrinos and the Quest for Grand Unity in Physics
Rabindra Nath Mohapatra
Department of Physics, University of Maryland
March 3, 1995 Meeting #2,041
Dietary Oxidative Stress

Boon or Bane in Infection?

Orville A. Levander
U.S. Department of Agriculture
February 17, 1995 Meeting #2,040
Making Use of Chaos
Louis M. Pecora
Naval Research Laboratory
February 3, 1995 Meeting #2,039
A Week of Experiences at the 1994 Nobel Prize Ceremonies
Robert D. Shull
National Institute of Standards and Technology
January 20, 1995 Meeting #2,038
Genes a A New Measure of Man
William A. Haseltine
Human Genome Sciences, Inc.
January 6, 1995 Meeting #2,037 Retiring President's Lecture
Sic Transit Trans

Science Salvages the Truth in Spite of Potent Economic Interventions

Mary G. Enig
Retiring President
December 16, 1994 Meeting #2,036
Mathematics in Stone and Bronze
Helaman Ferguson, Sculptor/Mathematician & Claire Ferguson, Author
December 2, 1994 Meeting #2,035
Within Sight of the White House

The Working Women of Washington, DC

Donna J. Seifert
Archeologist, John Milner Associates, Inc.
November 18, 1994 Meeting #2,034
The Science of Hearing and the Perceptual Problems of the Hearing-Impaired
Sally Revoile
Gallaudet University
November 4, 1994 Meeting #2,033
The Highly Probable Future

83 Assumptions about the Year 2025

Joseph F. Coates
President, Coates & Jarratt
October 14, 1994 Meeting #2,032
Thoughts on Chaos
Mark L. Spano
White Oak Laboratory, Naval Surface Warfare Center
September 30, 1994 Meeting #2,031
The Decay of the Neutron, The Big Bang and aDarka Matter in the Universe
Geoffrey L. Greene
National Institute of Standards and Technology
September 16, 1994 Meeting #2,030
What Is Science and Why Do Postmodern Philosophers Have So Little Useful to Say About It?
James Trefil
George Mason University
May 13, 1994 Meeting #2,029 The 63rd Joseph Henry Lecture
Environmental Influences on Brain Structure and Function
Marian Diamond
Professor of Anatomy, Department of Integrative Biology, and Director, Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley
April 22, 1994 Meeting #2,028
The Making of a Soviet Scientist
Roald Sagdeev
Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Maryland
April 8, 1994 Meeting #2,027
Do Weak Electromagnetic Fields Cause Bioeffects?

Why Is There Such Skepticism? What Are the Answers?

Theodore Litovitz
Professor of Physics, Catholic University
March 18, 1994 Meeting #2,026
Adventures of a Physics Reporter
Gloria Lubkin
Editor, Physics Today
March 4, 1994 Meeting #2,025
Anthropology Looks at the Old Testament

The God-Nature Continuum

Milton Jacobs
Professor Emeritus Anthropology, State University of New York
February 18, 1994 Meeting #2,024
The Crisis of Life on Earth and the Nature of Human Nature
Michael Robinson
National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution
February 4, 1994 Meeting #2,023
The Silent Revolution

Rare Earth Permanent Magnets and Their Applications

Fred Rothwarf
Applied Technologies Enterprises, Ltd.
January 21, 1994 Meeting #2,022
The Human Genome Project

Unravelling the Instructions for Creating Life

Robert J. Robbins
Robert J. Robbins
January 7, 1994 Meeting #2,021 Retiring President's Lecture
Tapping into Our Living History

Past Presidents of the Society and Traditions

William Spargo
MPR Associates
December 17, 1993 Meeting #2,020
On What the Mind is Identical With
Teed Rockwell
Philosopher/Musician
December 3, 1993 Meeting #2,019
Coupling Between the Upper and Lower Atmospheres

The Electrical Connection

Richard Goldberg
Senior Scientist, Laboratory of Extra-Terrestrial Physics, Goddard Space Flight Center
November 19, 1993 Meeting #2,018
Occurrence of Toxic Organometal Species in the Aquatic Environment
Jon M. Bellama
Department of Chemistry, University of Maryland
November 5, 1993 Meeting #2,017
View of the World Through the Human Pre-Frontal Cortex
Jordan Grafman
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
October 15, 1993 Meeting #2,016
There Is Smell in Your Life

How It Got There, How It Works, and What Happens to It When You Age

Robert I. Henkin
Center for Molecular Nutrition and Sensory Disorders, Taste and Smell Clinic
October 1, 1993 Meeting #2,015
Historic Artifact Preservation and Study: To What End? & Objectivity as a Means of Connoisseurship
Jacqueline Olin & Charles Olin
Smithsonian Institution
September 17, 1993 Meeting #2,014
Why is There Something Rather than Nothing?

Reflections on the New Science of Complexity

M. Mitchell Waldrop
Author and Physicist
May 14, 1993 Meeting #2,013 The 62nd Joseph Henry Lecture
Origin, Evolution, and Distribution of Life in the Universe
Cyril Ponnamperuma
Director, Laboratory of Chemical Evolution
University of Maryland
April 23, 1993 Meeting #2,012
Intraoperative Radiotherapy

A Treatment Option for Cancers That Cannot Be Removed by Surgery

Alfred F. Goldson
Howard University Cancer Center
April 2, 1993 Meeting #2,011
The Recipe for FDA’s Food Policies
Frank E. McLaughlin
College of Business and Management, University of Maryland
March 19, 1993 Meeting #2,010
The Quest of Metallic Hydrogen
Ho-Kwang Mao
Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington
March 5, 1993 Meeting #2,009
The Limits of Friendship

