Calendar

Upcoming Lectures

• October 3rd, 2009
  Fantastic Fossils
  Derek Briggs, Paleontologist, Director of  the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

• October 10th, 2009
  What Makes Your Gameboy Work: How Electronics are Evolving
  Eugenio Culurciello, Electrical Engineer, Yale University

• October 17th, 2009
  Talking to Robots: What Social Robots teach us about Human Children
  Brian Scassellati, Computer Scientist, Yale University

Past Lectures

• April 4th, 2009
  "Visual Illusions: What you see is not what you get"
  Marvin Chun, Neuroscientist, Yale University

• April 11th, 2009
  "Strange Stuff: From smart materials to nanotechnology"
  Ainissa Ramirez, Materials Scientist, Yale University

• April 18th, 2009
  "Batteries, Transportation, and Climate Change: Why your future car will be electric"
  Yet-Ming Chiang, Materials Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• October 4th, 2008
  "The Physics of Golf"
  Robert Grober, Physicist

• October 11th, 2008
  "What's in Your Glass of Water?"
  William Mitch, Environmental Engineer

• October 18th, 2008
  "Why Do Butterflies Have "Eyes" on Their Wings?"
  Antonia Monteiro, Evolutionary Biologist

• October 25th, 2008
  "Molecules that Walk, Shuffle, and Carry Things Around"
  Anna Pyle, Molecular Biophysicist

• April 5th, 2008
  Wheeled Machines that Balance: The Segway Personal Transporter and the Segway Robotic Mobility Platform
  John Morrell, Mechanical Engineer


• April 12th, 2008
  Using Magnets to Look at Molecules
  Kurt Zilm, Chemist


• April 19th, 2008
  If The Walls Could Think: Smart Materials in Buildings
  Michelle Addington, Architect and Engineer


• April 26th, 2008
  Viruses: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  Paul Turner, Evolutionary Biologist

• March 31st, 2007
  Magnets, Molecules, and Radio Waves: Using Magnetic Resonance to Image Molecules, Cells, and the Human Body
  Kurt Zilm, Chemist


• April 7th, 2007
  How Fruit Flies Find Bananas and How Mosquitoes Find Us
  John Carlson, Biologist


• April 14th, 2007
  Scents and Sensibility: The Molecular Mechanisms of Olfaction
  Charles Greer, Neuroscientist


• April 21st, 2007
  Metals with Memories and Other Smart Materials
  Ainissa G. Ramirez, Materials Scientist