NIST Staff Colloquium Series

Our most prestigious forum, the NIST Staff Colloquium Series brings outstanding scientists, engineers, explorers, scholars and leaders of government and industry to NIST to present challenging and stimulating ideas on scientific and technical topics of current interest. Colloquia addresses usually are scheduled on Fridays at 10:30 a.m. and presented in the Green Auditorium of the NIST campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The chairman of the NIST Colloquium Committee is Dr. William R. Ott, Deputy Director of the NIST Physics Laboratory. 2007-2008 NIST Colloquium Series, Tentative Advance Schedule
	May 16, 2008 Nanotechnology And Human Disease States Subra Suresh Dean of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	April 18, 2008 The Making of Absolute Zero Russell Donnelly Principal Investigator, Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold Department of Physics, Univ. Oregon
	(RESCHEDULED FOR JUNE 6) April 11, 2008 Observing Climate with Satellites Are We on Thin Ice? Compton Tucker Goddard Fellow Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
	March 28, 2008 The Modern Science of Origami From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes Robert J. Lang Author, Artist, and Editor-in-Chief IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
	March 14, 2008 The Measure of All Things Ken Alder Department of History Northwestern University
	March 7, 2008 Energy Options A Global Energy Perspective Nathan Lewis Division of Chemical and Chemistry Engineering California Institute of Technology
	Feb. 22, 2008 Benjamin Franklin The First Scientific American Joyce Chaplin History Department Harvard University
	Feb. 8, 2008 The Quick Kill - Stimulating Innovation in Medical Research & the Future of Surgery Perspectives of an Engineer/Radiologist Reuben Mezrich, M.D., Ph.D. Chairman, Department of Radiology U. of Maryland School of Medicine
	Feb. 1, 2008 LIGO: At the forefront of optical materials research Stephen C. McGuire Professor and Chair, Department of Physics Southern University and A&M College
	Jan. 25, 2008 DNA Not Merely the Secret of Life Nadrian Seeman Department of Chemistry, New York University
	Jan. 18, 2008 Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project Dr. Spencer Wells, Explorer-in-Residence and Director of the Genographic Project National Geographic Society
	Jan. 11, 2008 MatheMagics Art Benjamin, Math Department, Harvey Mudd College
	Dec. 14, 2007 NBS Goes West: JILA and the Boulder Labs Lewis Branscomb
	Dec. 7, 2007 Secrets in the Ancient Goatskin: Archimedes Oldest Writings under X-ray Vision Uwe Bergmann Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
	Nov. 16, 2007 Developing an Effective Malaria Vaccine The Road from Genomics and Molecular Vaccinology to a Live, Attenuated, Whole Parasite Approach Stephen Hoffman CEO and Chief Scientific Officer Sanaria, Inc.
	Oct. 26, 2007 From the Mona Lisa to the Space Shuttle New Heights in 3D Imaging Francois Blais Visual Information Technology National Research Council, Canada
	Oct. 12, 2007 This Is Your Brain on Music Dan Levitin, Department of Psychology McGill University
	Sept. 21, 2007 Improving the Voting Process A Multi-Disciplinary and Politicized Problem Roy Saltman, Author and Alumnus, NIST Computer Systems Laboratory
	Sept. 7, 2007 Quantum Money Teleportation and Computation New Mysteries from the Quantum World Steven Girvin, Dept. of Physics and Applied Physics Yale University
	June 11, 2007 R&D To Deliver Practical Results: Extending Moore's Law William Holt, Senior VP and GM Technology and Manufacturing Group Intel Corp.
	May 18, 2007 Fragile Edge the Fate of the Ocean Julia Whitty, Naturalist & Documentary Writer Hardy Jones/Julia Whitty Productions
	May 4, 2007 Curiosity Driven Research: The Most Practical of All Michael Lazaridis President & Co-CEO, Research in Motion Founder, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Chancellor, University of Waterloo
	April 20, 2007 Tracking Large Numbers of Cell in Vivo Computer Vision Takeo Kanade Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University
	April 10, 2007 (Please note special date and time) The Economic$ of Information $ecurity (Jointly Sponsored by OCIO NIST IT Security & Networking Division) Bruce Schneier Founder and Chief Technical Officer Counterpane Network Security, Inc.
	March 23, 2007 If Archimedes Had a Computer: Why Ships, Icebergs, and Buildings Tilt and Capsize Chris Rorres School of Veterinary Medicine University of Pennsylvania and Professor Emeritus of Mathematics Drexel University
	March 8, 2007 Nanomedicine Nanotechnology for Enhancing Human Health James Baker, M.D. Director, Nanotechnology Institute For Medicine & the Biological Sciences University of Michigan
	Feb. 9, 2007 The Quantum Optics Circus - Flying Photons, Acrobatic Atoms, Entangled Ensembles Jeff Kimble Department of Physics California Institute of Technology
	Jan. 19, 2007 Nuclear Power in Space Samim Anghaie Director, Innovative Nuclear Space Power & Propulsion Institute University of Florida
	Jan. 5, 2007 Tunneling Microscopy and the NBS Topografiner 20 Years After (and Before) the Nobel Prize William Gadzuk, Scientist Emeritus Physics Laboratory, NIST
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