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Calendar
Upcoming Lectures
- September 22, 2012
Higgs Hunting with
High Energy Physics
Professor Sara Demers, Physicist
- October 6, 2012
Making Useful
Materials by Controlling Structure and Properties of Soft Matter-
Polymers, Gels and Surfactants
Professor Chindeum Osuji, Chemical Engineer
- October 20, 2012
Of Men, Mosquitoes
and Malaria: Understanding Transmission of Global Disease
Professor Richard Baxter, Chemist
Past Lectures
April 14, 2012
Game Theory and Staying
Alive
Professor Ben Polak, Economist
April 21, 2012
Dark Energy and the
Accelerating Universe
Professor Meg Urry, Physicist
April 28, 2012
Biomedical Engineering
and Medicines of the Future
Professor Mark Saltzman, Biomedical Engineer
October 8th, 2011
Searching Rainforests
for Biological and Chemical Secrets
Professor Scott Strobel, Biochemist
October 15th, 2011
The Wild World of
Electrified Water
Professor Mark Johnson, Chemist
October 22nd, 2011
Monkey Business: What
Monkeys Can Tell Us About the Human Mind
Professor Laurie Santos, Psychologist
April 2nd, 2011
Genetic Anthropology: Finding human history in spit
Dr. Jennifer Listman, Anthropological Geneticist
April 9th, 2011
The Science of Good and Evil: What babies tell us about the nature of
morality
Professor Paul Bloom, Psychologist
April 16th, 2011
Solar Energy: Powering the planet with the sun
Professor Gary Brudvig, Biophysical Chemist
October 2nd, 2010
Universe in Your Hands
Michael Faison, Astronomer, Yale University
October 9th, 2010
Your DNA:Sense
or Nonsense?
Joan Steitz, Molecular Biologist, Yale University
October 16th, 2010
How Fireflies Light the Way to New Drugs
Leslie Kenna, Pharmacologist
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
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
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