2007-2008 NIST Colloquium Series
Advance Schedule

Talks are scheduled from 10:30am - 11:30am unless otherwise noted.

For detailed information on the next colloquium see NIST Colloquium Series

Anyone outside NIST wishing to attend must be sponsored by a NIST employee and receive a visitor badge. For more information, call Kum J. Ham at 301-975-4203. Colloquia are videotaped and available in the NIST Research Library.

This schedule will be modified to reflect additional colloquia
and revisions as information becomes available.

Date / Place	Speaker / Affiliation	Title
9/7/07 Red Auditorium	Steven Girvin, Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Yale University	Quantum Money, Teleportation, and Computation: New Mysteries from the Quantum World
9/21/07 Red Auditorium	Roy Saltman, Author and Alumnus, NIST Computer Systems Laboratory	Improving the Voting Process: A Multi-Disciplinary and Politicized Problem
10/12/07 NIST Boulder Auditorium Teleconference (1 pm)	Dan Levitin, Department of Psychology, McGill University	This is Your Brain on Music
10/26/07 Red Auditorium	Francois Blais, Group Leader, Visual Information Technology Group, National Research Council, Canada	From the Mona Lisa to the Space Shuttle - New Heights in 3D Imaging
11/16/07 Red Auditorium	Stephen Hoffman, CEO and Chief Scientific Officer, Sanaria, Inc	Developing an Effective Malaria Vaccine: The Road from Genomics and Molecular Vaccinology to a Live, Attenuated, Whole Parasite Approach
12/7/07 Red Auditorium	Uwe Bergmann, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory	Secrets in the Ancient Goatskin: Archimedes' Oldest Writings Under X-Ray Vision
12/14/07 Boulder Aud (11 am) VTC (1 pm) Red Auditorium	Lewis Branscomb, Research Associate, The Scripps Institution for Oceanography and the University of California (San Diego), and Emeritus Professor, Harvard University	NBS Goes West: JILA and the Boulder Labs
1/11/08 Red Auditorium	Arthur Benjamin, Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College	Mathemagics
1/18/08 Red Auditorium	Spencer Wells, Explorer-in-Residence and Director of the Genographic Project, National Geographic Society	Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project
1/25/08 Red Auditorium	Nadrian Seeman, Department of Chemistry, New York University	DNA: Not Merely the Secret of Life
2/1/08 Red Auditorium	Stephen McGuire, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Physics, LIGO Scientific Collaboration Principal Investigator, Southern University and A&M College	LIGO: At the Forefront of Optical Materials Research
2/8/08 Red Auditorium	Reuben Mezrich, M.D., Chairman, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine	The Quick Kill: Stimulating Innovation in Medical Research and the Future of Surgery - Perspectives of an Engineer/Radiologist
2/22/08 Red Auditorium	Joyce Chaplin, History Department, Harvard University	Benjamin Franklin: The First Scientific American
3/7/08 Red Auditorium	Nathan S. Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech	Energy Options: A Global Energy Perspective
3/14/08 Red Auditorium	Ken Alder, Department of History, Northwestern University	The Measure of All Things: The Seven Year Odyssey That Changed the World
3/28/08 Red Auditorium	Robert J. Lang, Artist, Author, and Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics	From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes: The Modern Science of Origami
4/11/08 Green Auditorium	Compton J. Tucker, Goddard Fellow, Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	Observing Climate with Satellites: Are We on Thin Ice?
4/18/08 Green Auditorium	Russ Donnelly, Principal Investigator, Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold, Department of Physics, University of Oregon	The Making of /Absolute Zero/
5/16/08 Green Auditorium	Subra Suresh, Dean of Engineering, MIT	Nanotechnology and Human Diseases States
6/6/08 rescheduled from 4/11/2008 Green Auditorium	Compton J. Tucker, Goddard Fellow, Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	Observing Climate with Satellites: Are We on Thin Ice?

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