September 2003
From National Science Foundation
From quantum to cosmos: NSF lectures explore the physical sciences The National Science Foundation (NSF) invites media and members of the public to a series of lectures sponsored by the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences. The talks will help promote a national discussion of issues that scientists expect to shape their research in the coming years.All lectures will be held at NSF, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA. Monday, September 22, 2003, 2:00 p.m., Room 1235
"Providing Opportunities and Choices to Members of Underrepresented Groups in Graduate Science Education"
Howard Adams (H. G. Adams & Associates, Inc.; formerly Executive Director of National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science) Monday, October 20, 2003, 2:00 p.m., Room 375
"Cosmic Inflation and the Accelerating Universe"
Alan Guth (MIT) Monday, November 17, 2003, 2:00 p.m., Room 375
"Network Tomography"
Bin Yu (UC Berkeley) Monday, December 15, 2003, 2:00 p.m., Room 375
"Drugs, Bugs, and Bats: Olefin Metathesis Catalysts and Their Applications"
Robert H. Grubbs (Caltech) Monday, January 12, 2004, 2:00 p.m., Room 375
"Sync: the Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order"
Steven Strogatz (Cornell) Monday, February 23, 2004, 2:00 p.m., Room 375
"Molecules and Electronics: Do They Jibe?"
Horst Stormer (Columbia, Nobel laureate) Monday, March 15, 2004, 2:00 p.m., Room 375
"Biomolecules from a Physicist's Point of View"
Steven Chu (Stanford, Nobel laureate) Monday, April 19, 2004, 2:00 p.m., Room 375
"Do General-Relativity Principles Imply Experimentally Testable Changes in Quantum Mechanics?"
Sir Roger Penrose (Oxford) Monday, May 17, 2004, 2:00 p.m., Room 375
"When Galaxies Collide"
Margaret Geller (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) For more information contact:
M. Mitchell Waldrop 703-292-7752, [email protected] (media) Andrew Lovinger 703-292-4933, [email protected] (others) For directions to NSF see: http://www.nsf.gov/home/visit/visitjump.htm | |