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Past Speakers

In the past year we have had the following distinguished scientists join us for a journal club:

George Church

Professor of Genetics, HMS

Director, Lipper
Center
for Computational Genetics

Co-initiator, Human Genome Project

Wednesday
April 30^th 2008, 8PM,
Adams
Conservatory

Synthetic Biology & Personal Genomics

Barbara Grosz

Higgins
Professor of Natural
Sciences, SEAS

Dean of the
Radcliffe
Institute of Advanced Study

Wednesday April 16^th 2008, 7PM,
Emerson 305

Computing
Collaboratively:
Imbuing Computer Systems with Teamwork Capabilities

Benedict Gross

George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Mathematics

Dean of Harvard College, 2003-2007

Wednesday
March 5^th 2008, 7
PM, Emerson 305

How Large is 'n!'? - Applications to Poker and the
Lottery

David Haig

George Putnam Professor of Organismic and
Evolutionary
Biology

Wednesday
February 6^th 2008, 7
PM, Emerson 305

Parent-Offspring and Intragenomic Conflict in
Biology

David Laibson

Professor of Economics

Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic
Research

Thursday
December 6^th 2007, 8
PM, Emerson 305

Neuroeconomics and the Psychology of Decision
Making

Lene Hau

Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Applied
Physics

MacArthur Fellow

Wednesday
November 14th 2007, 8 PM,
Emerson
305

Mind Over Matter: Stopping and Sculpting Light

Erin O’Shea

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

Wednesday
October 10^th 2007, 8
PM,
Emerson 305

The Clockwork of Life: Circadian Clocks and Rhythms

Dudley Herschbach

Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science

Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

Thursday
September 20^th 2007, 6 PM,
Winthrop JCR