A Billion Times Brighter

The Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC

Persis Drell

Director and Professor, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University

The $1,000 Genome Project and New DNA Sequencing Technologies

An NIH View

Jeffery A. Schloss, Ph.D.

National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health

Engineering the World’s Tallest Building

The Burj Khalifa

William F. Baker

Partner, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP

GoogleSky

A Journey from Earth to the Edge of the Cosmos

Alberto Conti

Astronomer and NASA Multimission Archive Scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute

MESSENGER at Mercury

The Innermost Planet Reveals Its Secrets

Sean C. Solomon

Director, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington

Trading at the Speed of Light

Electronic Exchanges, Computational Trading and Artificial Intelligence in Financial Markets

Dr. Alexander D. Wissner-Gross

MIT Media Laboratory

Sponsored by the Policy Studies Organization in cooperation with the American Public University

Entropy and Self-Replicating Robots

Dr. Gregory Chirikjian

Professor of Engineering, Johns Hopkins Univeristy

Retiring President's Lecture

The Beauty and Promise of Molecular Nanotechnology

Dr. J Fraser Stoddart

Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University

Sponsored by Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, PC