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2012-2013 NIST Colloquium Series
Advance Schedule (Tentative)


Talks are scheduled from 10:30am - 11:30am unless otherwise noted.

Anyone outside NIST wishing to attend must be sponsored
by a NIST employee and receive a visitor badge.

For more information, call Stephanie Shaw at 301-975-2667.
Colloquia are videotaped and available in the NIST Research Library.


Date / Place Speaker / Affiliation Title
10/19/12 Friday
Special time:
1 p.m.
Green Auditorium
Innovations in Measurement Science FY13 Project Recipients Innovations in Measurement Science Symposium
10/26/12 Friday
Green Auditorium
Harry Gray, Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and Founding Director of the Beckman Institute, CalTech Solar Energy: Powering the Planet
11/16/12 Friday
Special time:
1:30 p.m.
Green Auditorium
Bonnie Bassler, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University Cell Communication and Quorum Sensing
11/30/12 Friday
Portrait Room
Kim Beazley, Australian Ambassador to the United States Observations on the Asia-Pacific Economy
12/11/12 Tuesday
Green Auditorium
Waleed Abdalati, NASA Chief Scientist Remote Sensing Environments and Climate Visualization
1/11/13 Friday
Green Auditorium
Jon Gertner, Author and Editor-at-large, Fast Company The Idea Factory
1/25/13 Friday
Green Auditorium
Dan Neumann, NIST Center for Neutron Research Joint Colloquium with the Standards Alumni Association: A History of the NCNR
2/1/13 Friday
Special Time:
1 p.m.
Red Auditorium
Dave Wineland, NIST Fellow and Leader of the Ion Storage Group Superposition, Entanglement, and Raising Schrodinger's Cat
2/22/13 Friday
Green Auditorium
Keith Baggerly, MD Anderson Forensic Bioinformatics and the Importance of Reproducibility in High-Throughput Biology
3/8/13 Friday
Green Auditorium
Al Romig, SkunkWorks Life as the "Chief Skunk"
3/22/13 Friday
Green Auditorium
S. James Gates, John S. Toll Professor and Director of the Center for String & Particle Theory, University of Maryland The Higgs boson
4/5/13 Friday
Green Auditorium
Roy Feinson, Artist, Writer, and Graphics Software Engineer "The Zebra's Stripes: A theory of animal vision"
5/3/13 Friday
Green Auditorium
Tony DeRose, Senior Scientist and head of Research at Pixar Animation Studios To Infinity and Beyond with Physics
5/17/13 Friday
Green Auditorium
Robert Shull, NIST Fellow and Leader, Magnetic Materials Group A Memoir of Nobel Laureate Clifford G. Shull: A Pioneer in Neutron Scattering