Sponsors - PSW Science

Current Sponsors

Full Year Sponsors

Mike Helton and Helton Associates, LLC

Series Sponsors

Joe Schulman – Spring 2025

Individual Lecture Sponsors

A.C. Charania

#2,528 01/09/2026 Tesla, Marconi, and the Invention of Radio
#2,520 09/05/2025 Revolutionizing Earth Observation with SmallSats and AI

Charles Clark

#2,522 10/03/2025 Measuring the Universe: From Hubble’s Discovery to the Hubble Tension

Frederica Darema

#2,525 11/21/2025 The Real Returns on Public Research Investments

Larry Millstein

#2,536 05/08/2026 TBD
#2,529 01/23/2026 GRADE: Rating Evidence Quality of Health Care Practices

Marlene Bekey

#2,527 12/19/2025 As if the Way One Died Mattered

Michael Sandifer

#2,524 11/07/2025 Medical Imaging with Anti-Matter

Robin Taylor

#2,536 05/08/2026 TBD
#2,529 01/23/2026 GRADE: Rating Evidence Quality of Health Care Practices

Tim Thomas

#2,523 10/17/2025 AI’s Jekyll-and-Hyde Tipping Point

Past Sponsors

Major Benefactors

Bill Maisch, PSW President and Long Time Member
Bequest 2022

Full Year Sponsors

The Policy Studies Organization with the American Public University
2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23

Anonymous Donor #1
2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23

Mike Helton
2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24

Series Sponsors

Tim Thomas
Spring 2023

Individual Lecture Sponsors

A.C. Charania

#2,528 01/09/2026 Tesla, Marconi, and the Invention of Radio
#2,520 09/05/2025 Revolutionizing Earth Observation with SmallSats and AI
#2,508 01/24/2025 Highlights of the X-Ray Universe
#2,502 10/04/2024 Klingon and Other Constructed Languages in the Real World
#2,500 09/06/2024 The 2,500th Gala Meeting — “Uniting All the Men of Science in this City in One Organization”

Adarsh Deepak

#2,467 11/18/2022 Chip Scan: 3D X-Ray Imaging of CMOS Integrated Circuits
#2,443 06/18/2021 NASA’s Commercial Crew Program
#2,427 10/23/2020 The Mathematics of Voting Systems
#2,422 06/05/2020 When AI Joins the Human Brain

Ajay Kothari

#2,498 06/14/2024 Returning Humans to the Moon

American Public University & Policy Studies Organization

#2,355 12/04/2015 The Health Gap
#2,346 04/20/2015 The Hubble 25th Anniversary Lectures
#2,331 03/21/2014 Exceeding Fusion Fuel Breakeven
#2,325 12/06/2013 Behavioral Economics
#2,297 02/24/2012 Sand Stories
#2,292 12/02/2011 Trading at the Speed of Light
#2,281 02/25/2011 Water in Arid Lands
#2,276 12/03/2010 Science for Energy

Andrea Meredith & UMBF, Inc.

#2,515 05/09/2025 Real-Time Observations of Early Solar System Evolution

Anonymous

#2,504 11/01/2024 Ukraine Conflict
#2,503 10/18/2024 The Science of Rare Isotopes
#2,487 12/15/2023 Nuclear Energy & Advanced Reactor Designs
#2,484 11/03/2023 The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Ants and Humans
#2,481 09/22/2023 Hayabusa2 – Surveys and Samples from Asteroid Ryugu and Beyond
#2,456 03/25/2022 Ocean Microbes, Aerosols, Climate and Health

BAE Systems

#2,510 02/21/2025 The James Webb Space Telescope: Key Moments in its History
#2,500 09/06/2024 The 2,500th Gala Meeting — “Uniting All the Men of Science in this City in One Organization”

Bill Spargo

#2,263 01/08/2010 NexGen DNA Sequencers and Personalized Genomics
#2,247 01/09/2009 The NIPCC Report

Bob Terry

#2,428 11/06/2020 Is There a Crisis in Cosmology?
#2,415 11/01/2019 TESS’ Exoplanets
#2,400 12/07/2018 NSF’s Ten Big Ideas

Brad Calvin

#2,476 04/28/2023 Ancient Lives Preserved in Cuneiform

Brett Magaram

#2,479 06/16/2023 The Ike Dike Project to Protect Texas Coasts

Carl Merril

#2,442 06/04/2021 Quantum Gravity
#2,411 09/06/2019 Quantum Gravity
#2,396 09/21/2018 Black Holes and the Structure of Spacetime

Charles Clark

#2,522 10/03/2025 Measuring the Universe: From Hubble’s Discovery to the Hubble Tension

Edward Gadasu

#2,492 03/22/2024 The Emerging Directed Energy Weapons
#2,491 03/08/2024 The Survival of Civilizations

Enig Associates, Inc.

