April 2024

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Speakers
John C. Mather, David Spergel, Michelle C. McDonald, Sabrina Bocanegra, Bayard L. Miller, Lance Becker, Jane Maienschein, Bonnie L. Milas, Sam Tisherman, Joeanna Arthur, Helen Quinn, Vinton G. Cerf, Robert James Miller, Nancy Weiss Malkiel, Joel Mokyr, Holly Mayer

Watch recorded sessions from this Meeting on our Youtube channel or follow the link to each talk in the program below. 

Thursday, April 25, 2024

10:00 a.m.
Library Hall
Orientation for Members attending their First In-Person Meeting

1:00 p.m.
Benjamin Franklin Hall

Roger S. Bagnall
APS President
Welcome Remarks

Induction of Members Attending Their First Meeting

Jaqueline K. Barton
Vice President, in the Chair

From the Big Bang to Life, Observations and Questions from Astronomy
John C. Mather
Senior Astrophysicist in the Observational Cosmology Laboratory, 
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Goddard Space Flight Center

Studying the Shape and Composition of the Universe
David Spergel
President, Simons Foundation

Intermission

Coffee: The Other Complicated Colonial Beverage
Michelle C. McDonald
Director of the Library & Museum, American Philosophical Society

4:00 p.m.
Philosophical Hall, 2nd Floor
Council Meeting

4:00–6:00 p.m.
APS Museum Visit, Sketching Splendor
Mary Grace Wahl
Associate Director of the Museum, American Philosophical Society

6:00 p.m.
Benjamin Franklin Hall
Cocktail Reception

Dinner on Your Own

7:00 p.m.
Monaco Hotel, Copenhagen Room
New Members' Dinner


Friday Morning, April 26, 2024

7:00 a.m.
Benjamin Franklin Hall

Breakfast

8:30 a.m.
Benjamin Franklin Hall

Nina Jablonski
Vice President, in the Chair

Benjamin Franklin Biostasis Conjecture Symposium 
Lance B. Becker, Moderator and Framer
Chair, Emergency Medicine, Northwell Health

Historical Context and Ethics
Jane Maienschein
Director of the Center for Biology and Society, Arizona State University

The Current Realities of ECMO and HCA
Bonnie L. Milas
Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania

Intermission

10:25 a.m.
Benjamin Franklin Hall

Hypothermia as Treatment Practice
Sam Tisherman
Professor, Department of Surgery and the Program in Trauma, University of Maryland School of Medicine

DARPA's Foundational Biostasis Program
Joeanna Arthur
Program Manager, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Panel / Audience Discussion
Helen Quinn, Moderator
Professor of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Emerita, Stanford University

Luncheon

1:00 p.m.
Benjamin Franklin Hall

Roger S. Bagnall
President, in the Chair

Herman Goldstine Lecture—The Internet's Milestones and Millstones 
Vinton Cerf
Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google

Intermission

2:30 p.m.
Concert
Avery Gagliano
Pianist, Curtis Institute of Music

4:00 p.m. 
Philosophical Hall, 2nd Floor
Members' Business Meeting

6:00 p.m.
Benjamin Franklin Hall
Cocktails and Dinner

Nora Monroe, Director of Membership and Prizes Retirement Toast


Saturday Morning, April 27, 2024

7:45 a.m.
Benjamin Franklin Hall
Breakfast

9:15 a.m.

Caroline Bynum
Vice President, in the Chair

The Indian Law Bombshell Case: McGirt v. Oklahoma
Robert J. Miller
Jonathan and Wendy Rose Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University

William G. Bowen and the Challenges of American Higher Education
Nancy Weiss Malkiel
Professor of History, Emerita, Princeton University

Intermission

The Growth of Useful Knowledge
Joel Mokyr
Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and History, Northwestern University

Bearing Burdens, Taking Up Arms: Women with the Continental Army
Holly Mayer
Professor Emeritus, Duquesne University

Luncheon

Members and Friends Library Tour
Michelle C. McDonald
Director of the Library and Museum, American Philosophical Society
 

Bus departures:
1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. in front of Benjamin Franklin Hall
 

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