Speaker Presentations Archive

Speaker Presentations

Stochastic Computational Electrostatics and Applications: Computing Capacitance
Michael Mascagni - October 19, 2022

Asteroids: Stepping Stones to the Future of Space Exploration
Michael C.F. Bazzocchi - September 28, 2022

Virtual Tour of NASA Wallops Flight Facility Operations
Michael Hitch - August 17, 2022

The Nature of Time
Harold Williams - June 15, 2022

Quantum Hall Array Structures Apply Quantized Resistance in the Wider World
Randolph “Rand” Elmquist - May 18, 2022

The Murrow Boys – News Broadcasting During WWII
Brian Belanger - April 19, 2022

Modeling Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics by Blending Ideas from Machine Learning and Physics
Garegin Papoian - March 16, 2022

The Exploration of the Moon and then onto Mars
Jim Green - February 16, 2022

Magnetic Reconnection and Particle Acceleration in Space and Astrophysical Systems
James Drake - January 19, 2022

Supporting a New Industry: NBS’ Measurements and Standards for Radio
Brian Belanger - December 14, 2021

Progress Towards High-gain Inertial Confinement Fusion With Lasers
Stephen Obenschain - November 17, 2021

Excess Neutron Shell Model of Nuclei
Bhagirath Joshi - October 20, 2021

An Introduction to Forensic DNA Typing
Peter M. Vallone, Ph.D. - September 15, 2021

How Science Fiction Becomes Science
Dr. Charles L. Adler - May 19, 2021

Enriched Heavy Oxygen on Mars Depends on Time of Day
Dr. Tim Livengood - April 21, 2021

Supernova Dust in the Solar System
Larry Nittler - March 24, 2021

Volcanoes, Calderas, and Eruptions: What we Know and What we Don't Know
Jacob Lowenstern - February 17, 2021

CRISPR: Rewriting DNA and the Future of Humanity
Megan Hochstrasser - January 27, 2021

The Science of Climate Change
Timothy DelSole - December 16, 2020

Progress and Pitfalls in Earthquake Prediction and Forecasting
Dr. Michael L. Blanpied - November 18, 2020

The Cassini-Huygens Mission in the Saturn System
(slides 1-3) | (slides 4-6) | (slides 7-12) | (slides 13-26) | (slides 27-52)
October 21, 2020

A Cometary Fossil Inside an Asteroidal Meteorite
Dr. Rhonda Stroud - September 16, 2020 (Zoom)

Science, Politics, and Peace: Antarctica and the International Geophysical Year
Dion Olson Belanger - June 17, 2020

Cryptography in a Post-Quantum World
Dustin Moody - May 20, 2020

What's the Matter? My insights on what others seem to have missed about Time & Space
Rudolph A. Krutar - April 15, 2020

Multidisciplinary Aspects of Developing Small Sensing Devices for Monitoring Chemicals and Biochemicals
Steve Semancik - March 11, 2020

LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Findings So Far, and Current Events 
Peter Shawhan - February 19, 2020

Analysis of Organics in Solar System Samples
Jamie Elsila Cook - January 15, 2020

Television in The 1920s
Brian Belanger - December 18, 2019

Finding new worlds with Kepler and TESS
Thomas Barclay - November 20, 2019

Biophysics of Life in Extreme Environments 
Toshiko Ichiye - October 16, 2019

All the Astrolabes 
Harold Alden Williams - September 25, 2019

Thorium Fuel-Cycle Based Molten Salt Reactor (MSR): Safeguards, Materials and Chemistry
Jinsuo Zhang - May 15, 2019

The Revised International System of Units 
Stephan Schlamminger - April 17, 2019

IceCube: Neutrinos at the Bottom of the Earth
Erik Blaufuss - February 27, 2019

The Deep Carbon Cycle: Discoveries of the Deep Carbon Observatory
Craig Schiffries - January 16, 2019

Propagation of Ultrashort, Intense Laser Pulses Through the Atmosphere 
Joe Peñano - December 19, 2018

Gravitational Waves and Light from Merging Neutron Stars 
Judith Racusin - November 14, 2018

A Primer on the Physics of Free-Electron Lasers 
Henry Freund - October 17, 2018

Fermi's Decade of Observing the Extreme Universe 
Elizabeth Ferrera - September 20, 2018

Dynamics of The Supercontinent Rodinia
Chao Liu - June 13, 2018

Black Hole Entropy, Entanglement, and Holographic Spacetime
Ted Jacobson - May 16, 2018

Prospects for Life & Human Habitability Around Nearby Stars Many Possible Homes - But the Likely Neighbors Are Microbes
Carey Lisse - April 25, 2018

