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BSA Distinguished Lectures

BSA Distinguished Lectures are sponsored by Brookhaven Science Associates, the company that manages Brookhaven Lab, to bring topics of general interest before the Laboratory community and the public.

videoBSA Distinguished Lectures from 2004 forward are available here as web-based streaming videos.

9/9/2008Jill Cooley
IAEA		"Non-Proliferation, Disarmament and the IAEA in Tomorrow's World"
6/9/2008Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Northeastern University		"Network Science: From the Web to human diseases"
5/15/2008Arthur Grollman
Stony Brook University, Dept. of Pharmacology		"Unraveling the Mystery of an Environmental Disease"
3/12/2008Thomas Lovejoy
Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment		"Climate Change: Prospects for Nature"
10/5/2007Steven Squyres
Cornell University		"Science Results from the Mars Exploration Rover Mission"
5/30/2007Lawrence Krauss
Case-Western University		"Einstein's Biggest Blunder?: A Cosmic Mystery Story"
2/6/2007Roger Penrose
Oxford University		"Before the Big Bang? A Novel Resolution of a Profound Cosmological Puzzle"
9/12/2006Neal Lane
Rice University		"The End of an Era - Science in a flat world"
9/11/2006Neal Lane
Rice University		"Confessions of a President's Science Advisor"
5/4/2006Horst Stormer
Columbia University		"Fractional Quantum Hall Effect"
4/21/2006Frank Wilczek
MIT		"The Origin of Mass and the Feebleness of Gravity"
12/5/2005Anurag Acharya
Google		"Searching Scholarly Literature: A Google Scholar Perspective"
11/10/2005John Rigden
Washington U. in St. Louis		"Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness"
5/11/2005Ralph Leighton
"Celebrating Richard Feynman"
4/18/2005James Barber
Imperial College London		"The Structure and Function of Photosystem II"
1/24/2005Sylvester Gates
Univ. of Maryland		"Superstring/M-theory: A Lathe for Physics?"
12/10/2004Venki Ramakrishnan
Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology		"The Ribosome: The Cell's Protein-Synthesizing Machine and How Antibiotics Disrupt It"
8/19/2004George Saliba
Columbia University		"Whose Science is Arabic Science in Renaissance Europe?"
7/12/2004John Lienhard
Public Radio Host		"Eye of the Forehead and Eye of the Mind: How Engineers and Scientists See"

This PDF contains a list of BSA (previously "AUI") Distinguished Lectures from 1966 to 2003.

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