#2,480 09/08/2023 Nuclear Propulsion Systems for Space Exploration

Erica & Bruce Kane

#2,511 03/07/2025 Alphabet Histories
#2,506 12/06/2024 The Science Driving Particle Physics and Big Accelerators
#2,486 12/01/2023 Self-Driving Cars: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
#2,474 03/17/2023 Comets, Centaurs, and Trans-Neptunian Objects

Erica Kane

#2,468 12/02/2022 The Latest on the Great Dinosaur Extinction
#2,451 12/17/2021 Planet Formation
#2,423 06/26/2020 Contextual Robotics
#2,407 04/12/2019 Understanding Dark Matter

Frank Robert

#2,403 02/08/2019 Differentiation of the Embryonic Universe

Frederica Darema

#2,525 11/21/2025 The Real Returns on Public Research Investments
#2,509 02/07/2025 Remote Sensing of Wildfires
#2,505 11/22/2024 The Nuclear Clock: Scaling Quantum Systems for Precision Metrology
#2,494 04/19/2024 Diving Deep into Biodiversity
#2,470 01/20/2023 Post-Quantum Cryptography

James Trefil

#2,461 06/17/2022 Supermassive Black Holes at the Centers of Galaxies

Jeanne Shaw

#2,409 04/29/2019 A Planet Definition Debate
#2,389 03/09/2018 Eclipses
#2,347 04/24/2015 Advanced Spacesuits

Jerry Harasewych

#2,414 10/18/2019 Like Life

Joe Schulman

#2,501 09/20/2024 Space Tourism
#2,489 01/26/2024 Three PSW Scientists
#2,464 10/07/2022 DART: The Double Asteroid Redirection Test
#2,458 05/06/2022 Ultraminiature Medical Implants
#2,446 10/08/2021 Taking the Twinkle Out of the Stars
#2,436 03/05/2021 Building the Giant Magellan Telescope

John Cherniavsky

#2,499 06/28/2024 Human-Centered AI

John Downing

#2,483 10/20/2023 Driven Out of Equilibrium
#2,472 02/17/2023 Mayan Civilization in Northern Guatemala

Klaus Heiss

#2,232 01/25/2008 Manmade Global Warming

Larry Millstein

#2,536 05/08/2026 TBD
#2,529 01/23/2026 GRADE: Rating Evidence Quality of Health Care Practices
#2,518 06/27/2025 OSIRIS-Rex Brings Samples of Bennu to Earth
#2,507 01/10/2025 Fusion Energy
#2,493 04/05/2024 We Have You Surrounded!
#2,482 10/06/2023 NIST: Advancing Innovation for Economic Competitiveness
#2,479 06/16/2023 The Ike Dike Project to Protect Texas Coasts
#2,476 04/28/2023 Ancient Lives Preserved in Cuneiform
#2,239 05/16/2008 Arsenic in Ground Water
#2,223 05/11/2007 The Very First Light
#2,212 11/17/2006 Fifteen Years of Astounding Images by the Hubble Space Telescope

Marlene Bekey

#2,527 12/19/2025 As if the Way One Died Mattered

Martin Harwit

#2,514 04/25/2025 SPHEREx: An All-sky Infrared Spectral Survey Explorer Satellite

Mayumi Okada

#2,412 09/20/2019 Space Architecture for a Moon Village

Michael Sandifer

#2,524 11/07/2025 Medical Imaging with Anti-Matter
#2,516 05/30/2025 The Path to an Energy Frontier Muon Collider
#2,513 04/04/2025 Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena-From Sensationalism to Science
#2,495 05/03/2024 Lessons from the Universe’s Baby Picture

