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Speaker's BureauLooking for an exciting speaker for your group or class? Contact Marsha Belford of our Speakers Bureau at (631)344-5053 or e-mail belford@bnl.gov and we'll send a speaker to present a talk that's customized to your needs. Best of all, it's free! We have speakers for meetings including health organizations, civic, business, PTA meetings and career days. Topics range from an overview of the Lab to highlights of medical, environmental, energy and basic research. Some of our speaker programs include: Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Addiction Research
Brookhaven National Lab Basics
Studying addiction and obesity
Wild Weather
Victor Cassella is a meteorologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Mr. Cassella received his Bachelor of Science Degree in 1990 from the State University of New York at Albany. He has spoken to hundreds of students of all ages on the topic of weather. At Brookhaven, he archives and monitors weather conditions, as well as, develops and maintains meteorological equipment that is 37 feet and 300 feet above the earth’s surface. Engineering and TechnologyDid you know that there are many products created at Brookhaven which are then developed by companies for public use? Some that you may have heard about include the "quiet" jack hammer, a spray that makes asbestos safe, and a device to check emissions from a chemical spill or smoke stack from a safe distance. Partnership for Nuclear SecuritySince 1994 the Laboratory has been working to reduce the risk of
nuclear weapons proliferation by helping improve nuclear material
protection, control and accounting in Russia. Since about 1968, the
Laboratory has worked on this issue from a world-wide perpspective.
These programs are part of the US Government national security reponse
to the threat that terrrorist groups or countries of concern will
obtain or improvise nuclear explosives. Learn about the goals of these
important programs, as well as what has already been accomplished.
Dr. Joseph P.Indusi is a Senior Scientist and the Chair of the Nonproliferation and National Security Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He has been continuously involved in nuclear material safeguards and security, nonproliferation and arms control verification systems and counterterrorism programs for the last 28 years. Dr. Indusi holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics.
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Gaining knowledge about the fundamental nature of matter and the
evolution of our universe may lead to unforeseen advances in
technology. RHIC (pronounced "Rick"), which builds upon fifty years of
discovery and technological development at Brookhaven, is one of the
foremost research facilities for the new century, promising to keep
America's scientists among the world's leaders in nuclear physics for
decades to come. On a global scale, it will help advance the limits of
human knowledge, and our understanding of the universe we all inhabit. Dr. Fulvia Pilat is an accelerator physicist at Brookhaven National
Laboratory. Born in Trieste, Italy, Dr. Pilat received her Ph.D. in
Physics from the University of Trieste in 1986. She has worked at CERN
(the European organization for nuclear research), Los Alamos National
Laboratory and the SSC Project in Dallas, Texas. In 1994 she joined
the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National
Laboratory. Her main activities are the commissioning and operation of
RHIC and the coordination of accelerator physics studies for the Large
Hadron Collider currently under construction in Europe. 
Brookhaven scientist Stephen Dewey has been conducting extensive
research which may ultimately lead to new treatment strategies for
schizophrenia, depression and substance abuse. He has spoken to
thousands of students and adults across Long Island about his
fascinating discoveries on the effects of cocaine, alcohol, nicotine
and Ritalin on the human brain. 
Many of our neighbors are curious about what the Lab does, and how we
contribute to the community and the world. Learn about the research
that has been - and continues to be - conducted at the Lab. The list
is extensive; L-dopa for Parkinson's disease; Technecium-99m, now used
over 12 million times a year in the U. S. alone to diagnose various
diseases; the Thallium stress test for diagnosing heart disease;
research on Lyme disease. Learn about the Lab's large machines
including the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the worlds'
newest and largest particle accelerator used for studies in nuclear
physics, and the National Synchrotron Light Source, used by over 2,500
researchers annually who come to the Lab from all over the world.
Gene-Jack Wang received his MD from Kaohsiung
Medical University in Taiwan and his Master of Health Sciences
(Radiation Health Sciences) from the School of Hygiene and Public
Health at Johns Hopkins University. In 2001 he was named Man of the
Year in Medicine by the Village Beacon-Record newspaper for his
research in the fields of addiction and obesity. He has conducted many
research protocols using Positron Emission Tomography (PET) to study
addiction, reward and motivation in obese subjects and brain dopamine
changes in subjects infected with immunodeficiency virus. Dr. Wang has
authored many papers and given presentations to various organizations. 
Brookhaven Laboratory has been keeping weather records for the
Brookhaven site since 1949, and this data can be used for all of Long
Island. Our meteorologist provides an interactive talk complete with
maps, overheads, and examples of forecasting equipment. Learn how
major storms affect Long Island.
