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, Advance Schedule
	May 29, 2009 Quantum Complexity and Fundamental Physics Scott Aaronson Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	May 15, 2009 Programming the Universe Seth Lloyd Director, Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	May 1, 2009 Beyond Watson and Crick DNA as a Building Material Paul Rothemund Computation and Neural Systems Department California Institute of Technology
	April 17, 2009 Cancer, Trauma, and Stroke Imaging Markers are Changing Them All Michael W. Vannier, M.D. Diagnostic Radiology Department University of Chicago Medical Center
	March 20, 2009 The Art of Science Television Paula S. Aspell Senior Executive Producer, PBS-NOVA Director, Science Unit, WGBH (Boston)
	March 6, 2009 Next Generation Neural Implants Yu-Chong Tai Director, Caltech Micromaching Laboratory California Institute of Technology
	February 20, 2009 Making Life and Death Decisions in Conditions of Uncertainty THE 2008 RUSSIAN-GEORGIAN WAR Andrei Illarionov Senior Fellow, Cato Institute President, Institute of Economic Analysis (Moscow)
	February 6, 2009 BURJ DUBAI: the World's Tallest Building William Baker Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP Structural and Civil Engineering Branch
	January 23, 2009 Is God a Mathematician? Mario Livio, Senior Astrophysicist Space Telescope Science Institute
	December 19, 2008 Rational Comedy for an Irrational Planet Brian Malow, Science Comedian
	December 5, 2008 From Dental Materials to Panoramic X-Rays: The NIST-ADA Dental Research Collaboration Clifton Carey Paffenbarger Research Center NIST Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory
	November 14, 2008 The Quest to Measure Longitude Dava Sobel Science Journalist and Author
	October 31, 2008 What are the Laws of Physics? Paul Davies Director, BEYOND:Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science Arizona State University
	October 17, 2008 Digital Forensics Hany Farid Department of Computer Science Institute for Security Technology Studies Dartmouth College
	October 3, 2008 Pioneers of Quantum Computing David DiVincenzo Manager, Quantum Information Group IBM Watson Research Center
	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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