MWZB Law

#2,496 05/17/2024 Unlost – Recovering the Text of Burnt and Carbonized Scrolls
#2,488 01/12/2024 Back to the Moon to Stay?
#2,478 06/02/2023 Einstein’s Real Equation
#2,471 02/03/2023 Whispers from Other Worlds
#2,459 05/20/2022 Ingenuity: The First Flying Machine on Mars
#2,442 06/04/2021 Quantum Gravity
#2,432 01/08/2021 The Year Nanomaterials Saved the World from COVID-19
#2,421 05/15/2020 The Event Horizon Telescope
#2,420 02/21/2020 Single-Particle Cryo-Electron Microscopy
#2,410 05/17/2019 The Big Bang and Inflation
#2,401 01/11/2019 Personalized Drugs on Demand
#2,394 06/15/2018 Cassini’s Spectacular Saturn
#2,386 01/05/2018 Taking the Pulse of the Ocean in a Changing World
#2,379 05/12/2017 Exoplanets and the Search for Life
#2,363 05/06/2016 LIGO, Gravitational Waves, and Colliding Black Holes
#2,362 04/15/2016 The Exploration of Pluto
#2,356 01/08/2016 Einstein, Time, and Light
#2,348 05/08/2015 Synthetic Biology
#2,341 01/23/2015 Grasping the Universe
#2,334 05/09/2014 A Worm’s Tale
#2,326 01/10/2014 What is a Gene?
#2,318 05/10/2013 Curiosity’s Robotic Exploration of Mars’ Gale Crater
#2,310 01/04/2013 The Human Role in Earth Evolution
#2,302 05/25/2012 Synthesizing Life
#2,294 01/06/2012 The Beauty and Promise of Molecular Nanotechnology
#2,279 01/21/2011 Breaking Rules, Making Rules

Ravi Deepak

#2,498 06/14/2024 Returning Humans to the Moon

Rip Rawlings & Erin Felger

#2,485 11/17/2023 Defining Death — Cultural, Scientific and Legal Complexity

Robin Taylor

#2,536 05/08/2026 TBD
#2,529 01/23/2026 GRADE: Rating Evidence Quality of Health Care Practices
#2,518 06/27/2025 OSIRIS-Rex Brings Samples of Bennu to Earth
#2,507 01/10/2025 Fusion Energy
#2,493 04/05/2024 We Have You Surrounded!
#2,482 10/06/2023 NIST: Advancing Innovation for Economic Competitiveness
#2,479 06/16/2023 The Ike Dike Project to Protect Texas Coasts
#2,476 04/28/2023 Ancient Lives Preserved in Cuneiform
#2,239 05/16/2008 Arsenic in Ground Water
#2,223 05/11/2007 The Very First Light
#2,212 11/17/2006 Fifteen Years of Astounding Images by the Hubble Space Telescope

Tim Thomas

#2,523 10/17/2025 AI’s Jekyll-and-Hyde Tipping Point
#2,460 06/03/2022 Quantum Information Science and Quantum Computing
#2,441 05/21/2021 Bringing Back the American Chestnut Tree
#2,433 01/22/2021 Quantifying COVID-19 Pandemic Spread
#2,417 12/06/2019 Super-Resolution and 3-D Imaging: Brain Circuits to Cell Ultrastructures
#2,387 01/19/2018 The Human Cell Atlas
#2,354 11/20/2015 Obama’s BRAIN
#2,344 03/20/2015 Brave Genius

University of California San Diego

#2,477 05/19/2023 Architecture for the New Space Age

Will Blair

#2,512 03/21/2025 Detecting Exoplanets by Gravitational Microlensing

Current Sponsors

Full Year Sponsors

Series Sponsors

Individual Lecture Sponsors

A.C. Charania

#2,528 01/09/2026 Tesla, Marconi, and the Invention of Radio #2,520 09/05/2025 Revolutionizing Earth Observation with SmallSats and AI

Charles Clark

#2,522 10/03/2025 Measuring the Universe: From Hubble’s Discovery to the Hubble Tension

Frederica Darema

#2,525 11/21/2025 The Real Returns on Public Research Investments

Larry Millstein

#2,536 05/08/2026 TBD #2,529 01/23/2026 GRADE: Rating Evidence Quality of Health Care Practices