Ramanujan and Hardy in England

Robert Kanigel
Author
February 19, 1993 Meeting #2,008
The Role of Advanced Technology in Cleaning Up the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex
Gary E. Voelker
U. S. Department of Energy
February 5, 1993 Meeting #2,007
The Hemodynamic Basis of Atherosclerosis
Meyer Texon
New York University Medical Center
January 22, 1993 Meeting #2,006
Plate Tectonics and the Fossil Record

The Evolution of the Modern World

Daniel E. Appleman
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
January 8, 1993 Meeting #2,005 Retiring President's Lecture
The Square Root of Minus One and Other Mathematical Oddities
Willard S. Grant
Retiring President
December 18, 1992 Meeting #2,004
Beyond Determinism and Indignity

A Reinterpretation of Operant Conditioning

Teed Rockwell
Philosopher
December 4, 1992 Meeting #2,003
Chaos and Fractals

Past and Future

Michael F. Shlesinger
Office of Naval Research
November 20, 1992 Meeting #2,002
Superconductivity

Who Cares?

Fernand D. Bedard
National Security Agency
November 6, 1992 Meeting #2,001
X Marks the Spot

Hubble Telescope Research Trials and Tribulations

Colin Cox
Johns Hopkins University
October 23, 1992 Meeting #2,000
The Universe You Don’t See

The Existence and Nature of Dark Matter

Virginia L. Trimble
University of Maryland
October 2, 1992 Meeting #1,999
I Feel Therefore I Am: The Biology of Emotion

A New Paradigm for Consciousness

Ayub Ommaya
Neurosurgeon
September 11, 1992 Meeting #1,998
Application of the Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) Magnetometer in Biomedical Research
Susumu Sato
National Institutes of Health
May 15, 1992 Meeting #1,997 The 61st Joseph Henry Lecture
Is It Possible to Construct a Perception Machine?
Gerald M. Edelman
Rockefeller University
April 24, 1992 Meeting #1,996
NASA’s Magellan Mission to Venus

Exploration Beyond Earth's Bounds

Wesley T. Huntress, Jr.
NASA
April 10, 1992 Meeting #1,995
Fighting the Kuwait Fires from Outer Space and Other Uses for Commercial Remote Sensing Vehicles
Peter D. Zimmerman
Center for Strategic and International Studies
March 27, 1992 Meeting #1,994
The Riddle of Evil

The Causes and Cures of Human Destructiveness

Andrew Bard Schmookler
Author
March 13, 1992 Meeting #1,993
Are Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields Dangerous?
Genevieve Matanoski
Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene
February 28, 1992 Meeting #1,992
Ancient Hunters of America

The Origins of the American Indians

Dennis Stanford
Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
February 21, 1992 Meeting #1,991
Fullerenes

Great Balls of Carbon

William A. Kamitakahara
National Institute of Standards and Technology
February 7, 1992 Meeting #1,990
Sex Differences in the Brain

Good Science, Bad Science

Kathie L. Olsen
National Science Foundation
January 31, 1992 Meeting #1,989
Cold Fusion
The Case Against Cold Fusion -- David Linley, Nature Magazine / The Case for Cold Fusion -- Talbot A. Chubb, Research Systems, Inc.
January 10, 1992 Meeting #1,988 Retiring President's Lecture
What’s the Temperature?
Robert S. Kaeser
Retiring President
December 20, 1991 Meeting #1,987
Environmental Interactions in the Chesapeake Bay System
David L. Correll
Smithsonian Institution
December 6, 1991 Meeting #1,986
The Baltimore Fiasco

A Case Study in Fraud

Walter Stewart & Ned Feder
National Institutes of Health
November 22, 1991 Meeting #1,985
The New Era in Pharmaceutical Development

Using the Genetic Code to Make Better Medicine

Paul O.P. Ts'o
Professor of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University
November 8, 1991 Meeting #1,984
Earthquake Prediction

What Does It Really Mean?

Robert L. Wesson
U.S. Geological Survey
October 25, 1991 Meeting #1,983
The Gamma-Ray Universe
Alan N. Bunner
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
October 18, 1991 Meeting #1,982
Communitarianism

More Responsibilities, Fewer Rights

Amitai Etzioni
Professor of Sociology, George Washington University
October 4, 1991 Meeting #1,981
Meditation and Medicine
James S. Gordon
Psychiatrist, Georgetown University School of Medicine
September 13, 1991 Meeting #1,980
Molecular Approaches to the Study of Evolution
Michael Braun
Smithsonian Institution
May 10, 1991 Meeting #1,979 The 60th Joseph Henry Lecture
The Case for Ending Drug Prohibition

The Emerging Alternative Addiction Paradigm

Joe G. Foreman
Scientist and Former President of the Society
April 26, 1991 Meeting #1,978
The Physics of Baseball
Peter J. Brancazio
Brooklyn College
April 12, 1991 Meeting #1,977
Complementarity and Non-Locality

The Non-Local Universe

Menas Kafatos
George Mason University
March 29, 1991 Meeting #1,976
Cost Effectiveness of Medical Care and Controlling Cost
Marvin M. Kristein
State University of New York
March 15, 1991 Meeting #1,975
Triangle Everywhere

Making a Mesh of Things

Isabel Beichl
National Institute of Science and Technology
February 22, 1991 Meeting #1,974
The Echo of Creation
Gerrit Verschuur
University of Maryland
February 1, 1991 Meeting #1,973
Cybernetics

The Center of Science's Future

Paul Pangaro
Cybernetic Research and Development, PANGARO Incorporated
January 18, 1991 Meeting #1,972 Retiring President's Lecture
Science Sings the Blues

Too Little Money, Too Many Politicians, or Too Many Scientists?

Lisa Heinz
Retiring President