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Fall Seminars

Our Fall 2012 lecture series has just begun and we’ll be posting edited videos of each lecture on this page. In the meantime, you can watch raw, unedited video from our September 19th lecture on the role of DNA repair in cancer prevention:

Spring Seminars

Programming Matter: Smart Surfaces, Molecular Machines, and Invisibility Cloaks (Outline)
Lauren Zarzar	Presentation
Nicholas Schade	Presentation
Adam Marblestone	Presentation
I Can Show You the Worlds: The Science of Planetary Exploration (Outline)
Anjali Tripathi: Robotically Exploring the Solar System	Presentation	Video
Kirit Karkare: Detecting Extrasolar Planets	Presentation	Video
Sukrit Ranjan: Astrobiology – The Search for Extraterrestrial Life	Presentation	Video
Avian flu and scientific censorship: When should scientists keep their mouths shut? (Outline)
Tina Liu: Censorship in the past: recombinant DNA research	Presentation	Video
Ann Fiegen: Censorship today: A killer flu virus created? How and why?	Presentation	Video
Kevin Bonham: Weighing the risks: how do we proceed?	Presentation	Video
Neglected diseases of the bottom billion
Jason Silverstein: Neglecting diseases	Presentation	Video
Jennifer Manne: Strategies for addressing the neglected diseases of the bottom billion – The case of Chagas disease	Presentation
Karolina Maciag: Innovating for (and with) the bottom billion	Presentation
Earth’s Climate: Old Problems New Thoughts (Outline)
Elizabeth K. Thomas: Background and long-term perspective	Presentation	Video
Sujit Datta: Reducing CO2 Emissions by Pumping Them Underground	Presentation	Video
Atreyee Bhattacharya: Droughts: The ‘Creeping Disaster’ and Desert Dust	Presentation
The Biggest Mysteris of the Tiniest Things: Exploring the Frontiers of Particle Physics
Greg Kestin: What is Stuff Made of?	Presentation	Video
Laura Jeanty: Search for the Higgs Boson	Presentation	Video
Brian Clark: Dark Matter	Presentation	Video