Marlene Bekey

#2,527 12/19/2025 As if the Way One Died Mattered

Michael Sandifer

#2,524 11/07/2025 Medical Imaging with Anti-Matter

Robin Taylor

#2,536 05/08/2026 TBD #2,529 01/23/2026 GRADE: Rating Evidence Quality of Health Care Practices

Tim Thomas

#2,523 10/17/2025 AI’s Jekyll-and-Hyde Tipping Point

Past Sponsors

Major Benefactors

Full Year Sponsors

Series Sponsors

Individual Lecture Sponsors

A.C. Charania

Adarsh Deepak

#2,467 11/18/2022 Chip Scan: 3D X-Ray Imaging of CMOS Integrated Circuits #2,443 06/18/2021 NASA’s Commercial Crew Program #2,427 10/23/2020 The Mathematics of Voting Systems #2,422 06/05/2020 When AI Joins the Human Brain

Ajay Kothari

#2,498 06/14/2024 Returning Humans to the Moon

American Public University & Policy Studies Organization

Andrea Meredith & UMBF, Inc.

#2,515 05/09/2025 Real-Time Observations of Early Solar System Evolution

Anonymous

BAE Systems

#2,510 02/21/2025 The James Webb Space Telescope: Key Moments in its History #2,500 09/06/2024 The 2,500th Gala Meeting — “Uniting All the Men of Science in this City in One Organization”

Bill Spargo

#2,263 01/08/2010 NexGen DNA Sequencers and Personalized Genomics #2,247 01/09/2009 The NIPCC Report

Bob Terry

#2,428 11/06/2020 Is There a Crisis in Cosmology? #2,415 11/01/2019 TESS’ Exoplanets #2,400 12/07/2018 NSF’s Ten Big Ideas

Brad Calvin

#2,476 04/28/2023 Ancient Lives Preserved in Cuneiform

Brett Magaram

#2,479 06/16/2023 The Ike Dike Project to Protect Texas Coasts

Carl Merril

#2,442 06/04/2021 Quantum Gravity #2,411 09/06/2019 Quantum Gravity #2,396 09/21/2018 Black Holes and the Structure of Spacetime

Charles Clark

#2,522 10/03/2025 Measuring the Universe: From Hubble’s Discovery to the Hubble Tension

Edward Gadasu

#2,492 03/22/2024 The Emerging Directed Energy Weapons #2,491 03/08/2024 The Survival of Civilizations

Enig Associates, Inc.

#2,480 09/08/2023 Nuclear Propulsion Systems for Space Exploration

Erica & Bruce Kane

#2,511 03/07/2025 Alphabet Histories #2,506 12/06/2024 The Science Driving Particle Physics and Big Accelerators #2,486 12/01/2023 Self-Driving Cars: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly #2,474 03/17/2023 Comets, Centaurs, and Trans-Neptunian Objects

Erica Kane

#2,468 12/02/2022 The Latest on the Great Dinosaur Extinction #2,451 12/17/2021 Planet Formation #2,423 06/26/2020 Contextual Robotics #2,407 04/12/2019 Understanding Dark Matter

Frank Robert

#2,403 02/08/2019 Differentiation of the Embryonic Universe

Frederica Darema

#2,525 11/21/2025 The Real Returns on Public Research Investments #2,509 02/07/2025 Remote Sensing of Wildfires #2,505 11/22/2024 The Nuclear Clock: Scaling Quantum Systems for Precision Metrology #2,494 04/19/2024 Diving Deep into Biodiversity #2,470 01/20/2023 Post-Quantum Cryptography

James Trefil

#2,461 06/17/2022 Supermassive Black Holes at the Centers of Galaxies

Jeanne Shaw

#2,409 04/29/2019 A Planet Definition Debate #2,389 03/09/2018 Eclipses #2,347 04/24/2015 Advanced Spacesuits

Jerry Harasewych

#2,414 10/18/2019 Like Life

Joe Schulman

#2,501 09/20/2024 Space Tourism #2,489 01/26/2024 Three PSW Scientists #2,464 10/07/2022 DART: The Double Asteroid Redirection Test #2,458 05/06/2022 Ultraminiature Medical Implants #2,446 10/08/2021 Taking the Twinkle Out of the Stars #2,436 03/05/2021 Building the Giant Magellan Telescope

