2008-2009 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
9/5/08 Green Auditorium	Christopher Monroe, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland Physics Department and NIST	The Physics of Music and the Music of Quantum Physics
9/19/08 Green Auditorium	Daniel Lathrop, Director, Institute for Electronics & Applied Physics, University of Maryland	Magnetic Storms: Building Planetary Cores in the Laboratory
10/3/08 Green Auditorium	David DiVincenzo, Manager, Quantum Information Group, IBM Watson Research Center	Quantum Computing: Origins and Directions
10/17/08 Green Auditorium	Hany Farid, Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth University	Digital Forensics
10/31/08 Green Auditorium	Paul Davies, Director, BEYOND Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, Arizona State University	What are the Laws of Physics?
11/14/08 Green Auditorium	Dava Sobel, Author	Longitude: Harrison’s Chronometer and the Prize
12/5/08 (Joint with SAA) Green Auditorium	Cliff Carey & Gary Schumacher, Associate Director, American Dental Association, NIST Paffenbarger Research Center	From Dental Materials to Panoramic X-Rays: The NIST-ADA Dental Research Collaboration
12/19/08 Green Auditorium	Brian Malow, Science Comedian	Science Comedy: The Final Frontier
1/9/09 Green Auditorium	Donald Norman, Co-founder, Norman Nielsen Group and Director, Segal Design Institute, Northwestern University	The Psychology of Machines: Designing Automated Things
1/23/09 Green Auditorium	Mario Livio, Space Science Telescope Institute	Is God a Mathematician?
2/6/09 Green Auditorium	William F. Baker, Partner, Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, LLP	Burj Dubai: The World’s Tallest Building
3/6/09 Green Auditorium	Y.C. Tai, Director, Micromachining Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Cal Tech	Next Gen Bio Implants
3/20/09 Green Auditorium	Paula Apsell, Senior Executive Producer, NOVA, and Director, WGBH Science Unit (Boston)	Sex, Lies, and Science TV
4/3/09 Green Auditorium	Angela Belcher, Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering, MIT	Evolution of Biometric Nanomaterials
4/17/09 Green Auditorium	Michael W. Vannier, M.D., Professor of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Chicago Medical Center	Quantitative Medical Imaging: The Sad Story of Apomate
5/1/09 Green Auditorium	Paul Rothemund, Computation & Neural Systems Department, Cal Tech	DNA Origami
5/15/09 Green Auditorium	Seth Lloyd, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT	Programming the Universe

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