NIST Staff Colloquium Series

Our most prestigious forum, the NIST Staff Colloquium Series brings outstanding scientists, engineers, explorers, scholars and leaders of government and industry to NIST to present challenging and stimulating ideas on scientific and technical topics of current interest. Colloquia addresses usually are scheduled on Fridays at 10:30 a.m. and presented in the Green Auditorium of the NIST campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The chairman of the NIST Colloquium Committee is Dr. William R. Ott, Deputy Director of the NIST Physics Laboratory. 2008-2009 NIST Colloquium Series, Tentative Advance Schedule
	September 19, 2008 Magnetic Storms Building planetary cores in the laboratory Daniel Lathrop, Director Institute for Electronics & Applied Physics University of Maryland
	September 5, 2008 The Physics of Music and the Music of Physics Christopher Monroe Joint Quantum Institute University of Maryland
	June 6, 2008 Observing Climate with Satellites Are We on Thin Ice? Compton Tucker Goddard Fellow Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
	May 16, 2008 Nanotechnology And Human Disease States Subra Suresh Dean of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	April 18, 2008 The Making of Absolute Zero Russell Donnelly Principal Investigator, Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold Department of Physics, Univ. Oregon
	(RESCHEDULED FOR JUNE 6) April 11, 2008 Observing Climate with Satellites Are We on Thin Ice? Compton Tucker Goddard Fellow Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
	March 28, 2008 The Modern Science of Origami From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes Robert J. Lang Author, Artist, and Editor-in-Chief IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
	March 14, 2008 The Measure of All Things Ken Alder Department of History Northwestern University
	March 7, 2008 Energy Options A Global Energy Perspective Nathan Lewis Division of Chemical and Chemistry Engineering California Institute of Technology
	Feb. 22, 2008 Benjamin Franklin The First Scientific American Joyce Chaplin History Department Harvard University
	Feb. 8, 2008 The Quick Kill - Stimulating Innovation in Medical Research & the Future of Surgery Perspectives of an Engineer/Radiologist Reuben Mezrich, M.D., Ph.D. Chairman, Department of Radiology U. of Maryland School of Medicine
	Feb. 1, 2008 LIGO: At the forefront of optical materials research Stephen C. McGuire Professor and Chair, Department of Physics Southern University and A&M College
	Jan. 25, 2008 DNA Not Merely the Secret of Life Nadrian Seeman Department of Chemistry, New York University
	Jan. 18, 2008 Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project Dr. Spencer Wells, Explorer-in-Residence and Director of the Genographic Project National Geographic Society
	Jan. 11, 2008 MatheMagics Art Benjamin, Math Department, Harvey Mudd College
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