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


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