Balmer-Dominated Supernova Remnants and the Physics of Collisionless Shocks
Parviz Ghavamian - February 27, 2018

Fundamental Physics and the Fifth Dimension
Raman Sundrum - Januarty 17, 2018

Future Science, Brilliant Engineering, for the James Webb Space Telescope
John C. Mather - December 20, 2017

Primary Frequency References at NIST: Atomic Clocks
Steven Jefferts - November 15, 2017

Peregrinus Versus the Pole Model: The Physics and History of Magnetism
Jonathan W. Keohane - October 18, 2017

Studying Superfluidity with Ultracold Atoms
Gretchen Campbell - June 21, 2017

Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST)
Jeffrey Kruk - May 18, 2017

The Current Experimental Status of the High-Tc Problem
R. L. Greene - April 19, 2017

Why Do Black Holes Shine?
Chris Reynolds - March 8, 2017

A New Look at the TeV Sky with the HAWC Gamma Ray Observatory
Jordan Goodman - February 15, 2017

Probing Physics and Astrophysics with Gravitational Wave Observations
Peter Shawhan - January 18, 2017

The Universe of Gravitational Waves
M. Coleman Miller - December 14, 2016

Fusion Energy: Concepts, Progress and Prospects
Stephen O. Dean - November 16, 2016

Down-to-Earth Searches for Cosmological Dark Matter
Carter Hall - October 19, 2016

Supersymmetry
S. James Gates, Jr. - September 21, 2016

The Secret Lives of Solar Prominences
Holly Gilbert - June 15, 2016

CSI: Titanic (slides 1-25)
CSI: Titanic (slides 26-50)
CSI: Titanic (slides 51-75)
CSI: Titanic (slides 76-107)
Tim Foecke - January 20, 2016

Earth's Unique Continents (slides 1-29)
Earth's Unique Continents (slides 30-40)
Earth's Unique Continents (slides 41-50)
Earth's Unique Continents (slides 51-55)
Roberta L. Rudnick - December 16, 2015

Global Warming 56 Million Years Ago and What It Means for Us
Dr. Scott Wing - November 17, 2015

Elucidating the Role of Network Structure in Gene Regulation: Connecting Models and Data
Michelle Girvan - September 23, 2015

The Higgs Boson and Big Science (How Many Physicists Does it Take to Discover a New Particle?)
Sarah Eno - May 20, 2015

Symmetries, Clusters, and Synchronization Patterns in Complex Networks
Thomas E. Murphy - April 17, 2015

Brilliant Blunders
Mario Livio - March 18, 2015

Quantum Entanglement
Jim Franson - February 18, 2015

Mapping the Universe
Alexander Szalay - January 21, 2015

Quantum Computer Programming and all that
Rudolph A. Krutar, PhD - December 17, 2014

MESSENGER at Mercury: Water, Sulfur and Other Geochemical Surprises from the Innermost Planet
Larry R. Nittler - November 19, 2014

Collisions in Space: The Threat of Asteroid Impacts
Dr. Melissa N. Hayes-Gehrke - September 17, 2014

Helioseismology and Asteroseismology: Oscillations from Space
W. Deam Pesnell - May 28, 2014

Why is the Solar Corona So Hot?
James A. Klimchuk - April 16, 2014

The Environmental Dynamics of Human Evolution
Rick Potts - March 20, 2014

MESSENGER Views the Geology of Mercury (slides 1-13)
MESSENGER Views the Geology of Mercury (slides 14-26)
MESSENGER Views the Geology of Mercury (slides 27-39)
MESSENGER Views the Geology of Mercury (slides 40-52)
Dr. Brett W. Denevi - February 19, 2014

Neutrons at NIST
Dan Neumann - January 15, 2014

Extrasolar Planets
Paul Butler - December 18, 2013

The Solar Cycle Conundrum
Keith Strong & Julia Saba - October 23, 2013

The Atmosphere of the Sun and What Happens in It
George A. Doscheck - September 18, 2013

The Matter of Our Matter: Tales from Nuclear Science
Betsy Beise - June 2013

How Fusion Can Become Relevant
Wallace Manheimer - May 22, 2013

The Analysis of Past (Pliocene) Global Climate (slides 1-15)
The Analysis of Past (Pliocene) Global Climate (slides 16-30)
The Analysis of Past (Pliocene) Global Climate (slides 31-46)
The Analysis of Past (Pliocene) Global Climate (slides 47-62)
Harry Dowsett - March 20, 2013

Energy Efficiency in China: Glorious History, Uncertain Future
Mark D. Levine - April 21, 2010