- DEAN'S
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
- The lectures are
held at 4:00 p.m. in Davies Auditorium at the Becton Center,
15 Prospect
Street, New Haven, CT. A reception
follows the talk.
-
- 2005
- Tuesday,
November 15
Prof. Douglas Stone, Carl A. Morse Professor of Applied Physics,
Professor of Physics, Director of Yale's Division of Natural Sciences.
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"Genius and Genius^2: Planck, Einstein, and the Birth of Quantum Theory."
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- Tuesday,
February 8
Dr. Rita Colwell, Edward P. Bass Distinguished
Visiting Environmental Scholar,
Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies; Chair, Canon U.S. Life Sciences,
Inc.
Yorktown Heights, NY.
-
"Discovering the Origins of Cholera."
-
- 2004
- Wednesday,
November 17
Dr. Richard L. Garwin, IBM
Fellow Emeritus, Thomas
J. Watson Research Center,
Yorktown Heights, NY.
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"Missile Defense and Space Weapons."
-
- Wednesday,
April 21
Sidney D. Drell, Professor of Physics, Stanford
University, and Hoover Institution.
"The
Gravest Danger: Nuclear Weapons and Their Proliferation."
Prof. Drell's talks is co-sponsored by the Yale Faculty of
Engineering and Yale
International Security Studies
-
- 2003
- Monday,
November
17
- Stefan
K.
Lai '79 Ph.D., Vice President, Technology and Manufacturing Group,
and
Director, California Technology and Manufacturing Intel Corporation.
-
"The
New Wireless World: The Convergence of Communications
and
Computing." (pictures)
-
- Tuesday,
February 18
- Robert G.
Gallager, Professor of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
-
"Claude Shannon's Legacy: Information Theory to the Information Age."
-
- 2002,
Engineering
Sesquicentennial Distinguished Lecture Series
-
-
Tuesday,
November 19
Ralph Peterson, Chairman and CEO, CH2M Hill
- "Environmentally
Sustainable Development: An Engineering Practitioners Diagnosis and
Prescription."
-
Wednesday, October
16
(this lecture is also a
Tetelman
Lecture
)
Mark E. Davis, Executive Officer for Chemical Engineering, Warren
and Katharine
Schlinger Professor of Chemical Engineering, California
Institute of Technology.
-
"Synthetic
Gene Delivery Systems."
Tuesday,
September
17
Robert W. Lucky, Corporate Vice President of Applied Research, Telcordia
Technologies.-
"Reflections on
the Nature of Information Technology and
its Role in Society."
- 2000
-
April 6
Eugene H. Trinh, Director, Microgravity
Research Division, NASA Headquarters.
-
- 1998
- November 5
- George David,
President and CEO
of United Technologies Corporation.
-
March 26
John Manley, Minister of
Industry, Canada.
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- April 24
Norman E. Johnson,
Senior Vice
President, Technology, Weyerhaeuser Company.
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