John Cherniavsky

#2,499 06/28/2024 Human-Centered AI

John Downing

#2,483 10/20/2023 Driven Out of Equilibrium #2,472 02/17/2023 Mayan Civilization in Northern Guatemala

Klaus Heiss

#2,232 01/25/2008 Manmade Global Warming

Larry Millstein

Marlene Bekey

#2,527 12/19/2025 As if the Way One Died Mattered

Martin Harwit

#2,514 04/25/2025 SPHEREx: An All-sky Infrared Spectral Survey Explorer Satellite

Mayumi Okada

#2,528 01/09/2026 Tesla, Marconi, and the Invention of Radio
#2,520 09/05/2025 Revolutionizing Earth Observation with SmallSats and AI

#2,536 05/08/2026 TBD
#2,529 01/23/2026 GRADE: Rating Evidence Quality of Health Care Practices

#2,536 05/08/2026 TBD
#2,529 01/23/2026 GRADE: Rating Evidence Quality of Health Care Practices

#2,467 11/18/2022 Chip Scan: 3D X-Ray Imaging of CMOS Integrated Circuits
#2,443 06/18/2021 NASA’s Commercial Crew Program
#2,427 10/23/2020 The Mathematics of Voting Systems
#2,422 06/05/2020 When AI Joins the Human Brain

#2,510 02/21/2025 The James Webb Space Telescope: Key Moments in its History
#2,500 09/06/2024 The 2,500th Gala Meeting — “Uniting All the Men of Science in this City in One Organization”

#2,263 01/08/2010 NexGen DNA Sequencers and Personalized Genomics
#2,247 01/09/2009 The NIPCC Report

#2,428 11/06/2020 Is There a Crisis in Cosmology?
#2,415 11/01/2019 TESS’ Exoplanets
#2,400 12/07/2018 NSF’s Ten Big Ideas

#2,442 06/04/2021 Quantum Gravity
#2,411 09/06/2019 Quantum Gravity
#2,396 09/21/2018 Black Holes and the Structure of Spacetime

#2,492 03/22/2024 The Emerging Directed Energy Weapons
#2,491 03/08/2024 The Survival of Civilizations

#2,511 03/07/2025 Alphabet Histories
#2,506 12/06/2024 The Science Driving Particle Physics and Big Accelerators
#2,486 12/01/2023 Self-Driving Cars: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
#2,474 03/17/2023 Comets, Centaurs, and Trans-Neptunian Objects

#2,468 12/02/2022 The Latest on the Great Dinosaur Extinction
#2,451 12/17/2021 Planet Formation
#2,423 06/26/2020 Contextual Robotics
#2,407 04/12/2019 Understanding Dark Matter

#2,525 11/21/2025 The Real Returns on Public Research Investments
#2,509 02/07/2025 Remote Sensing of Wildfires
#2,505 11/22/2024 The Nuclear Clock: Scaling Quantum Systems for Precision Metrology
#2,494 04/19/2024 Diving Deep into Biodiversity
#2,470 01/20/2023 Post-Quantum Cryptography

#2,409 04/29/2019 A Planet Definition Debate
#2,389 03/09/2018 Eclipses
#2,347 04/24/2015 Advanced Spacesuits

#2,501 09/20/2024 Space Tourism
#2,489 01/26/2024 Three PSW Scientists
#2,464 10/07/2022 DART: The Double Asteroid Redirection Test
#2,458 05/06/2022 Ultraminiature Medical Implants
#2,446 10/08/2021 Taking the Twinkle Out of the Stars
#2,436 03/05/2021 Building the Giant Magellan Telescope

#2,483 10/20/2023 Driven Out of Equilibrium
#2,472 02/17/2023 Mayan Civilization in Northern Guatemala

#2,524 11/07/2025 Medical Imaging with Anti-Matter
#2,516 05/30/2025 The Path to an Energy Frontier Muon Collider
#2,513 04/04/2025 Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena-From Sensationalism to Science
#2,495 05/03/2024 Lessons from the Universe’s Baby Picture