BSA Distinguished Lectures

BSA Distinguished Lectures are sponsored by Brookhaven Science Associates, the company that manages Brookhaven Lab, to bring topics of general interest before the Laboratory community and the public.

Lecture series organizer: Peter Wanderer

BSA Distinguished Lectures from 2004 forward are available as streaming videos.

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
"Starving the Ocean: Why we should Leave Small Fish in the Sea"
Ellen Pikitch, SUNY Stony Brook

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
"Precision Measurement in Biology"
Stephen Quake, Stanford Univeristy

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
"Space-Time, Quantum Mechanics and the Large Hadron Collider"
Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Thursday, September 08, 2011
"Creating ‘Personalized’ Solar Energy for Six Billion People"
Daniel Nocera, MIT

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Friday, June 24, 2011
"North Korea. Iran, and Syria - Lessons Learned from the IAEA Inspections"
Olli Heinonen, Harvard University, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Monday, May 23, 2011
"From the Structure and Function of the Ribosome to New Antibiotics"
Thomas Steitz, Yale University

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Friday, March 04, 2011
"Life at the Single Molecule Level"
Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Harvard University

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
"Answering Gauguin's questions in particle physics: Where are we coming from? What are we? Where are we going?"
John Ellis, CERN

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
"Extra Dimensions of Space - Are They Going to Be Found Any Time Soon?"
Valery Rubakov, Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
"Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism"
Robert Shiller, Yale University

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Monday, September 14, 2009
"From sea anemone to homo sapiens: the evolution of the p53 family of genes"
Arnold Levine, Institute for Advanced Study

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Thursday, November 06, 2008
"Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?"
Alan Guth, MIT

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
"Non-Proliferation, Disarmament and the IAEA in Tomorrow's World"
Jill Cooley, IAEA

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Monday, June 09, 2008
"Network Science: From the Web to human diseases"
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Northeastern University

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Thursday, May 15, 2008
"Unraveling the Mystery of an Environmental Disease"
Arthur Grollman, Stony Brook University, Dept. of Pharmacology

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
"Climate Change: Prospects for Nature"
Thomas Lovejoy, Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Friday, October 05, 2007
"Science Results from the Mars Exploration Rover Mission"
Steven Squyres, Cornell University

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
"Einstein's Biggest Blunder?: A Cosmic Mystery Story"
Lawrence Krauss, Case-Western University

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
"Before the Big Bang? A Novel Resolution of a Profound Cosmological Puzzle"
Roger Penrose, Oxford University

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
"The End of an Era - Science in a flat world"
Neal Lane, Rice University

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Monday, September 11, 2006
"Confessions of a President's Science Advisor"
Neal Lane, Rice University

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Thursday, May 04, 2006
"Fractional Quantum Hall Effect"
Horst Stormer, Columbia University

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Friday, April 21, 2006
"The Origin of Mass and the Feebleness of Gravity"
Frank Wilczek, MIT

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Monday, December 05, 2005
"Searching Scholarly Literature: A Google Scholar Perspective"
Anurag Acharya, Google

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Thursday, November 10, 2005
"Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness"
John Rigden, Washington U. in St. Louis

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
"Celebrating Richard Feynman"
Ralph Leighton,

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Monday, April 18, 2005
"The Structure and Function of Photosystem II"
James Barber, Imperial College London

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Monday, January 24, 2005
"Superstring/M-theory: A Lathe for Physics?"
Sylvester Gates, Univ. of Maryland

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Friday, December 10, 2004
"The Ribosome: The Cell's Protein-Synthesizing Machine and How Antibiotics Disrupt It"
Venki Ramakrishnan, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Thursday, August 19, 2004
"Whose Science is Arabic Science in Renaissance Europe?"
George Saliba, Columbia University

BSA Distinguished Lecture
Monday, July 12, 2004
"Eye of the Forehead and Eye of the Mind: How Engineers and Scientists See"
John Lienhard, Public Radio Host

This PDF contains a list of BSA (previously "AUI") Distinguished Lectures from 1966 to 2003.

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