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
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May 29, 2009
Quantum Complexity and Fundamental Physics
Scott Aaronson
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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May 15, 2009
Programming the Universe
Seth Lloyd
Director, Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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May 1, 2009
Beyond Watson and Crick
DNA as a Building Material
Paul Rothemund
Computation and Neural Systems Department
California Institute of Technology |
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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 |
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March 20, 2009
The Art of Science Television
Paula S. Aspell
Senior Executive Producer, PBS-NOVA
Director, Science Unit, WGBH (Boston) |
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March 6, 2009
Next Generation Neural Implants
Yu-Chong Tai
Director, Caltech Micromaching Laboratory
California Institute of Technology |
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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) |
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February 6, 2009
BURJ DUBAI: the World's Tallest Building
William Baker
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Structural and Civil Engineering Branch |
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January 23, 2009
Is God a Mathematician?
Mario Livio, Senior Astrophysicist
Space Telescope Science Institute |
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December 19, 2008
Rational Comedy for an Irrational Planet
Brian Malow, Science Comedian |
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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 |
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November 14, 2008
The Quest to Measure Longitude
Dava Sobel
Science Journalist and Author |
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October 31, 2008
What are the Laws of Physics?
Paul Davies
Director, BEYOND:Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science
Arizona State University
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October 17, 2008
Digital Forensics
Hany Farid
Department of Computer Science
Institute for Security Technology Studies
Dartmouth College |
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October 3, 2008
Pioneers of Quantum Computing
David DiVincenzo
Manager, Quantum Information Group
IBM Watson Research Center |
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September 19, 2008
Magnetic Storms
Building planetary cores in the laboratory
Daniel Lathrop, Director
Institute for Electronics & Applied Physics
University of Maryland |
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September 5, 2008
The Physics of Music and the Music of Physics
Christopher Monroe
Joint Quantum Institute
University of Maryland |
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June 6, 2008
Observing Climate with Satellites
Are We on Thin Ice?
Compton Tucker
Goddard Fellow
Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA |
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May 16, 2008
Nanotechnology And Human Disease States
Subra Suresh
Dean of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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April 18, 2008
The Making of Absolute Zero
Russell Donnelly
Principal Investigator, Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold
Department of Physics, Univ. Oregon |
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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 |
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March 14, 2008
The Measure of All Things
Ken Alder
Department of History
Northwestern University |
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March 7, 2008
Energy Options
A Global Energy Perspective
Nathan Lewis
Division of Chemical and Chemistry Engineering
California Institute of Technology |
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Feb. 22, 2008
Benjamin Franklin
The First Scientific American
Joyce Chaplin
History Department
Harvard University |
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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 |
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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 |
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Jan. 25, 2008
DNA Not Merely the Secret of Life
Nadrian Seeman
Department of Chemistry, New York University |
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Jan. 18, 2008
Deep Ancestry:
Inside the Genographic Project
Dr. Spencer Wells, Explorer-in-Residence and Director of the Genographic Project
National Geographic Society |
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Jan. 11, 2008
MatheMagics
Art Benjamin, Math Department, Harvey Mudd College |
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