Sponsors

Current Sponsors

Full Year Sponsors

Mike Helton and Helton Associates, LLC

Series Sponsors

Joe Schulman – Spring 2025

Individual Lecture Sponsors

A.C. Charania

#2,520 09/05/2025 Planet
#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”

Ajay Kothari

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

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

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”

Edward Gadasu

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

Erica & Bruce Kane

#2,511 03/07/2025 Alphabet Histories
#2,506 12/06/2024 The Science Driving Particle Physics and Big Accelerators

Frederica Darema

#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

Joe Schulman

#2,501 09/20/2024 Space Tourism
#2,489 01/26/2024 Three PSW Scientists

John Cherniavsky

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

Larry Millstein

#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!

Martin Harwit

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

Michael Sandifer

#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

Ravi Deepak

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

Robin Taylor

#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!

Will Blair

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

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

#2,520 09/05/2025 Planet
#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

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

#2,509 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

#2,518 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

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

#2,516 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

#2,518 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

#2,460 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